There are also just actual kooks as well as the "astroturfers"/ "micro-influencers"/ shills. The issue is: when you get into any kind of dissident circle, they are all outcasts from the norm, and people with psychosis/ obsessive/ social disorders or paranoia are already outcasts, and they are innately drawn to looking into certain things, so it's a barrier that occurs naturally, and then the relevant powers, whom are trying to control public opinion, just need to nourish what's already there, expand and emphasise it- as well as tactically seed certain self-replicating ideas/ misinfo with those types of people. Birds of a feather flock together, so when they control the main figures, like you have David Icke acting like a New Age loony, what are the types of people who will be drawn into those "conspiracy theorist" circles in response to David Icke? Weirdos who are actual embodiments of his persona.