Donald Trump’s Online Trolls Turn on Their ‘God Emperor’

[HipChick]

The alt-right diehards of 4chan, who’ve helped power the GOP nominee’s campaign with racist memes, were none too thrilled about his ‘400-pound’ hacker comment at the first debate. They still brigaded online polls in his name anyway.


One of Donald Trump’s most ardent fringe message boards appeared to turn on its candidate of choice during Monday night’s debate, saying he “got played” and that “this was not supposed to happen.”

4chan, the alt-right forum that Trump and his campaign surrogates have mined for memes and image macros to repurpose on campaign Twitter accounts as recently as two weeks ago, devolved into arguments about whether the usually uniformly pro-Trump website had been overrun by “shills” or if the candidate had simply lost the debate.

“I watched it with family mixed Democrat/Republican,” wrote one user. “Every single person on both sides thought Trump looked horrible.”

Still, some users took time to attempt to game online polls soliciting opinions on who won the debate, imploring users to “abuse airplane mode toggling” to allow for more votes for Trump on websites like CNBC, Time, ABC News, and CNN.

Trump then spent the night pointing his Twitter users to those same poll numbers, which had been brigaded by 4chan and Trump's Reddit community r/The_Donald. "Great debate poll numbers - I will be on @foxandfriends at 7:00 to discuss," he wrote. "Enjoy!"

“OK guys, let’s cut the bullshit. Trump actually sucked tonight,” wrote post ID 3h7UYcU0. (All posts are anonymous on 4chan.) “Let’s talk about where we go from here. What does Trump need to do better next debate?”

A few users appeared to have an answer to that question. They took issue with Trump’s decision during the debate to blame the Democratic National Committee hack, which U.S. officials believe was perpetrated by Russia, on “someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”

“[Your face when] Trump calls you out for being a 400 pound hacker,” wrote one user, alongside an image titled fat-computer-guy.gif.

“Which one of you 400lb ass holes hacked the DNC,” asked another.?

[Coyotl]

1. LOL. “Which one of you 400lb ass holes hacked the DNC,” ....

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Trump's racist brigade of alt-right 4chan-ers are literally the 400 lbs computer dweebs he mentioned

They're losers. They're anti-social basement dwellers with no life beyond the internet. They have no friends, no relationship, likely no job and instead spend their days watching creepy Nazi anime and trolling twitter.

He literally took a big shit on a huge chunk of his base with that comment.

[Blue Idaho]

5. The fact that they are stupid enough to think

That corrupting on-line polls will actually lead to anything shows what a bunch of basement dwelling goofballs they really are. Everyone who's anyone knows these "keyboard warriors" are corrupting the data - making the polls useless garbage.

But it does keep them off the streets so that's good.

[Ken Burch]

6. You can buy their services for the price of a month's worth of Hot Pockets. n/t.

[Barack_America]

4. "Many Bothans died to bring us this information"

Wow. Did you actually go there?

Props.

[rumdude]

7. Donald's online trolls = total losers - nt

[OhZone]

8. Not all of them are alt right methinks -

[mwrguy]

9. That cesspool should be shut down

[Warren DeMontague]

10. ...by who?

[Bucky]

11. It's always fun to see another group of supporters find out that Trump hates them too

[OhZone]

12. Oh WOW! /b/ is empty!

Other areas still active. Check out origami. Some kewl stuff there btw! ha