It’s funny, I remember back in 2015 when Donald Trump first started his campaign. I didn’t know who he was at first but all my friends told me he was a far right nut and didn’t have a chance of winning.
And yet I felt a disturbance, it felt like Trump had more popularity than what was being reported. So in the summer of 2015, I typed in google “Why do you support Donald Trump” and I found a few reddit posts. One of those posts was in r/The_Donald. Back then we had maybe 100 subscribers but what distinguished it from the other pro-Trump subreddits (there were a few back then) was that the community seemed much more engaged and energetic and not to mention very funny. I would go to r/The_Donald every now and again but I did so silently as a lurker and watched as the subscriber number kept going up and up and up.
Everything changed when Trump won the New Hampshire Primary. Suddenly we gained somewhere between 500 and 1000 subscribers and realized that every 24 hours there was new content on the front page of hot. Things took off even more after the Pulse Nightclub Shooting when we shot up to tens of thousands of subscribers.
I was there everyday often checking every three hours laughing at memes and enjoying the political discussion all the way until election night.
I voted Trump in the election (it was my first presidential election that I could vote in) and I went to r/The_Donald to celebrate, to be honest I wasn’t surprised, that feeling I had that Trump was a lot more popular than the media was letting on never went away.
I stuck around till Trump’s first 100 days were finished, than I took a break from reddit because honestly as awesome as the community was, the constant stress was getting to me.
I recently came back to find that reddit had quarantined us. I was a little upset by this, and then the mods went and built this place and became the first reddit community to successfully migrate to another platform (many had tried but they ultimately just became a /pol/ clone [looking at you r/European])
The story of small subreddit created by seven /pol/acks as a way to redpill normies to becoming what we are now is truly an amazing story.
It’s funny, I remember back in 2015 when Donald Trump first started his campaign. I didn’t know who he was at first but all my friends told me he was a far right nut and didn’t have a chance of winning.
And yet I felt a disturbance, it felt like Trump had more popularity than what was being reported. So in the summer of 2015, I typed in google “Why do you support Donald Trump” and I found a few reddit posts. One of those posts was in r/The_Donald. Back then we had maybe 100 subscribers but what distinguished it from the other pro-Trump subreddits (there were a few back then) was that the community seemed much more engaged and energetic and not to mention very funny. I would go to r/The_Donald every now and again but I did so silently as a lurker and watched as the subscriber number kept going up and up and up.
Everything changed when Trump won the New Hampshire Primary. Suddenly we gained somewhere between 500 and 1000 subscribers and realized that every 24 hours there was new content on the front page of hot. Things took off even more after the Pulse Nightclub Shooting when we shot up to tens of thousands of subscribers.
I was there everyday often checking every three hours laughing at memes and enjoying the political discussion all the way until election night.
I voted Trump in the election (it was my first presidential election that I could vote in) and I went to r/The_Donald to celebrate, to be honest I wasn’t surprised, that feeling I had that Trump was a lot more popular than the media was letting on never went away.
I stuck around till Trump’s first 100 days were finished, than I took a break from reddit because honestly as awesome as the community was, the constant stress was getting to me.
I recently came back to find that reddit had quarantined us. I was a little upset by this, and then the mods went and built this place and became the first reddit community to successfully migrate to another platform (many had tried but they ultimately just became a /pol/ clone [looking at you r/European])
The story of small subreddit created by seven /pol/acks as a way to redpill normies to becoming what we are now is truly an amazing story.