![]() ![]() ![]() We also meet his on again, off again girlfriend and fellow YouTuber Patricia Steere and witness their strange and super charming chemistry on their incredibly odd podcast. Sargent is both earnest and likable and it is easy to see how he has amassed such a following he is like a beacon for outcasts who feel they do not belong in conventional society but need to feel welcome in a community of like-minded people. Using YouTube as his platform, he reaches a staggeringly large audience of misfits who buy into his world view. He is evangelical in the way he spreads the word of the “truth”. He lives with his mum (obviously) and after trying his hand at various other conspiracy theories over the years he eventually finds his home with the Flat Earthers. ![]() The star man (geddit?) is Mark Sargent, the crown prince of Flat Earthers. Although they do a pretty good job of that themselves. This is a remarkable achievement of documentary filmmaking, not because it does anything groundbreaking with the medium per se, but because of the feat of putting together such a brilliant collection of dummies in one film without ever directly mocking them. Behind the Curve, directed by Daniel J Clarke ( At All Costs: Making an ESports Team) is now streaming on Netflix. ![]()
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