Kobe Bryant’s Death Has Lead to Some Really Crazy Conspiracy Theories

Kobe Bryant’s death is still being processed by people who knew him, people who knew him only as an athlete they watched and people who disliked him. It’s bound to cause a range of reactions from people, including anger and disbelief, all the things you normally associate with death.

The thing I was not ready for, however, was the conspiracy theories.

For example, LeBron James, a former teammate of Bryant, posted a heartfelt remembrance of his friend on Instagram.

It’s sweet. It also brought a bunch of comments from people claiming that LeBron killed Bryant as part of a satanic ritual to steal his basketball ability. Seriously.

Here’s a tweet chronicling the crazier replies James received.

LeBron comment section on IG is sickening 🤦🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/eIfU3UHV1R

— AMAZEMODICA (@AmazeModica) January 27, 2020

Yeah. The Illuminati, Bill Clinton, sacrifices to Satan, we’ve got it all. And then there were replies to this tweet spouting even more conspiracies.

Dude really was sacrificed watch Lil Wayne be next or somebody getting killed on the 38th day of the year or 26 days after Kobe’s death pic.twitter.com/jNA3At2Dpr

— 8 (@vibingordying) January 27, 2020

Yeah, these people are really into numbers. But that isn’t even the height of craziness.

Time. War. Kobe was a casualty of the Time War. Somebody call Doctor fucking Who, I guess. Or Mister Peabody. Any famous time traveler, really.

These are all, of course, the result of the “Q-Anon” conspiracy, a 4chan prank taken seriously by a bunch of real-world Dale Gribbles who have absolutely sucked the joy out of conspiracy theories.

Remember how much fun The X-Files was? Or Marshall’s obsession with cryptids on How I Met Your Mother? These people are just screaming and alienating their family and having breakdowns about how toaster strudels are soylent green. It’s not fun and it’s not funny.

Kobe Bryant’s death was a tragedy and it’s normal to want a feeling of order and sense in a chaotic world, but it doesn’t exist. There was no reason this young man and his teenager daughter, along with seven other people, were killed in this tragic crash. Sometimes helicopters crash, there’s no rhyme or reason to it.