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r/The_Donald
Reddit mascot "Snoo" dressed in MAGA attire serves as mascot of r/The_Donald.
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The front page of r/The_Donald on May 20, 2017, before quarantine. Quarantine has since removed all subreddit CSS.[1]
Type of site
Subreddit
Available inEnglish
Founder(s)u/jcm267
URLwww.reddit.com/r/The_Donald
LaunchedJune 27, 2015 (2015-06-27)
Current status

r/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and Internet memes in support of U.S. president Donald Trump.[2][3][4] Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's presidential campaign, the community grew to over 790,000 subscribers who described themselves as "Patriots".[5] The community was banned in June 2020 for violating Reddit rules on harassment and targeting.[6][7] It was ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit.[8][9][10]

Activities by members and moderators of the subreddit were controversial, and site-wide administrators took steps, including an overhaul of the Reddit software, to prevent the subreddit from having popular content displayed on Reddit's r/all forum, which the company's motto describes as "the front page of the Internet".[11] A quarantine of the subreddit was imposed in June 2019, which required users to click an opt-in button to view the subreddit and prevented the subreddit from appearing in Reddit's search results and recommendations.[1][12][10] Additionally, ads could not be run on the message board and certain features such as custom CSS were not available.[1] Moderators of r/The_Donald created a backup website outside of Reddit in response to the quarantine.[13]

The subreddit had a lengthy documented history of hosting conspiracy theory content that was racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic.[14][15] On June 29, 2020, Reddit banned the subreddit for frequent rule-breaking, for antagonizing the company and other communities, and for failing to "meet our most basic expectations".[16][17] After the subreddit was quarantined and placed in restricted mode in early 2020, moderators of r/The_Donald created and moved to the site thedonald.win,[18] and after President Joe Biden's inauguration moved again to patriots.win to continue supporting Donald Trump and a potential political party he would create, the "Patriot Party".[19]

  1. ^ a b c Haskins, Caroline (June 26, 2019). "Reddit Quarantined r/The_Donald for 'Threats of Violence'". Vice. Archived from the original on August 31, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019. According to Reddit Help, Reddit quarantines add warning portals to subreddits, cut off revenue opportunities, remove subreddits from Reddit-curated feeds like r/Popular, remove subreddits from recommendations and search, and remove custom CSS styling.
  2. ^ Flores-Saviaga, Claudia; Keegan, Brian; Savage, Saiph (2018). "Mobilizing the Trump Train: Understanding Collective Action in a Political Trolling Community". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 12. The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California USA. arXiv:1806.00429. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15024. ISBN 978-1-57735-798-8. OCLC 1106300776. S2CID 44171984.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Vox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ban was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Timberg, Craig; Dwoskin, Elizabeth (June 29, 2020). "Reddit closes long-running forum supporting President Trump after years of policy violations". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  6. ^ "Subreddit Stats". Subreddit Stats. Archived from the original on July 7, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  7. ^ Isaac, Mike (June 29, 2020). "Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 23, 2023. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  8. ^ Khalid, Amrita (September 15, 2017). "Unpacking The_Donald, the internet's pro-Trump bunker". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  9. ^ Jackson, Jasper (November 22, 2016). "Moderators of pro-Trump Reddit group linked to fake news crackdown on posts". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Reddit places pro-Donald-Trump forum in quarantine". BBC News. June 27, 2019. Archived from the original on June 30, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  11. ^ Lecher, Colin (November 30, 2016). "Reddit will punish hundreds of 'toxic users' and hide some posts from pro-Trump community". The Verge. Archived from the original on November 30, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference quarantine was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Fischer, Sara (November 26, 2019). "The next pro-Trump social media network". Axion. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  14. ^ Romano, Aja (November 13, 2017). "Reddit just banned one of its most toxic forums. But it won't touch The_Donald". Vox. Archived from the original on March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ Lima, Cristiano (June 29, 2020). "Reddit bans pro-Trump forum in crackdown on hate speech". Politico. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  17. ^ Newton, Casey (June 29, 2020). "Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules". The Verge. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  18. ^ Halaschak, Zachary (November 26, 2019). "Trump Supporters Create Social Media Platform Tailored For Them". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  19. ^ Marcotte, Amanda (January 21, 2021). "The anticipated violence at Biden's inauguration never happened — thank Trump's Twitter ban". Salon. Retrieved January 21, 2021.

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