#anyway this is one of the milder conspiracies ive seen | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

avibero · 2 years ago

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TikTok feels like a prime outlet to recruit people into conspiracy theories and weird cult like mentalities. Like I just go there to find some funny memes or recipes and gardening ideas, but there is such overlap between gardeners and preppers that the algorithm starts feeding me the most unhinged vids of government conspiracies followed by new agey prophets foretelling, idk, the rapture? But all framed as, like, advice for small homesteaders. And it KEEPS GIVING THOSE KINDS OF VIDEOS TO ME. I remember catching myself almost believing some of these things last year because I just kept seeing them and the ideas wormed their way into my brain until I started thinking that way (and this is one of the many reasons I only occasionally go on tiktok). And what I'm seeing are probably the more tame ones! This feels bad? Especially with so many younger people on the platform

#i was reminded of this because theres a conspiracy being spread by new chicken owners #who started raising chickens last spring #and theyre like #'my chickens stopped laying in the fall!'#'i started giving them goat food this month and theyre laying again!#'the companies are doing something to the food!!!!!'#but like #chickens generally stop laying in the winter #they need a certain number of hours of sunlight #and my hens have only recently started laying again now the days are getting longer #but the number of people ive seen who GENUINELY believe the chicken feed is the culprit is ASTONISHING #some of my hens started molting early #so they stopped laying #and then winter hit so they didnt pick up until this month #that was like three four months of no eggs from them?#and thats NORMAL its how chickens work #anyway this is one of the milder conspiracies ive seen #theres also this like prophet guy i keep seeing #who frames his videos as permaculture vids but hes like #prophesying the end of the world #its weird

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