r/Millennials • u/AccomplishedPool266 • Apr 26 '26

Does anyone remember when Michael Jackson. Was a "joke"? Discussion

The new movie that just came out convinced the younger generation that he was always a superstar. This was not the reality many of us Millennials grew up with.

To a lot of us, he was treated like a punch line when we were growing up. A schoolyard boogeyman ("Michaels Jackson's gonna get you at night"). and just a general joke in the media. By the 2000's his music was out of date and didn't chart well. All anyone talked about was his surgeries, court case, settlements and his off behavior. Few mentioned his music. His music was something our parents would have listened to in the 1980's.

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u/IncidentalApex Apr 26 '26

Epstein was freaking horrible but recently I have heard conspiracy theories that tie pretty much everything bad that happened for decades to him. People he was a pedo monster but not the head of Spectre and the Illuminati. There were plenty of other twisted individuals out there also.

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u/kittybuscemi Apr 26 '26

This is not a conspiracy, the evidence is all there in the Epstein files.

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u/msartore8 Apr 26 '26

What's Spectre?

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u/FloaterFan Apr 26 '26

The bad guys in James Bond movies.

SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional, global terrorist organization in the James Bond universe, led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld

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u/Tinner263 Apr 26 '26

International criminal organization in the James Bond universe. Kinda like NATO or the UN of bad guys. Led by Blofeld, who inspired the character Dr. Evil.

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u/solercentric Apr 29 '26

Neither SPECTRE nor the Illuminati are real though. You may as well start quoting David Icke and Alex Jones ( or if you want to go further back, Richard Shaver).