Stars getting larger in cameras in high zoom is obviously because of imperfection of the optics or athmospheric distortion. FE/UFO community seems to be filled with extremely lack of technical understandings, which destroys good conversations. And it puts up a barrier to spread alternative cosmology because main stream people with good technical skills will think all alternative theories is like this and will laugh at everyone attached to this.
So yes, if FE is a psy-op it is damn well working exactly like planned.
If FE is a psyop then why when I search for Flat Earth videos on Youtube all I get is parodies and the only way to access real FE videos is to seek the channels that are dedicated to that topic?
Flat earth is a psyop that has many steps. The first question that must be asked is, "What is the goal of this psyop and what are the tactics to carry it out? There are many layers to this psyop. The fact that it is a psyop does not necessarily mean that the concept is in and of itself false. The psyop seeks to co-opt this concept and take it in a very specific direction.
The psyop began by first giving flat earth absolute credibility. The target audience was the awakening truth seekers that have already begun to come to the conclusion that we are being lied to on many fronts. This took place on YT in early 2015 with the first wave of timely information with the 200 Proofs video by Eric Dubay, in addition to an explosion of interviews he gave on alternative media platforms over the next succeeding months, berating fake science while exposing the fraud of NASA.
As this began to gain serious traction, the next wave of videos came out from Mark Sargent, with his "Flat Earth Clues" series, a dumbed down approach to flat earth with lots of speculation and very little real actual scientific data to back up the flat earth concept. He also went on an alt media tour, giving hundreds of interviews, behaving like a complete fool and idiot. This seemed to get much greater traction than Dubay's presence, resulting in an overall dumbing down of the information while making followers of this information look foolish by direct association with Sargent. Also, hangout groups began popping up, seemingly out of the woodwork, discussing and showcasing the arising conflict that quickly developed between those supporting Dubay's more scientific approach versus Sargent's speculative rantings.
Wave three came with the flat earth debunkers, those that attempted to either use mainstream scientific ideas to prove a spinning ball or to troll flat earthers, labeling them as unscientific tin foil hat wearers.
Dubay then upped the ante by posting "Hitler vs the Jew World Order". This was the masterful stroke of the psyop, since it now lumped Eric Dubay with not only "tin foil hat conspiracy theorists", but it also now identified anyone looking into flat earth as anti-Semites.
The synthesis could now take place. Now that flat earth research was merged with anti-Semitic research, the mainstream media could now freely label anyone looking into flat earth as conspiracy nuts, haters, racists, and potential domestic terrorists.
With the great Covid-Youtube censorship purge, most of these videos were nearly completely wiped from Youtube's servers. Those that had been making a living through monetized platforms were now de-platformed, forced to start from scratch on other competing platforms like Bitchute and lbry and others, which was now an uphill battle, since video content was now scrutinized much more intensely.
This is the reason why it is now quite difficult to find any decent, credibly presented videos on this subject on Youtube, with some exceptions. Those that made flat earth look really bad from the beginning, your Mark Sargent types, can still be easily found on Youtube, except that now it is so completely marginalized, even they get hardly any views anymore.
Since videos take up such great bandwidth space, those who thought their uploaded videos on YT would be there forever, failed to back these videos up onto storage drives. As a result, many of those great early proof videos are gone forever. Those that did back up their videos are slowly uploading them back onto other platforms, but exposure is far more minimal.
What this leaves us with is the one step forward, two steps back approach to information war, since the greatest grass roots archive of our time has now been completely whitewashed to become just another competing pay-per-view streaming cable network.
I would say that the flat earth psyop has succeeded in its agenda: to completely invert the scientific method approach to controversial material, shutting down truthful dialog by labeling all that participate in such dialog as tin foil hat wearing, anti-semitic, racist, domestic terrorist flat earthers.
This will later be co-opted again when they choose to flip on NASA, exposing it for the that fraud it is, in favor of a more accurate cosmology in order to get flat earthers and conspiracy theorists on board to the NWO, since they may be the only ones left still alive that haven't taken the "vaccine".