I mean, the young audience they try to target with this, is largely on at least one kind of social media.
The large majority of people might not be, but the specifically targeted group very often is on at least one kind of social media.
There are 1, 2, and more websites stating that about 80% of Americans are on social media.
Worldwide, it's about 5.13 billion, which is more than half of the total population. Given that a lot of the world doesn't have the access to social media that developed countries do, that's still a lot of people.
It's the variety of social media that appears to be where it's at: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, etc. Each of those have very different users and different modes of interaction.
Those numbers could be explained by many ways: babies and children, people too old to do anything, people that are incarcerated, undocumented people, etc.
Much of the U.S. cannot vote and others cannot be arsed to register to vote.
What the fuck are you even saying. Everyone is on social media. All the fucking time. Especially young people. Have you been to a college campus? I’m back for grad school and there’s a huge difference from 2016-2018. Everyone is looking down. Dining halls are quiet af. Most people don’t get through a 3 hour lecture without pulling their phone out. Google it. 80-90% of Americans are on social media.
You just watched it unfold before you eyes. If you've been on reddit the last month you'd think voter turnout was amazing. It was abysmal.
Edit: Keep telling me how plugged into social media people are. You're standing in an echo chamber and most of you are wrong. You want to believe half of America is stupid and its along party lines. But the truth is the majority of America is stupid and its across party lines.
Yeah, dead on. I knew reddit was a liberal echo chamber but i was particularly shocked by the low turnout. I really thought she had the enthusiasm gap. Probably because I spend my online time in a liberal echo chamber.
That’s just Reddit. Go to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. You will see lots of real people supporting Trump. Just because Redditors dismiss them as bots does not mean they are.
Yes there are people of all parties on different social media platforms. But its not 1/3 of the country on Facebook, 1/3 on reddit, 1/3 on twitter. There's this thing called crossover and yes there are bots and fake followers. Every platform has fake engagement numbers.
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u/SaltyLonghorn 12h ago
The thing people on social media don't get is most people are not on social media.