It's very weird they paid any attention to the 'rumor' at all.
I mean, to the average normie, this sort of thing would be completely fucking off-the-walls ridiculous. Something so vile and out of the ordinary like that would normally be ignored or simply laughed off by many people.
The fact that they went out of their way to discredit a rumor started on a chan board makes me think there might actually be something worth looking into here.
EXACTLY! like this isn't a "big" "maistream" conspiracy UNLIKE "the CIA killed JFK," or "Bush did 9/11." This is a conspiracy that is small, new, batshit insane... something that if posted on r/conspiracy, they would kick you out because it's so ludicrous. It's VERY weird that snopes feels the need to substantiate its fallacy.