Pizzagate was the first time I got to see a conspiracy theory get destroyed by outlandish claims in real time. All the weird potential codewords and costs mentioned in the emails and stuff certainly pointed to something, but it spiraled into the devil worship and satanism stuff so fast, then the guy shot up the one pizzeria so now those are the only parts anyone talks about.
He didn't just shoot computers -- he fired a shot at a computer that CONVENIENTLY hit Alefantis' hard drive inside the computer, rendering investigators unable to retrieve the data from that computer.
All the cameras that could have captured the incident on tape were also conveniently down for repair for that particular day and that day only.
It's like he was a hired hard drive hitman... with an IMDB page.
Pizzagate was the first time I got to see a conspiracy theory get destroyed by outlandish claims in real time. All the weird potential codewords and costs mentioned in the emails and stuff certainly pointed to something, but it spiraled into the devil worship and satanism stuff so fast, then the guy shot up the one pizzeria so now those are the only parts anyone talks about.
The one guy who just happened to have an imdb page who specifically only shot computers at a pizzeria. Really gets the noggin joggin
He didn't just shoot computers -- he fired a shot at a computer that CONVENIENTLY hit Alefantis' hard drive inside the computer, rendering investigators unable to retrieve the data from that computer.
All the cameras that could have captured the incident on tape were also conveniently down for repair for that particular day and that day only.
It's like he was a hired hard drive hitman... with an IMDB page.
I thought he specifically shot a hard drive, but wasn't sure and didn't want to go look it up so I left it more vague.
But yeah, some real interesting coinkydinks
Its almost a perfect example to show how "conspiracy theories" are made and meme'd into being shorthand for "lies by the insane or delusional madmen."