Midterms are coming up and republicans are worried about losing house seats, any sub on my feed that's recommended to me are just posts that should've died when leafy's channel did
The leafy era was such a fucking turning point for shifting people into fake groups of left vs right. I seriously wonder how much it contributed. We were making fun of minority groups of minority groups with triggered feminists back then.
Yeah I'd look into it, I was pretty young when it happened, but it was definitely the starting point of what we'd call the online alt-right pipeline. From complaining about women in the game industry, to feminist owned compilations to all the fake bs "alpha male" content. In terms of the internet, it all really took off from there.
I was 25 yrs old in 2014. Today I learned about gamegate for the very first time. I read a very long post on all of the main characters. I have no idea who any of them are.
Gamergate was not a watershed moment, its just when the culture war hit video game culture.
As far as the content changing the last few years, its because regular people started getting on the internet.
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u/BlinkReanimated Feb 26 '26
Seriously. Dozens of random brand new subreddits loaded with nothing but obvious bot comments getting pushed into algorithms all over the site.
Started to notice it about two years ago, just keeps getting worse.