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- 26 de Feb, 2026
I remember, back in the days of the uncensored internet, that there was a massive undercurrent of wrongthink available on the internet. Even prior to 2016, r/coontown, a subdomain of reddit, a particularly liberal site, had twenty thousand subscribers, and was pretty active. r/cringeanarchy, which was banned in 2019, had 400,000 subscribers. Imageboards were the core, of course, but there was a huge network of these communities, to the point where you could always find /ourguys/. Very recently, an upstart sub, r/libertarianmeme, was banned, and it had 150k subscribers at the time and growing rapidly. Indicates that, even on reddit, there's still a massive undercurrent of people with the right inclinations.
Twitter, likewise, had a lot more interesting people in 2016. The "fall of censorship" after Musk acquired it was an improvement, but did not return it to its previous laissez faire state, and the predominant 'wrongthink-aligned' accounts don't seem to be direct descendants of the old culture of the internet in the same way that communities like CA were. Generally older grifters and agendaposters, more interested in 'building brands' and agendaposting than having fun. Way more eceleb-focused, too, when that was a huge taboo as recently as 2016. There are still some good accounts sitting in the four digit subscriber counts, but they get banned pretty often.
Various "uncensored" websites have also popped up, but they're either very small or attracted a completely different crowd. Fediverse has a similar feel to it, but like four digits worth of active accounts. Gab is edgy, but seems directed at boomers, and mostly drew its crowd from the tail end of the Qboomer phenomenon, after Parler, the on-the-plantation equivalent, was crushed. Anglin and Weev, two champions of the old era, are on Nostr, a social media platform by and for crypto turboautists, but they post only rarely and get one digit of likes.
In real life, of course, there's been no similar decline. "Far right" topics are more common and easier to bring up than ever before. Even the most socially retarded freakshows you can imagine are getting double digit shares of primary votes with campaigns run on stale memes, so long as they label themselves as "far right", and the guys who aren't socially retarded do much better than that. Boomers are saying things that 15 year old edgelords hesitated to say ten years ago. But on the internet, it seems like it's basically vanished. What gives?
Kiwi Farms is a fairly edgy/imageboard-adjacent website (though relatively small compared to the size of the community I'm talking about), so I figured that people here might have a better idea of where the old cadre of 2014 8/pol/ posters wound up settling on the internet. Am I just getting old? Are all of the cool kids on TikTok and closed Discord servers, now? If so, the death of communities people could lurk seems like a significant loss for the internet's cultural fabric.
Twitter, likewise, had a lot more interesting people in 2016. The "fall of censorship" after Musk acquired it was an improvement, but did not return it to its previous laissez faire state, and the predominant 'wrongthink-aligned' accounts don't seem to be direct descendants of the old culture of the internet in the same way that communities like CA were. Generally older grifters and agendaposters, more interested in 'building brands' and agendaposting than having fun. Way more eceleb-focused, too, when that was a huge taboo as recently as 2016. There are still some good accounts sitting in the four digit subscriber counts, but they get banned pretty often.
Various "uncensored" websites have also popped up, but they're either very small or attracted a completely different crowd. Fediverse has a similar feel to it, but like four digits worth of active accounts. Gab is edgy, but seems directed at boomers, and mostly drew its crowd from the tail end of the Qboomer phenomenon, after Parler, the on-the-plantation equivalent, was crushed. Anglin and Weev, two champions of the old era, are on Nostr, a social media platform by and for crypto turboautists, but they post only rarely and get one digit of likes.
In real life, of course, there's been no similar decline. "Far right" topics are more common and easier to bring up than ever before. Even the most socially retarded freakshows you can imagine are getting double digit shares of primary votes with campaigns run on stale memes, so long as they label themselves as "far right", and the guys who aren't socially retarded do much better than that. Boomers are saying things that 15 year old edgelords hesitated to say ten years ago. But on the internet, it seems like it's basically vanished. What gives?
Kiwi Farms is a fairly edgy/imageboard-adjacent website (though relatively small compared to the size of the community I'm talking about), so I figured that people here might have a better idea of where the old cadre of 2014 8/pol/ posters wound up settling on the internet. Am I just getting old? Are all of the cool kids on TikTok and closed Discord servers, now? If so, the death of communities people could lurk seems like a significant loss for the internet's cultural fabric.
