Considering the efforts troll farms put in during the previous election cycles on reddit, I wonder if what we're seeing in places like /r/antiwork is more or less the same. Subversion by nation-state troll farms fomenting intergenerational strife.
I think it’s more that they are jumping on the zeitgeist subreddit for Karma now to legitimize their political posts during the election.
That's exactly what the Russian troll farms fomented. They were the ones who drove what the zeitgeist was.
That is the state of every single large subreddit that remotely ties into personal experiences/stories though.
It is, and I think it’s a general problem that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. A lot of people, and I should be clear that I include myself, are consuming an endless stream of fake stories that validate their preconceptions and biases. It’s not healthy and very possibly dangerous.