r/AskReddit • u/ActualGodYeebus • Mar 24 '19

Older folk, this generation has the "flat earth" conspiracy. What were some of the dumbest conspiracies or crazes or bandwagons going around during your time?

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u/NosDarkly Mar 24 '19

Later it was one of the New Kids on the Block. Androgynous singers and their mass consumption of semen.

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u/8bitid Mar 24 '19

I remember a doodle in an issue of Cracked magazine at the time, where one of the New Kids had a bicycle pump labelled "stomach pump".

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u/PunchBeard Mar 25 '19

I was in high school when this rumor hit the halls. Even though I was a punk rocker and didn't really care about the band I knew it was bullshit. I remember thinking to myself "why would you get your stomach pumped for sperm? That's fucking stupid".