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Indrė Lukošiūtė

104 Funny “Conspiracies” That Won’t Hurt Anyone, But Might Change Your Mind

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Ireland doesn’t exist. Bay leaves do absolutely nothing for your food. Lint rollers leave your clothes slightly sticky on purpose so they pick up even more lint—meaning you’ll keep buying refills forever and remain trapped in the lint industrial complex. And lotteries? Obviously designed to catch time travelers who “coincidentally” nail the winning numbers.

Sounds silly, but that’s the entire point of r/LowStakesConspiracies. It’s a subreddit where people share hilarious, harmless theories just for the fun of it—no alien cover-ups or government scandals required. We’ve collected the best ones from the community below. Check them out and upvote your favorites.

#1 Men

So many Men Have foot [desires] because their first partner was a sock

#2 T.s. Eliot

#3 Dads

#4 Existence

#5 Geologists

#6 Passport Photos

#7 Gender

#8 “On Accident”

#9 Elf On The Shelf

#10 Jars

#11 Stephen Hawking’s Time Traveler Party

#12 Rage Against The Machine

#13 Orchestral Musicians Collectively Pretend That The Conductor Is Doing Something, Out Of Pity

#14 Passing Away

Passing away was invented by funeral companies to sell more coffins

#15 Lint Rollers

#16 Marisa Tomei

I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories, but this is pretty compelling

#17 Aliens On Reddit

#18 TSA

#19 The Rapture Did Actually Happen, Sort Of

#20 Ireland

#21 Supermarkets And Phone Signal

#22 Pedro Pascal Hate

#23 Milkmen

#24 Elon Gave Himself Neuralink And What We’re Seeing Now Is A Direct Result Of The Brain Damage

We see it happen again and again, someone gets brain damage, they become conservative. What if Elon gave himself Neuralink, it obviously failed, and what we're left with is a dribbling moron. I mean, y'all saw that gif at the inauguration right? Where he's like, spinning in his own head? Something is severely wrong. Dude's brain is probably literally cooked.

#25 British Food Memes

#26 Sexuality

People who say "Sexuality is a choice" are actually just bisexual and just don't realise it

#27 The Lord Of The Rings And Teletubbies

#28 The Moon

#29 Netflix Has Bad Recommendations Because If You Could See Their Entire Catalog, You'd Unsubscribe

#30 Screens Before Bed

#31 Elon Musk Despises Women So Much, He Made Sure All His Kids Are Boys With Ivf.

#32 Elon Musk And Donald Trump Are Closeted Trans Lovers

#33 Jamie Oliver Can't Cook

#34 Ozempic

#35 Baby Wipes

#36 Hold Music

#37 Sonic The Hedgehog

#38 Sims Taking Care Of Themselves Are Modeled After The Clinically Depressed

#39 The Term "Bougie" Was Created Purely To Disguise The Fact That People Couldn't Spell The Word "Bourgeois"

#40 "Crisps" In The UK Are Called "Chips" In America To Protect The British Fish And Chip Industry From Supply Chain Issues Of Potato.

#41 Weetabix

#42 Kippahs (Jewish Hats) Were Secretly Invented To Cover Bald Spots

#43 'Crafts' Sent Home By Kid's Nursery

#44 Creased Clothes Are Unsightly

#45 AI

#46 Ghosts And Monsters

#47 Taylor Swift’s Engagement Is A Marketing Tactic

#48 R/Birdsarentreal And R/Giraffesdontexist

#49 The Disney Live Action Remakes Are To Renew Their Intellectual Property And Disney Doesn't Care Of They Flop Or Not

#50 They Tell You To Always Arrive At The Airport 2 Hours Early Not So You Have Time To Get Through Security, But So You'll Spend Money At The Airport

#51 Cinema

Do I Need To Say More?

#52 Stephen Hawking Discovered A Treatment For Als, And Kept It Quiet Because It Broke Ethical Rules

#53 The Royal Family Swans

#54 Banksy Isn’t One Person

#55 Moe Syzlak Knew It Was Bart All Along

#56 Hospitals

#57 Anakin Skywalker

#58 Downton Abbey Is Designed To Help The 1% Oppress The Masses

#59 Tony’s Chocolonely Isn’t Divided That Way Because Of Inequalities In The Chocolate Industry…

…but because the uneven blocks cause you to lose track of how much you’ve eaten and encourage you to eat more. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the business concept and a BIGGER fan of the chocolate, but by god I swear I get through a bar in like two sittings every time by accident!

#60 WWIII?

#61 Subscription Meal Services Are Bait Switching Us

#62 Elon Musk Wants To Change His Name

#63 The Idea "Don't Fight Your Bullies, It Will Only Get Worse" Is Promoted Not Because It Lowers Bullying, But Because It Lowers Shit Teachers Have To Dealt With

#64 Claudia Winkleman Is An Act

#65 The Bay Leaf Doesn't Actually Do Anything

#66 4th Piece Of Cutlery

#67 Reddit

#68 Sandwiches In The UK Are Not Meant To Be Bought

Okay so basically if you're not from the UK we have a thing in all supermarkets called a 'meal deal', which is where you buy a main, a snack and a drink. This normally comes out to about £3.50 (daylight robbery). Snacks are normally floating around the £1 mark and drinks are also around £1.25. You'd think, then, that sandwiches would be maybe £2-£2.50 in order to make the deal worth it. They're not. A basic sandwich is close to £3 now, and that's for just a plain ham and bread. You can get sandwiches now that are £5, which is absolutely insane. This makes the meal deal an incredible bargain. Why would you buy a sandwich by itself for £5 when you could get crisps AND a drink for £1.50 less?? I think that these sandwiches are priced so high specifically to make the meal deal look like a better choice. They're never meant to be bought by themselves. The choice of buying a sandwich at a UK supermarket is an illusion. There is no solo sandwich.

#69 Car Dependency

#70 Tinder

Tinder is literally a project designed by the US military to break women down to the point where they just say f it and marry a random army dude after two weeks, so they never have to receive another "haha wyd" text

#71 Obama's Last Name

#72 Customer Service Can See Your Messages As You’re Typing Them

#73 R/Showerthoughts

#74 My Workplace Has A Faraday Cage Built Into The Toilet Cubicles

#75 The Lottery Is A Trap To Catch Time Travelers

#76 Bonnie Blue

#77 R/Peterexplainsthejoke

#78 Chinese Chatgpt 'Deep Seek'

#79 Spongebob And Sandy Are Friends With Benefits, The Writers Of Sbsp Replaced Anything Romantic Between The Two Characters With Karate.

#80 Pizza As "Za"

#81 Saturn's Moon Is Actually The Death Star

#82 Guinea Pigs

#83 The Rock Is Using His New Slim Downed Look As An Out From Steroids.

#84 Mad Germ Scientists

#85 Pokémon

#86 The Reason Why They Stopped Making Transparent Electronics Is Because We A Started Associating Weight With Quality

If you were alive in the 90s, especially as a kid, you remember that every electronic device had a version with transparent plastic. They were always the coolest version of the device, and I personally always wanted the transparent one. Nintendo especially put out a lot of transparent electronics. I had a transparent Gameboy Color, a transparent GameCube controller, and some of the Pokemon games were transparent. I remember the bubble iMacs where you could see everything inside of it.
But alas, the clear craze started to die out. In fact, it almost went away overnight. What happened? If you ask Google, apparently the transparent plastic is more expensive to produce, and isn't as sturdy. But looking at the transparent Gameboy that I have, I don't know if "less sturdy" is entirely accurate. But what I really think happened is that we started to associate weight with quality, and companies started to get cheap with it.
Back in the 90s, and even today, you could tell that a product was going to be good by simply picking it up off the shelf. If it weighed nothing, then it was clearly lower quality than the one that was heavier. Because the heavier one had more something in it. Some sort of bits and bobs that clearly helped it work. Whether this was true or not didn't matter. If it came down to it, you would pick the heavier one. Companies, being companies, caught on to this trend. Companies, also being companies, decided to be really cheap and cheat the system. They started to hide cheap weights in their product. Mostly steel plates to give it that extra heft that people wanted, while only costing the manufacturer a few cents.
But in order to hide this from the consumer, they couldn't use transparent plastic. After all, if you saw a company clearly being cheap, then you probably wouldn't buy their product in the future. You can still find some lower end electronics with steel plates in them today. But either way, companies cheaping out and making products artificially heavier led to the death of transparent electronics. Luckily it seems like they're slowly coming back, which I'm all for!