They were probably watching Pogi for a while. Gathering intel. Operation Cross-Forum it was called.
I genuinely believe that not a single fucking moderator
actually believes that any of his posts are / were 'for the lulz' or trolling or trying to do anything other than get them to acknowledge that shutting down all forms of criticism only leads to insularity and circlejerking groupthink.
He was banned
because of the optics, and I'm pretty sure from some butthurt members who caught a retrospective ban for shitting on etika who were lighting up their various Discords with "OH, RIGHT, I GET BANNED, BUT THIS GUY WHO POSTS ON A FORUM WHERE THEY POST
STUFF LIKE THIS DOESN'T? COME ON!"
Also can't help that some of the newer fuckera twitter accounts reposted pogiposts