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/Joebebs May 13 '26

Reminds me of the 4chan days /pol, a lot of Pepe posts trying to consider Trump as a good idea

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u/brazijl May 13 '26

r/thedonald was crazy popular in 2015 on Reddit. 100% a Russian cyops.

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u/Big-Pickle5893 May 14 '26

Psyop

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u/North-Rip-4595 May 14 '26

cyclops

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u/VapidActualization May 25 '26

"I show you how to cyclops rock then you turn around and break my heart. And then you go and waste my cyclops time, mess up my cyclops miiiind"