Call it autistic if you like but this is something I've been watching go down for a while and I just feel like posting it here. Someone else might be able to give a better account of it.
You might be familiar with the FPS/VSPO general on /vt/. Even though its main purpose is to cover more niche vtubers who are mainly active on the Apex scene, there's enough content to have kept it going all this time. Since its focus is more niche, posting about vtubers like Towa and Selen has been controversial there, since there was a fear the general would become just another Hololive or EN vtuber thread.
Flash forward, and Aqua restarting her Apex run and joining Vsaikyou has caused things to become worse for the general. On top of it being an event that would generally attract dumb thread tourists, Aqua is pretty popular among people like /#/, who refer to her as the "Nijikiller", so anything Aqua related is also going to attract plenty of shitposters and tribalfags. A few temporary solutions were tried to remove Hololive discussion from the thread and diminish shitposting, such as outright putting "no Hololive" in the OP and making seperate threads, one for the typical VSPO/Neoporte/Crazy Raccoon/etc. discussion and the other an Aqua-related containment thread. This seems to have backfired and drawn even more of the ire of the numberfag raiders, with today's VSPO-exclusive thread just being spammed to death with Aqua images. Now there's a lot of doomposting among the general's regulars, with some considering abandoning it entirely, or at least until Vsaikyou is over.