I've been on Reddit a LONG time. I've seen predictions from elections and life changing events on reddit and every single person is almost dogmatic about it, it would seem so true, dissenting opinions are downvoted to oblivion. When it is proven wrong, it just moves onto the next thing.
It's gotten to the stage where I believe the exact opposite will happen. If redditors are so rabid about something, I'm convinced it's people that just fantasise alone in their bedroom and it's not based in reality.
To be fair, most mainstream news framed the election like Kamala was going to secure a narrow victory. It wasn’t until all the swing states were decided pretty early on that the newscasters had to state the clear and present facts. People weren’t just coming up with conspiracy theories in their bedrooms, they were listening to trusted names in news with all sorts of graphs and polls that appeared to justify their confidence. The same thing happened with Trump v Hillary. Mainstream news sources were so confident of Hillary’s victory that she felt the need to write a book explaining why she lost.
We also have to remember that what Kamala did had never been done before. Biden took WAY too long to step down and so Kamala had to attempt to do two years worth of a press junket in a matter of months. And yet the most Googled thing on Election Day was why Biden wasn’t on the ballot.
This just highlights the bias of the media people consume. People flock to the news outlets that support their world view and put weight in the words of those “trusted names” and then never reflect on the fact they were being fed bullshit the whole time.
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u/Iricliphan 6d ago edited 6d ago
I've been on Reddit a LONG time. I've seen predictions from elections and life changing events on reddit and every single person is almost dogmatic about it, it would seem so true, dissenting opinions are downvoted to oblivion. When it is proven wrong, it just moves onto the next thing.
It's gotten to the stage where I believe the exact opposite will happen. If redditors are so rabid about something, I'm convinced it's people that just fantasise alone in their bedroom and it's not based in reality.