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I don't have any numbers on this, but I'm certain lots of "flat-eathers" are just trolls that enjoys annoying people who tries to act smug and smart, but in act
by runald 5y ago
I don't have any numbers on this, but I'm certain lots of "flat-eathers" are just trolls that enjoys annoying people who tries to act smug and smart, but in actuality failed to get the humour behind the flatness of earth. Anyone who is seriously trying to argue with flat-earthers have a very low bar for intelligence. Which is not to say that there aren't actual dumb people who actually believe the earth is flat, but I reckon those people are far below the minority.
- sammalloy 5y ago> I'm certain lots of "flat-eathers" are just trolls that enjoys annoying people That was true up to the late 1990s, but it became a real phenomenon, particularly among religious people in the 2000s with the rise of YouTube.
- MrPatan 5y agoAnd you can find videos with ex-flat earthers saying "I was wrong, it's round". Now look for the same kind of videos in other categories. Which I'm not going to name here so as not to offend HN's sensibilities, but yeah, that one.
- runald 5y agoI can't seem to find such videos, but regardless, how many videos are there? How many of those are actually just fabricated to attract views? I'm really skeptical if there's really a whole community of flat-earthers. There are people profiting from this flat earth drama. See the youtuber "professor dave" for example. He gets an average of <50K views, except his flat earth videos which got 1M to 8M views.