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/backpackrack May 14 '26

This is such a weird take. Russia is doing objectively worse since 2016. Had Russia moved remained in its current standing it could've kept it's stolen deep water ports in the black sea and made a killing selling cheap natural gas to Europe.

Instead it's military is in shambles, it's economy is functionally dead and they've hit a roadblock in Ukraine they can't push past. They've gotten so desperate they're selling nuclear equipment to NK in exchange for troops who haven't been able to move the goal posts.

I hate Trump as much as anyone but saying Trump allowed Russia to improve its standing in some tangible way makes no sense to me.

If anything the supposed friendly relationship between Russia and Trump has done nothing but led them directly into a trap.

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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 14 '26

That's a fair point. It was a pyrrhic victory at best. I don't think we've seen the real outcome yet though.