Much of the surge in trolling (along with the activation of accounts not seen in a while like Haterjuiced) just happens to coincide with it now only being 6 months to election season. A perfect length of time for contract work to occur.
Those who've been around the internet block know how increases in shilling and trolling always happens the closer it gets to American elections but I thought I'd just point it out to those who either forgot or didn't notice.
One of the known tactics of modern shilling is to make places less interesting and more unappealing by trolling so that regular users will try to avoid using the place. Look into COINTELPRO tactics if you don't believe me.
They've been a known force on imageboards for a while, at least since the GG days, plus it's obvious to see their effects on reddit during past elections.
(And honestly that makes inaction by the moderation on these faggots all the more damning, but I digress)
TL;DR its likely not organic trolling.
What candidate would even benefit from that? I'm inclined to think it is mostly just one mentally ill person, especially because it hasnt been prominent on 4chan which is like a bellweather for real deal psyops
It seems like this one person really wants to convert a forum and crack consensus on the matter of statutory rape, and is nibbling at small fish because their efforts simply get lost in the flood in busy and well moderated forums
Err... you do realize that the entire .win community started because the biggest pro-Trump community was banned from reddit, right?
I was there and yeah, that's what happened....
Now, how does that make it beneficial to Biden (or alternatively to Trump) to try and convince KIA2 users that the age of consent is too high?
I'm not saying it isn't bad, I'm saying it isn't related directly to the election. No spotlight is gonna turn on KIA2 to punish Trump because some user with 6 million downvotes called the other users agecucks
I think you misunderstand the fundamental purposes of trolling in this case. It's more meant to shit up the place than anything else, you can see the exasperation and frustration from average users here. The shittier a place is for the average user, the less they want to use it.
That "agecucks" guy is probably just a massive autist that's neither here nor there though.
Any pro-Trump community losing its dedicated, quality, active and regular users is a benefit to the establishment.
I will admit I don't have a focus on that aspect of the trolling. I think there is a line in the sand with using multiple accounts to harass people, though.
But I don't recall any particular forum that "fell" to spam in decent conditions (meaning when mods are doing their jobs and admins aren't looking for an excuse to delete the forum anyway).
I'd consider it all to be banter and gatekeeping practice and group maintenance of consensus, if it were always just one subject-matter sperg getting corrected over and over. That is life, and no one can withstand constant social rebuke correction forever, they always either correct or leave.
That's why I haterespect gopower. I think gopower is a great example of troll on a mission, following all the rules and redpilling kia2 users by pissing everybody off with infuriating inversions of reality. He never drops character and he even uses soecific buzzwords out of context to illicit redpill replies. He doesn't respond to correction because correction is his intent. Trolling is a art.
Pedo autist on the other hand crosses the line on several fronts; lusting after kids, advocating it for others, and breaking rules to spam and evade bans. I'll admit it's my social training and I'm discriminating agaisnt him, fuck him.
I just don't think it's election related spam, man. The more I type the more I am sure it's just one sperg.
If you have an environment that fosters weak but active action, such as voting or boycotts, low involvement activities that are easily performed but have strong impact in large numbers, then it can be VERY valuable for the side being against that thing to make the environment as toxic as possible.
If I said "remember to go vote, and IMO, Trump's a good option" on election day, and it is heard by 3 people who forgot to vote and go out and do it, well, that benefits Trump mildly. If I say it and instead am heard by 300,000 people who forgot to vote and go out and do it, well, that swings an election. And the difference isn't my message or how convincing I am, it is how many people are still there, are around and reading, while a bunch of glowies push pro-pedo-propaganda for Biden for months on end.
That is a very salient point, but I would counterpoint that we have the freedom to post such an election time message in all sorts of popular places that make the impression rate of kia2 posts irrelevant by scale in any case. I don't mean to sound like this place is not important, just that it is important to us and not to Trump. I think getting one solid janitor on board in kia2 would solve this issue and further demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the pedo guy's hypothetical strategy of affecting the 2024 election by sperging on kia2.
Is that from your handbook, glowie?