More on Colin Sallow again

Colin Sallow is a character I created sometime ago but he also came from a dream, he could be seen as the Dio Brando of the story (yellow clothing and knife-throwing antagonist who stops time), even right down to an apparent affinity with birds (Dio has his in Pet Shop Boy). But the rest of his depiction is a grab bag of other influences, including those you’d never expect to be combined in a particular manner. I said many times before that he resembles a younger Liam Howlett, the keyboardist and mastermind of the Essex band The Prodigy. He also exhibits his piano-playing skills, though there’s something else about him that you’d never expect. There’s actually a bit of Ace of Base in him, as in that Gothenburg-based act behind ‘Beautiful Life’ and ‘All That She Wants’, he actually went to the University of Gothenburg himself to study biology (he actually wants to study birds). His classmate there is named Pernilla Berggren, who’s named after the Berggren siblings and one woman that one of the AOB members dated (Ulf Ekberg), who likes cats and slapped him in the face over a remark about cat predation.

All of the Berggren siblings have (had) cats as pets, given Jonas Berggren has a fear of dogs due to a negative childhood experience. Colin Sallow doesn’t seem fond of dogs himself, just like Dio Brando, though it’s explicitly got to do with one dog killing his chickens before. Again there’s a bit of Ace of Base in him, because one AOB member explicitly admitting to not being fond of dogs himself. I remember saying this before that K-Pop musicians and bands never seemed to influence me when it comes to doing fictional characters at all, the way bands like The Prodigy, Ace of Base and Massive Attack do, or increasingly Aqua in some of my poems that’s kind of telling. I did listen to K-Pop bands and musicians before, but weirdly enough I never became really interested in any of them enough to bother archiving any extensive mention of them at all. I even have a habit of archiving old fansites pertaining to bands like Massive Attack, Aqua and Ace of Base, but K-Pop bands and musicians never really strongly interested me much. Not so much out of contempt, as catchy as the music is but they seem contrived and weirdly boring.

I did kind of get into Wonho though not for long and not quite as intense as I would with Aqua to bother archiving any mirrored website mentioning the latter at all, well I could make a character based on an Aqua member and this goes to show you that Wonho doesn’t have much of an influence on me in creating fictions. Let’s say his name is Rene Savard and he’s a raccoon kemonomimi who’s of both Metis and Mikmaq descent, he comes from somewhere in Quebec and had a falling out with his father over his beliefs (he’s a Christian and an aspiring marine biologist to boot), so he goes onboard with a ship to learn marine biology elsewhere and study marine animals wherever he went when he was younger. Mind you he’s based on Rene Dif, the deep-voiced bald member who also had a falling out with his own father enough to leave him for a long time. It doesn’t seem obvious because Mr Savard is a Canadian man of Metis and Mikmaq descent, but it’s there in some other way if you know something about Aqua yourself. Aqua isn’t really that obscure and so is Ace of Base.

But both bands are mentioned far less often on Fanlore and related media, that finding surviving websites in any form would be a massive endeavour in and of itself. There’s a good deal of Ace of Base in Colin himself, he got educated in Sweden for a time being. More specifically in Gothenburg, where Ace of Base came from. Okay I’m pretty much repeating myself but getting influenced by Ace of Base enough to do fictions of some sort, whether if this involves studying Indonesian only to mention AOB members there every now and then, does say something about the state of transformational fandom. One that seems strangely more biased towards men than to women that even when you have a band that’s usually not this demeaning to women whenever women members are frequently present at all (the Berggren sisters anybody?), Ace of Base never inspired this much fanfiction relative to the Backstreet Boys that it seems to lean towards an odd sort of feminism.

Though it’s true neither Aqua nor the Prodigy are any better with their own blunders (Barbie Girl and Smack My B Up), it’s still very odd. A sort of feminism that both rejects misogyny yet reinforces it in some way by excluding any band with a female member (and sometimes more than one female member) around, that feels kind of confusing for a community that calls itself highly feminist. Especially if these bands in question aren’t usually demeaning to or objectify women in any way, let alone if they have multiple female members around, that it kind of reinforces music industry misogyny in a different manner. Creating characters based on actual Ace of Base members in some way or another isn’t really hard, just as it’s not hard to create characters based on their Aqua or even Prodigy counterparts. If Liam Howlett is the basis for Colin Sallow, then Maxim Reality is the basis for Fabrice Tientcheu. Yep, another cat lover but one who is a Cameroonian forensic scientist to boot.

Then both Ulf Ekberg’s girlfriend and the Berggren siblings are the basis for Pernilla Berggren, that’s why she’s a biologist who specialises in cats (both housecats and their relatives) who studied at the University of Gothenburg with Colin before. It’s far from impossible and although Ace of Base fanworks do exist, they’re surprisingly rather rare compared to what happens to Backstreet Boys that lends itself to a kind of Schrodinger’s misogyny. It’s not that hard to put a bit of Ace of Base in him, despite being ostensibly based on a Prodigy member, that goes to you show it’s really not that hard to be influenced by Ace of Base, the Prodigy and Aqua enough to create fictional characters based on them in some way or another. Actually it’s also not that hard to be influenced by Massive Attack either and enough to create fictional characters based on their members just the same, since the economist Gaetano Saturni’s based on Robert del Naja and the lawyer Babatunde Osofisan’s based on Grant Marshall.

It’s not that hard really, even Araki Hirohiko’s no stranger to naming some of his characters after Sananda Maitreya/Terrence Trent D’Arby, Enya, Mariah Carey, Lisa Velez, Ronnie James Dio, Michel Polnareff, Paula Abdul, Vanilla Ice and Chaka Khan, so in a sense he did base his own characters after some of the musicians he listens to or listened to at some point in his life. So logically it wouldn’t be hard basing characters after members from the Prodigy, Ace of Base, Aqua and Massive Attack, just as one would with say the Backstreet Boys, One Direction and Nsync. But I feel a good number of professional writers alive today have cut their teeth on doing Backstreet Boys, One Direction and Nsync fanfic that their own professionally published stories contain some holdovers from their authors’ fanfiction pasts, fanworks based on the Prodigy and Ace of Base certainly do exist as I’ve seen some about the former and a little bit about the latter. They’re definitely not nonexistent, but transformational fandom remains heavily biased towards boy bands.

Not even generally non-misogynistic mixed-gender bands like Ace of Base figure that much in transformational fandom, which makes for a really odd exclusion in the annals of transformational fandom history. Like of all the bands they go after given transformational fandom’s pro-woman stance, they ignore bands like Ace of Base who usually don’t do this to their own female members often and don’t demean women much in their own body of work either, unlike Aqua and the Prodigy even by accident in their cases. One could use bands like The Prodigy and Ace of Base as inspiration for their own fictional characters, but at times it seems transformational fandom’s scope is much more limited than it cares to realise. The sky should be the limit but in transformational fandom, when it comes to real world musicians, it’s usually all about all-male rock bands or boy bands. So again transformational fandom’s scope is more limited in this regard, where bands that don’t degrade women whenever female members are often around are strangely sidelined.

It’s not hard basing characters after members of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam if Jojo’s Lisa Lisa is any indication, or for another matter basing characters off of Enya and Mariah Carey that goes to show you something about finding inspiration in these people and bands. Even if something like Jojo is not above reproach at times, basing non-misogynistic female characters after actual female musicians isn’t hard. If you could name one’s mother and mentor after Lisa Velez, then basing a character after Ace of Base members isn’t a stretch either. Basing characters after members of The Prodigy, Massive Attack and Aqua isn’t entirely impossible either, one could make another character based on Ace of Base called Birgitta Ekberg who’s an ecologist specialising in feral rabbits and it’s not that hard either. Mind you feral rabbits are very much a thing in Sweden as well, that there’s always the potential to base such characters after phenomena happening in these situations.

Actually even stray dog predation’s a thing in Sweden as well, something Birgitta Ekberg’s keen on from time to time and Colin himself’s well-aware of in his Gothenburg stay as a foreign exchange student. He said that he’s seen dogs hunt roe deer whenever their own owners aren’t looking, so using this subject matter as inspiration for stories or even discussions said by the characters themselves isn’t hard either. But it does say something about transformational fandom in its approach to storytelling when some of its own members graduate to doing professional fiction at all, that it’s easier to carry over common tics and obsessions found in transformational fandom, than to venture into rarely explored territories like the Prodigy, Ace of Base and even dog predation in Sweden to make new characters, stories and dialogues with those in mind. It’s even suspected that transformational fandom isn’t really that progressive.

So logically transformational fandom isn’t really that transformative, let alone wholly and consistently so, where it’s easier to stick to celebrities that can be easily pigeonholed into common fanfiction stereotypes than to use rather unexpected sources of inspiration to create very different, albeit fictitious, people instead. This is like using Maxim’s likeness (and to some extent his own mannerisms) for a character who’s unmistakably very African, very much into reading books himself, works in a STEM job, enjoys some stargazing and plays some football too, though it could be argued this has been done with some Duran Duran members before when it comes to a book series by Jemiah Jefferson. She had a website that’s billed as Duran Duran for bad kids, but then again Duran Duran is a fairly common obsession in transformational fandom. So something like Ace of Base would be a much unlikelier source of inspiration, given they don’t appear this much in transformational fandom to start with.

Or the Prodigy for another matter, that transformational fandom is usually rather limited in scope. Possibly more limited in scope than it cares to admit and realise, where it’s easier to stick to heartthrob music groups whose members can be easily stereotyped in fanfiction, than to go for such unusual sources of inspiration only to create characters that aren’t or seemingly not that tangentially a lot like the people they’re technically based on. It doesn’t just stop at creating a character that’s essentially a more glamourous version of Liam Howlett, it also means naming two female scientists after Ace of Base members where it shouldn’t be tricky doing something like these. Michel Polnareff doesn’t necessarily have such an elaborate hairstyle for most of the part, but Jean-Pierre Polnareff’s evidently named after him. Ronnie James Dio isn’t blond, but Dio Brando’s based on him anyways.

Both Chaka and Khan are two men named after Chaka Khan, using black musicians as inspiration for characters isn’t impossible either. But I still feel the usual nature of transformational fandom is to gravitate more towards male heartthrob type musicians, which boy bands (both western and Korean) have in spades, instead of even bands that don’t degrade or sexualise women in their body of work much whenever female members are frequently present at all (Ace of Base for instance). That it’s kind of suspected among some folks that transformational fandom isn’t really this progressive, nor is it this open-minded where it would be quite rare to encounter fanworks based around bands like The Damned, Ace of Base again or Aqua. Fanworks based on the Prodigy do exist but it usually manifests as either fanmade remixes or fanart, that it would be kind of odd basing two fictional characters after two members of the same band.

If because for those who were doing fanfictions based on bands like Nsync, Backstreet Boys and One Direction, some of who get professionally published kind of subliminally base these characters after their favourite musicians on some level. Fanart of bands like Love and Rockets and The Damned do exist, though I feel transformational fandom tends to gravitate towards male heartthrob types at most. Not just Duran Duran but also the true boy bands like New Kids On The Block, Backstreet Boys, Nsync, One Direction, BTS, Exo, Monsta X, Stray Kids and TXT, that basing fictional characters after any one of them is far likelier once some fanfiction writers begin writing for a living. Even if Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is any indication, basing fictional characters off of the likes of Enya, Mariah Carey, Lisa Velez, Sanandra Maitreya and Chaka Khan are already possible, or that Gundam’s Char Aznable is named after Armenian-French singer Charles Aznavour suggests it shouldn’t stop at heartthrob types when seeking musicians as inspiration at all.

Mind you, Ilmar Tuglas is just as based on Kakyoin Noriaki as he is after both Friedebert Tuglas (his namesake) and French songstress Sylvie Vartan (especially in terms of facial features but masculinised), and he works as a financial adviser to people like Graham Knightley (based on Kira Yoshikage) that it shouldn’t really end at heartthrob type musicians when seeking inspiration in music, it could be something like 1960s singers like Sylvie Vartan again. That’s not to say all transformational fandom participants are this narrow-minded, but many of them don’t seem to be the types of people who’d actually gravitate to these kinds of musicians. You’re much likelier to find transformational fan participants going after boy bands than those who listen to Aqua, Ace of Base, The Prodigy, Massive Attack and The Damned, much less the likes of Sylvie Vartan and Charles Aznavour, even though the latter yielded Char Aznable.

They miss these too

I pointed out in another post that there are likely also Ace of Base and Aqua fans who do miss going to their own favourite fansites that it’s worth bringing them back in some way, even if it’s not all of them (from my experience), that I even compiled a list of the surviving mirrored fansites with the most information about them. Not just biographies but also interviews and articles about them in any way that would be worth revisiting in mirrored forms, unless if online groups have the very interviews and articles that other fansites might have contained (especially Ace of Base from my experience). Similar things can be said of other bands that peaked in the 1990s but I often bring up both Ace of Base and Aqua in comparison to Backstreet Boys because these two didn’t just achieve similar levels of popularity in those years, but that Ace of Base even shared producers with BSB (Max Martin and Denniz Pop) that this is a fairer comparison this way.

Comparing Backstreet Boys to Leeds United or Arsenal wouldn’t be fair because these two are very different things, comparing Backstreet Boys to Ace of Base is a fairer example. (This is why I don’t often compare Backstreet Boys to other bands like Sisters of Mercy, it may be musical in nature but it’s never going to be fair either.) It’s easier for those in transformational fandom to eulogise Backstreet Boys than they would with Ace of Base, because deep down inside they’re kind of more biased towards men than to women. Somebody like Stitch admitted having a similar attitude of being not like other girls before, so with some Backstreet Boys fans this would be no different. Or that the Backstreet Boys often get pigeonholed into roles by their manager at some point that readily fits into popular fanfiction memes, though that hasn’t stopped people from doing certain questionable stories featuring their other contemporaries Hanson (which is wholly composed of brothers).

But there is a kind of internalised misogyny that permeates these kinds of communities. One that contributes to further misogyny in the music industry, where even if you have nonsexualised female musicians or nonsexualised female members in a band at all very frequently, they wouldn’t register much in most of these women’s minds. This could be a can of worms when it comes to female musicians who choose to sexualise themselves at all, but it should be noted that the Berggren sisters don’t really have highly sexualised public images for most of the part even at their prime. Especially when compared to Aqua’s Lene Nystrom that they might be palatable for certain cishet women, they could be easier to identify with at times than say somebody like Britney Spears in some ways. Or even Lene Nystrom herself for another matter for other women, though this isn’t considered much even when the potential’s there in some fashion or another.

One might relate to the Berggrens for having grown up with cats instead of dogs, one might relate to Ulf Ekberg when it comes to falling into the wrong crowd before. One might relate to Rene Dif in the sense of having a difficult relationship with one’s own parent as to spend time away from them, even if they may not necessarily go around the world the way he did. But I feel one possible reason why transformational fandom tends to eulogise Backstreet Boys more than Ace of Base is really because some women want to be validated for the kinds of men they’re attracted to, which is no different when it comes to the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch really. Being straight is one thing, the fact that there might be Ace of Base and Aqua fans who’re nostalgic for their favourite fansites suggest that it would be nice to revisit them in some way, maybe it might be worth bringing those back in some form.

So curating a list of mirrored archived websites would be a way to conveniently revisit them, that if they miss going to these websites before it’s about time to bring them back that feels like going home. Going back to somewhere they stopped going to for a long time that it’s about time to see them again, especially if they remember going there at all that it’s nice seeing those again. Mind you that even if I recall avidly listening to them before, I didn’t exactly develop an actual fondness for them until 2025-2026 that it’s only now that I’ve begun mirroring websites involving them at all. Finding these websites on Archive.org is kind of daunting, since some of them don’t survive at all, that makes the task of mirroring surviving archived websites kind of admirable in and of itself, which leads to certain details like Jonas Berggren being afraid of dogs, Lene Nystrom being an army brat or Rene Dif having been a delinquent who didn’t have a good relationship with his father.

This would further pique any longtime fans’ interests in these websites, if they recall going there before, that it’s practically overdue to have any mention at all. This is partly based on my realisation that those on Fanlore are evidently more biased towards men, despite being a website that’s for women by women, than it does towards women and much less real world women who’re consistently and frequently part of bands like Ace of Base, which isn’t really this misogynistic unlike what Aqua got (by mistake). Which makes for a weird irony in a world that wants more girls’ girls (women supporting other women), that makes the near-omissions of these bands all the more jarring. If Backstreet Boys fans want to revisit their favourite websites that are technically gone, then it’s only fair Ace of Base fans feel the same way with their own and also Aqua fans as well.

Curating a list of the remaining archived fansites with the most information about these bands in question would be an interesting step towards correcting a lack of representation in fan history archives. It might not be the same kind of fandom the Backstreet Boys enjoy but they do provide a glimpse of the two bands at the height of their respective popularities and may even complement and contextualise any longer-form documents about them, one is an autobiography by Jenny Berggren, the second is an academic study about Aqua. I suspect this might involve seeing the two bands in a new light that when put together, they give a pretty good glimpse of what else one can either learn more about them or revisit them if they’ve been to those sites before. Besides Ace of Base fanzines do exist, but I feel when it comes to their fandom (and those of Aqua) really do deserve some mention.

Especially pertaining to their respective fansites that I feel Backstreet Boys fandom is very spoilt, dredging up and mirroring the remaining archived AOB and Aqua fansites is one such endeavour, but it’s easier for the BSB fandom to eulogise their own band for some reason.

Pro-Test

Somebody else has a prophecy of growing civil unrest all over the world, which may lead to the worst world war the planet has ever seen, one that might make the previous world war pale in comparison. Mind you I have interceded for others to cope with the rise of socialism here in the Philippines that if socialism were to become so popular here, that ultimately we could see violence aimed at landowners and politicians alike, even if it doesn’t get this violent it would still be disruptive seeing the Philippines go from a capitalist oligarchy to a socialist country. Sort of like the Russian Revolution before where an imperialist Russia gave way to a socialist one, though it didn’t entirely erase the need to hold onto Russian possessions like Poland and Estonia. Either that they became part of the Soviet Union proper (Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) or they became satellite states (Romania, Slovakia, Czechia, Poland), so realistically a socialist Philippines might carry at least some holdovers from its capitalist past.

What would change is that it would be the norm for a lot of Philippine companies to be partly state-owned from then on, be it restaurants (Max’s, Aristocrat, Jollibee), clothing (Bench, Bayo, Penshoppe), publishing (Phoenix, New Day, Adarna) and anything and everything else, even something like GMA would become a partly state-owned media company this way. But given God’s out to revoke nearly all American influence over the world that the Philippines would be no exception, a rising socialist movement would accelerate and exacerbate this where it might no longer be fashionable for Philippine people to use English and have western names. Admittedly this is the sort of thing I’ve interceded for others to cope with, but one that would align of God’s plan to revoke nearly all American influence around the world that the things I’ve prayed for are either coming to pass or at already underway. The Irish language’s already getting popularised, though the language getting popularised in say Slovenia has yet to happen.

Even then with God revoking US influence around the world that it’s possible given the US empire kept the English language relevant far longer than it should, a US collapse might accelerate other countries’ drive to either preserve their own languages (Ireland for instance) or it would be more fashionable and practical to learn another language instead (Mandarin in the Philippines). So it’s actually plausible for something like Mandarin and Tagalog to get popularised a lot in the Philippines following US collapse and possibly growing sympathies for China, not helped by that the US will go into a civil war anytime soon, that it might no longer be practical to rely on America a lot when America itself is unable to help the Philippines in any way it likes that realpolitik is a more sensible option instead. It could be plausible for a number of Germans, Slovenes, Swiss, Austrians and Italians to learn Irish as a way to protest against US imperialism, knowing a band like Kneecap has made it hip to learn Irish and this band’s very sympathetic to Palestine.

Learning Irish would be a way to support Palestine (albeit indirectly due to their sympathies for Kneecap), and also to protest against US imperialism given many European countries have come to resent it a lot. Maybe not immediately and not in a way I’d expect, but it’s still plausible given how unpopular America has gotten that a US collapse would accelerate and exacerbate things. Even the Philippines might not only reconsider its relationships with China but grow to sympathise with it more once the US collapses, when coupled with a growing socialist movement, that ultimately it might even consent to it. Likewise the entire European Union might consent to Russian rule, for fear of getting bombed the way America will be getting. There will be greatly expanded versions of China and Russia, or that there will be new supranational unions aligned with either country. Greater China will be composed entirely of all the East Asian countries as well as some South Asian countries, Lesser China will be composed of all the African countries and their Oceanian counterparts.

A new version of the Commonwealth of Independent States would be composed of not only all the forever Soviet Union members, but also all European Union members as well as Canada and members of the former United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales), with America being there for a while before it disappears. The neutral powers would be composed of some West Asian countries, some South Asian countries and the remaining American countries other than Canada, even then it would be a very different world by then where American influence is nearly revoked in its entirety. English would be used less often, especially if it makes other countries like Ghana, Wales, Nigeria and Ireland prioritise or popularise their own indigenous languages more, that even the Philippines will follow suit where it would become the norm for a lot of Philippine websites to use more Tagalog (as well as Mandarin) from then on. It would be the norm for Philippine people to follow Chinese customs (right down to the name order) and have Tagalog personal names, it would be the norm for the Philippines to closely follow its neighbours like China and Vietnam from then on.

It might be very fashoinable for German, Austrian, Italian, Slovene, Slovak, Hungarian and Czech youths to learn Irish due to the popularity of phenomena like Kneecap, that even their countries’ websites might concede to this and may allow Irish-language options of things like Bible lectionaries for instance. They might even use Irish as a way to support Kneecap’s sympathies for Palestine, essentially the linguistic equivalent to the way the One Piece flag has become a symbol of protest. Even then American influence is waning and any growing unrest in the Philippines due to a growing socialist movement would serve to hasten this, a growing civil war in America would hasten it even further that the world gets de-Americanised this way. But America is a very double-minded country, that sliding into civil instability would be inevitable. It is a house so internally divided that it could collapse anytime soon, if its own culture wars and duplicitous character are any indication. A very duplicitous country that alternates between piety and reprobation, out of the same country come ministries and filth.

Given it’s also a superpower which only serves to magnify its duplicity on a scale that’s not widely enjoyed or done by countries like China and Russia, but then again China doesn’t just own up to its atheism. It even owns it, despite having a good number of online lectionaries and devotionals for its own Christians to turn to, whereas America is very anti-Christian yet it doesn’t own up to it and doesn’t own it either. So America is exceedingly double-minded, its double-mindedness manifests in other ways too. Mind you both Hollywood and the CRU ministry are in California together, this even extends to cultural exports like 1990s boy bands either. Burk Parsons had a similar feeling around Backstreet Boys, which he was set to join, where he felt that although the band was made to endear to parents, it had to be seductive enough to arouse lust in young girls that he eventually didn’t want to partake in it anymore. Perhaps it shouldn’t even be surprising why there’s so much pornographic fanfiction of the Backstreet Boys, these were even called visuals at some point.

It would be even more horrifying to learn that the Backstreet Boys might’ve been molested by Lou Pearlman in some occult ritual, or at least far more sexualised than one realises, that further contributes to a highly sexualised fandom environment. So far only Boyzone’s Shane Lynch admitted this is the case with the secular music industry where such people consecrate these records to the public, that ultimately leads to trouble (I’ve done something similar thing and lost two dogs before). One might wonder if this also extends to New Kids On The Block, a direct precursor to both the Backstreet Boys and Boyzone, that it could be more sinister than it really looks in a way people do recognise but can’t articulate properly why. The fact that America is a very double-minded country, one with a Jekyll and Hyde quality to its culture, leads to an environment where things have these dual purposes. One to entertain people and appear as innocent as possible, the other to corrupt them from the inside out that leads to a spiritually odd environment to be in. So much so that civil war erupts in America anyways.

And why these escalations and tensions would lead to WWIII anyways as well.

Sign of Jonah

They never saw the sign

Due to their disbelief

They never opened up.

Future scandals involving House of Lords

Celestial had a prophecy regarding the House of Lords and also thse of the Royal Family, where she said that they also dabble in the occult and other evil activities, where these will be found out in due time. Mind you I’ve been praying for some of my relatives to cope with this writer PD James having admitted she was a prostitute or something of this nature, that it’s going to be found out that she was a call girl who had affairs with married men and also dabbled in similar stuff as well, that this could be part and parcel of the prophecy concerning the House of Lords at all. Nakita also had a prophecy concerning Keir Starmer in particular, where it turns out that he’s also associated with Jeffrey Epstein, a child sex offender by the way. There are probably other secrets that will be revealed, regarding ones where nearly everybody in the House of Lords, House of Commons and the Royal Family are also involved in other occult rituals, around the time more and more Britons are calling for the dissolution of the entire United Kingdom into three separate countries. (Northern Ireland would reunite with The Republic of Ireland instead.)

Alison Pound even said that the United Kingdom might also be finished for being so evil (slavery, so on and so forth), that it could really get dissolved into three separate countries in years (centuries even), resulting in a changed landscape. Physiogeographically, there would still be a Britain. But culturally and politically, it would be three separate countries again that happen to share the same landmass the way Finland, Sweden and Norway do, that British influence might also be undone to varying degrees because of how evil the United Kingdom is. Not just in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, but also in Ireland where it might really be fashionable to use and learn Irish. This is something I prayed for various Irish nationals (including celebrities like Shane Lynch and Enya) to cope with, since it’s a really nice language and if Britain does get dissolved at the same time the Irish language gets popularised at all, then this is a kind of recompense to what it did to Ireland. Even if not all Irish nationals necessarily eagerly learn Irish themselves, or the odder possibility that Germans, Dutch, Hungarians and Slovenes are more willing to learn it, it still fits.

Even if a degree of British influence remains even in Ireland and Ghana, it would become more fashionable to use local languages from then on. English wouldn’t entirely disappear but wouldn’t necessarily remain this hegemonic for long in these countries at best, but an odder one would be the dissolution of the British monarchy. A similar series of dissolutions would also happen in Sweden and Norway, if because also a number of their politicians are also linked to Jeffrey Epstein a well. But the calls for British monarchy to get abolished would be much stronger, if because to my knowledge, there are so many scandals involving the British royal family that it’s increasingly no use maintaining it when more and more people question its existence. If the British monarchy were to get abolished at all in any way, one would wonder how are people going to make use of the Royal Family residences by then? Who’s willing to turn the Buckingham Palace into a flat complex for future homeowners? Who’s going to turn the Scottish home into another person’s home for free?

There’s been some criticism over the Royal Family living exorbant lifestyles, but a good number of Britons live on meagre means. Britain might not necessarily become socialist but even then the calls to abolish both British monarchy and aristocracy are getting louder and louder, that it’s about time to have such an institution end for good. AI might give an idea of what could happen but the actual answer from God would be much more surprising, where the end of the British monarchy wouldn’t just lead to three separate countries in years. But also where such assets like the Buckingham Palace get turned into forms of public housing by force, which makes sense as it’s got so many bedrooms designed for assistants that can be used for homeowners seeking a flat or a condominium to live in that these will be retooled into being these sorts of things (last year, I was into this kind of housing before). The renovated Buckingham Palace would be either a flat complex or more likely a boarding house in the future, one that people are made to live in if they’re desperate for a home.

The Bible really doesn’t have a high opinion of not only material wealth, but also the wealthy who choose to remain greedy and selfish, that perhaps it’s only fair that once the British monarchy gets abolished then such exorbant homes would be retooled into boarding houses, albeit fancier than your average boarding house by then. But even then it does speak to social problems that the British elite seem unable to adequately resolve, the inclusion of black aristocrats hasn’t stemmed the tide of anti-black racism. There are Britons who do want a cheap home to live in and stay that it’s about time to turn the Buckingham Palace into a glorified boarding house by then, it wouldn’t immediately solve problems either given the logistics of turning the Buckingham Palace into a boarding house at all, but it does speak to the kinds of needs that go unmet in modern Britain. Maybe it’s for the better these scandals happen so that God will make good out of evil, and have other Britons be freed from problems the British government’s unable to intervene wholeheartedly at present.

No more of these

As Amerca is Mystery Babylon, since God will undo much American influence, that it’s not a stretch much of its influence will be largely undone in other aspects like ACG (animation, cartooning, gaming) for instance. It wouldn’t be entirely undone but that as much of the US ACG canon is very corrupting, even to the point of having demonic cartoon heroes onboard like Daredevil and Blue Satan (this wasn’t lost on David Wilkerson as well), that much of it will be wiped out completely or nearly so at least. Even this will affect authors like Charles M Schulz, a man who used to be a practising Christian before marrying an unbelieving divorced woman, where eventually he slid into unbelief over time and even having an affair with another woman before. There’s actually a book called Schulz and Peanuts, where it does detail his slide into unbelief and admittedly I also struggle with this from time to time too, sometimes losing what was supposed to be there (this happened a couple of times over regarding sermons).

Even if his legacy isn’t entirely wiped out at most, it’s still alarming for somebody like him to slide into unbelief, the more famous he got that even something like Peanuts wouldn’t be remembered much in the future. Both DC and Marvel wouldn’t be remembered that much in the future, as they also promote their fair share of filth, that they too will be largely revoked and forgotten for corrupting people (even myself at times), it would be even more shocking if it was something like Dora The Explorer having the same effect (or can be used in the same way to make kids disobedient and evil). But if these ACG media have been consecrated to demons before, which is alarming as some comics writers also dabble in the occult themselves, resulting in products that cause people to become truly evil, struggle with strongholds and the like, as if these come from a tainted well that should never be used again. I said this many times over the X-Men canon and it bears repeating.

The X-Men comics are actually very spiritually off where they have sympathetic demons as superheroes (Illyana Rasputina especially), where disobedience to elderly authority’s seen as a good thing when it comes to somebody like Kitty Pryde, very irreverent takes on Biblical topics and concepts that it’s shocking why not a lot of Christians chastise the X-Men comics for this. Even before I became a Christian, I noted this double standard right away. But it’s clear X-Men is deeply anti-Christian that a good number of X-Men fans are anti-Christian themselves, certainly not all but it does explain a number of things. Then all of the X-Men canon will be wiped off clean, so that these stories and their authors won’t go on corrupting people again. Nearly all of the US ACG canon will be wiped off the face of the earth, so that these stories and cartoons won’t go on corrupting people all over again. These comics will never be found again even on piracy websites, because by them they’ve already been wiped off.

And God will get rid of these publishers for corrupting so much people, that they will be forgotten to time in the future.

A fallen star

It’s something of an open secret that David Bowie dabbled in the occult enough to get to where he was at his prime, that it’s not a coincidence that the more he came to dabble in it, the more famous he got and came to do very questionable things like raping people, having an affair with a teenaged girl despite being a married father at the time, doing drugs and arguably the LGBT stuff. I was into David Bowie before but as of late, I’ve come to avoid him and to say this as a Christian, although you might also struggle with this like I have and still do (but with other bands), it’s better to avoid him at all costs even when you succumb to this at times (it’s also like this with me) as he’s very unholy and impure. There are people who say that David Bowie’s actually in Hell, for mocking God and mocking Christians, that ultimately this is what he got for this. It would be even more alarming if there might emerge some filmed recordings of him doing occult acts in some temple, especially when he was younger, that it seems he’s a poisoned well in and of himself.

Over time it would get leaked to social media and journalism alike, that it becomes clear David Bowie goes after the Devil and he certainly did in other media. Quite alarmingly there will come a time anything relating to him (his outfits, fansites and the like) will be scrubbed clean both offline and online, in the future it would be almost shocking to find out that there was a musician named David Bowie to begin with. Even his discography will be gone too, where it seems like in the future he’s a figment of the imagination. Even if not all traces of his influence will get wiped out entirely, it would become harder to recognise he even had a cultural footprint once most of them get wiped out. I said this about the Backstreet Boys before that their own cultural footprints would be completely wiped out in the future, both offline and onlne, that it would be practically hard to recognise there was a band called the Backstreet Boys in the 1990s. It would be no different with David Bowie, that in the future he might as well be an afterthought or footnote by then.

Or other bands like Led Zeppelin just the same for the same reason, that over time they’ll be nearly forgotten with leaving little traces at most, no trace at worst, that it would be astonishing to realise these people even existed at all. Unless if somebody intercedes for them while they’re still around in some way (the Prodigy, Ace of Base, Massive Attack and Aqua, I’ve done these before), the other musicians will go to Hell and be forgotten in the same way. I feel there will come a time when practically nobody remembers the Backstreet Boys, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie anymore, or at least very few of them do and that’s when you know their legacies have also been wiped clean or greatly minimised at the very least. That it would be surreal to live in a world where these bands aren’t remembered and played much, where one’s idea of 1990s music largely amounts to the likes of Vengaboys, rave acts like the Prodigy, some pop acts like Aqua and Ace of Base, something else like Massive Attack.

Maybe Altan, Boyzone, Enya and Clannad as well, but for western music that will be all there is to it. Similar things can be said of 1970s music as well, or for another matter much of the 1980s, 2000s and 2010s music canon that it’s going to be hard recognising who the likes of Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and others are by then, that the versions of these music canons would be filled in by regional musicians instead (something like Pops Fernandez, Imelda Papin and Regine Velasquez if you’re Philippine like me). By then the likes of Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys, David Bowie and the like are mere footnotes, not particularly nor strongly remembered in the future, even their own fans will forget then in time which is God’s way of making sure their legacies are wiped out for good.

The end of an era for K-Pop

Somebody like Nakita Wambui has put out a series of prophecies specifically about the K-Pop/idol music industry where such celebrities would fall from grace, where a number of them will die ingloriously, how K-Pop contributes to a low birth rate (and presumably less devoted Christians in South Korea as of late), and why there are occult activities behind closed doors. If you can’t serve God and Mammon, then unfortunately the more South Korea came to prioritise K-Pop, the less Koreans have an urge to worship the God they left for other gods (idols in both senses of the word). There’s actually a book by a Korean American woman who was brought up in a devout Christian family who got really sucked into the K-Pop world via the band H.O.T., where her parents did a lot to destroy her belongings, though by then whatever relationships she had with her got damaged.

But there’s actually somebody else who said that K-Pop music has a way of making people really addicted to this sort of thing, even if similarly obsessive behaviour (similar degrees of idolatry) occur outside of it, where you can also see this with the Backstreet Boys too. It’s not unique to the Backstreet Boys either as you can see this with David Bowie fans too or practically any other celebrity and band (I’ve fallen into this trap a couple of times before and I’m trying harder not to give into it now), but it does explain why both K-Pop and BSB fans are this obsessive over their favourite bands. It’s not enough to transcribe or scan articles mentioning them in any capacity, it’s not enough to find other recordings by them, it’s not enough to record every televised appearance they make, it’s not enough to rework their music either.

These aren’t enough where it’s this common to find so much fanfictions, including those of a rather prurient nature, involving boy bands at all. Mind you somebody like Shane Lynch (somebody from another boy band called Boyzone) said that people in the music industry would consecrate those albums to the Devil, this gets corroborated by another person saying it also happens in South Korea as well. There are even Korean-language threads and posts about the anti-Christian nature of many K-Pop bands, musicians, performances and songs, that makes one wonder if this authors’ parents were right or onto something, resulting in a situation where it seems K-Pop boy bands (and their western counterparts) encourage this sort of idolatry that’s increasingly beyond what’s acceptable. It should be noted that David Wilkerson had similar things but towards rock music.

So any suspicion of secular popular music being spiritually off is oftentimes painfully true, given how shockingly rampant it is for those in this industry to allude to the occult in some way that even Ace of Base wasn’t immune to this at times (especially something like ‘Wheel Of Fortune’) and faced flack for this in multiple ways (a relative getting killed by a stalker, one member turning out to have a dubious past), that even another will come clean about this in the future. It should be noted that the Prodigy’s Maxim Reality consulted a psychic regarding his future and got the fame he wanted, but with controversies and another member killing himself in the future, that it’s really a case of spiritual Russian roulette (trust me, I did something similar and lost two pets this way). It is really rampant regardless if it’s European (Ace of Base, The Prodigy) or Korean (Stray Kids, TXT).

There’s a Backstreet Boys fan who was on her way to becoming a good Christian but the more she dug deeper into her Backstreet Boys fandom, the more she came to write more explicit Backstreet Boys fanfiction over time, not to mention I remember preachers insinuating that people like them are arrogant and wicked (I struggle with these a couple of times over). Believe it or not I know of somebody else who’s into both Backstreet Boys and Stray Kids, to the point of making a lot of fanart based on both of them. This isn’t unique to both bands as I’ve seen Prodigy fanart before, though those in the Prodigy fandom are much likelier to do remixes instead. But I recall saying this as it seems boy bands and their managers encourage a sort of idolatry where it’s not enough to merely transcribe articles about them, do fanart and the like, but also write prurient stories about them that it’s pretty commonplace.

Sometime ago in Backstreet Boys fandom, prurient BSB fanfiction used to be called visuals. Having crushes on musicians isn’t unique to boy band fandoms, as there are likely those who have had crushes on the Ace of Base and Prodigy members. Or the Ramones members for another matter, but the way boy bands are designed seem really odd at times where they have to be wholesome enough to be accepted by parents, yet prurient enough to be lusted by young lasses that such obsessions are bound to happen. It’s even telling that K-Pop didn’t really get mainstream until One Direction (another western boy band) ended, to the point where it’s going to be hard for a homegrown western boy band to gain any major traction as of late. Stray Kids is another, more recent iteration of this trend but one named as such because JY Park wanted to lead people astray, which makes him a false prophet or teacher because he also moonlights as a pastor.

One who does really questionable things from time to time, Nakita even said he might lose his family if he tries to bring back his company. It should be noted that I did get into K-Pop before, though not particularly so obsessively despite coming close with Wonho, and even then this didn’t last long either. Quite alarmingly there might come a time when Wonho himself turns out to abuse steroids and growth hormones, that it seems he might also experience a kind of fall from grace as well. Somebody else said about Lisa from Blackpink where her original name was Priya then it got changed to Lalisa (she is praised) wherein she has these obsessive fans who defend her no matter what, it got changed after consulting a psychic and it would be pretty alarming if others in the K-Pop industry also did the same thing too. I actually know of somebody I used to follow on my blog where she’s also in Wonho, but she’s way more into K-Pop than I’ll ever be. And she’s no stranger to reading and writing porn herself, so unfortunately it seems K-Pop tends to attract vulnerable characters like her.

I remember reading somewhere in the same book where K-Pop boy bands have to flash their abs and wear outfits bearing these things, one early example where a boy band sang the song ‘Under My Skin’ where it was controversial for being racy in South Korea. (They were beaten to it by Take That and Backstreet Boys doing something similar in the 1990s.) Girl groups have to wear really skimpy outfits with high heels, no matter how uncomfortable these are. (Spice Girls also did similar things before.) There have been instances where Korean idol singers have been caught dead wearing bondage clothing, something western boy bands don’t do often. Nakita goes on saying that these musicians may have been molested by their own managers, which further sexualises them that any fanfiction portraying them indulging in something else is painfully on the nose (the Backstreet Boys also underwent this as well). There might be leaked recordings and media of the Backstreet Boys getting filmed doing pornographic acts, having affairs with their own fans and the like (Nick using women and even his pets in snuff videos) that these will be breaking news.

It would be news that you have BSB fans admitting to having affairs with all of the Backstreet Boys members, not just on social media like Reddit and Facebook, but also leading newspapers like NY Post, NY Mag and NY Times, that it’s going to be shocking why would the Backstreet Boys enable this sort of infidelity to begin with? Nick Carter will be caught dead having affairs with women other than his wife and one of them is his fan that he groomed online, filming women and animals (including his own dogs) for snuff videos, and for creating private porn videos of himself and his mistresses and girlfriends, that this will be widely reported across the world. Brian Littrell has already been in the news for telling people to get off his lawn multiple times over, but it would be shocking if he himself has affairs with both men and women, that it’s really going to startle a lot of people. A lot of women will come out of the woodwork admitting to having affairs with their favourite BSB members (all of them), but most especially AJ McLean that even respectable papers like NY Times and The New Yorker will publicise these things.

Even Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson will be outed for this, where they’ll be discovered in the news and on social media for having affairs with their own fans, that it leads to a painful situation realising why the Backstreet Boys would have the audacity to groom their fangirls/groupies to be their mistresses, since all of them are married men with families by then. All of the Backstreet Boys will also die when a part of Florida gets destroyed, their estates will also die with them when more natural disasters hit America and there will be so few surviving media about them that even Archive.org will wipe out all Backstreet Boys fansites and the like (same goes for others like Archive.today), all Backstreet Boys fansites will be wiped out and all Backstreet Boys fan media will be permanently gone. There will be no more Backstreet Boys fandom to speak of in the future, because the band has transgressed so much that their legacy will be wiped clean by then. There will be no more Backstreet Boys Facebook/Reddit/VK groups anymore, all of them will be gone forever.

This also goes for all K-Pop bands and why their reign will be totally over in the future.

In the garden

Somebody has a prophecy regarding a forthcoming famine in America that Christians there should grow or aim for climate-hardy crops like yuzu lemons, Iching lemons and rutabagas, given the worsening weather (and climate) conditions there coupled with growing food insecurity that it might not be enough to rely on imports from other countries, not helped by the current president issuing tariffs on nearly every country that ultimately he made the country shoot itself in the foot. Especially when it comes to food and worsening food insecurity that they’ll be left with cultivating food crops that can really take a beating whenever the weather gets worse, that’s if the alternatives (eating dogs and outright cannibalism) are too controversial to consider. That’s not to say the latter two didn’t occur in what would become modern America, but these tend to be very isolated incidents at that and/or restricted to certain communities. What would differ is how it takes a combination or collection of factors that multiply one another that would lead to a terrifying nationwide famine there, essentially turning America into everything white people’s ancestors escaped from.

It should be noted that countries like Sweden and Ireland endured such terrible famines in the 19th century that got people immigrating to other countries like America in particular, but what’s shocking is that a nationwide famine will really happen in America that would get some Americans moving elsewhere for the same reason. A real nationwide famine in America would happen but one that makes one wonder why would a country like America get to there? America has recurring issues with food security that when compounded by Donald Trump issuing tariffs on imports from practically every country in the world and also a growing civil war not seen in years, that ultimately leads to a situation where famine might take place in earnest. Then it gets compounded by a loomng World War Three, which further worsens American food insecurity. Eventually resulting in something so terrifying that it’s going to be shocking why would it happen in the world’s richest country?

Especially for those who think of America as the land of plenty would now become the land of nothing, that resorting to realpolitik would be a more sensible but awkward situation given how much we want the real thing (this is how I feel about certain channels’ and radio stations’ sermons not airing at a given time or something). Though this wouldn’t be unique to America itself, as a nuclear war would also spell a kind of famine in continental Europe, since the land would be so irradiated that it’s going to be hard growing crops with en masse. Especially in countries closest to those that got irradiated, that they would have to find alternative ways of growing food with, if they can’t afford to move elsewhere for safety. The third world war would be pretty devastating to countries that were considered developed world (Global North in modern parlance), that they would flee to the Global South for safety and also get flack for it.

Quite shockingly even celebrities wouldn’t be spared from it that at any point in the future, someone else would have to house famous refugees seeking relief from an increasing irradiated Europe, that one would have to be kind to the foreigner too. These celebrities could even be the ones I’ve been praying for, I recall reading a devotional from praying for somebody like Linn Berggren from the band Ace of Base that I might meet her someday. I also recall praying to evangelise to my other favourite bands that this might also actually come to pass as well for the same reason, one of them actually involves the Prodigy and they appear to go to church in at least two of my dreams. Whatever happens will happen in God’s will that some of the people I’ve prayed for might visit my new house seeking refuge from an irradiated Europe, that moving to a Global South country like the Philippines would be one particular direction for myself.

Even then it seems as a third world war would serve to worsen famine in countries, given it’s actually thermonuclear in nature, with the ability to wipe out this many people when you have so many nuclear bombs getting deployed resulting in a kind of nuclear human holocaust that far exceeds the previous holocaust. WWII would really pale in comparison to the scope WWIII would deploy and one that would be more frightening, resulting in another dark ages for Europe. North America’s first dark age if there ever was one, especially for both Canada and America. Nothing is new under the Sun wherein the most prosperous and safest countries are in the Global South as lead by China and would include highly industrialised versions of Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya, where the most devastated are in the Global North where America has been replaced by Russia. Radiation could subside in Europe and North America eventually, but by then it would leave a really high body count due to the nature of WWIII.

Where the worst affected are those in the Global North (Europe, Russia to an extent, America especially so, Canada, Australia, South Korea and Japan), resulting in a terrible loss of lives that exceeds that of the previous holocaust. A drastically different world war where America actually loses to Russia for the first time, where America becomes a colony before disappearing forever.

End of America as we know it

Since there are people who say that the United States is Mystery Babylon, the nation-state said to corrupt the world with its abominations, only to be destroyed later on that when coupled with prophecies of a serious economic collapse (wherein it’s enabled by serious hyperinflation) and the death of Donald Trump, with the possibility of a president who could be America’s very own Adolf Hitler when it starts becoming Nazi itself, that it seems America as a nation-state is really coming to an end. Even enacting its own holocaust one day that it seems to be on its way to becoming the third reich that Adolf Hitler himself wanted Germany to be, but one where it gets given over to its enemies after getting defeated and then disappearing into the waters forever. One of the things that could rub a lot of salt in a newly wounded (and newly totalitarian) America is if/when the Philippines becomes a socialist nation itself, though it could be said that the Philippines might also become totalitarian itself in this way.

Admittedly this is what I’ve been praying for (and interceding for others to cope with this as well), but if the Philippines does become socialist in the wake of an American collapse, it should be noted that anti-imperialism is a core component of socialist thought. So a newly socialist Philippines would turn against a newly collapsing America for colonising it, going so far to conspire with its neighbours to fight this ailing nation-state. But Celestial also had a prophecy of other countries turning against America, so a newly socialist Philippines retaliating against America would be no different and may play into the prophecy itself in some way. Likewise the Soviet Union (a socialist supranational union by the way) was a staunch enemy of Nazi Germany, so this is a case of the past repeating itself but between former colony (the Philippines) and former coloniser (America), clearly nothing will be new under the sun in here. One might wonder if Canada, another fomrer US ally, would play the role of France here.

France got attacked by Germany and historically shared some traits together, this is no different from a newly totalitarian America attacking Canada and both of them share borders, culture and history of being British subjects before. It’s true America isn’t exactly like Germany where arguably one unnoticed difference between the two is that Germany’s a good deal more apphrensive around dogs in a way America isn’t, which is why there’s often the recurring dual evils of dog poisoning and dogs getting shot by hunters in the latter. But America doesn’t just contain a substantial German diaspora, it also has a number of the original Nazis who assimilated into America society due to something like Operation Paperclip to compete with the Soviet Union. One would wonder if America might end up hosting a form of Neo-Nazism that has significantly more political and governmental clout than regular old Neo-Nazism does in Europe, one that does a frighteningly good job at eliminating a lot of its undesirable folks. Something European Neo-Nazism has been unable to do.

An even grimmer plausibility is that American companies like Microsoft, Apple, possibly Alphabet/Google, Amazon and the like might host their own armies to kill Christians with, where FEMA might set up concentration camps to kill undesirable people with (though this would be found out soon enough by the Russian government). It would be even more shocking if something like Disney were to do the exact same things, turning the US theme parks into concentration camps to discretely kill Christians with. But then again its namesake founder made a deal with the Devil and was likely involved in a secret society enough to give us clues to what he did, who he consecrated the Disney films to and which one he’s actually more aligned with. If Russia gets wind of this after colonising America, it might conspire with Brazil to shut down Disney and take over the remaining assets. Both the core Disney characters (Mickey and Friends) and Radio Disney would be handed over to Globo, so Globo would end up publishing Disney comics and rebrand the latter as Radio Jovem from then on.

One might wonder what would become of the Disney Princess and Marvel brands by then, but I maintained this train of thought before that X-Men’s really no better than Harry Potter. Mind you writers like Chris Claremont have the audacity to demonise Protestant preachers, promote demonic characters as likable heroes, and even make rebellion against authority look cool. Not to mention Marvel itself is no stranger to other sympathetic demonic characters like Damian Hellstrom (Son of Satan), Satana and Daredevil, it’s kind of strange why almost no Christian objected to these characters. I guess if Russia were to make Brazil hand over the remaining Disney assets and library, only a fraction of the Marvel canon would remain. Globo could reprint and translate some of the Christian comics Marvel did at some point, though unfortunately that will be all there is to them. So unfortunately a substantial chunk of the Marvel canon will be wiped out and lost to time forever, or for another matter the rest of the Disney canon as well.

Celestial even said that somebody at Disney may’ve molested both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. I remember reading somewhere else where a former Disney actor admitted there was a Disney executive who molested his female colleagues, given Celestial also talked about certain managers molesting boy band members during some kind of occult ritual, that it’s likely this kind of occult practise is rampant in Disney and many Hollywood studios too, that this is likely a reason why much of the Disney canon would be wiped out forever. Nakita said that something similar also happens in the K-Pop industry, so there is an odd possibility that the entire boy band canon would be wiped out as well. That might explain why a good number of boy band fans are ridiculously obsessive and given over to writing pornographic stories about their favourite members, in a way that escapes both Ace of Base and Aqua (both of them were the Backstreet Boys’ contemporaries in the 1990s) to some extent.

They aren’t any better but there’s something about boy bands like Backstreet Boys that has come to peeve me regarding their fans, where I had this dream of somebody I knew becoming really obsessive over them that I feel there might be something wrong about the whole boy band thing that others are unable to properly articulate. When it comes to singers like Sarah Geronimo and Mina Mazzini, you could only merely sing and not write your own songs much, yet never come off as ridiculously manufactured to the extent of having a persona given to you. When it comes to boy bands, a persona’s given to each member to live up to. Regardless of who they were before, that even Burk Parsons felt the whole purpose of creating a boy band is to induce lust in people (that might explain my own struggles with this sin among others). Boy bands seem to have this weird dual purpose air where they’re supposed to be wholesome enough for parents to accept, yet unwholesome enough to be lusted by their fans.

It’s like this with the Backstreet Boys where they never seem to sing misogynistic or discriminatory songs the way Aqua did at some point or Ulf Ekberg when it comes to playing for a white supremacist band when he was younger, but ironically also have this video where they got sexualised (it’s called ‘Quit Playing Games’). Although Ace of Base members aren’t any less wholesome in person, mind you they have sworn in some interviews. But their own body of work (music videos and songs) are mostly wholesome, where this one called Lucky Love seems to be everything Lou Pearlman made the Backstreet Boys strive to be, but without trying this hard. Aqua seems unapologetic about a few of their songs being kind of obscene, but the Backstreet Boys have this odd dualistic quality of having to be wholesome enough to be accepted by parents. Yet they have to be lustful enough to seduce young girls with, leading to a really sexualised fandom environment and said members having affairs with their fans.

To the point where it might as well drop all pretensions of being wholesome. Justin Timberlake kind of did with his first two albums when he became a solo musician, or for another matter his British predecessor Robbie Williams. His own band Take That once appeared in a video where they’re naked but also smeared with jelly as to get banned on telly, well what’s the point of trying to be both wholesome and lustful when you can’t consistently commit to either one of them. If America is Mystery Babylon with a deeply duplicitous character alternating between piety and reprobation, then the Backstreet Boys is a microcosm of this culture alternating between outright raunch and twee wholesomeness. There’s also no mistaking that America didn’t just pioneer the doo-wop music genre, but also its more sexualised permutation as the boy band genre starting with New Kids On The Block. Backstreet Boys was formed as a confluence of both New Kids On The Block and Chippendale Dancers, the latter being raunchy to the point where one day BSB might also drop all pretenses of being wholesome and all hell breaks loose onstage.

Timberlake was kind of ahead of BSB in this sense given the likes of the Jonas Brothers weren’t widely famous yet, so the Backstreet Boys might eventually release an entirely explicit album around the time two of them will be publicly outed for having affairs with their fans, but there’s really no point in passing off potential wank material as wholesome materials to fool parents with. Large swathes of the American mass culture canon is like this, they appear to be wholesome and twee, yet lustful enough to be kind of pervy on some level. There’s a book called Disney and the Bible that talked about this, regarding some female characters having rather sexualised character designs despite starring in rather ostensibly wholesome children’s stories. Sort of like how Tinkerbell is also a fairy in the original book, but her cartoon permutation seems oddly reminiscent of pinup actress Betty Grable. One would argue that Disney’s Snow White resembles another Hollywood temptress named Louise Brooks, but it is an odd decision on part of the character designers.

It’s odder still why nobody there at the time turned her into a dark-haired version of Mary Pickford, the original America’s Sweetheart, despite being a Canadian national herself. So there’s something retrospectively odd about Disney character designers making their version of Snow White vaguely resemble Louise Brooks (bobbed dark hair), though at present Louise Brooks is kind of nearly-forgotten. Maybe not entirely nearly forgotten but knowing about her (and her reputation) recontextualises Snow White in an unexpected way, one that makes Disney’s sometimes salacious inner nature even more obvious. That’s not to say it’s wrong to like Disney or even the Backstreet Boys, but given America’s status as Mystery Babylon that if the latter’s intended to induce lust in unsuspecting people or if the former’s no stranger to hiring paedophiles and other perverts, this would inevitably lead to a rather sexualised environment this way. One that might be more disingenuously as it’s deceiving, since they also have the pretense of wholesomeness.

(The wholesomeness of a number of Soyuzmultfilm productions and the wholesomeness of most AOB songs seem more genuine/sincere/earnest by comparison.)

Even if Ace of Base do have their unwholesome moments (see the number of times they were caught dead swearing in some interviews), but the Backstreet Boys as a whole is purposefully designed to be both wholesome enough to win over parents. Yet also unwholesome enough to induce lust in young lasses enough to get a good number of them writing pornographic stories about BSB in some way or another, reflecting America’s double-minded character. I always have the belief that the US is a double-minded country on the verge of instability, so internally divided it’s going to collapse any time soon. Its doublemindedness is strongly reflected in its cultural exports, where it exports both edifying materials and outright spiritual rubbish, which indicates its inherently duplicitous character. Bands like the Backstreet Boys is symptomatic of America’s duplicity, putting on a facade of wholesomeness only to make others stumble a lot. America is a deeply duplicitous country, housing both prominent ministries and prominent anti-Christian industries.

Oddly enough this may even occur in the same place, since CRU (a Christian organisation) is also in the same state as Hollywood is. It does seem odd to say Backstreet Boys is a band symptomatic of America’s duplicity in a way Ace of Base isn’t towards Sweden’s cultural and spiritual character, or for another matter Aqua isn’t towards Denmark’s own. Though it’s true both Denmark and Sweden still have devout Christian communities enough to supply them with online devotionals and lectionaries to rely on, but being middle powers at present they’re going to be more limited in scale with what they do with their ability to influence people the way America does. Maybe usually at most but it’s still very telling that neither Denmark nor Sweden have their own equivalents to Disney and Warner Bros beyond housing localised versions of their products, given a lot of Swedes and Danes know who Donald Duck. But not a lot of Americans know who Rasmus Klump and Bamse are, both of them being cartoon bears at that. A number of Americans know Aqua and Ace of Base exist, but it’s still unlikely for most Americans to have heard of Lill-Babs. (I first heard her on Finnish radio.)

Mind you she sang a reworked cover of Lesley Gore’s ‘It’s My Party’ and it’s just as catchy, it’s just as unlikely for many American listeners to have heard of other Danish and Swedish musicians in her time when she was younger. It’s also rare for Americans to have encountered earlier Danish cartoon takes on Norse mythology, most notably Valhalla featuring a red-haired Thor who resurrects his goats after killing them. So both Denmark and Sweden don’t yield as much immense cultural influence all over the world the way America does, that only a handful of their cultural exports enjoy this much international renown and popularity. Between the two cartoon takes on Thor, which one’s better known to most Filipinos? Certainly not Denmark’s very own Valhalla despite being closer to Thor’s Norse myth origins, whereas Marvel’s own version is so loosely based on Norse myth that he’s effectively a separate character altogether. But with these two countries also turning against America, then it’s inevitable American influence will be undone.

Returning to the earlier instance of comparing a newly socialist Philippines to the former Soviet Union and Canada to France, with America being their Germany in that it’s going to become the Philippines’ biggest ideological enemy and it already is Canada’s enemy. A socialist Philippines wouldn’t be any better in some regards, but it would come to see America as its worst enemy and moreso when it becomes a mirror of Nazi Germany (or more disturbingly, an update of Nazi Germany). Since anti-imperialism is a major component of socialism that a newly socialist Philippines would see a newly Nazi America as everything wrong with colonialism and imperialism, a newly socialist Philippines would even see a newly Nazi America as the ultimate extreme right country. But even then America’s got a substantial right wing base that pivoting to the extreme right wouldn’t be a stretch (and may already be a thing to an extent if you believe some people), if anything a nationwide pivot to the extreme right would reach its logical peak by then. It should be noted that Cameroon was a former German colony, then its coloniser became a fascist regime in WWII.

The Philippines would be no different but with the added pivot to socialism (if it does become socialist at all), effectively cutting off ties to America for good and becoming another one of its worst enemies. So a newly Nazi America would be left with little else (perhaps nothing else but itself) now that its own allies (Canada and the Philippines) have become this staunch about opposing it at all, the transition to becoming the ultimate totalitarian nation-state would be a very Kafkasque transformation. Or perhaps the signs of a more strongly fascist America were already there before, but this would intensify once America actually becomes fascist at all. If Donald Trump does get killed only to be succeeded by JD Vance, when coupled with prophecies of America becoming fascistic that Mr Vance could become the American counterpart to Adolf Hitler. When it comes to the tradwife phenomenon, this often refers to women who purposefully adopt an old-fashioned, hyperfeminine lifestyle and persona that often has right wing elements to it, that it would in fact become hegemonic if America does become Nazi at all.

But it’s also a logical endpoint of the culture wars in America, which also exemplify typical American duplicity, given you have a good number of Americans who wage war on feminism and anti-racism that it’s inevitable a civil war will occur as prophesised. If one can’t serve God and Mammon at once, then inevitably America would have to pick a side. It might actually stick to a certain side but one that pivots it towards true totalitarianism, this might even happen in a few years from now or even several months from now. It still wouldn’t be an automatic change but it really is going to reshape American life and culture so drastically, that it pretty much upends what it stood for (well for some people). Even if some pockets of America resemble the America we know at present, they are likely to be exceptions to the rule at most. And even then there’s still something about Satan being behind a number of US celebrities and government officials that makes one wonder why they even have these fans to begin with.

This isn’t unique to the United States in some way as it can also be found in Denmark, United Kingdom and Sweden, it’s likely there have been some instances where a band like Ace of Base played with certain sins before, so it’s clear they weren’t above doing these things at some point. But it would be pretty shocking if there’s any leaked materials concerning the Backstreet Boys all having been molested by Lou Pearlman at some point, that it does make one wonder just how sexualised they really got at times. And even if they didn’t get molested, Pearlman would still be inappropriate to them in other ways. Nakita said that this kind of molestation can also be found in other countries’ music industries, though it does beg the question if other boy bands (if not all other boy bands so far) have been molested by their managers behind the scenes. The thing about boy bands is that they’re often engineered by a Svengali to endear to both parents and arouse young women, creating a curious environment that facilitates such obsessions that certainly there’s something about boy bands that others don’t readily articulate.

And if these managers were involved in the occult themselves, this might explain certain things but so far only Boyzone’s Shane Lynch said this actually is the case, he even admitted he was into the occult himself at some point. (For some reason, fellow Christian Brian Littrell never seemed upfront about this, those in Ace of Base like Jenny Berggren might open up to doing something similar before.) Though there are going to be other musicians who might turn to God one day, since I have dreams of another band I was into (and also into the occult before) called the Prodigy attending some church twice, including one where the members got baptisted in a pool. It’s logical that the other Ace of Base members (whom Jenny likely often prays for) might turn to God eventually, wherein they might attend the same church as she does, read the same holy literatures as she does and listen to the same sermons as she does. Or the Aqua and Everything But The Girl members just the same. But America is still very peculiar in that it has much of the world’s most influential ministries, yet also houses or popularises filth.

Out of the same country come blessings and cursings, what a contradictory country to be in. I even said before that the Backstreet Boys as an institution is America’s character in miniature, perfectly embodying America’s contradictory spirit. Wholesome enough to win over parents, sexualised enough to induce lust in people. This is kind of different from Ace of Base having unwholesome moments from time to time and even admitted to doing this before, this is different from Aqua having no pretensions about what they do or have done before. Note I mostly compare the Backstreet Boys to Ace and Base and Aqua since it’s a very fair comparison at that, but what is particular to BSB is the double-dealing nature of the way they ended up as. One could compare America to Iran where Iran has practically no pretensions about its general stance against Christianity, save for certain pockets if this website’s any indication, but America is the Christian majority country that both takes pride in its Christian heritage and deliberately undermines the same.

I even said that the Philippines is also a duplicitous country for the same reason, to be given over to its enemy for its own sins but it will be permanent this time. Many preachers have talked about how and why the Philippines often acts so contrary to what it proclaims itself to be, where I feel in the future the Philippines will end up like other Asian countries in most regards. Wherein nearly all western influence is permanently revoked here, since it’s already pointless for the Philippines to call itself Christian yet celebrate and condone so much wickedness on its own soil. Both countries might end up as the very things they strove not to be, albeit one where the Philippines will become socialist and America will become fascistic. But this is also the case where they become worst enemies to one another, a deeply socialist Philippines will retaliate against a deeply fascistic America over many things. America would become truly isolated then, AI or not, where practically no country wants to be with it anymore when it becomes super-fascistic at all.

America might disappear into the waters forever and even if not all of it’s lost, the remaining lands would be given over to other countries instead. States like Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Vermont might be given over to Canada as presents from Russia, just as Mexico might take back California, Wyoming and New Mexico, so this is another way America disappears from the map. There’s actually a book called How To Hide An Empire where the author posits a Greater America where both America itelf and the Philippines are included together, but given that both of these same countries will be given over to their enemies that the future would look very different. After getting defeated, America becomes an extension of Russia itself before disappearing, The Philippines on the other hand joins Greater China to spite the United States for not saving it in time, in addition to a formenting socialist movement after the president’s demise or something, that it would be so drastically changed it’s practically and largely unrecognisable from itself at present–essentially and practically a lot more like it neighbours since there’s no use in calling itself Christian when it’s just lip service.

America might even witness its other territories be given over to other countries in a way, where Hawaii also joins China but as an independent country seeking more sovereignty and agency. Puerto Rico secedes from America when America crashes real badly, same goes for the Virgin Islands where both of them join a growing Caribbean-Latin American bloc as lead by Mexico and Brazil. The dollar would be replaced by either a petroruble in Europe and Canada due to Russian influence or petroyuan in the Philippines, but American influence will be revoked anyways whether culturally, economically, politically or what else, if not entirely spiritually (as Pentecostalism and the like might still persist well into the future). If both Canada and the Philippines were to be given over to their enemies, let’s not forget that there are certain movements facilitating and enabling this change beforehand, that if such an invasion were to arrive these movements would hasten these changes anyways. Whether if it’s Canada coming to resemble Russia more or socialism becoming more widespread in the Philippines after US collapse, it’s inevitable American influence will be erased in both countries.

This is another way that American influence is ending or eroding in some way, and arguably western influence in general, where the cultural tastemakers are more likely to come from East Asia instead. Sort of like how in the past boy bands were much likelier to come from western countries like America (which practically originated this and refined it from the doo-wop vocal group school), but following One Direction’s demise that Korean boy bands came to fill in the gap quite adequately. However it might turn out that there really is going to be a boy band/girl group bubble in South Korea that within a few years it might crash real badly, to the point where prioritising things like K-Ballad and Trot are safer bets from then on. Many K-Pop agencies might not make it to the 2030s, let alone well into this decade, that K-Pop as we know it might end for good. K-Pop is also a Korean music genre heavily influenced by American music and it too will be undone, like most American influence around the world. American influence will end either way, whether economically or culturally, that the whole world will be very different in the 2030s.

And even a few years before that, due to the nature of WWIII being nuclear, those from Europe would move to Asia and Africa. That’s to avoid intense radiation until their countries’ governments find a way to tame radiation levels to something more manageable for them to live, that even if not all Europeans leave their countries, at best they’ll be secluded to either living underground or in more isolated areas like the countryside instead. Maybe not necessarily living underground but in a way that minimises one’s exposure to radiation, though it would be oddly likely even for celebrities to leave their countries for awhile until life becomes safer to live. One time I was praying for a particular celebrity to worship God, I was directed to a devotional where I might meet her one day. Even then it’s still painfully likely for celebrities and non-celebrities alike to leave Europe for countries relatively less affected by radiation, I say relatively less affected as radiation would still affect those places to a degree. But even then WWIII might drastically change the world and be the time America truly ends.

And from then on America is gone in many ways more than one.