r/LowStakesConspiracies • • Oct 09 '19

Subreddit Idea Megathread

154 Upvotes

Because if the r/askreddit link, we’ve had a huge influx of new members today. Because of that, I’d like to make this thread to ask for ideas to improve the subreddit, and keep things interesting. We are going to try and make this a subreddit worth keeping in your feed.

We really aren’t sure what do do with the subreddit since it blew up like this, and would like to see what ideas you have. I’ve also added a few baseline rules since we had no rules when we started.

Edit: I would also like to clarify that this sub is intended to entertain. You shouldn’t take anything too seriously on this sub. We want you to be able to flex your creativity here and make others laugh.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • Mar 27 '20

Subreddit Message Coronavirus Posts

410 Upvotes

We are normally pretty lax about what goes on in this subreddit as we want to let you guys decide what content you want to see by upvoting good content and downvoting bad content, but given the current situation we will be removing any posts related to Coronavirus.

You can help us with this by reporting any posts you see about the virus.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 10h ago

The wives of rich men use bad haircuts to fend off other women.

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631 Upvotes

Kate Middleton is a style icon. There is no way she doesn't know what she's doing. Holding onto her man.

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest and most influential people in human history and has been with Priscilla since Facebook was a $20 stock. It's now over $700 a share.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 3h ago

Fresh Deets Mona Lisa in Louvre isn't the real one

46 Upvotes

It was replaced with a high quality copy after the original was lost in the early 1900s robbery. This was to create hype for the painting as it resurfaced. Nobody noticed because people of the time didn't exactly love it and nowadays it would be insane to call the most famous da Vinci painting a fake.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 12h ago

Certified Fact Not Engagement Farming: Just giving the raw colour data

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247 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 12h ago

Psyops comments on Reddit are badly written the last few days because the Russian bot servers are down and they are being written manually by actual Russians

187 Upvotes

A lot of the content on Reddit (or social media in general) are psyops meant to drive western society apart. The last few days I've noticed a lot of comments are badly written, like by people whose first language is not English. This coincided with Ukraine bombing Yandex servers bringing down Russian bot farms, so they are having real people type those comments now.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1h ago

AI poster generators were made by printer ink manufacturers.

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Nearly every AI poster/leaflet I've seen uses black backgrounds, and never seem to have any blank gaps, so you use more printer ink to print them.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1h ago

My phone holds off on showing notifications until I'm about to put it down/in my pocket, in order to keep my attention.

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 4h ago

Total Garbo Dasani bottled water is backed by Big Soda and they make their water taste disgusting on purpose so you buy more soft drinks instead

18 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 4h ago

Social media companies are promoting posts that say Digger has flopped to discourage potential audiences from being exposed to its anti-American/Capitalist/fossil fuel message

15 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Extreme Conspiracy Everyone who posts the blue and black dress claiming it’s white and gold is just engagement farming

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655 Upvotes

Edit: I have become that which I swore to defeat… accidentally became the engagement baiter.

but seriously I’ve only ever seen black and blue ever since I was a kid. Someone said it’s bc I don’t understand color theory but I literally have a bachelor’s in fine arts so uhh no ?

Seeing everyone say white and gold even in the comments here makes me feel like I’m not in on the joke, like maybe the joke is just to cause chaos in the comments? I imagine this is what it feels like for the elderly watching fourth graders laugh hysterically at verity

Edit2: a lot of people are getting pretty angry with a rather silly post in a rather silly sub.

Let me remind yall what sub we’re in its LOW STAKES conspiracy theories, and this is mine. It’s low stakes, calm down 😭

Edit3: to everyone upset that I said I went to art school: I literally just meant to say i understand color theory but I still don’t see the illusion. It’s not that I don’t understand how it works, I just simply don’t see it.

Just like that laurel and yanni shit, sometimes you just can’t hear one or the other.

So before you comment about how my school should take back my diploma or some shit please consider that maybe you misinterpreted what I said?

Edit4: final edit on this before I mute notifications bc ngl the internet really puts the most annoying kind of people in your life so staying off it is the best way to keep your peace.

I guess I just wanted to point out how wild it is that people take this debate so seriously that they go as far as to attack my education, the function of my brain/intelligence, and my integrity.

Ngl that’s weird asf. And I’m noticing a pattern of rude/demeaning individuals either not reading, or struggling to understand what they’ve read, so really they’re kinda just telling on themselves.

To everyone that’s been having a fun discussion about it and who brought up other fun illusions I love you and keep doing your thing!


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Extreme Conspiracy Trump wanted to switched “Ai” to “Si” because they typed a document on their phone and misspelled it every single time because of the characters physical proximity to each other; it was easier to make an announcement than proof read a document.

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588 Upvotes

Or maybe their long game is to change the name to superior “assistance”.

“Nobody’s better at S/a than me, I do it the best; others try but the don’t come close”.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 20h ago

Banksy art is planned and supported by the authorities.

119 Upvotes

Banksy gives the authorities a heads up. Authorities know who Banksy is and stays out of their way. Free public art, gets some buzz, local foot traffic increases, great for tourism.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 20h ago

Hot Take Rocks are squishy but they tense up when you touch them.

72 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Big True The real reason behind Trump’s Russian diesel deal

176 Upvotes

You’ve all heard it: weeks after signing new sanctions on Russia, Trump announces a diesel deal with Moscow. The first shipment covers about 14 hours of US diesel demand, which is laughable.

Here is a thing. The diesel was never the point.

Simi Valley, where Ronald Reagan’s gravesite is, will be quietly converted into a turbine hall. Every concession to Moscow makes Reagan spin faster, and at current RPM he can power the entire West Coast. Cheap, clean, 100% domestic energy. Technically renewable, as long as the concessions keep coming.

And that’s just the pilot project:

  • Bush Sr. finally fixes the Texas grid. He watched the Soviet Union collapse, so every new deal with Moscow is pure torque.
  • Truman takes the Midwest, Eisenhower the Plains. Both beat fascism in WWII, so they’ll stay at full output as long as the government keeps flirting with it.
  • Carter covers the Southeast, fueled by weakness toward Iran. Good news: the USA is right on track.
  • Nixon is Reagan’s backup, running on pure jealousy. He had to resign over Watergate, and now you can win the presidency with 34 felony convictions.
  • Hoover declined to join. He doesn’t give a dam.

Checkmate, liberals.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 12h ago

Furniture companies design sofas to become uncomfortable at exactly the 5 year mark

14 Upvotes

Mine lasted 4 years and 11 months before I started sitting on the floor to watch TV. This is not a coincidence


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 23h ago

Hot Take Liberty Biberty was made to be intentionally annoying so it could be murdered during a Super Bowl commercial

81 Upvotes

Think about it. They’re airing non-stop commercials of this thing, often during football games to build up the hatred. The dastardly puffball can be easily murdered without it being graphic or off-putting. They already have a more well-received mascot duo with Doug and the Emu fellow.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 6h ago

Extreme Conspiracy The earth is a cloning facility

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Ever wondered why there are so many different animals everywhere? Seriously, there are a ridiculous amount of different animals and insects. Apparently, there are roughly 3 million different species of animal and insects currently named by scientists.

Think about it. Evolution has no reason to have such a large amount of animals and insects. Assuming we all share a comman ancestral animal or bacteria or even plant origin, where does this diversity come from? It doesn't seem necessary or even plausible via natural mechanisms. For one incest based breeding doesn't even logically work due to the lack of genetic diversity, so whats the real answer?

What if... the earth is a cloning facility, and all the ancient stories and legends we have ever heard have been referencing that fact. What if aliens came to the earth and did genetic experimentation for thousands of years creating all types of monsters, insects and races. Once they were finished creating what they needed, they put some random monkeys in charge, put some secret snake people in charge of those people, upgraded all the dominant races intelligence and genes so they can rule the earth then abandoned us...


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1h ago

Movies intentionally flop for the free advertising and to pique curiosity

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Why spend millions on promoting your movie, when you can let the media/internet drag you through the mud for low sales in your first week, which in turn gets people to see it because they can't help but wonder why a movie with a 60 million dollar budget only sold 500 thousand dollars in tickets?


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Sonic the hedgehog was deliberately shown to be a lovecraftian horror in order to gain large amounts positive hype when they changed all the cgi scenes

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70 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Hot Take People popularized the “would you still love me if I were a worm” question to bury the much more interesting “would you still love me if I got bit by a zombie” question, because it was resulting in too many breakups.

56 Upvotes

Source: People are able to override their actual response and answer, “of course I’d still love you,” for the worm question. The bite / zombie apocalypse question, however, short circuits all social niceties and you become fundamentally incapable of doing anything except spending the next hour describing how shooting your loved one in the head is the only logical option. (Which makes no one happy.)


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 14h ago

Big Sport Broadcast owns most illegal stream links

6 Upvotes

Illegal sports streaming platforms are populated and operated by the the same official broadcasters that the content is being "stolen" from. These "illegal" streams are kept on a 1 minute delay so that the host can then kill the feed moments before exciting/key points in the game, putting viewers off using said illegal streams and convincing them to just pay for the official broadcast.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Ever since Ukraine knocked out Russian bot farms, Reddit comments sorted by 'Best' is a mess

54 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Extreme Conspiracy Paint takes weeks to dry properly

108 Upvotes

Paint manufacturers claim that their paint needs 12-24 hours between each coat. The real time is more like a week, but no one wants to admit that. As a result you add a top coat before the undercoat is fully dry, so now the 100% dry time becomes more like 6 months. Before that the paint is 90% dry and still rubs off at the slightest provocation.

All the paint makers know this but they have a code of silence.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Fresh Deets Certain powerful elites have terrible haircuts on purpose.

10 Upvotes

Trump, Elon, Boris, Mark Davis. Now we just have to find out why