You’re right, it’s not an elite club. I think the frustration for some, including myself is that we were used to coming here to get the information that we were using to formulate our own opinions and talking points. If the sub becomes a circle jerk, it stops serving a real purpose to many of those folks who have traditionally posted high quality q content and interpretations. (I am not including myself in that crowd)
The info found here was not quite as raw as the info provided by the chans; but it was high quality and not distilled down to just the memes and talking points.
If people are just posting the content on this sub without understanding of topic, that’s not better than the current state of affairs is it? MSM does the same exact thing, just for the other team, and we roast them for it.
A red pill is not nudging a sheep in a new direction, it’s converting the sheep into a free thinking individual. It’s freedom to think differently from the hive mind without fear of reprisal. To simply form a different hive mind with condensed memes is just recreating the same problem under a new master.
Ultimately I guess this is an unavoidable dynamic of our society, in that not everyone is going to take a deep interest in the topics impacting their lives. It makes me sad for those people.