This paper problematizes the role of YouTube content creators as political brokers capable of influencing sociopolitical discourse. Focusing on conspiracy theories as a genre of political myths, it takes its local context from the Philippines and the Tallano Gold Myth, which aimed to sanitize ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ image for the country’s 2022 presidential elections where his son and namesake, Bongbong, emerged with an absolute majority win. Investigating discursive power online, the paper orients to the question of how YouTube content creators (re)construct the Philippine sociopolitical context within their videos. Combining Van Dijk's Sociocognitive Critical Discourse Studies with KhosraviNik’s Social Media Critical Discourse Studies, the paper explores the potency of conspiratorial narratives popularized by profit-oriented political influencers on social media in creating an environment conducive to illiberal values within a fragile democratic country. Using narrative, thematic, and qualitative observational analysis, findings suggest that content creators use discursive strategies adopted from mediatized populism, conspiratorial argumentative and refutational framing, secrecy as a currency of discursive power, and YouTube-sanctioned deflection of accountability in their conspiracy theory content production. Through affordances specific to YouTube being simultaneously a social-networking and income-generating platform, this study argues that content creators perform their own mythopoetic legitimization as knowledge producers, capitalize on digital context collapse of global and local issues, and carry out populist-style historical distortion to shape a YouTube-enabled discursive practice that enjoins audiences in a problem-oriented recontextualization of Filipino historical and socioeconomic issues. The paper thus contributes to Peace and Conflict Studies by tackling discursive power manipulation embedded in digital practices that result in online disinformation, historical distortion, and polarization in the ‘post-truth’ social networking era. It also contributes a severely lacking Philippine perspective in global conspiracy theory research that seeks to pinpoint the genre’s complex entanglements with group identity construction, mediatization, and memory politics that have impacted the nature of political movements across the globe.