The events of the past few days have again demonstrated a rather interesting and encouraging thing. The Internet is uncensored. Due to certain specifics, any information censored in cyberspace instantly becomes popular and even more accessible than before censorship. This week, a real war broke out on the Internet between two video bloggers - the newly minted Nikita Besogon (in the world Nikita Mikhalkov) and Kamikaze-Di, widely known in narrow circles (real name is just Dmitry Ivanov). It all started with the fact that the eminent director, succumbing to fashion trends, created his own video channel on YouTube in mid-March with the pretentious name “Besogon TV”. It must be said that the very first release of Besogon gave many reasons to ridicule the master of Soviet cinema. The pretentious screensaver, the golden figurines in the background and equally golden rings on the fingers, the characteristic manner of speaking and the characteristic mustache - all this was in place. People immediately began to joke in the comments and make quick parodies. Experienced video blogger Kamikadze_d did not stand aside. At the beginning of the twenties, the video “Tired by Mikhalkov” appeared. The fate of this video should have been standard for videos of this kind - gain from 50 to 90 thousand views and be forgotten after a couple of days. But it was not there! The video dedicated to Mikhalkov was hastily removed by the YouTube administration without explanation. Then events developed rapidly... The next day, Dmitry Ivanov posted a video message about what happened. Soon, this seemingly purely informative video was deleted. Towards the end of the week, Dmitry made two more videos - the comic “Repentance for Mikhalkov” and the somewhat more serious “Farewell to Mikhalkov”. Within a matter of hours, they were viewed by tens of thousands of people, but in the end they too were deleted. Then Kamikaze “uploaded” the deleted videos to his VKontakte page, calling on users to download them en masse and post them on YouTube. And on this moment Hundreds of people have already responded to this call! As they usually say about this on the Internet, epic win. What is the moral of the story? If Mikhalkov’s PR people (I doubt that Nikita Sergeevich personally dealt with this issue) had simply turned a blind eye to the existence of one video that ridiculed their ward, then this video would have remained just one video, watched by, at most, a hundred thousand people and very quickly forgotten . However, the crude and clumsy censorship applicable to television has had the exact opposite effect on the Internet. There are already four videos ridiculing Nikita Besogon, and they have been replicated in hundreds of copies. The story, by the way, turned out to be so revealing that REN-TV mentioned it on Saturday in the program “A Week with Marianna Maksimovskaya.” So that.
The guest of "Nemtsova.Interview" is video blogger Dmitry Ivanov, who is known on the Internet as kamikadzedead. Number of subscribers Youtube channel exceeds a million. Every day he publishes two issues where he talks about social problems in the country. Dmitry calls himself a propagandist. His goal is a revolution in the brains of Russians. Now the blogger lives in Prague. According to him, in Russia he was facing criminal charges under the Criminal Code article “inducement to commit suicide.” In an interview with Zhanna Nemtsova, kamikadzedead spoke about “Kremlin bots”, likes and the reasons why he refused to publish compromising evidence on the Communist Party presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin.
Zhanna Nemtsova: A Russian political video blogger is a journalist or propagandist?
Dmitry Ivanov: More like a propagandist. Considering the working conditions of journalists in the Russian Federation, I am not ready to call myself that. My presentation of information is based on emotions mixed with facts. When they tell me “you won’t be any different from Kiselev or Solovyov,” I answer: “To live with wolves is to howl like a wolf.” At the same time, everything I say is the absolute truth.
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Blogger kamikadzedead - about propaganda and journalism
- On March 18, presidential elections will be held in Russia. A number of bloggers supportordiscredit the initiatives of one or another candidate. There is a feeling thatPartThese people specifically work for money. How ethical is this??
I don't think this is ethical at all.
- You personally do not do anything for money to promote your political beliefs?
No orders are being received. Although no, I’m lying. Recently, three orders to “kill” Pavel Grudinin arrived in the mail, just in a week. Then an order from the National Public Monitoring, which, for money, wants to promote the legitimacy of the elections and show that the election campaign of all candidates is honest and transparent, which means the elections will be fair. I then said: “Guys, not only will I not work with you, but I will also talk about your initiative on the Internet.”
- You mentioned Pavel Grudinin. Why did they attack him now?criticism in the media?
It’s funny, they are even afraid of Pavel Grudinin, who has neither recognition nor rating. They and Ksenia Sobchak are being scammed through federal channels. There are two reasons. The first is to portray the appearance of Vladimir Putin’s struggle with the candidates under the cunning condition that the current president does not act as their political opponent: he does not participate in debates and does not challenge the provisions of their programs.
- From your videos, I see that during the presidential election campaign you took a certain position, which is promoted by Alexei Navalny ( boycott of presidential elections . - Ed.). Is this your personal point of view or are you collaborating with Navalny’s headquarters??
I don’t cooperate with them, but I like Navalny’s position. Moreover, I really see the techniques and manipulations that are used to lure people to vote. They herd them to rallies, for example. Before, I just watched it.
- Do you have political ambitions??
I have an ambition to increase my audience. Politics is a dirty business.
- Increasing the audience for the sake of promoting one’s political views is usuallywant people who plan to get involved in politics.
Politics is always teamwork and lobbying, and I’m already out of the habit of being part of a team. My main goal is to build a critical mass to promote my ideas. I need to attract more people from different social spheres. I want them to unite. For this, I have a rotation of topics, because I won’t talk all week about the wretchedness of major repairs in Russia and the growing fees for it. The creepiest thing is that I tell another story, and they tell me: “This is the norm, now you won’t surprise anyone.”
Even when I’m writing a new script, I constantly think that I don’t have enough tin in this episode, there won’t be a wow effect. And I choose, precisely, wow news at the end of the issue so that it is memorable. People no longer react to things that would make some burgher or spectator's hair stand out in the USA or Germany. There are already thoughts of putting English subtitles on my videos so that foreigners can watch them as thrillers.
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Nemtsova.Interview - blogger kamikadzedead - about the resourcefulness of Russians and sad situations
- I asked my subscribers on Facebook, What would they like to ask you? Here's one question: "Are you aware that the bulk of your audience is not those who know how to fix the situation in the country, but those who experience a certain pleasure when you show new problems and situations, thereby allowing you to create content at the same levelemotions?In your opinion, your audience is against the current government and the state of the country, but in reality they are simply against it, they do not have a specific goal, and, most importantly, ways to achieve it. That is, it is destruction for the sake of destruction."
It is not true that we do not offer anything in return. Unlike a number of Russian media, I voice the names of the perpetrators so that they cannot commit their lawlessness, taking advantage of anonymity. I am for de-anonymization. We know the specific culprit for poor-quality major repairs or for an emergency section of the road where people die, and we make this public. This creates a critical mass of citizens who do not consider this the norm.
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- You have a separate reminder on how to deal with “Kremlin bots” on Youtube. Tell us how to do this and how censorship works on this platform?
Now the “Kremlinbots” have a new tactic: they are trying to clutter up trends on Youtube. They are constantly buying up places in the tops, where videos appear where there were only 26 thousand views in four hours. This can be done inexpensively, in my opinion, for 15 thousand rubles. Naturally, in place of this paid garbage there should be a video, for example, of Navalny, which will collect 600 thousand views in 4 hours. But he cannot get there, since the Russian Youtube office has good relations with the FSB. Youtube trends are nothing but pro-government husks that no one is cleaning up. To combat this, you need to move the Russian Youtube office to another Russian-speaking country.
- In your video blog you say that you have disabled monetization. But I was especially struck,
that your like and comment on a video you like are worth 3 thousand rubles
- It's low cost. Likes and comments bring in little money, unlike advertising. I periodically ask the audience to chip in, because I don’t have monetization, and there’s not much money.
- When are you going to return to Russia?
I would not like to return to the Russian Federation until a critical mass has accumulated in society. I felt uncomfortable that I was talking about people’s problems, but not going out into the streets with them. When I started whining, they told me: “Don’t worry, you’re much more useful to us in the monitor.” I would like to see a revolution in brains. I am for people to be turned away from this whole news agenda. For Russians to stop believing the authorities, their promises, and to talk to them in a raised voice, as if they were servants of the people. They are truly our servants.
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The more speed the ship gains, the more small pirate ships try to sink it. So our modest and quiet editorial office of PolitRussia hears the sound of the clicking teeth of everyone who is still endowed with these teeth. Of course, the management is under attack: the magazine’s editor-in-chief Ruslan Ostashko has already received a “black mark” from Lesha Navalny, and from a certain Dmitry Ivanov too. But here most of the audience will be indignant: many people know Lesha, but who is Ivanov?
Behind this simple combination of first and last name lies the famous video blogger kamikadze_d. And here a few words about the psychology of self-presentation.
Let's start with the fact that the nicknames we accept entail a lot of information. Having made two or three simple clicks in one of the Internet search engines, we find out that “kamikaze” literally translates as “divine wind.” But there is no smell of romance and poetry here. According to Dmitry himself, the nickname was chosen back in school for a computer game, when he himself “I ran after others with a grenade and laughed when it carried away both the enemy and myself to the next world”
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Hmm, no divine wind blows, as you can see. And also intelligence on the level of Bill Gates. Apparently, there are some problems with self-identification if a young man, being almost 29 years old, still actively hides behind a nickname from his school period. Naturally, it is customary to hide on the Internet and assign fictitious names to oneself, but the hypothesis receives partial confirmation when watching a video from Dmitry’s blog.
Firstly, I am alarmed by the sudden change in his political views. At first he proclaims himself a supporter of the liberal wing, then he denies this and becomes an alleged “outside observer” and critic. But, as they say, if you criticize, suggest. However, such an expression is unknown to the angelic, fair-haired Dima: he prefers to spit venom in front of the camera and sarcastically dispatch everyone whose names pop up in his mind.
At first, you naively anticipate that Dmitry will criticize and at least poke some kind of confirming piece of paper at the screen, like Lesha. But it turns out that he sits in front of the camera and makes faces. We searched and found a rating of his most popular videos. The TOP 3 were crowned with the following names:
- How to competently crap on Ksenia Sobchak (over 700,000 views)
- Tea and Hamburger Festival (over 160,000 views)
- Mr. Freeman, the end (over 120,000 thousand views).
I won’t even leave comments, I’ll go to Leshkin’s mint cubes and look, at least they have an adult claim to politics, and not a youth race for likes. Now it’s not so surprising that “similar queries” when searching for kamikadze_d are Justin Bieber and Roma Acorn.
Now we remembered about likes and will immediately throw in an opus “about the meaning of activity.” Dmitry is not even shy, saying that views, likes and reposts are what he records his videos and holds promotions for. Frankl, the genius of fighting the existential vacuum, cries on the sidelines. It turns out that the young man is screaming and making faces at the camera, scolding Russia, the Government, the President, the people, the police - everyone! – just for the sake of PR and popularity; There’s no civic duty or anything like that for you.
Old-timers of the Internet still remember Dimkin’s total failures: a certain grandgreed wrote on March 28, 2011 in one of the blogs (punctuation preserved): “Not all the videos are there, he deleted some. I remember where he sat drunk in his car, waving whiskey for 10 grand. The car in which he was driving was very reminiscent of the Metsubishi Lancer Evolution, a 3-liter sedan in a new body, the price for a new car is approximately 1,500,000 rubles. Another video was deleted where he was drinking in one of the rooms in his apartment, the interior there is estimated at about 500 - 600 thousand. Apparently he realized that the property was being exposed and deleted these videos.”. What happens? Dmitry is so actively focusing attention on the problems of corruption in modern Russia, and he probably bought a bottle of whiskey with change from school lunches?
So what does the young talent want? Maybe the development and prosperity of your country? Or fair elections? Or justice? Not so fast! The young man craves fame and public recognition, and therefore feeds his audience with everything he can get his hands on.
But here again two facts confuse us: Kamikaze is not at all open to dialogue. Well, I would have refused to go to our Discussion Club, which is quite obvious: I was afraid of being “pelted with slippers,” although, I dare to assure you, this would not have happened. But Ruslan Ostashko himself invited him, allocated time for him to discuss the sensational video about Russia and its problems, created by Dmitry himself and EzhoFF Bamd. Dmitry refused - we were indignant.
Of course, Dmitry’s audience was indignant, as were our readers. It’s understandable: you made a video, went out on the Internet with a slogan, but you’re afraid to discuss it. How so? Dmitry hastened to calm the crowd and recorded a low-grade video designed to humiliate us and our publication. But why should you blatantly lie about the subject of conversation in your response to your viewers? When were you with us, Dima, proposed to discuss the Vostochny Cosmodrome or the irresponsibility of local officials? Manifestations of early alcoholic dementia due to the consumption of that same whiskey? Or did he add a couple of lines for good measure that don’t exist in the correspondence? Oh yes, we forgot! Such individuals can rarely be taken at their word, they tend to exaggerate: and already a bream becomes a pike, and 12 centimeters -... well, let’s not.
However, nothing human is alien to Dima, and the blogger fears the formidable Tesak (aka Max Martsinkevich) like fire. As soon as the latter mentioned that he didn’t like some video, Dima from a kamikaze turns into Alyonushka and trembles like an aspen leaf (warning, video contains profanity). Let me fantasize: “If the editor-in-chief of PolitRussia (may Ruslan Ostashko forgive me) was Max Martsinkevich, perhaps Mr. Kamikaze would not only not forgive the offensive videos about our editorial office and projects, but also provide the entire team with flowers and sweets.”
So, what kind of phenomenon is this Kamikaze? And how should we treat him? Some will say that he doesn’t need extra PR from the publication, and it’s not particularly important. However, parallels between him and Ukrainian media expert Anatoly Shariy have repeatedly appeared online. . And indeed, most of Kamikaze’s audience is Ukrainian, Shariya’s is Russian.
One thing remains unclear: either the men themselves deliberately chose such a niche, or this is someone’s very smart move. The main thing is that the guys cope with their task perfectly: you give provocation in full! Kamikaze, however, still needs to learn and learn: many of his viewers pay attention to the gaps in knowledge of the country’s history and sometimes inappropriate behavior.
So listen up, dear Dmitry! Otherwise, it turns out, as in the famous meme: in words you are Leo Tolstoy, but in deeds you are...
The events of the past few days have again demonstrated a rather interesting and encouraging thing. The Internet is uncensored. Due to certain specifics, any information censored in cyberspace instantly becomes popular and even more accessible than before censorship. This week, a real war broke out on the Internet between two video bloggers - the newly minted Nikita Besogon (in the world Nikita Mikhalkov) and Kamikaze-Di, widely known in narrow circles (real name is just Dmitry Ivanov). It all started with the fact that the eminent director, succumbing to fashion trends, created his own video channel on YouTube in mid-March with the pretentious name “Besogon TV”. It must be said that the very first release of Besogon gave many reasons to ridicule the master of Soviet cinema. The pretentious screensaver, the golden figurines in the background and equally golden rings on the fingers, the characteristic manner of speaking and the characteristic mustache - all this was in place. People immediately began to joke in the comments and make quick parodies. Experienced video blogger Kamikadze_d did not stand aside. At the beginning of the twenties, the video “Tired by Mikhalkov” appeared. The fate of this video should have been standard for videos of this kind - gain from 50 to 90 thousand views and be forgotten after a couple of days. But it was not there! The video dedicated to Mikhalkov was hastily removed by the YouTube administration without explanation. Then events developed rapidly... The next day, Dmitry Ivanov posted a video message about what happened. Soon, this seemingly purely informative video was deleted. Towards the end of the week, Dmitry made two more videos - the comic “Repentance for Mikhalkov” and the somewhat more serious “Farewell to Mikhalkov”. Within a matter of hours, they were viewed by tens of thousands of people, but in the end they too were deleted. Then Kamikaze “uploaded” the deleted videos to his VKontakte page, calling on users to download them en masse and post them on YouTube. And so far, hundreds of people have already responded to this call! As they usually say about this on the Internet, epic win. What is the moral of the story? If Mikhalkov’s PR people (I doubt that Nikita Sergeevich personally dealt with this issue) had simply turned a blind eye to the existence of one video that ridiculed their ward, then this video would have remained just one video, watched by, at most, a hundred thousand people and very quickly forgotten . However, the crude and clumsy censorship applicable to television has had the exact opposite effect on the Internet. There are already four videos ridiculing Nikita Besogon, and they have been replicated in hundreds of copies. The story, by the way, turned out to be so revealing that REN-TV mentioned it on Saturday in the program “A Week with Marianna Maksimovskaya.” So that.
So, it’s a no brainer that somewhere in a secret place, carefully guarded by hamsters, Navalny has luxurious dachas, built not only with money from donations for “Navalny-2018” (anyway, a criminal with an outstanding criminal record will not be registered, so what’s the use of money disappear?).
We managed to find photographs of Navalny’s dacha from publicly available sources using the fashionable Open source intelligence (OSINT) methodology.
We (like FBK) do not have documents that would prove that this is Navalny’s dacha. But to come to this conclusion, we were guided by the logic of FBK, according to which Alexei Navalny has friends. And these friends have some kind of real estate. So it is likely that one of his friends owns exactly the property that is shown in the photographs we published.
You can't deny that there is such a possibility, can you? You can not! Q.E.D.
And we are not going to prove anything, let Alexey himself prove that he does not have luxury apartments in Spain, France and Australia. He had been to planet Earth, and even recently vacationed abroad, so he could easily have bought them there.
And since FBK reporting is closed and no one can check how much was collected and what the funds were used for, we quite logically assumed that all the money was spent on luxury real estate abroad for Navalny (and on a doghouse for Volkov, photo attached).
Moreover, our investigation has established that FBK's main sponsor is the notorious ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In support of this version, American General Stephen Townsend suggested the day before yesterday that al-Baghdadi is alive.
We have gone further than Townsend, we even know where he is hiding. It is the naked al-Baghdadi reflected in the glass in the latest video of Dmitry Ivanov, better known as “Kamikaze Di”. Fat, bearded - all the signs are the same. This is definitely Abu Bakr.
Moreover, it was in honor of Bagda that Dee named himself Kamikaze Dee. Coincidence? Don't think! They have a strong European family.
Remember how the classic? Jomapelle Sveta and Jomapelle Nadya are Jomapelle sisters. So it is here.
Do you still not see the connection between al-Baghda Di and Navalny? Al-Baghda Di - Kamikaze Di lives at one of Navalny's dachas, and Kamikaze Di is Navalny's favorite blogger, who provides him with all kinds of support.
And what’s more, in order to attract a sponsor, Alexey even had breast augmentation surgery.
The connection is direct and proven. Now ask Alexey to prove that this is not so - he can’t!
Everything fits, all the evidence has been provided - what more do you need? Navalny is building luxury dachas throughout Europe with the money of al-Baghdadi, who, through Kamikaze Di, is setting Ololosha against Putin and Medvedev, thus avenging his shameful defeat in Syria.
P.S.
Above we showed how NOT to conduct investigative journalism. However, the horse is not fed, and the circus will continue. As long as the hamsters pay and eat, eat and pay, the circus will not die.
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