# Term conspiracy theorists use **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 29, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665 "2020-06-29T15:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whc.03grady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@whc.03grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whc.03grady)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/1 "2020-06-29T15:40:29Z")
There’s a term conspiracy theorists use (I saw it used by an antivaxx acquaintance) to refer to when a Deep State actor kind of lets slip their glee with watching the herding of the sheeple; when they pull back the curtain a bit and give a knowing nod (metaphorically). But the term slips my mind. Anyone know? (ETA: I am not a conspiracy theorist or a Deep State actor) (But that’s just what a conspiracy theorist or Deep State actor would say, isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/2 "2020-06-30T14:04:42Z")
“Letting your slip show”? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/3 "2020-06-30T15:51:15Z")
Breaking the third wall? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/4 "2020-06-30T15:51:54Z")
Crisis actor? ---
**Author:** ![whc.03grady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@whc.03grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whc.03grady)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/5 "2020-06-30T17:01:33Z")
I think it might be ‘revelation of the method’. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/6 "2020-06-30T17:07:01Z")
> [@whc.03grady](#): > > when they pull back the curtain a bit and give a knowing nod (metaphorically). I though the term was ‘pulling back the curtain’ or something very similar. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/7 "2020-06-30T19:05:58Z")
“Letting the mask slip” means that, but I don’t know if conspiracy theorists use it. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/8 "2020-06-30T20:43:45Z")
For more occult conspiracies, “making manifest that which is hidden” is supposedly a powerful magical rite; when The Conspiracy lets a bit of The Truth slip out, They are supposedly doing so to gather even more magical power. Or so they say. Not “They”, but “they”, or at least the “they” that says that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/9 "2020-07-01T06:24:11Z")
Is this related to “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”? ---
**Author:** ![filmstar-en](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@filmstar-en](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmstar-en)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/10 "2020-07-01T10:24:24Z")
Could it be “Open the kimono”? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-conspiracy-theorists-use/913665/11 "2020-07-02T00:39:15Z")
“Release the kraken”?