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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Women's fake pockets are a marketing ploy.
Women's pants have fake pockets to make us buy purses.

Knightskye02 , Laura Report

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239points

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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 3 years ago

YES. i have soooo many jeans, but their front pockets are either fake or have the size of a quarter full of room. smh

59points

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The US will never publicly fund college because no one would enlist in the military.
The US will never add colleges to public funding like they did high schools because then the enlistment rate for the military would plummet.

Green_Ari , The U.S. Army Report

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198points

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Jacob Allen 3 years ago

Definitely. Same goes for universal healthcare, the US government's first priority is the military; the people who elected them come second. They could use 50% of the military's budget to be the first country to completely eradicate homelessness and drastically improve quality of life for all of us AND still have the almost powerful military in the world but no.

85points

Conspiracies are covered under a veil of unknown, much like these theories they represent. They appear from seemingly out of nowhere, start surfing around on social media, some become a part of urban legends, while others disappear until new speculations emerge.

To find out how exactly conspiracies work and what goes on inside conspiracy theorists' minds, Bored Panda reached out to Thomas Roulet, a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory and the Deputy Director of the MBA Programme at the University of Cambridge. Thomas is also the author of the 2020 book “The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations” published by Stanford University Press.

When asked a rather broad question on why people believe conspiracies, Thomas said that there are two main mechanisms in charge: “a sensemaking one and an identity one.”

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers All my devices listen in on me. The other day I was arguing with my Dad about some chicken I thought had gone off (it was frozen for about a month so we weren't too sure but my Dad was insistent that it was still edible). Dad decided to ask Google, and low and behold the related searches even from the first letter were: "Is chicken edible after being frozen for a month" and "How long can you freeze chicken before it goes off".

Also, my Mum and I use this tactic where if we need to ring up a company about something and it puts us in a queue, we swear at it. It then puts you on a priority list and you don't have to wait as long. Kinda sketchy on the company's behalf.

anime_lover_420 , kaboompics Report

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181points

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Darko Pešić 3 years ago

I do legit belive in this, for example i was talking with a gf about matracess, and look at that, add on facebook suddenly become an ad for matracess... And no, i didnt google it

76points

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers That the government uses social media to manipulate, and measure public sentiment and opinion.

Toke_A_sarus_Rex , terimakasih0 Report

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171points

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Truth Monster 3 years ago

This is true for some countries. Britain, Australia, Scotland have prosecuted people with the wrong opinions on social media. China is a few steps ahead, using social media to "ferret" out nonconformists and their friends. They also track Uighurs this way.

31points

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The 10-year challenge was used to collect facial recognition data.
The 10-year challenge all over social media is actually a way to record and gather more facial recognition data.

Emdizzle22 , JESHOOTS Report

Final score:

144points

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Bill Cipher 3 years ago

That's why I refuse to show my face unless I'm in cosplay on the internet somehow I'm to shy to put my cosplay on and take a couple photos

28points

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“In an increasingly complex world, people want to make sense of their situation and their social environment. Seemingly unconnected events or clues are constructed as a coherent whole in the most successful conspiracy theories.”

Thomas added that “in a world where social connections are numerous but often meaningless (for example, on social media), people want to feel part of a crowd and a group—there is a need to find a tribe and identify with it.” As a result, “Conspiracy theorists have a strong sense of group identity, which made them attractive to those who might feel marginalized or excluded in society,” he explained.

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe that the government probably makes some conspiracy theories to try to make questioning the government seem somewhat crazy.

Final score:

136points

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Scyth 3 years ago

Definitely. Which is why whenever anyone questions the government they get branded as conspiracy theorists, placing them at the same level as flat earth believers or something else ridiculous.

40points

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Area 51 is not a place for secret government/military testing with aliens and stuff, instead Area 51 is a scapegoat while shady behind the scenes stuff is going on at another military base that the general public doesnt know about.

I mean if you were really going to do something in secrecy, would you do it in the place where everyone thinks it is? Hell no! I dont have any specific evidence to back this up but it makes sense right?

_coyotes_ , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

131points

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Scagsy 3 years ago

This makes sense. The only reason Area 51 came to light was because of the Roswell Incident. Otherwise it would have maintained it's secrecy. Area 51 is so notorious now that there is no way the military would have anything covert going on there other than normal military operations.

6points

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Banks and landowners conspire to manipulate urban land prices. Turn an area into a ghetto by marking it as a high-risk loan proposition, denying loans in the area. Property values plummet on a down-town area because no one can sell, because no one can get a loan. Once things are down enough, you can buy up prime location land at pennies on the dollar then re-develop it into being worth the 'real' market value of such a central location, plus what you invested in the actual development.

00zau , pedro layant Report

Final score:

105points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

How is that a conspiracy theory when it's already been proven??

73points

According to Thomas, “People buy into conspiracy theories are in all parts of society—from the most to the least educated, from the richest to the poorest,” so no particular group of people is safe from believing in conspiracies. It’s because “everybody needs to be able to make sense of their reality, and everybody needs to feel part of a group and socially integrated.”

#10

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I used to tell people that I believed the government listened to or phone calls. Years later some guy named Snowden proved me right.

Jim3001 , Didgeman Report

Final score:

95points

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Deal _Anneal 3 years ago

Yh i watched that show v interesting stuff in there

3points

FrolicTheCat_YT , Wikimedia Commons Report

#11

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe the US military went to Afghanistan in order to seize control of the Poppy fields and instead of destroying them they manufactured black tar and other forms of heroin and sent it back to the states. I have several friends that were marines in Afghanistan and they've confirmed these suspicions. The drugs got worse after being in Afghanistan not better or more contained. The USA military is the biggest cartel in the world

Final score:

85points

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Scyth 3 years ago

That's a conspiracy theory? It is well known.

32points

#12

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The lines on the detergent caps are higher than they should be so you use more detergent for each load of laundry. It's so easy for them to get away with it

Shoemagoo52 , Mr. Brian Report

Final score:

79points

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Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 years ago

It's not a conspiracy theory. The recommended dosage for detergent is more than enough to be effective. There are a lot of factors that can affect the performance, so they can't recommend a lower amount because if it didn't work, everyone would think it was crap. They need something that covers everyone. The added advantage is that people tend to use more. The sensible thing to do is to adjust your dosage to factor in the soilage, water quality and your machines performance. Most people can drop the dosage quite considerably.

10points

Many new conspiracies have emerged in times of the worldwide pandemic, and Thomas says that it has to do with the fact that the current situation adds complexity and changes on a daily basis.

“It is hard to comprehend, to understand, and it's brutal and sudden. All of this makes people want to make sense of an incredible, unprecedented, and difficult-to-accept situation. Such a unique situation calls for an out-of-the-ordinary explanation—and lends itself well to conspiracy theories.”

Moreover, “People are looking for information, and they are looking for culprits to explain the terrible situations they have to experience. They want to believe this can be pinned on a specific actor,” he concluded.

#13

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Priceless artwork and historical documents are replicas.
I’ve always speculated that a lot of priceless artwork and historical documents are actually replicas or copies.

Obviously a painting by a world-famous artist using a very specific technique would be very hard to fake, and I don’t think that every art scholar in the world is paid off in some grand conspiracy. Rather, I just think that either the national treasures never left their vaults or that some national treasures actually were lost to history but they were copied.

LeatherAir , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

76points

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chi-wei shen 3 years ago

A few museums actually place their most expensive items in a secure vault and only display replicas to the public. However, according to all information available, the original Mona Lisa is on display.

69points

#14

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Modern drug prohibition is a "for profit" endeavor perpetrated by governments for the benefit of pharmaceutical corporations, prison industrials, and warlords.

baronvonbee , Clean Wal-Mart Report

Final score:

75points

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Max 3 years ago

No, that's... pretty much accurate. US conspiracy theories tend to be either straight up 'they're putting brain slug spores in the vaccines to mind-control us' or 'stuff the government admitted to doing, but quietly'.

16points

#15

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The countdown timers on ads for games or streaming services are actually longer than seconds. Seems too long sometimes.

danielle8088 , John Johnston Report

Final score:

70points

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Thijs L. 3 years ago

I think they just count the 0 and delay the countdown itself as well

27points

#16

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Disney only named a movie Frozen to distract from 'frozen head' Google searches.
That Disney made a movie named Frozen so that when people google things like 'frozen' and 'Disney' together, info about the movie comes up instead of stories about Walt Disney’s frozen head.

g_stokes12 , disney Report

Final score:

64points

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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 3 years ago

wait...what??

50points

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#17

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The Hawaii nuke false alarm was a test.
The Hawaii nuke false alarm last year was actually the US government testing to see how the general population would react if an actual nuclear war broke out.

Final score:

64points

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Annette_ 3 years ago

When it took place? I never haered about this but i'm form Europe

36points

RogerPackinrod , Wikimedia Commons Report

#18

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers 23 and Me is run by the government to collect your DNA and database it for later.

Final score:

63points

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Truth Monster 3 years ago

How is this a conspiracy? They are already using the DNA collected to solve 'cold case' murders. I don't know about this company specifically, but all it would take is a warrant for them to have to share their data.

51points

#19

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers UFO sightings are just humans from the future on a time-traveling safari.
All the UFO sightings throughout history are just humans from the future on a time-traveling safari meant to observe how we were in the past. They are supposed to keep out of sight, but thanks to human/mechanical errors, there have been hiccups with their cloaking which have resulted in being seen. That's why there have always been so many reports of them throughout history, but there has never been an attack. It's just us.

Also the reason why we don't see as many examples of UFOs now even though pretty much everyone has a camera is because people are not that interested in this time period since we already document aspects of human life all the time.

-eDgAR- , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

61points

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Jimi Laoshi 3 years ago

This sounds like a 3.00 AM thought

93points

#20

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers When Ted Kaczynski (the unabomber) was at Harvard, he participated in a brutal psychological experiment led by professor Henry Murray. The experiment lasted for three years and by many accounts they seemed to have an extreme impact on Kaczynski’s psyche. I think this experiment was part of the CIA’s MKUltra project and destabilized Kaczynski enough to where he eventually went on his reign of terror of sending bombed packages around the country.

During the MKUltra project, the CIA collaborated with university professors on these mind-control experiments but a lot of the documentation was destroyed when people started to look into it.

TL;DR: The unabomber participated in an experiment that was a part of the MKULtra project that eventually led to him becoming a mass-murderer.

rolo1323 , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

56points

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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Makes sense, the US did experiment on its own civilians before.

29points

#21

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe in the mattress store conspiracy, so the conspiracy is that mattress stores are for money laundering. I went onto google maps and typed in ‘mattress stores near me’. There were 4 MATTRESS STORES IN THE SAME SHOPPING CENTER. There was a road that had 5 mattress stores less than a mile apart. So I definitely believe in it.

idk1010101 , romana klee Report

Final score:

55points

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Just a Marine Veteran 3 years ago

Or places like vacuum stores or fan stores that only sell one type of thing in a small town. If there is no way they could possibly get enough business to make it; it is suspicious.

26points

#22

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe that chapstick causes lips to become more dry a couple hours after usage. I base this on the fact that my lips are more dry 5 hours after using chapstick than 2 days after using it

sharvey4994 , Tools of Men Report

Final score:

55points

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Truth Monster 3 years ago

Depends on the formula. Cheap chapstick = bad time

42points

#23

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I’m starting to believe anti-dandruff shampoo actually causes dandruff.

just__Steve , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

54points

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von Krawall 3 years ago

Anti-dandruff shampoo is only for people with an oily scalp. If you have dandruff caused bydry, scalp this shampoo will only make it worse. Then you need a mild shampoo tgat will moisturize your scalp.

56points

#24

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Apple started the AirPod memes.
I believe that Apple started the 'wearing AirPods = cool/rich' meme intentionally to boost sales. They became the best-selling wireless earbuds worldwide after the meme.

superflyjasper , Maurizio Pesce Report

Final score:

53points

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Rick 3 years ago

Or it could be that the users of the best selling phone naturally continued on to the accessory that accompanies in. iPhone users are generally known to constantly update. “What!? They’ve REMOVED a button from the latest handset? I must buy”!

31points

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#25

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 wasn't an accident. There were definitely external forces that catalyzed its disappearance. The flight path was diverted many times and there was a lot of shady stuff about some of the passengers and the pilot of Flight 370. We may never know unless the plane is found.

AnsweringQuestions4G , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

41points

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Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago

What sort of 'external forces'? This one is so vague as to be pointless.

26points

#26

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Michael Jordan's father was murdered in retribution for Jordan not paying off massive gambling debt. Jordan didn't retire and then come back, he was suspended for gambling. In the mid 90's, Michael Jordan was an industry. The truth about his gambling habits may have cost a lot of people a lot of money, so the cover story was presented.

duh_metrius , Wikimedia Common Report

Final score:

39points

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CowboyHank 3 years ago

Does anyone have any idea how much Michael Jordan is worth? If he couldn't pay off a gambling debt, he was in deep

8points

#27

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Tinder gives fake 'You got a new match!' notifications to get you to swipe more.
I have a theory that Tinder gives fake 'You got a new match!' notifications so people get excited and open Tinder, which leads them to swipe more.

BatSwinger Report

Final score:

37points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

I would say "you got new people like you" not "you got a match". Matching would mean both people liked each other so you would know if you liked them. But you can't know if someone liked you without actually swiping right!

16points

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#28

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Restaurant owners sing 'Happy Birthday' to embarrass you.
Restaurant owners know how awkward it is to be sung to in front of the whole establishment, and they do it to discourage people from taking advantage of their free birthday food.

ThatQueerWerewolf , lokate366 Report

Final score:

33points

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Lululoohoo 3 years ago

I'll never be discouraged from cashing in on free birthday food. Sing to me, dance for me, whatever..give me my free sundae

91points

biggins9227 , NNECAPA Photo Library Report

#29

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Gas station owners are the ones putting the card scammers on the pumps. They don't want your info, they want you to distrust pay at the pump so you'll come inside and make an impulse buy. Most stations barely make any money of gas, the money is in the stuff they sell inside.

Final score:

30points

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Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago

Good grief

18points

#30

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The bacon industry is ever so slightly making normal sliced bacon thinner every few years,so that eventually,what was once considered normal sliced bacon becomes thick cut,thus saving the big bacon industry money.

My only evidence is the fact that my bacon,which I have always and will only buy from a specific brand,seems to be getting thinner and thinner,more flimsy,more likely to fall apart as I get it out of the package.

NBr33zii , Didriks Report

Final score:

26points

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Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago

So the one brand you use is doing this, according to you, so all the industry is?

41points

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#31

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Sony killed Michael Jackson. He owned the rights to the Beatles discography. After he died, Sony had remastered versions of every Beatles album available days after MJ’s estate sold the rights to Sony. There’s no way they could have remastered the albums and published the CDs in that short amount of time.

AlbertFischerIII , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

14points

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Deal _Anneal 3 years ago

(⊙_⊙)？

10points

#32

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Disney made Zootopia partly to replace the Song of the South characters from Splash Mountain.

Splash Mountain is really the only thing that still exists in the public eye from Song of the South (along with the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"), since Disney wants to pretend that movie doesn't exist. So they created a movie featuring fox and rabbit characters that could replace Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, and re-theme the entire ride to be Zootopia themed, while leaving some things (like the name, and the songs featured in the ride) from Song and the South.

There's also that Disney loves re-theming things to their IP now (getting rid of Maelstrom and bringing in a Frozen themed ride), so it would make sense for them to re-theme a ride to a successful recent movie than keep a ride based off an old, mildly racist movie they're trying to forget.

LoneRangersBand , Disney Report

Final score:

12points

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Kristal 3 years ago

Splash Mountain is going to be re-themed to Princess and the Frog, so no to this. Walt did intend to keep rides "fresh" though.

14points

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe that human civilization may have gotten as advanced as we are now in the distant past.

First, anatomically modern humans have been around for soy like 300,000 years. Civilization, from the earliest settlement we know of to today is maybe 20,000 years old. In short, there's absolutely plenty of time to go from Sumerians to Americans nearly 10 times over in the time span between the first modern humans and Sumerians. And given that there's nothing unusual about the humans who built Sumer.

Second, there are lots of legends about human civilization being destroyed by angry gods, usually because of humans behaving badly. The Greeks had a story like that, the Bible, the Hopi, the Zarathustrians, just about any place where there's a record, you can find history of and often prophecies of a catastrophe that ends civilization and more often than not, caused by human hubris.

Third, there are all kinds of anomalies in history. Egypt has model airplanes, Indian scripture has Vimenas that sound a lot like airplanes or spacecraft. There's the pi Reis map that shows Antarctica before it had been discovered, and it's accurate. These things don't make sense unless you have people understanding technology near our own level before us.

Palentir , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

12points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

There's a myth that we are the 3rd generation of humans, the first being the Lemurians, the second the people from Atlantis and we are the third.

12points

Nicholas Kraemer 3 years ago

Too many exploitable resources on the surface. An ancient civilization, as advanced as we are, would have used up those resources (copper, iron, tin, etc)

8points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

That one really is nonsense.

5points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

1. Catastrophes occur everywhere. 2. People love to blame gods for random incidents. 3. Much else is questionable about these claims. (Reis, airplanes, etc.)

4points

Eduard Korhonen 3 years ago

Those Egyptian model airplanes are just stylised birds

4points

Gin. No tonic 3 years ago

I like to think about what would be left of us in 1000 yrs if our civilization were destroyed tomorrow. All our data will self erase within 100 yrs (natural processes), plastics will be mostly gone, glass chattered and steel mostly rusted. If any skyscraper is left, it might as well be considered holly grounds, as if we tried to reach the gods with our tall buildings. From the future perspective, we're not that intelligent, because most proof of that will likely be gone.

3points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

We've produced so much stuff, they will still be finding our plastic trash in a 1000 years.

3points

Fred Van Der Zee 3 years ago

The Piri Reis map is not showing Antarctica though (and therefore is not accurate).

2points

Niffler_13 3 years ago

Modern humans have been around for roughly 30,000 years. Civilizations began around 10,000 years ago with the domestication of sheep & goats. Most prior civilizations failed due to some interruption to their food supply (poor agricultural practices).

1point

Hugh Walter 2 years ago

There's NO remains, advanced civilisations leave alloys, polymers, carbons, networks, stainless metals, diamond-tipped machine tools, heavy plant, AFV's, battleships!

0points

Bama Belle 3 years ago

I've wondered this too. Especially, after watching that program about what would happen to the planet if humans disappeared overnight (hint: after many thousands of years, you'd never know we'd been here).

0points

MarcAngelina Alcober 3 years ago

aliens.

0points

Angela Turrall 3 years ago

“In short, there's absolutely plenty of time to go from Sumerians to Americans “ Lost me here. The world is bigger than America, most of us are technologically advanced to the same level, and I’d speculate a relatively low number of Sumerians now being Americans.

0points

Kyle 3 years ago

Makes sense that as dumb as we are there are more times you need to run similar simulations to get a good outcome. We seem to blow everyone up and then repopulate over time with a new batch.

0points

Maya 3 years ago

AKKADIANS LONG AGO CONQUERED SUMER TOOK CONTROL SARGON LED HIS ARMIES IN THEIR CHARRIOTS THEY ROLLED BY THE EAUPHRATES RIVER BY THE EAUPHRATES RIVER lmao anyone else remember that from 6th grade?

0points

thepinkrobot 3 years ago

I believe we reach levels of civilization that leads to self destruction and it may have happened so many times, but not really worldwide.

0points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Terra Australis has existed in people's minds since forever.

0points

Vorknkx 3 years ago

I had a similar theory as a kid. It even involved aliens - we started a war with them, lost, and were then deprived of all our knowledge and technology, and brought into the stone age (the alternative was being wiped out altogether).

0points

Truth Monster 3 years ago

Maybe we are the "reject humans" left when the best and brightest humans left to colonize the stars. Society collapsed, and now Earth is a like a wildlife sanctuary for the dum-dums. I mean, we can speculate all day.

0points

Lara Verne 3 years ago

Did you read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ?

2points

K O 3 years ago

I believe this has happened many times over, that the cycle will continue endlessly and our go is nearly up and that we are possibly the dumbest ones (collectively) to have a go

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The Vela Incident. I got to collect a bunch of Geiger counter data from a cube sat a couple years ago and picked up a serious radiation spike over this random island. Googled the coordinates and it turns out to be a potential secret Israeli-South African nuclear testing site.

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Tao 3 years ago

You give my government too much credit, they don't know how to keep the lights on... Let alone make a nuke

-2points

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#35

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The Area 51 caller on Art Bell's show was a prank call, but it wasn't Bryan Glass like he says. The connection dropping was pure coincidence.

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10points

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Flare 3 years ago

That actually makes sense.

2points

#36

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Beards are messing with facial recognition software.
I think the government orchestrated the news report about beards containing more bacteria than a dog that just licked his own asshole. Beards are messing with facial recognition software. 'The Man' wants beards to not be trendy anymore.

Henrywynn , Olichel Report

Final score:

9points

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

I wish. I'd love to see the 'monkey tail' trend go away.

3points

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#37

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Gum's gotten mintier lately. Have you noticed? Like, some of it's just too minty.

Final score:

9points

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OMGiAMmagic 3 years ago

Who defaced Pam's mural?

11points

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#38

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers That the dust the Kleenex tissue have, makes you sneeze more, therefore using more tissues.

Addictedtotvshows , Pat Pilon Report

Final score:

7points

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Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 years ago

This nicely demonstrates why most conspiracy theories are garbage. Knows absolutely nothing about the manufacturing process, let's their imagination fill in the blanks. You want soft tissue, you're going to have dust.

3points

#39

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I think the US made a secret peace plan with China after the Korean war. I base this on the way Chinese foreign policy changed so quickly and their lack of involvement in American wars in the decades to come. I think it fell apart in the 90's under Bush Sr.

tweak0 , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

6points

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Jimi Laoshi 3 years ago

As PhD student studying the subject, my recommendation is that you should just read more. What is known is not a secret.

19points

#40

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Our apartment building has windows that are nearly impossible to affix a screen to, same goes for the sliding doors. The power is centralised and locked in to a certain expensive power company. I believe the developer and power company conspired to make people living in the apartments use the aircon more by making it hard to keep windows open without dozens of mosquitoes coming inside.

unknown , Alexander Baxevanis Report

Final score:

5points

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Evil Little Thing 3 years ago

Don't mistake incompetence for conspiracy. The builders couldn't be arsed to make the windows square is soooo much more likely than them getting secret payments from a power company to do a shitty job.

3points

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#41

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Jamie Hewlett from Gorillaz is Banksy.
A forensics specialist believes Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz is Banksy.

TroyMander , Bansky Report

Final score:

-2points

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Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago

How is this a conspiracy theory? It is just one persons belief.

13points

#42

Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers White Star Line swapped the identities of the Titanic and the Olympic so they could collect insurance money.
At some point after the Titanic was completed, White Star Line switched the identities of the ships. The new 'Titanic' was actually the Olympic and the 'Olympic' was actually the brand-spanking-new Titanic, fresh from the construction yard with zero problems and zero history. They intended for the 'Titanic' to suffer some sort of failure that would result in the destruction of the problem ship so they could collect the insurance money.

BreizhMac , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

-4points

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

No. 100% Impossible. I hate this theory so much because it's so easy to disprove. Lik, witout getting into full detail like https://titanicswitch.com/ does, the Titanic was underinsured by 2 million, what would be the point of an insurance job for less money than it cost to build? Also how on earth do you keep the entire population of Belfast silent, because those ships could be seen across the whole city from the docks.

41points

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Ray Martin 3 years ago (edited)

TLDR - People believe weird, stupid s**t about almost everything, rather than seek out the actual facts.

26points

Kira Okah 3 years ago

Especially since some of these are widely disproven.

10points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

Whoever this John Louis guy is, he needs to learn what a conspiracy theory is.

14points

SirPatTheCat 3 years ago

Conspiracy theory: John Louis is a government agent trying to discourage people from believing in conspiracy theories that are true

14points

Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

You win, Sir Pat!!! LOL

2points

Steve 3 years ago

Underpants gnomes are real

5points

Daphne Williams 3 years ago

Most of these are just blatantly stupid or based on ignorance.

3points

person (i think) 3 years ago

Well, they _are_ “conspiracy theories’” not “facts”

3points

Red Ruffensor 3 years ago

Lots of silly stuff here, but there are a few thought-provoking ones.

3points

Logic and Reason 3 years ago

I don’t think Epstein killed himself. I know I’m obviously not the first person to have said this, but it’s way too fishy. I’m not a whack job though, I understand that this is just a theory with no proof and I don’t get angry at people who disagree.

2points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

EA is trying to create a monopoly.

1point

Hayley Benoit 3 years ago

some are true in this like the pockets for women. I mean it did begin as a witch thing sure. but once that was gone they could put them back but no its to get more money.

0points

Amie Redman 3 years ago

The data collection ones I believe 100%, the others, not so much.

0points

Quinn Alexander 3 years ago

How it started: "Atlantis is real and the Mona Lisa is fake" How it's going: "Vaccines have chips in them #StopTheCount" Conspiracy theories are a gateway drug to cult behavior.

0points

Quinn Alexander 3 years ago

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0points

soni w 3 years ago

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thechronicle.com.au/news/conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/news-story/767607d322591ac3ccae3656568a2b80%3famp

0points

Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

Most of these are already proven facts. Some are dumb. But there were a couple that were pretty good. I love the idea that DIsney named Frozen... Frozen. When I was a kid, the whole Walt Disney froze his head thing was HUGE! LOL!!!

0points

similarly 3 years ago

Facebook, Microsoft and phone companies are doing more and more options to sign in by fingerprint, retina scan and facial recognition, not JUST for the added personal security, but in order to provide the government and law enforcement with a data base of recognition information that WE AGREE to provide in the eula that we never read.

0points

Erin E 3 years ago

Does John Louis not understand the term “conspiracy theory?”

0points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

money is printed on a material that collects dna and ATM's are built to scan all of that for future use. there, thought of that in like 10 seconds I could fill a post like this in a day, an actual talented writer like Douglas Adams could write 10 books about this if he wanted. it's not conspiracy, it's over-functioning imagnation

0points

jknbt jknbt 3 years ago

here are categorical lists of the current conspiracy theories: https://www.ufoinsight.com/conspiracy

0points

jknbt jknbt 3 years ago

you left out the ufo cover-up... the covid vaccine is in wide scale test worldwide right now.. all sorts of horrific side effects are showing up... that's why the governments of the world never allowed wide-scale testing or approval... google search for the side effects of the vaccine... yes, small percentages affected, but nevertheless, severe intolerable side effects to loos on the unsuspecting public... latest side effect reported: miscarriages by pregnant females who take the vaccine... the baby says, "hell no, I don't want that virus in me, I'm leaving"....

0points

Rita Shapiro 3 years ago

Venn diagram: folks who believe that the holocaust and the 2020 election results were faked, and people who believe THIS crap is real = a complete circle.

0points

Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

A little research would disprove a lot of these 'theories.' I'm just grateful no one questioned the Warren Report.

0points

John Louis 3 years ago

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

It's very clear on the title that these are conspiracy theories! Just theories! If they provide who,what, when,where then it's not conspiracy anymore! It is fact!

12points

Jen Gem 3 years ago

Calm down dude. It's a harmless post on conspiracy theories. Most conspiracy theories aren't based on fact. I found this entertaining. Did this thread make me believe all these theories? No. Because I am a grown ass adult who knows how to research fact from fiction.

8points

Ms.GB 3 years ago

If they were all proven they wouldn't be theories would they?

5points

jonnotheGOAT 3 years ago

it literally says conspiracy theories on the title. most conspiracy theories aren't true so just chill out dude.

5points

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Ray Martin 3 years ago (edited)

TLDR - People believe weird, stupid s**t about almost everything, rather than seek out the actual facts.

26points

Kira Okah 3 years ago

Especially since some of these are widely disproven.

10points

InfectedVoice 3 years ago

Whoever this John Louis guy is, he needs to learn what a conspiracy theory is.

14points

SirPatTheCat 3 years ago

Conspiracy theory: John Louis is a government agent trying to discourage people from believing in conspiracy theories that are true

14points

Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

You win, Sir Pat!!! LOL

2points

Steve 3 years ago

Underpants gnomes are real

5points

Daphne Williams 3 years ago

Most of these are just blatantly stupid or based on ignorance.

3points

person (i think) 3 years ago

Well, they _are_ “conspiracy theories’” not “facts”

3points

Red Ruffensor 3 years ago

Lots of silly stuff here, but there are a few thought-provoking ones.

3points

Logic and Reason 3 years ago

2points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

EA is trying to create a monopoly.

1point

Hayley Benoit 3 years ago

some are true in this like the pockets for women. I mean it did begin as a witch thing sure. but once that was gone they could put them back but no its to get more money.

0points

Amie Redman 3 years ago

The data collection ones I believe 100%, the others, not so much.

0points

Quinn Alexander 3 years ago

How it started: "Atlantis is real and the Mona Lisa is fake" How it's going: "Vaccines have chips in them #StopTheCount" Conspiracy theories are a gateway drug to cult behavior.

0points

Quinn Alexander 3 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

0points

soni w 3 years ago

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thechronicle.com.au/news/conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/news-story/767607d322591ac3ccae3656568a2b80%3famp

0points

Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

0points

similarly 3 years ago

0points

Erin E 3 years ago

Does John Louis not understand the term “conspiracy theory?”

0points

Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago

0points

jknbt jknbt 3 years ago

here are categorical lists of the current conspiracy theories: https://www.ufoinsight.com/conspiracy

0points

jknbt jknbt 3 years ago

0points

Rita Shapiro 3 years ago

Venn diagram: folks who believe that the holocaust and the 2020 election results were faked, and people who believe THIS crap is real = a complete circle.

0points

Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

A little research would disprove a lot of these 'theories.' I'm just grateful no one questioned the Warren Report.

0points

John Louis 3 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Vicky Z 3 years ago

It's very clear on the title that these are conspiracy theories! Just theories! If they provide who,what, when,where then it's not conspiracy anymore! It is fact!

12points