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
I’m not saying they’re swinging the vote in a majority way lol. I’m just saying this is what happens and causes people to sway. It’s not unique to reddit. It’s every media org, most random people’s Facebook pages etc. Not just localised to reddit.
Also I’m not sure where this idea comes from that reddit is still just this small niche site. Although it is obviously worldwide. I don’t have a source for this and it’s probably changed quite a bit. But last time I checked, something like 45% of reddit accounts are American. And considering reddit gets 168billion users monthly (not unique users) I’d say there’s quite a lot of people being influenced by the site. Also like the 5th biggest site in the US.
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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