- Joined
- Dec 19, 2018
I personally started seeing it after Christchurch. The amount of media that took Josh's response to that NZ police chief or whatever, as the site genuinely being a 4chanstormfront abomination that people had been screaming it was, only pushed the kind of people that would want exactly that onto the site. The current culture wars have only made it worse as time went on. The Keffals and Fong Jones did some actual damage (ok Keffals really only helped amplify the voice of the outcries) but given these both happen to be trans individuals, all it did was reinforce the notion in our more further right kiwis that these people are genuinely out to get them. Basically they turned the gossip site into what I would argue does have flares of acting like a hate site when people like this pour out to make their "totally absolutely funny" comments. I've certainly seen some wild shit said on Articles and Happenings.A couple of years ago, there was a culture shift.
I don't exactly remember why or when, but a bunch of Chan refugees made their way over to here, probably because both sites were considered super edgy in that people could say as much hate speech as they wanted without being banned or screeched at. Maybe it happened around 2018, when 4chan was facing financial difficulties. 4chan basically had to split into two sites (one being the regular NSFW 4chan and the other being the SFW 4channel), with the SFW nature of 4channel being advertiser-friendly, which allowed monetization and let both sites remain afloat. 4chan also had some jannies step up and moderate more. I'm guessing a bunch of people didn't like the change and came over here as a result.
Other politically incorrect sites/forums like /r/CringeAnarchy were deplatformed (and Reddit alternatives for hosting CringeAnarchy, like Voat or Ruqqus weren't gathering a lot of traction), so some of their users came over here.
I think the third factor would be KF's security breach that also happened around the same time. Quite a bit of the old guard left when information such as their emails and IP addresses were publicly leaked. So basically they weren't there to bitch slap newcomers and tell them not to A-Log/don't interact with cows. The reminders Josh puts at the top/bottom of the forum pages aren't quite as effective as being relentlessly made fun of by other forum-members for being a sped/cow-tipping.
Kiwi Farms was always a little mean spirited but it's not done in jest for a lot of people anymore. Half the time I'm convinced the newer site members aren't here to laugh and gossip but to just be mad. It really kills the enjoyment of these threads where the absolute worse I can say about someone is "oh they're a furry vtuber." This is shit I would expect to see from people reading about the zoocrew, not this (as far as anyone knows) ultimately harmless goofball who seems to be suffering serious creative burnout and trying to recenter themself.
tldr; this is sadly just community rot as far as I can see. Not much anyone can do but push back when you see this. Maybe if you see it on site as well (obviously because Alogs are psychotic by definition)