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When r/The_Donald first started, I could have sworn it was a satire subreddit that made fun of Trump. Does anyone else remember that or were the posts just so o
by RandallBrown 6y ago
When r/The_Donald first started, I could have sworn it was a satire subreddit that made fun of Trump. Does anyone else remember that or were the posts just so outrageous I thought it was satire when it hit the front page?
- hbosch 6y agoWhen Trump started his campaign, the phrase "The Donald" was definitely more of a meme. The content of that sub was indeed "so-over-the-top-this-must-be-satire" type content... Pepe memes, crude photoshops of Trump as a God, the bots that would autoreply "THE WALL JUST GOT X FEET HIGHER!", the refrain of "GET THIS MAN A COAT" when a supporter of a dropped-out candidate would be lured in by the energy and the jokes. But that was more or less the entire facade of Trump's campaign. That language and those posts reached out to a significant constituency online of young, "edgy" men who love memeing and trolling. There was always an undercurrent of anti-black and anti-hispanic rhetoric, even when it seemed like satire.
- hadrien01 6y agoI also believe it was satire the first few months, trolling pro-Sanders spam. When it was confirmed Clinton and Trump would win their nomination, the pro-Sanders spam sort of stopped and /r/The_Donald became a full support subreddit. Or maybe it was simply Poe's law: some of us thought it was satire when it wasn't, and some of us thought it was Trump support when it wasn't.