Every single mod of Games, without any exception, is and has been terrible. Only the GBS mods are worse.
As soon as YCS started existing, that was pretty much it for mod authority trumping popular yix regulars, and once the boring Games posters took notice what type of dork has moderated Games historically, it may as well have been renamed YCS Jr. BEFORE the closure spillover. Games used to feel like Guru3D 2.0 pureed with Lue and Newgrounds, the memes were tame
HE CAN'T GET OFF LIBERTY ISLAND I HEAR CLOWNBALLOON, and Buck Fush was rampant. It wasn't the industry hotbed Rich hoped it would be, cliffyb and levelord kinda existed, but despite this being the timeframe he was working on Unreal Engine 3 and Gears, he kinda just ranted/shitposted and expected people to be content with nothing really juicy. Overall, it was probably the easiest board to moderate, just like games, that's all
Considering the average gamergoon now has to prove he's not one of the filthy Gamergating-type vidya posters on other forums, mods have to match and go with "aloof and aggressive nerd" personality-wise, encourage goons who try to find the newest MAGA CHUD to scream about when a Gman vid gets posted, shrug and hold your hands up when Speedrunning threads are being spammed with fanart that's about 50% popular loli artists, and as always, let people get as gay as possible. It's that, or you don't exist and/or get Louisgod'd in favor of someone even worse. Every mod there does this shit, and a good amount of the Gamerghazi people who screamed FYAD away are the god-awful posters that get enabled by them
They also couldn't have asked for softer starter targets like Axemaniac and basement-era Fragmaster either when this was brewing, both of which were being alpha'd by pedos that were openly posting loli when they weren't Steamchatting about it and the real shit. There was also buying downlow avatars/banner ads, which are still very much on the servers along with the threads someone obviously missed, and they perma'd maybe a chunk of the entire crowd when YCS was on it's deathbed. There's still a bunch of them that fell under the radar with namechanges, brushing it off due to their "popular poster" status, or just disappearing. It was the start of mods
knew going hard on playing dumb to avoid a dramabomb, or just perma'ing whoever they think is the "leader" to settle shit down, despite the fact you've just made youself look 200% more bitchmade in front of people who hate you
Like Axe legit thought that a perma from him meant anything strong to anyone once his FYAD posts resurfaced and DNF happened, and probably believed he was exercising some form of authority when he perma'd Kabuu