Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bro people were eating tidepods and we saw a resurgence of nazism and white nationlism.

    I think we at least know the effects of what was happening before.

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Just get 4chan to convince the imbeciles that it’s a white supremacist symbol like they did with the okay sign.

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          1 year ago

          You got that turned around. 4chan convinced politicians/pundits the ok symbol was white supremacist. Honestly, it worked, but they should have picked the shocker. Would have actually been funny.

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            1 year ago

            4chan convinced politicians/pundits the ok symbol was white supremacist.

            Exactly, the imbeciles. Which is even more funny considering the original intention was to convince liberals and other lefties that the ok symbol was racist just for the hell of it, but it backfired and only braindead nazis and fascists ended up believing it.

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              1 year ago

              Maybe it was a response to “Trap” suddenly becoming transphobic? That’s not a hill that’s worth dying on, but it seems like overnight that term became problematic.

              Anyway, neo-nazis love hidden symbols. Even if they aren’t hidden at all.

        • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          If a bunch of “ironic” racists start using a symbol as a “joke” and one of them flashes it after murdering 50 people because of their religion, then it’s officially a hate symbol.

      • tmsqhazdzp@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        …something something… making your whites whiter… they’ll get the message they’re after