The Internet's Deepest Rabbit Hole

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>> Saturday. Wildfires are decimating Hawaii. The Barbenheimer [music] phenomenon is in full force. And over in an unassuming corner of cyberspace, someone creates a YouTube channel with [music] an urgent call to action. >> This matter is of utmost significance for [music] the survival of every living being on this planet. >> It's called the Earth Save Science

Collaborative, and it's hosted by a man named Allan Egon Cholakian. On his channel, we can find over 180 videos of this man warning people about global issues like climate change, nanoplastics, and disinformation campaigns. Admittedly, while these are all issues that are plaguing the world, the way Egon is framing them is a bit odd.

In every single one of his videos, he sits in front of a camera dressed in a suit, goes on about his various accolades, and spends anywhere from around 30 minutes to 3 and 1/2 hours fearmongering about things like geophysical anomalies inside the Earth's core that, upon doing further research, appear to have little to no basis in

scientific fact. According to Egon, if humanity doesn't unite to solve this global [music] threat, then the end of the world is quite literally just a few years away. On his website, earthsavesciencecollaborative.com, we can find a section that gives us insights into his cause. And at a cursory glance, we can notice a plethora

of colorful phrasing formatted in bold for dramatic effect. Egon claims that there are alarming anomalies. There's a chaotic acceleration of the planet's rotation, that humanity only has a few years to avert an impending [music] catastrophe. And upon taking a look at their scientific papers, he makes bizarre claims about an external and unknown cosmic force that's causing all