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How did Matt and Trey learn Scientology’s secrets? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by _JR28_@alien.top to c/southpark@metacritics.zone

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Trapped In The Closet came out in 2005 so the internet wasn’t as vast in information yet or as available. Not even most Scientologists knew the truths of their teachings. So how did Matt and Trey get such in-depth info on the subject?

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[–] Messyfingers@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (9 children)

The premise that the internet wasn't as vast or that information wasn't as available in 2005 is just completely wrong in its concept.

The stuff in the episode was pretty readily available information at that time.

[–] trishpike@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Correct. Google was founded in 1998-ish and I remember using it by 2001.

There were also several famous ex-Scientologists by then who’d written books

[–] Visit_Beloozero@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone I know ran a FTP server full of MP3s in 99. Information on the internet was not an issue as early as 94.

Sure, search engines like Yahoo and Google were not born until a little after that, but BBS/URL/IIRC were easily accessible and HTML was already growing sophisticated by 95.

[–] trishpike@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Hell I knew about South Park because of the internet in 1997 and “The Spirit of Christmas”

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