You're mainstream and you didn't even know it.
Think Star Wars & Dungeons and Dragons suck now? Maybe Witcher, or film noir, or (formerly) niche sports like BJJ or Judo? How about niche sites like 4Chan. They all started like punk music, a niche rebellion thing, now you have Tucker and Musk being in charge of things and pretending that they are still the rebels. They are the machine they rage against.
Soon it's going to suck worse than it does now.
The result, to be a real conspiracy theorist you'll engage in even more fringe shit.
I burned all of my RATM albums after their vax mandate concerts bullshit. They used to be one of my favorite bands. Fuck those posers!
Sell outs, man, really sick of it.