They desperately needed to make it a 'movement' so they could demonize it all as one, when it was really just that men aren't interested in participating in a society that actively hates them simply for existing. That's not even getting into the elephant in the room, that modern culture is being deliberately steered in a negative direction, and many men have noticed and act accordingly.
That's really funny because I actually got the same type of ban fuckery on reddit recently. On a post about disability finances I commented about not buying avocado toast, got banned. I appealed, linking to the common meme, and they told me they would "take my word at face value that it was sarcastic" but only reduced the ban by half. Is this some new psychological theory some idiots dreamed up recently because they can't possibly interact with the world directly and honestly?
I actually made a comment in another thread about a month ago that relates directly to this:
Lying is just about the dumbest thing a person can do, in a general sense. The real world has an infinite depth, so as long as one remains earnest and honest there is no limit to how far they can take things. Start lying, however, and you'll end up 'locked' in place, incapable of moving on to anything else because you're too busy maintaining your lies.
I'm strongly suspicious that human society encourages lying so strongly specifically because it needs people to remain stationary in order to continue it's functions, as things currently are. Take the entertainment industry for example, where the most charismatic of our entire population are lavished with fame, fortune and every luxury money can buy... in exchange for lying constantly to maintain a false image of who they are.
That's very much the issue I take with such things. Our whole concept of what progress should look like is built upon elevating people beyond their own abilities, and it's causing our entire society to collapse under the weight of collective incompetence.
It's a problem of "desconstructing" something in an attempt to define it in simple terms, which end up being entirely alien to the original intent. I'm fairly certain this is the reason that AI feeding upon it's own output produces progressively worse products. It may very well be that, by the constraints of programming, such loops do emerge within a game's design. Yet if you try and focus on such things alone you end up with progressively worse results.
The entire "self insertion" concept for media has always baffled me. Unless the character's own identity is so irrelevant to the story that they have a character creator, I just want to see a story about someone interesting who is explicitly NOT me (and really, I rarely make a character who's anything like me even when given the option to do so). I've already got the real world for experiencing a story about me personally...
You can believe me or not, but war actually sucks a lot of ass. Far too many people, who have lived their entire lives in bubble wrap, don't seem to understand this point and tempt fate for petty grudges or base desires, thinking that it can't possibly happen here.
Fascism, as it was taught in ancient times while I was in school, was described as the same people running both the government and the economy. Little wonder why they keep trying so hard to redefine such a thing these days.
2008 was one of the last years before woke started creeping in, and the graphics then are still quite excellent.
How about they want to create an artificial world independent of humanity's roots which they can rule over as it's creators, like gods?
Unfortunately for all of us, they would still fail even if they got every single person alive to agree with them. I guess that falls under the umbrella of "they're stupid" though.
Probably AI moderation tools honestly, and the poster is on the list.