Pizzagate is such a mess. Years ago, conspiracy theories were mostly held to their little corners and they usually stayed there for the most part but it seems these days with places such as InfoWars being popular, more and more people are willing to believe these sources even when their claims are dubious. Everyone wants to be "anti-establishment" in their own way but no one wants to really critically think about the things presented. People are really thinking, "As long as its against the norm, let's just go for it no matter how dumb it may look."
I have taken to explaining some of the crazier shit my family asks me about as "the Internet has leaked into the real world. I'm sorry. We tried to contain it but they wouldn't give us the tools." My breaking point was when a 20-year-old "head mod" told me that Kevin Drum would stay banned by /r/politics because he was "a spammer."