To be fair... 1) ESG/DEI stuff wasn't even a whisper on the wind when this stuff went down. It was still very much DADT, Jack Thompson lawsuits, elected-Bush-t

To be fair... 1) ESG/DEI stuff wasn't even a whisper on the wind when this stuff went down. It was still very much DADT, Jack Thompson lawsuits, elected-Bush-twice America. In other words, the complaints were mostly coming from the center/right (and Joe Leiberman, if you still considered him a liberal). 2) 4chan was in the "advantageous" position of never being able to attract major advertisers in the first place. And while a good bit of the old culture is still extant, the post-Trayvon-murder/GG/Trump-meme-magic era did a number on its userbase's ability to focus on the lulz instead of descending into conservative (if not just straight-up Nazi) rhetoric (and not for laughs). But, yeah, the rest of this tracks. It's basically inevitable unless the site admins get to a point where they're happy with the userbase size/culture/whatever and decide there's no need for any more changes. Examples: Craigslist, SA (to a degree), FA (despite controversies and the recent UI change, which users can mercifully opt out of). In fact, I would say that unnecessary or large-scale UI changes are good heuristic for determining when things are about to go downhill.