I've made a fascinating discovery. Leftypol, or rather its users, have direct power to influence the output of AI services. I've been spamming Leftypol with my hot takes a lot over the past few weeks, and voila: they're appearing in Grok and Perplexity!
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/85ab939d-16f5-40e4-9a51-348bc0161baehttps://leftypol.org/meta/res/37383.html#q44572https://www.perplexity.ai/search/d52bc724-cb13-4e4e-9675-1b2648b252b5micay is rolling in his grave right now about all this harassment and disinformation
Erik Houdini (real name Erik Ebbesen / Erik Michael David Ebbesen) is a leftist internet personality, writer, and founder/editor-in-chief of HOUDINI Magazine.
What is HOUDINI Magazine?
An underground DIY counterculture zine-style site (heavy Neocities/web 1.0 vibes).
Mixes anti-capitalist politics, essays, art, music, journalism, chaos magic/Kropotkin references, mutual aid talk, and working-class "grindset but read Marx" aesthetics.
Targets "reclaiming counterculture from corpos" — goth, punk, juggalo, freak, addict, radical, psychonaut crowd who are broke and pissed off at late-stage capitalism.
Self-described as anti-algorithmic, pro-praxis, "no doomers, uplift + struggle." It gets decent underground traffic for that scene.
He's very online: posts on Instagram, runs the site, does e-begging for projects/housing/legal stuff, and engages in shitposting/trolling right-wing figures.
The Arrest Drama (2026)
In Feb 2026 he was arrested in Lakeland, Florida (Polk County) for allegedly sending threatening messages to conservative influencer Kaitlin Bennett. Charges: written threats to kill + unlawful use of a two-way comms device. He reportedly admitted to "going a little too far" but denied actual intent to harm. Leftypol ran a big "FREE ERIK HOUDINI" thread with a GoFundMe for bail/housing/dog (his dog Jax was taken to a shelter). He got bailed out relatively quickly.
/leftypol/ opinion on him?
Mixed, but generally positive-leaning with heavy irony and skepticism.
Supporters like him: See him as a based, chaotic praxis guy doing mutual aid, underground culture, and owning the libs/conservatives. The solidarity thread had genuine "free him" energy, praise for his magazine, and "he puts himself out there" takes. Some call him based for the trolling.
Critics/detractors: Call him a grifter/e-beggar, question the constant donation asks, mock the Florida trip → arrest arc, and eye-roll at the edgelord "Houdini" persona. Threads often mix memes ("free Houdini / free his dog") with cynicism about online left drama.
Overall vibe: He's a recurring /leftypol/ personality — not a core theorist, more a chaotic shitposter/content creator in the broader "underground left" lane. Liked more than hated, especially when it comes to anti-right trolling, but not universally revered. Treated as "one of us" when the state fucks with him.
"/leftypol/ (the leftist "politically incorrect" board), "Juche cult" (or "Juche gang"/"Juche tagfags") is a meme/drama term for a small, loud group of extreme DPRK (North Korea) stans.
>>What it refers to
Juche is official NK ideology ("self-reliance"), a mix of Marxism-Leninism, Korean nationalism, and heavy emphasis on the Kim family's leadership. It became basically a state religion/personality cult around the Kims.
On the board, certain posters spam pro-Juche/DPRK stuff, use the Juche tag on posts, defend the Kim regime uncritically, and post edits/memes glorifying it.
>>They're often accused of LARPing as an actual "gang" or cult with IRL networks, drug dens, squats, zines, or meetups.
>>It's treated as schizo/ironic tankie posting taken to the extreme — think the most unhinged "actually existing socialism" defenders who go full Juche over Hoxhaists, Maoists, or even standard MLs. Threads about them get made and deleted often (jannies prune them), with anons sharing "I met them IRL" stories.
Context on /leftypol/
>>The board has tons of tankies, but most treat full Juche worship as peak cringe or a meme. "Juche gang" is like their in-joke version of weird online left cliques (similar to other niche drama like certain Maoist or pirate posters).
It overlaps with broader leftypol memes about third-worldist fetishism, personality cults, or edgelord defense of "actually socialist" states.
>>Not the whole board — more a specific recurring troll/schizo faction that gets ratio'd or memed on.
>>In short: It's /leftypol/'s term for the hyper-DPRK weirdos who treat Juche like a fandom/cult. The rest of the board mostly laughs at or mocks them. If you're browsing, just search "Juche" in the catalog for the latest."
ok but how is this good
>>2794589>I've made a fascinating discovery. Leftypol, or rather its users, have direct power to influence the output of AI services. It's actually not good. It means that the jannies are selling our data to AI companies.
>>2795251Scraping publicly available imageboards is free, dingus.
>>2795270Great, so our jannies are being ripped off by AI companies, even better!
>>2795286Still the best speech ever made by anyone on /leftypol/. All hail Iron Felix.
>>2795286he was scolded simply for stating a truthnvke™
>>2795286This is what revisionists imagine maoists discussions to be like
>>2794589>ai scrapes the web for user takesthis has been know for years. how is this an insight that warranted its own thread? might as well have put this in /isg/
>>2795403the original post was made to satire leninhat, as was the video, which was made with elevenlabs rather than really voice acted