I did a fair bit of browsing on 4chan's /pol as well as the less chaotic 8ch dot net /pol. I don't have strong evidence but I got the sense that there was more

I did a fair bit of browsing on 4chan's /pol as well as the less chaotic 8ch dot net /pol. I don't have strong evidence but I got the sense that there was more than just trolls trolling trolls. It felt like psychological operations. It felt like a community with calibrated narrative control and engineered content by motivated parties. A lot of memes designed to target sexual insecurity. At the top of the messaging, a mutation of the "Pick up artist" school of evolutionary psychology designed to create a racist world view.