#idk out of all the conspiracy theories i just think the fake moon landing theory is so sad. like sure the gov is lying to us

[veryhungrycaterpillarr]

anyway space travel is one of the coolest things we've ever done as humans and if you don't see the wonder in these images then i don't know if there's any hope for you 🪐

[warmhappycat]

The last few lines are so good.

I’m a recovering Republican. I was raised on Fox News, but then realized in college that it didn’t actually align with my values. Pro-queer advocacy pretty quickly became my main jam. And I wanted so badly to understand how someone could look at their AGAB and say “nah,” or even reject binary gender altogether! I tied myself in knots trying to figure it out! I’ve made some progress - the anecdote about someone telling their Grandma or whomever “no, it’s not like you waking up tomorrow and deciding you’re a man, it’s like you waking up tomorrow and everyone else has decided you’re a man, and you have to navigate that” was really helpful - but honestly it’s been 15 years and I still wouldn’t say I can totally wrap my head around not being cis. Eventually though, I realized I didn’t have to.

See, if you spend time among Republicans, they’ll often just admit to some really antisocial impulses, and project them onto others. “Well, nowadays anyone can just say they have a disability and get checks from the government!” “Pfft, you don’t think it’s a little convenient that all these women are accusing him of sexual violence now that he’s president?” “I just assume there’s shenanigans in all elections, because election workers are partisans too.”

The obvious response is, “Do you really think all those people are lying? All these people, so many of them, who don’t know each other, all came up with the exact same lie?”

To be clear, this doesn’t work in conversing with Republicans. They do, in fact, think all those people would lie the exact same way, because “that’s what [they] would* do!”

But this retort did work in conversation with myself. If being trans, non-binary, agender, or otherwise queer in a gendery way weren’t a real thing, why would do many people insist that it was? Why would so many people, across time and space and culture and circumstance, who do not know each other and have nothing to gain, insist that this is their experience?

Y’know, there has been research done on conspiracy theories and on how many people can keep a secret for how long. I learned from an episode of Adam Ruins Everything that it’s mathematically impossible that the moon landing was faked, because too many people would have had to be in on it, and someone would have spilled the beans by now. There’s just no way that that many people could hold it together for that long.

And, idk, I think if pharaohs and homeless teenagers and celebrities and lesbians from the 60s and some lady you work with and dapper couples from the 1800s and your mom’s neighbor’s cousin and 1/3 of Calico Jack’s polycule and that guy who comes into your work once a week to get a cheeseburger for his dog… all agree this is something they are experiencing, then the simplest explanation is probably just that they are indeed experiencing it, whether I can wrap my head around it or not.

So I don’t have to understand it. I just need to treat people right.

(*Interesting that it’s always would. Some of these alleged conspiracies are outside of their reach, such as if they aren’t an election worker, but others they could do, if they wanted to and really believed it would work. Ok Jan, then you lie about a disability so you don’t have to work. If you “would” do it, why aren’t you actually doing it?)

A gay doctor refuses to be pinned down by the “What is a woman” question.

[hotcocoandmarshmallows]

Title: Idk

Word count: 476

Ship: None

Warnings: Conspiracy theories

Notes: I hope this is a worthy apology. @suddenly-im-respecsable asked to be tagged.

The city of Manhattan, as a whole, was surprisingly quiet.

An apartment, however, very much was not. The apartment of Racetrack and Albert. The chaos twins to rival the actual twins. They were in the middle of a very heated fight.

"I told you I wanted pepperoni!" Albert said, pouting on the couch and eating a slice of cheese, with another on the plate.

"You didn't. I know you didn't." Race said around his full mouth of pizza. "And you clearly don't mind, since you're eating the bone to."

Albert jabbed at him with the half-eaten pizza bone. "Eat the pizza bone, it's good for you, like the crust of bread."

Race tossed a tiny knitted stuffed cat at his head. "That's an old wives tale and you know it. It's like not swimming for an hour after eating, we disproved that together!"

"But there's also studies showing that heartburn during pregnancy can be a sign that the baby has hair! Take that!" Albert threw the cat back and finished off his pizza bone. 

Race kicked him from across the couch, lightly. "Sheeple. I bet you believe the moon landing happened to."

Albert got a glint in his eye and he laughed manically. "Oh, my darling sheep person, you really believe the moon exsists?" He grinned, looking similar to a mad scientist.

Race waggled his pizza slice at him. "The presence of a fake moon implies there is a sky, young Padawan." He lounged on his couch section like it was a throne.

Albert sent the cat back at his head. "You assume all of this is not a computer simulation then!" He said with a big smile.

Race hit him in the face with the -thankfully harmless, but now pizza covered cat. "But if this is a simulation, none of the above listed are real! Ha!" He knew he was victorious and Albert had nothing more insane to offer. 

The door opened just then and Spot entered, carrying a second pizza and some snacks. "I'm home." He said, pulling down his mask and locking the door behind him. "Wash your hands before you touch anything inside the packaging, you hear?" He went to was his hands in the sink. Race abandoned his plate to Albert's mercy to hug Spot and dig into whatever treats he'd brought. 

He was digging into a delicious whoopie pie withen seconds to Spot's mild annoyance and Albert's amusement. "So, Spotty!" Race started between mouthfuls. "Do you think we live in a simulation?"

Spot looked up and shrugged. "I think it's like the Matrix and that's why the sequels are bad, they were flopped on purpose so we wouldn't find a way out."

That floored both Race and Albert well enough that they were silent for a bit while they chewed on that conspiracy theory and the pepperoni pizza Spot brought.

[karliesbuzzcut]

When art really speaks to you, pt. 2: probably just a coincidence but idk

Disclaimer: all these theories are rabbit holes on their own, so trying to explain them in a couple of paragraphs is, automatically, doing them a disservice. Especially since I’m only going to be primarily addressing the part of the theory that focuses on the artist communicating with their public through their work.

Since I’ve already dedicated paragraphs to the introduction in part 1, let’s just jump into it.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s fuckton of theories.

Let’s start with the daddy of all conspiracies. After all, not many can gloat about their reachings becoming a movie starring Tom Hanks.

The thing with Da Vinci’s conspiracies is that there are so many of them, and they range from “maybe this is also a painting made by Da Vinci but he wasn’t credited because of reasons” to ALIENS. Which, I think, shows how different our interpretations of art can be, and how much it depends on an already established worldview.

But the most interesting part isn’t the conclusions, but how people look for clues. For example, just like people say Taylor Swift is obsessed with numbers or oranges (depending who you ask, I guess), Da Vinci was supposedly a big fan of reflections. So, if you want to decode his paintings you must mirror them... and then move then a little bit... there you go, you’ve just found yourself an alien...! Or a daemon...! Or someone wearing a funny hat! And that’s totally what he wanted us to find, right? Why else would he had shown any sort of interest in reflections if he didn’t want us to reflect everything!!

Shakespeare is an illusion... kinda, but yeah.

Personally, I think Kaylors would love to dig into this one. Sure, it doesn’t have many lesbians playing political spies. But it does involve a lot of literature analysis. Just like Kaylors don’t think a heterosexual woman could’ve written Taylor’s songs; some people (referred as anti-Stratfordians, thank you very much) don’t think someone from a lower class could’ve written Shakespeare’s plays. 

Here’s the tea... the very cold tea: because Shakespeare was the son of a glover, anti-Stratfordians say he couldn’t have had the knowledge to write his plays. They, instead, come up with a list of “more suitable” writers that could’ve worked together. But they decided to keep their identities a secret because being a play writer, at that time, wasn’t respectable. Here, we will start noticing a trend with Conspiracy Theories: society, as a whole, can’t handle the truth, only a selected few. That’s where Francis Bacon comes in.

Francis Bacon was a very smart dude. He, also, worked for the state - giving him the credentials to be worthy of writing Shakespeare calibre plays. And also, also, he developed a method to conceal messages in the presentation of a text. To be able to do this, you would need to use two typefaces. Guess what has more than one typeface? Shakespeare’s plays.

I have to say - while I don’t believe either theory we have seen, they are somewhat understandable. We barely know anything about Shakespeare and Da Vinci beyond their work, so it’s normal that people are trying to figure out who they were; what did they believed in; where did they get all of their knowledge. We like theorising about the answers to these questions, knowing we’ll never get a confirmed truth. Not so the case with our next conspiracy...

Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper - someone had to be, right?

Now, allow me to fangirl all over this one. It combines my interests for conspiracy theories, true crime and pop-culture.

I’m assuming everyone here knows about Jack the Ripper: a serial killer who murdered at least 5 people (mainly prostitutes) in London, between the years 1888 and 1891. Well, someone looked at this and thought “you know what this murder-mystery is missing? Famous people”. Well, this theory says that the author of Alice in Wonderland did it He was the only celebrity living nearby at the time of the killings, so... 🤷‍♀️

This becomes a case of “I have already made up my mind about this issue, so I’m going to go ahead and search for proof that confirms it”. Authors and, now, internet sleuths went through his books, selected this random-ass excerpt from the nursery version of Alice and decided it was an anagram. And a crappy one at that. Supposedly, if you arrange the letters you get a detailed and gruesome confession. You, however, have to take away some letter and add others. Listen, I’m not an English major, but I’ve heard that’s cheating.

This theory also has that characteristic we mentioned: the “I don’t want to admit it out loud, so I’m going to come up with convoluted ways for my audience to figure it out” - which almost borders on psychotic behaviour. But at least it, somewhat, works with the serial killer narrative, you know? Not very much with Taylor, a woman who simply wants to chill with her girlfriend.

The moon landing was fake and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

I’m not going to dig into the moon landing conspiracy, this post is going to be long enough already. Just know that, when the USA government was planning to fake the whole thing, they had just watched ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and they were all like “that’s so cool! That’s how we want our fake moon landing to look!” So they contacted its director, Kubrick.

According to the theory, Kubrick felt really guilty afterwards but he couldn’t say anything about it because he signed an NDA? it would be dangerous, I guess. So he did the same thing Taylor would do decades later: he “spelled it out” for us on his work, under the excuse of “I didn’t explicitly said it, did I? My most intelligent and attractive fans just happened to figure it out for themselves”. 

The movie ‘The Shinning’ has been analysed to shreds. Think ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ music video, but 2 hours and 26 minutes instead. There are many theories about its underlying theme, but we’re only focusing on the moon landing one. The biggest piece of evidence, according to believers, comes from that famous scene in the hallway. Basically, the kid, Danny, is on the floor playing and wearing an Apollo 11 sweater. He stands up = the rocket launches. He walks to Room N.237. Which is almost an anagram for MOON - but actually, a perfect anagram for MORON - I didn’t come up with that joke, I’m just sharing it. Anyway. In the book, the room number is 217 but Kubrick changed it to 237 because there are 237,000 miles between the Earth and the Moon... except that’s not exactly true, but this is their Kissgate, you see? 

“Paul is Dead” aka “the granddaddy of Kaylor is Real”

Now, this is THE conspiracy theory. Kaylors would love to have the amount of evidence this theory has. Give them 50 years, they’ll get there. 

Our story starts in 1966, Paul McCartney dies in a car accident. The British Government panics, “this will drive our teenagers into a massive suicide!” So they cover it up. They find this guy who looks like Paul and hire him to replace the original. 

You might’ve only heard about those stores where pop-stars get their beards. But there’s also a branch that focuses on celebrity look-a-likes.

The rest of The Beatles went along with it (because that’s how these artists seem to operate, they’re always the victims of their circumstances) but they did not like it. So - you guessed it - they used their music, artwork, photo-shoots, etc. to communicate the truth. Faux-Paul might’ve felt a bit awkward about it, but he’s a nice chap and let the other guys work through their grief. 

Kaylors might have agreed on blue being the colour of breaks up and yellow is for Karlie-Sunshine; but the Paul-truthers concluded white is the colour of heaven, jeans are for gravediggers and black for morticians... oh! And not wearing shoes means you’re dead. Taylor being near a door symbolises her leaving the closet; Paul being near an open trunk symbolises him being in a coffin. Is the letter K, for Karlie, surrounding Taylor? Well, there’s a 28IF in the plaques of a car, for Paul being 28 IF he hadn’t died. People hear a phantasmagorical “she” in ‘Call It What You Want’; just like people heard “I buried Paul” in ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’.

If you have never looked up this theory, I seriously recommend it. There are so many parallels with Kaylor. Here’s a 30 minute video, if you’re interested. It summarises the theory neatly while discussing the effects that these, seemingly innocent, conspiracies have on the way we absorb information.

Paul might be dead but 2pac is very much alive.

If I haven’t made it clear by now, I think it’s very deceptive to use a musician’s lyrics to back up your alternate version of events. As confessional as these verses can be, they’re still a form of art. Which, in terms of music lyrics, they need to follow certain parameters, as well as a desired sound. And, as many other forms of art, they might focus a bit more on transmitting a feeling, rather than an accurate portrayal of reality.

Why am I stopping to say all of this now? Well, because this specific theory relies a lot on Tupac’s lyrics.

A bit of context: In 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot 4 times while at a stoplight. He died from his injuries days later. While there are theories, to this day, no one knows who killed him. Unless you believe one of those theories, which claims no one did.

The believers of this theory cite Tupac’s lyrics to argue that he was explicitly telling his fans that he was going to fake his own death. Here are two examples:

I’ve been shot and murdered, can’t tell you how it happened word for word but best believe that n*****’ gonna get what they deserve. - Richie Rich’s N***** Done Change

I heard rumours that I died murdered in cold blood, traumatised pictures of me in my final states — you know mama cried. But that was fiction, some coward got the story twisted - Aint’ Hard 2 Find

Just like anti-Kaylors don’t necessarily oppose the idea of Taylor being gay; I bet the “antis” of this theory aren’t happy Tupac died and weren’t against his existence on the first place. It’s more of an argument about confusing your feelings with facts, just because they can be more comforting or exciting.

“Avril Lavigne is dead”... or “every artist you think is alive is, actually, dead and, the ones you think are dead, aren’t” I guess.

After everything we have seen, this one isn’t that interesting. The real Avril died in 2003, right after her first album. Her record label bought a new one. Proof? She says ‘dead’ in ‘My Happy Ending’, blah, blah. A poor man’s “Paul is Dead”.

I added it, mainly for the lulz, after the last entry, I needed them. But also because it all started with a blog. What’s hilarious is that the guy who created it admitted he only did it to show how gullible people are but, at that point, he had already convinced people about. The conspirators didn’t need him anymore. So they discarded him but not the Theory... which just reminds me a little too much of how TCG, HBH, Jennyboom &co. have been excommunicated from the Church of Kaylor.

Beyonce and Jay Z are members of the sexy sexy Illuminati.

I did not save the best for last. But maybe I’m just biased because the Illuminati theory bores me to death. However, if you allow me a bit of social criticism... remember how the Shakespeare Conspiracy started because a bunch of classicist people didn’t believe a lower class citizen could write such good plays? I think this one has a bit of that. I’d bet my life that this one started when a bunch of white dudes got super uncomfortable by black people being so talented and earning their successful.

What this Conspiracy shows, too, is the amplifying effect the internet has had on the proliferation of such theories. Most of the conspiracies I’ve mentioned were huge... but how were you supposed to communicate your ideas and add to the old ones, before the internet? You could publish a book. Talk about it at parties. And, at some point, there were internet forums but, still, you can’t compare that to how widespread Social Media is nowadays. 

Today, we can watch someone ramble for 2 hours on YouTube about how Beyonce looks like a robot if you watch Single Ladies in reverse; read someone’s dissertation of ‘Apeshit’; or spend all night looking at those pictures where someone has drawn a red circle around anything that resembles a triangle. 

It might look like a lot of evidence but that’s only because there are a lot of people very attached to this theory. Wanting - for whatever reason - for it to be true (perhaps because it would confirm that their fears about the world were well founded). And all those dozens or hundredths of people were working together to form as many patterns as possible.

Unfortunately we are going to keep talking about the Illuminati in Part 3 but also about Taylor, so that should be nice. Because - to the surprise of absolutely no one - there’s a bunch of people who also think they understand Taylor better than the rest. That they have figured out her secret codes and her ultimate message. Only, not all of those theories involve lesbian supermodels, so they aren’t as popular on Tumblr.

[vinylhazza]

coffin: have you ever had a paranormal experience? (please do tell i love spooky stories) & graveyard: do you believe any conspiracy theories? if so, which ones? (the moon landing is fake wbk ya’ll cant reach me 😔) -rockstardolan

⚰️: yes in fact i have. I SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

lots of them. when i was little my sister and i when to my aunt jeanas farm in oklahoma and when we were laying down i kid you fucking not all the windows were closed, doors locked, and this rocking chair in the corner of this office/bedroom just continuously rocked for HOURS like someone was sitting in it. it was so quiet and all you could hear was that chair just creaking like in a horror movie or some shit. we were in a strange place and then THAT happens? nah fam.

then there was a time where my horrible mentally abusive and neglecting mother locked us in our bedroom with all the lights off knowing we were scared of the dark with no food and water for two days while my dad was out of town working his off off and while we were sitting there crying and i was having an asmtha attack the closet doors (you know those ones that like bend in the middle?) yeah well those SLAMMED open and you could just see this dark hole across the room where the closet was. we stopped crying and just stared for a minute before we got up and pounded on the door for her to come and get us. which she ignored us and told us to shut up of course so we just hugged each other and cried in the corner until the morning.

thennnnn idk if i can say this is en electrical malfunction or what but we had this house when i was about four and my sisters room was in the basement. i would always sleep down there with her cause i loved her and she was my older sister and yeknow it’s just a thing. so my brother (who was like 2) had this remote control monster truck he loved to play with. the remote was sitting on the dresser across the room. the car was off. it had been sitting by the couch for days because he was too little to go downstairs and get it and he was being annoying so my mom put it downstairs. extra ik. so while we were laying in bed getting ready to go to sleep, dad had said prayers with us already and everything and we were watching the freaking science channel idk why lol but this FUCKING TRUCK turns on and starts DOING CIRCLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING ROOM mind you i’m laying on the floor because the couch was too far away from Hailey and the bed was too small so i made the sacrifice and slept on the floor on a little cushiony eggmattress and a sleepingbag. well it was doing all the bells and whistles it does and lighting up and going full speed in circles again and again and it was so fucking loud we were trying to find the remote but we didn’t wanna walk past it so we just ran to the bathroom and waited until it woke dad up so he could come and get us because my dad is my saving grace and he always has been and i love hims. so anyway he came and yelled at us for playing but we were crying to hard that he stopped yelling and just hugged us because we were blubbering that it wasn’t us and he believed us. it was still doing circles when he came down the stairs and he finally realized we didn’t have the remote.

there are more but i’ll leave it at that.

💀: i do believe in conspiracy theories a lot of them actually because some things in life just don’t make sense. and also same you’re telling me we made it to the moon on a rocket ship but there is still cancer ruining people’s lives? k lol keep believin that bull fuckery.

i’m a catholic okay? like i’m not supposed to really believe in this so you know im serious when i say this but like...you can’t tell me deja vu is a coincidence? you’ve DONE THAT BEFORE IN ANOTHER LIFE IDC IDC IDC like i truly believe sometimes in like alternate universes. it just has to be a thing yeknow? life is crazy and LIFE FINDS A WAY...i sound crazy don’t i?

also this isn’t a conspiracy it’s just truth but there are aliens out there 110% and you can’t convince me otherwise and if you think that we are the only lifeform floating in space you’re delusional :) plus we don’t know what they look like fr we just assumed they are 👽 but like...are they? lol people have their “sightings” but there are more aliens than just on one planet yeknow? you can’t just say “oh on mars” PEOPLE WE ARE JUST IN THIS GALAXY space is a massive clusterfuck of blackholes and planets unknown to us. we have no idea in our shallow self centered minds what’s truly out there. there are so many possibilities. like bitch we think the sun is massive but think of this there are stars 1,000x bigger then the sun out there. that’s huge. alsoooo why tf do we think aliens are so mean and hate us? in every movie and every book (except ET) aliens hate us...tbh they would probably be scared or many intrigued because they don’t have a reason to really HATE us anymore we are so open to them yeknow?

also...it drives me insane when people say something is endless like space has no end....how tf do they know that? have they been to the end of space? just cause you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it’s not there? that’s just a stupid thought of mine because it bothers tf out of me like...they are sO sUrE there is no end to space because it “grows” but like¿¿ the government is a lying sack of manipulating politicians and that includes NASA sooooo...how tf do we know that’s true? they think they know shit but like i said THEY CANT EVEN CURE CANCER SO STFU you’re not all that lol

...i’m insane okay that’s my answer lol love you lunalove ❤️

[milkshakekitty]

The Rugrats Comics Are Actually Pretty Neat, Guys

Oml how did this end up so long??

So, I guess I've kinda been dragging my feet on reading them. I had only read the first one when it first came out, and was a little underwhelmed ngl. The original show is to this day one of my very favorites, so maybe my expectations were too high idk. But I recently found it again. And it is quality. Even if not quite measuring up to its source material, if anything, it has given us some quality meme material.

My favorite one thus far is #5 in which Grandpa gets a computer and is thus exposed to the internet world of conspiracy theories. He starts talking about the lizard people theories and "shape-shifting humanoids," fake moon landings, and aliens, all that good internet conspiracy stuff. Tommy starts to believe these theories, and it's so weird how hard the parents are working to convince their child that aliens and "s'eptillians" don't exist. Their one year old. It's great. There are so many weird expressions in these that almost every page had me laughing. And in one scene, in #6, when they're playing world history mini-golf, as another attempt by the parents to convince their actual infants that aliens don't exist, they made Chuckie do the anime glasses glare. Oh yeah, and they actually bring out the tinfoil hats. I think this one's actually the closest to the original in terms of style and story. And being a conspiracy theory nerd I loved it.

Here are some blessed screenshots. The quality's kinda wonky, sorry about that. That last one is from #3, it was just really funny to me for some reason so I added it

[thispabulum-blog]

Break the Ice: pt 2

Fuck it Friday

Today we'll check out the responses to the "icebreaker" questions I sent out last weekend. I've given it most of a week to collect responses, and I guess at this point I've gotten all I'm going to.

Let's see how it went, yes?

What's the weirdest food combination you enjoy?

I sent this message to 4 guys, and received 2 responses. The first told me he'd have to think about it, and eventually came up with

Probably eggs and syrup if im bein real

The second was

Oh geez. Zero idea. Give me yours.

Okay so honestly. If you're not going to bother answering the question, don't respond. This really bugs me.

If you had to give a TED Talk right now, what would it be on?

I sent this message to 9 guys; received 3 responses.

How important it is for me to get my dick sucked

He gets half a point because he did technically answer the question, but not in a way that made me want to have any continued conversation with him.

I never did think about that🤣🤣🤣 What would u talk about

Yawn.

…interesting….hmm…Why you should consider just hiring someone to do that home renovation you’re thinking of doing yourself.

I did talk to this guy for a bit. Presumably he does home renovation stuff professionally.

Would you rather take a trip to outer space, or in the deep seas?

I sent this message to 5 guys; received 1 response which was an underwhelming

tbh idk lol

So I definitely won't be using that one again.

What's an unpopular opinion that you secretly agree with?

I sent this message to 7 guys, received 4 responses.

I don’t secretly agree with anything. Open book on that. Politics is Fugazi

Sometimes you can just tell someone is going to be exhausting to talk to and it's better not to interact with them at all.

The man is head of the house hold

I mean, I asked for that, I guess. I didn't engage him too much because I didn't feel like arguing and I don't think it's fair to ask someone for a hot take and then attack them about it. But also...not really a person I want to continue talking to.

Uhhhhh, bullying can be a good thing and fat shaming can work. *shrug* hbu

I had actually talked to this guy a bit before and continued to do so, though I disagree.

And then one that was so aggressive I'm including a screenshot because I want you to know that this is a thing someone actually said. I'm leaving his name because screw that guy.

What's the most nonsensical item you own?

I sent this message to 5 guys, and got 2 responses.

I would say I have a glass keyboard that I have yet to use and I bought it some time ago. What about you?

This just sounds so unbelievably impractical.

Probably the strap on that I got from a white elephant gift exchange. But if I think of another I will let you know. What about you?

I talked to both of these guys for a while. I like this question.

What's your favorite conspiracy theory?

I sent this message to 6 guys, got 5 responses!

Oof idk lol I guess it depends on what would be considered conspiracy. I think we have contacted by aliens and our government covers it up. Ghosts are real not sure if that’s considered conspiracy lol

Got to talk to this guy about ghosts for a while, so that was nice.

The theory that the lottery is just a trap for time travelers

I had talked to this guy a bit before, and this was enough to get us back into conversation. I might meet up with him, question mark? I'm not 100% sold on it, but we'll call him T-Mobile.

Where do you live

Swing and a miss.

I'll be honest, I haven't thought too much about conspiracy theories but I do find it find it hard to believe that our government isn't making some kind of communication with extraterrestrial species

That's valid. I talked to this guy for a while and then blocked him for shallow reasons; I'm sorry I'm a terrible person sometimes.

Idk I think landing on the moon was fake I think the corona shot is actually a micro chip Wat bout urs

This is a lot like asking for hot takes in that I don't wanna argue with this guy, and I don't think he was joking.

What's the most ridiculous thing you believed as a child?

I sent this message to 6 guys, received one response.

That everyone finds love.

I know I love a good Sad Boy, but that was tough even for me. I did respond, though, because of course I did.

What's the strangest nickname you've ever been given and how did you earn it?

I sent this message to 5 guys, received 2 responses.

Haha Hmm I only have 1 nickname

Mmmm the truth is they only call me [redacted] and [redacted]

What have you ever chickened out of doing that you'd like to do now?

I sent this message to 5 guys, received one response.

I haven't. The only time I've stopped myself is when there's a moral qualm but 99% of the time if I want to, I'll just do or say it. Better to be honest about your intentions and desires than to throttle yourself and your interactions. What about you? Regret not doing something?

I have talked to this guy before, and to be honest he's really cute and sweet and genuine and interesting.

BUT I worry he's too serious, and that's such a turn-off.

What's something that you didn't enjoy at the time, but you look back on fondly?

I sent this message to 6 guys, received one response.

I'm not gonna include it here because it was kinda personal about his parents divorce, but we talked for a bit after that.

Anyway, that was an interesting experiment. What did I learn?

Asking people about unpopular opinions is a minefield and not the best way to start out a conversation.

It's easier to re-start abandoned conversations than to start new ones.

Ask people about conspiracy theories!

Have a good weekend! :D