• dasgoat@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    8chan and 4chan were instrumental in creating the disease that is gamergate and the subsequent online shitheaps it produced. Including but not limited to Trump’s term.

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        10 months ago

        Reddit has always been democratic. Theres some offshoot subreddits that are a cesspool for republicans. But they isolate themselves.

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          10 months ago

          I meant as part of creating and fostering gamergate. The GG subreddit was pretty big. And talking about Trump, /r/TheDonald was pretty big and fairly influential, as far as subreddits go.

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            10 months ago

            Im unfamiliar with gamergate. The internet says it was 4chan and other trolls. And like i said those subreddits were isolated in my viewpoint. /trump and all other conservative communities would commonly ban anyone with a different opinion than the hive mind. No room for discussion. /news was always posting stories of republicans being shitheads. And people wouldnt get banned for just having an opinion, theyd just get downvoted into oblivion.

            Atleast this was all how i tailored my reddit feed when i used. I had no desire to see bullshit lies from republican news sites. So maybe my viewpoint was mostly democratic…

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              10 months ago

              I didn’t mean they represented a common sentiment or viewpoint, rather that Reddit was an important platform for them

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      10 months ago

      gamergate was a meaningless troll movement. To imply that they got trump elected is moronic.

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        10 months ago

        It was a watershed moment for the alt-right’s propaganda machine. It’s defined fascist recruiting tactics ever since and it absolutely played a role in Trump’s election. Gamergate was a dramatic shift of the status quo, as ridiculous as it was, to diminish it’s role in shaping the last few years is just ignorant