Someone here said it feels like the sudden spike in China bad shit is an op, I honestly can’t imagine it’s not. That place used to be a fun surf, but holy shit it’s rough atm.
Someone here said it feels like the sudden spike in China bad shit is an op, I honestly can’t imagine it’s not. That place used to be a fun surf, but holy shit it’s rough atm.
This isn't just some happenstance. Reddit is fully manipulated by neoliberal think-thanks that as have been proven with the existence of r/neoliberal, are capable of creating a sudden and strong astroturf movement.
All the surge of shit takes and anti China propaganda in your previously fun slightly left subreddits are driven by think-thank interns under billionaire money.
They're just Correcting the Record
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I've depressingly noticed over time that literally every single one of these accusations is in fact projection.
The depressing bit is that no one else seems to notice.
Unpaid Atlantic council intern calling Chinese poster 50 cent army online while they think about how they're supposed to pay rent this month.
You point this out and it's "Whataboutism", yet when you say something bad about USA someone will pop up and go "Buh wuh about China dough?" it would be funny if it wasnt profoundly sad.
um but china owns reddit actually because i said so
It's not new, they had astroturf bot armies out in full force during the 2016 primary to try to boost Hillary.
They had bot-armies out on day one. The original Reddit model was to simulate a large active community where none existed, in order to encourage real people to engage and participate until the site could hit a critical mass of users.
Also during the 2020 primary the front page would be filled with whatever candidate the MSM was pushing at the time. First was Harris, then rat boy, then Warren, etc. and it would stop or shift to another candidate very suddenly.
It was especially obvious with rat boy. I’d see numerous messages pop up in different threads along the lines of “I find his intelligence and calm demeanor refreshing.”
Meh. Its definitely a website that has become shamelessly co-opted by advertisers and marketing agencies. But the exact flavor of politics pulling the strings on the back end isn't as clear cut as that. If the sub was just shamelessly plugging neoliberalism night and day, you wouldn't have /r/conspiracy doing InfoWars shit and the Bitcoin subs infecting every economic discourse.
Reddit feels far more like generic Disneyfied Consumerism crossed with Techbro Libertarianism. I don't think its a coincidence that subs like /r/conservative and /r/Libertarian and /r/MensRights and /r/4chan are more popular than the /r/neoliberal sub.