QAnon started as a gag on 4chan and then ate the Republican Party because it was too on the nose. 4chan itself is a great example - it used to be "ironically" r

QAnon started as a gag on 4chan and then ate the Republican Party because it was too on the nose. 4chan itself is a great example - it used to be "ironically" racist, now it's just racist racist, and that's the joke. And I was listening to a Behind the Bastards podcast about the history of the Illuminati and how a lot of the modern conspiracy beliefs about the Illuminati come from the Discordian movement parodying conspiracy beliefs. On the one hand you have to appreciate when people game so hard they manifest a zeitgeist entirely out of their own irony-poisoned fart clouds, but on the other hand we no longer have the level of education or degree of critical thinking to offset the nonsense, nor any kind of consensus reality to tether ourselves to, and the people who believe in the flat earth and Jewish space lasers are everywhere now, and that just kind of sucks.