That being, that the more experienced viewers have a strong sense of what (real) Bigfoot is supposed to look and behave like to the extent that if something does not exhibit those patterns, it is reflexively dismissed.

I don’t want to speak for everybody here but I suspect that some of (real) Bigfoot’s trademarks are agreed to be the coned head, the arched forward back and the big stride among others.

This is bad news for hoaxers because if they want to go far, they have to be extra crafty.

If they gave this kind of attention to the evidence, the search might get somewhere.

Vicious cycle. Mainstream scoffs, then gives the most coverage to the stuff at which there’s the most reason to scoff. Then the whole topic utterly disappears – until the next scoff-fest.

No wonder.