A line from a 2018 Vox article about PewDiePie: "So what happens if these young, aggressively loyal, highly mobilized PewDiePie fans begin consuming extremist strains of YouTube content because they were exposed to it, either directly or indirectly, through his channel?"

The true answer is that political fringes have always attracted neurodivergent people. Mussolini was a former Marxist. I have known an anarcho-communist who became a fascist then back again, and is now an apolitical hermit.

"Normal" people, "normies", even yes the dread N-P-C term tend to have ideologies that tweak the status quo. Imagine the absolute chaotic hell out world would be if everyone was deep, intelligent, and abstract and had a special ideology. "Sheeple" are a basic requirement for a stable civilization. I mean absolutely negative by that of course. I wish I didn't have autism for example.

Extremists will always be extreme because they have different brains that is why they can flip ostensibly different sides so well.

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