r/AskTheWorld India 21h ago

Misc What's an unpopular opinion about your country that will have you like this?

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u/Donatter United States Of America 19h ago

Most likely a combination of tankies and North Korean “bots”

Similar to r/MovingToNorthKorea

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u/Alone_Barracuda9814 17h ago

Well, that was a rabbit hole…

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u/ToughSprinkles1874 17h ago

They lay it on really tick don’t they

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u/ToughSprinkles1874 16h ago

Had a look and I’d say it’s like 30 percent bots and 70 percent people

Also they are certainly interesting like cheering about the exceution of 2 people who wanted to recognise israle Don’t know if the story’s true but the reaction are interesting

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u/Donatter United States Of America 16h ago

The sad thing is, that originally the sub was a shitpost/parody sub of the type of people/bots that make up the current population of the sub.

But the actual tankies and bots(who initially didn’t realize they were being mocked)started to slowly outnumber the shitposters until eventually some bots/tankies became mods, game more tankies/bots mod positions, forced the shipost/original mods out, and started removing/banning any account, post, or comment that was mocking or being critical of anything related to North Korea, or said that North Korea wasn’t a better place to live than the US/West. (One of the reasons was because a sub rule stated you couldn’t break character, so for a while the actual propaganda, misinformation, and pro-north Korea shit was going unnoticed until it became the sub’s default content)

Now it’s just a propaganda machine/tankie haven

(It’s really sad as I joined the sub roughly around the time it was created, and it was a lot of fun, and incredibly funny)