In its infancy, it had a few decent posts about people getting mad over nothing, but it took me embarrasingly long to notice it becoming a crusade against strawmen and/or harmless 13 year olds with a mix of transphobia

It was briefly (so, so briefly, I promise) helpful to me because I embarrassingly started my internet life in the White Lady “Feminism” Blogosphere, so I needed a dose of mockery to make me start questioning liberal ideology. But yeah, then I quickly wised up to the fact that it’s pure fash pipeline poison

edit: also I got on Tumblr, met cool people and realized the le Tumblrina strawman was bullshit

There were a few moments right after it was made (like the first 12-18 months) where it wasn’t that bad, though anyone on the left (which I wasn’t at the time) could see where it was headed. It was making fun of otherkin (really no need to punch down, of course) and missing the irony of whatever the equivalent of “kill all white men” was back in 2014. It wasn’t long at all before it fell off the cliff from “bad” to whatever it is now.

It was started by people on one of the anti shitredditsays subs. Everyone who recovered from it has this idea of “oh it was fine when I fell into it, but it got worse after that” and it just isn’t true.