The early 2010s were a more innocent time for conspiracy theorists. Before Q and Facebook dragged everybody’s weird uncle into the Pizzagate vortex and COVID annihilated what was left of their shattered psyches, you could believe in outlandish and bizarre things that didn’t necessarily make you a mass shooter waiting to happen. Like, remember the Mandela Effect? It was a real Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon of a conspiracy theory, something that could only bubble up into popular consciousness in a pre-Trump, pre-pandemic, pre-collapse of digital media era.

Back then, we used to have fun wackos in this country, relatively harmless idiots who believed that their strongly-held memories of Sinbad being in a movie where he played a genie were evidence of time-space shenanigans rather than the inherent fallibility of the human brain.

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