>>215889665
Its a bit of both.
The pandemic destroyed the little bit of credibility legacy media companies still had, Elon buys Twitter and lets right-wing voices share their thoughts without being insta-banned, people share greentext memes and eventually /pol/ screenshots, these screenshots become very popular because most normies were so insulated in their liberal bubbles and never heard such differing opinions that its like a breath of fresh air after suffocating, rightwing influences start using 4chan lingo and trying to greentext on Twitter, their posts are very successful are transform how everyone else types.
I even see normie influencer accounts typing >like this and wonder if they even know where it came from. I also wonder if this is the modern equivalent to how random political activists would pass out flyers during the American and French revolutions.