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I haven’t heard anything about them in quite a while. It’s like they were a hot-button topic of conversation, and then everyone just stopped talking about them. If they’re still around, what would be the reason they seemingly disappeared from the news?

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[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never seen any as…. influential as them though. As shitty as they are/were, in my mind, it’s never been that bad before.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They seemed to have gotten a lot of boost from the pandemic beyond what they normally would’ve all with a satanic panic style outrage

[–] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 8 months ago

That's odd, because I remember their height as the 2016 election through (maybe) 2019.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

Pandemic helped bring in more of the left leaning granola folks than would usually happen. Antivax and antilockdown to Q-anon pipeline.