• SkaveRat
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    216 months ago

    Dan Olson did a great video on flat earthers. With a mid-video twist on why you don’t see as much of them anymore as you used to

    In Search Of A Flat Earth

    Production wise it’s one of my favorite video essays

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      66 months ago

      What happened? Did a bunch of them fall off the edge?

      • SkaveRat
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        6 months ago

        I wish.

        In case people don’t want to get spoiled:

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        The essay theorizes that the people flocked to qanon

        • norbert
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          96 months ago

          I feel like like the QAnon stuff swept up huge swaths of otherwise unconnected conspiracy theorists. Flat earth, chemtrails, aliens, all the “classic” conspiracies just kind of got co-opted and folded into the big crazy tent of insane people.

          • SkaveRat
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            36 months ago

            yup. that’s exactly what the second half of the video is about

            • norbert
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              56 months ago

              It’s kind of a bummer. Aliens and Bilderbergers and Government Mind Control used to be fun little thought experiments to smoke a J and play what-if with your friends; but you can’t even bring that stuff up anymore without someone thinking you’re serious and bringing up adrenochrome or (((Globalists)))

              This timeline sucks, I want to go back to when everyone knew the X-Files was a TV show and fascists kept their brainrot on AM radio.