Like, I remember as recently as 2016, that term was just used as a mocking term for weird larpers. Now, it's used as a term for people they want to purge from the left (yes, I'm using those words. How they're acting is literally the definition of purging, it doesn't have to include violence).
Subredditdrama has some alts from top subreddit mods running it. So makes sense.
I know they have politics and neoliberal mods on their roster.