I honestly question what "the masses" mean on Reddit--at this point I don't think they're human. It's mostly bots, I think. There's no way human behavior turns such a 180 like what we saw in the politics sub in 2016.
Given that, the conservative sub is probably kept around just to give the appearance of Republicans acting/thinking a certain way even though it's all shilled/bots.
I honestly question what "the masses" mean on Reddit--at this point I don't think they're human. It's mostly bots, I think. There's no way human behavior turns such a 180 like what we saw in the politics sub in 2016.
Given that, the conservative sub is probably kept around just to give the appearance of Republicans acting/thinking a certain way even though it's all shilled/bots.