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I really don’t understand why this video is so highly downvoted. Can someone try to eli5?
We federate with Lemmy.World, people there tend to either downvote anything critical of liberalism, or are trained in USA newspeak and doublethink where ‘lib’ means the entirety of the left from Jim Costa to Nancy Pelosi and anyone using it in a negative fashion is a Republican and a Trump Supporter.
I think this trend comes from mobile apps, who push LW as the default instance, leading to a user base that is predominately interested in visual memes and headlines, as watching videos more than a couple minutes long or reading is inconvenient on a mobile device. People who find this culture abhorrent often move to other instances, leaving a user base that doesn’t like to read or engage in long-form content anyway and as a result have a political consciousness you’d expect from those limitations. They vote early and often, and subsequent votes from other instances often join their downvote bandwagons.
Congrats on speaking up and bucking the trend. It used to have much fewer upvotes, but more people are giving it a second look thanks to your query.
I guarantee (stamped, sealed, approved, obviously…) that at least some of the down voters read the title as “Why libs love CK” instead of “why libs love A Charlie Kirk.” Saw it as a personal attack against their own identity, said “No I don’t!” And voted.
Source: I misread it this way myself. But I’m not so quick to act and re-read it.
Yes, that is a likely cause I hadn’t considered.
I did check the vote sources early in the trend, when there was only two upvotes including my own; 9 of 10 downvotes were from LW accounts – so my tirade against LW users isn’t coming from nowhere. It could be that federation is faster with LW than other instances so they interact with the post first, but their biases and misreadings have an anchoring effect for the rest of the people who encounter it.
I think you’re more likely to assume an uncharitable but incorrect reading is accurate if there’s already a score of downvotes next to the title.
Probably because the title and thumbnail look like shit, a waste of everyone’s time.
All shitlibs (say they) are libs, but not all libs are shitlibs. Read your theory fam.
Slime straight dropping new theory, dawg. Pick up this libism they’re putting down.
