You’re right on this. We saw it happen to The Donald win. Enough professional trolls who do their jobs really well, the narrative is shifted “organically” via psyops, and it quickly can become impossible to distinguish between sincere users and trolls.
btw, this is not confined to just forums and boards. This is exactly what they do in society as well - anti-racism for instance - they just need a threshold of activity and then you have enough "outraged warriors" who will take it upon themselves to run with this. This is why Great Awakening is so hard. So many of these toxic people (shills in society) genuinely believe they are doing the right thing because of their arrested development.
First time we saw it clearly was in GamerGate. It was a small community and of limited scale, so it was more easy to see what was going on for those in the periphery.
You’re right on this. We saw it happen to The Donald win. Enough professional trolls who do their jobs really well, the narrative is shifted “organically” via psyops, and it quickly can become impossible to distinguish between sincere users and trolls.
btw, this is not confined to just forums and boards. This is exactly what they do in society as well - anti-racism for instance - they just need a threshold of activity and then you have enough "outraged warriors" who will take it upon themselves to run with this. This is why Great Awakening is so hard. So many of these toxic people (shills in society) genuinely believe they are doing the right thing because of their arrested development.
First time we saw it clearly was in GamerGate. It was a small community and of limited scale, so it was more easy to see what was going on for those in the periphery.