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I feel that there were a lot of people who got caught in a right wing whirlpool on YouTube just around the time before Trump was getting into his run. I know I watched some before I realized they were all hacks and the entire right wing space was a scam.
The only thing they did better was convincing people that they were the more accepting group. And yeah I guess they were, for nazis, assholes, and idiots.
Finding out that a lot of it was cultured from Epstein and his ilk is very unsurprising in hindsight.
I remember it quite a bit before Trump but yeah, and then kinda seeing it progress into more and more pro Trump stuff.
I guess it's always been there in one form or another, thats just when it started making its way to broader media appeal, or how I remember it anyhow