Pro-Trump Audiences Stall on Alternative Social Networks

[BlueWavePsych]

“Pro-Trump commentators’ hopes of developing major followings on right-leaning websites after they left Facebook and Twitter have run up against a harsh reality: Their audiences on those sites have stagnated,” the Washington Post reports.

“A Washington Post analysis of audience data for 47 prominent right-wing influencers who flocked last year to alternative social networks Gab and Gettr, the video-streaming site Rumble and the chat service Telegram found that their followings surged immediately after President Donald Trump was banned on the mainstream sites.”

“But those audiences have barely grown in the year since. In some cases, they even declined.”

https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/20/pro-trump-audiences-stall-on-alternative-social-networks/

Source article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/20/trump-audience-stalling/

Pro-Trump influencers flocked to alternative social networks. Their follower counts stalled soon after.

But those audiences have barely grown in the year since. In some cases, they even declined.

The influencers previously had seen steady growth on Twitter and other big platforms that distributed their messages to a broad audience. But after their jump to the niche sites, the analysis indicates, they largely failed to continue attracting new followers who weren’t already engaged fans.

The niche sites continue to pull in Republican leaders and right-wing flamethrowers who could lift the sites’ online prospects. But for most of the deplatformed accounts, their brief jump after Trump’s ban accounted for more than 80 percent of their followers for the entire year, the analysis found. While some saw tepid growth in recent months, others watched their follower counts shrink — an indication that some fans might have decided to tune them out.

The Twitter clones Gab and Gettr and the YouTube clone Rumble focus more directly on appealing to a conservative audience, but they also have struggled to keep the momentum for their biggest far-right stars.

[DeeNice]

1. Predictable. They're not happy without anyone to troll

and bully. It's really their main impetus.

[RockRaven]

2. Deep down the con/Repuke audience/masses like the fighting/trolling/triggering the libs aspect

of social media, and these RWNJ-centric social media sites are a disappointing circle jerk in that respect. There aren't enough left wingers on them to scratch the itch properly.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Sage words ...

That is exactly it.

I'm part of an ostensibly politically neutral FB group but over time the wingnuts have totally taken over and liberals rarely post, especially not me.

The remaining horde get super friggin' excited when I show up, for their opportunity to gang up on me lol ...

They even occasionally start threads about how the liberals are all 'scared away', you know, by their intellectual might and the power of their arguments, but there's always some people who respond (in so many words, and in a non-affectionate sort of way) that they wish we'd come back.

Circle jerks have their place and all, but the real thing is almost always more fun

[Skittles]

3. even circle jerking can get monotonous

yes indeed

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. By the way? How is Devin Nunes's new job going?

As CEO of Trump's Media Empire?

Anybody?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. He's such a dumbass for leaving Congress to work in a IQ45-related business

You're better off digging ditches than working for TFG, really ...

He better have got his money upfront lol.