You all want some tea? (verbal, not herbal)
So the true start of /tg/'s pop fallout came from two events:
1) The centcom funeral event™
Somebody got permabanned for telling the admins to kill themselves (which i was against) and so people held a memorial service in game for them and some people there said things like "centcom should kill themselves" ic and all of them got perma banned for it except for one who was a player who used to be a headmin (there is a reason im not referring to them an as an ex admin) who got banned but was allowed to come back.
This sparked an overreaction to kys jokes, that even obvious sarcastic remarks ("I think vaush makes some good points actually" being replied with "kill yourself") are perma bannable offenses on the discord that killed a lot of player's desire to talk in the discord.
2) The Sinfulbliss metacord event™
Two beloved sybil players got banned and blacklisted, along with 2 admins also getting deadmined, after another admin leaked a meta-discord for sybil powerusers. The main issue came from encourgement to over appeal notes/bans by certain admins to try and burn them out, but also the admins who were in there would talk about/mock other players's administrative issues and in one case leaked a player's new account and static (but its not like it wasn't obvious by how they acted.)
The Tea™. Unbeknownt to us, the admin who was leaking the metacord was also stoking the behavior they were reporting. Goading users on in pm about the things they were reporting to me and the headmins. This was reported to me shortly after the investigation by the players but it was just unverifiable pms about an admin from somebody trying to save their ass from earning a blacklisting so I dismissed it out of hand.
That admin? Your new /tg/station 13 host.