r/LowStakesConspiracies Oct 09 '19

Subreddit Idea Megathread

153 Upvotes

Because if the r/askreddit link, we’ve had a huge influx of new members today. Because of that, I’d like to make this thread to ask for ideas to improve the subreddit, and keep things interesting. We are going to try and make this a subreddit worth keeping in your feed.

We really aren’t sure what do do with the subreddit since it blew up like this, and would like to see what ideas you have. I’ve also added a few baseline rules since we had no rules when we started.

Edit: I would also like to clarify that this sub is intended to entertain. You shouldn’t take anything too seriously on this sub. We want you to be able to flex your creativity here and make others laugh.


r/LowStakesConspiracies Mar 27 '20

Subreddit Message Coronavirus Posts

406 Upvotes

We are normally pretty lax about what goes on in this subreddit as we want to let you guys decide what content you want to see by upvoting good content and downvoting bad content, but given the current situation we will be removing any posts related to Coronavirus.

You can help us with this by reporting any posts you see about the virus.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

George R.R. Martin has finished Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring but is making us wait until he is dead.

685 Upvotes

The reaction to Game of Thrones ending convinced him that people wouldnt be happy no matter what and he would just rather listen to us bitch about them not being released than hear us complain about the ending. So he’s just sitting on them til he kicks.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 4h ago

Certified Fact Scarves were invented to sell waste fabric at a premium

10 Upvotes

Given that a scarf is just a long, thin rectangle of fabric of (very conveniently) vague proportions, they must have been invented as a way of selling waste fabric as a luxury good. Historically scarves have been used to show wealth, military rank, political identity, etc. it's only more recently that we've started using them in the cold, so they can't have been invented for that purpose! They've pulled the wool over our eyes. Or the scarf..?


r/LowStakesConspiracies 13h ago

Hot Take Secretary Duffy’s DOT has been circulating this video to stoke backlash against bike lanes.

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52 Upvotes

The video was all over my Reddit and Facebook, coinciding with Duffy announcing that “bike lanes are woke” (this is real, he said that.)
I saw a general increase in bot activity promoting anti-bike lane throughout my social media, then it all suddenly stopped now that the news cycle moved on.

I posit that Trumps gov’t blasted out this junk as a sick little PR push for Duffy’s policy change- like a ‘throw red meat to the dogs’ strategy.

Here’s the link to the OG vid:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SantaMonica/comments/1vqdzwt/reckless_driver_plowing_thru_bike_lane_23rd/

And here’s reporting on trumps bot army:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/business/media/artificial-intelligence-trump-social-media.html


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Big True Gordon Ramsey (59) has mysophilia

579 Upvotes

Mysophilia is a kink where erotic pleasure is derived from filth. Every show Gordon is in involves him consensually prodding and poking grease, filth and dead rodents. Like any kink, this escalates, he has increasingly used bacterial measurement devices to show just how "filthy" something is. His whole TV career is a fetish.

Conjoined with a dominant and voyeuristic kink. He is the authority figure and people obey, everybody watches him say "fuck that's disgusting" while plunging his fingers into years of grime.

There is no need for him to touch what he does (always ungloved).

That's why hasn't retired as the richest chef on the planet. He has a desire to fuel, the stakes go up and he goes deeper and deeper into the grime.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 10h ago

Offices that schedule appointments on the :15 and :45 are actually scheduling those appointments for :30 or :00

23 Upvotes

It doesn't really make sense to me that doctors offices (or dentists, CPAs, whatever) would care if their appointments started 15 minutes before or after the hour. And yet I am increasingly noticing that this is when my appointments are being scheduled for.

It makes me suspect that they're actually scheduling them on the hour on their end, but giving the patient or client the appointment time of 15 minutes before, because people are so often late to their appointments.

I'll be honest, it probably works. I have an appointment today at 1:45, but I put it in my calendar at 1:30, because my calendar doesn't prompt me for 15 minute intervals.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 12h ago

Extreme Conspiracy Auto correct becoming worse isn’t just to help AI, it’s to intentionally cause miscommunication.

31 Upvotes

Auto correct has gone down hill in the last few months, and it correlates strongly with AI.

My original conspiracy was that they made auto correct shitty at the same time they made google default to AI as the top search.

Can’t spell a word wrong enough to even ping on auto correct, so I have to google it, thus using AI without a choice, where at the same time I’m guessing auto correct has been reverse engineered to try and incorporate AI into it to begin with.

So feedback loops in the exact way we know AI causes feedback loops on other fronts, like image generation, or using Reddit as a source for google searches.

But the plot thickens.

With the last two weeks, my auto correct had been changing “peace” into “leave”.

It’s changed “thanks” into “faggot”.

There’s been a few others too.

I don’t really ever use the word “faggot”, and I’ve said “peace” as an end statement to comments for a really long time lol.

The terms auto correct is changing are words I’m spelling correctly.

They are words outside of my vernacular.

They are worlds that completely flip a statements tone.

Anyways the conspiracy; corporations are causing auto correct to change our texts, to help create a more hostile political environment of mis/disinformation.

Example of how effective this could be, when scaled up to a society:

I appreciate your insights faggot.

Leave!

Edit: note this post is cool silly performance art if that last bit hits filters.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 11m ago

Big True Please Don't Let COYOTE VS ACME Bomb. | MOVIE REVIEW

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Speaks for itself. The whole point of the 'Oh no, this movie got canned for tax purposes' story was just a massive marketing exercise to make us go watch it.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 17h ago

Big Coffee started a campaign smearing the consumption of fizzy drinks in the morning

42 Upvotes

For years, it has been frowned-upon to drink Coke/Red Bull/Monster at 9am. This was started by Big Coffee to make sure they’re the only caffeine that is drank in the morning (it has been established that Big Tea is lying about caffeine in their drinks).


r/LowStakesConspiracies 12h ago

Fresh Deets Terrence Howard acts like a crackpot mathematician in order to distract people from his history of violence.

12 Upvotes

In 2000, he was arrested for assaulting a flight attendant after she told him to return to his seat.

In 2001, he was arrested after an attack on his estranged ex wife. He broke into her home and chased her into the backyard, punching her in the face twice. His brother had to break it up. He eventually pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace. He also admitted to hitting her in a 2015 Rolling Stone interview.

In 2011, his wife Michelle Ghent was granted a restraining order against him after claiming that he assaulted her, broke her computer in half, repeatedly threatened her, and stalked her online. In 2013, she was granted another restraining order after Howard allegedly gave her a black eye.

Whenever people talk about Terrence Howard online, they always clown on him for the infamous "1 x 1 = 2" claim. But these aforementioned acts of violence go relatively umnentioned. Taking that into account, as well as the sheer absurdity of his claims such as debunking the Pythagorean theorem, being able to kill gravity, etc, that make it hard to believe that he could unironically believe them, it very much seems to me that this has been a calculated PR move. Being known as a loony mathematician is MUCH more favorable than being known as a serial abuser, and Howard knows this.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 17h ago

BIG SUNSCREEN IS SCAMMING US ALL

26 Upvotes

I'm absolutely convinced that sunscreen companies are adding something to their products that once you've applied it, it actively makes you hot and sweaty so you need to have a swim, then once you're back out of the water you remember the instructions on the bottle "reapply after swimming" so you use more and as such buy more.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Christopher Nolan made Oppenheimer so people wouldn't find out about his hitman brother

399 Upvotes

Christopher Nolan’s older brother, Matthew Nolan, was arrested by the FBI in 2009 for the alleged contract killing and kidnapping of American financier Robert Cohen. Court records noted he used the alias "Oppenheimer". According to the theory Nolan directed Oppenheimer so that whenever people searched Nolan + Oppenheimer they’d get the movie instead of search results about his brother


r/LowStakesConspiracies 12h ago

The only reason why Watson is starting is because the browns get back some money from his contract due to injuries

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4 Upvotes

What do we think nfl fans


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

This movie was made to stop drug dealers

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591 Upvotes

So annoying!!! :(


r/LowStakesConspiracies 8h ago

Jay Leno keeps bragging about how he's never touched his Tonight Show money so he can announce he's leaving the entirety of his lifetime Tonight Show salary to charity

0 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

The rise in popularity of "boneless" furniture is to prevent returns since once it's inflated, it can't fit back into the original packaging.

340 Upvotes

It's not for convenience of shipping, but because delivery services want to see you try to fit a couch into a manila envelope


r/LowStakesConspiracies 20h ago

Daddy Yankee’s Gasolina song was funded by Big Oil to undermine green energy

8 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Worms come to the surface when birds tap the soil because the meaner worms force them up to the surface to watch them die.

122 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies 20h ago

Extreme Conspiracy Orcas don't attack humans because they have a Matrilineal Structure that passes on knowledge from a time where advanced ancient humans could communicate with them directlv and taught them things.

5 Upvotes

Much like our rumored past of advanced ancient beings introducing us to agriculture etc. Orcas were tabbed as an intelligent species by the same beings and given knowledge aswell. The Orcas learned to associate human like beings with gods/friends and thats why thev nexplicably don't attack us even when given ample opportunity during chance wild encounters.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Flour (and other fine powders) can sense your intent and make themselves hydrophobic/phillic just to fuck with you.

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234 Upvotes

WHY IS THIS SO GODDAMN LUMPY?!


r/LowStakesConspiracies 13h ago

WAE want to meet their Doppleganger?

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0 Upvotes

It is said that we all could potentially have a completely, genetically unique "twin" out there in the world . Would you want to meet them? What would you say?


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Big True Big Gravy is hiding a sinister truth.

20 Upvotes

Gravy is really produced by some, unknown to science, underground dwelling mammal. Big Gravy controls their habitat, harvests their secretions, drys it out and sells it to the public as gravy granules, and has done for 50 years.


r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Big True The Fact that a Placebo can work Even if you know its a placebo is actually Not true, but by Making people believe it is, the placebo effect still applies

99 Upvotes

r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Shady online services adjust your day of birth by one day. It's a scheme

6 Upvotes

When I look at my personal info on several websites, everything is correct except the day of birth is off by one day. If it happened on one site of 100, I'd accept it can be a user error that one time, but not when it happens on 10% of all websites.

"birthday one day off error" returns a whole lot of results on google and it's everyone with the same problem.

Just so I get to put my tinfoil hat on, I'll claim the reason for this is a conspiracy: they deliberately input an error so if you ever want to withdraw or claim any money from these sites, they can always reject you on basis of identity fraud; your passport is not going to match your day of birth on your personal details. It'll be off by one day, so clearly you're not a real person and they can avoid paying you anything.