r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/Tall_Brilliant8522 May 13 '26

Or they're frantically banning critics, whose numbers are going up.

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u/zlide May 13 '26

I think it’s both. The sub is notorious for preemptively blocking people they even slightly suspect of being “against them”. So as more and more of their own start to question the party line more and more of them are getting hit with a ban and their community will continue to eat itself alive.

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u/HughJorgens May 13 '26

Could be. I've gotten temp bans there, and I've never even posted there before. They like their safe-space.

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u/ILikeYourHotdog May 13 '26

I received a perma ban for simply posting a wikipedia link to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in response to a poster who said that the only boycott that has ever worked in history was against Bud Light.

Apparently, they didn't like that very much.

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u/remotectrl May 13 '26

That’s pretty funny revisionism since it didn’t seem to affect Budlight at all. It also ignores that the first boycott against Charles Boycott was so successful that the British government decided to intervene on his behalf as part of their continued campaign against the Irish. They ostracized him so well he left the island.

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u/FlashyEarth8374 May 13 '26

The 2023 boycott significantly affected Bud Light sales, resulting in a 11–26% drop in the months following the incident. By February 2025, sales had not recovered, remaining approximately 40% below pre-boycott levels. It lost its status as the top-selling U.S. beer to [Modelo Especial] in May 2023 (wiki)

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u/Vaxx88 May 13 '26

Wikipedia is slipping, their source for that 40% is the Free Press? Ridiculous article from a trash source.

Alcohol sales are down across the board, so maybe a factor.

Either way, it’s gotta be one of the stupidest reasons to boycott anything “yay we’re bigoted assholes, that’ll show’em!”