The basic hypocrisy is that online leftists het caught up in spectacle and forgive white influencers who did the whole “I escaped the alt right pipeline” thing but wouldn’t assign the same lack of agency to people who got caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. There is no situation where a PoC can “have some emotional issues” and be widely excused for joining a terrorist group.

The phrase “alt-right pipeline” needs to come first because that’s a phrase we associate with online leftists. Doing it the other way around doesn’t set up and then subvert expectations well imo. This made choosing a format kind of weird. There’s lots of comparison memes that are basically a reskin of the Drake yes/no meme, but a lot of them start out with rejection and end with approval. This one fits more with passive approval vs active rejection. It’s used to point out disproportionate reactions.

Then, the “pipeline” phrases need to be at the end of their respective sentence. That’s just a joke writing thing. If you can put the subversion at the end, it hits harder. Breadtube technically doesn’t need to be mentioned at all, but it worked as a good shorthand for the sort of group I was targeting and also provided a subject of the sentence rather than make the sentence about an action, which made less sense and made the sentences longer.