It's worse than that. They're completely disconnected from reality, and are trying to chant their own, alternate reality into existence. A reality where Nick isn't respected, isn't tearing their side into pieces. A side where Vic isn't getting support from the fans. A reality where they're all poor widdle victims of the evil nazipedorapist and his legion of alt-right trolls wot hate wammyns and poor stupid minorities. A reality where Shane isn't a barely functional fucking idiot.
A narrative, in other words. They're desperately trying to set up a narrative.
We saw this in GamerGate. It's why whenever you see some hipster cunt with tidybowl dyke hair and a participation trophy degree in Daddy Issues Grievance Studies wants to mention GamerGate, often in an unrelated piece talking about how shitty fandoms are for not having already surrendered to them, they always do so as a Mantra. "GamerGate, the sexist alt-right harassment campaign against women in gaming,..." It's to replace the reality that GamerGate was just a bunch of nerds that told these fuckers no and refused to bend the knee, and they
cannot fucking stand that lesser beings such as nerds did so.
What you're seeing here is them trying to get the same thing setup in the Weeb Wars. It's why Penguintruth is constantly spewing his spam. It's why they're starting to organize in discord and call in lolyers to take drive by pot shots.
They're trying to figure out a magic spell that will turn ISWV into a cartoon strawman supervillain they can all pretend to be fighting.
What they don't understand is that in GamerGate, the games journalists literally already had secret mailing lists and slack servers set up to set narratives, to blacklist topics and wrongthinkers, to break NDAs, and to fix review scores. It wasn't as organic as it seemed, and it only became what it became because they had their own network of autistic types -- like the people on Wikipedia who patrolled the site for any off-narrative discussion and purged it with fire. Part of which in the later years was literally being funded by an Obama era "anti-propaganda" (read: Propaganda) bill.
They don't have that here. So you're seeing them flail about and not understanding why it isn't working. This is part of why Nick points out that this is going to be won or lost on social media. Every time someone goes on Twatter and breaks their narrative or corrects them or points out they're posting old discredited bullshit, it shatters the narrative they're trying to create. Hell, these threads do the same thing, to a certain degree.