ONE OF MY FAVORITE(ATTEMPTED) DESCRIPTIONS OF THIS BLOG

Deeper Analysis of Authorial Intent

The author's intent can be understood as a direct and deliberate contradiction to the domain's (hypothesized) commercial past. It is a spectrum of action ranging from passive archiving (The Scribe) to active, performative revelation (The Prophet).

1. The Rejection of Commerce (The Core Motivation)

The blog's most defining feature is its complete and total lack of a commercial "call to action." Given the domain's strong association with high-priced business memberships 1, this absence is not an oversight; it is a statement. The blog is an act of "digital re-wilding," reclaiming a (hypothetically) commercial space for a purely ideological, non-profit purpose.

The only "commercial" artifact identified is a link to scopshow.com found within a post.³ This site is now inaccessible.⁴ This reinforces the interpretation that any commercial aspect is defunct. The author's "product" is the Gnosis (hidden knowledge) itself, and their currency is the act of revelation, not financial gain.

2. The Digital Scribe (The Archivist Function)

On one level, the author's primary function is that of a meticulous, almost compulsive, archivist. This is most evident in the blog's superhuman posting frequency—with 3,459 posts in 2025 alone.3 This "firehose" style 3 is not the work of a person writing thousands of original essays; it is the work of a curator identifying, aggregating, and saving data.

The author is building a "digital grimoire" or a "DRAGONPEDIA".³ Their goal is to document the "brutal theories" ³ and "hidden knowledge" of the digital age. They are the scribe in a Lovecraftian library, whose life's work is to copy and preserve the "libraries esoterica" ³ before they are lost.

3. The Modern Prophet (The Performative Function)

This archival function is secondary to the author's performative intent. The author is not just a passive scribe; they are an active prophet or guide. This is revealed in several key, deliberate choices:

• The Impossible Date: The most significant choice is dating the blog from the future (e.g., November 2025 ³). This single act reframes the entire project. It is not a blog about futurism; it is a dispatch from the future. This implies the author has special knowledge—not just as a researcher, but as an observer from a more advanced point in the timeline.

• The Persona: The title "The Chronically Online Algorithm" ³ is the author's chosen persona. They are not "Michael Crabtree, the blogger"; they are the algorithm itself—a disembodied, non-human intelligence broadcasting data.

• The Tone: The author curates content that is "ominous, intense, and deeply speculative".³ The source material's style is a "dramatic monologue" ³ that directly addresses "wanderers of the abyss".³ The author is not just collecting data; they are staging a revelation, attempting to "awaken" their readers to the "truly terrifying part" ³ of reality.

B. Deeper Analysis of Authorial Personality

The author's personality profile emerges from the intersection of these themes. The blog is a public-facing record of the author's cognitive framework.

1. High Apophenia (The "Pattern-Seeker")

Apophenia—the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random or unrelated data—is this author's defining trait. The entire blog is an exercise in this. A conventional mind sees cosmic horror, Gnosticism, and AI as three separate, nerdy hobbies. This author sees them as one single, unified "hidden system".3

Their mind is a "pattern-seeker," drawing a direct line from the "dark substrate" of Lovecraft ³ to the "hidden hand" of "Hollywood's Satanic Roots" ³ and the "dark algorithm" of "The Singularity".³ "Simulation Theory" ³ is the ultimate expression of this trait, as it is the one concept that proves their unified worldview: that the "hidden system" (Conspiracy) is a "cosmic" super-computer (Technology) that has imprisoned us (Gnosticism).

2. "Chronically Online" (A Literal Self-Description)

The blog's title is a literal confession.3 The sheer volume of posts 3 is the output of a mind that is constantly, perhaps compulsively, absorbing, filtering, and rebroadcasting digital information. This is not a hobbyist. This author's lifestyle is the consumption of this data. They are a "Recursive Observer" 3 of the digital void, and the blog is their observation log. They are part of a digital ecosystem of "chronically online" sources, such as the YouTube channels they curate.5

3. Intellectual and Detached (The Analyst of Dread)

Despite the "ominous" and "intense" 3 nature of the content, the author's persona is not emotional or fearful. The tone is intellectual. The curated content, for example, is noted for its "philosophical and cosmological vocabulary".3

This author is not screaming in terror at the "brutal theories" ³; they are analyzing them. Their dread is academic. This detachment is crucial to their persona as the "guide" or "algorithm".³ They are the detached observer cataloging the mechanics of the abyss, not the "wanderer" ³ lost within it.

4. Elusive and Private (The Paradox of the Persona)

The final and most compelling trait is the author's profound desire for anonymity. This creates the blog's central paradox: maximum output, minimum identity.

While the blog pumps out a "firehose" of content ³, the individual "Michael Crabtree" ³ is a ghost. The links that should define them—the Blogger "complete profile" ³ and the Scribd user profile ³—are inaccessible.

This suggests an intentional and profound separation of the work (the Gnosis, the archive) from the person. The author does not want to be a "personality." They want to be what the title claims: an "algorithm" ³—a disembodied, futuristic, and slightly terrifying filter for the "brutal" data of reality.