Post your favorite conspiracy theorys

[vishy fishy]

So Lusamine is evil but she’s kinda a feminist and if we remove all the letters in lusamine that aren’t in feminist we get smin. Smin + hay = shaymin. Since we’re already talking about Pokemon, this must be talking about the hay

Haven’t figured out the ending yet pls help

Also post ur fav conspiracy theories

 

[phoopes]

This one or this one

 

[Tea Guzzler]

shops put one-way barriers at the front door not to deter theives but to make you feel awkward if you go in and don't buy anything (since you're forced to walk through the self-service tills without paying for something in order to reach the exit)

 

[adjectivenoun]

A few of mine:

• The New Coke controversy was manufactured in order to provide cover for the formula switching from cane sugar to the cheaper high-fructose corn syrup.
• Horrible officiating decisions disproportionately hurt the Detroit Lions because the NFL is punishing the Ford family for its refusal to give up the team's Thanksgiving Day game.
• The murders of 2pac and the Notorious B.I.G. were both orchestrated by Diddy.

 

[bdt2002]

The amount of times a big market U.S. city has won a championship in one sport and been among the worst, if not the worst in another sport at just the right time is actually a lot more common than one might think. In fact, it’s so common that it’s getting a little suspicious. In college athletics it makes sense an athletic director would want to allocate most of their budget to whatever sports that school is known for (Example: Purdue is a strong basketball school and a bad football school), but major league sports operate within competing leagues, so there should be no incentive for these leagues to be… I don’t know, secretly sabotaging a city’s bad teams by siphoning money away and to the good teams?

Here are some recent examples I can think of when things started getting a bit fishy for my liking:

• The Cleveland Browns were statistically the NFL’s worst team during the 2010s decade, including a stretch from 2015 to 2017 where the team went 4-44 across three seasons. Around that same time, the Indians (MLB) and the Cavaliers (NBA) were both championship winning teams (the Cavaliers would win… I think it was four Eastern Conference titles?). The Browns’ 4-44 stretch was notably a part of a record-setting seven consecutive last place finishes in their division, and the NFL’s second-ever 0-16 season in 2017.
• The Kansas City Royals were arguably the worst team in the MLB’s American League, losing 203 out of 324 games played during the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Those same years, the Chiefs would be the first back-to-back Super Bowl winners in just under two decades. The Royals would take a step upwards starting in the 2024 season, whereas the Chiefs could not complete their attempt at a three-peat that year.
• During the Big Three era of the Miami Heat from 2011 to 2014 where the team won back-to-back titles and were the most consistent Eastern Conference team, the Marlins would experience a similar situation to the Royals, but to a greater extent losing at least 85 games all four of those seasons (the first three losing 90+).
• This one’s a little different because it involves an entire division and also multiple sports and even an entire state, but since the AFC North’s founding in 2002, at least one, often both, of the Ohio teams have finished in third and/or last place every single season to date. They are the only pair of teams to have this distinction. The NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets have also not done much to help the state’s case in the major leagues in particular. This is in contrast to the Ohio State University football program as well as the Columbus Crew of the MLS, who have both been more successful winning a combined six championships (three National Championships and three MLS Cup titles) since 2002, with three of the six having been won since 2020. Columbus’s lack of an NFL franchise has traditionally led to most fans having to choose between one of the Bengals or the Browns or foregoing the NFL entirely in favor of only watching Ohio State.
• Chicago sports experienced somewhat of a renaissance during the 2010s, with the Blackhawks winning three championships from 2010 to 2015 and the Cubs winning a championship in 2016 ending a historic drought often said to be due to a curse on the city’s teams. The Bulls were also the top seed team in the NBA’s Eastern Conference in 2010 and 2011. One team does stick out from the rest, though, as the Bears would finish last in the NFC North four consecutive seasons from 2014 to 2017 never finishing better than a 6-10 record.

 

[swordisbored]

A Pokémon related one that I fully believe is that Alolomola was meant to be an evolution to Luvdisc initially but due to BW1 not having any of the Pokémon from the dexes before it they didn't want it to have any relation to the old ones.

 

[vishy fishy]

A Pokémon related one that I fully believe is that Alolomola was meant to be an evolution to Luvdisc initially but due to BW1 not having any of the Pokémon from the dexes before it they didn't want it to have any relation to the old ones.

Agree about the luvdisc theory but the reason is obviously that eviolite luvdisc would be unstoppable

 

[bdt2002]

A Pokémon related one that I fully believe is that Alolomola was meant to be an evolution to Luvdisc initially but due to BW1 not having any of the Pokémon from the dexes before it they didn't want it to have any relation to the old ones.

The Luvdisc > Alomomola theory never made much sense to me. People focus on the fact that they’re both pink, heart-shaped fish Pokémon but that’s about all they have in common. Alomamola’s based off of an ocean sunfish, and Luvdisc is significantly smaller than those and has a significantly different play style and stat distribution. What I will give you, though, is that they’re both utility focused Pokémon and they didn’t necessarily have to choose pink for Alomomola but they did anyway. So I guess it could go either way.

 

[Oglemi]

That the powerball lottery is in no way determined randomly. "They" let it grow large enough by choosing a set of numbers not selected nationally (easy to do digitally now with super computers) and feed the balls out purposefully, all the while selectively choosing a target they are confident will not be savvy with the money long-term; if someone else has the winning numbers at the same time they eventually let them win, even better, less of a pot for them. This is why we're seeing these Billion dollar lotteries lately, when prior, the lottery rarely hit 8 digits, let alone 9.

Letting the pot grow larger means more hype, more tax dollars, and more sustainability of the lottery longterm as people continue to view it as a viable "out" of poverty. Meanwhile, not only is it mathematically unlikely you'd win normally, I'm pretty confident they're just choosing winners that have no shot of threatening "them" and their lifestyle long-term. This is why imo you hear so many sob stories of people who "lost it all" after winning the lottery, and very, very few people who have managed to live off of it longterm (there was a decent documentary on it a few years ago).

You could counter with "well then they could just choose to enrich themselves," but then that'd get to be suspicious very quickly and counterpoint to the sustainability of the lottery longterm, and, not for nothing, but the taxes are very much likely already enriching them, so.

 

[NDK]

The 2025 NBA draft lottery was rigged. The team that won the first pick was the Dallas Mavericks, who had tiny odds of only 1.8% to land the first overall selection in the 2025 NBA draft. Around three months before the draft lottery the Dallas Mavericks did an inexplicable trade trading their franchise player in Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers (One of the biggest markets in the NBA) in exchange for Anthony Davis, who is significantly older. The Mavericks the previous year had made the NBA finals and looked poised to do well with the core of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. This trade caused the Mavericks to lose in the play-ins, as Anthony Davis was injured and nowhere near as good as Luka Doncic. Because the Mavericks lost in the play ins for the NBA playoffs, they were in the lottery and won it. The 2025 NBA draft had a "generational" prospect in Cooper Flagg, which the league gave to Dallas as compensation for trading away Luka Doncic to the Lakers, one of the league's premier markets. However, that is not the reason why I believe the draft to be rigged. The San Antonio Spurs got the Second overall selection, despite only having the Eighth worst record in the NBA. A team with a generational superstar in Victor Wembanyama and the rookie of the year in Stephon Castle got the second overall pick over teams like the Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Hornets, and New Orleans Pelicans, all of whom had worse records and better odds to get the Second pick. The league intentionally gave the Spurs the second overall selection to give more supporting pieces to Wembanyama, who is argubly the league's next emerging superstar.