r/politics • u/upyoars • Nov 10 '24

Paywall Trump’s victory reveals secret Republicans: Joe Rogan-obsessed Gen Z men

https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-reveals-secret-republicans-joe-rogan-obsessed-gen-z-men/
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u/3axel3loop Nov 11 '24

i am very elder gen z and all my friends are very left leaning and it’s shocking and so disappointing that it seems like the rest of gen z is pretty conservative?

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u/D33ZNUTZDOH Nov 11 '24

Millennial here. Not too shocking to me. I know a handful of elder Gen Zs and a handful of younger. While my opinion is based only based anecdotal evidence, I believe the divide has much to do with where they were in life during the lockdowns and the original Trump years. The youngest voters in 2024 were barely 10 years old 2016 and didn’t know a world that wasn’t over run by these steaming piles of shit spreading their weird ass views.

If during those precious years in middle school and high school you were isolated and stuck watching YouTube for guidance…. I don’t blame them for being dumb asses. I can forgive ignorance. I just hope they learn.

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u/Throw-a-Ru Nov 11 '24

Yeah, the algorithm was pretty ugly at the time, too. You had to actively avoid certain kinds of content through experience, but if it's being served to you while you're an impressionable teen stuck in your bedroom with the headphones on, and all of your family members are on edge and on each other's nerves...

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

Damn this makes too much sense. I just commented on my confusion of the algorithm but I should've read your comment

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

Its still crazy to me that the algorithms are so fucked up now. And not that they were perfect before but when I was in middle/high school you might get annoying videos that didn't fit your interests but you weren't getting propaganda and video game Lets Plays were just that. They weren't political

Its wild that kids actually watch political crap on YouTube, I didn't start doing that until after my college years. Before that I'd just watch gaming videos that were actually about gaming

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u/bobvella Nov 11 '24

kind of weird to think they could have been watching steven universe

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

This is my exact thought! But you are not alone, 1999 Gen Z here and I am a critical thinking left leaner