Sargent, 49, became a believer after watching videos and realizing he could “no longer prove the globe.” “My channel broke 10 million views in December,” he said. Sargent said he suspects millions of believers remain “in the closet” to avoid ridicule. Now it’s more than 18.7 million, beating out Lady Gaga and closing in on Donald Trump at about 21.3 million.
He believes Colorado’s open-mindedness accounts for its prominent position among believers.īack in 2015, when he typed “flat Earth” into YouTube he’d get 50,000 hits. Mark Sargent, a software analyst from Boulder now living in Seattle, is the primary organizer of the movement and has made more than a thousand videos. Many of the most popular flat Earth videos come out of Colorado, host of next year’s Flat Earth International Conference along with the Colorado International Flat Earth Film Festival.
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