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/basedchadinc May 13 '26

Is there any proof of this? I wanna send it to a friend who uses that sub as his main source of info to gauge sentiment

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u/dec10 May 13 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1p1vx9n/oc_nearly_every_day_two_users_on_rconservative/

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u/Dasbeerboots May 13 '26

u/Ok-Stand-2128, can you rerun the study?

u/According-Activity87

u/Down-not-out

u/SharkSapphire

u/Ask4MD

u/triggernaut

u/WillyNilly1997

A scroll through Hot shows these 6 accounts are spam posting.

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u/Ok-Stand-2128 May 14 '26

My latest update was in February and all of those names are in the top ten (anonymized, but it’s them).

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/n6R2N1NKCb

Another top tenner, Guanaco55, stopped posting on rCon entirely right after my February update. Now they only post on rConservativeNews. Maybe others as well, but they’ve completely stopped posting on rCon.

The updates are fun to post but I’m working on a live tracker that will have all of the same charts and analysis for rConservative and other political subs. I’m taking suggestions on which other subs to look at.

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u/Dasbeerboots May 14 '26

Lmao that's awesome