Nora is an interesting beast that is a perfect documentation of the failure of Twitter moderation. She's been banned dozens of times and she's always allowed back because there's shitheads in Twitter's staff that like her. What's interesting is that her engagement is the telling part; almost all of her posts that go near or above her coveted triple-digit likes are her responding to people and riding their feeds - person of interest X says thing Y, Nora latches on and responds with statement Z to bait likes.Except she's not - she has almost five times the followers Requires Hate does and regularly gets 100 likes a tweet.
Considering her bot efforts I wouldn't be surprised if a few of her followers are fake, but she's getting engagement that suggests most of them aren't. So perhaps her lowered profile (she's unprotected her account now) has helped her regain some influence.
They have numerous similarities, but Nora isn't like Lynn Montello in the weeb wars, steadily driving away everyone she shares a side with. Nora's toxicity is more palatable and less about being literally insane. She's fostered an audience that seem to enjoy her antagonistic bleating.
I wonder if she's found another forum like Metafilter to force herself onto. She'd certainly fit in well with ResetEra or Something Awful. But the numbers are coming from somewhere. So her voice must be getting amplified in some fashion, even if only artificially.

If you look at the above comment chain, for example, you will notice she got one post with very high engagement, one with less than a third of that, and one with about half of that. All of her posts are like this when it comes to response posts, which are easily her most common form of content. When Nora makes single posts, she specifically appeals to her own shitty audience if she wants to reach above double digits, mostly by going on about how gay and mentally ill she is. This speaks volumes more about the echo-chamber she dwells in than it does Nora herself.
The followers of Nora broadly fall into four categories: The first are dipshit Norasphere orbiters like Requires Hate and Zinnia Jones. You know them, you ridicule them, we have threads on each one. The second are your average braindead hard-leftie Twitter users that follows her because she repeats the party line hard enough (which is how she got into Anti-GG's good graces, interestingly enough). The third are casual fans, who laconically like Nora's stuff when the chance arrives for them to react to it. The fourth are trolls like us.








