Has any of you heard of that Royal Institute whatsits? That funny picture of Arroyo and Quiboloy in crowns and purple garbs? That something that looks and sounds and is most likely some type of scam? I think I might’ve come across something similar.

I’ve been in the rabbit hole of this person who claims to be a royalty of Calabarzon and the Sultanate of Maguindanao. They have photos posted on their Facebook page posing with alleged world leaders—some non-existent Emirati sheikh, former president of Kosovo, etc. There’s some of them signing ‘treaties’ between the organization they founded and whatever crap.

There’s videos of them being interviewed on foreign (often based in South Asia) news programs promoting this organization, some humanitarian stuff, the like—all saying some similarly garbled mess of humanity this, humanity that. No real substance. They have videos of going to foreign speaking events, ‘summits’, giving speeches and shit—there’s videos of other people participating in these things, claiming to have been invited by them to these events. They’re on award-giving ceremonies, the kind that sound and look like the made-up ones you’d see on those sham healing coffees whose ads get spammed on radio.

It’s kind of wild. They’re not the only person in these videos, and they’re often in a room full of people, but everyone acts like everything’s normal that you kind of start doubting yourself and maybe it’s not a scam after all. But a Filipino meeting world leaders? And it got no local airwaves? Man, even Filipino hairstylists of random American celebrities get on the news.