https://www.reddit.com/r/SaturnStormCube/comments/wqqywq/meta_wth_is_going_on_with_this_sub/

It's a weird phenomenon that's not unique to here, as you say. The r/Missing411 sub was dedicated to investigating missing people in national parks, and skeptical of the role the parks service plays in it. It's now modded by people employed by the parks service who gatekeep what people say about them and bag/mock the guy who started it. It's bizarre, but has been "their" modus operandi for milennia: overtake and subvert from the inside- like true parasites.

For example, there are countless conspiracy theories concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and likewise since there are so many theories purporting to explain anomalies surrounding the event -- the net "real world" effect of all these theories is zero.

Compounding this net zero effect on society are all the thousands of related and completely unrelated conspiracy theories which, in the main, contradict, complicate and generally overwhelm any logical attempt to change the world views of society to any significant degree. The vast soup of rumor, mystery and innuendo renders the most evil of ideas to the realm of harmless pastime.

But, what if the rapid acceleration of information delivered by the internet now allows this vast soup of theories to solidify? What would be the greatest danger from a conspiracy theory which began to explain and refute everything? Thousands of individual theories are now bounced back and forth across the earth, and in a process not unlike natural selection, bits and pieces which the global public does not wish to accept are discarded, modified or expounded upon as time passes. Rightly or wrongly a single and ever encompassing conspiracy theory can begin to take shape. The greater the number of people beginning to believe -- the more input and refinement the conspiracy receives -- and even greater numbers of people begin to believe -- and so on.