I hate that whenever I check in to see how flat earthers are doing they’ve somehow grown in size
Like… Why
They have to do all this shoddy crackhead troll math to prove how something like timezones can work on a flat earth but then it completely invalidates the shoddy crackhead troll math they did to prove how gravity works on a flat earth.
It allows stupid people to have a community where they feel smart, and that they know something most people don’t.
I bet that’s not something they are used to
At the end of the day people love being in the “in” group that knows everyone else is blinded by falsehoods and they’re above it all and “in the know.” Religion has been that for a lot of people in the past as well as in current times, pretty much every high control group is developed due to this mentality as well.
why
Because it’s a business, there are people out there profiting from it and so it keeps growing
That’s the usual explanation that’s given, but how do they even profit? What do you sell to those idiots? (I suppose that since they’re idiots you can just sell them pretty much anything)
Probably the YouTube views alone make for a pretty penny.
I kind of feel like flat earth thing started out with people trolling, but a number of morons believed it to be true and now it’s just trolls leading the idiots.
That’s actually exactly how it started. 4chan started memeing about flat earth, pretending to take it seriously. But then the idiots found it, and Poe’s Law fused with the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
The idiots couldn’t tell it was sarcasm, and thought it was serious. Simultaneously, they thought they had stumbled into a huge conspiracy. So then the flat earth stuff took on a life of its own, and the conspiracy became self-sustaining as idiots began a positive feedback loop.
At that point, 4chan took a step back to watch, and just sort of let go of the reins. Because at a certain point, reality is more funny than any memes you can come up with, and this was the peak of entertainment for the people who started it as a joke. Seeing their joke take on a life of its own was better than anything they could have imagined.
It’s like the first kid who came up with the “Marilyn Manson had ribs removed so he could suck his own dick” lie, hearing it from someone from another school for the first time; The excitement would be unparalleled, as they realize just how large the joke has become.
Damn 4chan existed in 1956 when the Flat Earth Society was started? Is there anything 4channers won’t try to take credit for?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs#Flat_Earth_Society
I mean, it could still have been responsible for popularising it.
Sure as well as every other social media platform since the inception of the internet. I remember seeing Flat Earth insanity on myspace, digg, and even fark. But no one runs around and claims flat earth was popularized on those sites. What they’re saying above isn’t based in reality unless you’re willing to say the same about every single social media platform.
Yup. Dah wha happen right tare.
Sure, idjuts have always existed, but now they can meet and be idjuts 2gedder onnuh innuh net.
We yoose to say, “shuttup idjit, go back in ur howse and be dum.”
Now they go innuh house and be dum wit millions all dum 2gedder, 4ever, on 4uhms.
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Ack chuhlee, it’s on 😐book payjuhz and groops.
Edit 2: I miss spelled werds.
I clicked on the hyperlink with great anticipation to find a link to the Wikipedia page for Poe’s Law, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the history of the flat earth conspiracy, or an article about it. Didn’t expect what I got but I can’t say I was disappointed.
I’m in the same bot and I couldn’t have put it better!
I love this story and I want to believe it’s true, but I can’t. It’s just not plausible that an ancient religious myth like the flat earth wasn’t already a conspiracy theory before 4chan.
Isn’t that how Qanon happened too?
People would post ridiculous theories and see if anyone believed it. Sadly they did.
Haha, I kind of figured it started at 4chan. I think the whole “microwaving phones” originated from there as well.
Hell didn’t 4chan start the whole Covid vaccine are putting trackers in and such
Like the birds aren’t real dude, 😎
The Plandemic™️ was to force everyone inside for a few weeks, so the government could change the batteries in all the birds
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Yeah, the model is actually remarkably solid. I’m convinced it started as a thought experiment, if the Earth was flat, how could you explain as much evidence to the contrary as possible without breaking the laws of physics? That’s why there’s absolutely no good reason why this conspiracy would be mainained by thousands of people for centuries without any gain - because that was not the point.
Flat earthers ain’t never touched a globe out here like “yeah, Greenland is about the same size as the continental united states and most of northern Africa”
Everything of flat earth theories breaks down as soon as the southern hemisphere gets involved.
I’m willing to bet the reason it’s like that is because there isn’t a single flat earther outside the same map
That community doesn’t have any posts, what map is it?
Huh weird. It’s these maps. Random stuff that always results in the same distributions as if something underlying was driving the scores.
Mooooom, can I move to Canada?
Regardless of what the propaganda maps say it really isn’t that much better in Canada.
If the earth is flat, then where do the CHUDs and Morlocks live huh? Chessmate!
They accidentally a hemisphere.
They on purposed a hemisphere.
Depending on how fast you can swim, it might even be faster to go through Mexico and up.
