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I was in the orbit for a while, came close at times, but never quite there. I was very much into transgressive and edgy humor, all the bad stuff, but it just gradually fades away when one realizes that these topics are serious, that the people making these jokes believe them and aren't just being ridiculous and absurd. At the end of the day, I grew up with egalitarian beliefs and love, I was simply ignorant of political news and struggle until adulthood.
Luckily for me, I wasn't very interested in gaming, could not care less about GG and ignored almost everything about it. By the way, there are still active GG discussion groups way out in the trash heaps of the internet. What a waste of human life.
Spoiler for longpost - mostly /r/, 4 and 8ch
Got caught in a few reddit potholes in the early teens. Subreddits like /r/sjwhate and /r/fatpeoplehate. Plus the /r/nofap broscience, which was easier to fall into because I coincidentally had a medical condition that impacted my sexuality. After a while I managed to abstain for three and four months to see if it would help (spoiler: it didn't). I also had a look into pick-up communities during high school, like /r/seduction, but never got into any of the anti-feminism and grifter stuff.4chan during teen years, mainly hobby boards (some art boards had a reputation for being more left-leaning than the rest of the site), more-or-less left the site around 2017. I probably still have a rare Pepe saved from 2013, and grew tired of them before they started being mentioned at high school. I even spent some time on a few select feels threads on the robot board, but was what they label a 'cyborg' - didn't quite fit in with normal people, nor with the bitter incel crowd. Not completely alienated.
In fact I was in a few 8ch communities. None of the /pol/shit, and wasn't interested in /leftypol/ at the time. But apart from the occasional /pol/vangelist spammer and some screeching anti-SJW idiots on /tech/ (the whole Covenant Code of Conduct drama, and general crying about trans developers and Indian people), there wasn't anything alt-right about my experience there. And I was mature enough by then to see the anti-SJW drama nerds and bigots for the clowns they are, I just ignored or laughed at them. Luckily I eventually shifted over to Lainchan, who (at least at the time) banned people who spilled the soykaf. (no, I still haven't watched SEL)
That was around the time I got a full-time professional job near 2020, /r/worldnews had a lot of Bernie fans talking about socialism, /r/latestagecapitalism was a part of my on-ramp. I also got into /r/conspiracy for a few months, but that dried up as it became more and more dominated by nonsense like pizzagate and absolute nonsense theories. Their list of confirmed conspiracies was interesting and may still hold up (I haven't checked), included things like MKULTRA and Western military history of testing nuclear and chemical weapons on civilians and in range of civilian infrastructure, wasn't just right wing trash.
Joined an edgy 4chan-adjacent online art group just as most of the remaining members were pulling each other out of the alt-pipeline and becoming socialists and communists. As fascinating (and prolific) as their story was, I'm sworn to secrecy; we have an extensive history of stalkers.
I had near misses but I came away mostly fine and with a good set of friends. One of my co-workers, on the other hand, had a former-friend at school try to groom them into fascism, they got close to the edge before seeing what the future holds for those freaks and gtfo'd of the pipeline.