So When, Exactly, Did Conspiracy Culture Stop Being Fun?

Rani Baker
11 min readOct 20, 2022

“I’m an X-Files Kid… you know what I mean? I’m a late-90s conspiracy guy. Man, conspiracy culture used to be fun. It used to not be so malicious and cruel. Area 51, Fish-Human hybrids… Roswell. I mean, it was kind of fluffy in it’s own way. It didn’t really hit, it didn’t really matter at the end of the day what’s at Area 51. It was a mystery box we could all have fun with. And there was a…

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