PSYOPS [How your brain is being used against you]

Media Manipulation Exposed

hoe_math rips the mask off media and digital platforms that hijack your brain. With a pro in the game, he breaks down the real psychological tactics—emotional manipulation, subconscious triggers, cult-style brainwashing—that shape what you believe without you even noticing. News distractions, cult leaders, pandemic messaging—it’s all engineered. Most guys don’t even realize they’re under attack. This is psychological warfare. Wake up. Question everything. Don’t be a pawn.

0 | 84 | Beliefs | How Media Shapes Beliefs | The episode starts by explaining how media and screens create subconscious associations that change people's beliefs without their awareness. The host shows how this process is similar to brainwashing, used billions of times daily to shape public opinion and distract from reality.
84 | 216 | Psychological Operations | Psychological Operations and Distraction | An expert joins to describe how psychological operations (SCOPS) work, including real examples like the New Jersey drone incident allegedly distracting from political news. They discuss how coordinated media coverage manipulates collective focus and hides important events.
216 | 507 | Manipulating | Reading and Manipulating People | The expert shares his background in law enforcement, security, and training with the FBI, detailing techniques for reading body language and identifying traits that make people susceptible to manipulation, coercion, and brainwashing.
507 | 629 | Narratives | Narratives versus facts | The discussion turns to how controlling a narrative isn't just about telling lies but about selecting which facts and stories to highlight or omit. This shapes public opinion by making certain viewpoints seem normal or urgent, while others are dismissed or ignored.
629 | 855 | Brain | Brain Structure and Attraction | The hosts explain how the brain's structure—specifically the neocortex, limbic, and reptilian systems—affects how we form attachments and preferences. These same neurological processes that influence romantic attraction are exploited by marketers and propagandists.
855 | 1200 | Attachment | Attachment, Oxytocin, and Delusion | Attachment hormones like oxytocin are shown to play a role in both relationships and manipulation, with a detailed discussion on how this leads to situationships and why some people become attached to ideas, narratives, or leaders even when it harms them.
1200 | 1367 | Cult Brainwashing | Magical Thinking and Cult Brainwashing | The hosts describe magical thinking—believing random events have special meaning—and connect it to cult tactics, showing how vulnerable individuals can be led to accept extreme beliefs through emotional manipulation and ritual.
1367 | 1558 | Victims | Recognizing Victims and Perpetrators | They teach how to identify people who have been brainwashed or manipulated by their body language and defensive behaviors, and how cult leaders create 'us vs. them' mentalities and rituals to maintain control over followers.
1558 | 1701 | Pandemic | Pandemic, Ritual, and Social Control | The episode draws parallels between cult rituals and pandemic measures, arguing that many social distancing and mask-wearing behaviors became rituals to enforce group cohesion, obedience, and an 'us vs. them' dynamic.
1701 | 1797 | Agreeableness | The Easily Led and Agreeableness | Research on personality traits is discussed, highlighting that around 35–40% of people are highly agreeable and therefore more easily led. Women are statistically more agreeable, making them more susceptible to social and psychological manipulation.
1797 | 2017 | Hypnosis | Hypnosis, PCP Method, and Suggestion | The expert explains how people can be hypnotized or persuaded to act against their beliefs under certain circumstances, using the PCP (perception, context, permission) method. They review real-world examples and psychological experiments demonstrating compliance.
2017 | 2092 | Needs | Six Core Human Needs | The episode outlines six core human needs (significance, approval, acceptance, intelligence, power, and sympathy) that manipulators exploit to influence beliefs and actions, especially in times of crisis or uncertainty.
2092 | 2654 | Milgram | Brainwashing and the Milgram Experiment | They review the famous Milgram experiment, demonstrating how authority and context can push ordinary people to commit harmful acts. Only three of the six key compliance factors are needed to get most people to obey extreme orders.
2654 | 2888 | Stockholm | Stockholm Syndrome and Extreme Manipulation | Cases like Patty Hearst and prisoners of war illustrate how deprivation, fear, and repetition can completely rewire someone's beliefs through fractionation and trauma, leading to total compliance and even devotion to their captors.
2888 | 3490 | GovOps | Recognizing Government Psychological Operations | They explain how governments use distraction, normalization, escalation, and ritual to shape public opinion, citing examples like the Chinese weather balloon and New Jersey drone stories. The same processes used in cults are applied on a mass scale via media.
3490 | 3788 | Events | Step-by-Step Guide to Manufactured Events | A detailed breakdown of how manufactured events unfold: move the Overton window, normalize new ideas, create tension, escalate reports, organize a media blitz, engineer a global event, create chaos, and then present a pre-planned solution to the public.
3788 | 4049 | Power | Maintaining Power and Public Dependency | The hosts conclude that the goal of these operations is to increase public trust and dependency on authorities, making people accept restrictions and give up freedoms without question. They urge viewers to recognize these patterns and always ask if solutions are increasing government control or reducing individual freedoms.

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1|5|248|R|Women are literally driving the human race towards extinction at the moment
2|10|391|R|Women are driving the human race toward extinction because we're sick of men and the society they built
3|18|592|R|PSYOPS
4|488|385|B|women should be paid to exist
5|476|89|R|Their minds are HIJACKED!
6|740|36|R|Neocortex
7|1134|154|R|Limbic
8|834|401|R|Private
9|867|673|R|Public
10|843|561|B|Perception
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0.0 The internet is driving everyone insane, one talking head at a time. And it’s not new—we said the same thing about TV back in the day. Here’s how it works: you see something, you feel something, and you make an association—like “man bad”—before you can even decide what you believe. Then you swipe to the next thing, but that association sticks in your brain, ready to act on later. 11.0 That’s how your beliefs get changed by someone else, and you don’t even notice. It’s not an accident—this is basically the formula for brainwashing, and it’s used on billions of people every single day. Have you ever believed something just because you saw it on a screen? Ever gotten distracted by something fake when something real was happening? If you think you haven’t, that just means you don’t know about it. It happens to everyone, every day. 59.0 The lower and middle parts of your brain are easy to manipulate; they just react. The only way to protect yourself is by using your higher brain, and I’ll show you how—I even made a diagram for you. 71.0 Basically, you see something, you feel something, you store that feeling for later, and move on—never really thinking about it. That’s the short explanation. The long one might jog your memory, so stick around. 90.0 This video’s a bit different—I usually talk about subconscious thoughts messing up the dating market, but today it’s about how those same subconscious thoughts are used to control everyone, not just daters, through social media, TV, and the government. These are called psychological operations, or SCOPS, and they’re as real and common as commercials. 115.0 I brought in an expert—he works with the FBI, teaches psychological profiling, and is basically a pro at understanding how people’s thoughts and feelings can be manipulated. He’s read government documents that most people haven’t. 135.0 He explains how SCOPS are used as distractions. For example, during the New Jersey drone sightings in late 2024, everyone was focused on the drones. But, right at that time, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter—a big story that ended up buried under the drone coverage. Coincidence? Not really. There’s proof that the drone story was used as a distraction. 211.0 BK, the expert, says the news is constantly used to fool you, and you have to learn how to spot it. Look for big stories pushed by only one side. The sponsor, Ground News, helps you compare headlines and see coverage bias, which is one way to spot a SCOP. 279.0 BK’s got a background in banking operations and security—trained by the FBI for five years, teaching law enforcement and security professionals how to read body language, spot manipulation, and understand when someone might be a narcissist or psychopath. He says that the same principles used in dating—like attraction—are the same as those used in psychological operations and brainwashing. 347.0 The split between what people say and what they really feel is the exact spot manipulators target. Change the feelings, don’t let you think about them, and you change what someone believes. That’s why he’s spent so much time trying to make people aware of how their own brains work. 385.0 BK’s resume is long, but the point is he can read people better than most and knows how to tell if someone’s been manipulated, is dangerous, or can be manipulated. He teaches how to spot and even create these situations, which politicians and authorities use all the time. 535.0 “Controlling the narrative” isn’t just lying. It’s about writing the story people believe, mixing facts and omissions in a way that shapes what people focus on—leaving out details or emphasizing others. You have to use your thinking brain to write your own narrative, otherwise someone else will do it for you. 670.0 The brain works like this: at the bottom is the “reptilian brain” (impulses), then the limbic system (emotions), then the neo-cortex (thinking brain). The brain only pays attention to what you train it to notice—like when you buy a new car and suddenly see that model everywhere. The same thing happens with the kind of people you’re attracted to or the ideas you absorb. Your subconscious decides what’s important and tunes out the rest. 874.0 The “nucleus accumbens” in your brain remembers anything that gave you a dopamine rush, and it’ll keep pushing you to chase that feeling. Basically, you program yourself to see the world in a certain way based on what you feed your mind. 936.0 Attachment plays a big role in manipulation. If someone can make you feel attached to them or their ideas, you’ll want to believe what they want. That’s where things like oxytocin (the bonding hormone) come in. Women release a lot more oxytocin than men during certain experiences, making them more prone to attachment. Men don’t attach the same way, which causes confusion in relationships. 1041.0 The advice: have the “what are we?” talk before getting attached, not after. People often jump in, get attached, then try to define the relationship, leading to all kinds of rationalizations—like blaming astrology for basic feelings. 1112.0 The same way emotional people can be manipulated in relationships, anyone who’s made to feel things can end up believing delusions. This is called “magical thinking”—assigning supernatural value to random events or feelings. It’s common and easy to trigger, which is how cults and brainwashing work. 1223.0 Cult leaders target people who are missing something in their lives. By stimulating the right nerves and feelings (like the vagus nerve, which connects brain, chest, and gut), they turn feelings into beliefs. About a quarter of people are “easily led,” and a third more can be persuaded if given enough proof. 1331.0 Step-by-step, cult leaders (and manipulative authorities) recognize who needs belonging, acceptance, or validation, then create an “us versus them” mentality, give rituals or sacrifices, and isolate members. These behaviors all show up in self-protective gestures and fear of authority. 1570.0 This is similar to what happened during the COVID pandemic: people lost connections, were given enemies to blame, and adopted protective behaviors and language. All of this fits classic manipulation and brainwashing patterns. 1727.0 It starts small—like “15 days to flatten the curve”—and grows as people comply, often because they’re agreeable or want to fit in. High agreeableness is more common in women, but upbringing and circumstance matter too. 1811.0 Hypnosis is basically suggestion—people can’t be hypnotized to do something totally against their character, but with the right mix of suggestibility, focus, openness, connection, compliance, and expectancy, almost anyone can be pushed far, as shown in the Milgram experiments (shocking people because an authority told them to). 2017.0 People with strong needs—significance, approval, intelligence, power, or sympathy—are more likely to be manipulated. Recent years showed people gaining acceptance by following rules, power by enforcing them, and so on. 2104.0 Manipulation requires being seen as an authority, showing social proof (like celebrities and politicians), creating attachment, isolating the target, and then adding stress and relief cycles—a process called fractionation. 2323.0 On social media, fractionation is everywhere: you see something cute, then something scary, then something comforting, and back again—your emotions get yanked around, making you cling to whatever looks secure, even if it’s the thing that made you upset. 2416.0 The same people making you afraid then offer the solution, controlling what you believe. That’s how you get people to “catch a falling knife”—they’ll grab anything that feels safe. 2448.0 There are six main elements that make someone suggestible: suggestibility, focus, openness, connection, compliance, and expectancy. In the Milgram experiments, only a few of these were present, but that was enough to make people press a “kill” button. 2681.0 Dealing with something unfamiliar takes up your brain’s resources and makes you more vulnerable to suggestion, unless you’re hyper-vigilant. 2730.0 The Patty Hearst case is a classic example: she was kidnapped, isolated, made hungry, and bombarded with propaganda, eventually joining her captors in their crimes—Stockholm Syndrome. The same techniques have been used by governments on prisoners of war and by cults. 2848.0 Breaking someone down involves fear, isolation, interrupting routines, hunger, and repetition. It molds people until they’ll do anything, believing it was their idea. 2894.0 It’s the same thing your phone does—upsetting you, then comforting you, over and over. If you think you’re immune, that’s when you’re most vulnerable. 2949.0 Even the creator of this video has fallen for sales tactics when hungry and unfocused—nobody’s immune if the conditions are right. 3014.0 Now, how are these techniques used by governments and intelligence agencies? BK confirms that, yes, the government knows and uses these techniques, sometimes through public distractions (SCOPS), sometimes with agents like Charles Manson (who was propped up behind the scenes). 3151.0 A SCOP (psychological operation) is basically “engineered reality.” It’s used as a distraction—like a magician’s misdirection. If there’s something important happening, watch for big, unifying stories on the news that distract from it. 3280.0 BK confirms that when you see identical phrases and stories across all media, it’s a sign the government is involved, funneling talking points to control the narrative. He’s seen the documents. 3409.0 During COVID, fear was repeated on every station, pushing rituals (like masks and distancing) that have since been debunked, but served to unite people in behavior. 3497.0 Here’s the playbook for a big psychological operation: * Move the “Overton window” so that what’s coming is okay to talk about. * Normalize the topic through media repetition. * Set the stage by building anticipation and fear, so people feel the need for salvation. * Make it personal by using man-on-the-street stories. * Blitz all media so everyone’s saying the same thing. * Trigger a big “event” (real or fake) to create chaos. * Offer the solution—which is what was wanted from the start. 3814.0 Think of things like the Patriot Act, where people willingly gave up privacy for safety. Temporary restrictions never end up being temporary. 3935.0 The question to ask yourself: “Is this giving the government more control, or taking away anyone’s freedoms?” If yes, look for the normalization, escalation, and personalizing phases in the weeks before. 3998.0 Now you know what SCOPS are and how they work. Stay alert, stay sizzling, and question everything—you’ll see the signs if you look for them. 4037.0 Want the SCOPS cheat sheet? Check the creator’s Patreon or link tree—he’s posting it for free to YouTube and Patreon members.

The translations and simplified transcript are based on translations of the original material, localized into multiple languages. Powered by PeakCreatorRoyalty.com under license with hoe_math.

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