This is really smart.
Extreme-ophilia is its own kind of very modern and very online ideology.
It's a lot of fun (one gathers) being an anti-institutional guru who guides—and is cheered on by—an audience thru conspiracies and crankish enthusiasms.
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This is good and SO on point.
It's wild to watch people start out largely sane, then gradually grow their audience.
Next thing you know, it's vaccine skepticism with a side of crypto and cold showers and infrared saunas.
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Yep. Their entire mantra seems to try and be different & interesting by being demonstrably wrong about all subjects.
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