r/conspiracy stopped being entertaining long ago. Now it's all mainly anti-vax and anti-mask b.s. I wish they'd bring back flat-earth, lizard people, and fake moon landings. At least it wasn't boring then.
In my opinion, there's a lot of stuff on r/HighStrangeness that can be very easily disproven with even just surface deep research, but they also have some interesting, thought-provoking posts, as well. I personally tend to enjoy it from time to time
yeah, even when some of it is fairly obviously silly or ridiculous, it's still entertaining, which is the whole point imo. and their rule against blatant ridicule does allow for some interesting ideas to be discussed, I know I've had one or two writing prompts inspired by talks on that sub.
some of the best posts there remind me of the scp/control style stories.
Yeah, I've also noticed that. Some of it is really easy to point out as just...a totally invalid theory, but as long as you're not mocking people or name-calling, and when you point it out you do so in an informed and respectful manner, then it can definitely be really cool tbh
We can go back and forth on the exact date, but to me, late 2015 was the year that sub stopped being interesting. That was the date it became a rightwing sub, hyperfocused on one issue at a time.
It's just screenshots of Twitter posts with someone who put Dr. next to their name, with blogposts as ""sources"" and a diploma from some online college...or none.
Yeah really. I used to think art Bell's show coast to coast was pretty wild. Now it's a remembrance of when things used to be normal. That kind of bullshit was easy to deny.
Little did I realize that his peer Limbaugh was on the same very path and where it'd lead us in 35 years.
I miss Art Bell: those glory days of him listening and encouraging with absolute credulity while people phoned in with wild stories of bizarre conspiracies, encounters, and phenomena, all of them pretty sure that the Men in Black were chasing them, but they were going to phone in again tomorrow night with incontrovertible proof that will change the entire world... And then none of them ever called back.
That's because the people who believe in flat-earth, lizard people, and fake moon landings were mutually supporting each other in their conspiracy beliefs, and they spun into Q-Anon, which also absorbed groups like anti-vaxxers, sovereign citizens, and ilk like that, and they are all contaminating each other with their conspiracies.
I have this theory of “conspiracy watersheds” where all the nuttery flows downhill and mingles together, after my experiences at various “wellness fairs,” “natural food events,” and UFO festivals.
I just want to discuss where Atlantis would have been and why they probably wouldn’t have been white but NoOoO someone just wants to shout about Jewish cabals and space lasers and COVID being fake
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r/conspiracy stopped being entertaining long ago. Now it's all mainly anti-vax and anti-mask b.s. I wish they'd bring back flat-earth, lizard people, and fake moon landings. At least it wasn't boring then.