system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why has belief in the Illuminati recently sprung up in the hip-hop community and, subsequently, mainstream pop culture?
gpt
It's like something you want to believe even though it is clearly not there. Think of a ghost story or the Lochness monster. There is no proof that they exist yet people still believe in them because of the thrill of it. Not only that, but you can show random things make it look like proof. If a door randomly opens at night, someone is going to use that as a proof that ghosts exists. Now if a musician decides to place the all seeing eye (The triangle with the eye) on their album, people assume its illuminati. Now think of it this way, this stuff sells. Once the rumor spread, artists started deliberately placing symbols on their albums and videos. People will listen to it and buy the stuff to prove it to their friends that illuminati exists but in reality, it's just marketing. It's like the Ghost hunters of music.