I've never visited this subreddit but...

You should be a conspiracy theorist if it is more likely to you that it is a psyop. It takes more faith to think that than they are is just a bunch of opinionated dummies on the Internet. You have used the Internet right? People are really really dumb and really really stubborn.

The more it becomes clear that someone missed the boat the more strongly their brain is telling them they aren't wrong to preserve their ego. This will break at some point but for MANY people it hasn't.