LongJohnSilvers.com Among Top Ten Sites Where People Spend Money Online, Possibly Confirming Conspiracy Theory

According to a tweet from Barstool Sports yesterday, the website of seafood fast-food chain Long John Silvers is in the top ten websites where people spend money across the entire internet.

The Top 10 Websites that people spent the most money on in 2022@curve_usa pic.twitter.com/glM0InJ1Br

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 19, 2022

Clocking in at number six ahead of Etsy and Home Depot, the inclusion of Long John Silvers on the list baffled many Twitter users, who expressed their confusion and amusement throughout the day.

long john silvers on this list pic.twitter.com/0yYJaTOFge

— Hack (@HennyDamlin2) September 19, 2022

🤣🤣🤣

— Merc O (@mr_mercerdawg) September 20, 2022

Aside from the general reactions, several posters also speculated that Long John Silver's must be the front for a criminal organization, similarly to Los Pollos Hermanos in Breaking Bad. This idea is the basis of a long-running internet conspiracy theory, which proposes that "Long John Silver's exists to launder money made from the illicit sale of marijuana":":https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/long-john-silvers-conspiracy-theory. Many on TikTok, Reddit and other platforms have spread these conspiracies since they emerged back in 2019.

No way is Long John Silvers there without being a front for the biggest crime turducken in the country https://t.co/cZJk4hsgtj

— 🔥🌽 (@bradenelee) September 20, 2022

Lol. I was just going to say ,,, Did Long John Silvers put together this list ?!

— Reynold E Finnegan (@ReynoldFinnegan) September 19, 2022

Several commentators even went so far as to demand an investigation of the relatively obscure fast-food chain in reaction to the development.

Long John silvers… which sells fish.. to thousands of people… does more business online than Walmart?!? Lmfao. I either need a retraction from Barstool or a Congressional investigation https://t.co/eqHt2JeQyO

— marek (@marekmagda) September 19, 2022

Many also joked about their love of Long John Silver's and the generous portions of fried food served there.

I see Long John Silvers is trending, why hasn't anyone posted a pic of our man Brad? pic.twitter.com/CsVCegwaGZ

— keith (@subtleBreaker) September 19, 2022

Long John Silvers pic.twitter.com/XPMa9UmrRT

— Shane! (@htAngryFace) September 20, 2022

The brand of Long John Silver’s itself got involved, using the viral moment as a means to promote itself. Some also suggested that the whole thing may have been manufactured by Barstool Sports for the sake of publicity since the list might not have gotten as much interaction had the 10 items on it been totally predictable.

We traded in our eye patch for glass slippers.

— Long John Silver's (@longjohnsilvers) September 19, 2022