[EdwardDiego]

His manifesto also included memes and copy pasta.He listened to meme music as he drove to the mosque, he said "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" before he shot the first victim.

The fact that he was a member of an online community that considered his views normal is extremely significant.

[scottlocklin]

Oh yeah? How about the fact that he drove a car, or ate meat or spoke english or traveled a lot?

The "online radicalization" thing is complete and total bullshit: it's an excuse to ramp up the totalitarian surveillance state in a more obvious way than the "war on terror" -now it's a war on people who read things on the internet. Magic internet forums might make me into a terrorist ... or a hacker; better put me in prison!

[EdwardDiego]

> Magic internet forums might make me into a terrorist

He found an echo chamber that reinforced his beliefs, which happened to be filled with internet edgelords that egged him on.