Today’s young online political spaces are vastly different from the shitposting antics of a few years earlier. As the influence of these communities has spilled over into the real world, memers have become more politicized, better educated and with fewer traces of irony. Those who were “just here for the lulz” have long since called it quits. In the last few years, a generation of young people have become radicalized on social media. Some of them are interviewed in the latter portion of this series.
an all-time favorite political compass meme:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2434097-political-compass
original at: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/x6otv0/this_year_ive_spent_four_nonconsecutive_weeks_in/