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This is rather uncanny timing as Youtube has been "suggesting" flat earth videos to me despite my never once having had any interest nor watched any videos abou
by indigochill 7y ago
This is rather uncanny timing as Youtube has been "suggesting" flat earth videos to me despite my never once having had any interest nor watched any videos about it or tangential topics. Something seems fishy.
And I mean, I find the notion that you could mathematically justify a flat earth by rebuilding a different system of geometry that made it "true" within that system and then seeing what all the other consequences of that system would be pretty entertaining (same with the heliocentric vs geocentric model, though that one's easier and even beautiful - Venus's orbit, for instance, makes a rosette sort of shape if you use Earth as your frame of reference rather than the sun). But still, it's not something I've ever looked at on YouTube (or Google more generally) so I have no idea why I'm now seeing videos about it while watching primarily music videos.
- mercer 7y agoAre you by any chance an (American) Evangelical Christian? Or have you been watching videos in that general 'area'? I truly don't mean this to offend, but my experience with that particular denomination is that it's rife with all kinds of 'out-there' theories, ranging from anti-vax to young-earth creationism to harry-potter-gives-you-demons to various apocalyptic anti-christ-will-rise beliefs. I can sort of imagine that YouTube might make some connection between those 'out-there' beliefs (leaving aside whether they're true or reasonable or not) and flat-eartherism, regardless of how different they might be in their out-there-ness. Again, I'm not saying this to offend or imply that Christians are inclined to be flat-earthers; the vast majority of them that I know are not. I'm just really curious how you might be getting flat-earth videos and this was the first thing that came to mind.