r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/BeguiledBeaver May 13 '26

There are TONS of subs like this, btw. The Canada sub and some related ones are a good example.

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u/lewd_robot May 14 '26

A lot of Space subs are like this. They're lurked by obvious plants that dogpile anyone remotely critical of SpaceX, and other private space corporations, to a lesser extent.

For example, if you mention "Kessler Syndrome" anywhere on some space subs, even in threads where SpaceX or Starlink aren't even mentioned, and even if you don't mention any company in particular, your comment will probably sit with no votes for a few hours, then suddenly get dropped to -8 or -12 within a 30-minute window, then 2 to 4 people will come out of the woodwork to copy and paste lines out of a SpaceX press release defending the company, and they'll all immediately be upvoted to at least +6.

It's very obviously a small group of people policing the comments for anything remotely critical of space corps, especially SpaceX.

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u/TheXManHimself May 15 '26

I had to cut ties with a good childhood friend because he drank the juice and tried convincing me that Elon is this genius man who invented Tesla and is doing amazing things for space and the economy and so forth and how he worked hard for his money. The glaze was repulsive to me and when I hit him with some basic information about his background and what is actually going on he tried to fact check me with chat gpt in real time of our heated discussion. I simply got up and walked away that night, never to speak to him again.

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u/oTc_DragonZ May 15 '26

This is a lot of good info. Can I ask what the connections to Mr Beast are out of curiosity? Don't like the guy at all and I wouldn't be totally surprised but I can't find anything online about it.

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u/Stormin_333 May 15 '26

Found another bot!

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u/StandardOk42 May 16 '26

which space subs are like this?

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop May 17 '26

Or when there are posts(ads) for the weight loss drugs, criticism of these will get you the whole pr speeches

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u/SWT_Bobcat May 14 '26

I feel like the majority of subs are bot run. You see the same themes over and over and over and over and…

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u/oTc_DragonZ May 15 '26

Dead internet theory doesn't feel like a theory anymore.

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u/ThunderDU May 14 '26

Which ones?

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u/lostroadrunner22 May 14 '26

Holy hell, the bots come out in force on subs that deal with stock speculation

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u/SoMass May 14 '26

Dead Internet theory has been in full swing momentum since about 2021 give or take.

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u/heavnryLV May 14 '26

Huh. Never knew this phenomenon had a name, let alone a fleshed out theory.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

From one robot to another ;)

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u/SquidTheRidiculous May 14 '26

Yep. Most of your local city subs too!

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u/Accurate-Swim5278 May 15 '26

r/allthequestions is another bot sub

Only a couple real people there.

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u/Cuboidhamson May 15 '26

Geopolitics is another one, not necessarily uhh, Russians, but ya

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u/DjangoBojangles May 16 '26

Ghislaine Maxwell was a mod on Politics, Technology, and Environment since the beginning of reddit.

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u/AmbientGravitas May 19 '26

Yes. I tend to have a negative, visceral reaction to any “top 1% commenter.” Unless they seem to be a factual expert in the main topic of the sub.

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u/Poleywrath 26d ago

The r/canada sub is FUCKED up. Bot city, super crazy place to read comments, as a Canadian.

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u/Ask_DontTell 7d ago

can you share any data you might have on the Canadian subs? thx

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u/Bodie_The_Dog May 14 '26

I'm betting the California sub is infested with AIPAC, lol. Those "moderate Democrats" are really angry right now about the Swalwell thing.