A broken clock is right twice a day.

The reason so many people fall to conspiracy theorists and influencers’s feet is because there is no cost to making predictions and people only remember the things that come true.

As a nutjob conspiracy idiot head, you only to be right a few times to gain credibility. Go ahead and spew a bunch of nonsense 24/7 and if you’re intelligent, you’ll land a few correctly. If you produce your own media and say controversial dumb things all the time, you’ll garner attention and cult-like following.

The same is true of every influencer who fools people by making predictions 24/7. The intelligent ones get a few right and people fall at their feet. There is no cost to being wrong as nobody goes through their record to see what they got wrong. Even when their blatant nonsense is called out, the things they get right get way more attention.

In the end a broken clock is right twice a day, but it’s still broken.