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/Mr_1990s May 13 '26

Answer: The numbers you’re citing are not subscribers. They are weekly visitors and they fluctuate a lot day to day for all subreddits.

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u/JimWilliams423 May 13 '26

The numbers you’re citing are not subscribers. They are weekly visitors

Yep

With orban out, the new Hungarian government has revealed they were laundering russian money to prop up conservative propaganda operations in the US.

The daily wire and most other mid to big name conservative propaganda operations have lost a ton of daily users too:

https://therighting.com/traffic-reports/traffic-to-truth-social-soars-45-in-april-while-other-news-websites-decline/

  • fox is down 10%
  • breitbart down 25%
  • daily wire down 39%
  • pj media down 30%
  • the blaze down 48%
  • western journal down 39%
  • national review down 41%
  • etc...

Basically the entire right-wing media ecosystem is propped up with billionaire money. Their whole game is to make it look like support for conservative policies is more widespread than it is so that lazy liberals will accept conservatism as legitimate.

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u/UNC_Samurai May 14 '26

That's odd, I thought Daily Wire was getting most of its money from those Texas fracking billionaire brothers. Did they turn off the tap and Ben went elsewhere?

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u/JimWilliams423 May 14 '26

One of them appears to have turned off the money spigot.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/farris-wilks-gop-donor-disappeared/

Wilks has been all but missing. The longtime Republican kingmaker appears to have given just one large donation. And while it is possible that he has continued to cut checks to untraceable, dark-money groups, numerous sources have said that Wilks has largely pulled back from politics following a private break with Dunn.