I have a half-written effortpost about this but it’s not coherent enough yet. Basically I think that, in the same way capitalism makes it so we can only relate to leftist theory through the lens of consumption and consumer identity, we can only sculpt culture in ways that are fundamentally about competition for attention or liberal morality politics. Would appreciate feedback
That compounds with the fact that people seem to be bad at estimating exactly how many people are in their “audience” online. One thing I’ve noticed is that lurkers are way more likely to participate in surveys and we often got nearly 1000 votes on site surveys. Same with image views. Someone will post a private image to Imgur to link here. The comment linking it will have 3 upvotes but the pic will have 80 views.