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Back when I first became old enough to start using the internet regularly (around 2008 or so), it was especially cool to be a hardcore, bible bashing, loudmouthed edgelord, and let the wholebworld know. I still remember it like it was yesterday; r/atheism was still a default sub on r*ddit, youtubers like the amazing atheist and jacklyn glenn were at their height of popularity and had a sizable fanbase, comment sections and meme pages were flooded with edgelords advocating the desecration of churches and using holy texts as toilet paper, ect. Not being an atheist on certain sections of the internet would get you hated and ostracized, and for a while it felt like religion was on its dying breath.
But something changed around 2014 or so, with the rise of the SJW craze (gamergate, red pills, woke, 2016 election season, that fiasco) as well as the tips fedora/neckbeard memes, it seemed like being an atheist was slowly going out of fashion, and these days with the recent #cancelchristianity hashtag on twitter being shunned and shut down when it would have been praised a decade ago, the trend is almost completely dead. The tables have finally turned and admitting to being an atheist on the internet today will get you labeled a neckbeard edgelord fedora tipper. Nobody cares about the atheism subreddit or enlightened youtubers anymore, and there are kids on the internet who aren't even old enough to remember or care about the anti-religious craze the internet once had. For a while it even seemed edgy to be a hardcore Catholic and act like a deus vult templar knight in that one meme.
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