> I think this is the biggest argument against deplatforming: it actually makes them cool.
The thing that mystifies me is that when parents get in on something it usually nukes the coolness factor, but the far right has an overwhelming supply of 50+ year olds on just about every platform and this has had no impact on its rise in popularity among the teens and twenty-somethings.
That's because Boomer Humor is actually really funny when you get the unsanitized version. The lame Boomer jokes are just the ones that HR approves of.
The thing that mystifies me is that when parents get in on something it usually nukes the coolness factor, but the far right has an overwhelming supply of 50+ year olds on just about every platform and this has had no impact on its rise in popularity among the teens and twenty-somethings.