For any/all of the ex-AF people spending time here who are coming to realize the 'movement' they were heavily involved in is pretty gay and cringe, I'd highly recommend you get away from politics for a little while and cool off.
It's summer, I assume most of you are college age, and there's not a better time to go spend some time with friends (or make some friends), make some money, and live like a real person.
I think- and I could be wrong- that a lot of the AF fanboys are terminally online with little or no connection to the irl world (friends, jobs, hobbies, etc.) and part of the reason they made such a diehard fanbase is because it perfectly compliments their lifestyle. As a movement they do nothing, the totality of their public engagement is a 3-day(?) annual convention which even furries beat, the real core is just sitting at home watching a podcast or shitposting on twitter- ie nothing.
What's more, (and I think this is where the cult meme comes from) it preaches a platform that reinforces the neet/incel/loser college student mentality as not just not bad, but actively good. Normies are the worst, women are evil, smug deflection is the height of debate, and maybe more than anything the idea it's sufficient political action to raise issues without offering solutions, which takes no effort at all and amounts to whining about why everyone else sucks without doing anything, a hallmark of self-proclaimed incel's ideology.
So, if you're waking up to the fact all this is pretty gay, your best bet to actually distance yourself from it is engage meaningfully with the world. Having a job is a lightning rod for reality checks so if you're coming home from uni for the summer, go on and get one. Same deal with friends, go hang with people and don't kill the mood by talking about inane politics. If you go sucked in to AF because you spent too long sitting focusing on the endless stream of dopamine hits from having your political/social opinions validated, get over your addiction and go be a real human bean
Of course, if you aren't attuned to any of this and the only reason you're leaving AF is that you perceived it as cool and hip before but it's getting made fun of now, feel free to just latch onto the next virtually identical personality/organization. I hear PPP is looking for viewers :^)
