I remember that around 2014-2017, things really seemed tense politically with Gamergate bringing mainstream attention to "SJWs", the surprise 2016 election, the rise of the alt right, Antifa constantly rioting, late night talk show hosts freaking out about Trump saying a thing, campus protests every week, white nationalist marches every week, Joyner Lucas's I'm Not Racist, alt right/alt lite e-celebs like Paul Joseph Watson, Milo, Stefan molyneux, Lauren southern, Sargon, and Richard spencer making huge strides, etc.
During those years it really felt like a civil war was going to start any moment, or that society was on the cusp of a great upheaval. But now recently in 2018-19, a lot of that stuff seems to have either vanished or simmered down into lameness/complacency. What happened? Like you used to hear about this stuff every day but a lot of it fell off the face of the earth it seems, for example Antifa and Richard spencer disappeared. Was it all just an FBI psyop?
everything is a psyop the very idea of a patriotism is a psyop to keep you from questioning the motives of your plantation owners, who are figuring out more and more ways to extract life from you while you're distracted by some form of celebrity drama the education system, pop culture, academia all of it is a psyop is designed to hide a truth from you that you already know
Jackson Carter
Trump did fuck all basically This meant the guys angry with the establishment, that is nearly everyone, sulked seeing how nothing changed.
Alt righters and all those extremist lads now had nothing, they put a president and achieved nothing. The left meanwhile expected impeachment, destruction of the GOP, a complete massacre after seeing how useless Trump was. What happened with that? Nothing.
Psyop is a very lame meme used here so you can feel special, but it did feel like some pointless youtube drama instead of the actual drastic change in the establishment nearly everyone hoped it could be. That's why 2020 will dissappoint too.
Xavier Roberts
I know what you're talking about but personally I put the origin point at closer to 2011. That's when Occupy Wall Street got big and the left pivoted from John Stewartism to the SJW movement. 2014 was the beginning of the rise of the right but the whole era of politics being insane started way earlier.
However, you're 100% correct about 2017 being the end point. That was around the time that Charlottesville more or less killed the alt-right, which was the edgiest movement going at the time. The thought of an actual alt-right regime running shit was the big potential 'happening' and when it just didn't happen I think a lot of people lost interest. Nothing could happen that would be as crazy as what a lot of people thought was going to happen after Trump got elected, so there's a bit of a disappointment thing going on.
Anyway, all the Gamergate/Trump era stuff is still going on. Like, you've still got youtubers making videos about Anita Sarkeesian, Trump tweeting crazy shit, Antifa milkshaking politics. It's just not relevant because this stuff is clearly past its cresting point and fads generally tend to die eventually.
Hudson Ward
It hasn't gone away at all. The Kavanaugh shit show and the midterms were in 2018.
Kevin Phillips
>Trump did fuck all basically >This meant the guys angry with the establishment, that is nearly everyone, sulked seeing how nothing changed. >Alt righters and all those extremist lads now had nothing, they put a president and achieved nothing.
Funny thing is that the "doomer" meme became popular around 2018-19, right when the alt right stuff had fizzled out. I think the meme kinda represents some people who were confident and happy during the election about "triggering the libs" and thinking Trump would get shit done and reverse the clown world, but instead they sunk back into a deeper depression when nothing happened.
Henry Sanchez
>The Kavanaugh shit show and the midterms were in 2018.
There's nothing about either of those things that couldn't have happened in the Bush era. The internet slacktivism trend definitely peaked in 2017 and has been tapering off since then. I think you're just talking about general political controversy whereas OP is talking about a really specific cultural zeitgeist.
Lincoln Wood
True but by that point it felt like the culture war was old hat or getting boring. Even the boomer sending mail bombs to Obama and hillary near the midterms failed to generate substantial excitement like previous happenings.
Sebastian James
>Funny thing is that the "doomer" meme became popular around 2018-19, right when the alt right stuff had fizzled out. I think the meme kinda represents some people who were confident and happy during the election about "triggering the libs" and thinking Trump would get shit done and reverse the clown world, but instead they sunk back into a deeper depression when nothing happened.
It's still going to be interesting to watch and see what happens to all these people. Like, will Brenton Tarrant style political terrorism become a huge thing? I could see doomerism mixed with Jow Forums culture leading to a shift away from 'muh bullying/'feels'-inspired massacres to more political terrorism. But this isn't something I'd bet money on. Ultimately I think the main thing is that a lot of these edgy teens will grow up and get jobs. Like, the boomers had the 'hippie' moment and then grew up to become yuppies; gen x was notoriously angsty and depressed but then still got old and boring. I suspect that one way or another most of these doomers will get old and boring too.
Lincoln Perez
people don't care what happens as long as it's entertaining and people aren't entertained unless someone is getting hurt sad state of affairs really
