Grey TV Washington Bureau reporter Molly Martinez is being accused of being a “lizard particular person” by people who imagine that the lizard individuals reside amongst us.
Martinez appears to have embraced the insanity and surf the loopy wave until it’s all performed out. “The web is available in tsunami swells,” Martinez informed HuffPost. “This can blow over.”
She informed the anchors at Grey’s Sioux Metropolis, Iowa station KTIV that she was caught on digicam making a face at her pal within the White Home press room. The shot had a glitch that made her appear to be her eyes shifted into vertical lizard-like slits and the lizard legend was born. She did guarantee KTIV viewers that she will not be a lizard particular person.
She informed the HuffPost the footage went viral a few month in the past and gained extra traction final week when bigger social media accounts picked it up.
Martinez owned the weirdness by posting “That is objectively the funniest factor that’s ever occurred to me.”
HuffPost stated a 2013 survey reported that 4% of Individuals imagine lizard individuals management the world.
“I empathize with individuals who flip to conspiracies, as a result of I really feel like that’s a method for individuals to search out group in chaos,” Martinez informed Huffpost. “and [the conspiracy theories] can actually really feel like a life raft, prefer it’s empowering. ‘We have now this information that nobody else has, and everybody’s turning this blind eye.’ I believe in the end it comes from a spot of concern. So I by no means need to punch down on any person who I believe genuinely is afraid, so I’m attempting to kind of preserve that in thoughts. It doesn’t make sense to me, nevertheless it clearly makes good sense to them.”
