There's definitely a toxicity issue with hexbear tankies. One of them linked me a video saying it was the "funniest sh*t they've ever seen". It was of a cartoon grandpa turning himself into a pickle. Just simple commentary about the lengths men will go to avoid self-criticism, even absurdly becoming a pickle which isn't scientifically possible. I have seen funnier things and more intelligent cartoons WITHOUT needing to resort to profanity to share them. Rhetorical violence is all they know.
When you live in a country with 70 million fascists but you're researching a tankie message board with ~1k active posters you have reached a novel and as yet unwitnessed lack of seriousness.
He hasn't included Hexbear by name in the most recent "FRAMES OF MISINFORMATION, EXTREMISM, & CONSPIRACISM A Purposive Sample of Social-Media Channels, Discussion Forums, and Web Pages December 2023 Monthly Summary" but he DID get funding from the National Institute of Justice for the next 3 years of Frames reports so maybe we will get featured again. (https://ysu.edu/news/ysu-receives-award-national-institute-justice-research-violent-and-accelerationist-discourse)