1 00:00:00,250 --> 00:00:01,827 Yes. We are on the bed. 2 00:00:01,827 --> 00:00:04,380 You could call it an homage to old YouTube. 3 00:00:04,380 --> 00:00:05,234 I call it... 4 00:00:05,234 --> 00:00:06,996 comfortable for my butt. 5 00:00:06,996 --> 00:00:08,256 Conspiracy theories. 6 00:00:08,256 --> 00:00:10,686 So as somebody who's lost many a night 7 00:00:10,686 --> 00:00:12,726 tumbling down Wikipedia rabbit holes, 8 00:00:12,726 --> 00:00:14,956 I love a good conspiracy theory. 9 00:00:14,956 --> 00:00:16,808 It's like, "Ooh, aliens!" 10 00:00:16,808 --> 00:00:19,654 "Ooh, how do people make such big triangles?" 11 00:00:19,654 --> 00:00:21,181 I think that that it's just fun 12 00:00:21,181 --> 00:00:23,351 imagining the world to be more interesting 13 00:00:23,351 --> 00:00:24,467 than what I was taught. 14 00:00:24,467 --> 00:00:26,277 But then something weird happened? 15 00:00:26,277 --> 00:00:28,467 A couple weeks ago, I found myself 16 00:00:28,467 --> 00:00:30,787 in the middle of a conspiracy theory. 17 00:00:30,787 --> 00:00:34,358 And then, all of the fun was replaced with just... 18 00:00:34,358 --> 00:00:35,497 pure confusion. 19 00:00:35,497 --> 00:00:38,547 The conspiracy itself is, like, weird and fun and innocuous. 20 00:00:38,547 --> 00:00:41,410 However, what I really cared about is, like, 21 00:00:41,410 --> 00:00:42,558 how do you get to that point? 22 00:00:42,558 --> 00:00:46,130 How do you start seeing signs that were never there to begin with. 23 00:00:46,130 --> 00:00:47,440 That's what I want to know. 24 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,600 And I also want to, like, disprove this whole conspiracy theory 25 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,590 'cause it's whack. 26 00:00:51,590 --> 00:00:53,637 However, as the person in the middle of all of this, 27 00:00:53,637 --> 00:00:56,639 I can imagine why I'd be seen as unreliable. 28 00:00:56,639 --> 00:00:57,749 So... 29 00:00:57,749 --> 00:00:59,491 ...I'm calling on a friend! 30 00:00:59,491 --> 00:01:02,370 Uhh, I don't know how to put this. How do you put this? 31 00:01:02,370 --> 00:01:06,278 People think that I am part of the Illuminati. 32 00:01:06,278 --> 00:01:07,862 Uh- 33 00:01:07,862 --> 00:01:09,382 Well, are you? 34 00:01:09,382 --> 00:01:10,543 [laughs] 35 00:01:10,543 --> 00:01:12,192 This is just one of the comments, 36 00:01:12,192 --> 00:01:14,365 but I think it really summarizes the issue. 37 00:01:14,365 --> 00:01:16,415 "I find this channel to be highly disingenuous-" 38 00:01:16,415 --> 00:01:18,595 "-Corporate product masked to have the appearance of 39 00:01:18,595 --> 00:01:21,225 an independently run YouTube channel." "There's no way a single person is that skilled 40 00:01:21,225 --> 00:01:25,674 at animation, editing, presenting, research-" "Everything is too professional for that-" 41 00:01:25,674 --> 00:01:27,974 "There's no way this girl is the one who did this" 42 00:01:27,974 --> 00:01:32,124 "A production company put this video together with you just as a host." 43 00:01:32,124 --> 00:01:35,283 So now- Now... Now what? 44 00:01:35,283 --> 00:01:37,139 Why am I calling you? Right? 45 00:01:37,139 --> 00:01:39,893 Yeah. I'm, like, "How do you want me to prove this? 46 00:01:39,893 --> 00:01:46,803 I am wondering if you could explain to me and the viewers of this video, 47 00:01:46,803 --> 00:01:49,848 how could somebody see something so mundane 48 00:01:49,848 --> 00:01:52,821 that's just, like, a part of my life, I guess. 49 00:01:52,821 --> 00:01:56,242 How could someone see that and think, like, "There must be more." 50 00:01:56,242 --> 00:01:58,412 I'm interested. I'm fascinated. 51 00:01:58,412 --> 00:01:59,532 'Cause I'm, like... 52 00:01:59,532 --> 00:02:02,745 I'm not only interested in your conspiracy, as interesting as it is. 53 00:02:02,745 --> 00:02:05,905 I think conspiracies have a knack for, especially nowadays, 54 00:02:05,905 --> 00:02:07,155 to just.... 55 00:02:07,155 --> 00:02:09,755 just ruin people's lives, you know? 56 00:02:09,755 --> 00:02:12,865 I'm gonna solve this mystery. ♪ Scooby-dooby-doo ♪ 57 00:02:12,865 --> 00:02:14,797 We don't have the copyright on that. 58 00:02:14,797 --> 00:02:18,797 We're going to investigate this conundrum. I'm-I'm- 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You're doubling down on it, I see. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Hello, I'm Taha. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm apparently Sabrina's only British friend. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've been given free reign over this part of the video, 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so, welcome to my chaos. 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sabrina's asked me to get into the mind of a Sabrina Cruz truther 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and figure out what's going on. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, hold on. 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It needs pictures. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let's read some conspiracy theories. 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "This is a fake channel 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A propaganda channel paid by others. Why the spotty uploads?" 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Maybe because it's- it's just one person? 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I love this one. "Who do you work for? 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We all know this isn't your channel. Whose script are you reading?" 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "I think she works for the government." 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Oh. This is the best one. 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "Her main channel is crash course with 10 million subs." 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 John and Hank Green, eat your heart out. 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, so basically, 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 people think that Sabrina doesn't make her own videos, 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that she's a presenter, that maybe she works for the government. 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How did people get here? 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let's figure it out. 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay. So, here's what I found out. 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are loads of ways to define conspiracy theories, 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but they all kind of boil down to the same thing. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's basically the belief that a group of people 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 are secretly working together to do something bad. 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But here's the thing: 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When we talk about conspiracy theories, 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we aren't talking about every time everyone has gotten together 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to secretly do bad things. 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So what are people talking about when they say "conspiracy theory"? 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Or when they talk about conspiracy theories on the internet? 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They talk about a specific type of conspiracy theory. 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's the type of conspiracy theory that Sabrina is in the middle of right now. 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These conspiracy theories seem to be unlikely by design. 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here's the really interesting thing that I found.