[travmatt]

Every time Reddit bans one of the more cesspool-y subreddits there’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth and planned exoduses. The most popular alternative seems to be Voat, 8chan, or similar sites much more welcoming of violently racist (/r/chimpire, /r/coontown), political (/r/the_donald), misogynistic (/r/incel) rhetoric, or legally questionable/nonconsensual sexualization of teens (/r/jailbait, there was also a subreddit dedicated to nonconsensual pictures of women that I forget the name of), or other content that users feel they are being persecuted for sharing. While these sites struggle to find ways to find funding for site largely dedicated to sharing content much of society finds abhorrent, the bans do appear to have their intended effects of removing some of these distasteful people and rhetoric from the Reddit platform[0] with very minimal loss of users - and the users who are leaving were those who were originally propagating aforementioned material, so the loss isn’t very valuable. In the meantime, 8chan has cultivated a reputation for itself as an enclave for individuals looking to commit or celebrate mass murder.

[0](http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf)