>>510482435think of it as trying to spread a tiny piece of butter on a gigantic piece of toast
before /new/-/pol/ 4chan users knew about trolls right, those people still exist, some people just like to shitpost, that's the first layer
underneath that we now have hobby bot posters who train bots on 4chan, like Seychelles anon, who blew the whistle on that
then any potentially "malicious" or "consensus breaking" bots that are operated by outside bad faith actors be that people who just dislike 4chan or actual psyops by actual agencies
when we get to the agencies it gets weird though because now it's not just your government or mine trying to influence opinion from the top down but it also means they're running psyops and counter-ops on each other in this great informational war for our attentions and our alliegienace
how I see it is that all of these agents all have their own tiny piece of butter and /pol/ is the gigantic slice of toast
at the bottom rung you have people who are just here to talk to people like me, I've always been here at this point, and total newfags, who are normally normies, dumb, from outside 4chan and they only visit /pol/ so they've brought their low quality shit with them
there's a lot going into it, if you really think about it
I'm just waiting for /pol/ to lose influence with young people so all these assholes stop coming here and we can get back to laughing about germany or whatever