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 * A case of this causing the founder of a website to change his views occurred with TruthTube. It was created in 2019 by Don Sandman, and was intended as a right-wing alternative to YouTube, but found itself quickly overtaken by the near-identical BitChute, and failed to make any ground with all but a few right-wingers. However, the lolcore subculture found the site and started using it as a secondary video-sharing site, since the longtime “lolcore fortress” of CreaTV was starting to become “mainstream”, with many YouTubers setting up CreaTV “mirror” channels. As a result, lolcore pretty much took over TruthTube. Sandman was confused at first, but later became a lolcore enthusiast himself, shifted to the political centre, and denounced his prior far-right views. The only remnant of its right-wing roots, beyond the early videos uploaded to the site, is the “TruthTube” name.