Gray TV Washington Bureau reporter Molly Martinez is being accused of being a “lizard person” by folks who believe that the lizard people live among us.
Martinez seems to have embraced the madness and surf the crazy wave till it’s all played out. “The internet comes in tsunami swells,” Martinez told HuffPost. “This will blow over.”
She told the anchors at Gray’s Sioux City, Iowa station KTIV that she was caught on camera making a face at her friend in the White House press room. The shot had a glitch that made her look like her eyes shifted into vertical lizard-like slits and the lizard legend was born. She did assure KTIV viewers that she is not a lizard person.
She told the HuffPost the footage went viral about a month ago and gained more traction last week when larger social media accounts picked it up.
Martinez owned the weirdness by posting “This is objectively the funniest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
HuffPost said a 2013 survey reported that 4% of Americans believe lizard people control the world.
“I empathize with people who turn to conspiracies, because I feel like that’s a way for people to find community in chaos,” Martinez told Huffpost. “and [the conspiracy theories] can really feel like a life raft, like it’s empowering. ‘We have this knowledge that no one else has, and everyone’s turning this blind eye.’ I think ultimately it comes from a place of fear. So I never want to punch down on somebody who I think genuinely is afraid, so I’m trying to sort of keep that in mind. It doesn’t make sense to me, but it obviously makes perfect sense to them.”
