I'm certain this shift was the product of targeted campaigns. /pol/ has been increasingly unauthentic ever since ~2017 and everybody who has visited the place a few times before 2016 knows what I mean. I stopped browsing it at some time late 2018 because it felt like shit. 2020 I took a peek to see what's going on there and holy shit it was a completely different thing. And now it's so much worse.
It's full of flat earthers.
They love Hitler, but even more than Hitler they love Putin.
They love the radical muslims and just like Reddit, every time you mention Christianity you get swarmed with replies calling you a christcuck. There was a year-long campaign to demonize Christianity and associate it with LGBT, bots were posting some faggot tranny totally legit tiktok "pastors" and it worked like a charm. Nowadays the majority of /pol/ think Christianity=Globohomo.
They say they hate redditors but they are proud atheists and the only group more proud than the atheists are the Pagans of /pol/, very much like every other redditor.
And don't even get me started on all the absolute schitzo posts that hit bump limit, like how Artificial Intelligence is the antichrist because electricity is demon energy and computers are full of trapped demons.
It's all SO unauthentic, so blatantly non-human and obviously
very carefully tailored to repel any new visitors and only attract bottom of the barrel conspiracy freaks and double digit iq morons.
Oldfag anons either just left or visit every once in a while in a happening thread, like the Darrel Brooks trial.
This picture illustrates the type of attacks /pol/ has been subjected to ever since 2016
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