Conspiracy theories “There are no birds,” says young American conspiracy theory – parody spreads like wildfire

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Message is effective and concise: “There are no birds.” Or if it translates verbatim, “Birds are not real.”

This is what the 23-year-old American claims Peter McIndoen founded by Birds Aren’t Real. McIndoe spreads the message that the U.S. government has replaced real birds with drones decades ago.

Together, these “birds” form a giant swarm of surveillance that monitors innocent citizens with billions and billions of camera eyes.

Now McIndoe’s conspiracy theory in 2017 has reached perhaps the most authoritative stage that can be reached in the US public: The New York Times has written about No Birds.

“Birds Aren’t Real profiles have garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and TikTok, and YouTube videos have gone viral,” The New York Times said Thursday.

The magazine describes the No Birds movement as a “Z-generation conspiracy theory”. The Z generation refers to those born with the twists and turns of 21st century art.

Prohibitors of birds have also spread their message through more traditional means.

McIndoe has toured the country in a van with numerous texts declaring anti-bird (“Pigeons are liars.”)

Roadside billboards across the United States – at least in Los Angeles, Memphis and Pittsburgh – have declared “There are no birds”.

In October, supporters of the movement staged a demonstration in front of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Protesters are demanding that Twitter change its logo. When there is a bird.

At the same time, however, birders use Twitter themselves, such as here on a tweet where students at the University of Colorado prove their faith.

Birds the no-movement is, of course, a parody, as has been reported in the U.S. public for many years.

The movement scoffs at “real” conspiracy theories like QAnon. Proponents of QAnon believe that the world is run by Democratic Satan worshipers and pedophiles.

What is noteworthy about the bird bans movement is how far the parody has been taken, how long it has lasted, and how seriously the founding character is taking its role.

In Tennessee On the WREG television channel Peter McIndoe was interviewed in the summer of 2019. The presenter of the program asked McIndoe what the tip of the satire is about, and McIndoe seemed outraged by the question.

“Honestly, that’s offensive,” McIndoe replied with a poker face. “You wouldn’t ask for that if I said birds are real. I do not see why an objection cannot be treated with equal respect. ”

British favored by left-wing intelligentsia New Statesman magazine reported on bird bans in an extensive article in October.

Peter McIndoe told New Statesman that the data for the No Birds movement is based on a massive data leak called the Poultry Gate.

People working at the White House and the Department of Defense Pentagon had leaked wholesale emails to No Birds activists stating that the birds were in fact government drones.

“All we know is that these messages were sent and found on Yahoo’s servers,” McIndoe told New Statesman. “The Hollywood elite and super celebrities are also involved in the plot, as we thought – as Kevin Sorbo and Clay Aiken. ”

Sorbo is an actor, Aiken’s pop singer. They are not particularly well known.

McIndoe has taken the Birds Aren’t Real satire so real that he has made numerous videos to prop up the movement’s main claim.

With one videos occurs as a “former CIA agent Eugene Price”, Who, shocked, reveals his involvement in a secret bird drone program.

According to The New York Times, the video has been viewed on TikTok about 20 million times.

Birds the no-movement is meant to be a kind of statement by the younger generation in the post-truth era, The New York Times analyzed.

“It’s a way to fight the world’s problems when there are no other means,” said the 22-year-old Pittsburgh bird bugger. Claire Chronis said to the newspaper.

“I prefer to characterize the organization so that we fight nonsense with nonsense.”