Let me tell you this-- showderp is one of the most malevolent, cruel, coldhearted online communities you'll ever find, and even as a supporter of free speech it appalls me that Pokémon Showdown would allow such a vile, festering hub of bigotry and sadism to exist. You think Frost was bad? That server, if you pick up on the dog-whistles (and many don't even bother with that-- say want you want about Stormfront, at least it bans "n[slur]"), will reveal itself to you as Pokémon Showdown's number one hub for the web's most hardened Nazis, Klansmen, Fascists, and Gamergaters. You'll notice in the OP that it encourages members to be as dramatic as possible. That's intentional. They encourage arguments in the battle chat. That's intentional. You know the Three Minute Hate (it's from this underrated book 1985, give it a read, it's scary how much it parallels our society)? It's like that, they want to stoke the flames of reactionary rage so they continue to dogpile every progressive and minority who enters the battle, normalizing these evil feelings. They brigade from battle to battle, having an entire cabal of mods spanning hundreds of communities, gaslighting lived experiences of the oppressed and unashamedly bolstering Pokémon Showdown's homegrown white supremacy movement. They've kink-shamed hundreds of people too, some even... to death. I fear that showderp may be producing an entire army of Dylann Roofs and Elliot Rogers, and I highly suggest that nobody dares visit that horrible room, lest you potentially fall victim to its corruptive aura.
