Either they are legitimately schizophrenic, or they are grasping at straws when they know they aren't being told the truth and just can't tell what's actually real or not. I also would not dismiss disinfo campaigns even if that's not always the case.
Conspiracy by definition is simply that people wish to conspire to do something in secret, usually illegal. It's quite obvious that modern society has many people conspiring to do many things. Even in GamerGate there was the GameJournoPros which was a secret group deciding on what narratives to push, that goes up to every level of society of course.
They say that the term "conspiracy theory" was used to deflect from people suspicious about the Kennedy assassination. And has since been used to cast doubt on people being skeptical of anything going against the mainstream narrative.
Less than "finish off" the USSR invaded Poland 2 weeks after Germany and England and France didn't instantly declare war on them. They were all on the same side from the start.
The US was bombed by Japan and then they instantly went to destroying Germany. Nobody going against Germany wanted peace in the slightest.
Since 1965 the open goal has been to reduce the most amount of white people as possible.
The studio wasn't exactly closed, just merged back into the main Square Enix development. I feel like Forspoken was a glorified tech demo they didn't know what to do with so they had those woke westerners write a story as a last ditch effort.
It helps that the Netherlands is a relatively small country, compared to Canada which is very spread out. Some truckers were only prepared to take a few weeks off, not risking their lives doing it. Whereas with the Dutch, I believe there is much more local community driving things forwards.
Nazi is not the insult you think it is. They were explicitly trying to prevent this kind of cultural decay, and things like the Hitler Youth were positive in that regard. Or else you should be attacking the Boy Scouts for the same thing, oh wait they changed that to just the "scouts" and let pedophiles take prominent roles in that too.
Most of the people who were serious about 4chan left to 8chan and when that fell apart already scattered to places like smaller chans or fedi. (poast, freespeechextremist, baest, etc)
The rules and mods they have are basically worse than twitter at this point depending on the board.
One guy who did a good coverage of that is MouthyBuddha.
People were burned by Character AI censoring stuff so now people are working on an open source alternative. I believe they will be making a site with it called Pygmalion too, but you can run it on a colab. It's not quite as good yet, but definitely better than letting other people control what you can and cannot do.
Yeah, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Most men are just sheltering themselves and checking out of society, because they know it has very little to offer them. And if they openly try to do anything about that they get targeted hard.
Here's another site then.
It's less that people are "paid" and more that they are directed. People will "buy in" to things that give them what they want, status, attention, power, etc. I would suggest looking into the MKUltra programs, and do not assume that projects like that stopped at any point. They just stopped admitting they exist.