It is. A big tell is their vernacular. It’s not leftists. It’s someone else pretending to be.
Another one is their interests or hobbies. They do not talk about these topics the same way the people they pretend to be because they are not the people they pretend to be.
I’ve been chronically online enough to be able to get a sense of it. They often slip. Some times it’s so obvious it’s a kid who is trying to copy the more adept ones.
A lot of minority subreddits on reddit are so fake too. It’s 21st century blackface minstrel shows. Easy to dupe casual users. If you’re chronically online long enough you can tell.
ETA: This is conspiratorial as the people who get caught all the time forgetting to switch their alt accounts. Can’t reply to the mod for some reason so I guess I’m done here.
They don’t hide it on their own boards. The right wing spaces. It’s a real thing they do.
The two things we’re talking about are not mutually exclusive. There are people who spent too much time in those “performative space”. They get incited by agitators too. It’s a clusterfuck.