>>54743990Zimzam was honestly the beginning of the end for me. Unlike other happenings where /pol/'s activities disrupted the artificial narrative being pushed through mainstream media, the ZimZam trial was designed from the start to be a psy op testing whether the government could control public perception of narrative breaks in mass media, the sense that reality was being willfully distorted in service of a hidden agenda.
Newfags flooding the board looking for ZimZam drama acted as test subjects, credulously propagating an "alternative media' commentary manufactured and injected into zimzam discussion by shills.
It reminded me a lot of chanology, where the spooks interacted with 4chan for the sake of exploiting the natural tendencies of the userbase as a tool for manipulating the larger zeitgeist of the internet.
Everything after that has been a progressive astro turfing of opinions and control over what stories capture the collective 'interest' of /pol/ posters.
