a few years ago on tumblr there was a clash between two different competing communities for their priority in the #liftblr hashtag. This got a lot of people really mad in those communiuties and unfortunately for everyone else, was really funny.
One type of liftblr was a community of fitness enthusiasts. They wanted to tag their posts with liftblr because that's how they tracked their gains and encouraged one another about how much lifting they were doing, to give and share advice about lifting.
One type of liftblr was a community of shoplifting enthusiasts. They wanted to tag their posts with liftblr because that's how they tracked their gains and encouraged one another about how much lifting they were doing, to give and share advice about lifting.
And that phrasing there is part of the problem, in that when they don't provide photos to attach to the post, it's very easy to lose track of exactly what someone is talking about on the liftblr tag. The collision was in part because both communities used the tag for a long time and it didn't get noticed immediately, with some members even communicating with one another and not quite understading why they weren't on the same page ("I don't lift at the gym, that's rude", "I'm only getting small gains right now, around 10 pounds in the past month,").
Anyway, my main memory of these communities crashing into one another and finally realising they have a problem with one another was watching the arguements about who should or shouldn't be in the tag, and making moral or structural cases for one another. There was also a lot of misogyny blended in there, because the shoplifters were largely swiping overpriced makeup and jewellery from big chain stores, and the weightlifters were largely the kind of people who can manage regular workouts as a hobby but also liked a website renowned for distributing gay pornography of Sherlock Holmes characters. But my favourite comment was from one gym-going weight-lifter chadbro, who wrote an impassioned if, uh, stereotypically simplistic post about this that concluded:
"They're not even stealing heavy things, bro!"
