(Disclaimer: my acc is new, but used the site in the past and lurked for quite a while.)
A problem with political stuff, especially the extremes is that they push the boundaries only to reach the ban point.
I remember when gab.ai was new-ish people just posted dumb crap they wouldn't have published normally just to get their stuff deleted so they could cry about being censored, when in reality they just put the site itself at risk due to retarded fedposting.
Sometimes people just lack the social skills to know that openly advocating for murder or other actually illegal things is like a bad idea.
And the "it's just a joke bro" excuse doesn't work, haven't been working for close to a decade now so like try to adapt and be glad you can at least be divergent from the mainstream without instantly being banned.
When I started lurking this forum early this decade it certainly had a different culture. I think the problem with cringe culture sites that ultimately too many posts about weird feminists and troons just turned them into "let's rage at the "left"" kind of sites. It certainly happened to many cringe focused comedy pages. I miss the times where weird furries and bronies were the main deal, not random Tweets.
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@The Last Stand
Do you two think that advocating for murder is something exclusive for social autists and that the Internet gave it a place?
Just from my memory I recall seeing news articles calling for the lynching of blacks or for the killing of reds. Underground anarchist gazettes urging the bombing of tsars and kings, emperors corresponding to emperors to "wipe out" this or that people for the sake of one or an other race, generals reporting to their leaders that a genocide is necessary for the restoration of order.
And that's not even going in on discussions among friends in private about this or that politician that get heated and antagonistic.
Even during this Covid pandemic, as "norms" switch from one population group to an other people latch on and write, publicly on twitter or their facebooks that "they deserved to die" or even that they "hope they die."
Wasn't there a doctor or a nurse who took a selfie of someone with a tube down their throat with the caption "they sure wish they had take the vaccine" or something akin to this? Now I'm sure that sparked outrage but not nearly as much as it would if the target was someone else, just like when some black history professor says she wishes the death of whites she doesn't lose her job. Or that Jewish professor who wrote that "abolishing the white race was a desirable thing" and still kept his Harvard position.
This place and places like it serve an other purpose in this sense that might be closer to what you describe.
That is the calling for the death of people who it is not acceptable or desirable to currently single out.
Or in other words, it's a sort of hub of dissident views. And hubs of dissident views were always suppressed and will continue to be suppressed. They are also always full of people that in one way or an other do not fit in or do not want to fit in the present social order.
People chase dopamine highs all the time, normies do it on Facebook with their cats, but also with their "orange bad man" memes. Its part of what makes social media so addictive.