And it speaks to a deeper trend - we see really stupid fucking ideas being accommodated. We have a President who, when caught lying, immediately shouts out "FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS" and the media doesn't push back. We see dumbasses in our government talking about chemtrails as if they were real or saying maybe we shouldn't be too harsh on the flat earthers or moon landing deniers, and they aren't being mocked for that, or worse, that 9/11 was a false-flag operation (look at how Laura Loomer was around Trump and how much influence she wields). The most popular podcaster adopts whatever beliefs the person sitting in front of him has, so tens of millions of people who think he is an authority figure are nodding along say "well maybe we didn't land on the moon!"
40 years ago, these people used to have an audience that consisted of themselves, hanging out in the back of a bookstore, and occasionally a kid in junior high who was bored at the mall and hanging out in B.Dalton and looking at all of the spiffy covers and blurbs on their books. We used to shove these people's heads in the toilet and flush it or give them wedgies. Here in 2025, these people are pushing the dumbest fucking conspiracy theories on platforms that spread their bullshit around to millions, unchecked, within seconds, and they are spreading it to people who are vulnerable to this bullshit - our parents/aunts/uncles who, for whatever reason, have lost whatever critical thinking skills they had when it comes to the internet. And when they hit the mainstream (MTG, etc.), they don't get pushback from the media because the media is afraid of them. We should not have state legislatures "banning chemtrails" and they should be routinely mocked, but they aren't outside of the Jon Stewarts.