Fucking incredible post, i've noticed this as well and couldn't put it into words like this. Especially the part about 4chan. I saw that vibe shift happen, particularly related to any threads surrounding china, and it was so uncanny but took me a while to figure out what was going on.
It's also really bad on youtube. So many people "concerend" that the US is ruining it's soft power, europeans and canadians who feel SO betrayed, in this very thread you have buckbroken chimp doing this.
So I pick up the phone and what do all of my real life canadian and euro friends have to say about all this horrible tariff and nato betrayal? Absolutely fucking nothing. Most of them don't even know it's going on, at all. What do my brother's coworkers in germany think? Not a damn thing. The worst response I got was "it will make my flight a bit more expensive".
It's such a joke.