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Word cloud visualising the top words used by conspiracy and science influencers on Twitter. Source: Sander van der Linden

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'Science', 'followers', and 'trailer' are the most common words used by conspiracy theorists on Twitter. I will make sure to include these words on my product, as tags on my website, and throughout the my content, so it can appeal to the right audience. I will take note of other words seen here too.

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Just submitting everything now! I really enjoy how this Padlet shows my entire development process over the course of this assignment.

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The social network of the top conspiracy (red) and science (blue) influencers and their followers. Source: Sander van der Linden

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As can be seen in this graph, the networking of conspiracy theorists is radically different to those who believe in science. This proves that when targeting flat earthers, advertising must be unique to this niche group of people, and oppose current mainstream belief.

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These were the different typography choices I came up with:

1. A playful and informal font could be a perfect choice for children's toy, as it gives a lighthearted and fun vibe.

2. A bold, all-caps font could be used for headlines or key phrases to make them stand out and grab the audience's attention.

3. Handwriting or script fonts could add a personal touch and help to convey a sense of fun and creativity, and hint back to older design periods, symbolising the older belief of flat earth.

4. Serif fonts could add a sense of sophistication and elegance to the promo video, while still being slightly creative if used correctly.

Ultimately, I am sticking to handwritten font for now, while planning to use a bolder form of type for the name on the box. I think with the right pairing of fonts this combo will work very well together, and both will ideally be equally detailed, coloured, and dominant in various regards.

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Getting around to polishing everything up! Still have quite a bit to do on the website, but this Padlet is almost finished!

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An effective cover design for my product is necessary, as apart from the ad, it will be the entire selling point and must entice the consumer. I think that this ad does a great job at quickly identifying what the product is and what it does, while also having large, bold, distinctive branding across the top third of the packaging, leading to this game being successful.

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The image above was generated using Coolors, an online colour palette generator. This colour scheme is bright and resonates with a younger audience while standing out against other plain science kit designs. As most have blank white backgrounds, I want this alternative kit to show its uniqueness through a bright, captivating design, and a wide palette of colours that work well together.

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Georgacopoulos, C. (2020) Fight Fake News, Why We Fall for Conspiracy Theories. Louisiana State University. Available at: https://faculty.lsu.edu/fakenews/about/rumors.php (Accessed: March 22, 2023).
This university source offered me a range of great statistics about conspiracy theorists, which helped me validate the need for my product in the market. The concept it proposes of structured narrative really resonated with me and will be used within my video advertisement.

Science Kits (2023) STEAM Kids. Shopify. Available at: https://www.steamkids.com.au/collections/science (Accessed: March 20, 2023).
This website that sells science kits actually offered me an extremely valuable insight into the different kits on offer at the moment, validating the need for my product as nothing suits that niche. It additionally had hundreds of examples of product design for a science kit box, which will be necessary for my product to stand out and captivate children.

Rogers, A. (2023) Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories, Business Insider. Business Insider. Available at: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theory-overconfidence-2023-1 (Accessed: March 16, 2023).
This source researches much deeper into the psychology of flat earthers, revealing that they have a distinct personality where they think they are better than other people and know more. Having access to unique 'secret' knowledge allows them to retain more control over others, and is a common trait amongst conspiracy theorists. Additionally, having overconfidence is another key personality trait. These different traits could be targeted by my video ad and website, making my product feel special, secret and out of the mainstream.

Nguyen, H. (2018) Most flat earthers consider themselves very religious, YouGovAmerica. Available at: https://today.yougov.com/topics/society/articles-reports/2018/04/02/most-flat-earthers-consider-themselves-religious (Accessed: March 28, 2023).
This site reiterated that younger generations are more prone to thinking the earth is flat, including both younger children and new parents. It cited lots of survey results from the general American population, which may be good or bad. Although having significantly more responders than in a small sample survey, some responses may be deliberately malicious and skew data incorrectly. But, as these findings coincide with other sources, I will assume they are mainly accurate.

van der Linden, S. (2021) The language of conspiracy theorists, Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers. Available at: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/social-dilemmas/202106/the-language-conspiracy-theorists (Accessed: March 27, 2023).

van der Linden, S., Panagopoulos, C., Azevedo, F., & Jost, J. T. (2021). The paranoid style in American politics revisited: An ideological asymmetry in conspiratorial thinking. Political Psychology, 42(1), 23-51.

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When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as soon as he took the wheel, Musk removed many of the guardrails Twitter had put in place to keep the craziness in check. Anti-vaxxers used an athlete's collapse during a game to revive claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill people. ( They don't.) Freelance journalists spun long threads purporting to show that Twitter secretly supported Democrats in 2020. ( It didn't.) Musk himself insinuated that the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband was carried out by a jealous boyfriend. ( Nope.) Like a red thread connecting clippings on Twitter's giant whiteboard, conspiratorial ideation spread far and wide.

By some measures more than half of Americans believe at least one tale of a secret cabal influencing events. Some are more plausible than others; a few are even true. But most - from classics like the faked moon landing to new-school stuff like 5G cell towers causing COVID - defy science and logic. And while social-media platforms like Twitter and Meta may help deranged conspiracy theories metastasize, a fundamental question remains: Why does anyone fall for stuff like that?

Social scientists are closing in on some answers. The personality traits known as the "Dark Triad" - that's narcissism, psychopathy, and a tendency to see the world in black-or-white terms - play a part. So do political beliefs, particularly populism and a tolerance for political violence. Cognitive biases, like believing only evidence that confirms what you already think, also make people more vulnerable.

But according to new research, it isn't ignorance that makes people most likely to buy into conspiratorial thinking, or social isolation or mental illness. It's a far more prevalent and pesky personality quirk: overconfidence.

The more you think you're right all the time, a new study suggests, the more likely you are to buy conspiracy theories, regardless of the evidence. That'd be bad enough if it applied only to that one know-it-all cousin you see every Thanksgiving. But given how both politics and business reward a faith in one's own genius, the news is way worse. Some of the same people this hypothesis predicts will be most prone to conspiracy thinking also have the biggest megaphones - like an ex-president who believes he's never wrong, and a CEO who thinks that building expensive cars makes him some sort of visionary. It'd be better, or at least more reassuring, if conspiracy theories were fueled by dumb yahoos rather than self-centered monsters. Because arrogance, as history has repeatedly demonstrated, is a lot harder to stamp out than stupidity.

Have faith in yourself (but not too much)

A decade or so ago, when Gordon Pennycook was in graduate school and wanted to study conspiracist thinking, a small but powerful group of unelected people got together to stop him. It wasn't a conspiracy as such. It was just that back then, the people who approved studies and awarded grants didn't think that "epistemically suspect beliefs" - things science can easily disprove, like astrology or paranormal abilities - were deserving of serious scholarship. "It was always a kind of fringe thing," Pennycook says. He ended up looking into misinformation instead.

Still, the warning signs that conspiracy theories were a serious threat to the body politic go way back. A lot of present-day antisemitism can be traced back to a 19th-century forgery purporting to describe a secret meeting of a Jewish cabal known as the Elders of Zion (a forgery based in part on yet another antisemitic conspiracy theory from England in the 1100s and re-upped by the industrialist Henry Ford in the 1920s). In 1962, the historian Richard Hofstadter warned against what he called the " paranoid style" of America's radical right and its use of conspiracy fears to whip up support. Still, most scientists thought conspiracy theories weren't worth their time, the province of weirdos connecting JFK's death to lizard aliens.

From your blowhard cousin to Marjorie Taylor Greene, every conspiracist shares a single trait: a supreme smugness in their own infallibility.

Then the weirdos started gaining ground. Bill Clinton, they claimed, murdered Vince Foster. George W. Bush had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks. Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States. Belief in baseless theories could lead to actual violence - burning cellphone towers because of that COVID thing, or attacking the Capitol because Hugo Chávez rigged the US election. By the time of the January 6 insurrection, Pennycook had already switched to studying conspiracy.

It still isn't entirely clear whether more people believe conspiracy theories today. Maybe there are just more theories to believe. But researchers pretty much agree that crackpot ideas are playing a far more significant role in politics and culture, and they have a flurry of hypotheses about what's going on. People who believe in conspiracies tend to be more dogmatic, and unable to handle disagreement well. They also rate higher on those Dark Triad personality traits. They're not stark raving mad, just a tick more antisocial.

But at this point, there are just way too many believers in cuckoo theories running around for the explanation to be ignorance or mental illness. "Throughout most of the 1970s, 80% - that's eight zero - believed Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy," says Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami. "Would we say all of those people were stupid or had a serious psychological problem? Of course not."

Which brings us to the overconfidence thing. Pennycook and his collaborators had been looking at the ways intuition could lead people astray. They hypothesized that conspiratorial thinkers overindex for their own intuitive leaps - that they are, to put it bluntly, lazy. Most don't bother to " do their own research," and those who do believe only things that confirm their original conclusions.

"Open-minded thinking isn't just engaging in effortful thought," Pennycook observes. "It's doing so to evaluate evidence that's directed toward what's true or false - to actually question your intuitions." Pennycook wanted to know why someone wouldn't do that. Maybe it was simple overconfidence in their own judgment.

Sometimes, of course, people are justified in their confidence; after four decades in journalism, for example, I'm right to be confident in my ability to type fast. But then there's what's known as "dispositional" overconfidence - a person's sense that they are just practically perfect in every way. How could Pennycook's team tell the difference?

Their solution was pretty slick. They showed more than 1,000 people a set of six images blurred beyond recognition and then asked the subjects what the pictures were. Baseball player? Chimpanzee? Click the box. The researchers basically forced the subjects to guess. Then they asked them to self-assess how well they did on the test. People who thought they nailed it were the dispositional ones. "Sometimes you're right to be confident," Pennycook says. "In this case, there was no reason for people to be confident."

Sure enough, Pennycook found that overconfidence correlated significantly with belief in conspiracy theories. "This is something that's kind of fundamental," he says. "If you have an actual, underlying, generalized overconfidence, that will impact the way you evaluate things in the world."

The results aren't peer-reviewed yet; the paper is still a preprint. But they sure feel true (confirmation bias aside). From your blowhard cousin to Marjorie Taylor Greene, it seems as if every conspiracist shares one common trait: a supreme smugness in their own infallibility. That's how it sounds every time Donald Trump opens his mouth. And inside accounts of Elon Musk's management at Twitter suggest he may also be suffering from similar delusions.

"That's often what happens with these really wealthy, powerful people who sort of fail upwards," says Joe Vitriol, a psychologist at Lehigh University who has studied the way people overestimate their own expertise. "Musk is not operating in an environment in which he's accountable for the mistakes he makes, or in which others criticize the things he says or does."

An epidemic of overconfidence

Pennycook isn't the first researcher to propose a link between self-regard and epistemically suspect beliefs. Anyone who has attended a corporate meeting has experienced the Dunning-Kruger effect - the way those who know the least tend to assume they know the most. And studies by Vitriol and others have found a correlation between conspiracy thinking and the illusion of explanatory depth - when people who possess only a superficial understanding of how something works overestimate their knowledge of the details.

But what makes Pennycook's finding significant is the way it covers all the different flavors of conspiracists. Maybe some people think their nominal expertise in one domain extends to expertise about everything. Maybe others actually believe the conspiracy theories they spread, or simply can't be bothered to check them out. Maybe they define "truth" legalistically, as anything people can be convinced of, instead of something objectively veridical. Regardless, they trust their intuition, even though they shouldn't. Overconfidence could explain it all.

Pennycook's findings also suggest an explanation for why conspiracy theories have become so widely accepted. Supremely overconfident people are often the ones who get handed piles of money and a microphone. That doesn't just afford them the means to spread their baseless notions about Democrats running an international child sex-trafficking ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor, or Sandy Hook being a hoax. It also connects them to an audience that shares and admires their overweening arrogance. To many Americans, Pennycook suggests, the overconfidence of a Musk or a Trump isn't a bug. It's a feature.

It's not necessarily unreasonable to believe in dangerous conspiracies. The US government really did withhold medical treatment from Black men in the Tuskegee trial. Richard Nixon really did cover up an attempted burglary at The Watergate Hotel. Jeffrey Epstein really did force girls to have sex with his powerful friends. Transnational oil companies really did hide how much they knew about climate change.

So distinguishing between plausible and implausible conspiracies isn't easy. And we might be more likely to fall for the implausible ones if they're being spouted by people we trust. "The same thing is true for you," Pennycook tells me. "If you hear a scientist or a fellow journalist at a respected outlet, you say, 'This is someone I can trust.' And the reason you trust them is that they're at a respected outlet. But the problem is, people are not that discerning. Whether the person says something they agree with becomes the reason they trust them. Then, when the person says something they're not sure about, they tend to trust that, too."

The next step, or course, is to figure out how to fight the spread of conspiratorial nonsense. Pennycook is trying; he spent last year working at Google to curb misinformation; his frequent collaborator David Rand has worked with Facebook. They had some meetings with TikTok, too. That pop-up asking whether you want to read the article before sharing it? That was them.

And what about the bird site? "Twitter? Well, that's another thing altogether," Pennycook says. He and Rand worked on the crowdsource fact-check function called Community Notes. But now? "It's all in flux, thanks to Elon Musk."

But Pennycook's new study suggests that the problem of conspiracy theories runs far deeper - and may prove far more difficult to solve - than simply tweaking a social-media algorithm or two. "How are you going to fix overconfidence? The people who are overconfident don't think there's a problem to be fixed," he says. "I haven't come up with a solution for that yet."

Adam Rogers is a senior correspondent at Insider.

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My mind map helped summarise many different ideas and perspectives I had. Writing them down helped me visually navigate through my different concepts, with different branches organising my different thoughts. It was a quick and effective way to write down every idea I had in my head, which will be useful going forward when I need to look back on different things I have imagined and fleshed out.

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This week I explored different perspectives, and found some unique ways I could completely repurpose my product for a different message.

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Complementary colours are colours on opposite sides of the colour wheel to each other. In my case, blue and orange seemed the most bright and approachable, which is perfect for the product I am trying to make appealing for kids.

The triad technique uses three colours on opposing sides of the wheel to create a succinct design. In this case, I used blue, red, and yellow, all of which are bright and energetic colours that additionally appeal to a younger audience.

An equal balance of warm and cool shades is necessary for colour balance. To comply with this rule, I brought in a blue and pink colour to diversify the colour palette. Although there are more warm shades than cold ones, I plan to make blue a more widespread colour in my branding for the product.

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The tone of my ad will be playful and energetic while retaining a balance between entertainment and education. This will make the science behind the flat earth theory approachable and educational to both adult parents and children, while the entertainment factor is to purely target the younger audience. This tone will allow for the product to target both demographics simultaneously, and with a strong cinematic feel over an amateur, homemade one.

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White Hat
- 2% of people believe the world is flat
- More than half (52%) of flat-earthers are heavily religious
- The age group 18-34 are the most sceptical of a spherical earth, and coincidentally are having children
- The average age for females to give birth is 30.7, meaning the age demographic for most flat earthers is either having kids or going to have kids shortly.

Red hat
- People feel quite strongly about their own beliefs and may buy the kit for their kids to prove a point
- Kids may get attached to the product due to catchy ads and memorable packaging & design.
- Parents will want their children to have the best education possible and likewise may buy science toys without much justification

Black hat
- Most people won’t believe in the flat earth, leading them to not buy the science kit
- Some people may buy it as a satirical gift/joke
- Flat-earthers may extremely like the product as there is nothing else suiting this niche on the market currently
- There are many potential problems and I may accidentally cause an influx of flat-earthers

Yellow hat
- My video will provide great benefit to the target audience by showing them a product they have always needed in their lives
- The ad will be memorable & cinematic, not annoying & repetitive, making viewing the ad pleasing and repeatable
- The benefits of the product will be showcased in the advertisement, while more will be left to be desired (by purchasing it)

Green Hat
- Through the animation medium of my video, many extremely creative possibilities are possible
- I plan to set my promotional video in a fictional landscape above the flat earth, and not in real life on a table or something regular
- I want to make my promotional video very bright and captivating, with beautiful visuals accompanied by great audio
- I want to write the most creative script possible for a short timeframe, targeting the audience while being original and highly unique

Blue Hat
- Firstly, I will need to design the product itself and the box art
- I will need to source/make all of the products in the kit, and figure out the purposes they will have
- I will need to learn animation for my video
- I will need a compelling script for the voiceover
- I will need to find a strong musical score that is copyright free
- I want to produce all of my own original content and box ar

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This short film will showcase 'The Flat Earth Science Kit: 10 Awesome Experiments to Prove the Horizon is a dead straight line', a product advertised toward flat-earthers to teach their children about their alternative viewpoint. Featuring a range of unique DIY science experiments, children will be able to prove themselves that the earth is flat.

The film will be fast-paced, instantly gripping children through the familiar style of the advertisement. The film will start with an impactful black screen with an impressive and bold shot of Earth dominating on-screen, being visually impactful to the viewer. This, accompanied by a captivating upbeat soundtrack, will likely captivate the viewer instantaneously. As the score builds, the image will start getting smaller as the viewer's perspective zooms out. There will be narration accompanying these visuals, in an easily understandable voice, with subtitles that match the visual cues and scene changes. The moving bright visuals will help draw kids into the ad, while the ad will have a very unique visual quality and feel. Delving into the contents of the kit, different aspects will be displayed onscreen with matching narration. Finally, the brightly-coloured box will pop distinctly, separating it from the muted background of a starry sky. Quick and kinetic transitions will be present throughout, building on the fast pace of the advert. The ad will speak to parents through the dialogue, while targeting children through the visuals, appropriately reaching both audiences that are being targeted.

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Attention -
I plan to capture attention in the first 5 seconds of my advertisement by having a strong, loud, bold, and energetic call to action, accompanied by captivating and fast-changing visuals. I learnt this after watching ads for different science kits, as displayed on this Padlet, and think it is a highly effective technique to draw the attention spans of both kids and adults.

Interest -
As the product is for children, I want many aspects to be similar to a children's ad, with language and visuals they can easily understand. Likewise, I want relevant and important information that additionally persuades the parents to take action, as they are ultimately the ones buying the kit. I also want to emphasise the educational value of the toy, as that is the core principle behind it while keeping the ad lively and fun.

Desire -
As children are easily drawn to colour, I have decided an easy way to convince them through feeling is by a combination of a bright colour palette and smooth production quality. I don't want any aspects of the ad to be jarring, but I still want it to retain a fast pace, many moving elements, and on-screen subtitles/text. These qualities will also be pleasing for parents to watch, with the narrator providing more detailed insight into the experiments shown on-screen.

Action -
I plan to take my audience on an emotional journey through the ad, as they are able to form a stronger connection to the themes and product this way. This will be mainly implemented through the voice-over, almost guilt-tripping parents into thinking they're not providing a solid foundation education for their children unless they buy the science kit. The story in the ad will also form a satisfying loop, in which it can be viewed multiple times repeatedly.

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After fleshing out my original idea significantly, I wanted to explore the concept of advertising the same product from a different perspective. The three predominant perspectives I have come up with are:

1. Flat-Earther Perspective
(Already explored)

1. Satirical Perspective
The advertisement could be presented in a mocking way toward the flat earther and wider conspiracy theory community, pointing out the absurdity in it's claims. It could be presented in a Monty Python-esque style, and be downright comedic and silly.

2. Logical Perspective (Acting as a warning)
The advertisement could be presented as a child-oriented science kit, which could lead to them falling for the conspiracy. It could be used as a simplified way of demonstrating how conspiracy theories spread generationally, and could actually be an advertisement for a helpline or resources to assist people to get out of dangerous conspiracy beliefs. It could also highlight the dangers of believing unscientific claims without evidence and scientific support.

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Children's Science Kit Commercial (2016)

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Children's Science Kit Commercial (2016)

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This advertisement built upon my desire to show the contents of the kit, as it seems to be an effective and efficient way to advertise a science kit and make it appealing to children. The result was also a change in my perspective from solely advertising to adults to now including children as well, so I have updated my target demographic accordingly.

I am planning to combine this with the parent-focused approach to create a product that is marketed to both demographics equally.

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Project Mc² | H20 Nail Science Kit & Crayon Make Up Kit! | :30 Commercial

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Children's Chemistry Kit Commercial (2015)

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Children's Chemistry Kit Commercial (2015)

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This advertisement provides an alternative perspective, using the different experiments in the kit to build excitement from a younger audience. This has the intention for children to want the kit, and ask their parents to buy it. In addition to being successful, this marketing technique shows off the product's contents.

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WILD! Science™ Crazy Chemistry Commercial

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"A person is more likely to seek out information that is consistent with their pre-existing beliefs, while simultaneously avoiding incompatible information that may challenge their beliefs." (Georgacopoulos C., 2020)

My marketing strategy for my product was strengthened by this, as I gained greater insight into the need to specifically target flat-earther parents as potential buyers. The advertisement I create must be relevant to this audience, as non-flat-earthers might not purchase my product as it does not align with their beliefs.

"From your blowhard cousin to Marjorie Taylor Greene, every conspiracist shares a single trait: a supreme smugness in their own infallibility."

This idea was reiterated through much of the research I did, and I think that an effective advertisement for a flat earth science kit would need to build off this idea of conspiracy theorists being smug, superior, and over-confident.

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Conspiracy theory advertisements and graphics often have bold, strong, and confident text, with red being a common colour.

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Church of Scientology Super Bowl Ad (2021)

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Church of Scientology Super Bowl Ad (2021)

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This video emphasised the persuasive aspects of the Church of Scientology, targeting people in hard situations to take advantage of their perception of hope. Although it comes off too strong for my liking, I feel like this persuasive technique of isolating the viewer and offering a solution to their problems is highly effective.

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"𝘽𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚." - The Scientology TV channel Super Bowl 55 2021 Commercial Ad (2min)

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I love the design of this sort of science kit, and think this could be applied to my product effectively. The picture of the child clearly shows the target demographic for the kit, while the small writing and information show it is designed primarily for the parent purchasing it.

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I have decided to promote a 'flat-earther DIY science kit' as I love the funny satirical undertones I could explore while still remaining serious in my promotion.

The kit will be geared toward flat-earther parents, so they could buy it for their kids. I targeted this niche as there is no current product in this genre and I think it would be very fun to design the kit itself.

The kit would contain a series of DIY experiments and tests that kids could undertake to 'learn' the earth is flat.

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The two main target audiences I am targeting are:

Customer

Parents

Age: 30-45 years old
Gender: N/A
Interests: Flat earth (predominantly), science, truth-seeking, education, learning, government distrust, quality time with children, exploring new activities with children
Education: High school completion or higher
Income: Middle to upper-middle-class with disposable income for educational toys and activities
Location: Urban or suburban areas with access to shops and materials

Buying for

Kids

Age: 7-12 years old
Gender: N/A
Interest: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), nature, experimentation, hands-on-learning
Education: Elementary or middle school students
Income: N/A (the kit is bought by parents, affordably priced)
Location: Urban or suburban areas with access to shops and materials

- Why is it a problem for them?
The knowledge can't be passed down effectively as it's hard to explain the flat earth theory.
There are minimal other products to help parents with this dilemma.
It's hard for kids to learn about flat earth as most media portrays spherical earth.
Flat earth theory is taboo, so it's unlikely that children have accurate knowledge or beliefs about it.
It is not a scientifically accepted view and is widely considered a conspiracy theory.
Most children learn about the spherical shape of the earth in school through science classes and textbooks, and the flat earth isn't talked about at school.
Media has portrayed that the earth is round, however, this is untrue.

- What do I need to say or show in the promo video that will persuade my audience to take action?
Have you lost faith in humanity?
Do you disagree with mainstream media?
Do you not want your children to be sheep?
Do you want to give your kids the best education possible?
Do you believe in hands-on learning?
Do you want to give your kids a tool they can use for the rest of their life?

- What does my target audience already know, think or feel about my message?
They agree with it and want more educational tools to spread their message.
They want science kits that differ from the standard belief.
They want to be able to teach their kids a unique view that is not widespread without facing backlash.

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PHOTOS:
https://news3lv.com/news/local/why-are-there-so-many-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories
https://startsat60.com/media/opinion/remembering-the-best-board-games-from-the-1960s

VIDEOS:
https://www.scientology.org.au
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPMMBBCdHUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBMBzTR9auM

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Why are there so many coronavirus conspiracy theories?

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Have you heard that the coronavirus is a hoax? or that all those vaccines we’ve been getting for years are the actual cause of COVID-19? Maybe you’ve heard that a billionaire created this virus to thin the human population. That one, by the way, is both the plot of Dan Brown’s book Inferno, and an a…

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Starting research, I found it quite challenging as I have quite a niche product. Luckily, I found some good leads by breaking my product down into two basic ideas: science kit & conspiracy theory.

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1. Extremely frozen yoghurt
2. Healthy waffles
3. Hydrogen cars
4. Canned soup
5. AI advertising platform
6. Antique trading website
7. Freelancer hiring
8. Maps-based social media
9. Plant-based protein powders
10. AI-powered language translation earbuds
11. Smart wallets with built-in biometric authentication
12. Hydraulic platform boots
13. Wearable technology for tracking posture and preventing back pain
14. Second-hand clothing website for costumes
15. Personalized skincare routines based on DNA analysis
16. Compact and portable solar panels for charging devices on-the-go
17. Hallucinogenic drugs for furthering VR experiences
18. Necklaces that prevent mind-reading

19. Flat-earther DIY science kit

20. A bike that is also a washing machine
21. A hybrid pogo stick and unicycle
22. Self-cleaning litter boxes that also serve as a planter
23. Smart backpacks that double as personal flotation devices
24. Lawn-mowing drones
25. Trampoline that adjusts to your jumping style
26. Music software that generates a never-ending playlist that never repeats
27. Vape that gives you essential oils and vitamins

28. Adapters that morph to suit any port
29. Smart water bottle that reminds you to stay hydrated
30. Smartphone camera lenses for professional-grade photography
31. Antique valuation website (with sales data)
32. A camping massage chair
33. Camping tents with built-in waterslides
34. Bike with built-in propellers for flying
35. A skateboard that massages your feet
36. Sparkly toothpaste for kids
37. A toaster that burns motivational messages onto your toast
38. Fog-proof bathroom mirror
39. A fridge that analyses its contents and can suggest a recipe based on the ingredients available
40. Self-watering plant pot
41. A coffee table with a built-in fire pit
42. A desk made out of whiteboard that you can draw on
43. A coffee table aquarium
44. A coffee table display cabinet
45. Smart bike lock unlocked by your phone
46. A home security robot that explodes
47. A portable directional noise-cancellation device
48. Insertable technology that filters allergens from the air
49. A photo-printing smartphone case
50. A silly little gadget thingy
51. More painful tattoo for the challenge of it
52. Bluetooth earbuds for two people
53. Toy dog that also carries a laundry basket
54. Bendable computer monitor
55. Text-to-speech glasses
56. See-through coffins
57. Edible plastic
58. Flying baby hamster toy for dogs
59. Miniature AI-powered RC shopping cart
60. A levitating microphone

Social Causes:

1. Clean the ocean
2. Preventing Axolotl extinction
3. Stopping Hong Kong ivory trade
4. Stopping illegal begging crime rings
5. Providing support for families with addiction
6. Supporting disaster relief
7. Promoting ethical business practices
8. Protecting the rights of sex workers
9. Combatting homelessness
10. Supporting small businesses and entrepreneurship
11. Fighting against police brutality
12. Promoting peace and non-violence
13. Combatting human trafficking
14. Eliminating child labour
15. Water conservation and access
16. Using public transport instead of cars
17. Psychodelic therapy for mental health treatment
18. Promoting biodiversity in urban areas
19. Free pet healthcare
20. Refurbishing and donating bikes to low-income communities

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I am eager and excited for this project! I like Padlet too, it has a cool user-interface :)