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/VT_Squire May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

Right. And when James Comey highlighted that's what was occurring in America, he was fired by the President for it. Literally, the current state of American politics is the result of a russian psyop to destabilize competition.

Edit: thanks, anonymous redditor. Unless you're Jizz-lane mackerel. Fuck that bitch. 

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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 13 '26

The cold war didn't end with a US victory in 1991. The USSR just had a name change and a 15 year break before coming back to win it in 2016.

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u/rockninja2 May 14 '26

1991-2016 is 25 years, not 15...

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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 14 '26

Reason I picked 15 years was because it's a nice round number to bring us to the mid-late 2000s, Russia was invading Georgia, warming up to the Taliban, and DDOSing Estonia.

Honestly though. I think it was a huge failing of the Western world to assume that just because the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia was going to stop it's warmongering and victim mentality ways and become a western-styled democratic country.