TL;DR: I miss Tumblr, I preferred a more tight knit site enviroment, and I hate the hugboxy political schitzoposting.
I started browsing Kiwi in mid-to-late 2017. I was there primarily for the tumblrcows - people like PurpleKecleon and Stinky whose antics and cults of personality I found particularily amusing. I've lurked the site on and off since then, but recently I've found that the experience has become... lackluster, I guess.
A major part of the problems lies with the fact that the era of the traditional tumblrcow died with Tumblr itself. Tumblr was unique in that it fostered an enviroment where anyone could create a unique webpage entirely devoted to their own personal brand of autism, while cultivating a more intimate level of interaction with their audience. A lot of people took their cowry to Twitter after Tumblr kicked the bucket, but Twitter is very unlike Tumblr in design. It's extremely polished and corporate in a way that the bumbling devs on Tumblr were too inept to ever accomplish, and it shaves the edges off even the most autistic of lowcows until every user blends into a generic, unpleasant mass. The user profiles are a pain to navigate, and the market of deranged Twitter users is so oversaturated that it's difficult to pinpoint anyone that actually stands out as a unique & interesting cow in their own right; everything is just more of the same shit that's become more tiring than amusing.
In general I've just been struggling to find any cows I'd like to follow for a while. I love petty, insane, girly drama, artcows, and autists in tech/gaming spheres like YanDev, but it's been hard to sift through the mountain of content now available on Kiwi to find something genuinely appealing to me. While the girl subforum has been doing alright, I don't find listening to fat bitches talk shit about other, fatter bitches all that funny compared to tumblresque drama that featured genuine cults of personality and unique shit that wasn't dreadfully repetitive. Amberlynn is so boring to me. Other threads in the site are quite bloated and can become difficult to read - even with the highlight feature, which I appreciate but doesn't do a lot to make 1000+ page threads into more manageable reads. The site has become overrun with psychotic refugees from shitholes like Reddit whose company I despise and have sucked all of the soul out of a community that was once much more niche and bearable despite the exceptional nature of it's users. There's also been a general shift towards careercows and internet influencers as subjects of mockery and generally speaking I find a lot of these cows uninteresting. I don't fucking care who Ethan Ralph is and it's beyond my comprehension why he's such a popular cow who's on the front page all the time. I also just can't stand politisperging and I feel like half the site's userbase is now made up of unironic schitzocows who could be halal'd into oblivion, but honestly the less I say about that the better. I don't want to myself turn into a bitter cow with some political agenda. The internet isn't that serious and it makes me a little wistful to think one of the last few places I found on the internet - Kiwi - that didn't take itself too seriously is now burning itself to the ground.
Which brings me to why I decided to join the Onion Farms. Kiwi Farms has become the lolcow of my yesteryear - a shitty self-serious, self-important forum run by an insane faggot and his exceptional cult of personality. It's absolutely fascinating to think about. I think the meta discussion of Kiwi & it's deranged userbase has become more entertaining than browsing Kiwi at face value ever will be again. This site seems to be a lot more tightly knit and focused in it's presentation as of now, so I'll probably hang around and poke fun at some retards here until it inevitably becomes swamped by internet rejects as the Kiwi Farms was before it.
