Have you ever noticed something strange about these types of accounts? (screenshot not mine btw)
No? Well, I am here to tell you the true purpose behind them.
Since at least the late 2010s, multiple accounts dedicated to the showcase of art and architecture and “cottagecore”-style content from all across Europe began to pop up out of the blue, with usernames that live up to their gimmick like “Traditional Western Art”, “European Beauty”, “Nordic Architecture”, “Cultural Europe Art”, and other similar names.
You may think that those are just normal, innocent accounts posting elements of medieval and ancient European culture, and I would’ve thought the same if I never got too deep into them to find out what was really going on.
Despite claiming to stay away from politics, they had really questionable, fascism-like views on what they claim is “degenerate modern art” and harboured some of the worst type of human beings on the planet, and these human beings were open white nationalists and conservative Christians. I am not going to provide any examples of their fans for sanity reasons, but I can tell you: their opinions were vile, so vile that they made Donald Trump look sane.
“But if that is the case, then why did they never get taken down?” The answer is very simple: these accounts were bypassing Twitter’s guidelines and managed their accounts in a way that was tricking the algorithm and even regular users that didn’t suspect anything suspicious about them, and it worked! This was exploitation of a loophole where they could pass off their accounts as “educational” and “historical”.
So, their true purpose was this: getting around rule violations and possibly indoctrinating gullible users into their beliefs.
Here is an old article covering this phenomenon from 2018, and yes, this problem is still happening to this day, and has possibly gotten worse now that Elon owns it.
Despite claiming to stay away from politics, they had really questionable, fascism-like views on what they claim is “degenerate modern art” and harboured some of the worst type of human beings on the planet, and these human beings were open white nationalists and conservative Christians.
The amusing thing about these types, is that they just like traditional values “on principle”. Most of the art they promote has been created by open minded, queer, anti-traditionalist artists who, at the time, were the exact type they are now hating. They know nothing of our history (they have none, so it is our history), and they only rally over “tradition” because the abolition of slavery and women’s rights were a relatively recent development, whose reversion is their core and only value.
The fact that the artists were queer and anti traditionalist. You know i knew this but it sort of went over my head until you actually spelled it out.
I wonder if anyone ever pointed this out to these types of people and what kind of response they received, if any.
Is there a similar problem with subreddits? During my tenure on reddit, I clicked into a number of history subreddits that seemed pretty weirdly fixated on European culture and history while downplaying things like fascism and Nazi Germany.
I don’t know about the history subreddits, but I do know that there used to be a sub called “whitebeauty” that posted random photos of white people that served a similar purpose.
Oh yes, I actually remember that. IIRC I learned of its existence when it got banned.
We had these types in a local Facebook group. When I pointed out that one of the more classical oil paintings they showcased once nearly caused a riot at the unveiling because it was a representation of the open minded and free thinking of the painter they came in hordes to counter these facts.
Marble Statue twitter, just the latest brand of fascist propagandist.
