I saw some guy on social media that I recognized, he was a streamer I really liked more than a decade ago, before streaming video games became popular, at the time he seemed quite sweet and just a fun lovable guy. Checked out his profile to see what he was doing, god damn I regret scrolling through his twitter feed. He's been on there for a while, his first post started in 2012 and was towards the end of his "normal" life, his posts just consist of very standard internet humor stuff from 2012 and lighthearted stuff. Fast forward to his posts now, he's an absolutely deranged reactionary and posts nonstop with almost every post being a reply to some random woman on twitter with a bunch of vicious personal attacks and often encouraging suicide, it was really vile. The saddest part was looking at the posts on how he attempted to reboot his streaming career on twitch and was surprised/fake outraged he got banned after he streamed nothing but himself hate replying to people on twitter. Also he really seems to worship sam hyde in some weird surrogate father figure way, big creepy vibes
anyway the point of this is holy FUCK can the internet fry some people's brains and it sucks bigtime but I'm sure you knew that, just need to vent
also not sure where to put this but its kind of related to video games so yea
Fascism is popular because it appeals to the lowest common denominator.
Thinking for yourself gets you socially ostracized online, might as well join the hive mind and make easy money catering to the opinion of the sheep herd.