M.I.A. wants to sell you $100 tinfoil hats

[tanglespiders]

M.I.A. drops conspiracy-tinged streetwear line, including a 5G-blocking tin foil bucket hat https://t.co/lMTY8kzlwR pic.twitter.com/eZjYARvn8v
- The Daily Dot (@dailydot) June 24, 2024
- M.I.A. has launched a new conspiracy theory-laced fashion line where else but TikTok, followed by an appearance on the soon-to-be-liquidated Infowars (incidentally,

Comments

[sanditar]

Some people deserve to be scammed.

I have a coworker that would get this, she gets her news from facebook for starters, have shown me obvious ai videos as real and I try to tell her to always reverse search when something is too weird or out there but she falls every time. And she's not even old.
She's the "omg did you guys see the news about so and so.." and I just

[screamingintune]

I don't think age is too closely related to falling for AI, it seems like media literacy is a problem across the generations

[sanditar]

Yeah, since she's my age, I'd expect her to know a bit of these things.

But I'm 37 and I remember access to a home computer at 11 (and I'm in México that for most people would have to go a café Internet to rent a computer. Anyway all of this to say is that another coworker who is 25 does everything with her phone barely knows how to send an email on a pc.

Like 🤷🏾‍♀️🤔

[sandstorm]

Right like this is the website that fell for Poo Crave tweets about Mayo's drug use.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I was thinking of her when I heard of Julian Assange pleading guilty because of Vicki Leekx mixtapes she released years ago.

Her dip into conspiracy theories has been wild.

[wwgrogudo]

I only know her from the video with the cars on 2 wheels and the Super Bowl swear.

[squirrels_oh_no]

She had a song where gingers were illegal or something and being hunted, it was weird. And this was before she went conspiracy theorist.

ok it was just a straight anti-ginger genocide.

[wwgrogudo]

Oh dear! That's a weird-ass concept! The vid didn't play for me but I will google it later. TY. ❤️

[anterrabre]

Not gonna lie that song was a bop, and she made that video for a reason. Sadly, she's not that person anymore. :/

[andisprohi]

I never bother with baggies, glass jars, tupperware containers

[ty]

I am surprised no one else has done this