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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do Flat Earth and/or religious apologetics do well on TikTok?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Kind of? I remember a statistic about pseudo-science being more popular with younger generations. Energy healing, healing stones and all that other homeopathic bullshit. Assuming that is indeed correct, Flat Earth is likely more popular too.

It probably does okay simply by virtue of being so stupid, there aren't many people in their right mind producing videos about the earth being round to drown them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's good that some refute their points just for fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course younger generations are more likely to believe in pseudo science, they haven't yet learned that they are bullshit. Once they get older and have more experience with detecting bullshit, it's popularity should decline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe, but I think it will remain more popular than before. Let's say there are 10% of people in any given group who would theoretically believe bullshit - the number is chosen randomly. Thanks to stuff like TikTok they are way more likely to come into contact with lots of different bullshit to believe in than ever before.

Kind of like how Republicans would be more popular if everyone would watch Fox News every day.