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0 pointspoincaredisk1y ago0 comments

A lot of memes and shitposting, I assume. /pol/ was always political, pro-trump, and according to some was even important enough to influence elections. I find that claim dubious, but it's true that many pro-trump memes (and memes in general) were created on 4chan.

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tovej1y ago

/pol/ is 100% a big factor in the rising popularity of MAGA and far-right nationalist sentiment among young men

TZubiri1y ago

To what extent is it a factor as in the cause, and to what extent is it just an organic manifestation of the desires of the people?

You can apply this to most social media, but in the spectrum of wikipedia (the people control the content) to netflix(the private owners control the content), I'd think 4chan would be closer to wikipedia.

ValentinA231y ago

Consider that Trump's hymn goes like:

Young man, there's no need to feel down, I said

s7771y ago

I know people personally who recently graduated high school and went down the 4chan rabbithole because they wanted to be "edgy", then they got comfortable with the extremely racist attitudes they were promoting

Der_Einzige1y ago

I’ve never seen such a small group of people have such a big impact on world affairs.

4chan pol has straight up mainstreamed most incel talking points to young boys all accross the world.

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