He was effectively years early to the “if you don’t like how twitter is run, build your own <smug face>” interesting how that argument isn’t used anymore.
As far as "obligatory xkcd" is concerned: 3154, 3155, 3159, 3160, 3162, 3165 and 3167 are all relevant. (I've found myself citing 3155 a lot, in attempts to deradicalise cranks: it sometimes works, if I can convince them to quit ChatGPT cold-turkey.)
It's fine to like the comics before around 2016, and dislike the ones afterwards, but there's nothing objective about that. Various people have put forward various thresholds for when xkcd "stopped being good", but ultimately it boils down to a combination of what TV Tropes would call "Tone Shift" and "They Changed It, Now It Sucks!".
A person used their relatively large platform to tell people that they don't support a crazy lunatic millionaire running the world's most powerful country? How scandalous!
In the USA, 2016 and onwards wasn't "just an election". It was something between a mildly harmful establishment candidate or a useless new face on one side, and "holy fucking shit are we actually letting this deranged wannabe monarch run for office?!?" on the other.
Give the man a break, it was (the start of) a crazy time, I'm actually surprised more creators didn't do something like this. If anything, it was barely even a political statement, more of a "hey fellow dems, go vote!" type thing.
No, but not understanding your audience, not being able to not divide your fanbase for absolutely no reason, and doing all that for Hillary Clinton who history will not at all be kind to…
His traffic and hot takes dropped and his influence declined to almost nothing… maybe those things aren’t unrelated?
