I have a theory that vegans are the most active, most organized brigade on reddit. They make T_D look like absolute amateurs. I went down a rabbit hole today after a mini meltdown in this thread:
The OP of that thread has 4 MILLION internet points and it's all cute pics of animals. Let's take a deep dive on the comments of a couple super-normal-not-brigaded-at-all threads:
It's funny cuz when I was reading the article their examples of "good" titles were crazy familiar. That style of title/content is super common around here.
I was a mod there for 5+ years. I quit because of the constant political shit getting spammed. You'd see a huge increase right before the caucuses and as long as it leaned left, the users were lapping it up. Didn't matter if it had anything to do with Iowa. Once I removed a shareblue article about Bernie or some shit and ended up with people PMing me death threats.
I rarely post there anymore. Me and the other former mod tried to slow it, but the circlejerk was just too strong.
Grandpa Tick-Tock (RIP) created /r/ShitIowaSays and /r/The_Iowa back in the day. He was right all along...
I always suspected something like this. It's scary how the smallest of vegan-related threads will usually get brigaded by 10+ users within the span of minutes, all with hundreds of hours worth of veganposting in their histories.
Oh, they were the most brigade happy subreddit. I remember even some of the worst powermods calling them out when the vegan mods complained about brigading.
The OP of that thread has 4 MILLION internet points and it's all cute pics of animals.
Yea that's been lnfinity's shtick for years. It's not like he's being nefarious about it. He's just a regular guy: /r/ lnfinity
He posts some cute animal gifs. I don't really see anything wrong with this. I regularly upvote his cow gifs and then eat steak the next day (sorry cows). If some people are persuaded to give up meat because of his gifs, good for him I say. It's a decent way to get a message across.
Based on his comment history, I don't buy that for 1 second.
I don't even care about people being vegan. My GF is vegan. Just don't spam your agenda and pretend like it's an organic thing. No different than someone coming to the door and asking if I've heard the word of god today. I happen to enjoy $2.99/lb hamburger because I'm poor AF.
What's funny is, despite their blatant brigading tendencies, they are also extremely shit at hiding it. Their brigadier general, Infinity, is almost always guaranteed to be found seetheposting in the 'frontlines' whenever an r/Vegan raid is going on.
Every time I'm on normie subs I am quick to point out how utterly astro turfed is, and the response is always non-existent. My generation, and the newer one, like being told how to feel and what to do. God help us all honestly, reddit, and online communities in general, are a decent microcosm of society with a twist. Considering that is terrifying at times.
All generations like being told how to feel as long as it doesn't upend their life and the older generations had it even worse. Now a days you have to actively ignore sources that go against your biases. Before the interent and before cable with dozens of news channel you had a couple local news channels on tv and the local paper and that's where your news came from and they both usually toed the line for whatever politically acceptable locally. There was absolutely no kind of counter culture information available to the majority of people. You rarely heard "government bad" or shit about corruption, police shooting people, etc
I couldn’t stand SRD. The cringe there was suffocating. One idiot was whining about /r/drama being a doxxing paradise, others were circlejerking about how the sub leans slightly right but is really moderate. And as you note OP, they all fuckin whine about Daddy, altright, and idiots who can’t get laid.
I have to say, this is the lowest effort of Hebrew engineering. They should have at least hidden this site behind a payroll only visible not on shabbos
I hate we vegans and other retsrds claim no other mammal besides humans ingest milk after nursing. They're wrong. No other mammal farms milk and has it as a part of their daily diet but any predator that kills a nursing mammal is definitely lapping up that tiddy juice.
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6 tenebrous_cloud 2019-10-13
t. vegan retard
1 Stenwalden 2019-10-13
"Its not agenda pushing when
wedo it"Every activist / extremist ever
3 tcpip4lyfe 2019-10-13
I have a theory that vegans are the most active, most organized brigade on reddit. They make T_D look like absolute amateurs. I went down a rabbit hole today after a mini meltdown in this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/dhaa0c/in_iowa_politicians_protect_ag_industry_by_making/f3nsvc3/
The OP of that thread has 4 MILLION internet points and it's all cute pics of animals. Let's take a deep dive on the comments of a couple super-normal-not-brigaded-at-all threads:
https://snew.notabug.io/r/happycowgifs/comments/dcqxjk/good_boye/f2bmjj4/
https://www.reddit.com/r/happycowgifs/comments/dgg6sd/baby_leonard_has_the_zoomies_at_edgars_mission/f3c7q2y/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/dfxo07/when_a_nonvegan_tells_you_that_you_are_promoting/f38uayz/
Then there is their Discord server:
https://imgur.com/6UuPzJI
5 dramasexual 2019-10-13
It's funny cuz when I was reading the article their examples of "good" titles were crazy familiar. That style of title/content is super common around here.
Fucking vegans, tbh
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4 cochnbahls 2019-10-13
What has happened to the /r/Iowa subreddit? It was always a tad bit smug in it's political bend, but lately they've just been absolutely insufferable.
4 LightUmbra 2019-10-13
Iowa is the true deepstate.
4 tcpip4lyfe 2019-10-13
I was a mod there for 5+ years. I quit because of the constant political shit getting spammed. You'd see a huge increase right before the caucuses and as long as it leaned left, the users were lapping it up. Didn't matter if it had anything to do with Iowa. Once I removed a shareblue article about Bernie or some shit and ended up with people PMing me death threats.
I rarely post there anymore. Me and the other former mod tried to slow it, but the circlejerk was just too strong.
Grandpa Tick-Tock (RIP) created /r/ShitIowaSays and /r/The_Iowa back in the day. He was right all along...
1 oss_spy 2019-10-13
If you were head mod you should've just started banning them
1 tcpip4lyfe 2019-10-13
I did. They just created accounts and started in with "MODS ARE LITERALLY HITLER."
1 charming_tatum 2019-10-13
With out ed we may never get another grandpa tiktok reveal
1 tcpip4lyfe 2019-10-13
RIP
4 KaaraRaven 2019-10-13
I always suspected something like this. It's scary how the smallest of vegan-related threads will usually get brigaded by 10+ users within the span of minutes, all with hundreds of hours worth of veganposting in their histories.
2 TheRootinTootinPutin 2019-10-13
Oh, they were the most brigade happy subreddit. I remember even some of the worst powermods calling them out when the vegan mods complained about brigading.
1 zsfh 2019-10-13
How do you know someone's a vegan? They'll make sure to tell you.
1 charming_tatum 2019-10-13
Leta turn drama into a vegan honeypot!
1 ClementineChime 2019-10-13
Yea that's been lnfinity's shtick for years. It's not like he's being nefarious about it. He's just a regular guy: /r/ lnfinity
He posts some cute animal gifs. I don't really see anything wrong with this. I regularly upvote his cow gifs and then eat steak the next day (sorry cows). If some people are persuaded to give up meat because of his gifs, good for him I say. It's a decent way to get a message across.
1 tcpip4lyfe 2019-10-13
Based on his comment history, I don't buy that for 1 second.
I don't even care about people being vegan. My GF is vegan. Just don't spam your agenda and pretend like it's an organic thing. No different than someone coming to the door and asking if I've heard the word of god today. I happen to enjoy $2.99/lb hamburger because I'm poor AF.
1 Matues49 2019-10-13
What's funny is, despite their blatant brigading tendencies, they are also extremely shit at hiding it. Their brigadier general, Infinity, is almost always guaranteed to be found seetheposting in the 'frontlines' whenever an r/Vegan raid is going on.
1 WeWuzKANG5 2019-10-13
Every time I'm on normie subs I am quick to point out how utterly astro turfed is, and the response is always non-existent. My generation, and the newer one, like being told how to feel and what to do. God help us all honestly, reddit, and online communities in general, are a decent microcosm of society with a twist. Considering that is terrifying at times.
1 charming_tatum 2019-10-13
All generations like being told how to feel as long as it doesn't upend their life and the older generations had it even worse. Now a days you have to actively ignore sources that go against your biases. Before the interent and before cable with dozens of news channel you had a couple local news channels on tv and the local paper and that's where your news came from and they both usually toed the line for whatever politically acceptable locally. There was absolutely no kind of counter culture information available to the majority of people. You rarely heard "government bad" or shit about corruption, police shooting people, etc
3 Alicesnakebae 2019-10-13
Vegan deepstate
2 jewdanksdad 2019-10-13
Looking at their list of dos and don'ts, looks like most vegans fail the test
1 BussyShillBot 2019-10-13
I couldn’t stand SRD. The cringe there was suffocating. One idiot was whining about /r/drama being a doxxing paradise, others were circlejerking about how the sub leans slightly right but is really moderate. And as you note OP, they all fuckin whine about Daddy, altright, and idiots who can’t get laid.
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1 dramasexual 2019-10-13
This one always makes me kek tbh
1 ArtisanalCollabo 2019-10-13
I have to say, this is the lowest effort of Hebrew engineering. They should have at least hidden this site behind a payroll only visible not on shabbos
1 Warbring3r 2019-10-13
May Allah break the backs of these disease-ridden rodents.
1 IBiteYou 2019-10-13
"Cows have best friends & become depressed when gone."
That's why you slaughter both cows and enjoy double the barbeque. So that no cow suffers that depression.
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1 Iowa_Hawkeye 2019-10-13
Lot's of overlap between /r/iowa and /r/drama.
1 mindhowl 2019-10-13
All the retards show up in the cute animal posts saying the same shit.
"This picture just made me want to go vegan..."
Some vegan dipshit shows up and shows them the light. What a joke.
1 SymboIicCyanide 2019-10-13
Quality content exposing the nefarious dealings of Big Vegetable.
Really makes you think about how easy it is for a well-organised bunch of mentalists to totally steer the conversation.
1 RochelleH 2019-10-13
Imagine putting together a website about using Reddit, and then thinking and writing those things on said website.
1 charming_tatum 2019-10-13
I hate we vegans and other retsrds claim no other mammal besides humans ingest milk after nursing. They're wrong. No other mammal farms milk and has it as a part of their daily diet but any predator that kills a nursing mammal is definitely lapping up that tiddy juice.