So what ERA fuckery have I missed over the last few months? One of their mods (I won't name names
) is in the slack group chat I frequent, and he said something happened awhile ago with a mod getting shitcanned due to some drama in the trans community. Seems like they can't just chill and discuss the things that matter most (Disney, Apple products, and Bernie Sanders).
Royalan got scapegoated and canned after the trans summit and the mod team basically having to do a 180° with their dick flattened and unban KetKat who leaked some mod Discord stuff.
B-Dubs got some shameful Neogaf posts, including one about niccas (which had been making the rounds for a while) surface on the forum. This was concomitant to several accounts compromised, with the hacker puppeteering a number of messages and threads saying they tried to contact the admin team but were forced to make a public demonstration after being ignored. Both problems got brushed under the rug. B-Dubs had a very politician like apology that was locked quickly and sank out of view.
Oh yeah, B-Dubs is the acting manager since Cerium basically said he would just cash the checks in but have no involvement as a forum member. That was after the trans summit, I think ?
BCT had a summit for them and their thread was made private. I think Nepenthe was promoted admin too at that time. May or may not be linked to B-Dubs embarrassing past. The BCT summit was pinned to the top of the board for a while but didn't reach 3 pages.
Most of PC ERA went and made their own forum after they felt being antagonised and trolled one too many time over the Epic Game Store discussion and lack of moderation.
Former mod Bronson Lee (who was banned or left) claimed in Twitter he had been
harassed and
racially abused over being overly apologetic for EGS, up to naming names... He never actually, despite being confronted by one of the guys he accused, provided any copy of those "threats" and "abuse". If you are inclined to cynicism it would seem said abuse was people pushing back at him being "just a launcher bro lol" in their public messages.
Asian-ERA has been vocal about how a lot of their members decided to fuck off the site in droves.
PoliERA imploded last week over having to put up with Bernie Bros, Socialists and the hostility to Biden (or in less petty terms, became the latest victim of the neverending witch-hunt that ERA is) and a lot of its regulars vowed to leave to join a new Discord.