Tropes/Periphery Demographic

Network

 * The Cascadian Christian Network (CCN). Founded in 1985 to cater to all Christian families regardless of political stance, over time its target demographic ended up becoming South Asian Christians and far-righters instead, staying that way until the C&D order by the Cascadian government in 2021.

Web Original

 * 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.
 * Influence was created in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a social media site and app targeted exclusively to “influencers”. Influencers didn’t care about it… but the lolcore subculture found it absurd, and started gaming the system to gain “stars” (also known as “influence points”) to get themselves labeled as “Top Influencers”. The site seized on its popularity with lolcore users, and has started advertising itself on other lolcore strongholds like CreaTV and TruthTube.
 * The Gallery was intended as an NSFW-friendly alternative to DeviantArt. A feature which allowed users to mint their artworks as NFTs was eventually abused by the crypto community and very soon the site's content went from Rule 34-style pornographic fan art to an NFT marketplace. The Gallery would later see its downfall in 2021 when Team Neon defaced the site, exposing a $200 million-dollar scheme led by notorious crypto scammer and CEO Jerome "EthereumDude" Morvan, and resulting in it being shut down by the Patagonian government