![]() Subsequently, CisWhiteMaelstrom deleted his Reddit account. ![]() jcm267 told MSNBC that CisWhiteMaelstrom told him "we'd have hundreds of thousands of readers there and I was very skeptical about that, not because I thought Trump can't win, because I think he's the only GOPer with 'landslide victory' potential, but because Reddit is not a conservative place". In April 2016, jcm267, the founder of the subreddit, attributed the popularity of the subreddit to moderator CisWhiteMaelstrom. Byrd had severed ties with the Ku Klux Klan in 1952. The image was accompanied by a photoshopped picture of an aged Byrd in Klan garb, which was meant to falsely portray Clinton and Byrd as Klan supporters. For a period of time, the subreddit repeatedly posted an image of Hillary Clinton kissing Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Furthermore, users on the site referred to Trump as " God Emperor". The subreddit grew to be known for frequent posting of memes, especially Pepe the Frog, and frequent uses of slang terms such as " centipede" (a reference to a much-distributed Trump highlight reel featuring the Knife Party song " Centipede"), " MAGA", "nimble navigator", "no brakes", " cuck", "4D chess", and " SJW". On June 27, 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency at Trump Tower, the subreddit was created as a place for "following the news related to Donald Trump during his presidential run". After the subreddit was quarantined and placed in restricted mode in early 2020, moderators of r/The_Donald created and moved to the site thedonald.win, and after President Joe Biden's inauguration moved again to patriots.win to continue supporting Donald Trump and a potential political party he would create, the " Patriot Party". On June 29, 2020, Reddit banned the subreddit for frequent rule-breaking, for antagonizing the company and other communities, and for failing to "meet our most basic expectations". The subreddit had a lengthy documented history of hosting conspiracy theory content that was racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic. Moderators of r/The_Donald created a backup website outside of Reddit in response to the quarantine. Additionally, ads could not be run on the message board and certain features such as custom CSS were not available. A quarantine of the subreddit was imposed in June 2019, which required users to click an opt-in button to view the subreddit and prevented the subreddit from appearing in Reddit's search results and recommendations. ![]() Īctivities by members and moderators of the subreddit were controversial, and site-wide administrators took steps, including an overhaul of the Reddit software, to prevent the subreddit from having popular content displayed on Reddit's r/all forum, which the company's motto describes as "the front page of the Internet". It was ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit. The community was banned in June 2020 for violating Reddit rules on harassment and targeting. Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's presidential campaign, the community grew to over 790,000 subscribers who described themselves as " Patriots". R/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and Internet memes in support of U.S. Banned (since June 29, 2020 3 years ago ( )).
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