It's all about the SJW hugbox narrative. If you aren't of the SJW/Feminist/hugbox offenditron way of thinking, you are "the evil". One of the real reasons why /r/punchablefaces was stolen? Because it represented a quickly growing consensus of people who were sick of political correctness. /r/punchablefaces would not have been as popular as it was if there wasn't this huge outside "don't harass people" (sub SJW) movement for "not being a huge shithead". "don't harass people" started out really strong, I remember when I first heard about it and the arguments for it were great. It was all about those who were constantly being bullied for no other reason than having a face to come to terms with who they were so the bullying wouldn't get to them. That was the good. But the evil that followed it eclipsed any bullying could ever achieve. It was the glorification and celebration of an unhealthy lifestyle -further, any criticism of that lifestyle was "hugboxed" out as bigotry and harassment. This all has been going on in concert with other "SJW" camps of thinking and it all goes hand in hand. /r/punchablefaces was a circle jerky anti-PC subreddit first, and a "punch people in the face" subreddit second. Its popularity is what they were attacking- a space on the internet where all of these people from vastly different walks of life coming together attacking a grossly skewed and damaging ideology. Claim it was brigading, flooding or harassment, srs (pbuf) shut the entire subreddit down without any archiving of evidence.

I witnessed all of this first hand as I'd lurk for motivation to not having a punchable face. 60k subscribers, remember that number and reflect on it. That number is what the hugbox was scared of, not the actions of any individual person.