https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/01/how-4chan-became-the-home-of-the-elite-reader
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How 4chan became the home of the elite reader - New Statesman
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I'm amazed the New Statesman would release an article so pro-/lit/ that basically admits the left fricked up ceding these ground to the right and it now fills an important niche.
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You didn't realize? The left lost social control last year. It was fairly obvious for anyone that was paying attention.
Expect a bunch of people to suddenly notice things that have been obvious for over a decade. Soon you'll see lit people notice that publishing has been taken over by white women determined to publish trash.
This June party attention to rainbow flag profile pics on Twitter. They either won't happen or will last less than a week.
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What happened is that leftists lost their influence over the big tech firms. What first started this was when their workers started striking over social issues - the first such strike I remember was the Spotify Joe Rogan strikes. Corpos hate strikes, especially over business decisions. It wasn't immediately noticeable then, but the loss of power started to crystallize over the next four years, as the Biden admin started filing a lot of anti-trust lawsuits against the Big Tech firms. The final nail in the coffin obviously came when Elon bought twitter and fired 80% of twitter's workforce. Turns out that - in the non-unionized tech world, where the average dev isn't really that differentiated from other dev's - you can just do that and your core product will keep on working fine.
And then every tech company started following suit firing parts of their workforce and telling their employees to frick off with their ideological fights and get back to work(see: the Google Palestine strike firings). And that completely crushed the left's power over Big Tech.
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But the New Statesmen is one of the outlets is metastasised out of. It's a pretty colossal vibe shift
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They can tell which way the wind is blowing. Either shift your politics to attack those that make your side weak, or die with them.
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this is putting up "migrate to europe and get free housing" signs in buttfrick africa
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