Conspiracies, Cocktails, and Carmen's FYP
Every wonder what a research of conspiracy theories FYP looks like?
This week’s conspiracy theories requires a special cocktail: The Trash Panda Old Fashioned. To make this drink add half an ounce of brown sugar syrup, two dashes of Angostura bitters, and two ounces of rye whiskey (if we were not boycotting American spirits I would really suggest bourbon) into a mixing glass. Add ice to the glass and stir. Strain the mixture into a rocks glass over ice. To finish, add a pinch of brown sugar and enjoy.
Conspiracy theories are often accepted as believable or as an explanation for what is happening when the world seems chaotic and one disaster after another is occurring. If we take a moment and scroll through the news it really does appear as though there are many horrible things happening. This week my FYP was filled with people focused on the negative. From warnings to begin prepping for something horrible on the horizon, aliens, end times, and dark scenarios my feeds were dark AF. (yes, that is an academic term)
The fear of new technology linked to conspiracy theories is not a new phenomenon, but this week we had some wild posts. There are endless posts on social media of people asking AI questions and getting terrifying answers. Personally having marked endless essays submitted by students and written by AI, I put have very little belief in anything AI shares. It’s all incredibly horrible slop, and these videos of people who are having long philosophical conversations with AI are basically just making creepypasta audible. I scroll past these posts very quickly because to be honest life seems pretty damn frightening as it is we do not need slop to make it worse. Having said that, there were some amazing conspiracies and dark theories about tech this week.
The World Cup is one of the only sporting events I am vested in. I will admit without Italia being in the cup this year (again) I was not as interested as I usually am. The corruption, the “Peace prize,” and questionable referee calls all had me moving farther away as well. FIFA conspiracy theories though, they have given me some joy around a series a used to love. One conspiracy is that the earthquake in Venezuela was linked to the exact moment that David Beckham sipped his red wine on camera. That second was when the earthquake began. This apparently was foretold in The Economist’s cover for it’s forecast of 2026. There is a glass of spilled red wine in the bottom quadrants of the circle, that many believe represents the month of June.
Other theories compare the woman in the red dress in the picture to the woman in red in the film The Matrix and Natalie Harp an executive assistant to Trump. In the image the world is presented as a soccer ball and that plays heavily in the conspiracy theories, oddly all of which include Ronaldo. So many images of Trump with him! Weird one of the hosts of the World Cup would connect with one of the greatest players (well for not being an Italia player). Also odd that it was Messi who was the cornerstone of almost every FIFA conspiracy theory. Messi is also linked to fallen angels as well. In fact he is a fallen angel who has the exact same facial features of Christian Bale, of Batman fame. I do have to say if you were an angel, fallen or not, why would you choose to play for any team other than Italia? Conspiracy debunked!
There was one other “man” who made more conspiracy theories than Messi, a strange seven foot tall person standing behind Trump.
This person is described as a “creature” wearing a human mask who was interacting with world leaders. Some conspiracists believe that the being was from 3I/Atlas. A psychic from Brazil had claimed that a UFO would land during a world cup game, perhaps they were just guests Infantino invited to try to get them to buy into his selling of FIFA to the Trump family.
Data centres, flock cameras, and of course CERN were prevalent this week as well. A trope that was consistent was that the elites are preparing for the end times. Concepts that data centres are for those who are already living below the ground. They have the water, they have all the funds (which really what use is that underground), and they are going to watch the demise of everyone else. When the power goes out, the end begins. Others are having conversations with intelligence officers in bars and learning that the end is near. I am pretty chatty in bars and I am quite sad I never get the intelligence officers chatting with me, instead I get the right wing racist who wants to tell me how the world really works. These same elites and wealthy people are apparently ordering copious amounts of dry foods, generators, and water tanks from Amazon and prepping for something.
The world is coming to an end and the elites are preparing. Perhaps the wealthy met up with an intelligence officer in their fancy bars? Who is behind all of this? Why is is happening? I think I have discovered the answer: Raccoons. The Trash Pandas are not really animals! According to one channel on Instagram, the raccoons are being controlled by the American government. Jimothy? He is a creation of Pete Hegseth. Eventually the raccoons will take over, they will be armed with weapons, and rabies to slaughter us all! In fact it is predicted by the raccoons will be running the world. Perhaps I am cynical but the world being run by raccoons might be better than whatever the hell this is right now.