Conspiracy fantasy or – to use the more common but less accurately descriptive term – ‘conspiracy theory’ is an enduring genre of discourse historically associated with authoritarian political movements. This article presents a literature review of research on conspiracy fantasy as well as two empirical studies of YouTube videos by three leading conspiracy fantasists. Two of these fantasists have been linked to the far right, while one maintains connections to figures on the far right and the far left. The first study employs content analysis of the 10 most popular videos uploaded by each of the three, and the second employs corpus analysis of keywords in comments posted on all videos uploaded by the three fantasists. Jewish-related entities such as Israel, Zionists and the Rothschild family are found to be among the entities most frequently accused of conspiracy in the videos. Conspiracy accusations against other Western nations (especially the United States and the United Kingdom), as well as their leaders and their media, were also common. Jewish-related lexical items such as ‘Zionist’, ‘Zionists’, ‘Rothschild’ and ‘Jews’ are found to be mentioned with disproportionate frequency in user comments. These findings would appear to reflect the conspiracy fantasy genre’s continuing proximity to its roots in the European antisemitic tradition and add weight to existing findings suggesting that the active YouTube audience responds to latently antisemitic content with more explicitly antisemitic comments.

阴谋幻想，或用更常见但较不准确的描述性术语来说，“阴谋理论”是历史上与威权政治运动有关的持久话语流派。本文介绍了有关阴谋幻想研究的文献综述，以及三位主要的阴谋幻想家对YouTube视频进行的两项实证研究。这些幻想家中有两个与最右边有联系，而一个则与最右边和最左边的人物保持联系。第一项研究采用了三者各自上载的10个最受欢迎视频的内容分析，第二项研究采用了三位幻想者上载的所有视频上张贴的评论中关键词的语料库分析。与犹太人有关的实体，例如以色列，犹太复国主义者和罗斯柴尔德家族被发现是录像中最常被指控串谋的实体之一。对其他西方国家（尤其是美国和英国）及其领导人和媒体的共谋指控也很常见。发现与犹太人有关的词汇项目，例如“犹太复国主义者”，“犹太复国主义者”，“罗斯柴尔德”和“犹太人”在用户评论中的提及频率不成比例。这些发现似乎反映了阴谋幻想类型继续接近其在欧洲反犹太传统中的根源，并加重了现有发现，表明活跃的YouTube观众对潜在的反犹太内容做出了更明确的反犹太评论。对其他西方国家（尤其是美国和英国）及其领导人和媒体的共谋指控也很常见。发现与犹太人有关的词汇项目，例如“犹太复国主义者”，“犹太复国主义者”，“罗斯柴尔德”和“犹太人”在用户评论中的提及频率不成比例。这些发现似乎反映了阴谋幻想类型继续接近其在欧洲反犹太传统中的根源，并加重了现有发现，表明活跃的YouTube观众对潜在的反犹太内容做出了更明确的反犹太评论。对其他西方国家（尤其是美国和英国）及其领导人和媒体的共谋指控也很常见。发现与犹太人有关的词汇项目，例如“犹太复国主义者”，“犹太复国主义者”，“罗斯柴尔德”和“犹太人”在用户评论中的提及频率不成比例。这些发现似乎反映了阴谋幻想类型继续接近其在欧洲反犹太传统中的根源，并加重了现有发现，表明活跃的YouTube观众对潜在的反犹太内容做出了更明确的反犹太评论。发现用户评论中提到“罗斯柴尔德”和“犹太人”的频率不成比例。这些发现似乎反映了阴谋幻想类型继续接近其在欧洲反犹太传统中的根源，并加重了现有发现，表明活跃的YouTube观众对潜在的反犹太内容做出了更明确的反犹太评论。发现用户评论中提到“罗斯柴尔德”和“犹太人”的频率不成比例。这些发现似乎反映了阴谋幻想类型继续接近其在欧洲反犹太传统中的根源，并加重了现有发现，表明活跃的YouTube观众对潜在的反犹太内容做出了更明确的反犹太评论。