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Originally Posted by htismaqe
"Triggering" affects both sides, though. That's why you saw the thing with 100K down votes and 10K likes at one point - because the "against" crowd was showing up to down vote it.
It evened out over time yesterday because once the "for" crowd caught wind of what the "against" crowd was doing, they did the same thing.
In essence, social media "triggering" or backlash or whatever you want to call it, usually serves to only inflate total vote counts, not just one side or the other. But I'm speaking in generalities of course.
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this is true.
consider the following
this vid used to have a down-skewed ratio. now it has 7k up vs 5k down.