Cookers

It looks like a very useful descriptor has arisen in the antipodes for a bunch of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. Cookers. I’ve seen it arise in social media and even in recent books lately, and a fine word it is. It derives from, according to some from “cooked in the head” or “drug cooker”. But the important thing is that if you call an anti-vaxxer et al a cooker, their brain tends to explode.

https://cookerpedia.org/wiki/Cooker

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Multiple definitions of the term Cooker can be found on Urban Dictionary, though none really capture the true nature of the Cooker as demonstrated during the Conn-voy to Kambra 2022. In the Qanon community cult, the "gifted" people who takes Q's cryptic pronouncements (known to the cultists as breadcrumbs) then extrapolate and stretch them into semi-coherant ideas and conspiracies are lovingly known as Bakers. The cooker is a little lower on the social scale of far right nut jobs. The cooker doesn't really create any new conspiracies, the cooker contributes to the cause by merely believing every conspiracy they ever hear, no matter how far fetched or moronic the conspiracy might be.

If this word has been around longer, please correct me. Otherwise please use it to infuriate loonies.

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