My personal theory is that the popularity of Bernie phonebanking campaign on Reddit in 2015-2016 really marked a new phase where state actors and corporate interests began to flood the site to sway public narrative and to subtly advertise their products through community engagements.
The redditors in question:
It’s really sickening. It was one of the earliest subreddits I ever subscribed to, TWELVE YEARS AGO
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The same thing is happening to /r/endlesswar which was another O.G. sub
My personal theory is that the popularity of Bernie phonebanking campaign on Reddit in 2015-2016 really marked a new phase where state actors and corporate interests began to flood the site to sway public narrative and to subtly advertise their products through community engagements.