IIRC, the general timeline is that GZD went from "fuck Russia but fuck NATO more" to "critical support" to "omg baZed!" back to between the first and second ones again after the mods started cleaning house (since Reddit going full-on Stepan Bandera drove lots of Russian nationalists and Putin sympathizers into the safe refuges). Whether mods did it out of genuine principle or because Reddit quarantined the sub IDK