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I feel like it's been memory holed, but I remember 00's flat earth being genuinely smart people using it to illustrate the ridiculousness of teaching creation beside evolution, which was a push around that time. It was a Church of Satan style mockery, but I guess the arguments were too convincing.
I member... i learned of it from a vsauce video i watched when it first dropped. Was mindblown years later when ppl were touting the flat earth society seriously. Their tagline was literally, "We Have Members Around the Globe!"
Poe's Law
This is what happened at the Donald on reddit. It was a place to meme Trump's idiotic presidential bid. But as soon as he got real chance at the election it was soon overran by the MAGA crowd.
People keep saying this and I think it's bullshit.
If anything, the fascists were so stupid from the get-go that sane people thought they were joking.
I think a more accurate retelling is that the memes were fun before Trump was a serious threat.
I love that...and hate it passionately
;)
The smart people may have started it, but the dumb people listened and took it as gospel.
Watch out, there will be a true church of Pastafarianism before we die.
RAMEN BROTHER, PRAISED BE HIS NOODLY APPENDAGE!
I'm kinda hoping for a Cthulu Church myself. Can you imagine how cool the aesthetics of the building would be?
Only place I could find this
I need to become an author, create a Cthulu religion, buy lots of boats, and an island with a giant Cthulu statue with no explanation to keep it a mystery. I'll build a church and instruct everyone to stay away from the island. Inside the statue I'll pay a person to sell merchandise...
Hopefully they stick to the ~~10~~ 8 condiments
Does the subgenious still exist? That's one deep rabbit hole from what I recall
It was a weird blend of that and true believers. Then the people there for the joke of it all got weirded out by the crazies and left.
I recall it being an argument in a high school debate club or someother which made it's way onto 4chan and found supporters, who then proceeded to do what 4chan does best, and troll people/targets of their derision. Basically they assumed no one was stupid enough to believe it and were shockingly surprised.
I remember it being trolls on 4chan.
It started out as something like that... I could have sworn it was poking holes in Holocaust denialism?