Filip Zieba Debunked - TikTok's Worst Conspiracy Theorist | Pt. 1

Howdy friends. In this video we begin our deep dive into the prolific misinformation TikTok account run by Filip Zieba. Filip posts content discussing the worst takes on just about every pseudoscientific topic you can imagine. From pyramids to antarctic civilizations to hollow earth to lost advanced ice age civilizations. Parroting most of his work from more notorious psuedohistorians like Graham Hancock, Filip doesn't have too many new theories, but laces all of them with a layer of personality that is rarely seen from other creators. In this video we begin our dive into his channel by tackling his claims about antarctic civilizations, hyper diffusion, the Bosnian pyramids and much much more. So sit back, relax and get ready for some good old fashioned "googledybunking."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
02:58 Filip Zieba Debunked
09:18 Round 1: Allegedly Fictitious Anthropomorphic Bird
11:04 Round 2: Hyperdiffusion
16:18 Awful Archaeology Speedrun
17:53 Hyperdiffusion Examples
22:13 Round 3: Ruins in Antarctica
27:43 Tim
34:03 Round 4: Filip's Character
40:12 Round 5: Googledybunkers
41:52 Round 6: Maps of Antarctica
51:36 Round 7: Hollow Earth
1:02:46 Round 8: Pyramids in Antarctica
1:04:06 Round 9: Pyramids Around The World
1:10:56 Round 10: The Bosnian Pyramid
1:30:32 Credits: See you in Pt. 2!

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES:

[stpnwlf]

I've watched toddlers stack blocks and, through trial and error, they figure out eventually that a wider base and narrower top is the most stable way to stack blocks. Apparently, all the toddlers I know are either super-geniuses or aliens. I lean toward aliens.

[Miczka]

I asked my 9 y.o. students why there are pyramids all over the world and their answer was: because they don't fall down.

[cheezemonkeyeater]

"I can't go five minutes without seeing a UFO."
Nor can I. It's spring and I am very bad at identifying bugs.

[thelittlealien]

He just wanted to debunk some idiot on the internet and randomly started a sidequest to reunite with a family member. 10/10 peak comedy

[bluebraixen]

Conspiracy theorists from the 5000s saying that Attack on Titan is evidence of giants in the 21st Century, and furry art is evidence of animal people in the 21st Century.

[JohnMalcolm]

Weird how Big Science doesn't want us talking about how spiders all over the world build almost identical webs. The obvious conclusion is that there was an advanced globe spanning pre-ice-age spider civilisation that taught them all. I've said too much... I'd better go now.

[brodymears]

Hard to claim a man is part of “big archeology and trying to silence me” when he has squirrels in his attic and is debunking you in the heat of a stick candle

[jklroxmysox]

Amazing how he freely oscillates between “archeologists don’t want you to know” and “here is some evidence that some archeologists found”

[timpaxew]

“I’m gonna assume you have a business degree” is one of the meanest things I’ve ever heard

[KitsuneSoup]

When I was a child trying to make a sandcastle on the beach, when the bucket shape wouldn't hold, I immediately made a pyramid. Traditional archeology doesn't want you to know I'm 45, 000 years old.

[nothingislogical]

“If you want to see the hollow earth video… [sigh] leave a comment.”

Milo, of course we want to see you do a hollow earth video. We are an audience of sadists.

[mugbug]

The funniest thing is that this pilot saw a hole in the ground and just decided, "You know what, I'll fly into that."

[rachelstiers]

I teach 8 year olds. Last week one of them came up to me and told me that “earth is flat and Antarctica is a wall”. I must have stared at him in abject horror, because he cracked up laughing and said “Got you!!” He then followed up with saying his sister found a video “proving” it on TikTok but “Miss, it’s so STUPID.” If the 8 year olds have the critical thinking skills…

[thornels]

"We don't need to make up an invisible shadow government to be mad at. Just be mad at the actual government." -a very wise man

[ellymyths]

Milo accidentally learning about a family member and is going to meet them in his googledybuncking efforts is fucking hilarious

[TnkE-ngne]

"Googledebunkiers" legitimately started sounding like a synnonym for "crazy" to me as soon as "this is driving me googledebunkers" was said

[FluffyDwaekki]

Historian here. If there’s one thing I’ve always said, it’s that it’s human nature to turn everything we touch into pyramids. It’s all pyramids. The MLM girlies have been right the whole time.
I have a Master’s degree.

[leovaldez]

Milo meeting his cousin through searching for AI generated photos was a bigger plot twist than anything Filip has ever said

[Hey_Canadian]

What a weird flex that it's not even the scientific community that is pooping on your theories, but anyone with internet access can prove you wrong.

[james-m-]

The most telling part of this is that Filip uses what I call the Fox News Cadence. It goes as follows:

- Present core (usually partially factual) information
- Spin into a counter-factual claim
- Present anecdotal evidence or hypothetical that either evokes an emotional response or makes the viewer feel smart for reading between the (spoonfed) lines
- Make snide remark about The Other designed to get a scoffing chuckle, once again making the viewer feel a notch smarter than the rest, preventing them from thinking too hard about whether what was just said was actually true and encouraging resentment against anyone who might contradict the claim being sold.

Steps 2 and 3 are often seamlessly linked, but step 4 is creepily consistent and you can’t un-notice it, particularly with Fox but also in other engagement-driven propaganda.