Blue MAGA may dominate legacy media (which is done by design because it sets the limit to how left-wing you are allowed to be), but the GOP all the way to the most bloodthirsty psychopaths have a monopoly on new media. It is making our youth think violence, hate groups, and nazism is "hip and cool" while tolerance is seen as something for losers.

PragerU, Ben Shapiro, Richard Spencer, Jordan Peterson, Nick Fuentes, /pol/, these people are considered to be omniscient and are among the media icons of milennials and gen z (yes, I know Peterson is much older and PragerU isn't a person), but the problem is these people have won the culture war just telling people what they want to hear. We are outnumbered and as much as I want to challenge these views, I don't think I can reliably do that.

To anyone that has converted a younger hog, how did you manage to do that? I've had speculation that if I was friends with one and had one-on-one chats in let's say an Overwatch team chat or whatever they'd be more likely to listen. Alternatively, we could try to use any burner accounts and subscribe them to any leftist channel on Youtube or Twitter and see if we can skew the algorithm less in the right's favor.

Other than that, I would say that the left could do with better PR and steal some tricks from the right on how to get better publicity. Cherry pick the cringiest MRAs, the most ungrateful landlords, etc.

Idk, I get that this is an unrefined thought, but I don't really have the language to put this in better terms.

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think you may have a skewed perception about what kind of media the average internet user actually consumes.

    I'd say the vast majority of people just straight up do not consume political media, left or right. Sure they get their doses of ideology from whatever slop they're watching right now but most of them just do not care about politics and ideology explicitly.

    Just look at what's most popular on youtube. It's probably music videos, some milquetoast gaming and makeup channels or that Mr Beast guy. Or look at Facebook, the most popular political groups get maybe tens of thousands of likes but cat videos get literally millions. The "new media" is mostly just time wasting slop, just as capitalism wants it to be. People that actually give a shit about politics to a meaningful degree are a minority.