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Why is Instagram so full of leftcom slop? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I downloaded Instagram to talk with some of my foreign friends. I decided to peruse what sort of left-wing space it had, expecting the standard Reddit-esque reactionary anti-communism. Instead, I found a sea of ultra/leftcom nonsense: hundreds of posts and comments of phrase-mongering and dogmatic nonsense, not to mention gross misunderstandings of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, as well as either entirely ignoring or looking down on modern work such as that done by Chinese scholars.

Is there something specific about Instagram or its target user base that has led to fostering this community in ways other Western platforms have not? As it seems far more prevalent than on any other platform I've seen.

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[–] yummygummy@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I genuinely believe it's a psyop because suddenly leftcoms are fucking everywhere and their rhetoric boils down to supporting US and Israel but with marxist vocabulary. This is true even in small websites like imageboards. A certain imageboard built around left-wing politics suddenly has an userbase of almost exclusively leftcoms and all they do is make sure no conversation can be had on any topic. It just doesn't feel organic.

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

I believe something similar happened here back in the Chapo.chat days.

It was enough to stop me from being an admin/mod, but did wonders for the amount of IRL work I've put in for the left since then.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are you talking about leftypol? Because that's been a thing there for like 5-6 years. It started out as thoroughly ML, but I think the NEET turbo-posters there kinda' realized you can't be an ML and just post, but you can be a leftcom and just post so rather than put their ML politics into motion they became leftcoms instead.