Yeah, Reddit was always a shit hole. That's the ironic thing to me when people talk about how they miss Chapo on reddit like it was some how better than over here.
The MRA movement basically started on reddit and it was a radicalization site for that reactionary movement. They predate Gamergate and more than anything, Gamergate and the Alt Right was a culmination of all these reactionaries snowballing into one another.
The "redpill" philosophy BS got it's start on Reddit with the MRA. Redpill sub at one point had over 200k members, and it was only one of many anti-feminist subs.
The reactionaries have always been there, but they got louder and crazier around 2014-2015. I still remember when the reactionaries were Ron Paul bots.
It wasn't just gaming forums they took over either. Basically all entertainment, hobby and sports communities. People forget that 2015 was the year that Colin Kaepernick began kneeling. NFL forums were always a hell hole of jackass conservatives cause the sport has always had a chud fanbase, but the anthem protests sparked a change and they have never been the same again. Gone were the actual football discussions and it was just endless arguing over nationalism and DISRESPECTING DA TROOPS. Every forum would have several thread about individual players who kneeled and the threads would be filled with dog whistles for racists and accusations of hating America and the military. It got so bad that even the stat nerd sites started talking about it. The NFL handled this so badly and just poured gasoline on the fire to incite the moron fans to get even louder. 5 years later, nothing has changed. This year has sparked all of that to come back with the NFL's laughable PR stunt of putting anti-racist slogans on fields (the irony of a league that most of their owners voted for Trump yet they put Black Lives Matter on the fields), and these fans still haven't learned anything.
Yeah, Reddit was always a shit hole. That's the ironic thing to me when people talk about how they miss Chapo on reddit like it was some how better than over here.
The MRA movement basically started on reddit and it was a radicalization site for that reactionary movement. They predate Gamergate and more than anything, Gamergate and the Alt Right was a culmination of all these reactionaries snowballing into one another.
The "redpill" philosophy BS got it's start on Reddit with the MRA. Redpill sub at one point had over 200k members, and it was only one of many anti-feminist subs.
The reactionaries have always been there, but they got louder and crazier around 2014-2015. I still remember when the reactionaries were Ron Paul bots.
It wasn't just gaming forums they took over either. Basically all entertainment, hobby and sports communities. People forget that 2015 was the year that Colin Kaepernick began kneeling. NFL forums were always a hell hole of jackass conservatives cause the sport has always had a chud fanbase, but the anthem protests sparked a change and they have never been the same again. Gone were the actual football discussions and it was just endless arguing over nationalism and DISRESPECTING DA TROOPS. Every forum would have several thread about individual players who kneeled and the threads would be filled with dog whistles for racists and accusations of hating America and the military. It got so bad that even the stat nerd sites started talking about it. The NFL handled this so badly and just poured gasoline on the fire to incite the moron fans to get even louder. 5 years later, nothing has changed. This year has sparked all of that to come back with the NFL's laughable PR stunt of putting anti-racist slogans on fields (the irony of a league that most of their owners voted for Trump yet they put Black Lives Matter on the fields), and these fans still haven't learned anything.