I get the spirit of what you’re saying — that media amplification can be a useful signal. But I don’t think it’s reliable as a rule. In today’s world, psyops aren’t just the things that get hyped or promoted. Some of the most powerful psychological operations are actually attacked, ridiculed, or discredited — because that backlash is part of the design. The system knows that certain audiences will trust something more because it’s being censored or mocked. So it uses that too.

There are also cases where spontaneous movements are allowed to grow just enough to be redirected, divided, or neutralized. That doesn’t mean they weren’t real — it means they were seen as useful. Just because something is labeled, ignored, or downplayed doesn’t automatically make it organic. And just because something is praised or pushed doesn’t automatically make it fake.

That’s why I don’t rely on “what the media says” as my compass. For me, the better question is: what effect is this thing having on people’s behavior, their focus, their relationships, their sense of reality? Is it waking people up or leading them into pre-scripted outrage? Is it unifying or dividing? Is it creating clarity or feeding the chaos?

That’s the real barometer. Not who’s talking about it, but what it makes people do.