re: How did I miss the whole "moon landing was faked" black pill?

The moon landing can be real and there exists faked footage/images. They are not mutually exclusive.

Many folks have come out and said some footage didn't survive the radiation belt coming back to Earth and so some manufactured footage was used.

Why did they have manufactured footage already? Well, it was the cold war era and it was a race between Russia and USA to get to the moon first. The USA decided under no circumstances could the moon mission fail so they had a backup plan in the event something went wrong. They created some fake footage in case the mission failed so that they guaranteed a USA win over Russia.