Reddit users are kind of self-important. Reddit fosters this culture. You write something, and a whole bunch of people give you points when they agree with what you said. Which makes you want to deliberately write stuff you think people will agree with sometimes at the complete expense of logic, then constantly refresh your user screen every five seconds and watch yourself get points. Those points mean that people like you, listen to your opinions, and that you’re important.

So when a Reddit user thinks an issue is big and monumental, that Reddit user doesn’t understand that Reddit is this tiny, tiny little corner of the Internet, and that the Internet is a tiny, tiny slice of the real world, and therefore, this big issue of theirs is entirely insignificant. Reddit users genuinely believe that The Red Pill is some kind of massive, dangerous movement that absolutely must be confronted and stopped.

They genuinely think that Red Pill advocates, or anyone for that matter, actually cares if they go “undercover” to “research” The Red Pill, so they can write some kind of defamatory book to warn the world about some small subreddit on this tiny corner of this small slice of the world that nobody except for their little circle of Internet buddies cares about or has even heard about. They genuinely believe they, and this issue they’ve undertaken to confront, are so important, and that they can change hearts and minds in the crusade for social justice.