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Dismal_Swamp ago

Flat Earth peaked on internet searches at one specific time. There was no interest in the topic and then it peaked.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F032dv&geo=US

blackguard19 ago

Or, derrrrrrrr, a popular book about it came out around that time.

 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24344650-the-flat-earth-conspiracy

Dismal_Swamp ago

That book came out in 2014 before the peak happened although he did write some other flat earth books around 2018 which saw a peak in that year on the topic. It’s more likely that someone on YouTube with a bunch of subscribers started talking about it than people buying a book to read. 90% of the population don’t purchase or read books.