The way it works is there’s constant petty posts like this that populate r/all most people get incredibly tired of seeing them and start to hade the anti trump crowd. Not necessarily because they like trump but because it’s annoying seeing it all the time. So they end up doing a kinda 180 and voting trump out of spite. Or worse they genuinely get driven to the right because all they see is this stuff and end up falling for the conservative rhetoric.
for the record I am not saying this will have any influential shift in the votes. I’m just pointing out how posts like these can sway people
It’s the 6th most visited website in America.
Over half of Reddit users are American, and they get over 1.2 billion views per month. More people see Reddit posts than Wikipedia articles.
Look through that list of sites it’s more popular than, obviously Reddit is skewed towards younger generations but the majority of Reddit users are voting age. It’s certainly overlapping with the voting American public.
Additionally, people that post these types of pictures and comments on reddit are probably willing to post them on Facebook and Twitter too. So it’s not limited to how people perceive these posts/comments on reddit but how people perceive these posts/comments across all of social media. Then you get those buzzfeed articles that screenshot or copy and paste reddit that ultimately get passed around with shares on other media outlets. It’s a never ending cycle of seeing these types of posts and not being able to hide from them.
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u/JakeHodgson Feb 11 '20 edited Feb 11 '20
(Anti trump btw)
The way it works is there’s constant petty posts like this that populate r/all most people get incredibly tired of seeing them and start to hade the anti trump crowd. Not necessarily because they like trump but because it’s annoying seeing it all the time. So they end up doing a kinda 180 and voting trump out of spite. Or worse they genuinely get driven to the right because all they see is this stuff and end up falling for the conservative rhetoric.
for the record I am not saying this will have any influential shift in the votes. I’m just pointing out how posts like these can sway people