pretty sure its not the communities themselves, they are just big enough captive audiences that are most likely to click on images, so they are a big target for stuff like this

It was less the community itself being ass and more the actions of malicious outsiders.

You have to wade around in shit to find the good stuff.

and meme communities

fwiw !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network, !lotrmemes@midwest.social, and !risa@startrek.website are among my favourite communities. Their equivalents on the alien site were pretty good back in the day, too.