I think I read somewhere that the Flat Earth Society was started as a debate club, based on the premise of arguing in favour of the dumbest and most thoroughly disproven viewpoint they could think of; Earth being flat. And now it's a popular fringe theory. I wonder if the same will happen with Birds Aren't Real.
In 2018, Mr. McIndoe dropped out of college and moved to Memphis. To build Birds Aren’t Real further, he created a flyer that shot to the top of Reddit. He hired an actor to portray a former C.I.A. agent who confessed to working on bird drone surveillance; the video has more than 20 million views on TikTok. He also hired actors to represent adult bird truthers in videos that spread all over Instagram.
That’s a whole different kind of career path. I feel so old right now.
I love this. It's such a quintessential modern american story.
Go GenZ trolling the conspiracy nuts. I feel like this form of absurdist character performance can be very cathartic, effective art to get people thinking and seeing how bonkers things are. Big fan.
I think I read somewhere that the Flat Earth Society was started as a debate club, based on the premise of arguing in favour of the dumbest and most thoroughly disproven viewpoint they could think of; Earth being flat. And now it's a popular fringe theory. I wonder if the same will happen with Birds Aren't Real.
God tier de-escalation
That’s a whole different kind of career path. I feel so old right now.
I love this. It's such a quintessential modern american story.
Go GenZ trolling the conspiracy nuts. I feel like this form of absurdist character performance can be very cathartic, effective art to get people thinking and seeing how bonkers things are. Big fan.
Birds aren't real!