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That's the thing that makes it so insidious to me. South Park was culturally relevant around the same time 4chan was but it didn't speak to that audience despite them being comedically and ideologically adjacent. It always posited itself as a common sense centrist show, acting as a judas goat to lure liberals into reactionary views as the broader media landscape was starting to trend away from those things. I see MAGA as growing directly out of that 4chan vein of right-wing cultural influences. South Park spawned something broader than that for a larger audience.