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Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Shbobdb posted:

1) People with money tend to be rightwing so they can finance memes. For example, there was the Oculus Rift guy who got in a lot of trouble because he was funding super racist Pepe memes (seriously, I can't believe I typed that sentence). It doesn't take very many people to do this because of the viral nature of the internet.

2) Right wing people are easier to scam. Fake news content creators have tried to appeal to both rightwing and leftwing people and have consistently found that the right wing is easier to fleece.

3) "Cubicle culture" tends conservative. So the people with the most time to "like" and "spread" the memes are going to want self-reinforcing conservative content.

This is as good of an answer as you're going to get, OP. AFAIK there is no real good evidence for the right wing or the left wing being more prominent on the internet so we're essentually just gonna argue from experience, or extrapolating conclusions from anecdotes.

Keep in mind there has been a huge turn against globalization on a worldwide scale, so the internet might just be reflecting that outlook.

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Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


semper wifi posted:

ok i didnt actually know who that guy was lol i just saw thiel on there

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