These conspiracies hit the big time in the 2010s. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most prominent conspiracy theories that received mainstream recognition in the 2010s.
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00:00 President Trump believes climate change is a hoax. We know this because he has said it over and over again
00:06 Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most prominent
00:10 Conspiracy theories that received mainstream recognition in the 2010s, you know flat earthers
00:16 I guarantee it, but you don't know who they are because they're afraid of talking about it
00:20 Number 10 Melania Trump was replaced unless Melania has shrunk by about six inches and grown jowls overnight
00:29 This ain't her goes one tweet
00:31 There have been a lot of replacement theories as of late in
00:34 2011 a Brazilian blog called Avril esta morta
00:38 Theorized that pop star Avril Lavigne was replaced by a body double back in 2003
00:43 Aside from subliminal messaging in her music the biggest piece of quote-unquote
00:48 Evidence in regards to this theory is her altered physical appearance
00:51 This same conspiracy was later applied to first lady Melania Trump whom some believe was replaced for public appearances
00:59 Some saw Melania last Friday with the president on the South Lawn and thought some of her facial features didn't look like her whether she
01:06 Was dead or in hiding the real Melania was nowhere to be seen
01:09 Trump himself addressed these rumors calling them as he has so many things fake news and this time at least that was actually the
01:18 Case with business insider calling it quote a ridiculous conspiracy theory
01:22 There's an element of truth to the idea that she doesn't want to spend time with him
01:28 Number nine Nibiru will destroy Earth back in the early days of the internet there existed a website called
01:34 Zeta talk which was run by Nancy leader who claimed that she had contact with extraterrestrials
01:40 The earth is indeed a battleground between good and evil the self-focused want instant gratification
01:46 She asserted that a planet called Nibiru would pass close to earth and instigate a cataclysmic pole shift
01:53 Ending all life as we know it while this theory dates back to
01:57 1995 it was continuously revived throughout the 2010s the first instance was the end of the Mayan calendar in
02:04 2012 with many believing that Nibiru would destroy earth on December 21st. It's the apocalypse
02:10 in of days the judgment day the end of the world my friend and in
02:17 2017 an End Times conspiracist named David Meade revived the conspiracy to great media attention
02:24 Of course nothing happened and NASA was once again forced to confirm that Nibiru does not actually exist
02:30 Number eight 5g causes harmful health effects. Why are people afraid of 5g one word?
02:43 Radiation the idea that wireless signals will destroy our health has been around for a long time
02:49 Pretty much since wireless signals became commonplace the 5g is killing us all conspiracy achieved mainstream
02:55 Recognition when it was blamed for starting Kovac fueling fires on cell towers in recent weeks across Europe the United States
03:03 And now Canada, but the health scare actually predates the pandemic in
03:07 2019 the New York Times published an article blaming the Russian network RT America for spreading misinformation about 5g
03:15 According to RT the cellular network caused the likes of Alzheimer's autism and cancer of course none of this is true
03:22 But the conspiracy spread far and wide with cities like Brussels, Geneva and Mill Valley
03:28 Preventing the implementation of 5g networks
03:31 There's further no evidence that people living near 5g or other similar towers have increased risk of cancer other health concerns
03:39 Number seven pizza gate this case shows how fake news can lead to a dangerous situation back in
03:45 2016 the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair were hacked and published by WikiLeaks
03:50 Within these emails were alleged clues related to a secret human trafficking ring now called pizza gate the theory posits that
03:58 Powerful Democrats are running and engaging in a secret underground
04:02 Trafficking scheme the term pizza gate comes from a comet ping-pong a Washington pizzeria
04:08 That was said to be related to the scheme according to the folks with the spider eggs hatching in the brains
04:14 Clinton and Podesta have a series of smuggling tunnels that connect to the basement of this pizzeria
04:19 spread by conservative pundits and alt-right trolls the totally false conspiracy gained steam and had real-world implications in
04:28 2019 a small fire was started in the restaurant three years earlier a man shot a lock inside the restaurants to
04:35 Investigate a storage room. He was sentenced to four years in prison. How scary was the situation?
04:41 He allegedly pointed the gun in the direction of an employee and fired the weapon inside the restaurant number six the rise of anti-vaxxers
04:48 Much like the 5g debacle anti-vaxxing became an enormous problem during the kovat pandemic. There are
04:56 Pockets and insignificant pockets of the country where vaccines aren't happening because of those
05:03 You know the anti-vaxxers or whatever you want to call them, but the issue has unfortunately been around for a much longer time
05:11 Vaccines were first made mandatory in the mid 19th century and the idea was immediately met with resistance
05:16 The movement continues well into the 21st century and its consequences were made fiercely and scarily relevant in 2019
05:24 I felt like the worst of the two evils was to
05:28 Vaccinate them and have them have a negative reaction versus not vaccinate them and have them get sick for a week
05:34 That's when measles outbreaks saw a 300% increase from the previous year a sharp jump
05:40 That is largely blamed on the anti-vax movement. The vaccination rate is way below the World Health Organization
05:45 Recommendation the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963 and is now on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines
05:54 number five QA non conspiracy theory that you don't believe in
05:59 Remember the satanic panic of the 1980s remember how ridiculous that was
06:07 Well, this is the 21st century's version of that and it is equally ridiculous part cult part alt-right movement
06:14 Q anon posits that a group of powerful Satanists run a human trafficking ring and battled the Trump administration
06:19 Who aims to secretly arrest and execute its members?
06:23 It was far out of these beliefs say that celebrities and political elites actually farm children underground caves
06:29 So that they can drink blood which supposedly staves off aging
06:33 Trump is widely depicted as the savior in this narrative while the conspiracy originated on 4chan
06:38 It was mainly spread by its even worse and more underground counterpart 8chan
06:43 However, it found mainstream recognition once Russian and Chinese media got hold of the story Donald Trump
06:50 Retweeting QA non accounts certainly didn't help either update from the trenches. Keep red pelling keep going because it worked it's working
06:57 It's beautiful number four Jeffrey Epstein didn't end his own life
07:02 Epstein was dead, but EMTs
07:04 Inexplicably moved his body before investigators arrived on July 6th
07:09 2019 financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges of sex trafficking. He was dead just one month later
07:16 The official story is that Epstein was unwilling to face punishment and took his own life
07:21 But many people aren't buying it claiming that too many things don't add up
07:25 Including discrepancies in the story and a lack of proper prison procedure two guards sat just 15 feet from his cell
07:32 Failing to check on him
07:34 Prosecutors say the guards slept and shopped online the conspiracy theorists posit that Epstein held powerful secrets about powerful people
07:42 Who subsequently ordered a hit to ensure his silence?
07:46 numerous reports prove the widespread belief in this theory with a 2020 Rasmussen report showing that just
07:52 21% of Americans believe the official narrative
07:55 number three the flat earth movement and the earth is
08:00 Flat flat the earth is flat my reality my senses tell me that the earth is flat and stationary
08:06 We've known that the earth is round for millennia with ancient Greek thinkers like Pythagoras and Plato
08:11 Writing about a spherical earth and the idea quickly became commonplace
08:14 Point is we've known that the earth is round for well over 2,000 years yet
08:20 People still hold to the archaic belief that it's flat the internet was a huge boom for the flat earth movement
08:26 Which earned widespread prominence throughout the 2010s you know flat earthers?
08:30 I guarantee it, but you don't know who they are because they're afraid of talking about it
08:34 Celebrities like basketball player Kyrie Irving have espoused flat earth beliefs and the first flat earth conference was held in North Carolina in
08:46 2017 furthermore a YouGov poll conducted in 2018 showed that just two-thirds of Millennials
08:53 Believe that the earth is round. Let's hope that the rest were just trolling. It's it's probably the most
08:59 nonsensical suggestion that
09:02 the
09:04 thinking human being could possibly make it is
09:07 Drivel number two area 51 the US Air Force is warning more than 1 million people not to try and raid area
09:15 51 conspiracy theories develop around many government activities
09:19 They also develop around many secret places put them together
09:23 And you have the granddaddy of them all ever since the government acquired the site in the 1950s
09:29 Area 51 has been the subject of countless conspiracy theories with most of them involving aliens and UFOs
09:36 The base received widespread recognition in 2019 in the midst of the storm area 51 phenomenon
09:43 What started as a joke on Facebook quickly blossomed into a cultural event as millions of people?
09:48 Plans to storm the base and uncover its long hidden secrets. Some of them are just curious. They don't know what it's about others
09:55 Other people believe that they've been abducted other people believe they are actually
10:00 Aliens and they want to go out there to hopefully get back home in the end only about a hundred and fifty people showed up
10:07 No one got in and the event fizzled out with no mind-blowing reveals a bunch of
10:13 random people in weird costumes
10:15 standing outside of a government base
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10:34 Number one climate change is a hoax
10:39 30 years ago. No one spoke of climate change
10:42 In fact, no one spoke of fake news either yet today the pair are uneasy bedfellows
10:48 It seems like we've been getting a lot of weather related conspiracy theories as of late in
10:53 2021 one bizarre theory went viral claiming that Texas snow was quote created by the government
11:00 But that's nothing compared to the widespread belief that climate change is a hoax
11:04 President Trump believes climate change is a hoax
11:07 We know this because he has said it over and over again
11:11 Proponents of the theory argue that climate change is either outright fake or grossly over exaggerated
11:17 Most of these opinions stem from oil industry propaganda and far-right political outlets and they're having a huge effect on public opinion
11:25 People who are attacking science will take that element of the scientific method and use it to confuse the public
11:32 They'll say scientists have uncertainty. Therefore. They don't know anything that's going on between
11:37 2001 and 2012 American belief in this environmental issue fell from 75% to just
11:43 44% however, there was a brief resurgence in 2017 with 60% of Americans believing in climate change
11:50 Yet many people still find that a worrying number
11:54 Which of these theories do you think is the least plausible?
11:57 Let us know in the comments below what we don't need is Denise from Facebook telling everyone that cell phones are going to give
12:03 Them cancer or that 5g is a mind control experiment
12:07 Denise seriously
12:09 Give it a rest
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