I'm gonna second
@ipreferpickles and say that I too would like to know whether you plan to stay here as a regular poster or if you will quit OF altogether.
If I may ask, is it the chudbuds leak itself that you were taken aback by (the fact that someone would target and expose an emerging online community), or rather the fact that this leak has now revealed that someone with nefarious motives and ulterior connections (PVS) was using chudbuds while planning to target several other people and communities? Do you think it's inherently wrong for someone to leak private DMs in order to expose or embarrass certain people/communities?
IMO, "lolcow culture" always had a moralistic undertone - because lolcows, who are people living lives that are out of the ordinary, tend to range from the mere eccentric to the outright criminal element - so of course it was going to be politicized to the point of it being used for psyops. When you have an online community that points the finger at certain people and says: "Their lifestyle is ridiculous/wrong/dangerous/criminal", no matter how justified that judgement might seem, that's a moral judgement that can easily be turned into a political statement. The moment something becomes political, it becomes a fertile ground for psyops.
I'm not familiar with some of the other incidents you're referring to. I was social with a couple of former ED people and it's beyond cringe to see them turn into religious SJWs in midlife, like they were feeling guilty for whatever they were doing on ED and were trying to make up for it by becoming woke. Are you perhaps too having a bit of a "troll's remorse" because you're getting older?