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Okay, hear me out... I have no place for this anymore because conspiracy theories are overrun by super crazy people... but that's not my point right now...
So, my conspiracy theory is that some government entity established satirical websites as a means to spread misinformation or to desensitize the population..
It's really strange that like pre 2008 (i dont have excat dates here), there were basically none of these kinds of sites, and then they started popping up everywhere...
It's one of those things that I believe got us to this point...
But I'm probably crazy and wrong who knows
The Onion started publishing in 1988, and was online by 1996.
Landover Baptist has been on the net since 1998. I stumbled on it as kid, back when the family computer was for playing Neopets.
There’s been an increase in satire websites for sure, largely driven by the popularity of the Onion, and it does cause problems. There are conservative outlets which 100% put out complete and utter bullshit under the guise of “satire,” knowing that their audience has the gullibility of a five year old, and that’ll end up on garbage Facebook pages as unironic.
It’s not “conspiracy” but more - the Onion is very popular, popular things get knock offs, and opportunists saw a way to inject lies or laziness into the public discourse, while claiming they’re “satire.” (Similar to how CinemaSins on YouTube uses the term, “we were wrong about a basic thing in the movie? psych! the jokes on you for taking it seriously!)
I really miss that brief time that the Babylon Bee was good.
Speaking as someone who got literally any humanities education:
The whole 'predictive programming' thing only works on absolute inhumanly stupid dumbfucks who unironically join the 'homelander' fan club. People need to be made that stupid, and doing it while teaching them how to read and fo arithmetic was a hell of an achievement.
I can assure you with absolute certainty that satire has been an established tradition for a very long time before 2008