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memembers
Memembers has the word "meme" in it. It's 4chan/8chan/Voat/Gen Z culture. Meme warfare. Taking back the narrative and "redpilling" through memes. Avalon is shielded from a lot of this because of the normal filters, but when you find a corner of the Internet whose posting rules are merely what is allowed under the law and nothing else, and even on places like Twitter, there is an often very savage and offensive campaign of shifting the Overton window. If you're not familiar with the Overton window, it's a very key concept and worth learning about. Shifting the Overton window how the left has pushed us to where we are today.
Millennials came of political age during the Bush era and were repulsed by the neo-con agenda, becoming susceptible to far-left radicalization. Gen Z'ers are the exact opposite. They were too young to remember 9/11 or the Bush presidency, and grew up during the Obama years, when Obama was calling police officers racists and blaming them for violence until people were in the streets chanting death to police just like the communist radical hippies in the 1960's were. Turns out Gen Z'ers were much more perceptive of all of this than the older generations who seem to have mostly tuned it out.
The progression was 1950's conservatism, then a reactionary 1960's "counter-culture" of hippies and Marxists which became fairly mainstream and supported by the media. Then a very confused 1970's with the resignation of Nixon, who was actually very popular (Nixon was elected in an enormous landslide), followed by an incompetent Carter who characterized the 70's best with his famous "Malaise" speech. Reagan brought in the conservative revolution, when spitting on Vietnam Vets rightfully became a shameful thing to do, and the economy picked back up. The 1990's were relatively stable, prosperous, and politically bland, with little difference between Republicans and Democrats compared to today, but we all know how events began to change after 9/11, and the difference between Millennials and Gen Z is a result of that series of events. Every maturing generation has had an impact on popular culture and the one maturing now is extremely conservative in reaction to the Obama years. This is largely who makes up the 8chan crowd, though Q has drawn a lot more eyes to it lately and probably changed the political demographics of 8chan significantly from
what it was formerly.
The most effective way of reaching younger generations.
TV viewership is declining precipitously for all but those 50 years old and older.
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