Grey TV Washington Bureau reporter Molly Martinez is being accused of being a “lizard particular person” by of us who imagine that the lizard folks 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 instructed HuffPost. “This may blow over.”
She instructed the anchors at Grey’s Sioux Metropolis, Iowa station KTIV that she was caught on digital camera 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 isn’t a lizard particular person.
She instructed 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 folks management the world.
“I empathize with individuals who flip to conspiracies, as a result of I really feel like that’s a manner for folks to search out neighborhood in chaos,” Martinez instructed Huffpost. “and [the conspiracy theories] can actually really feel like a life raft, prefer it’s empowering. ‘We now have this information that nobody else has, and everybody’s turning this blind eye.’ I feel in the end it comes from a spot of concern. So I by no means need to punch down on someone who I feel genuinely is afraid, so I’m attempting to kind of hold that in thoughts. It doesn’t make sense to me, nevertheless it clearly makes good sense to them.”
