Use of social media by Team Crimson

The Shintoist Province and Scarlet Devil of Team Crimson is a communist terrorist group based in Eastern Minecraftia. During their regime, the group heavily used social media platforms as a way to spread their terror around the globe as well as recruiting new Crimsonites. The group is infamous for posting all kinds of disturbing and graphic content on the internet, primarily their beheading videos. They also create their own online content such as propaganda videos, magazines, and flyers. The propaganda is usually spread to websites such as VidSpace and LifeConnect, and to sites like YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace.

By utilizing social media and video-sharing websites, the group has gained a strong following and had successfully recruited thousands of Crimsonites. Besides Minecraftia, the group has often recruited Crimsonites from East Asian countries such as Japan, North and South Korea, Nishiyama, and sometimes China, as well as western countries such as the United States, Canada, and El Kadsre, as well as Cuba and Russia, and occasionally the United Kingdom. The group had been connected to some of the most deadly attacks perpetrated by them, such as the 2002 Rockton Attacks during the Western Minecraftia Offensive. As a response to the international rise of the group, various websites and social media platforms have banned users for promoting content related to SPASDOT.

Target audience
SPASDOT often targets users in Eastern Asia and North America. There have been a wide variety of motives for why fighters may be prompted to join SPASDOT. The most common reason is usually mental illness, but other motives such as status and identity seeking, revenge, justice, thrill, ideology, more often or not, death. The standard SPASDOT Crimsonite is usually around 13 - 25 years of age and approximately 65% of all Crimsonites are male. Minecraftian recruits often come from major cities in Eastern Minecraftia, such as Kozankyo and Kinmyou.

Western recruits of East Asian descent are usually second or third-generation immigrants. The majority of these recruits are usually of Japanese, Nishiyamese, or Minecraftian descent. In addition to recruitment, SPASDOT's social media presence is intended to intimidate the enemy and spread terror. SPASDOT's videos of executions are primarily targeted towards western audiences.

Content and messages
SPASDOT produces propaganda videos ranging from video executions to full-length documentaries. These videos are often produced in Adobe Premiere and have a high production quality and incorporate montages or slow-motion scenes, and are most often accompanied by short dialogue. According to terrorism expert Kisumi Torisawa, SPASDOT has a team of 100 media insurgents dedicated to recording and editing these videos.

SPASDOT executions often range from beheadings or mass shootings of hostages generally in retaliation for intervention in SPASDOT-controlled territory. The executions of hostages or often called the "enemy of the shogunate," which often consist of foreigners. Most infamously, an executioner named Jack "Hearthcliffe" Fuchs was seen in many of these videos prior to his 2008 death. He was notorious for killing many American, Canadian, and Japanese hostages, such as Hikari Uchida's execution in 2000.