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.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    10 months 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.

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      64·
      10 months 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.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months 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.