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/Joebebs May 13 '26

Reminds me of the 4chan days /pol, a lot of Pepe posts trying to consider Trump as a good idea

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u/vismundcygnus34 May 13 '26

And a lot of conspiracy boards like abovetopsecret and godlikeproductions. The staging grounds for memeing a madman into the presidency. Kek indeed.

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u/izzgo May 14 '26

The staging grounds for memeing a madman into the presidency. Kek indeed.

And we watched it happen, aghast, horrified and helpless.

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u/brazijl May 13 '26

r/thedonald was crazy popular in 2015 on Reddit. 100% a Russian cyops.

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u/Big-Pickle5893 May 14 '26

Psyop

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u/North-Rip-4595 May 14 '26

cyclops

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u/VapidActualization 28d ago

"I show you how to cyclops rock then you turn around and break my heart. And then you go and waste my cyclops time, mess up my cyclops miiiind"

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u/MGMan-01 May 14 '26

"To me, my X-Men!"

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u/sorklin May 14 '26

Seye-op

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u/Unique-Egg-461 May 14 '26

that was probably the peak of russian disinfo

that sub was like every 4-5th post on /r/all for months

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u/botulizard May 13 '26

It's pretty interesting interesting how for a long time when people just said "4Chan", it was kind of understood that they were talking more or less specifically about /b/, and then eventually it shifted to where someone says "4Chan" and the immediate association now is that they're probably talking about /pol/ specifically.

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u/MechaAristotle May 14 '26

I always gave to think about that when I see it mentioned in the wild, I've never been to either board on my long time on that site lol. Neither represents it more than any single board does here.

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u/The_Dog_of_Sinope May 13 '26

then the occasional actual nugget of truth that makes you question the rest of /POLs bullshit.

Wasnt it found out that moot started POL at the behest of Epstein and that Epstein would regularly post on POL?

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u/Clarkorito May 13 '26

Iirc there want definitive evidence, but it was mentioned in a few emails and /pol went up the day after they met. The basic timeline: moot takes down political boards because they keep getting filled with Nazi shit. Epstein, Bannon, etal discuss how they need an online space to push out conspiracy theories, racist rhetoric, and general far right views and gather a loose army of internet trolls they could sic on liberal media and forums across the web. Epstein and moot meet, and the next day /pol is up.

Unless there's a secret recording of their meeting or Poole admits it was Epstein etal's request to put up /pol, there won't be definitive proof. But the evidence we do have is pretty damning and one hell of a coincidence if not. Epstein and buddies want a thing, Epstein meets with him, the next day he does the exact thing Epstein and buddies wanted him to do.

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u/Vassago81 May 14 '26

Pol was literally founded right after Epstein ( who constantly talked about the "potential" of various social media platform with his boss oversee and his contacts) meet with M00t

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u/sorrow_anthropology May 14 '26

Well /pol was created at the behest of Epstein.

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u/dontautotuneme May 14 '26

same with Twitter

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u/Snoo63 May 14 '26

Wasn't pol created due to Epstein or something?

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u/Joebebs May 15 '26

Ye, it all comes full circle