There’s no such thing as a mountain, they’re just optical illusions caused by light refracting off all the mind-altering chemicals in the air. Mandy is a guy who does historic and geographical archival work as a profession, and goes by "Lord Mandalore" on Twitter.

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And if you can have a tagline about Flat Earth in a TikTok video, or you can highlight right up front that that’s what’s coming, people are going to stick around on that video because it’s just too weird not to watch.But in recent years, thanks to the advent of social media, Flat Earth theory has gained increasing prominence, and has even been espoused by prominent figures like NBA star Kyrie Irving.

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A larger Flat Earth group told BuzzFeed News they believe this group may have perceived the dinosaur meme as "hostile. It involved elaborate calculations and used other tools to find the correct answer, which we have all known for centuries now.

It's also been shown in studies that the more you try and prove them wrong the more they will believe in it since, iirc, the mere act of trying to prove them wrong lends "credibility" to their claim. When it’s not immediately clear that your worldview rules out space dinosaurs, your worldview may have some issues. As far as YouTube goes, YouTube is the primary vector for flat-Earth, at least when it was coming up starting 2014 onward. News outlets contribute, too, because explainers about the flat Earth conspiracy do incredible traffic. However, thanks to scientific breakthroughs, we ultimately learned that it was spherical, debunking the notion that the Earth was flat.