Not to be a brainlet, but how much of this is chan culture becoming mainstream? /pol/ lies and will tell you that it lies, but for millions of people, it is a reliable news source.
For millions of people, they're reading /pol/ four or five layers away from the source. They're not reading chan culture directly, they're reading reactionary conspiracy Facebook groups that repackage /pol/ threads into a meme of a crying blue haired woman labeled "globalist."
Not to be a brainlet, but how much of this is chan culture becoming mainstream? /pol/ lies and will tell you that it lies, but for millions of people, it is a reliable news source.
For millions of people, they're reading /pol/ four or five layers away from the source. They're not reading chan culture directly, they're reading reactionary conspiracy Facebook groups that repackage /pol/ threads into a meme of a crying blue haired woman labeled "globalist."