Yes, Peter Thiel is an anagram of The Reptile. No, he isn't literally a lizard man, any more biolgically related to a literal reptile than any other human. Unfortunately, his behavior is human. Psychopaths are human.

I suspect that at least some of the conspiracy theorists saw a lot of "cold-blooded" looking people in in power. Those without empathy, and the mirror neurons needed to produce normal body language and responses that look like candid and emotion- tinted, socially normal human movements.

It's a known thing that sociopaths and psychopaths can rise to the top in corporate structures. A lot of our "leaders" in politics etc, seem to lack empathy and this could easily be symbolized in someone mind as being lizard-like. The collective hints would be more obvious and disturbing to more sensitive people, causing their minds to do the pattern recognition and symbolisms needed to create reptilian conspiracies.

So maybe the conspiracy theorists were an early warning for the nonsense we are seeing now in politics.

It struck me that a post not having a million likes doesn't mean that it wasn't seen and recieved by an audience. Nowa days with companies profiling accounts and sharing and selling info with blatant lack of privacy amd trustability, the human audience or readers on a post would be be thinking of the consequences and maybe prefer not to interact. It doesn't mean that the post is useless.

Especially with the increasong proliferation of bots, it's not like the old days and "likes" and the value of a post are different things.

The real beef.