Re: Political conspiracy theories I will not mention by name: anyone who’s familiar with the “tinhat” brand of fandom that insists These Two Costars Are 1000% Secretly in Love knows that you can’t logic with that.
“They’re secretly gay but the studio doesn’t want it to get out so of course they’ll deny it!” “They’re married to other people in marriages of convenience so of course they’ll deny it!” “The record company wants them to appear single, it’s better for business!”
Literally every person named in a theory—the actors/singers/etc, their spouses, the studio, the record company, their personal assistants, the neighbor’s dog—can say “there is nothing going on” and all it “means” is LOOK HOW FAR THEY WILL GO TO KEEP THE SECRET
HOW MUCH ARE YOU PAYING FIDO TO KEEP UP YOUR LIES??
What I’m saying is, good luck getting people to stop believing in PizzaQGateAnon, because anyone who says “listen, I am named in this and I am in a position to know: this is troll fantasy,” omg ~THEY~ got to them! THEY’VE BEEN COMPROMISED!!
Nota bene: I just tossed out three things I’ve heard variously over the last 15 years, there’s no telling how many fandoms this fits and I don’t even know it
Side note, here’s a thread (mid thread) about people lying to promote an “essential truth” (remember “truthiness”?), which I think is at the heart of a lot of costar romance conspiracies.
