Bald Explorer or bald-faced liar?

[arayder]

Richard Vobes is a guy in Britain with a YouTube channel who is really getting off on conspiracy theories: https://www.youtube.com/@RichardVobes/videos

Vobes's old channel “The Bald Explorer” produced entertaining tours of the English country side. Lately Vobes has gone all conspiracy theory in his new “opinion channel”. The old, non-opinion, channel didn’t bring in much money and its production was expensive and difficult.

Vobes new “method” is to take emails from his viewers regarding various conspiracy theories and then devote 15 minute, easily produced, talks on one of the theories. He’s figured out all he has to do is sit in a chair and repeat conspiracy theories back to the CTers and he’ll get more views and more money with less effort. Vobes never checks out the validity of the conspiracy theories and mindful of YouTube "strikes" he is careful to add "some people say" and "is it possible that?" qualifiers to his comments.

His followers know exactly what he’s doing and in the comments section they dutifully fill in the gaps in his talks so as to complete whatever conspiracy theory Vobes is pretending to “just be asking about”. A few of his followers are really out there. A couple of them regularly post chatter in the comments section about hanging British politicians and public officials.

Vobes has begun to censor comments that point out the holes in his theories or just ask tough questions. He is perfectly happy to let his followers think the censorship is coming from the government.