A top post on /The_Donald/ on Friday alleged that CTR is still around, trying to influence the subreddit’s direction. “Since CTR hacks are doubtlessly still lurking about ... let’s help them out with some post-election therapy,” one post read.
Another user wrote on Nov. 11 about mainstream media outlets’ coverage of hate crimes in “Trump’s America.” “Folks CNN has an article talking about hate crimes spreading in ‘Trump’s America” it is very important that seekers of the truth send them the same message we sent the government by electing Trump in the first place. These hate crimes are fabrications and for anyone out there still believing what they see and hear on these websites will take it as truth,” it said.
The calls for a boycott on mainstream media outlets ensued.
“Unity is the last thing they want,” said one in response to a CNN report about Sen. Harry Reid’s comments to Trump in the same thread. “They won’t stop until they get what they want...except this time that’s the exact opposite of what will happen.”
“The issue many of you guys don’t realize is that CNN/MSNBC/ABC/etc. is just an insignificant speck of a larger conglomerate. They will not feel a pinch if you boycott their propaganda news station, which they would willingly fund for free,” wrote another, saying that entire companies like “Time Warner (CNN, HBO, The CW, etc.), Disney (ABC, Marvel, Pixar, Disney, ESPN, etc.), and Comcast (NBCUniversal, etc.)” should be boycotted.
In a now-deleted thread posted on 4chan on the night of Nov. 10, there was talk of how to attack.
As one user said, the “meme wars are not over.”
“The mainstream media has been staunchly anti-Trump from his announcement, and if you think they'll back down now then you’re a fool,” the user wrote. “They will keep working non-stop to defame and [discredit] President Trump, and we must keep working to meme the [public] into knowing the truth. Trump needs help to drain the swamp, are you up to the task? [Expletive] the mainstream media, let’s ridicule them until they become a joke to every person alive.”
And as another user wrote on /The_Donald/, “The Great Meme War is only beginning. We won the first battle.”
