It seems like there’s a conspiracy for every aspect, event, and occasion in our life. Think of the theory that there is some kind of a connection between 5G internet and the coronavirus pandemic, which has been continually debunked by our experts. In fact, raising these rumors is considered inappropriate, and those who do can even get into trouble for spreading fake news.
But leaving the pandemic conspiracy aside, there are numerous other conspiracies that people genuinely believe in: Area 51, Bigfoot sightings, chemtrails, New World Order, Freemasonry, Illuminati, Sandy Hook, “stolen election,” the list goes on. And while most skeptics cringe at such improbable scenarios, some actually scratch their heads and wonder… “what if?”
So when someone asked “What is a conspiracy theory you actually believe in?” on r/AskReddit, people, skeptics included, shared some very interesting answers. Let’s see what they had to say below and be sure to share your thoughts on conspiracies in the comment section!
#1
The media is the biggest stirrer of fear and anger and use it in order to stay relevant to keep the funds rolling in
Image source: Secret_Agent_Z, camilo jimenez
#2
That my phone listens to conversations. Far too many situations where I’d talk about something random and see adverts about it on FB and Instagram without me ever searching for it
Image source: SingaBored, ROBIN WORRALL
#3
Products are not made to last
Image source: turkiciconoclast, picjumbo.com
#4
Aliens 1000% exist, maybe not UFOs and all that but there’s no way in hell we’re the only life in this gigantic galaxy
Image source: sanskujo, Bryan Goff
#5
This might not be a groundbreaking hot take, but i think that applying for disability status/benefits is intentionally made to be a convoluted mess of bureaucratic jargon and endless hoops to jump through SOLELY so that disabled people don’t take advantage of them, either because they give up trying to navigate an intentionally confusing system, or because they make a mistake along the way, and the process gets f***ed up. I’m really lucky I had my mom helping me with a lot of the paperwork because otherwise I would never be able to get the supports I need in post secondary. It’s like someone purposefully designed the process to be as unobtainable, messy, and overwhelmingly complex for a disabled person as they possibly could.
Image source: satan-probably, Josh Appel
#6
The US doesn’t provide free college because military numbers would plummet
Image source: timshel_life, Element5 Digital
#7
There are people out there hired by companies to make dozens of fake accounts that retweet, reblog, etc and act like real people just to advertise products.
Image source: Snoo_97670, Sara Kurfeß
#8
The “Fine Art” market is a scam used/run by the ultra wealthy to hide and preserve their wealth.
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#9
Women’s clothing doesn’t have adequate pockets because the purse and handbag industry wants to ensure women continue to buy bags to carry their things.
Image source: jaspellior, Heather Ford
#10
Trump ran as a stunt. He was never supposed to win and didn’t even want to.
Image source: janedeaux, wikipedia
#11
That the government creates or at least promotes crazy conspiracy theories to make the true ones seem crazy by association.
Image source: RoyalC90, Marco Oriolesi
#12
Everyone’s going heavy with theirs but I have one that’s less serious.
Baby wipe containers are purposely made so that you always pull 2-3 wipes out at a time and therefore need to buy more often. It’s definitely something I can see Big Wipe engaging in to get just a few more containers out of us each year!
Image source: Just_For_ShiGrins, Natracare
#13
That Facebook’s outage the day before the whistleblower went in front of the Senate was no accident.
Image source: Its_Lesser_Known, Solen Feyissa
#14
Apps track your location, even if you have the permission turned off.
Image source: Johndoe448, William Hook
#15
That video game companies got a taste of the kind of money that gambling brings in and changed an entire industry to emulate the casino structure but for children.
Image source: Prof_V, wikipedia
#16
That questions like this are market research, and this question in particular is likely to be used for some pretty nefarious purposes.
Image source: tim_rocks_hard, Scott Graham
#17
The conspiracy that created the term “conspiracy theory”. Think back to the 30s, 40s, 50s. There were stories of the black cars showing up and making people that start finding out too much “disappear”. Enter the 60s and 70s. Mass media starts growing at a massive rate. A rate at which the government realizes that they cannot ever fully control. Their genius solution is to open the floodgates of crazy. Push a bunch of conspiracy theories into the populace that makes real conspiracy reports be ignored as just “tinfoil hat crazy”. Label ALL reports as conspiracy theory. This over time creates a societal misunderstanding in the form of the term “conspiracy theory” becoming equated with “crazy”. An example of this is I believe that there really aren’t many people that truly believe the earth is flat. There are just some entities planted that push it as a “theory”. This then becomes one of the main examples of “all conspiracy theorists are not to be taken seriously”.
Image source: ShakyTheBear, Kajetan Sumila
#18
The government deliberately works on keeping the populace uneducated. From school funding being tied to local property taxes, to allowing militant religious parties to “politicize” and censor science based education. It’s easier to manipulate an uneducated society by pitting it against itself across socio-economic and political lines. In the mean time the civil servants meant to b representing us do favors for the wealthy in return for funding and insider trading privileges.
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#19
That the international establishment are not cracking down on the slave trade because too many of them benefit from slaves, wage slaves, debt slaves, indentured servants, passport hostage victims, magdalene laundresses, unpaid internships, etc. themselves.
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#20
Republicans/Democrats aren’t as hostile as we’re lead onto believe and actually agree a lot but are using our differences in beliefs to control us.
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#21
Marilyn Monroe did not die from an “accidental” overdose.
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#22
Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was still in office and his advisers told him to write a letter to the American people to be released later after it got too bad to hide. When his condition went public in 1994, they released the letter and it was almost perfect handwriting, spelling, and grammar. Six months later he couldn’t carry on a conversation. I’m convinced he didn’t progress that fast in 1994 and that the entire thing was constructed over the years to look like he was mentally competent while he was president.
Image source: youseeit, wikipedia
#23
China is using tiktok to develop a database to experiment and perfect deep fake technology and techniques.
Image source: Cambro88, Solen Feyissa
#24
The cardboard rolls that toilet paper are on have gotten wider in diameter over the years. This is one way to make the rolls look bigger. Because you know 6 mega rolls equals 32 normal sized rolls…
Image source: aaronm007, Isaac Quesada
#25
The world stock market is rigged, and most trading happens behind the scenes
Image source: Steve_warsaw, Yiorgos Ntrahas
#26
That the government collaborated with tech companies to promote taking “selfies” to advance facial recognition software.
Image source: KirbyBucketts, Mimi Thian
#27
Bic doesn’t fill their lighters with as much fluid as they used to.
Image source: MFNLyle, Christian Allard
#28
All countries have Ninjas. We only know about Japanese Ninjas bc they’re the worst.
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#29
Chap stick actually causes your lips to feel more chapped after their affect wears off, causing you to use it more often and buy more chapstick
Image source: Dont_trust_ducks2, wikipedia
#30
Well I don’t actually believe the government is putting stuff in our water that’s turning the frogs gay
I do however believe the large amount of urine containing birth control waste getting out into the sewage is becoming an ecological problem
Image source: thekingamw, Thought Catalog
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