Step one, you get a group of people from a different forum to post about new topics, and vote consistently on them.
Step two, by doing that, you attempt to create a false consensus and make it seem like that opinion is popular and correct.
Step three, anyone who disagrees is piled on and removal is attempted via mod actions/etc if possible.
Step four, you collapse the forum once it's taken over and move on to the next one, in order to stop the people who disagree with you from forming effective resistance.
Notice it, call it out.
We also got DDOSed around elections, iirc
The problem with Imp1 wasn't that he was abrasive, but that he was oddly selective about what he was abrasive about. I've seen abrasive manosphere members, that's why Imp1 seemed sus to me