I know this must seem like a really a stupid question for those with the necessary background knowledge but I've been trying to figure it out for a while.
Update: I get it now! KIA2 is KIA with blackjack and hookers.
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I don't think they should have, either. Get's even more confusing if sometimes our community is KiA2, sometimes it's just KiA. For better or worse, the split happened. We are KiA2 now, not KiA. Consistency helps. Fuck KiA1, it had its golden age, and then fell to the cultists. KiA1 is dead, long live KiA2.
Repeated rebranding was something early anti-GGers kept trying to push as a means to get rid of things. Maintaining the same banner regardless of whether a previously used one becomes available again prevents confusion from happening amongst other things.
i.e. Splitting from KiA to form KiA2 and keeping KiA2 even if the option to use KiA ever happens.
Not only does it keep things consistent and less complicated, it means less chance of false flags caused by the new brand being used once a reversion has occurred to a previous one.
E.g. Trying to use KiA.win would mean KiA2.win was possibly up for grabs. Anyone wanting to cause drama could then pretend to be 2 or just honeypot it.
I would have seconded it, but by the time I heard about the move here, the names were set in stone. Not very happy about there being no discussion/vote over the name, but at least we have a place to talk here.
KiA2 still has that link though, an unbroken chain from the beginning of Gamergate, through the schism and now into our own free speech platform. This way were recognisable not only to our enemies but those who may have heard KiA or even curious as to why theres 2 of them like OP
A rebranding may have muddied the waters