the blame for a lot of that can be laid at the feet of mike ma and pine tree gang. they didnt have any clear goals or motives but were cool and edgy enough to really have a huge influence. mixing that with how crazy 2020 was it was common during that summer to see tiktok egirls dance to tedk edits and gymtok bros to joke about taking down power lines. normies with zero racist opinions wore siege masks back then.that pic is what it was like on 2018 twitter because the siegetards and wignats monopolized neo-nazi/white supremacist radicalism, making it associated with being mentally disabled or being a glownigger. so to be edgy and "not conservative," people were psyopping themselves into all kinds of stupid bullshit, especially "ecofascism," which is why thuletide's @ was "ReadLinkola." "rivers kaczynski" was a massive account and he posted incoherent coal combining pol pot and dirlewanger and whatever else seemed edgy without having any actual beliefs. i think the backlash against "nazbols" and third worldism was probably influenced by infrared/hinkle coming onto the scene and clearly being leftist cuck faggots despite supporting le edgy dictators. russia paying lauren chen was the final nail on the coffin -- i think that left a bad taste in people's mouths, and now atlanticism is mostly acceptable even in AF.
imo mike ma got caught up in that as much as everyone else. he didn't originate it. just a product of his timethe blame for a lot of that can be laid at the feet of mike ma and pine tree gang. they didnt have any clear goals or motives but were cool and edgy enough to really have a huge influence. mixing that with how crazy 2020 was it was common during that summer to see tiktok egirls dance to tedk edits and gymtok bros to joke about taking down power lines. normies with zero racist opinions wore siege masks back then.
most of that type of poster got banned and either went to terrorgram to be further radicalized or became an andrew torba type