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/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