magic9mushroom
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magic9mushroom
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User ID: 1103
Two mutually-reinforcing effects.
SJ had control of all the major platforms, and an aura of inevitability, which meant the apparent level of SJ was considerably higher than the real one (due to anti-SJ being bannable, due to algorithmic fuckery, and due to people pretending to be more SJ-aligned than they actually were out of fear of cancellation).
Peer pressure is a thing (particularly for people who aren't habitual contrarians like, y'know, much of this site's membership), and it works off apparent peer group.
The Twitter sale (and SJ's failure to neutralise that sale via Bluesky) directly destroyed #1. That, in turn, rapidly cancelled out large chunks of #2. So some of it's real (see e.g. the Voice referendum in Australia, or Trump's re-election), but not all (or rather, some of it was never real to begin with).
Do note that sites like SpaceBattles and Wikipedia with stronger moderation and weaker network effects have not, TTBOMK, rebounded nearly as much.
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