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The biggest change came after the migration from Digg, which would have been about 5 years prior.

the_donald brought a lot of a younger users and white supremacists. I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though. Certainly no noticeable shift that night.

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>I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though.

What? You haven't noticed social media marketing on reddit?

I've never heard someone say "the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift." Not sure what your comment about ads is related to.

The digg exodus was nothing, just a bunch of group A basement dwellers moving in with group B basement dwellers. At the time the average person still had no idea what reddit or digg was.

The whole thing was just internal internet geek culture drama.

No, it changed reddit from having interesting content and mostly useful constructive commentary to being full of memes and jokes (like Digg). Sure there were pun threads before, but you didn't have to custom tailor the front page to keep it from being complete shit.

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