It's so nice being on a platform that isn't riddled with bizarre history conspiracy theories. It's all "babylonian giants" on Instagram and "The Inca and Babylonians were trading gold" on Facebook 😑
@ApNudd Don't get me started on what I've heard about on TikTok
@ApNudd From what little I've seen TikTok pseudoarcheology has left the land of mere conspiracy theories set in our world and entered the realm of much or even all of history itself being an elaborate hoax. In some cases it's past the point at which recognizable history even can be said to exist
For instance, there's a person on TikTok named "momlennial" who claims the Roman Empire, the Roman culture, and even Latin was fabricated by Catholic monks and Victorian scholars. She blocks anyone who criticizes her and uses vicious ad-hominems to smear critics on other platforms.
There's also a flat-earth-related conspiracy theory called the mudflood conspiracy theory. This claims that all of history is fabricated, and that prior to a great catastrophe involving everything getting covered in feet upon feet of mud, the world was dominated by an empire based in East Asia and called "Tartaria". Old buildings are said to be from that period, which spanned an unknown, possibly vast time, and the decorations on the buildings (vanes, spires, even the shapes of stained glass windows) are said to have been used to "draw endless free clean power from the ether".
In short, there are large parts of TikTok that are best described as insane. Fanciful nonsense and incoherent ramblings are taken as genuine insights by the people there. Those parts are way worse than any other platform I've seen in that respect except maybe similar parts of Telegram.