First of all, you don't have to believe everyone's opinions, but at least entertain the idea with an open mind.
I'll start with mine. I've been following conspiracies somewhat since the loose change movie about 911 when I was a kid but I was generally asleep to most other things. Mine happened last summer when I'd open Facebook or Instagram and everywhere I looked I'd be bombarded with some girl named Greta Thunberg, everyone praising her like some prophet of God or something. It got so bad that I finally asked myself why is every media station cramming this down my throat? Why do they want me swallow this up so bad? So that's where I started researching, I found a website called realclimatescience and started reading his research and articles. It was actually real scientific research and mentions facts that no other media has told me. I won't get too specific on all this but after a lot of research I came to the conclusion that I've been lied to about the climate crisis. Massively. By so many different institutions and media companies, it's mind boggling to comprehend that so many people are either in on the lie, or have also been duped by it. This started another awakening. From then on, I learned that when the mainstream media are all forcing the same narrative all over, you should always question it, and basically, lean in the opposite direction. Next thing I know, covid happens, then George Floyd, then the election. Once you catch on and wake up to the lies, they're easy to spot.
For whoever read the whole thing, I'd be happy to go deeper into anything I mentioned that you disagree with. Otherwise, what's the story of you waking up to the lies?
After 9/11 I remember the Discovery Channel was to put on a program addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on 9/11. I watched it, and not one of the 'theories' addressed I had ever heard, and they were the most outlandish and poorly thought out conspiracies ever contrived.
Then it hit me. They are literally not going to address the real conspiracies. They set up this straw man and painted everything that went against the narrative as stupid. They weren't allowed to even recognise anything counter narrative.
Nobody bought it, just like no one believes Joe Biden won or Epstein killed themselves. But in 15 years, what's going to be on record?