In November 2016, I published the article titled “Pizzagate”: How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite. While bits and pieces of this massive “conspiracy theory” (I don’t like that term) had been floating on forums like 4Chan and Reddit, my article was one of the first to compile them in a digestible way while adding a good dose of my own research and insight to the mix.
The article went immediately viral and unleashed all kinds of hell online and offline. On one side, thousands of people who read the article discovered, with complete horror, the depravity of some of the most powerful people on earth. Not only are these people involved in the most abhorrent practices imaginable, but they’ve created an entire culture and lifestyle around them.
On the other side, the mainstream media had a complete meltdown. Instead of doing their jobs of investigating and asking hard questions, “journalists” focused on attacking and discrediting those who dared report on this story.
The same went for tech companies that made it a point to censor the story on nearly all platforms. To this day, if you Google something like “Pizzagate Vigilant Citizen,” this site’s article is nowhere to be found (suggesting it was specifically censored). However, you will find a slew of articles from mainstream, elite-owned outlets wagging their finger at this site and others for **checks notes** doing their jobs.
Despite their refusal to investigate any of the damning elements of this story, nearly all mainstream sources came together to call Pizzagate “fake news.”
However, my original article contained nothing fake, fabricated, or tampered with. It only contained material these people posted themselves, back when they thought they were acting in the shadows. And to this day, absolutely none of it has been explained or “debunked.” Quite the contrary, the release of the Epstein files proved that the elite truly engage in disgusting activities centered around pedophilia and communicate about their sick obsessions with codes.
To understand who these “journalists” are running cover for, let’s revisit some elements from the original article.
Still Insane
This story was dubbed Pizzagate because it mostly revolves around social media posts by James Alefantis, the owner of a pizza place in Washington, D.C. Despite him being a humble restaurant owner, email leaks revealed he was connected with some of the most powerful people in the world, such as John Podesta, Hilary Clinton, and many others. He was also named in GQ’s 50 Most Powerful People in Washington list, and was the boyfriend of David Brock, the founder of Media Matters.
Going through (the now-deleted) Instagram account of Alefantis and Comet Ping Pong was a horrifying experience. Despite what “journalists” claimed, none of them were fake, and none of them were “debunked.” While news articles focused on telling you what to think, my article simply presented the facts. Here are some examples.
Here’s the definition of “chicken lover.”
We’re not talking about one strange, oddly worded post. We’re talking about dozens of posts following similar patterns. Anyone who cares about investigating the truth would notice something deeply wrong.
Alefantis posted the picture of a random baby and called it “hotard”, a combination of the words “ho” (slut) and retard. Who in their right minds would use that word to describe an innocent baby? A hotard pedophile.
Seriously, read each comment carefully. Alefantis says “this looks fun” and later “#murder.” Someone else commented “#killroom”. Another comment states, “Just rinse it off when you’re done.” This is exactly the type of place where systematic rape, torture, and murder occur because it is isolated and easy to clean up.
While this might sound crazy, keep reading. Alefantis’ friend, Tony Podesta, owns paintings depicting children being held up in exactly these types of spaces.
The Podesta Connection
Alefantis was close to Tony and John Podesta, the former White House Chief of Staff, with whom he exchanged numerous emails and organized numerous events.
One leaked email revealed that John Podesta organized a Spirit Cooking event that brought together a bunch of politicians and other figures with the elite’s favorite witch, Marina Abramovic.
And, like Epstein, other Podesta emails contained strange sentences that are clearly code for something else.
Clearly, “a map that seems pizza-related) is code for something else … exactly like “Cheese Pizza” is code for something else (Child Porn).
These people do not only use art to celebrate pedophilia, but their other obsessions as well. Here’s a picture of Podesta’s office in Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters.
This obscure painting (I still cannot find its origin) is clearly about cannibalism, one of the occult elite’s favorite activities. Again, none of this is fake or fabricated; that painting was even mentioned in a Time article.
On the wall in his office at Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters, campaign chairman John Podesta has an oil painting on loan from his lobbyist brother, who is an avid art collector. The image shows two men hunched over a dining room table, bearing knives and forks. On the table lays a man in a suit, who looks vaguely like Podesta. “It’s better to be the guy with the fork,” Podesta quips to his colleagues, if they ask about the image, “than the guy on the table.”
– Time, Meet the Man Behind Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Yes, he really said, “It’s better to be the guy with the fork.”
The article also mentions that the painting is from Tony Podesta’s collection. Here are other paintings from this collection.
Here’s a closer look at the painting featured in the magazine.
Yes, Tony Podesta has a painting of young girls laying at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, looking rather distraught in his living room. What’s the story behind it? You don’t want to know.
Several paintings by this artist depict child abuse with chilling titles.
All of these paintings feature children who are clearly captives and subject to abuse. They all take place in a specific location which is similar to the “kill room” seen in the James Alefantis post – a place that can easily be hosed down.
These paintings are particularly unsettling because they seem to depict real children in a real and specific location. When this was highlighted in the original article, media sources talked about “baseless conspiracy theories” and attempted to justify her art using meaningless words.
But did they bother using the artist’s own words? Of course not. Because that would go against the narrative. Here’s an excerpt of an interview with artist Biljana Djurdjevic.
How do you dream up with your wacky ideas? What is your creation process?
I read a lot, from junky novels to pure art novels, am addicted to TV who works 24 hours per day, I hardly watch but I need to have it in the room, maybe it is compilation of my thoughts that I collect through ordinary day like seeing some old man struggling with his poverty and starting to fade from the face of earth without being seen at all, or seeing an other victim of paedophilia for this and other subjects unfortunately I didn’t need any imagination. Just a pure reality.
Djurdjevic clearly stated that some of her paintings were about “victims of pedophilia” and that they were “pure reality.”
Therefore, Tony Podesta has paintings of victims of pedophilia in his house, staring at him every single day. Where is the “fake news” in that? Nowhere.
Despite this fact, all mainstream sources came together (they’re owned by the same elite) and called the entire story “fake news.”
Media Meltdown
As soon as I published the original Pizzagate article in 2016, multiple news sources attacked Vigilant Citizen specifically. Of course, they didn’t address the article’s actual contents. Instead, they engaged in the Orwellian practice of dismissing information that goes against their interests as “fake news” while gaslighting us not to believe what is staring right in our faces.
In the article above, the “journalist” ridicules the fact that my site and others seek to expose “a ring of pedophiles in Washington” who communicate in codes. A couple of years later, the entire world discovered that Epstein operated a ring of pedophiles in Washington who communicated in codes. This article was deleted (but archived), maybe because it was now obvious they were covering for literal pedophiles.
In short, “journalists” betrayed their jobs of reporting and investigating powerful stories, instead turning into spineless hacks mandated to cover up the sins of their owners.
However, that did not work. Despite media’s hit pieces against this site and others, the Pizzagate story kept reaching more people. Then, a few weeks later, something bizarre happened. A guy showed up at Comet Ping Pong with a rifle, walked around, shot at a closet, and got arrested.
On December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, a 28-year-old from Salisbury, North Carolina, entered Comet Ping Pong (a family-oriented pizza restaurant in northwest Washington, D.C.) armed with an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun. He was acting on the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. (…)
He searched for hidden rooms. When he found a locked door (leading only to a computer closet), he fired shots at the lock to force it open. He also pointed the rifle at an employee. No one was injured. After finding nothing, he put the weapons down, walked outside with his hands up, and surrendered to police.
– Ny Times, Washington Pizzeria Gunman Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
Here’s the context surrounding this event.
We’re about a month after Pizzagate went viral. Millions of people are waking up to the truth about the elite, are horrified, and are asking for action and answers. The elite is in panic mode, and its attempts to use its media outlets to discredit the story aren’t working.
Then, this guy shows up, and he gives these people exactly what they needed to shut down the story: Associate Pizzagate with violence and even terrorism.
Was this event a false flag, and was this guy a patsy? Hard to tell. Strange fact: He died in 2025, shot by police.
In any case, he gave the media exactly what they needed to make the Pizzagate story toxic. And they’ve immediately assigned their hack journalists to push a very specific narrative.
They also made a point of associating the guy with this site specifically.
Over the years, the media never stopped reeling at this story. Ten years later, as I’m writing these lines in 2026, the NY Times just published an article covering up for elite pedos.
In Conclusion
Ten years after the publication of the original Pizzagate story, media sources are still vehemently protecting those mentioned in the article while simultaneously shooting the messenger. They’ve forfeited any semblance of objectivity by calling the story “fake” without investigating. Their goal was never to report the story; it was to shut it down.
Through their attacks, they have never addressed the specific facts mentioned in these articles, because they simply cannot. If they did, they would expose more people to the disturbing truth, and that’s the last thing they want. The media’s reaction to this story showed how irrelevant, untrustworthy, and pathetic our “news” has become. Since then, all of these outlets have been seeing a steady decline, as the masses see them for what they truly are: Propaganda outlets.
Ten years later, Pizzagate is still not “fake news”; it is more relevant than ever. It captured the mindset of the elite when they were brazen enough to post about their degeneracy on social media. It became a well-documented exposition of the elite’s obsession with pedophilia and the culture they’ve built around it.
None of this was new to Vigilant Citizen, as I’ve been reporting about it since 2008. But Pizzagate became a particularly poignant example of everything I’ve been reporting for years.
To this day, the word Pizzagate still rings terror in the elite’s minds because it accomplished what they abhor the most: It shed light on their darkness.
