2016 is when russian troll farms started to realize reddit was ripe for the taking, started taking off in 2017, and by 2018, political based bans were in fact, even misconstrued posts. plus r/conspiracy was started to be taking over by conservatives. after reddit banned many “donald trump” subs they went looking for next best one to take over.

also the same time i was calling out ragebaiting around the same time articles.