and trained them with ops like Chanology
and trained them with attacks like Gamergate
You've probably read where Bannon has openly talked about the gold farming company IGE he had being the start of his interest in getting people online interested in politics, he said something like: get their attention with video games and then build their interest in politics from there
that was way before 8ch and even 4/pol/
he must have started on /b/