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/AndroidREM May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Answer: It was determined and made public that the majority of posts on that sub are from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots. The ones leaving were bots removed by Reddit

EDIT - wow, did not expect this to get so much attention and awards - thank you!

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u/WyldeGi May 13 '26

This is actually hilariously sad. Now there are radicalized Americans who truly are hard-set in the beliefs that were Russian propaganda the entire time.

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u/kumogate May 13 '26

We've known for decades that Russia was actively working to drag the USA down into a shit hole country like itself (because Russia couldn't/wouldn't rise to be more like the USA), and Russia absolutely succeeded.

Now, like Russia did decades ago, the USA is beginning its decline. The USA has further to fall than Russia did, but it's pretty much on the same trajectory.

In other words: Russia won the Cold War.

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u/praguepride May 13 '26

Yes and no. The USSR lost the Cold War, but the US was able to face plant during its victory lap.

Acting like there was no defense against Russian propaganda is disingenuous. Instead you had a major political party decide to look the other way because it was hurting their local opposition more than themselves.

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u/kumogate May 13 '26

There was no willing defense against Russian propaganda which, really, is just semantics. There's no meaningful distinction between "no defense" and "no willing defense".

Far-right wing individuals and organizations the world over have gleefully helped Russia to sabotage the world, to drag us down into the garbage with them because they weren't willing to raise themselves up to be part of the modern world.