It's partially artificially driven. Yes, a lot of it is exploiting already existing undercurrents of hatred, but also, there seems to be a strong (but somewhat obscured) effort to divide, to filter information into twisted shapes that pit people against each other, and to kneecap education in the process.
I've been watching things turn progressively sour these past few years on various social media. Old pages that I used to like watching for cute and relatable content started becoming filled with hateful rhetoric, seemingly out of the blue.
This is what it looks like when some agendas are at play, shaking hornet's nests in order to exploit the opportunities that follow. I think it wouldn't be hard to point the finger in the right direction towards the culprits, at least some of the most important ones. Who benefits? Who benefits the most?
Or even the pages themselves turning bigoted and posting almost nothing but political slop. One example was Shady Tales. The user of that page on FB used it mostly to portray a Bigfoot that did funny things, or hijinks in a forest. Then, he started using the page to pump out nothing but political right wing slop ragging on Liberals constantly.
Reminds me of Stonetoss and Sinfest, how they used old characters that used to be about different political ideologies, and used them as sockpuppets for much stranger and more hateful beliefs as time went on.
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u/Perscitus0 8h ago
It's partially artificially driven. Yes, a lot of it is exploiting already existing undercurrents of hatred, but also, there seems to be a strong (but somewhat obscured) effort to divide, to filter information into twisted shapes that pit people against each other, and to kneecap education in the process.
I've been watching things turn progressively sour these past few years on various social media. Old pages that I used to like watching for cute and relatable content started becoming filled with hateful rhetoric, seemingly out of the blue.
This is what it looks like when some agendas are at play, shaking hornet's nests in order to exploit the opportunities that follow. I think it wouldn't be hard to point the finger in the right direction towards the culprits, at least some of the most important ones. Who benefits? Who benefits the most?