094 THE GIANT (conspiracies about long-dead giants on YouTube)

We take a dive into a strange corner of YouTube, featuring videos purporting to show hitherto unknown or under-appreciated evidence that giant humans lived in the past and their bones have been hidden or covered up by the Smithsonian.

Pew Research on YouTube: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/

Heidi Campbell, researcher on digital religion: https://digitalreligion.tamu.edu/users/heidi-campbell

“Giant of Japan military parade”: https://youtu.be/-uigLE6EI1g

Big Man Japan (2007): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997147/

“20 Shocking Discoveries of Giants You Won’t Believe Exist”: https://youtu.be/Mf3_PWprFS8

“Giants Emerging Everywhere – They Can’t Hide This”: https://youtu.be/sVmOnwng6gs

History Channel’s Search for Lost Giants: https://youtu.be/JzlSWzg-FkY

Karen Douglas, on defining conspiracies: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417718261

1 Enoch online (see ch. 15): https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM

Van Prooijen, et al., “The entertainment value of conspiracy theories”: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjop.12522

Birds Aren’t Real: https://birdsarentreal.com/

Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz%E2%80%93Zodiac_Killer_meme