It truly is almost certainly due to mental illness. It’s just super intense paranoia. This all obviously leads inevitably to more standard paranoid delusions like listening devices in your home, someone just out of sight made a noise and disappearing when they turn around, etc.

The weird part is that this might be the first internet-spread, technically “contagious” mental illness. Because someone ends up watching these videos where these deluded people explain the reason they think what they think, they get scared it’s true, start looking out for it themselves, start, inevitably “noticing” similar occurrences, go down the same path, make videos themselves, and the cycle continues. I mean, it’s gotta be tied somewhat with our internet/social media age where “main character” syndrome tends to ensnare a lot of people. This just takes it down one of the darkest possible paths.

I’ve had conversations with some of these people, back on Reddit. This person always used to post gangstalking videos “exposing” the programs, and I’ve tried to explain, like, for gangstalking to be real, it would be the most massive undertaking in history. A team of hundreds for one individual, made up of ordinary people getting paid (yes, they think the people are being paid) for this “job.” I said, yknow, if this were the case, everyone would know someone getting paid for gangstalking. We would see ads for positions, we would hear about it from participants as an easy way to make money, etc.

But, then again, I brought logic to a crazy fight.