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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a small industry of flat earth influencers.

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  • peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What the hell is there to make money off of though? In today’s Flat Earth news: It’s not confirmation bias, Earth is still flat and nobody will believe you if you try to tell them and you’ll get kicked out of orgies for revealing the truth. Do actual real people really compulsively watch this like their favorite live streamer or HOW does this shit even exist?

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Flat earth isn’t the scam itself, it’s the hook. There are a million ways to get people into the conspiracy theory sphere, but once they’re hooked on one thing, they’re primed to believe everything else. It took less than a year from my mom to go from watching videos “asking questions” about science to spending a bunch of money on everything from silver supplements and ivermectin to 5g blockers and resonance machines.

      The point of flat earth and related conspiracies is that they prey on people’s misunderstanding of science and mathematics (why Earth round if look flat?) to sow doubt in the collective understanding of reality as a whole. Once that happens, you can tell them anything isn’t what it seems and they’ll believe you, and sell them anything to fix it, and they’ll pay you.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      merch?

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Basically, yes. Merchandise and subscriptions.

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and you’ll get kicked out of orgies for revealing the truth.

      I’d say you could host your own flat orgies, but I wouldn’t want to attend. I like the round bits on the ladies too much to enjoy that scene.

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