• gerikson@awful.systems
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    12 days ago

    The way things are going, KnowYourMeme will be the only reputable journalistic outlet in a few years.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Except far-right chuds routinely snatch up meme pages for culture war related controversies to control the narrative. Most notoriously during the gamergate era, but they also did this with the recent Godot nontroversy.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      12 days ago

      Didn’t places like buzzfeed or the huffington post also start out as clickbait bs sites and now are reputable journalistic outlets? It could happen!