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Vatican Archives Raid

Vatican Archives Raid

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Updated Sep 26, 2019 at 05:32PM EDT by Don.

Added Sep 26, 2019 at 11:08AM EDT by Sophie.

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About

Vatican Archives Raid is a parody of the satirical Facebook event Storm Area 51. Europeans and Redditors in general began planning places to storm after Storm Area 51 was over in July 2019 and eventually created a subreddit and discourse surrounding the potential findings after raiding the Vatican Archives.

Origin

On July 15th, 2019, imgur[1] user JediDavid posted a Lisa Simpson Presentation that reads "Petition for us Europeans to raid the Vatican while the Americans raid Area 51 (shown below). The image received over 7,700 points and 148,800 views in two months.


Petition for us Europeans to raid the Vatican while the Americans raid Area 51 33m V Replying to They free the aliens, we the children 1 L 15 110

Precursor

Storm Area 51, also known as the Area 51 Raid and Alienstock, is a satirical Facebook event that calls for an assembly of a flash mob to infiltrate the top-secret American military airbase in Lincoln County, Nevada, scheduled to commence at 3:00 a.m. on September 20th, 2019. Since its launch in late June, the Facebook page went viral and millions of people have signed up to attend.

Spread

On September 20th, 2019, Redditor angel-3316 posted an image describing the Vatican Archives as an option for Europeans to raid to r/dankmemes[2] (shown below, left). The image received over 51,200 points (98% upvoted) in six days. Facebook[3][5] users began creating various events and groups for raiding the Vatican archives and the subreddit r/VaticanRaid[4] was established. On September 24th, Redditor Idk_to_put_here posted a Stranger Things image in reaction to a the Facebook event "Storm Vatican Secret Archives, They Can't Molest All of Us" to r/memes[6] which gained over 18,800 points (95% upvoted) in two days (shown below right).


Americans:we are gonna raid area 51 Europeans:we have nothing to raid the Vatican archives: «АНОY Again? Seriously? Storm Vatican Secret Archives, They Can't NOV 20 M----- All of Us Public- Hosted by Alex Vincent Grimmson Going Share

On September 24th, Redditor newaccount_whodis posted an image of a person running from a guard over water with the caption, "Me leaving the Vatican knowing how to walk over water" to r/dankmemes[7] (shown below). The image accumulated over 88,800 points (94% upvoted) in two days.


Me leaving the Vatican knowing how to walk over water

Various Examples


When the Area 51 raid is over and the Naruto runners need something else to storm dankbob_memepants RAID THE VATICAN When the news of the raid reaches Vatican City come again n---- Europeans: *open the secret vault in the Vatican* Jesus: GET THE F--- OUT OF MY ROOM I'M PLAYING MINECRAFT Europeans should raid the Vatican while Americans raid Area 51 me and the boys wearing the cool clothes we stole from the vatican Of course, Area 51 was only a distraction It's really the Vatican I need to raid

Search Interest

External References

[1] imgur – jediDavid

[2] Reddit – r/dankmemes

[3] Facebook – Let's Raid the Vatican Archives

[4] Reddit – r/VaticanRaid

[5] Facebook – Lets Raid the Vatican Group

[6] Reddit – r/memes

[7] Reddit – r/dankmemes

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Again to go full buzzkill:

Those Vatican archives are, unlike area 51, not a secret.

They are simply limited access because of the extremely vulnerable condition of those old documents. Just the humidity of your breath or the sweat of your fingers can be enough to make these pages crumble and fall apart. You need to be a historian with some clout and trustworthiness behind them to get access, but outsiders are being given access quite regularly, actually. The "classification" level is not based on importance, but on age of the documents because of it. The Vatican has sometimes the ONLY records from certain events in world history (because Dark Ages and only the church really keeping record). Losing them from carelessness would be an absolute disaster for mankind.

Reason we constantly discover new things in the archives is because they never really have been properly categorized until now and they need to SLOWLY (due to the vulnerable nature of these documents) go through book by book to do so. And there are thousands of them.

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