They're also forgetting the fact that fedora tippers, obnoxious as they were, were mostly a reaction to Bush-era evangelicals (now newly-minted Emperor Trump enthusiasts) who annoyed everyone by being (satanic)panicans about everything from nerd boardgames to JayZ and doing shit like picrel.
I'm reminded of how the westboro baptist church would come in uninvited, with signs, near funerals of dead soldiers, chanting stuff like "god loves dead soldiers", to bring attention to their cause of wanting to criminalize homosexuality. Naturally, for as much publicity they gained from it, it also led to them being massively despised by virtually everyone and likely encouraged people to support gay rights, if for no other reason, besides pure spite or wanting to see them sperg the fuck out even further, because they were super easy to bait.
Nothing reddit atheists had done even comes touching the surface of the insane shit bush-era evangelicals were doing, they were such massive lolcows that they turned natural allies into mortal enemies. For example, they probably are single handedly responsible for entire seasons worth of episodes for South Park, but keep in mind that that show back in a day also denied global warming, mocked environmentalists, called people responsible for anti-smoking campaigns fascists and created more than one episode of explicitly taking the piss out of trans people. Needless to say, managing to fumble the bag so hard that showrunners with such beliefs end up taking the piss out of you, means you've seriously fucked up somewhere in the pursuit of attention and fame.
We may or may not be approaching a return to that, judging by how entire countries like Canada and Australia had recently voted in left-leaning majority governments, for seemingly no other reason, but just to spite Trump and anti-woke conservatives.