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>It died when the funding dried up; it didn't really turn into a community.
Yeah, it was a marketing operation but a successful one at that, even if the war wasn't.

>astroturf doesn't set down roots.
It doesn't, that is why it is necessary for them to subvert existing communities. They managed to get /k/ though, which is now an asset to them and will always be utilized during relevant events, like Palestine and Iraq.

>Ignore the Twitter person's commentary about the NAFO post.
Article 5ing on twitter was fun for the people doing the beatdown, that was the whole point of it. Make it enjoyable for the participants to censor the opponents.
What they describe as "mooks" from that very interesting article you linked in your other reply:

>mobs of interchangeable serf-like “mooks” mobilized by recreational outrage and snark to spar with ideological opponents of similar status. Mooks hope to signal their virtuous worth as rhetorical combatants to ultimately be elevated in the hierarchy to the level of knight.