It still surprises me how many people blame Datte for the schism in the fandom, w
Has he had a lot of people going after him for it? If so, that is just sad. He
reacted not acted first and I didn’t consider anything from him to have crossed a line either (unlike some).
>it was woot who capitalized on a dead junkie to find some journalist willing to make a hit piece,
Dead junkie? I am not familar with that part, though so many ins and outs occurred over the course of this that I bound to have missed something.
>and derpi mods who capitalized on the hit piece to start outright banning politically-adjacent content they don’t like.
Some mods leaned that way. Most though I think them caught in panic and or folding under pressure would be a better way to describe what happened with the site’s direction as a whole. They were still asleep in the corpse of 1990s to 2000s internet libertarianism on site policy (and technically still are). Many being smugly left, biased, but,
as late as 2019 from Neebie himself
I will contain my laughter and state plainly there is nothing that fascists cannot corrupt and trying to stomp out everything they’re using will just make it harder to spot them; they are trying to make the okay sign (AKA finger circle) into one of their symbols.