The throngs of Pizzagate “true believers” are readying themselves for Saturday’s march on the White House. But rumors have begun to swirl that David Seaman, one of the weekend’s star speakers, may not be participating out of sheer concern for the thousands of children reportedly ensnared in the international web of Democratic intrigue.
According to the Daily Beast, Seaman, who has become a prominent figure in the Pizzagate conspiracy community of late, has been pushing the idea of an “Internet-only viral campaign” for some time, beginning with a series of books he wrote fresh out of college in the late 2000s.
Calling himself a “journalist,” Seaman has an almost exclusively Pizzagate-centric YouTube channel that has more than 100,000 subscribers. A number of Pizzagate adherents cite Seaman’s YouTube reports as a primary source of information on the conspiracy, and even Michael Flynn, Jr., the son of Trump’s former national intelligence director, has Tweeted out Seaman’s “important updates.”
But Seaman, it turns out, is a former Jezebel and Gawker intern (putting him squarely within a liberal sphere of influence), who was let go from the Internet media company after staging a “Free Paris Hilton” protest in 2007. The magazine later called Seaman a “self-promotion whore.”
And his editors there are definitely calling into question whether Seaman believes everything he says about the child sex ring that supposedly ensnares everyone from John Podesta to former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“His ideas were already very bad and self-promotional,” one editor told the Beast. “He was very good at seeming sincere. I think he’s an opportunist. I would certainly be interested to know how much money this is making him.”
BuzzFeed guessed, at least, that Seaman was making a healthy sum, just on ads for his YouTube videos alone. It turns out, creepy pizza-centric conspiracy theories are profitable, if you know how to monetize your content.
Seaman, for his part, says that he’s totally on board with the Pizzagate theory, and that his work is designed to target Hillary Clinton (or, specifically, “get back at that bitch”). His personal vendetta, it seems, stems from suggesting that Hillary had a serious illness while serving as a contributor to the Huffington Post, and, subsequently, being booted from the publication.
Plus, he told the Beast, someone’s gotta do it. If there’s an international child sex ring out there that’s using the hallowed halls of government and the back room of a pizza parlor to satisfy pedophiles, it’s time an enterprising journalist snags the story.
Unfortunately for Seaman, interest in the theory has waned somewhat since a man went into Comet Ping-Pong, the pizzeria at the center of the conspiracy, and fired shots from a semi-automatic weapon. But Seaman and his partners in the grand Pizzagate endeavor will see for sure on Saturday, when the Pizzagate community demands answers in a demonstration just down the street from the White House.
Hopefully, Seaman gets more people than he got with his Paris Hilton protest, which drew only a “few dozen.”