Shitposting for the Fempire
Just peeked back in at Know Your Meme as I am apt to do from time to time (Meme-related rant inbound).
It's only been getting worse. Highly upvoted submission comparing the Burkini to the Nazi uniform. Resident wannabe Ann Coulter going from heavily downvoted to heavily upvoted over the past few years. Admin becoming more bold about frontpaging every new major far-right conspiracy (the latest being DCLeaks "exposing" George Soros).
It used to be such a nice little site back when Rocketboom ran it and Don only posted advice animals. Now he's pushing blatant Breitbart bait for the purpose of Valuable Discussion(TM). He also wrote up an elaborate article on The Young Turks after they got into that altercation with Alex Jones, and ONLY after that. He took great care to find the most ridiculous of their videos and highlight them, as well as carefully omit that Jones had started the fight. He also made sure to single out Ana Kasparian calling him a fat fuck (since his new target audience loves to go after women who commit the atrocity of being rude to men). Now, I'm not that big a fan of TYT myself because of their sensationalism and Cenk's Armenian genocide denialism, but the timing of this pretty blatantly highlights Don's own politics, no matter how "apolitical" he tries to style himself.
What distresses me most about all of this is that KYM is pretty darn influential on the internet. It makes perfect sense Don would want to utilize it as a recruiting ground for the alt-right. I just wish he'd stop being so fucking coy about it all and ditch the neutral tone. It's bad enough that /pol/ now dictates its content; stop with the pretentious air of impartial civility.
Apologies to my new friends here; I'm still very sore about being forced out of the meme culture I love by the surge in toxicity, and probably will be for some time.



