It was a term coined by Hunter S. Thompson, or by someone describing what he is doing.
It is a form of journalism where you accept a degree of subjectivity in your writing voice, as in writing in the first person, but then you actually go to where the action is. No standing in front of things on camera, no talking head from your bedroom, which is what 90% of popular accounts on here simply are, which I find cheap and mostly worthless. Also floods the blockchain with unsearchable junk. Writing words llke I do is 10x more valuable to the blockchain pound for pound.
So as a gonzo investigator, I have put myself at risk investigating for instance the nature of the national rainbow gathering. I am investigating steemit by writing on here and seeing what happens, or bitshares by trading on the platform. I am investigating several other accounts on here that seem to be completely fake so I have attempted to directly ask those accounts what is up, and they have responded in fake manipulative ways.
I have investigated how the internet works by simply having a career in IT and holding 20 or so different jobs in the industry, which I primarily did for survival, but it turns out I learned in the process how a lot of things work and the nature of the modern corporation.
Anything you actually yourself do and spend your time on, you could later say you are gonzo investigating, but the more danger and the further out there you go, the better.
Good question. Basically I have also proven in my blog that a. steemit may be run by fbi/cia and is filled with very rich disinformation accounts i.e. @v4vapid b. the national rainbow gathering is an fbi run operation and they distribute date rape drugs to people saying its LSD and bait them into crimes c. all american credit card transactions through the major company NCR are processed in Israel d. a major internet security firm in silicon valley is lying about all of their security procedures
Other things I investigate but not gonzo style, that I simply researched in detail, is the devani tragedy in Arizona and the story of Lori Handrahan, both of which indicate that there is a high level infiltration of the military and child protective services that traffics vulnerable children, and that if you are rich enough like Michael Waxman you are above the law.
I did not go anywhere to investigate this, but I wish I could. I would go investigate every single person in devanis story and write a book about it if I could, that would be maybe my first pick of things to do in life, but I would need a large advance and a publisher that was not in any way connected to deep state actors.
Until then I can just archive and repost websites, but in the case of Lori's story and Devani's story, the openly available information is simply huge and all points in the same direction. Throw epstein's island and the laura silsby events onto this, and it is obviously the most disturbing thing in the world, something that as of this time precludes me from feeling patriotic about the united states, at all, whatsoever.
The land of the free and the home of the brave does not in any way imply that rich people get to buy child sex slaves, which is the status quo, which I have exhaustively proven, and with upvotes of around $20.
That's my level of commitment, everything else I see on steemit appears like it could be a bot, a joke, or half assed bullshit. And no one has even noticed, maybe like 5 people.