OnionKnight
Baby Onion
I believe you're absolutely correct in that it would be beneficial for "the powers that be" to have a completely sterilized Internet for their purposes.I think Mister Metokur said it best when people asked him as to why the Internet began to crack down on political extremism (more specifically the Dissident Right content that was far more prevalent back in the day compared to now; although these days the Far-Left isn't doing so well either).
And the answer that Metokur gave at the time was that the probable real reason as to why Big Tech is like this is that they want to sell you a Toyota.
Many of the big advertisers that are on the major online platforms and services want to sell you a Toyota and they don't want to sell you a Toyota next to people shouting about conspiracy theories such as how the Apollo Moon landings may have been faked or how the Jews may have planned to have 9/11 happen on purpose.
Many advertisers want to sell you a Toyota, a Playstation, a new computer, fashion accessories, and popular snack brands on squeaky clean online platforms. In the eyes of Corporate America, things like racism, antisemetism, doxing, political extremism in general (it's not just the Dissident Right that's being targeted, even the Far-Left is getting targeted too these days), and calls to overthrow liberal democracy in favor of dictatorship are seen as degeneracy in the eyes of America's corporate overlords.
Part of the reason why the Dissident Right and the Progressive Left haven't really gone that far from the Internet is that many of their ideals continue to be very unpopular among voters and Corporate America (from calls to establish theocracy to calls to abolish capitalism are not exactly popular political positions in the Western world). It's also for these reasons as to why Kiwi Farms is in the position that it's in is because in the eyes of the corporate overlords, Kiwi Farms is seen as degeneracy where Corporate America sees platforms like Kiwi Farms as a net negative that may hurt their sales in the long run.
I'm not defending Corporate America here, there is a lot of things wrong with Corporate America that I hate (from how Corporate America still serves the military industrial complex to keep the endless wars going to how Corporate America has jacked up computer parts prices and they use AI as an excuse).
But what I'm saying here is that freedom of association is still very much a thing in the Western world. Why do progressive woke video games often not do so well in sales? Everyone sees them as blatant propaganda so they often do poorly in sales. Why does the Dissident Right keep staying mostly stagnant online? Because many of their ideals are not really popular within the Western world either (with the only true exception where the only thing that the Western world can agree with the Dissident Right on is on the issue of unchecked immigration). The communists and fascists of the Internet have every right to say that the Western world should adopt their autocratic ideals and everyone else has the right to simply walk away from the people that are preaching this extreme rhetoric. Kiwi Farms is fucked because Corporate America simply doesn't want to associate with platforms like Kiwi Farms because in their eyes they see online platforms like Kiwi Farms as degeneracy anyway.
Corporate America just wants to sell you a Toyota here.
I don't believe that many people would object to this rather unremarkable and trite observation.
These forces aren't unique in their antagonism toward Kiwifarms, however.
As @Dude-Weed has correctly identified, most of us want a forum which is what Kiwifarms should be in essence, sans the more extreme fringes of its userbase.
I for one would want a Kiwifarms that:
1.) Never doxx (or Ph0nEbO0k) people.
2.) Have a userbase which consists of balanced and fair users (i.e. not spergy and antagonistic cunts for the sake of it) in their discussion about topics in general. Needless antagonism towards "lolcows" should be frowned upon, no matter how much you may dislike them.
3.) Don't have faggots like AnOminous, Just A Butt, Lidl Drip, Thé au lait and many others who use the forum as their personal therapy sessions and toilet.
4.) Don't platform radical feminists, i.e. misandrists.
5.) Don't platform actual misogynists, although I have yet to observe Andrew Tate-types on Kiwifarms.
5.) Don't platform Joshua Conner Moon.
I believe that the main problem for Kiwifarms, besides its fat and feminine administrator, is that its userbase now consists of a slew of demographics that very, very few people like at all.
Kiwifarms is infiltrated with Facebook-boomers, radical feminists, Zionists, and otherwise antagonistic people who are incredibly nasty and rude towards the userbase in general, and towards new users in particular.
We're not talking about users who engage in the art of trolling and light ribbing, which I believe is becoming more of a lost artform. We're talking about users who antagonize and shit on users and "lolcows" for no particular reason whatsoever and in a very nasty and generally unfun way.
These users who "infight" seems to be beloved by the radical feminists in particular. Perhaps their catty and ugly nature sees kinship in such behaviour. No wonder these infighting users have Joshuas faggoty blessing, despite him claiming to loathe users who infight. His hypocricy is as blatant as ever.
Very few people like Kiwifarms for what it currently is, and through the years, the forum has garnered a lot of negative attention for its spergery and evil.
It doesn't exactly help that Joshua constantly tries to use the forum as his personal army.
Kiwifarms just sucks. It's filled with moronic and evil people, and the guy at the helm of the operation is one of the worst spastic cunts out there.
No wonder it hasn't grown.
On the note of Kiwifarms lack of growth:
I don't know much about "TurkeyTom", but I find it so fucking funny that he's become very successful by documenting "lolcows", or as his Kiwifarms detractors claim, for having "stolen Kiwifarms content" (!). The fact that Joshua apparently hate him for not "giving Kiwifarms credit" is just such a delight. What a delusional idiot he is.
It's not Thomas' fault that he's talented in marketing himself, is there?
Whatever you think of him, the size of his audience and YouTube-channel speaks for themselves.
Too bad for Joshua that his pubescent, whiny voice and overall spergy nature results in negative charisma, and thus that his "content" doesn't lend itself to a more mainstream appeal.
The whole thing about Thomas' "stealing Kiwifarms content" reminds me of this gem from Internet Historian:
The Instagrabbing of /r/dankmemes
It's just a beautiful debacle of the most serious autism.

