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I was sent a YouTube video that was blatantly fake. Five seconds in I closed it and moved on. But I got curious.

I went back to the video and checked the channel. It has 7.4 million subscribers. It uploads 4 or 5 times a day. At least two 3 hours videos, and a couple short ones. All videos are generated with a voice over. All those that I have checked have comments with real people in them. This battle is already lost.

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Morbid curiosity: would you be willing to share a link to that channel?

FWIW, I've gone down the rabbit hole of flat-earthers to try and understand what the appeal is (spoiler: it's often some variant of "if the Earth were a ball hurtling through space, that would be too terrifying")... maybe I should just stay away from this one :D

I didn't really want to link them. But here @sympa_fr on youtube. Note it's in french.

I was trolling as flat earther a little bit in my youth when the internet was more innocent. I thought it was mostly trolls and some strange people?

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