People's Favorite Lighter Conspiracy Theories

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Eric Lund
Jul 17, 2021 2:00 PM EDT

We can talk about what shady underground group is doing what where, but the conspiracies people really believe in are about game shows, traffic cones and Disney attractions. They're not exactly inconsequential, maybe more of a thought experiment. Hey, it's at least fun to turn to a coworker and say "have you heard that small pockets are in bed with big purse?" Here are people's creepiest theories on the nature of reality.

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  • 01
    Font - Redmen1212 - 6d · edited 6d Wheel of Fortune gets contestants just as smart as Jeopardy but weed out the smart ones and choose folks with average IQ. A few smart ones break through here and there but 90% are somewhat dense.
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    Font - fappyday 6d G 3 e & 2 More Big Purse is in bed with small pockets. 9.1k 5 Reply Share Report Save Not-your-lawyer- - 6d A huge number of clothing companies also make handbags. It's not so much that they're in league together, it's that Small Pocket IS Big Purse.
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    Hair - -Dawn__Amber__ · 6d S PETA acts so insane and petty at times that I believe it is run by meat industries to make animal rights activists look bad.
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    Font - marasaidw · 6d S New coke was a cover for switching to high fructose corn syrup
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    Rectangle - Adagii - 6d 9 e CSI television shows purposely over play the forensic capabilities of various law enforcement departments to help project an image of total competence.
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    Font - plasmasphinx · 6d I was going to a mega-church that kept expanding in a poor part of town, buying up all the property around it. There was a laundromat that was a hold- out, wouldn't sell for anything. One night, that laundromat burned down. The church graciously helped them clean up the site, then they finally sold. It's not a stretch at all to see what really happened.
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    Font - Friend-Beast · 6d - edited 6d 4@3 S5 3 That Disney was confident that Clinton would win the 2016 election so they had already completed the animatronic for the Hall of Presidents, but then Trump won so they sloppily altered the Clinton animatronic to look sort of like him. Edit: https://i.redd.it/jnt2n5sj6vm51.jpg| Be the judge for yourself.
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    Human body - Evouru - 6d · edited 4d S 2 That the killer clowns of 2016 was originally a promotion for It, but it got out of hand
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    Organism - Iamdog14 - 6d - edited 6d A My mom has a theory that whenever a contestant on 'Wheel of Fortune' gets greedy and spins, when the puzzle is clearly easily solvable, they manipulate the wheel to land on "bankrupt". Also whenever there is a good looking girl on, she believes they manipulate the game so that girl wins
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    Smile - -eDgAR- - 6d e 3 The reason Disney came out with a movie called "Frozen" was so that when you Googled "Disney frozen" you would get search results about the movie and not about Walt Disney supposedly being cryogenically frozen.
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    Font - sharpshot877 · 6d S 3 E 1: the uncanny valley, people are afraid of human like things that aren't human which suggests that at some point in our history we had a reason to be afraid of something that looked human but wasn't. 2: the dark forest theory, in a forest at night it's filled with sounds of night life insects birds and other creatures but when there's a predator it's silent because everything is hiding, what if the reason we haven't been contacted by anything in space is because e
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    Font - THE-Pink-Lady 6d · edited 6d 2 You're talking to bots way more often than you think. Edit: Hmm this got more upvotes than I expected, that's reassuring, although I don't think it hurts to be reminded. On another note. Something to consider is that when you post things publicly there's a chance that what you say is getting picked up and fed to an algorithm to teach AI. So your voice is being added to the tapestry in some small way. Just another thing to ponder while online. "Is this a bot?
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    Font - Electrical_Potato_21 · 6d 26 4 3 & 5 More Big companies use Reddit and other social media to normalise shady behaviour. It seems every time news breaks about a company doing something shady, the top comments on Reddit are always along the lines of: "Well duh! We've known this for years!" So instead of outrage, the news are met with apathy, and there's a feeling that you can't change the system anyway.
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    Smile - BatarianBob - 6d S The government had a hand in creating and/or popularizing some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories in order to make questioning the official story seem inherently crazy by association.
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    Font - Buffasippi - 6d 3 2 The measuring lines on your detergent container are way more than you actually need so you use it faster and buy more detergent. If your towels smell musty after you wash and dry them it is because of all the excess soap that didn't rinse out.
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    Font - Darmok47 · 6d The one about mattress stores being money laundering fronts, even though they're not really cash businesses. It is strange that you'll see two or three giant mattress stores all near each other, yet how often does the average person buy a mattress? Once a decade? I guess the more conventional explanation is that the markup on mattresses is so insanely high that you only need to sell a few per week to make money. I still think there's something fishy going on in those stores
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    Font - MrSexyPizza3 - 6d Human cloning has already been done or attempted. We cloned a sheep named dolly in 1996, and humans aren't that much different to sheep in their early blastocyst or embryonic development. Some government agency has probably cloned a human and are watching over that person right now.
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    Font - jchristsproctologist - 6d 2 toothpaste companies show more toothpaste than necessary on toothbrushes on tv commercials to make you think you need more of it in each brush, thus taking away your money faster
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    Smile - MickAndShorty · 6d Buildings are deliberately created to be ugly so that they don't get heritage status and the owners can knock it down later.
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    Font - TheChumChair 6d Netflix paid marketers to make memes about the movie Bird Box back in 2018(?) That movie was wayyyyy too f' ..:ing average for people to talk about it as much as they supposedly did.
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    Smile - Samm092 · 6d Area 51 was a conspiracy theory started by the US government to lead The Soviet Union into falsely believing that the US had alien technology during the Cold War
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    Rectangle - kilillan · 6d There is no way the 50/50 Ilifeline on Who Wants to be a Millionaire is completely random. It always leaves the two choices the contestant was talking about
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    Smile - cardiosc · 6d 2 e Have you ever seen your neighbor bring in grocery's before? Idk if it's a conspiracy but in my 28 trips around the sun, I never have.
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    Font - MasteringTheFlames · 6d - edited 6d The US military secretly buys massive amounts of glitter as a countermeasure against enemy radar systems. One of the top posts of all time in r/unresolvedmysteries discusses an article where an executive at a glitter manufacturer is interviewed. When asked about the company's largest customer, the interviewee goes to great lengths to avoid so much as discussing the industry that customer is a part of, not to mention naming an actual company. But along t
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    Rectangle - Andrius2014 · 6d Someone paid off someone so there are no paprika flavor potato chips in Lithuania in all| major supermarkets but one. 3 months ago you could find it anywhere and it was like the 3rd or 4th most popular, I think.
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    Font - bitchyturtlewhispers · 6d Modern art is often a money laundering front. The number of paintings that look like they took about five minutes to make, that are then sold to 'private collectors' for millions is just too suspicious. It's shady and I don't like it.
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    Font - casey_the_evil_snail - 6d I think the trend where you show a picture of yourself now versus 10 years ago was promoted if not invented by Facebook owned social media companies in order to train artificial intelligence to be able to recognize and analyze how faces age.
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    Font - -eDgAR- - 6d The government was behind "#ThrowbackThursday" so they could get people to upload pictures they never would have had access to in order to help them improve age progression/face recognition algorithms.
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    Font - AnonymousBoiFromTN - 6d Im so ready for this. I worked with an extreme conspiracy nut. Me and my Crew leader at the time were joking about how crazy our coworker was. I then asked him "Hey man, are there any conspiracy theories you believe?" He said "i have one i came up with". Basically the town he lived in is right next to mine. The town he lived in also was always having roads blocked off for construction. Like every day there is a road blocked off somewhere, and its a pretty small tow
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