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Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
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The forums I frequented, started to slowly allow more and more ultra right, misogynist, racist, and fascist users. They allowed them to break the rules saying they were giving them leeway and the benefit of the doubt, while holding the rest of the long time users to an even higher standard than they were before, when dealing with these new users.
All that made all the forums unbearable, and after bringing it up several times and getting nowhere, I left them. And so did the other long time users one after the other.
I checked back on them a few years later and I regret nothing. One turned into a cesspool of fascist, racist, and misogynistic echo chambers. The others are gone.
I don't know how much of that is representative of the whole, but since it was several forums that it happened to and all the ones I was using, it warps my perception.
Your experience was part of a coordinated effort by the right to infiltrate and radicalized online forums as they recognized internet communities were ripe for recruiting young disaffected men. I'm sure there's research out there showing the scale and breadth of this social engineering operation, but for a plain English telling of it go check out innuendo studios alt-right playbook. Specifically the "how to radicalize a normie" video. It covers this explicitly. You are Gabe. Well... you could have been.
You are smart enough to recognize it when it started happening, but all the people that didn't leave were the frog being boiled. It was on purpose, and they all knew what they were doing.
I understand the far right strategy, but I don't get why all the people controlling the forums all accommodated them even when people pointed it out.
I'm pretty sure that's also in the video lol
in case you couldn't find it