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Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year. Your top 10 posts: "Rest in Power Betty White. Here she is rapping with the Donald" by u/Thetimmybaby. "Only One Donald is still on Twitter and he's ready for 2022" by u/Thetimmybaby. "The Donald knows all" by u/Thetimmybaby. "Praise be to the one true Donald.
- Praise Be to The One True Donald. Amen
40K subscribers in the thedonald community. Do not break...
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- Rest in Power Betty White. Here She is Rapping With The Donald
Here she is rapping with the Donald . ... Welcome!...
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- Praise Be to The One True Donald. Amen
T_D in this case got a relatively light one, but it's still significant that it happened. 9/10 times, it's an indication that a subreddit has severely messed up, and is writing on the wall that it will be banned relatively soon. I have seen few-no subreddits not get banned after being quarantined. Reply reply.
Aug 3, 2020 · The main forum for news and discussion of the shooting on Reddit was r/The_Donald. It was another turning point for the subreddit. Since its conflict with r/Politics in December of the year before ...
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On June 27, 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency at Trump Tower, the subreddit was created as a place for "following the news related to Donald Trump during his presidential run". The subreddit grew to be known for frequent posting of memes, especially Pepe the Frog, and frequent uses of slang terms such as "ce...
The Trump campaign's digital director, Brad Parscale, stated in June 2016 that he visited the subreddit daily. Throughout the election, members in Trump's war room at Trump Tower monitored the subreddit to see new trends. During the 2016 Democratic National Convention on July 27, 2016, Trump hosted an AMA on the subreddit. Moderators of the subredd...
A quantitative analysis found that r/The_Donald was an important influencer of news content on Twitter, with the board contributing 2.97% of mainstream news links and 2.72% of alternative news links on Twitter (as a fraction of all links co-appearing on Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan). The researchers concluded that "'fringe' communities often succeed ...
Algorithm
Through the use of "sticky posts", a moderation function of Reddit that allows selected posts to be placed on top of all other posts on the su dit ahead, the moderators of the forum were "gaming" the algorithms in order to dominate the content on the r/all page, which is a representation of the most popular content on the website. Additionally, users were often apt to flood the website with waves of identical images or posts, a direct violation of site-wide policies regarding spam. In respons...
Conflict with Reddit management
The subreddit received additional coverage on November 24, 2016, when Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted to editing r/The_Donald users' comments that were critical of him, in response to harassment by the community. On November 30, 2016, Huffman announced that sticky threads from r/The_Donald would no longer show up on r/all. Huffman's rules were criticized by some Redditors, including both Trump and non-Trump supporters, while others felt the sanctions did not go far enough and called upon Hu...
Pizzagate conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory involving the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria attracted attention on r/The_Donald. Several members of the community created the r/pizzagate subreddit which was subsequently banned by Reddit administrators for breaking site rules regarding sharing personal information of others. In December 2016, the subreddit gained media attention when it linked a knee injury sustained by NBA player Andrew Bogutto the conspiracy theory.
Seth Rich murder conspiracy theories
r/The_Donald devoted a significant number of posts to the murder of Seth Rich. In July 2017, The Economist noted that there had been over 10,000 posts dedicated to the topic. The subreddit promoted the conspiracy theory that his killing was a political assassination. Reddit users attempted to tie the homicide to the Clinton body count conspiracy theory. Several members of the subreddit planned a march on Washington, D.C.
CNN wrestling video
On July 2, 2017, Donald Trump tweeted a video of himself wrestling Vince McMahon with the CNN logo superimposed over McMahon's face. Multiple sources, including The New York Times, NBC News, the BBC, and The Washington Post, reported that the clip appeared on the subreddit about four days earlier.However, on July 3, the White House denied that the video directly came from Reddit. Additionally, The Washington Post reported that the Reddit user who posted the video, HanAssholeSolo, also wrote a...
The subreddit was criticized by Vice, which stated in an article that the subreddit was "authoritarian", "racist", "misogynistic", "homophobic", "Islamophobic", and a "hypocritical 'free speech' rallying point". The publication Slate described r/The_Donald as a "hate speech forum" and The Verge has described it as a "notoriously fetid troll swamp"....
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Jul 2, 2020 · r/The_Donald, by far the most active of the removed groups, was a deft purveyor of the ugly online rhetoric that circles the US president. The ban will certainly have an impact on how other Reddit ...
Jan 9, 2021 · Discord has banned The Donald server, which had connections to banned subreddit r/The_Donald and TheDonald.win, another pro-Trump community. The ban comes two days after a pro-Trump mob stormed ...
