IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON .JPG (aka the complete ESCHATRON 9000 series)

Well, the Eschatron 9000 series is making its rounds on Tumblr. Truthfully, I had not seen the full series before about 2 weeks ago. Like many others, I was simply captivated by the charm, smugness, and beauty of the model therein. Now, I do not come bearing much new information. I still don't have really any information on the model, and, I agree with tumblr user canmon that trying to research her feels like cyberstalking a random woman. 

But, for those of you who might be curious, I will compile some Eschatron 9000 info here!

Firstly, Tumblr user a-third-attempt names Crystal Thierry and reports that she had been known as page73girl for a now defunct website called biggestletdown.com. Now, I have not yet looked into this thread. Yes, the website is down, and no, I could not find it archived on the wayback machine. A forum site called "The Skeptical Community" corroborates in 2013 that she is known as page73girl for thebiggestletdown.com. They describe her as the mascot of that site. 

I did end up finding some apparently professionally taken soft-pornish photos of Crystal on a half broken website from roughly 2003. I would not be surprised is Crystal is hard to find info on because the nature of her modeling was more explicit, and so just doesn't sit on the surface web- plus, that type of stuff is even less likely to be publicly archived compared to SFW content from the early 00's. Obviously, the Immanentize the Eschaton series is quite suggestive itself, so this would make sense. 

Update: She was definitely, primarily a soft-porn model. I'm not linking anything that will lead to more of her suggestive photographs because she took them 20 years ago and, at this point, I don't know if she still wants them floating around the internet or not. I just personally don't feel right doing that. But, either way, its sort of besides the point. I just want to know where Immanentize the Eschaton first appeared. I wouldn't be surprised if it was thebiggestletdown.com, since the lighting and image quality in Immanentize the Eschaton is similar to most of the suggestive photos that, I'm currently guessing, all originate from biggestletdown. Plus, the photoshop is pretty damn good (the floating hairs in front of, for example, the tornado picture is downright impressive. I genuinely don't know how they captured those without a green screen).

Tumblr user flurgerbla delves in to the phrase "immanentize the eschaton," saying it is first used in the Principa Discordia in 1962. However, wikipedia attributes the origins of the phrase to The New Science of Politics, a 1952 book by Eric Voegelin. This book, also according to wiki, is about "political representation and revolutionary political tendencies... as modern Gnosticism." (indeed and intriguing concept). 

Flurgerbla also lists some other uses of the phrase:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”

The phrase itself describes bringing about a utopian, afterlife-like, state of earth, to "create heaven on earth." 

Tineye finds the first upload of these photos to be from April 2008, to an unfortunately broken website that seemed to have been titled "12 Steps to World Domination." There does appear to be 12 main photos in the series. I say "main" to mean "the ones most commonly posted together," although there seems to be one additional photo. It's unclear whether or not it's supposed to go with the main series. Also, Tineye finds that the file name was / is "immanentize the eschaton.jpg," so I would consider that the official name of this series (until we find an earlier upload).

On Tineye the first functioning link leads to the classic (and most well known) of the photos uploaded to this personal blog, joeydevilla.com, entry "As Long as I'm Writing About 'End Times' Humor..." notably dated to 2008, although tineye found it in March 2010. That blog entry in turn links to an earlier entry, "bikini Girls of the Apocalypse," dated to 2006. This makes me think of how flurgerbla says in their post "random person in 2005ish creates surreal visual novel." They might have been exactly spot on with 2005.

Update: User Smythe on this page of the somethingawful forums also associates Crystal's modeling with "circa 2005." 

These entries are not particularly interesting, although a user by the name of Daan in the 2006 entry mentions Voegelin in the comments! 

However, the illustrious tumblr user canmon did find an archived version of the first site on Tineye. This website is truly fascinating, and I suggest you check it out. Find it here. (I will probably update this section of my blog entry after I examine this website more closely). The classic image also appears in a December 2007 archive of the site. And, you will notice, the whole site is rife with Discordian nonsense. I can see why the photo and phrase is associated with discordianism! 

If you want, you can also read through some old something awful forums talking about the model. This is one of the sources canmom used to identify the model's name. On the forums you can find a YT video linked that supposedly shows Crystal talking (and a comment in her name under the video claiming she's putting on an accent). Canmom also used the Illuminatis! Trilogy Fanwiki to check for the model's name. 

I would have loved to find a Crystal Thierry career profile or more information on thebiggestletdown, but alas, I have not yet found such a thing. Canmom says 

"I can find a MySpace page with migrated images from someone of that name who does look similar"

and the something awful forums I linked mention finding some other pics of Crystal on an Eastern European image board, but I couldn't find either of these things. 

The other thing I will note about the something awful forums is that a few of the users seemed to recognize Crystal Really quickly and Really enthusiastically, making me feel like there's an essential piece of the lore I'm just missing out on. 

Anyway, I will continue to update this post as I find more information. I do not want to be cyberstalking this woman, so I'm keeping my objectives to finding the original source of the image (if it still exists), and perhaps finding information on the Career Model Crystal Thierry, if such a profile / portfolio exists. I'm going to go ahead and keep looking into page73girl, biggestletdown.com, joeydevilla, and the archived Discordian site, since these seem to be the best threads I have to finding the origin.

Without further ado, here is Immanentize the Eschaton or the complete Eschatron 9000 series, as it is known on Tumblr. 

Main Photos:

^This is the photo I've been referring to as the "classic" one.

Underneath "Warning" it says "Do not operate the Eschatron 9000 unless you're really, really serious about destroying the world."

(also, if anyone has any theories about the machine itself, please let me know! Is it photoshopped? Is it a prop for something? I don't know)

^flying spaghetti monster moment

End of the main 12! Supplementary photo below!

Also, there's this song that exists on band camp that seems to directly reference the first photo. Check it out if you want: https://larabartel.bandcamp.com/album/eschatron-9000

UPDATE: There does appear to be only 12 photos in Immanentize the Eschaton. The "supplementary" photo is part of a separate series dubbed The Moon Series by secondbeatsong. They found the rest of this series in this internet archive photo bucket. The files originate from August 2005, around the same time that Immanentize the Eschaton seems to originate. I also noticed that in the link captured by the wayback machine, Crystal seems to be referred to as "video game girl" (which aligns with the subject matter of some of her other photos). This moniker would explain why the boys of somethingawful recognized her so passionately.

Secondbeatsong also believes the webpage thetoiletonline.com to be the source of the photos. I still wonder what became of the biggestletdown.com, but this does appear to be a massive library of Crystal Thierry photos. The gallery is titled "page73 girl," and you will notice that many of the photos are unusual.