Surely. Although the internet does have a strange way of memeing things into real life after enough time.
Imagine you create some memes that our planet is flat. And a couple of years later there are people that believe in this BS. Wait a minute….
I'm pretty sure David Copperfield made it disappear few years earlier.
He must have been radicalized online.
(You know, on that 1990s internet)
Hey, man, BBSes could get pretty extreme back in the day. Ask Timothy McVeigh.