I came across something interesting a couple days ago and this seems like the best thread for sharing.
Someone in a discord server I'm in linked this video in chat the other day:
It was uploaded on November 27 2011, just over 6 months after Bin Laden was allegedly found and killed. It's hilarious, but what shocked me was that I'd never seen it before. I have followed politics and current events pretty closely since high school, and taken advantage of virtually unlimited and unsupervised internet access since about 2001, so you'd think if this had ever really blown up online that I would have seen it at some point, if not at the time, sometime during the last 8 years. It doesn't appear to have ever gone viral either, as it sits at just over 374k views after all this time. The relatively low view count doesn't appear to be due to a duplicate video stealing the views either, as there are only two other uploads of the video on the site and they were only uploaded within the past week.
My curiosity was sufficiently piqued so I searched the term "osama bin laden poker face" to see if it had ever had a lot of online buzz that I just missed, or if this was just a really clever hoax, and the search results were pretty interesting:
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There are a couple results about the karaoke vid (one of them being the video itself), but the majority of the results are news stories from different sources and different writers, all using the same phrase to refer to Obama's demeanor at the time of Bin Laden being taken out. There's also an interview with Bin Laden's mother in which she says that her son had a "poker face" .
I don't know if any of you will find this as interesting as I did. It strikes me as some kind of Operation Mockingbird shit, suggesting some kind of secret coordination among mainstream journalists (which, for the sake of making this post more relevant to the thread, are both "conspiracy theories" that I fully believe in).