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"I would hesitate to even call those creators atheists — they were more like nihilists with a conservative slant than anything. They sold you the idea that everyone else was stupid and that you’re the only one that understands what the world is truly like."

"I think I was heavily into that 'skeptics' community, the ones that spawned out of new atheism. I never bought into their militancy, but I do enjoy a bit of bitching and gossip. I also watched some proto-Bread Tube content, but that was much rarer then. Bread Tube was kinda a response to that extremely popular right-wing social media surge."

"Too young to vote, I believed that I had some sway by making pro-Trump memes. In fact, I felt that the election would be won by the candidate with the funniest and most visible meme presence. This sentiment was referred to in the alt-right as the 'meme wars.'"

"I didn't really have anyone around me at the time to explain to me that I needed to be more than just 'not a jerk.' I never took my anger out on other people, but I definitely had some screwed-up ideas about how relationships should work and how love worked, mainly because I'd just absorbed cultural ideas through osmosis and entertainment, and didn't have anything to challenge them."