You can find a lot of people online saying that they were radicalised by socialist meme aggregators.
This is akin to asking if the likes of 4chan or Reddit creates reactionaries. Of course it does. It’s a gateway to ideology.
Memes are effective at making people feel less alone when they see memes they agree with, they’re also funny and lift spirits, which as a leftist in this world is extremely important, memes definitely also play a part in radicalization, funny=relatable=something I want to be apart of.
I’m not a fan of blanket dismissal of everything online as useless or a waste of time, people spend their entire lives online now, this shit is crucial imo, but it isn’t the same thing as organizing irl
you accidentally dunked a lot of communist parties out there, the brazillian communist party for example shun militants that make youtube channels and have kinda of a conservative view on leninism that printed paper is the only true way.
anedoticly i say that internet propaganda works, if you know how to surf the algorithm and bypass some limitations of private monopolies, i never met personally a communist or seen a printed paper in my life, i got into marxism via internet propagandists
