I wish /r/fifthworldpolitics had gotten off the ground. When I made it there wasn't a good left-comedy side to reddit that I could recruit from. Surrealism isn't ideologically exclusive like absurdism so 2015~ was ripe for it to be colonised by neoliberals with SNL sensibilities and fascists with r/politicalcompassmemes sensibilities. Surrealist imagery on reddit was an absolute cancer, nearly destroyed /r/fifthworldproblems until we banned it outright, and every other subreddit which relied on it became a cesspool. For r/fifthworldpolitics to be successful we'd have needed to counter that entire trend and have people who could properly satirise politics.
I wish /r/fifthworldpolitics had gotten off the ground. When I made it there wasn't a good left-comedy side to reddit that I could recruit from. Surrealism isn't ideologically exclusive like absurdism so 2015~ was ripe for it to be colonised by neoliberals with SNL sensibilities and fascists with r/politicalcompassmemes sensibilities. Surrealist imagery on reddit was an absolute cancer, nearly destroyed /r/fifthworldproblems until we banned it outright, and every other subreddit which relied on it became a cesspool. For r/fifthworldpolitics to be successful we'd have needed to counter that entire trend and have people who could properly satirise politics.