corporations start paying power users on digg to promote threads and articles
this kills digg and there's a mass exodus to reddit
reddit becomes popular
4channers see the novelty in subreddits and introduce Yas Forumstard culture
everyone has access to smartphones now
power users come back and flood reddit with image-based meme and hashtag subreddits
this forces an artificial cultural that propagates viral marketing
meanwhile on Yas Forums south americans make this their home i.e. Yas Forums gets flooded with jb, gore, and shemale threads
memes eventually become a faux pas and troll culture goes unchecked
all the OC memers leave Yas Forums and join other social media platforms, and what happened to reddit happens all over social media
stormfront gets an idea
they do to troll culture what corporate america did to memes
they flood /news/ with propaganda
moot decides it's in Yas Forums's best interest to give these cocksuckers a containment board aka Yas Forums
stormfront integrates and uses bait threads to inject far-right ideology across the site
Yas Forums becomes a cultural phenomenon
the right wing establishment realizes what the fuck is happening
they solicit help from russia aka cambridgeanalytica who uses trolling on social media to create far-right movements e.g. gamergate
the modern alt right is established
facebook and boomers come here in droves
etc
of course it's not as black and white. obama's hope campaign, scientology raids, occupy wall street, etc. 2007-2015 was a gigantic social media psyop by corporations and governments investing in user data
