How conspiracy theories really start...

#shorts #anthonypadilla #vsauce

[AJX-]

The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be believable

[vichano]

It goes even deeper than that. Humans love pattern recognition and narrative gives us that in very satisfying ways. Books have plots that make sense and have definitive ends. Life doesn't. Life is random and chaotic and evil and good and understated and overblown all at once. There are reasons for all these things happening but the problem is that most of the time they don't make sense. Books and movies and really any narrative has to make sense. And because humans love that pattern recognition so much, we use it against ourselves and insert it into things where it doesn't belong. We create narrative where none exists because a lack of narrative is uncomfortable to us. Most people do this and then, when they see no narrative fits, they just go on with their life. Conspiracy theorists don't go on with their life, they come up with their own narrative that does fit and they try to force it upon everybody.

[emmasdilemma]

This is why its usually easy to predict the plots of true crime related show episodes and stuff, everything has to work out within limited context/easy-to-understand reasonings. Everything is made to be succinct and logical and poetic. In real life, things are much less clear cut.

[gem]

I like to say “These people think life is a James Bond movie and they’re James Bond.”

[hugosanders]

As a kid can confirm i hated coats if it wasn't below 35 °F you'd never catch me with a coat

[JCB]

In 2015 a kid built a digital clock in a pencil case for a school project. A teacher spotted it and thought it was a bomb. The police were called and they thought it looked like a bomb so they arrested him.
Nothing about it looked like a real bomb. It’s red led display resembled the kind used on movie props. But, to the teachers and the cops, what they saw in movies was real.

[tianacroaker]

Yep, sometimes things are coincidental in real life, sometimes (often times) the stereotype doesn’t work in real life, sometimes the ending isn’t happy, the girl really isn’t that into you, Chekhov’s gun won’t reappear, and the pipe is really just a pipe.

[justicefool]

Never attribute to malice what can be equally explained by stupidity

[mxs]

Vsauce is like an actually entertaining version of Neil deGrasse Tyson

[SeverinHawkland]

And then, when authors write something that doesn't seem like it makes sense, everyone thinks it's bad, and say "that shouldn't happen, it makes no sense".
Like coincidences that affect the story. Many say they are "lazy writing" but as long there aren't too many it is totally realistic, consistent, and sensable.

[Isometrix]

I've always said that if something can be explained by incompetence, it's much more likely to be that than malice.

[Merlinw]

"Reality with an author" is a quote that will be living in my head forever

[voteforscience]

People can’t conspire to take a crap together without leaving evidence. No paper trail, no conspiracy.

[_Mr.Black_]

Yeah we want reality to have a narrative. And we can't help making associations and trying to give those associations meaning. Ive been seeing my name showing up in the comments lately. I know its like baader meinhof syndrom or something akin to that, but also im like "theres a glitch in the matrix!"

[nolangerrans]

It reminds me of how Apple had to make their random shuffling less random and purposefully not put similar songs together because people complained that it wasn’t working right. Humans are amazing at looking for patterns and connections but we’re so good at it that we can easily recognize patterns that don’t exist. People forget that correlation doesn’t equal causation and that coincidences are real and common.

[Ducaso]

I think the lack of control is what drives most of the wildest conspiracy theories.

[emilysmith]

This is such a perfect explanation. People want, and always have wanted, easy answers for problems that are messy and hard.

[Tsunamy]

The same for when we sneeze, not always we sneeze when we are sick in real life, sometimes we sneeze because of some alergy or some random reason, but when someone sneezes in a movie they are always sick

[remveel]

Bro Vsauce's entire channel is literally to question things. YOU'RE THE REASON FOR ALL CONSPIRACY MICHAEL! YOU OUGHT TO ACCEPT IT

[BigWheel.]

I think it has more to do with general distrust and pattern recognition, but this isn't a bad theory either.