A couple of days ago in an ALR FB group someone shared ALR's snap of her catching a clownfish in Animal Crossing, and one of the first comments was "you caught a YOUfish FAT fucking BITCH



" And I just...

...actually thought to myself, "the absolute state of things."
In the golden age of laughing at a fat bitch on the internet, ALR lied frequently and in verifiable ways, about basically everything. It was a great time. KF was "the place to be" for the tea because we archive, verify, and demonstrate excellence and purity of autism in our attention to detail.
I still maintain that KF is the place to be for the tea, but it's now also apparently the place to be if you're an unoriginal content-stealing faggot who posts KF findings in other places and present them as your own. There were no dedicated FB groups, no discord, no subreddit, even for a while, no reaction channels. Just public enemy number one KF, and the Karens in ALR's YT/YN comment section cooing about the hottest tea on the farms. There was no real hatred, just laughs.
Then the reactions began. KF is a faceless entity and the reaction channels all wanted to be the face, the figurehead of the "lol look at this fat asshole" movement. And they would openly cite KF, and its' info. At some point in the road they decided we are problematic, or at least decided their audience realized we are problematic and wanted to distance themselves to maintain their integrity as professional bullies. Never stopped citing KF info, however. Only stopped giving credit for it.
Once reaction channels bit the hand that fed them by declaring KF haram, there was a vacuum for tea communities. This desire for discussion away from toxic and problematic Kiwi Farms gave rise to the FB groups and subreddits, a place where Karen could flex on Amber about her four pound weight loss without being told to lurk moar faggot. Their existence, particularly on reddit, continues to fluctuate and the users are constantly at war with censorship, but anything is better than seeing the word nìgger on the internet.
In more recent history, Amber lost some weight, and is just puzzling and journaling her way through life without uploading as much, and Chantal decided to just do what we all know she wants to do, sit on camera in a wig eating. By merely chilling the fuck out and living their lives, and dare I say, engaging in what is dangerously close to non-lolcow behavior, they are creating an extinction event for reaction channels.
The cows aren't clapping back the way they used to, and the way the haydur nation wants them to, so they target any perceived slight or flaw no matter how uninteresting and harp the fuck on about it in an effort to forcibly mìlk the cows by inducing a chimpout. The way they demand attention from the prime cows and to "answer for" boring shit nobody cares about, and rally their army of Twitter followers to do the same, is wéenery, and it's cringe, and is responsible for hysterical top hat rage like "you caught a YOUfish FAT fucking BITCH



".
In summary, I agree that the golden age of reaction channels is over. And it's reaction channels that killed it. They are the cows now.