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  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    I kinda miss the old crank websites like time cube, there was one called something like truth.org I remember too. There was a youtube channel that styled itself more or less lole extra credits but Thoth (the egyptian god guy) would occasionally tell you about how the moon rings like a bell and Lemuria invented the christ consciousness grid in the same tone as extra credits guys talking about the pump in London that caused everyone to have enough diarrhea they died. My fav section of the bookstore is “controversial knowledge.” As a kid I liked it the same way I liked D&D sourcebooks and Vampire the Masquerade or Delta Green, I liked different cosmologies and radically different views on the world

    As an adult, I found out a lot of that David Icke derived stuff was just old school antisemetism. And, of course, for a significant number of people this isnt a fun game or something for voyeuristic freaks like me to peer over - these are their sincere beliefs in how the world works and as time went on more and more of the people and blogs I lurked just turned out to be in the throws of intense psychosis and it stopped feeling as fun. Although I did find a guy online who claimed infinity isnt real and addition is wrong (1+1 should = 11, which is a joke in grade school but I guess it pinged somewhere off him to be the root of how math should work)

    • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.mlOP
      6·
      2 days ago

      Gods, you just unlocked a memory of me at like 10 years old watching a few spirit science videos because Youtube recommended them to me and I was big into science youtube ala Kurzsgesagt at the time. I don’t think I ever believed any of it even then at least, but kinda crazy to think of how it could have impacted me if I went further down that hole. I’ve always been the type to have a like morbid fascination with this stuff though, like you sorta describe.

      In hindsight I also think the gender essentialism of basically all these conspiracy theories is kinda ridiculous too. Like even ignoring transness, how anyone can take “men and women used to literally be two different alien species” seriously is beyond me.