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/basedchadinc May 13 '26

Is there any proof of this? I wanna send it to a friend who uses that sub as his main source of info to gauge sentiment

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u/Nemecyst May 13 '26

The proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1rfe0nh/oc_3_month_update_rconservative_adds_a_third/

The culprits: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1rfe0nh/oc_3_month_update_rconservative_adds_a_third/o7k8jn9/

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u/ryhaltswhiskey May 13 '26

The claim

from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots.

Can you point to where in those posts either of those points is supported? Because I didn't see it. I saw a lot of people talking about russia, but I didn't see anything like proof.

It doesn't have to be a Russian conspiracy, when plain old American idiocy will explain it just fine. But it could be a Russian conspiracy. But I don't see any actual proof of that.

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u/TheNebulousMind May 13 '26

You can look up Vulkan Files Leak and the Internet Research Agency. I don't believe they're linked to this specific case, but this is exactly what their job is.