I honestly think a huge part of it is the frog boil effect. like if you plopped the 2019 versions of these people onto 2025 twitter they’d likely be highly disturbed and stop using it immediately.
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another part of it - one that even many Twitter users will refuse to confront - was that “neofascist Twitter” was an extant community on the site starting in 2014 that simply kept to themselves and operated quietly after moderation crackdowns in the wake of GG. they ran a *lot* of “meme accounts”
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*a lot of former Twitter users, I ran out of characters
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it’s less a sudden shift and more that a specific subculture gradually become ascendant after Musk’s purchase of Twitter, which is why its remaining users don’t realize how bad it is - those factors mean that you could, easily, misread it as part of a wider cultural shift that happened post-Trump
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