My good friend Shel Goldberg sent this to me. I thought it fascinating.
Obviously, scientology has been spending a lot lately on TV commercials. The ad is on youtube and has over 1.8M views so far. Of the 1.8M views, only 297 comments and ZERO likes or dislikes. I’ve never noticed a youtube video that had no likes or dislikes, unless it had 0 views.
The church must be so paranoid of dislikes. I can only imagine.
So, in the last 24 hours, the video has been seen by 200K+ as it was about 1.6M yesterday when I first started this research. BUT, yesterday there were also 295 comments. So, in the last 24 hours, about 200K people have viewed the ad on youtube, and added only a couple of comments.
I read a few of the comments and they were either very favorable or a comment about why are all the comments so favorable or a minor slight.. (I believe youtube allows you to delete “unfriendly” comments. https://classroom.synonym.com/remove-peoples-comments-youtube-19913.html). Apparently there are people assigned to cleansing the comments. If you look at ANY other media story or blog entry about scientology and view the comments, and scientology itself is not moderating them, they are overwhelmingly negative.
At the end of the video, there is a big link to go to church’s website. Also, at the end of the video, the next video is automatically played. That video – Parts of Man, only has 25K views.
To compare, a video of Bill Gates mis-guessing grocery prices on “Ellen” yesterday, has had about 4.7M views so far. Which is about 2.5 times the SCN ad. That video has over 5700 comments in 24 hours. It has had about 84K likes and 4K dislikes.
Here is what the search terms “What is scientology” and “scientology” look like on Google trends.
“What is Scientology?” is a flatline with hardly a blip. Scientology saw a slight increase for the Super Bowl ad — but not NEARLY as much as the increases attributable to the airing of Scientology The Aftermath during the second half of last year. Way more interest during that time frame then the recent ads! Must be very tough for Miscavige, because any interest he pays for, pales in comparison to the interest in SCN being exposed.
Here are some more interesting metrics. These are the RELATED queries which give some idea what the subjects surrounding scientology people are interested in.
Additional evidence the ad is garnering little interest: Alexa shows a long term downtrend for their scientology.org website over the last year (last updated Feb 21 after a number of ads run). Their recent traffic indicates a drop-off of about 8000 in the rankings (lower numbers are better, the highest ranked site is 1 and it descends from there).
So, despite the link to their site at the end of the ad video, there hasn’t be much for traffic increase to the site.
Also, Alexa shows that the main search term for scientology is still just “Scientology” with 22.5%. The term “what is Scientology” is only acquiring 5% of their traffic yet this is what the ad tells people to search.
To add more context let’s compare another smaller superbowl advertiser, AvocadosFromMexico.
Their ad – as shown on youtube has about 1.9M views so far, similar to scientology, but Avocados shows a HUGE spike in Google Trends interest from the SuperBowl timeframe and has a big increase in traffic on Alexa.
Finally, Alexa shows that scientology.org has not much more traffic as MikeRindersBlog.org and way less than TonyOrtega.org.
And the magnitude of the fail is apparent when one recalls that these two are unemployed lunatics on the fringes of the internet. At least that’s what scientology says…
And how ironic, right after Shel sent this to me, one of our other correspondents sent me the scientology take. It is absolutely amazing they are so proud of the J&D they were subject to online. They quote comments that were clearly intended to be derogatory as if they were compliments. You can imagine the students from ASU were likely on a dare – apparently none of them bought anything (or that would have been reported).
Seriously, this is the BEST they could conjure up as results from throwing millions of dollars away on these ads?
And you should give us MORE money so we can keep doing it?
OMG
Somewhat on topic – when I first started googling “Mike Rinder” in order to read this blog, the first sites that came up were smear sites. These days, the Wikipedia page (which I have never visited, same as the smear sites) comes up first, followed by this blog and then the Twitter feed. The smear sites and main scam site are 4th and 5th on the list. I thought this might be reflective of my personal usage, but in that case the blog should come up first. I now believe it reflects a more global trend.
Off topic (sort of). I was wasting time on YouTube when I shoulda been doing something productive and came across a vid of “Great abandoned hotels.” There are quite a few around the globe: erstwhile luxury resorts that went belly up for one reason or another. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, someone will put one up on “Great abandoned scientology orgs.” However, from what I can tell, the org interiors are all cookie-cutter clones, and only the exteriors are architecturally interesting, so it could get boring.
The Chernobyl area in Russian has actually been turned into a theme park, frequented mostly by Finns. Could Hemet be next?
Hey Shel Goldberg, how dare you pull back the current and look at the truth. No scientologist in good standing would even dream of looking into the truth!
Get yourself to ethics at once,
P.S., to all scientologists: how do you know you are in a cult?… when you have an ethics officer ask you if you have ever had any negative thoughts about David Miscavige.
Yes, wayc, that is exactly how you know you’re in a cult.
Exactimondo!
“Kevin Can Wait”
Hahahahaha
It was one of the related searches.
I have NO IDEA why I thought it was so funny.
Let us put all this delightfully positive news from the church in its proper perspective okay? THE ORGS REMAIN EMPTY!
A true story where someone smacks davey back for all the crap he does to people would likely be the highest-rated story ever. It may create power “brown outs” due to the increased electrical consumption by servers from the masses of people accessing the story.
Always keep this in mind, when ever you have a problem with the CO$:
THE CREED OF THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
The Creed of the Church of Scientology was written by L. Ron Hubbard shortly after the Church was formed in Los Angeles on February 18, 1954.
After Mr. Hubbard issued this creed from his office in Phoenix, Arizona, the Church of Scientology adopted it as its creed because it succinctly states what Scientologists believe.
We of the Church believe
That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights.
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance.
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives.
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity.
That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense.
That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments.
That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.
That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own kind.
That the souls of men have the rights of men.
That the study of the Mind and the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in nonreligious fields.
And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
And we of the Church believe
That Man is basically good.
That he is seeking to Survive.
That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the Universe.
And we of the Church believe that the laws of God forbid Man
To destroy his own kind.
To destroy the sanity of another.
To destroy or enslave another’s soul.
To destroy or reduce the survival of one’s companions or one’s group.
And we of the Church believe
That the spirit can be saved.
And that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.
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Compare that to:
What are my rights and responsibilities as a Canadian citizen?
Canadian citizens have certain rights and responsibilities.
What are my rights as a citizen?
If you are a Canadian citizen, your rights include:
Democratic rights (for example, the right to vote)
Language rights
Equality rights
Legal rights
Mobility rights
Freedom of religion
Freedom of expression
Freedom of assembly and association
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives you these rights. In Ontario, the Ontario Human Rights Code also gives you rights.
Citizens also have the right to apply for a Canadian passport. A Canadian passport allows you to return to Canada at any time after travelling or living abroad.
Do I have responsibilities as a citizen?
As a Canadian citizen, you also have responsibilities:
To respect the rights and freedoms of others
To obey Canada’s laws
To participate in the democratic process
To respect Canada’s 2 official languages and multicultural heritage
You can read Rights and Responsibilities in Canada to find out more about your rights in Canada, and your rights as a Canadian citizen.
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US citizens: Check out your rights:
Wha………………………………………………….?
“laws of God”? Really?
Dio, Canada’s rights aren’t worth the paper they are written on. http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/16/canada-passes-law-criminalizing-use-of-wrong-gender-pronouns/
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Scientology airs a commercial and an hour later TWO people walk in to NYC org and do an OSA! This is supposed to be an accomplishment? Scientology uses stuff like this to enforce the idea of 800x straight up and vertical expansion across all dynamics? Give me a break! And another seventy do the stupid thing online! Question is, how many of them actually come into the org to get their results?
Mike… You really should consider to move on and install Disqus on your blog https://disqus.com/
You have the audience…
Why is it so much better?
Because it pick up the speed and i’m sure there is a pressure somewhere. This Blog comment section is just to slow imo. But hey… All yours 🙂
Also think of the “traffic” it will create on your blog?
It would be fun to post pictures and just ‘like’ a comment
As a person with limited internet skills I’m happy to just type a comment and have it show up. I receive notifications if someone replies to my comments.
I’m with Richard on this, Mike. Fine with how you have things set up now, but if for any reason you decide to change anything that’ll be OK too.
Don’t do it Mike! The quality of the conversation is great here, without a lot of show-and-tell photos. I never seem to have a hot date waiting, so any delays in posting don’t bother me at all.
Bix, Disqus isn’t about “show-and-tell photos”. It is about typed comments. And, it is superior than Word Press.
Agree about quality.
Mike, Shadow Banning: https://help.disqus.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2804915-shadow-banning
Interesting. But I like to see the occasional troll. They keep it interesting and different perspectives stimulate some fascinating discussions and thoughts. The whole back and forth I have been having with Foolproof has stimulated a whole new posting that will be coming soon.
Agreed, as I noted about the petri dish view on this thread. Just an example of what Disqus has that WP doesn’t. Fool’s posts are too instructive to not be seen by never in’s.
But, if WP works for you I don’t think the time would be profitably spent learning a new system.
Oh! I can’t wait to read this one!
Me too! I’m intrigued.
In the immortal words of Nancy Reagan,just say no .Disqus is overrated.Don’t need a like button to get some good ole Miscavige bashing going .
. There is plenty of happiness going on here.
Scientology just keeps getting better and better . . . NOT !
Maybe they should make a “Sci-Fi” movie . . . “Xenu vs. Dynocroc” . .. PERFECT !
Dave F.
Mike, By the way, I was bored and decided to do a head count on the photos that you posted yesterday of the weekend Ideal Org openings.
I put a marker on each visible head and had the software count the number of markers.
Salt Lake City = 242 people.
Mountain View-Silicon Valley = 322 people.
If you subtract staff members and people brought in from out of the area, the results are even more startling.
Wow — thanks for that. Going to add a PS to that post so it is recorded for posterity.
You go, Mike!
Nomnom, that’s called “going the extra mile” in sales motivation jargon. I really appreciate your taking the time to do that. You get the Anti-Scientology Cult Medal of Valor for that (translation: I’ll buy you a beer should we ever meet).
Might as well let those peeps know how much the cult loved their tweets… ??
https://twitter.com/_mikewesten/status/968226796155080704
You can’t get more clueless than presenting those quotes as positive endorsements.
True that.
#ScientologyDoesNotGetSarcasm
To: dwarmed
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: sarcasm
We not only do not get sarcasm, we don’t care for it! So you had better watch your step or you’ll find yourself in the RPF where you will be compelled to acknowledge me as Supreme Ruler Of Teegeeack And The MEST Universe!
The great Miscavige has spoken!
ML
Dave
That cannot be Miscavige as it was not written in Shermanspeak.
To: Mark E Paulson.
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: Dan Sherman.
All right! Listen up, Mark E ! I do not always need Dan Sherman to write stuff for me, especially when dealing with insignificant little turds like you!
So, there!
ML
Dave.
Swarmed, Scientology doesn’t get anything. Again, they’re stuck in the 50s. They don’t pass ‘Go,’. So they don’t get $200.
Welllll…they do get $$$$ OSD, they do ‘get’ money!
If you post a video on Youtube you can delete comments.
You have to be a “special” kind of person to be a Scientologist!
Scientology liked the comment above I left after the ad.
Ess ….specially the Ess Pees!!!
What did you say?
DMSCOHB in His spare time.
DM HAS no spare time…. 24/7, he’s handling what everyone else keeps screwing up. No time to SCOHB…. CAN’T, anyway: he’d have to stand on a ladder.
I went over and downvoted the ad on YT, but it’s not reflected on the page. Looks like they’ve set the totals to be hidden, if that’s an option for channel owners.
Cleansing the comments … what a hoot! I believe the Brits call this “pissing in the wind.”
The number of people the reached the Orgs is pathetic, what 9-11 maybe and they won’t last long.
Once they realize they will be regged over and over and over, they will quit as the 14 people I know that were “new” and, after a month or so, couldn’t stand the harassment from Regs and quit all together.
Very bad Miscavige, very low stats. There must be an SP close to you as nothing seems to be working. You can look yourself in the mirror and you’ll find him; you don’t need a 10 August to realize who is destroying Scn.
Well, if memory serves I believe LRH did write that every SP is PTS to himself. (Or herself, OK? 🙂 )
That’s a nice analysis, and puts things in perspective.
I bet that the supposed “few examples” of the dissemination campaign, actually represent a significant portion of the meager response, giddily reported “uplines” by the few orgs who got some traffic, and embellished and spun in the process – the 3 ASU students who went into an org were almost certainly looking to check out a freak show, not genuinely interested. There’s not, for instance, any mention of anyone actually starting auditing.
I can only imagine that such pablum would excite some sad contingent of aging true believers with compromised critical thinking abilities. I can’t help but think of their peers who keep the dusty, empty Christian Science reading rooms open a few hours a week (my local one now has a handwritten sign that they’re down from 3 to 2 hours, twice a week).
At least your local Reading Room is still up and running. Many of the ones that I’ve seen have since closed their doors.
Yeah…there not long for this world. To be honest, I rarely see anyone in their shops.
Well, Jeffrey Dahmer had his own stat: “Bodies in the Garage”.
(OK, ok! We’re all being gross…)
Is the Aftermath program done for good?? I hope not
I know I should be making a comment on what I just read but The whole org…makes me sick !
It makes everyone sick.
Toxicness
?? they are going down! The sunset is in the sky!!?
The parallel between the propaganda leveled at Scientologys members and North Koreas propaganda to their citizens is dramatic. And for every million the cult spends on ads the IAS probably regs 15-20 million.
All I can say is fraudulent and criminal.
Mike, I’m suddenly compelled to make fresh gwock (gaucamole) and celebrate my liberation from all things cultesque, culties, and the general trance of cultness that I was mired in for wayyyy to long! Pass me a Corona, it’s 5 o,clock somewhere, all hail AvocaodsfromMexico!
-Sneaky lil Phuq
Glad you’re out, Little Phuq. The world is your oyster. Just keep in mind that you’ll be eating your ancestors.
But OSD, help me out here: I thought our ancestors were clams!
After my last overt on all dynamics (candlelit linguini & clam sauce dinner I made and then afterward was informed by you that we had just eaten our families) I wrote up my O/Ws , did my Enemy Condition, suffered up the lowers until I reached NON E, swore off clams forever, and switched to Oysters Rockefeller. Whew! I thought I was finally In Ethics. But now you’re telling me I’m f***ked again?
Clams, oysters, it’s all the same.
I love the name, Sneaky Little Phuq.
That is awesome on a few levels!
Yo Dave,
I heard from one of yer still innies that yer International Ass-soseeation of ‘you know what skis’ is doing a lot of funding fer yer new Orgies. (Sorry bout the spellin Dave, too many years in the cult will do that). Anyway, back to the Idle mORGue thingy ………..
“We thought so”
BTW Dave, Who the fuck is WE? Are You referring to yer plebes in the Hole, yer unethical officers, yer mindless publics or yer good buddy, mr. numero tres all time big being who won’t say shit about yer cherch? Yea, the one You said was THE MOST DEDICATED SCIENTOLOGIST YOU KNOW ……….. Dave. Geesch, the two of you make for a real losers package big boy!
🙂
So all their fancy wordcraft and profound sounding bullshit can’t get more interest than Hyde?
Danny Masterson may now be the official unofficial spokesperson for Scientology, but I don’t even think he publicly acknowledges he is a Scientologist. Why would he get more searches than ‘source’?! bahahaha
They need to show more skin – Sex Sells! ….. until they find out you are “coo coo for cocoa puffs”!
I think they have an MU on “trolling”.
People popping their own cysts at home have more YouTube hits FFS.
I’m never gonna get that image out of my mind!
You’re welcome, lol. 😀
Speaking of popping cysts at home, someone in Hemet ought to give Dave’s head a pinch.
What would come out? I’m thinking black stuff.
Puh-leez, do I need this picture?
Can you pinch spray-tanned silicone though?
If they had a video of LRH popping the huge sebaceous cyst on his first head they could get true 47x expansion they always talking about.
Bwahahahahah… too bad Dr. Pimple Popper didn’t exist back then!
Lol my social media is “crossing streams” never expected a dpp reference here!
Jeez, I’m still digesting my oatmeal. Did you have to say something that gross?
Oh now youve done it! That glove slap will be felt around the world!!! Eeek.
Considering the crickets they’ve been hearing lately it might very well seem like a floodgate has suddenly opened. What they fail to understand is the difference between morbid curiosity and genuine interest.
Crickets AND tumbleweeds! Don’t forget the tumbleweeds!
I could probably garner more positive feedback making a video on how to best eat a dog turd.
I concur – I’d way rather see dog turd eating instructions than a scientology ad. I’ve no doubt that they edited out the negative responses.
Yes, I’ve seen that one of yours Wyn, under the theme “garbage in, garbage out”!
Glad you watched Fool. You are corerct, it was about scientology (GIGO).
Nice to see you’re out and about today FP. Dave got tired of playing?
You really must be a newcomer if you think I would know that. But I’ll just check in Mike’s office (next door to Dave’s) to see if he is there.
With chilli?
Is there any other way to eat it?
I did hear it’s good deep fried with 11 herbs and spices, but I was also informed that was copyrighted. With corn chips and fresh salsa, mmmm, yum!
Have y’all gotten together this morning and taken some kind of Gross Out Pill? Did Big Pharma send y’all some free samples enclosed with your checks? Speaking of which, where the hell is my check? I’m getting tired of hearing its in the mail.
Got my gross out pill in the mail y’day. It came in a sample pack addressed to the “householder”. The happy pills went first, but they weren’t nearly as good as advertised but the gross out ones… oh yeah!
Do you remember the Monty Python (?) sketch about the Mallard Phiz and the dog turd and tonic?
Gosh, no, I missed that one. Alas 🙂