You may remember my previous guide (pdf file).
I've since made this into an article on Medium and steemit. Please save and share!
https://medium.com/@pga17/pizzagate-how-it-all-started-f2e646c73a55
https://steemit.com/politics/@thejazzcat/pizzagate-how-it-all-started
If I'm missing anything, let me know. I will check these threads for good material to add in the future.
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MeatballPizza ago
It actually began with an email-b-email analysis on Reddit's pro-Trump page called "The_Donald." That led to the first story that went viral, which was "Spirit Cooking." Word that Hillary's campaign manager and potential Chief of Staff had Satanic rituals (with the images) performed at his house went viral - was sent to tens of thousands of churches. African-American churches held meetings to discuss it.
Then "Pizzagate" spun from there. It got to be such a big thread within "The_Donald" that it spun off into its own topic on Reddit. Reddit shut down the topic.
The strange Instagram pictures and comments (babies for sale, kids tied up, etc.) were at first the main focus.
Then Tony Poesta's art collection.
Hilary actually cites "Pizzagate" in her post-election book as one of the reasons she lost the election.
Zorrilla ago
If I have my facts in order, it was even before this, in October 2016, that the Breitbart Twitter page brought up the "pizza-related map" email, and asked fellow Twitter members to suggest a possible explanation for it. However, the issue didn't seem to go anywhere from there, and wasn't taken up again until the events you just described transpired.
pby1000 ago
Someone on reddit made a post about the weird Herb Sandler email that was about playing dominos on pizza or pasta. It was a few days after wikileaks started dropping the Podesta emails. It may have been r/dncleaks or something like that. I don't think it was r/conspiracy.
It was around October 10th or 11th. I believe that wikileaks started dropping the Podesta emails on Friday, October 7, 2016.
I remember because I ignored the original "pizzagate" post. I was looking for emails in which they were sending classified information, so I thought it was not important. It kept getting upvoted, though, so I finally read it and was like WTF? That makes no sense.
I wish that I had taken a screen shot, but I did not realize how important it was at the time.
When people started calling it "pizzagate", I thought it was a stupid name.
Zorrilla ago
"Pizzagate" was always a stupid name, and was set in stone for us by the creator of the Pizzagate subreddit. It should have been called "Pizza-related" or something else that would make people curious and wouldn't be so easy to make fun of.