Popular conspiracy theories are psyops to either discredit people, movements or ideas

The government spent a lot of time and energy pumping up UFO conspiracy theories to hide sightings of classified aircraft, and they're getting pumped up again in the age of developing cheap weaponized drones.

I would not be surprised that the whole human sex trafficking and Qanon related conspiracy theories are also psyops to hide what's actually going on in plain sight. Obviously, Hillary Clinton wasn't trafficking kids in the basement of a pizza parlor, but there is literally a cabal of elite sex trafficking pedophiles that own and run everything, and one of them is the president.

Hey man, some of us find it funny when millionaire pirates get scammed by another millionaire pirate in a Coen brothers-esque scheme where everyone's greed gets them fucked in the end. Throw them all in the brig

He defrauded his investors. As much as I find that funny, what he did was a white collar crime that has consequences.

Counterpoint: https://reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/

People will prefer the bots that give them head pats and tell them they're so smart and that they love them