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[–] AnUnusualRelic 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's the usual explanation that's given, but how do they even profit? What do you sell to those idiots? (I suppose that since they're idiots you can just sell them pretty much anything)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Probably the YouTube views alone make for a pretty penny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There was some guy who got his homemade rocket hobby funded by flat earther types to prove NASA is lying or something. Also that guy could be crazy and one of them.

But fools will throw cash at the dumbest of things.