i love how you're tossing out old instances which, btw, was universally condoned as far as wg's response to a troll (and the site as a whole) as some kind of proof. that went around because of the content, with people outright stating, 'i don't actually read wg, but someone told me this was (thing) and so i did and omg'.

now, we know that most of the 'i don't usually read wg, but' are lies, but there were people i know that never went to anon comms that saw treegate, so that's the shittiest of all shitty examples.

not everyone reads wg. not everyone wants to. not everyone needs to. but if something big like that happens? it gets linked around.

are you sure you didn't miss treegate?