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Ancient Aliens & Tesla Conspiracies, Brought to You by Pepsi

When it comes to marketing strategies, the geniuses at PepsiCo are famous for knowing no boundaries. After all, they are the ones responsible for one of the most famous TV commercials in all history, featuring the late King of Pop: Michael Jackson –of course, that particular commercial is memorable for reasons the Pepsi executives would probably prefer to forget

And yet, this latest ad I found during one of my latest online meanderings seemed like it crossed a strange borderline: One marking the limits between ‘normal’ mainstream pop culture and… well… OUR turf of the strange and bizarre.

The video in question –almost a mini-movie, truth be told– released on November 18th 2015 and directed by Jabbar Raisani, deals with one of the most interesting and captivating pieces of modern mythology that’s been spawned from the World Wide Web: The story of the Black Knight.

Black Knight Decoded starts with some ominous text:

“In 1899, Nikola Tesla discovered a satellite orbiting Earth.
It’s origin can be traced back over 13,000 years.
This is NOT Science Fiction. This is real.”

And from there the Fortean lever goes up to 10.5 –sorry, but to reach a full 11, they should have also included some mention about Philip K. Dick and VALIS.

Still, Black Knight Decoded does a pretty good job of mixing together government conspiracies, ancient aliens, Zecharia Sitchin’s Annunaki, secret ET codes AND that Steampunk version of Gandalf the wizard that was our beloved St. Tesla.

And maybe THAT is the reason why the Black Knight mythos is so darn compelling: Because it manages to connect *all* these seemingly disparate themes floating around in the Fortean blogosphere in a yarn that almost makes sense –whether that yarn, and Usher lyrics manage to increase the sales of sugary carbonated water branding a bi-color logo remains to be seen of course…

Also, never mind that those badass ‘official’ photos of the Black Knight itself have been IMO convincingly debunked. Skepticism cannot bring a good story down, dammit!

But wait, there’s more: The PepsiCo production is clearly also a flashy advertising tool for the Urthecast company: The Canada-based enterprise responsible for the hi-def camera onboard the ISS which made all those ‘gods-level’ takes from Xi’An (China), Cancún (Mexico), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Sydney (Australia), Ostrava (Czech Republic), Cluj (Romania), Warsaw (Poland), Sochi (Russia), DaNang (Vietnam), Delhi (India) and SinCity (USA) –really America? You’re going with a freaking emoji to communicate with superior alien beings for the first freaking time in History??.

So, not only did PepsiCo let us learn there’s a PRIVATE surveilance system onboard of what was supposedly a publicly-funded multinational space station, but that for some strange reason they chose to name their company after the Sumerian city of Ur –you know? the primordial city in the Fertile Crescent where the Annunaki gods left their mark?

So I don’t know about you, but me I’m getting clear of that Crystal Pepsi stuff for the time being –I think those Nibiru Reptilians finally realized fluoridated water wouldn’t cut it anymore…

  1. debunked
    The lack of Dick is disturbing.

    Yes, even the astronauts say it was just a thermal blanket from the space station. Whatever Tesla was researching was not this. It could have even been a meteorite. I prefer Coke myself so all this commercial does is make me think they are pandering to those who live in their mom’s basement wearing tin foil hats…and who apparently are Pepsi’s target audience…wtf? Is this thermal blanket supposed to unite us? Jesus that 3D animation looks like it’s getting ready to zap the sit out of us! RUN STUPID!!!!

    1. Coke…….

      I used to snort a lot of Coke, but the bubbles finally messed up my sinuses. It’s even worse when you get one of those little ice chips stuck in a nostril and then get brain freeze.

      So I had to stop.

  2. Sin City
    [quote=red pill junkie]
    But wait, there’s more: The PepsiCo production is clearly also a flashy advertising tool for the Urthecast company: The Canada-based enterprise responsible for the hi-def camera onboard the ISS which made all those ‘gods-level’ takes from Xi’An (China), Cancún (Mexico), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Sydney (Australia), Ostrava (Czech Republic), Cluj (Romania), Warsaw (Poland), Sochi (Russia), DaNang (Vietnam), Delhi (India) and SinCity (USA) –really America? You’re going with a freaking emoji to communicate with superior alien beings for the first freaking time in History??[/quote]

    Because New York wouldn’t put up with this kind of bullshit. Don’t count Sin City as the rest of “America,” I would have suggested the giant head of Donald Trump since that’s where we are headed at this rate. The aliens would take one look at it and turn tail. You can fill in the reason yourself 😛

    1. Trumpadump

      Because New York wouldn’t put up with this kind of bullshit. Don’t count Sin City as the rest of “America,” I would have suggested the giant head of Donald Trump since that’s where we are headed at this rate. The aliens would take one look at it and turn tail. You can fill in the reason yourself 😛

      Well, freaking DO something about it, guys! Seriously this joke is wearing thin and turning REALLY scary for the rest of us 🙁

      1. do something
        Don’t tell me to do something I ain’t voting for him! It’s all the crazy (many racist) folks who are dick riding him and the media who won’t stop reporting on him! When the news stopped paying attention to him for just a little bit he lost ground. Now he’s back again because he said something crazy. To be honest the Republican ticket really has no one good and they know it. Trump wants people in internment camps and to outlaw immigration, Carson has a painting of himself with Jesus and knows about as much about foreign affairs as a two month old puppy, and Jeb Bush needs his testicles to drop. Whether you are Republican or not, there is no way an intelligent person with common sense thinks any of those are good choices.

    2. well…….

      I’m voting for Trump. He’s light years ahead of president mom-jeans and that clown car posse administration currently residing in the White House. He’s also far and away better than anyone else, save perhaps Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz or Rand Paul. I could see myself voting for one of them, if Trump doesn’t get the nod, but if anyone else does and Hillary or that rat traitor Bernie Sanders wins, then we’ll be headed for a damned bloody revolution.

  3. Think,
    You are missing the point, tesla was investigating a bracewell probe, and there have been many signals in the 60s 70s that are clearly the same bracewell probe tesla encountered.

    It’s very real. Don’t let the black knight disinformation turn you into an idiot.

    It’s like crop circles just because they made lots of fakes doesn’t mean they are all fake, but a cover for the real ones you idiot.

    Every one falls for this cognative dissonance trick, it’s just astoundeding how well it works.

    1. idiots
      I think your wording may be a little rude. None of us are denying that Tesla tracked anything, it’s just that whatever it was clearly wasn’t the black knight as the Pepsi ad suggests. I’m pretty sure most of us on TDG are also aware the difference in real and “fake” crop circles. Ad hominem attacks rarely make an argument solid.

    2. Disinformation
      The point of the post was not to debunk or not the Tesla story, or the VALIS story, or even the Black Knight story. But to show how how these type of ideas grow and build up inside the Internet, and then “jump” into the mainstream for mass consumption.

      1. The 12th Planet
        Bit of a cop out here Junkie, either there is this mysterious alien satellite or not, if it is real then looking at the Annunaki as creators makes sense even if that opens a whole new can of worms. Sitchens heirs will have a field day (and then some) and maybe I should make some time to read his books or pdf’s that have been occupying a small part (71mb for 8 books) of my data collection. Seriously if these aliens have been here for almost half a million years, they wouldn’t leave just like that, even if other aliens told them to.

        1. Half a million years
          Well, then maybe the Black Knight was not put there to chat with US. Maybe it’s like in Star Trek IV and he wants to resume its dialog with humpback whales 😉

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