‘What’s a conspiracy you believe that would make others think you are stupid?’ – 17 theories people are ashamed to admit they think are true
10.
‘I believe the Panama Papers are 100% real and it’s stupid that we all just ignored it.
Literally nothing happened, except the journalist behind it had an unfortunate encounter with a car bomb.’
-pinniped90
11.
‘That screen protectors don’t protect your screen at all, they just scratch and crack much easier than your screen which makes you feel like you’ve avoided damage you would have otherwise taken to the screen. When in reality your screen would have been fine, and having the tensions from a screen protector actually makes it more likely to crack when impacted.
I’ve got no evidence for this whatsoever’
-Semproser
12.
‘The constant push for higher graphics fidelity in video games is directly caused by the military industrial complex overproducing computer chips and pushing the surplus onto the civilian market so we don’t end up with a silicon mining version of the Missouri cheese caves.’
-starbuildstrike999
13.
‘The Boring Company was entirely created to hide the supply lines for billionaires’ bunkers, to make the classic castle siege of cutting them off as hard as possible.’
-RobotMonkeytron
14.
‘We all know our phones are constantly listening to us. I think phones can now read our minds. That’s why apps that get you to stare at your phone for so long are so valuable. The longer you are staring at your phone, the better it can pick up on your brainwaves and whatnot to learn your inner thoughts and make ads based on them.’
-Lemurian_Lemur34
15.
‘I’m convinced that the government genetically engineers a new animal we’ve never heard of every three months and releases them to zoos to gaslight us into thinking this creature has always existed for the decades we’ve been on this planet and I’m just too dumb and uneducated to have discovered it beforehand. Hyrax? Who heard of that thing before like two years ago? Bush Dog? Fake news.’
-Impossumbear
16.
‘I actively try to avoid conspiracy theories, but somebody else mentioned the Trump being shot thing. Yeah, sounds very plausible to me. Lots of performative theatrics in this current regime.’
-ChocoPuddingCup
17.
‘That Disney has a way to make it rain at their parks to sell rain ponchos at an extreme markup.’
-WaWeedGuy