Bird Aren't Real: What one man learned when he made up a conspiracy theory

https://archive.ph/oMttj

birds aren't necessarily real

I remember when I heard "Birds are not real", I thought many of the people really believed it so I just said to myself "these people are nuts". I then Ignored everything about that thinking this is just another crazy group of people.

Even though a lot of Andy's humor went way over my head, I believed he was a genius. Seems this kid is a genius in the way Andy was.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real

Unfortunately, it's not all fun and games with the Birds Aren't Real meme. It's been a few years since I looked into it, but if you look at the regular accounts on reddit that participate in that sub, there is a very heavy overlap with other less fun conspiracies and degeneracy, such as hate subs, Trump supporters, actual flat-earthers, and other deplorables.

Racists, Nazis, and other hate groups often use jokes and irony and other systems of plausible deniability to act as cover and deflect consequences for thier behavior.