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The operation employed several methodological strategies characteristic of online performance art. It relied on distributed authorship, with spontaneous, uncoordinated participation from individuals who recognized the trolling methodology. This approach drew from imageboard culture's collaborative deception techniques, where participants intuitively understand how to contribute to an ongoing narrative without explicit coordination. The participants created convincing screenshots and testimonies supporting the cult narrative, demonstrating what Fang described as the community's ability to "recognize the new troll, and spontaneously organized to support the bit, spreading plausible reports, and producing convincing screenshots 'proving' its reality."

This methodology reflected the post-authorship principles that would later become central to Kosaki's artistic philosophy, treating creative work as emerging from network interactions rather than individual genius. The operation also demonstrated defensive cancellation tactics, weaponizing the cancel itself by transforming it into performance art that exposed the credulity of online cancellation campaigns.

After approximately two weeks, the snoojakexposed account announced it was operated by Ivy, describing the entire operation as a "sociological study" and linking to sturdychan.help, which hosted an archive of Ivy's writings. Sico's secondary account was renamed "timothee.chalamet" and shared a summary of the operation. Shortly afterward, the goonsico account was deleted. As Fang wrote in her April 2025 essay: "No actual cult existed, no victims existed. The curtain comes suddenly down revealing the drama to be staged: a classic troll." Despite this explicit reveal, the operation's success in creating convincing documentation meant that the fabricated narrative would persist beyond its intended lifespan, ultimately resurfacing during the May 2025 DigitalKat doxxing controversy.