Anonymous
asked:

Sorry to comment on a month-old post, but I think of the 2010s as a reactionary decade in itself. Even before Trump got elected there was the Tea Party taking over local governments and the online harassment culture culminating in Gamergate. For that matter, both Wokeness and Dirtbag Leftism have reactionary elements within them.

kontextmaschine
answered:

I still remember Gamergate as when online media first started wandering away from serving its audience to indulging its sense of snobby, moralized superiority and when called on it tried to rally everyone against the audience

kontextmaschine

Consider that your (and others who came of age in this last cultural phase) sense of “reactionary” might be keying off any resistance to a marked leftward lurch in culture