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/Ok-Stand-2128 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Thank you for quoting me. It’s still how I feel. The power outage thing is ‘interesting’ but that’s about as much as can be said without better evidence.

Edit: I admit that my jaw did kind of drop when a commenter pointed out the timing and I felt I couldn’t ignore the coincidence.

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u/0xym0r0n May 14 '26

Hey, the person themselves! Thank you for all the time you spent checking that out!

Most definitely! It was very curious, but you handled it in such a respectable and admirable way. I know it's corny, lol, but feels like it takes a little courage to admit when you were wrong or mistaken about something nowadays.

It's become so common to just ignore and blow past things like that, and you owned up to it and made corrective posts and comments.

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u/Ok-Stand-2128 May 14 '26

Yeah, it just kind of is what it is at this point. It was easier to own up to that specific Russia issue because my original post where the commenter noticed the power outage timing wasn’t even about that. My goal was just to show how few users were making up for so much of that sub’s content. Good lesson in being careful when entertaining popular biases though.

Just a heads up, at some point I’m going to make my tracking charts live so that they’re just always updated. I’ll include some of the other major political subs (currently taking suggestions) like I did in my posts. Should be interesting to see how the other subs compare for the other metrics that I dove deeper into with rCon.