bogleech:

What was even going on in the late 90′s, like even before the wizard boy books, where this small but noticeable slice of American culture was suddenly like “we still hate lots of other people for no reason but we have GOT to teach kids that witches are unfairly persecuted by society” like it was even a critical plot point of a whole Scooby Doo movie? It’s like the media suddenly wanted me as a millenial child to be angrier about a couple dozen ergot-fueled witch trials 300 years ago than basically anything else to ever happen or still happen in the whole world.

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  4. elsquibbonator said: @duplexide I think another reason it went out of fashion might have been because it turns out the sort of people who believed in things like aliens and the occult are also the sort of people who believe Obama is a lizard man. As someone who frequented a lot of paranormal websites back in the day, I can confirm this.
  5. duplexide said: @elsquibbonator interest in the paranormal? It was a fad like anything else. The mass availability of camcorders allowed for the average person to record weird things and the massive success of things like x files added fuel to the fire. After 9/11 America started drawing focus to “real” problems instead of the hypothetical aliens and ghosts, and the creation of smart phones allowed for higher quality video that made debunking easier and forgeries impossible.
  6. elsquibbonator said: @duplexide Why did it stop, though?
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