It's not just that objective and precise rules like "x word is banned" are applied unequally. If you've ever held a mod or one of their simps to account for allowing a word in some cases and not others, they'll immediately (and incorrectly) throw out "whataboutism" like they're some early 2000's neo-liberal reactionary and you're defending the Soviets. I've personally received or seen screenshots of that exact deflection from two separate mods and one wannabe mod about three different supposedly banned words that are--effectively--only banned for "the chuds". I doubt everyone on the mod team is either 1) of the geriatric age to have heard the term in the wild or 2) from the educational background of someone trying to get a patronage local government job. I've definitely seen the word used by mods who don't fit either background. It shows just how dense a clique the mod culture is and how a couple of off the rails biases from nutjobs just become the thing to defend due to groupthink. God how I loath all of them continuing to draw breath.
From my recollection it's just a bunch of Russians (Or slavs in general) and groomcord/telegrams shit flinging at each other for stolen assets while gooning to their madcom oc with eyes o algo. If I remember one madcom animator was an egomaniac and the other was a pedophile(?) named sean c glover and a bunch of who's I forgotten their antics like kelzad, zapchon, kryy, or cethic including (Insert color here) Hank like Wank
Looks like the thread got removed, good riddance.
The first part of your comment really speaks to me and describes every community that was ever ruined by jannies.
So much of the horror of this moment is that people like Tom chose their side in the culture war based purely on social proof and just don't see a way back. To be fair, I don't want to offer him or anyone else a way back. The video itself lays out a pretty good case for why Tom was in the wrong but won't take the last step of condemning him.