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Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its sources check out, though.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The origins of the theory can be traced back to the 2011 Brazilian blog Avril Está Morta ("Avril Is Dead")

Uh uh... quite the source.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

If the claim is that someone made this theory in 2011, then yes, that's a perfectly good source. The whole theory is of course bonkers, but nowhere is it claimed that there is a shed of evidence supporting it, just that the theory exists.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean even the blog itself was made up, as stated in the Wikipedia article.