Gee, a lot to unpack here.
—Holding kids on a pedestal: No, I don’t think kids are “above reproach.” They’re capable of messing up too. However, they aren’t fully-formed yet and lack life experience that older memers have. I have indeed gently reproached Ship-Shap from time to time from a standpoint of constructive criticism. I think that’s ultimately more effective. And as I stated earlier, I also have criticisms of things the tank kid/Ship-Shap’s enemy has done but I haven’t gone after him because flagrantly attacking a memer less than 1/2 my age whatever the circumstances is unseemly. I helped broker peace between them during the first ImgFlip election: Afterwards, both publicly announced an end to their war. Not sure if it held up in the long run but it still helped dial the heat back. Other adults including SydneyB treat Ship-Shap like a full-blown adult and argued and ridiculed him at length on the ImgFlip stream which Syd once famously said was “not the stream for bickering” (a rule he’s since broken over and over again). Those who throw stones shouldn’t live in a glass house that the rest of us who don’t have a misplaced sense of loyalty to some of these old-guard ImgFlippers can see right through.
—“Targeting of users”: Well gee, you picked a funny person to bring that complaint to. I’ve been the target of more hostility in more forms than anyone I can think of. Yes, including the unfeaturing of content for no apparent reason. Specifically: Stream Mods including OlympianProduct have blanket unfeatured tons of memes of mine for basically no reason on various streams because they don’t like me and I’ve had other comments deleted vindictively though they didn’t violate any TOS. As he and you have repeatedly said: when you’re a Mod, it’s your stream, your rules. It is poor Modship to approve and unfeature memes “for no reason.” However simply disliking a meme is fine, stream Mods have no obligation to host content they don’t like or watch their streams get polluted or dumbed-down. It stands to reason those who feel unfairly targeted by stream Mods will simply take their content elsewhere, and if that content is in fact good content, then the stream Mod who unfeatured it will see their stream lose followers, etc.
—KMS war: Related to yet different from damn_adults. Primarily about me ofc because this harassment campaign is about me. But it’s also open to anyone who cares about ending or reforming one of the most toxic streams on ImgFlip.