Proto-Disinfolklore — The Method Before the Name
The Disinfolklore Analytical Method was ALREADY operative during the pandemic — two years before the term was coined in February 2023. These passages trace the method’s evolution from LinkedIn (2016) through Medium (2020) to the moment of naming.
February 11, 2021 is the date the method was first formally named: “Positive Trolling(R)” and “Code of Positive Trolls(R)” in a Medium post that opens: “It’s a folktale for our era.”
Passages
"Positive Trolling(R)" Trademarked -- Feb 11, 2021
Sleeping Beauty as Economic-Analytical Framework (2020)
"World Class Expert into the Craft of Trolling and Folklore"
The Conflict Zone Farewell -- Three Years on the Contact Line
#MeToo Brexit: A Love Story -- Proto-Coercive Control (2019)
"Molecular Politics" Coined -- Virus Properties as Policy Constraints
Clown or Beast -- Proto-Druidey Don (2021)
"Antihuman Rights Aggression" -- Human Rights Weaponised Against Themselves
Covid Is Airborne -- Before WHO Acknowledged It
"Hopiumists" and the Normalisation Prediction
Five Stages of Zombie Herd Immunity
Putin and Long Covid / Long Table
"Politics Is a Shared Reservoir of Stories" (2021)
Totalitarianism and Violence Against Women (2020)
"It's a Folktale for Our Era" -- The DNA Statement
The Complete Timeline: 2016-2023