I think you’re right about the internet boom bringing along lots of new believers. You can find someone online with the same view and feel validated, no matter how crazy. There’s the whole broken clock syndrome too; subscribe to enough conspiracy theories and one will be correct at some point, giving weight to the others.
Icke and the reptile beliefs are odd aren’t they. The parallel with Jews and corporate structures is clear, but he denies, denies, denies. Kind of a pity cos some of his other ideas, like the infinite dimensions one, are interesting.
Thing is, the believers of the 5G connection will just take the recent press quashing that theory as added proof it is true. That’s part of, “their”, plan.