When uncertainty and hardships spread across the world, such as during wars, economic depressions, and pandemics, people often grow suspicious of the ruling elite, creating all sorts of narratives about the challenging events.

However, not all of them sound as ridiculous as flat Earthers. So Reddit user Specific_Shop_3975 posted a question on the platform, asking, “What’s a conspiracy with the most evidence to back it up?“

From modern art to NSFW Steam games, here are some of the most popular suspects.

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#1

modern art is just money laundering nobody pays 2.2 million for a blank canvas

u/Zigxy added:

The brilliance of modern art money laundering can’t be understated. For example:

Alfred wants to pay Brad $100k for a bribe.

Brad wants this money to be ‘clean’ to avoid authorities looking into him.

Brad ‘sells’ a worthless modern art piece for $100k.

Alfred has now successfully transferred the bribe to Alfred. However, Brad is now in possession of a painting which the ‘market’ says is worth $100k. Down the line the Alfred might be able to sell this now ‘valuable’ piece of art to a third party for $50k, $100k, or potentially at a profit!

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#2

The petroleum companies knew burning fossil fuels would lead to global climate change but hid the evidence of their own funded studies and did nothing to curb consumption, instead funded groups opposed to renewable, non greenhouse gas generating energy to maximize shareholder value.

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#3

In the UK there was a recent boom in American sweet shops that sold grossly overpriced import candy. They were suddenly everywhere after COVID, they didn’t sell much, but they were everywhere. Someone on TikTok theorised that they were all money laundering fronts, people started filming in the shops laughing at the prices, and staff always seemed to get really angry about it. Then it was announced last year (?) that there was a HMRC (UK’s tax wing of government) investigation started because the theory held water, and suddenly they all shut. The one in Leeds centre near Trinity currently has a notice of abandonment in the window and you can see the shelves are still stocked: the owners just ran off and left it. Sounds like another successful case for the TikTok detectives.

u/gnommi added:

This was in Private Eye as well, not just TikTok, and they also exposed the money-laundering scam that was operating out of central London ‘souvenir’ shops.

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#4

Blackrock and Vanguard are buying up all the residential property they can in order to get the majority of americans renting from them. Estimates say by 2030 they will own 60% of residential property

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#5

Those stop oil activists who were throwing soup at paintings were paid by oil companies to make the public hate actual legit protesters of oil

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#6

The government deliberately leaked false information to UFO investigators to discredit them because they were getting to close to the truth. (The truth being that Area 51 was a testing grounds for spy planes and stealth aircraft and was attracting too much attention for a secret weapons facility.)

u/PM_me_ur_navel_girl added:

I think someone came up with the whole aliens thing and the government just leant into that since it was easier than trying to make up something else.

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#7

There is something fishy going on at Mattress Firm. How can they stay in business with a store in practically every plaza when the average person buys a new mattress every decade or so?

u/ggb123456 added:

Mattresses have one of the highest mark-ups in all of retail, and generally places like that have very low overhead (just a couple employees and generally low cost retail space). They simply do not require many sales to remain profitable.

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#8

The stock market is rigged and there’s a revolving door between them and the ones “regulating” them. Some $200T worth of derivatives based on 50 or 100:1 leverage from the largest firms on the planet, all just funny money. None of it is real 

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#9

The British government deliberately put the RMS Lusitania in harms way to get her sunk to bring the USA into WW1. The fact the records have been resealed for another 100 years adds credence to this conspiracy

u/hagantic42 added:

Dude it’s not even a conspiracy theory. The German consulate took out a two-page ad in the New York times telling people to not board because they were going to sink it. Also, at the time Britain didn’t have an option but to sail the ship because it was carrying so many munitions that they desperately needed. Both governments knew the risks and they needed it to galvanize support.

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#10

Professional sports are all compromised by the gambling industry.

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#11

The Bilderberg group. Every year in summer, they meet, and people keep track of who are there. Guest lists every year. Top politicians, royalty, corporate owners. Extreme security. No protocols. There is confirmation from a variety of these people that they were there. So, what do they talk about? Are they coordinated somehow after each meeting? How much influence do they have? Well, given the extreme security, it’s difficult to say. I am sure it’s nothing, though. Why would those groups of people want to influence the world to suit their agendas, right? 

#12

The switch in the US from employer sponsored pensions to self directed 401ks was done deliberately so that the average Joe would have a stake in the economy at large and be more likely to vote for business-friendly policies.

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#13

Not proven yet as correlation doesn’t equal causation…

Use of leaded gasoline poisoned generations of children lowering their IQs and increasing violent behavior. And the auto and gas companies knew the health risks but didn’t care. This lead to the huge rise in crime during the 1970s and 1980s and into the early 90s. And when leaded gasoline was banned, the generations and people since that didn’t grow up breathing in lead contaminated air were less violent and lead to the sharp decrease in violence since the 1990s. The curves match up almost perfectly. But there were other factors that could have affected it, increase use in crack, heroin, and drug abuse, state violence, racism, etc.

[https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028)

[https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-tragedy-how-the-car-and-gas-industry-knew-about-the-health-risks-of-leaded-fuel-but-sold-it-for-100-years-anyway-173395](https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-tragedy-how-the-car-and-gas-industry-knew-about-the-health-risks-of-leaded-fuel-but-sold-it-for-100-years-anyway-173395)

[https://www.niskanencenter.org/research-roundup-lead-exposure-causes-crime/#:~:text=Based%20on%20both%20strategies%2C%20the%20researchers%20found%20that,increases.%20Removing%20lead%20from%20gasoline%20reduced%20violent%20crime](https://www.niskanencenter.org/research-roundup-lead-exposure-causes-crime/#:~:text=Based%20on%20both%20strategies%2C%20the%20researchers%20found%20that,increases.%20Removing%20lead%20from%20gasoline%20reduced%20violent%20crime)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis)

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#14

Jar Jar Binks is the ultimate Sith Lord

u/TheSharkFromJaws added:

I thought this one was silly until I saw the footage of him talking behind characters that are giving dialogue, almost like he is forcing them to speak. It seems like they were building to something there.

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#15

The meta-conspiracy to convince dumb people that the word “conspiracy” means “a crazy person’s imagination”

Conspiracies happen every day. There’s a global conspiracy of adults to convince kids Santa is real – it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a conspiracy.

Somewhere along the line, the word got hijacked and it immediately discredits whoever says it. It’s practically a trap to use the word, so you have to dance around it if you want to describe people planning things in secret

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#16

Ufos are real and the U.S. government has been hiding information for decades. David grusch, who represents 40 firsthand witnesses. Testifies under oath to congress that Ufo reverse engineering and crash retrieval programs exist and are being funded without oversight or congressional awareness. Roswell Crash probably happened, and we have been studying what they found since 1947.

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