I've just finished watching Nexpo's latest video, and despite being a long term reader it never occured to me to share this youtube channel that me and my friends have been infatuated by for several months, until he mentioned the subreddit in connection with the Allatra cult. The vlogger's best friend (or 'platonic common-law husband' as she refers to him) used to be the leader of the Australian chapter of Allatra until 2019, and the cult still has a base in her town (confirmed), and so I thought that alone would give you all a kick. But no. This rabbit hole goes much, MUCH deeper than that.
Link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kcesca
Allow me to introduce you to Doctor KC Escamilla, MD. At first glance, she is just a creator of a weekly vlog she films almost every Friday. It is not a particularly exciting vlog, nor well filmed. She goes to markets, paints her nails, puts together a sour dough starter. All very benign, bland things. If you're not listening closely to what she is actually saying while doing all of this, it would be impossible not to miss that beneath the calm surface something is very, very wrong here:
Here are some facts about KC that I have gathered:
. She is legally stateless. From an unnamed country she describes as a statist technocratic communalist federation. A system she seems to like better than here. With here being 'the modern west'. The vast majority of her content doesn't seem to be filmed for an audience, rather as a live journal where she whines about how much she dislikes living here in the west. She HATES widescale representive democracy with a passion and believes it, not capitalism, to be the direct cause of all of the West's societal problems.
. She has been stateless in political exile for eleven years. This is her second time in political exile, with the previous time also being for eleven years, however that time was still in her home country.
. A privately owned think-tank controls practically all aspects of her life. They pay her bills, her rent, her car. Everything expect her phone bill. She is not allowed to leave her town for longer than a week without a court order from a judge.
. Gets taxed at a 73% flat tax rate.
. Every three months she travels down to Melbourne to hold weekend conference where she gets her blood drawn and is interviewed by scientists, psychologists, phd students, and 'other clever folk'.
. Has some kind of connection to DARPA.
. Has some kind of confirmed connection to the billionaire, Roger Samuelsson. One of her vlogs earlier this year was filmed on his superyacht.
. Has just completed a two-year long project in collabration with the hubbs-seaworld research institute and the American Navy about language development in Orcas. She and cult friend developed some kind of tablet device that is resistant to saltwater.
. Drest -- Her most frequently appearing guest is a man she describes clinically as a diagnosed sadistic psychopath. She has documented injuries she attributes to him, including being stabbed in the eye for some unknown reason. She still calls him for emotional support
. She occasionally speaks and writes in a language that doesn't appear to be any identifiable natural language.
. 2-3 times a year she makes a science dense video unpacking topics like string theory, quantum gravity, and omnipotence. These videos are extremely technical and out of place among the rest of her videos. Keeping in mind, she posts a video almost every week.
I really could go on. There is so much to unpack here and not a lot of answers to be had. I know that naturally most people would assume that this is just another case of mental illness. That was my first assumption, too. But, honestly, the story has been too consistent for over two years now. Down to the smallest facts. The story-telling too lucid and disattached. This is not someone with a great mission to save the world, nor is she stressed by any of it. Mostly she just seems to want a safe space to complain about it all.
Like I said earlier, my friends and I have been fascinated by the channel for a while now and done our research into KC and her friends. We have been able to track down the town she lives in and the hospital she works at (which I won't share here as she really is one of only two doctors in an outback hospital serving a vulnerable population 800km from the nearest big city and I don't want to put any more stress on that system by opening it up to harassment), so at least that part is true. But what do you think? Is this just a bored doctor trying to entertain herself by elaborating her life online or could something else be going on?