Normies didn't metastasize New Atheism. The death of meaning, credential worship, and the use of the ideology as a Jewish battering ram, which were all completely predictable consequences of its evolution, did that. The only reason elevatorgate was such a big deal was because all the natural immunities to feminism had been dismantled, leaving you only the Jewish establishment's writings to grapple with male/female dynamics. The academy was hijacked a long time ago in a similar fashion, of course.

A "where are they now" of the leading lights of the movement handily demonstrates this.

Moreover, the establishment figures of reddit in the beginning are the same ones that destroyed the platform. IOW, they were always going to destroy it. For example, spez and Alex Ohanian are both co-founders. Ghislaine Maxwell was the first reddit user to break 1M karma.

Aaron Schwartz was the only guy that was potentially genuine enough to save reddit, but he's dead.