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The Ultimate Clickbait: The Twisted Power of Suggestion

  • maldonpem
  • 17 hours ago
  • 3 min read

There is a tactic far more subtle and dangerous than direct threats: The Power of Suggestion.

For a decade, I have dealt with a group that isn't just content to watch my life—they want to direct it.


They want to bait me into behaving in a way that confirms the lies they’ve told. It is a digital setup, a form of entrapment designed to make a peaceful person look like an obsessed one.



From My Feed to My Clients’ Feeds

When I realized that they were monitoring my every move, I stopped posting but I didn't stop liking or following. I created a private Instagram account to keep tabs on what's trending and to follow accounts like restaurants, authors, travel sites, stores, news outlets and all the things I like. But they found out because I mentioned my account to a client who had been recruited. Plus, they also knew my clients' social accounts.

They began targeting my professional world and posting on my clients’ feeds, as well as my own. The goal became clear: they're putting specific content directly in my line of sight—photos and videos of certain individuals, or "suggestions" of restaurants and travel destinations they know I enjoy or at least they will know that I see.


Examples: I used to play pickleball a lot at the courts near Crandon Park on Key Biscayne. On weekends, after playing, I would go to the Starbucks on The Key. It was a regular thing. I few months later who do I see on my feed and my client's Instagram feed but one of the stalkers promoting the jewelry store a few doors down from the same Starbucks? I don't follow this tiny jewelry store. I don't shop in it. I simply walk by it. But that was enough for these people.


One a Father's Day, a father and daughter stalking duo, popped up on my feed. Again, I don't follow these people or anything that would prompt them on my feed. Yet there they were. These are just two examples.


The Engineering of "Proof"

Why would they go to such lengths? It’s simple: They need me to engage so they can claim I am "obsessed."


It is a psychological trap. By flooding my digital space with things I like or people involved in their narrative, they are hoping for a "slip." They want me to accidentally like a photo, follow an account, or show up at a location they suggested.


The moment I do, they run to their collaborators and say, "See? We told you she was obsessed! Look what she liked. Look where she went." ###


They're creating the "Evidence" They Lack


They're using the power of suggestion to manufacture the very "stalking" they accuse me of. If they can influence me to go to a certain restaurant or follow a certain page, they can point to that action as "proof" of my fixation.


It is the ultimate gaslighting. They are the ones obsessively posting, tracking, and baiting, yet they want to frame my accidental or suggested engagement as the problem.

Recognizing the Bait


If you're one of the people watching this unfold, I ask you to look at the mechanics of what is happening:

  • Who is doing the posting? Them.

  • Who is crossing professional boundaries by contacting my clients? Them.

  • Who is trying to engineer a reaction? Them.


I have done nothing to these people. I don't want their lives, and I certainly don't want their "suggestions." This isn't a story of an obsessed woman; it's a story of a group so fixated on a target that they will spend years trying to entrap her into a narrative that simply doesn't exist.


A Message of Discernment


To those being used as pawns in this digital setup: please realize that an "action" isn't always what it seems. When someone is being relentlessly baited and trapped, any reaction they have is a result of the harassment, not the cause of it.


I will not be silent about the lengths this group will go to in order to manufacture a lie.


 
 
 
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