"I'm so jealous of the big shots who get to go to the New Continent, I'm practically coming apart at the seams."
"I heard the countries pooled their resources on the New Continent and poured hundreds of billions of dollars into construction... Let me put on my conspiracy-theorist hat for a second. What if they knew long ago that the Evil Gods were coming, so they built a Noah's Ark on the New Continent to escape Blue Star?"
"Now that you mention it, it does sound possible. Governments have access to vastly more information than ordinary people, not to mention teams of experts analyzing it from every angle. We don't know when the Evil Gods will invade en masse under the influence of Ghroth's Celestial Choir, but the governments must know. They could easily have used developing the New Continent as an excuse to spend a fortune building a Noah's Ark that can escape Blue Star."
"I remember seeing a news report saying the countries had designated the New Continent a restricted military zone and barred unauthorized people from approaching. Apparently, lots of warships are patrolling it. Could government leaders already be boarding Noah's Ark? Are the warships there to protect them and escort them out?"
"The elites leave, and we're stuck facing the Evil Gods?"
"..."
Speculation erupted all over the internet, with conspiracy theories everywhere.
After all, Hollywood movies had always portrayed governments as villains who abandoned their people. Conspiracy theories also had a built-in audience online, so this one spread at once.
Some keyboard warriors saw how much attention it was getting and immediately went hunting for scraps of evidence to support the conclusion. They then tied those scraps to the claim that "the countries have built a Noah's Ark to escape Blue Star" and shouted it