WEBVTT 00:00:00.250 --> 00:00:01.827 Yes. We are on the bed. 00:00:01.827 --> 00:00:04.380 You could call it an homage to old YouTube. 00:00:04.380 --> 00:00:05.234 I call it... 00:00:05.234 --> 00:00:06.996 comfortable for my butt. 00:00:06.996 --> 00:00:08.256 Conspiracy theories. 00:00:08.256 --> 00:00:10.686 So as somebody who's lost many a night 00:00:10.686 --> 00:00:12.726 tumbling down Wikipedia rabbit holes, 00:00:12.726 --> 00:00:14.956 I love a good conspiracy theory. 00:00:14.956 --> 00:00:16.808 It's like, "Ooh, aliens!" 00:00:16.808 --> 00:00:19.654 "Ooh, how do people make such big triangles?" 00:00:19.654 --> 00:00:21.181 I think that that it's just fun 00:00:21.181 --> 00:00:23.351 imagining the world to be more interesting 00:00:23.351 --> 00:00:24.467 than what I was taught. 00:00:24.467 --> 00:00:26.277 But then something weird happened? 00:00:26.277 --> 00:00:28.467 A couple weeks ago, I found myself 00:00:28.467 --> 00:00:30.787 in the middle of a conspiracy theory. 00:00:30.787 --> 00:00:34.358 And then, all of the fun was replaced with just... 00:00:34.358 --> 00:00:35.497 pure confusion. 00:00:35.497 --> 00:00:38.547 The conspiracy itself is, like, weird and fun and innocuous. 00:00:38.547 --> 00:00:41.410 However, what I really cared about is, like, 00:00:41.410 --> 00:00:42.558 how do you get to that point? 00:00:42.558 --> 00:00:46.130 How do you start seeing signs that were never there to begin with. 00:00:46.130 --> 00:00:47.440 That's what I want to know. 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:50.600 And I also want to, like, disprove this whole conspiracy theory 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:51.590 'cause it's whack. 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:53.637 However, as the person in the middle of all of this, 00:00:53.637 --> 00:00:56.639 I can imagine why I'd be seen as unreliable. 00:00:56.639 --> 00:00:57.749 So... 00:00:57.749 --> 00:00:59.491 ...I'm calling on a friend! 00:00:59.491 --> 00:01:02.370 Uhh, I don't know how to put this. How do you put this? 00:01:02.370 --> 00:01:06.278 People think that I am part of the Illuminati. 00:01:06.278 --> 00:01:07.862 Uh- 00:01:07.862 --> 00:01:09.382 Well, are you? 00:01:09.382 --> 00:01:10.543 [laughs] 00:01:10.543 --> 00:01:12.192 This is just one of the comments, 00:01:12.192 --> 00:01:14.365 but I think it really summarizes the issue. 00:01:14.365 --> 00:01:16.415 "I find this channel to be highly disingenuous-" 00:01:16.415 --> 00:01:18.595 "-Corporate product masked to have the appearance of 00:01:18.595 --> 00:01:21.225 an independently run YouTube channel." "There's no way a single person is that skilled 00:01:21.225 --> 00:01:25.674 at animation, editing, presenting, research-" "Everything is too professional for that-" 00:01:25.674 --> 00:01:27.974 "There's no way this girl is the one who did this" 00:01:27.974 --> 00:01:32.124 "A production company put this video together with you just as a host." NOTE Paragraph 00:01:32.124 --> 00:01:35.283 So now- Now... Now what? 00:01:35.283 --> 00:01:37.139 Why am I calling you? Right? 00:01:37.139 --> 00:01:39.893 Yeah. I'm, like, "How do you want me to prove this? 00:01:39.893 --> 00:01:46.803 I am wondering if you could explain to me and the viewers of this video, 00:01:46.803 --> 00:01:49.848 how could somebody see something so mundane 00:01:49.848 --> 00:01:52.821 that's just, like, a part of my life, I guess. 00:01:52.821 --> 00:01:56.242 How could someone see that and think, like, "There must be more." 00:01:56.242 --> 00:01:58.412 I'm interested. I'm fascinated. 00:01:58.412 --> 00:01:59.532 'Cause I'm, like... 00:01:59.532 --> 00:02:02.745 I'm not only interested in your conspiracy, as interesting as it is. 00:02:02.745 --> 00:02:05.905 I think conspiracies have a knack for, especially nowadays, 00:02:05.905 --> 00:02:07.155 to just.... 00:02:07.155 --> 00:02:09.755 just ruin people's lives, you know? 00:02:09.755 --> 00:02:12.865 I'm gonna solve this mystery. ♪ Scooby-dooby-doo ♪ 00:02:12.865 --> 00:02:14.797 We don't have the copyright on that. 00:02:14.797 --> 00:02:18.797 We're going to investigate this conundrum. I'm-I'm- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You're doubling down on it, I see. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hello, I'm Taha. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm apparently Sabrina's only British friend. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've been given free reign over this part of the video, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so, welcome to my chaos. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Sabrina's asked me to get into the mind of a Sabrina Cruz truther 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and figure out what's going on. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Okay, hold on. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It needs pictures. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let's read some conspiracy theories. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "This is a fake channel 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A propaganda channel paid by others. Why the spotty uploads?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe because it's- it's just one person? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I love this one. "Who do you work for? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We all know this isn't your channel. Whose script are you reading?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "I think she works for the government." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh. This is the best one. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Her main channel is crash course with 10 million subs." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 John and Hank Green, eat your heart out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Okay, so basically, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people think that Sabrina doesn't make her own videos, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that she's a presenter, that maybe she works for the government. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How did people get here? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let's figure it out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Okay. So, here's what I found out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There are loads of ways to define conspiracy theories, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but they all kind of boil down to the same thing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's basically the belief that a group of people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are secretly working together to do something bad. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But here's the thing: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When we talk about conspiracy theories, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we aren't talking about every time everyone has gotten together 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to secretly do bad things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what are people talking about when they say "conspiracy theory"? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or when they talk about conspiracy theories on the internet? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They talk about a specific type of conspiracy theory. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's the type of conspiracy theory that Sabrina is in the middle of right now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 These conspiracy theories seem to be unlikely by design. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Here's the really interesting thing that I found.