If Vox was a Delta (if a Delta could) this would be motivation to create the definitive work on the SSH so people would stop being incorrect.
In reality, I don’t think it would be anything short of Jordan Peterson attempting to co-opt the SSH in his new book “I am Sigma and you can too” that would reprioritize the book. Even then, …
Just FYI in case anyone was wondering, after behaving like a retard on this entire thread David Martin blocked me after replying to my advice that he stop digging the hole he is in. Classic last word G-man gambit.
The moral of this retarded story is this:
The SSH is reliable and its edges are sharp. This is why the fuzzy logic "I'm a complicated person" shades of grey NPC retards hate it.
I'm pretty sure I was also blocked by him. My "activity" tab says "1 user replied to your note on The Attack on Sigma", but when I clicked to see the reply, it just brings me here to the top of the comments.
Was it for the John Maxwell quote?
If so, this is a fine display of Flounce(TM) and LastWord(TM)..
It makes me think Green Wing's Alan Statham and his "coat sweep". Classic Gamma.
The word became popular among children and children redefined the word. This happens all the time with various phrases. Men Going Their Own Way was originally from an essay, before other men liked the label and redefined it to mean what they wanted. Based has also experienced the same redefinitions. I'd chalk this up to most people being idiots and finding the word useful to be the new "cool".
Those are good points. But maybe you're just too smart for this one, Vox. I'll coin a new term to explain it, called the Ligma effect. When a precisely defined term reaches the unwashed masses, such as Schordinger's Cat which you mentioned in the past, it becomes overly simplified either intentionally or unintentionally.
The people using Sigma now are the sort of people who don't really care about nuance. But they really care about making jokes about their balls. Which is why they took Sigma and invented Ligma.
The girls who wrote Sigma Boy couldn't give a precise definitiom of the SSH rank. The Ligma bros wouldn't care if they knew what it meant. Children just think Sigma means "Cool guy."
Yes, Gammas have been trying to redefine Sigma since you invented it. But the Ligma effect took over when the term became wide spread.
You and several others keep repeating the same stupid, nonsensical points. No one cares what the kiddies and retards think is cool.
The question is why major media publications and corporations have been seeking to publicize alternative explanations, some before the term even went viral.
Also, the girls didn't write Sigma Boy and it's popularity wasn't accidental. Nothing in music gets big without being pushed.
"The question is why major media publications and corporations have been seeking to publicize alternative explanations, some before the term even went viral."
Because those corporations sell toys to kids, and shamelessly regurgitate anything kids like back at them. See the "Hey fellow kids" meme.
"Also, the girls didn't write Sigma Boy and it's popularity wasn't accidental. Nothing in music gets big without being pushed."
1. The song composer was the father of one of the girls.
2. The girls are on a children's tv show in Russia, and it's his job to write songs for kids tv.
3. Your experience with social media is atypical. You, Owen, and others are being censored.
4. There's a documentary on Netflix called the Social Dilemma about how the algorithms normally work. They A/B test whatever hooks peoples attention in order to sell ads.
5. Songs go viral all the time without being "pushed".
6. The Sigma Boy song, written by a professional children tv composer, inspired by what his daughter was interested in, with a platform in Russia, jumped language barriers because Sigma has been viral online for years, the algorithm pushed it to kids, and other companies that exist to monetize trends popular with kids and sell toys used it.
7. It is the nature of the algorithm to find things people watch and spread it. It is the nature of the internet to remix viral memes. Sigma has been viral for years among kids. A remix of it got pushed by the algorithm after it jumped language barriers. Then corporations noticed and cashed in to the point that Dora the explorer, a childrens show to help bilingual children learn English tried and failed to define it perfectly.
This is an unrelated series of events from the typical Gamma redefinitions.
It is both true that the algorithm is biased against you, and that this remix of Sigma went viral without being authorized by anyone. The algorithm pushed it.
Hm. Do you think it virtuous that 'no one' uses the term 'sigma' in its proper context and meaning? I know you are a virtuous man who values virtue, and etymology as well... maybe the No one will come to save the phrase.
To answer your question: they don't like alphas, because the alphas threaten their social manipulation, but the sigmas, if they can be pushed to distance themselves from others more, would also pose less of a threat to their social manipulation. The gamma word, however, threatens their social manipulation schema, so they've largely suppressed what they can of it. They're quite an intelligent force, though their thinking is shallow and insane. Imagine if you were a woman who was told by her whole parasite community her whole life that you had to control the world or else be killed. How can one cure such a disease of the psyche?
No. Not at all. I merely find it curious that of all the neologisms I have coined, and of all the neologisms everyone else has coined over the last 20 years, this one gets treated strangely.
There is no attack on the concept of an attractive, gifted, and somewhat anti-social outsider.
What we’re seeing is the inevitable obfuscation and slopification of a term that attempted to lump together the most prolific gangsters and killers in cinematic fiction (Bond, Shelby, Lector, The Man with No Name), two of the world's most powerful and ruthless leaders, an underage-niece-fucking crack-fiend of a presidential failson, The Duke of Wellington, and a Twin Cities rich kid who admits to being a bit of a libertine before maturing into a well respected, book-binding family man—as if all are driven by the same internal psychology, to the point of having consistent and similar behavioral patterns with each other. Of course it's become a container word.
I'll be turning 31. My pregnant, 20yo gf is also aware of SSH terminology. She made it very clear when it came up in discussion that there were few things that gave her the ick more than her male peers talking about these concepts. For her, and i assume other zoomer women, talk of the SSH is a surefire way to put oneself in a low status position as it instantly communicates several low status qualities; chronically online, Andrew Tate worship, MtM transitionhood, brainrot.
I think mostly what we're seeing is mostly the result of the term being overbroad, and fluffing. I do not think this the result of a targeted attack by The Narrative. I think they have much bigger, more immediate concerns. Like one of the biggest rappers of all time heiling Hitler.
Well, let me start by acknowledging the most obvious attack on the SSH; the seasons of AMC's The Walking Dead in which The Whisperers were the main enemy faction.
The faction leader, 'Alpha,' being played by a short, fat, bald, female psychopath, 'Beta,' her 7ft tall right hand man, and 'Gamma,' the sickly, frog-looking woman who betrays Alpha and the group to Rick. I'd list the 2009 film, UP, which also features an appearance of an Alpha, Beta, Gamma trio but since it precedes the 2011 SSH post I'm not sure if it can necessarily qualify.
So I concede there have been legitimate attempts, I don't contest that, but I don't think that the term becoming an empty container that's synonymous with brainrot is necessarily part of any clandestine program. I think that even within the Unauthorized crowd there's been a lot of fast and loose thinking about what is and isn't Sigma beyond the original 2011 definition.
Is it an irreparably broken Alpha incapable of fulfilling what might've been his natural role due to early trauma? A former social retard who shaped up during puberty? Mad Max riding off into the sunset? A do-nothing Japanese artist seducing the wives of his friends and patrons? Is Batman the most Sigma to ever Sigma, or is he actually the Most Secret King a week later after Owen decided? Is it a suicidal, opium addicted WW1 vet who keeps a razorblade in his to hat to gouge people's eyes out for insulting his mother? A spy who strangles a woman to death when she reveals the hidden blade in the toe of her pump, after sleeping with her just minutes beforehand?
Couldn't tell ya. If I had to choose an example of a Sigma I might choose Alcibiades. But, I could also confidently choose the character of Alan Shore from the TV shows The Practice and Boston Legal—and allegedly describe the same thing; since the term has been used to cover such a wide range of motives, psychologies, behaviors, and life outcomes. Much wider variance than any of the other ranks by far. Nobody apart from you can say with total certainty. Much of what I've heard discussed across streams and comments sections in regards to the concept over the years has left me with little more than an amorphous impression. Since the term has been proliferating across the internet with all of this accompanying ephemera for a decade before going viral, it just isn't a mystery to me why it's being used in the way that it is. I would argue it was primed for it—even if unintentionally.
So far, whatever you've said is Sigma, is Sigma. You've been the final authority on the matter. The world has simply taken the mantle and started doing likewise. It's like Xers branding everything 'Xtreme'. Taken across all the different instances, it meant jack shit but you ate it up every single time. Give the product some sleek black branding, slap a Sigma symbol on it for those instant rebellious, dangerous, yet prestigious vibes, and the rubes will buy. Including me, when buying the AmpSim I used to record an album for the project associated with this email - while being fully aware of the SSH prior to purchasing.
No hidden hand is required. All you're seeing is a kids show creating their own of a million equally valid but irrelevant definitions to get their share of a marketing bandwagon. They're farming relevancy. They have no fucking clue about the SSH proper, they don't care about any of it, they just know that it's been all over tiktok and made relevant to children through memes.
My girlfriend's observations are only relevant insofar as they're an anecdote of how the next few generations beneath me have recieved and understood the SSH terminology, since that's how it's going to be digested in the final analysis. Which could undermine those trying to implement it as intended within an organization with younger employees.
I think the book is coming too late to reel any of this back in, though I look forward to seeing what ends up in print.
I'm not trying to reel any of it back in. People can do whatever they want with the term. I'm simply preserving the utility of the SSH for those who wish to successfully anticipate the actions of others.
Nothing that anyone else does, says, or redefines will dilute the ability of those who know the actual SSH to utilize it. If anything, all this dilution, purposeful or not, simply gives the few who know the real thing an additional advantage.
They try to silence Vox and distort his understandings but they push retards like Einstein and Nietzsche. I wonder why we brain dump our higher education classes. Remember to homeschool your children because public taught children are actually retarded now.
Not merely retarded but monstrously defective, morally speaking. Einstein, while saving jewish children from the Nazis via Switzerland, left his own literally retarded son there, while the mother worried constantly that the nazis would invade and their first targets were those they considered unfit, exactly like Einstein's child. Being jewish of course would have been two strikes against him. It may not be definitive but it's highly suggestive that he was quite sanguine about that possibility with regard to his own child but was moved to great efforts to spare other people's children from it.
As a general rule I eschew the idea that the people running the world are retarded, even if only for reasons of personal pride. Even more as a practical matter; certainly there are retards in positions of public power and influence and my conclusion is that these people are not running the world. As Vox says, these are people who took the ticket and were promoted far above their natural ability level because they're morally compromised and willing to execute any monstrous plan on command in return for some temporary fame and fortune.
It would read very differently if Dora's script was written by Vox...
"Ola, Amigos. Today we're going to talk about Sigmas...
A Sigma is...
The outsider who doesn't play the social game and manage to win at it anyhow. The Sigma is hated by Alphas because Sigmas are the only men who don't accept or at least acknowledge, however grudgingly, their social dominance. Everyone else is vaguely confused by them. In a social situation, the sigma is the man who stops in briefly to say hello to a few friends accompanied by a tier-one girl that no one has ever seen before. Sigmas like women, but tend to be contemptuous of them. They are usually considered to be strange, but cool. Gammas often like to think they are Sigmas, failing to understand that Sigmas are not social rejects, they are at the top of the social hierarchy despite their refusal to play by its rules."
This Dora thing is a pretty big development in the attack on the term sigma in that it is the first instance of changing the word to apply to both men and women.
I've heard some of my friends kids use Sigma as meaning cool. I've never spoken about the SSH with these friends. It's a thing in the schools to use this word.
My personal opinion is that it is in part deliberate and in part organic that it is being suppressed. The hierarchy threatens the equalitarian consensus, and therefore any hint of hierarchy needs to suppressed. But also people have so bought into the equalitarian consensus, they naturally react against the reassertion of hierarchy.
We live in an age that is trying, and though it was succeeding, in destroying distinctions. But all over the place distinctions are reasserting. This will face a backlash. It's natural.
"What’s your theory about all of this? I don’t have one, I’m still wondering if my observations on the matter are correct or if this is simply a normal and natural part of the etymological process concerning neologisms that successfully pass into the language proper."
Nah you're right, and they're trying to subvert it. Targeting their programming at kids is a tell IMO. I'm not sure why they're so threatened by it though.
The term is given so much discredit, you'd expect them to call it a Stigma Male at this point.
If Vox was a Delta (if a Delta could) this would be motivation to create the definitive work on the SSH so people would stop being incorrect.
In reality, I don’t think it would be anything short of Jordan Peterson attempting to co-opt the SSH in his new book “I am Sigma and you can too” that would reprioritize the book. Even then, …
Just FYI in case anyone was wondering, after behaving like a retard on this entire thread David Martin blocked me after replying to my advice that he stop digging the hole he is in. Classic last word G-man gambit.
The moral of this retarded story is this:
The SSH is reliable and its edges are sharp. This is why the fuzzy logic "I'm a complicated person" shades of grey NPC retards hate it.
I'm pretty sure I was also blocked by him. My "activity" tab says "1 user replied to your note on The Attack on Sigma", but when I clicked to see the reply, it just brings me here to the top of the comments.
Was it for the John Maxwell quote?
If so, this is a fine display of Flounce(TM) and LastWord(TM)..
It makes me think Green Wing's Alan Statham and his "coat sweep". Classic Gamma.
If you search him in your substack dashboard it will tell you if he's blocked you.
I asked a student (Gen Alpha, regular kid but in tune with some of the social dynamics) if he thought our campus had any Alphas and/or Sigmas.
"Yeah. The closest to Alpha is probably F."
"Why is F. Alpha?"
"Well, he can get people to do stuff. Girls like him too."
"Do you think there is a Sigma?"
"yeah, it's probably M."
"What is a SIgma?"
"You know, like nonchalant. M. is nonchalant but he's still cool."
So some of the terms are filtering down in some places anyway.
"What’s your theory about all of this?"
The word became popular among children and children redefined the word. This happens all the time with various phrases. Men Going Their Own Way was originally from an essay, before other men liked the label and redefined it to mean what they wanted. Based has also experienced the same redefinitions. I'd chalk this up to most people being idiots and finding the word useful to be the new "cool".
Adults were repeatedly redefining the word, and also the term Gamma, long before any children were adopting it.
Nor are you seeing four thousand different definitions of "based" being offered, much less by the likes of Hasbro.
Those are good points. But maybe you're just too smart for this one, Vox. I'll coin a new term to explain it, called the Ligma effect. When a precisely defined term reaches the unwashed masses, such as Schordinger's Cat which you mentioned in the past, it becomes overly simplified either intentionally or unintentionally.
The people using Sigma now are the sort of people who don't really care about nuance. But they really care about making jokes about their balls. Which is why they took Sigma and invented Ligma.
The girls who wrote Sigma Boy couldn't give a precise definitiom of the SSH rank. The Ligma bros wouldn't care if they knew what it meant. Children just think Sigma means "Cool guy."
Yes, Gammas have been trying to redefine Sigma since you invented it. But the Ligma effect took over when the term became wide spread.
You and several others keep repeating the same stupid, nonsensical points. No one cares what the kiddies and retards think is cool.
The question is why major media publications and corporations have been seeking to publicize alternative explanations, some before the term even went viral.
Also, the girls didn't write Sigma Boy and it's popularity wasn't accidental. Nothing in music gets big without being pushed.
Sorry for the wall of text.
"The question is why major media publications and corporations have been seeking to publicize alternative explanations, some before the term even went viral."
Because those corporations sell toys to kids, and shamelessly regurgitate anything kids like back at them. See the "Hey fellow kids" meme.
"Also, the girls didn't write Sigma Boy and it's popularity wasn't accidental. Nothing in music gets big without being pushed."
1. The song composer was the father of one of the girls.
2. The girls are on a children's tv show in Russia, and it's his job to write songs for kids tv.
3. Your experience with social media is atypical. You, Owen, and others are being censored.
4. There's a documentary on Netflix called the Social Dilemma about how the algorithms normally work. They A/B test whatever hooks peoples attention in order to sell ads.
5. Songs go viral all the time without being "pushed".
6. The Sigma Boy song, written by a professional children tv composer, inspired by what his daughter was interested in, with a platform in Russia, jumped language barriers because Sigma has been viral online for years, the algorithm pushed it to kids, and other companies that exist to monetize trends popular with kids and sell toys used it.
7. It is the nature of the algorithm to find things people watch and spread it. It is the nature of the internet to remix viral memes. Sigma has been viral for years among kids. A remix of it got pushed by the algorithm after it jumped language barriers. Then corporations noticed and cashed in to the point that Dora the explorer, a childrens show to help bilingual children learn English tried and failed to define it perfectly.
This is an unrelated series of events from the typical Gamma redefinitions.
It is both true that the algorithm is biased against you, and that this remix of Sigma went viral without being authorized by anyone. The algorithm pushed it.
Hm. Do you think it virtuous that 'no one' uses the term 'sigma' in its proper context and meaning? I know you are a virtuous man who values virtue, and etymology as well... maybe the No one will come to save the phrase.
To answer your question: they don't like alphas, because the alphas threaten their social manipulation, but the sigmas, if they can be pushed to distance themselves from others more, would also pose less of a threat to their social manipulation. The gamma word, however, threatens their social manipulation schema, so they've largely suppressed what they can of it. They're quite an intelligent force, though their thinking is shallow and insane. Imagine if you were a woman who was told by her whole parasite community her whole life that you had to control the world or else be killed. How can one cure such a disease of the psyche?
No. Not at all. I merely find it curious that of all the neologisms I have coined, and of all the neologisms everyone else has coined over the last 20 years, this one gets treated strangely.
There is no attack on the concept of an attractive, gifted, and somewhat anti-social outsider.
What we’re seeing is the inevitable obfuscation and slopification of a term that attempted to lump together the most prolific gangsters and killers in cinematic fiction (Bond, Shelby, Lector, The Man with No Name), two of the world's most powerful and ruthless leaders, an underage-niece-fucking crack-fiend of a presidential failson, The Duke of Wellington, and a Twin Cities rich kid who admits to being a bit of a libertine before maturing into a well respected, book-binding family man—as if all are driven by the same internal psychology, to the point of having consistent and similar behavioral patterns with each other. Of course it's become a container word.
I'll be turning 31. My pregnant, 20yo gf is also aware of SSH terminology. She made it very clear when it came up in discussion that there were few things that gave her the ick more than her male peers talking about these concepts. For her, and i assume other zoomer women, talk of the SSH is a surefire way to put oneself in a low status position as it instantly communicates several low status qualities; chronically online, Andrew Tate worship, MtM transitionhood, brainrot.
I think mostly what we're seeing is mostly the result of the term being overbroad, and fluffing. I do not think this the result of a targeted attack by The Narrative. I think they have much bigger, more immediate concerns. Like one of the biggest rappers of all time heiling Hitler.
Your explanation doesn't even begin to explain the observed behavior.
And what on Earth do you imagine that your appeal to your girlfriend's feelings have to do with anything?
Well, let me start by acknowledging the most obvious attack on the SSH; the seasons of AMC's The Walking Dead in which The Whisperers were the main enemy faction.
The faction leader, 'Alpha,' being played by a short, fat, bald, female psychopath, 'Beta,' her 7ft tall right hand man, and 'Gamma,' the sickly, frog-looking woman who betrays Alpha and the group to Rick. I'd list the 2009 film, UP, which also features an appearance of an Alpha, Beta, Gamma trio but since it precedes the 2011 SSH post I'm not sure if it can necessarily qualify.
So I concede there have been legitimate attempts, I don't contest that, but I don't think that the term becoming an empty container that's synonymous with brainrot is necessarily part of any clandestine program. I think that even within the Unauthorized crowd there's been a lot of fast and loose thinking about what is and isn't Sigma beyond the original 2011 definition.
Is it an irreparably broken Alpha incapable of fulfilling what might've been his natural role due to early trauma? A former social retard who shaped up during puberty? Mad Max riding off into the sunset? A do-nothing Japanese artist seducing the wives of his friends and patrons? Is Batman the most Sigma to ever Sigma, or is he actually the Most Secret King a week later after Owen decided? Is it a suicidal, opium addicted WW1 vet who keeps a razorblade in his to hat to gouge people's eyes out for insulting his mother? A spy who strangles a woman to death when she reveals the hidden blade in the toe of her pump, after sleeping with her just minutes beforehand?
Couldn't tell ya. If I had to choose an example of a Sigma I might choose Alcibiades. But, I could also confidently choose the character of Alan Shore from the TV shows The Practice and Boston Legal—and allegedly describe the same thing; since the term has been used to cover such a wide range of motives, psychologies, behaviors, and life outcomes. Much wider variance than any of the other ranks by far. Nobody apart from you can say with total certainty. Much of what I've heard discussed across streams and comments sections in regards to the concept over the years has left me with little more than an amorphous impression. Since the term has been proliferating across the internet with all of this accompanying ephemera for a decade before going viral, it just isn't a mystery to me why it's being used in the way that it is. I would argue it was primed for it—even if unintentionally.
So far, whatever you've said is Sigma, is Sigma. You've been the final authority on the matter. The world has simply taken the mantle and started doing likewise. It's like Xers branding everything 'Xtreme'. Taken across all the different instances, it meant jack shit but you ate it up every single time. Give the product some sleek black branding, slap a Sigma symbol on it for those instant rebellious, dangerous, yet prestigious vibes, and the rubes will buy. Including me, when buying the AmpSim I used to record an album for the project associated with this email - while being fully aware of the SSH prior to purchasing.
No hidden hand is required. All you're seeing is a kids show creating their own of a million equally valid but irrelevant definitions to get their share of a marketing bandwagon. They're farming relevancy. They have no fucking clue about the SSH proper, they don't care about any of it, they just know that it's been all over tiktok and made relevant to children through memes.
My girlfriend's observations are only relevant insofar as they're an anecdote of how the next few generations beneath me have recieved and understood the SSH terminology, since that's how it's going to be digested in the final analysis. Which could undermine those trying to implement it as intended within an organization with younger employees.
I think the book is coming too late to reel any of this back in, though I look forward to seeing what ends up in print.
I'm not trying to reel any of it back in. People can do whatever they want with the term. I'm simply preserving the utility of the SSH for those who wish to successfully anticipate the actions of others.
Nothing that anyone else does, says, or redefines will dilute the ability of those who know the actual SSH to utilize it. If anything, all this dilution, purposeful or not, simply gives the few who know the real thing an additional advantage.
They try to silence Vox and distort his understandings but they push retards like Einstein and Nietzsche. I wonder why we brain dump our higher education classes. Remember to homeschool your children because public taught children are actually retarded now.
Not merely retarded but monstrously defective, morally speaking. Einstein, while saving jewish children from the Nazis via Switzerland, left his own literally retarded son there, while the mother worried constantly that the nazis would invade and their first targets were those they considered unfit, exactly like Einstein's child. Being jewish of course would have been two strikes against him. It may not be definitive but it's highly suggestive that he was quite sanguine about that possibility with regard to his own child but was moved to great efforts to spare other people's children from it.
As a general rule I eschew the idea that the people running the world are retarded, even if only for reasons of personal pride. Even more as a practical matter; certainly there are retards in positions of public power and influence and my conclusion is that these people are not running the world. As Vox says, these are people who took the ticket and were promoted far above their natural ability level because they're morally compromised and willing to execute any monstrous plan on command in return for some temporary fame and fortune.
Western society is under attack at it's very pillars and even below them.
It would read very differently if Dora's script was written by Vox...
"Ola, Amigos. Today we're going to talk about Sigmas...
A Sigma is...
The outsider who doesn't play the social game and manage to win at it anyhow. The Sigma is hated by Alphas because Sigmas are the only men who don't accept or at least acknowledge, however grudgingly, their social dominance. Everyone else is vaguely confused by them. In a social situation, the sigma is the man who stops in briefly to say hello to a few friends accompanied by a tier-one girl that no one has ever seen before. Sigmas like women, but tend to be contemptuous of them. They are usually considered to be strange, but cool. Gammas often like to think they are Sigmas, failing to understand that Sigmas are not social rejects, they are at the top of the social hierarchy despite their refusal to play by its rules."
Modern women and those who simp for them are terrified of James Bond, who they all know they cannot resist.
This Dora thing is a pretty big development in the attack on the term sigma in that it is the first instance of changing the word to apply to both men and women.
Loved the song ♥️. Can we have it in the youtube channel?
Once it gets mastered and released. This is just a pre-release version. Not necessarily done with it yet.
I've heard some of my friends kids use Sigma as meaning cool. I've never spoken about the SSH with these friends. It's a thing in the schools to use this word.
My personal opinion is that it is in part deliberate and in part organic that it is being suppressed. The hierarchy threatens the equalitarian consensus, and therefore any hint of hierarchy needs to suppressed. But also people have so bought into the equalitarian consensus, they naturally react against the reassertion of hierarchy.
We live in an age that is trying, and though it was succeeding, in destroying distinctions. But all over the place distinctions are reasserting. This will face a backlash. It's natural.
The word has become ubiquitous among youngsters even in my small town
"What’s your theory about all of this? I don’t have one, I’m still wondering if my observations on the matter are correct or if this is simply a normal and natural part of the etymological process concerning neologisms that successfully pass into the language proper."
Nah you're right, and they're trying to subvert it. Targeting their programming at kids is a tell IMO. I'm not sure why they're so threatened by it though.
(EDIT) I think this commenter is onto why https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-attack-on-sigma/comment/115846477