Steve from England

Steve from England

Real name	Steve Ransom
Location on the globe	United Kingdom
Main platform	YouTube
Papa flerf	Eric Dubay
Flerfzi?	not yet confirmed
Religiflerf?	Yes
Drinks urine?	not yet confirmed
Adopted by	not adopted yet
Teeth	slightly less than full set

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Steve from England is a flat earther mainly known for his discussions about The Final Experiment. He talked with Will Duffy several times on The Final Experiment YouTube channel. Steve is one of 2 flat earthers that TFE participants planned to call during the Antarctica trip; the other being Critical Think's friend Mick. It is notable that Steve provided two exceptions to the Laws_of_Flerf. He is a good example of devotion to a belief rather than objective reality. Steve is inactive due to family issues.

Flat Earth Beliefs

Steve is a Religiflerf who believes God created a flat earth, "fixed and firm", with a canopy above to separate the waters. He has a distrust for governments and believes there are invisible forces that are shaping the way people think. He said he was also influenced by Vance Packard's book The Hidden Persuaders.

One of the first videos that got Steve into flat earth was an Eric Dubay video he watched in 2015 titled "Earth is flat" which convinced him. However, later on he had a falling out with Eric who banned him.

Steve believes many of the typical flat earth beliefs such as

• Gravity doesn't make sense
• Everything NASA does is deceptive
• The moon landings were faked
• Since he doesn't feel earth spin it doesn't
• Climate change is "a scary story"
• "Vested interests" are pushing false information about a midnight sun in Antarctica
• People who make a pyramid with their hands while talking are sending secret signals and are "in the gang"
• The 24 hour sun in Antarctica doesn't work on the globe
• There is no way a 24 hour sun would happen in Antarctica

Interest in The Final Experiment

Steve sent an email to Will Duffy about TFE and the Antarctica midnight sun. Will interviewed him and posted a video of their discussion on the TFE channel before the trip took place. Steve seemed very friendly during the interview and talked about minutiae he researched about flat earth and Antarctica. One of his contentions was that it was possible for the participants to be deceived about the midnight sun in Union Glacier.

Steve also speculated there was trickery about the midnight sun, such as:

• Since the camp's time zone could be arbitrarily decided and people travel through so many time zones to reach Antarctica, that visitors wouldn't actually know when midnight actually was
• The albedo effect of sun reflecting off of snow could be bright enough to seem as if it was daytime even at midnight
• It's possible for the moon to be bright enough that people mistake it for the sun
• People in Antarctica are taking pictures that don't match what the authorities tell us

As a solution to the time zone issue, they reasoned that if Will were to call Steve the time zone in Union Glacier would not matter; during a live phone call the subsolar point of the sun could be determined and if the sun was visible from Union Glacier when it shouldn't be the AE map would be falsified.

Nearing the end of the interview Steve asked to be contacted through WhatsApp while Will was in Antarctica. Will said he would livestream with Steve either at midnight according to Ushuaia time or solar midnight. They discussed that it might be 3am for Steve's location in London. Steve said anytime between 1am and 4am Ushuaia time the sun should be "long gone" from the area. Steve and Will started talking about if there were to be an issue with clouds.

Will then said:

"Yes so let's talk about the clouds for a second, so I don't know which day we're going to be able to do this um maybe we can do it on the 14th but if but if we can't maybe we'll do it on the 15th we have we have a few days, if there's cloud coverage I think what we should do is try to do it the next day and I think we should try to do it each day until we have clear skies."

At the end of the discussion Will committed to change his mind about the globe if the sun went down. It was around this time that Steve also made a bet that Sydney to Santiago flights were not real.

Disagreement during The Midnight Livestream

Will hosted the TFE midnight livestream from Antarctica on YouTube. Before the livestream started he had lent his phone for use to help stream a 24 hour livestream on the Candace Show Podcast channel on Rumble.
Will said hello to Steve on the YouTube livestream and planned to contact him when his phone was not in use. Steve was watching the midnight livestream and was upset that he was referenced and threw a tantrum and blocked Will's phone number. As it was not agreed that Will had to call Steve the first day Will was confused. Will made several attempts to contact Steve while in Antarctica but was unsuccessful.

Steve watched his worldview being falsified in front of his eyes on YouTube

Steve was watching the midnight livestream from Antarctica on The Final Experiment YouTube channel, as evidenced by his comment in chat. While Witsit was talking on stream, the livestream chat showed a comment from Steve's @heydude7568 Youtube channel. The comment occurred at the 37:33 timestamp.

Steve watching live as the AE map was falsified

After The Final Experiment

After the final experiment Will and Steve talked again, and Steve explained that being referenced during the livestream broke their agreement, and at that point became disinterested in evidence for the midnight sun in Antarctica. Steve later had a discussion on Flatzoids channel discussing his experience with TFE. Will called in and asked if Steve would be interested in evidence for the midnight sun. Steve's response was that he wished to rehash what happened during the trip with the failed phone call and was not interested in additional evidence.

Steve also started posting videos on his channel ranting about TFE and then became interested in one point of Jeran's livestream videos where Jeran said "since" and believed Jeran was sending a secret message by saying "sets". Steve was not interested in Jeran's stating there was a midnight sun and nothing deceptive happened with the trip. Steve offered another bet that Jeran had said the word "sets" and not "since".

In the aftermath of the second bet many noticed that someone claiming to be Steve's son was commentating on Steve's TFE videos. The son was pleading for Steve to give up his obsession with flat earth because it was ruining Steve's life and creating division and estrangement amongst his family. DP debunks reacted and asked for patience and restraint from those commentating on Steve's videos. DP also asked everyone to stop asking about the bet and consider the bet paid to him. Steve's YouTube channel hasn't posted additional videos since 2025.

Exceptions to the Laws Of Flerf

Steve is a notable example of someone that demonstrated an Exception to the 2nd law of Flerf.

Sometime before TFE occurred Steve placed a bet that flights that occurred between Syndey and Santiago were not real.
Critical Think subsequently recorded 2 livestreams during his trip with TFE. One livestream was in the Sydney airport. A few hours later CT recorded a second one in Santiago.

Description	Link
Critical Think's livestream from the Sydney Airport	YouTube
Critical Think's livestream from the Santiago Airport	YouTube

After CT demonstrated the flights are real Steve paid the bet. Subsequently Steve has published what appears to be an apology for paying the bet. 12min mark Feb 2025.

The second exception happened when Steve bet that Jeran said the word "sets" and not "since" during Jerans second Antarctica Livestream. This bet was paid to @DPDebunks.

Known Accounts

Known Accounts

Platform	Account	Status
YouTube	hey! dude!	Inactive (last video 2025)
YouTube	ransomovitch	Inactive (last video 2012)
YouTube	ransomovitch1	Inactive (last video 2011
YouTube	Flatter than Flat	Unable to find
Facebook	Steve Ransom (Probably Our Guy)	Inactive

Notable Appearances

Date	Venue	Participants	Link	Note
Dec 9, 2024	TFE's YouTube channel	Will and Steve first interview	YouTube recording	Steve explains his background and discusses his time zone theory about midnight sun
Jan 3, 2025	TFE's YouTube channel	Steve vs. almost the entire TFE crew	YouTube recording	Believes Jeran was "got to somehow," i.e. made to lie through some vague conjectured coercion; maintained this belief despite Jeran telling him to his face he was wrong.
Mar 17, 2025	Flatzoid’s YouTube channel	Steve & Flatzoid vs. Will Duffy	YouTube recording	Only cares about whining that Duffy “didn’t call him from Antarctica” (already discussed in detail on Jan 3), not about further investigations on shape of earth

Other Crackpottery

Co-authored a book called The Truth About HIV. Interviewed about the book on the League of Nerds podcast where he admits he knows nothing about HIV biology but still maintains HIV is not real. He does equivocate when asked if he would inject him self with blood from an AIDS patient. The Truth About HIV - book review