• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    8 months ago

    What is up with the recent uptick in Space clickbait on YouTube? I've been getting these too.

    A lot of "THEY LIED TO US" with pictures of Neil Degrass Tyson photoshopped to be crying

    • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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      8 months ago

      It's QAnon shit for apolitical dipshits who can't even be bothered to care about actual politics.

      • voight [he/him, any]
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        8 months ago

        People are just talking about space lasers with a straight face it's wild. Climate change denial shit.

        • voight [he/him, any]
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          8 months ago

          it makes sense because it goes smack dab in the middle of the venn diagram of: credulous science fake news consumer / Q / new age christian prosperity gospel / astrology / starseed alien cult / hollow earth mud floods / space laser climate change denial people

          i've seen videos with big glowing red laser thumbnails get voted up on lemmy hopefully just clickbait and not the shit that got weirdos in the park talking to me about how wildfires are fake

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      8 months ago

      tbf Neil Degrass Tyson did lie to people all the time about all kinds of shit, the guy just said whatever he felt like

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      It's just the sequel to the clickbait videos about rogue AI with Elon Musk crying in the thumbnail