From watching my mom fall into the web of conspiracy theories, I’m pretty confident that most of them don’t actually care about what the truth is, and just want to feel like they’re smarter and better than other people because they can see these made-up intricate connections that supposedly prove the existence of this crazy global coverup that other people completely missed. The complexity is the point; if it’s simple and easy to understand, they can’t claim intellectual superiority for having figured it out.