I just learned about Finland Doesn't Exist on YouTube a few days ago, and have been harassing a Swedish ets friend about it. It's pretty damn funny.

Surely, SURELY that one only gained steam as some sort of joke, but, who knows.

The Flat Earth society was mostly a self aware joke in the early '00s, as far as I could tell: it was in this big like, encyclopedia of insanity and cults and obscure conspiracy theories I had called Kooks.