>>14296428after a while you can’t really call it bait when it’s just integrated into the site’s culture and nobody is leaking
like the “are you gay” quiz thread from yesterday didn’t trigger much leakage. nobody leaks over giggers gigaquoting gay shit. nobody leaks over BBC or trans rights or anything anymore. so it’s not really bait, it’s just the site’s sense of humor.
and as I stated, I’d attribute this mostly to xitter braniggers being annoying pedos and trump getting elected. during what I’d dub “the era of leakage”, ‘teens were more sensitive to this shit because joe biden was president, other sites were filled with soyboys and homosexuals, criticizing trannies basically anywhere would lead to a ban, and after /qa/ was locked it was especially difficult for soyteens to NOT obsessively and ferociously hate troons, as the raid on /lgbt/ was largely the cause of that.
people forget this, but one of the main reasons lolkek was hated was literally just because he posted troonbait/fagbait and approved it on the ‘ru. back then ‘teens wanted soot to fire him for being a tranny, but nowadays that’s just the norm. another thing is that soot outright banned BBC jokes from the site, when that would be unthinkable now. editing spades on a soyjak was once controversial.
>>14296475this site isn’t original /qa/ doebeit, I think people overestimate how much this site is even connected to it. there was little overlap with soyposters and the other posters on /qa/, the whole purpose of ‘jakking was to just bait the /qa/ natives and make them leak. and really, late 2021, just before /qa/ was locked, was the peak of ‘jakking on /qa/. before then it wasn’t uncommon there to just see literally no soyjaks on the ‘log.
>>14296482not really, I don’t mind the fagbait or fag jokes. it’s funny to me. I’m actually glad that the era of pure leakage is over, it always bothered me that all it took to make half the site leak was posting “trans rights are human rights” with spadeson in front of a trans flag.
I’m merely analyzing the cultural shift and theorizing on what the cause of it might be.