I mean confirmation bias looks exactly like reality. That's what makes it so tricky to keep up with.

Then the defense of the confirmation bias takes over, and you have people being downvoted just for stating that every single instance of the number 17 or numbers adding up to 17 isn't some sort of dog whistle or signpost from...nobody knows whom, or where they vanished to, or why, or when they might ever re-emerge, or what they've been up to for the last bunch of years. In fact one could be flamed or even banned for objecting to or just noticing the sudden vanishing of the entity known as Q with no explanation after the 2020 steal was completed.