It was the perfect blend of cringe and hubris. The post was screenshotted, memed, and spread to other subreddits. Bad Bobby had gone viral for all the wrong reasons.
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The community fractured. You had the who wanted him banned immediately, and the "Bobby Apologists" who argued that he was "keeping things interesting" or that the mods were being too sensitive. It was the perfect blend of cringe and hubris