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[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This conspiracy doesn't go deep enough to satisfy me. Look up "Donald Marshal cloning" for a huge fucking rabbit hole of "celebrity clones"

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Then try to explain why I have not heard 'sk8ter boi' on the radio for at least 10 years?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Cuz he said See Ya L8ter Boi

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

For what it's worth they still air it here from time to time, in the self-claimed "only rock station of Colombia"

[–] Juice@midwest.social 16 points 9 months ago

The reason this makes no sense is that musical artists are worth more dead than alive

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Reads like a weak remake of the Paul is dead conspiracy.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a perfect fit for early 2000s culture.

[–] Mellow12@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wikipedia edit log: Page created 9 March 2021. People just making shit up.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its sources check out, though.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 9 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 9 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 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

If the theory is wrong, WHY WON’T SHE SUBMIT TO A DNA TEST? WHAT IS SHE HIDING?

WE’RE ON TO YOU MELISSA!

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] euchriduk@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You mean Steev Mike. I swear this conspiracy was about 20 years ago now; there was a suitably crazy website devoted to it.

[–] 1984 4 points 9 months ago

I don't know about this one, but there are many Hollywood celebrities dying under strange circumstance. It's a very interesting rabbit hole.