A form of social punishment where an individual is subjected to mass judgment and condemnation by an entire community they once belonged to. Running the Community Gauntlet typically occurs when someone violates community norms, expresses an unpopular opinion, or becomes the target of a coordinated campaign. The experience involves being argued against by multiple members simultaneously, receiving hostile messages, being publicly shamed in community spaces, and ultimately being ostracized or expelled. Unlike public social media gauntlets, community gauntlets happen in spaces where the victim had relationships, history, and belonging—making the betrayal deeper and the trauma more profound. The community that was once home becomes a source of relentless attack, and the victim must either endure, leave, or be forcibly removed.
Example: "She'd been a forum member for seven years, knew everyone, trusted them. Then she expressed a nuanced opinion that didn't fit the community's line. Suddenly she was running the community gauntlet: old friends arguing with her, moderators issuing warnings, private messages turning hostile. The community she'd called home became a hunting ground. She left, but the wounds remained."
by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026
Get the Running the Community Gauntlet mug.As someone who's in this for a decent time now, this community has devolved from being kind and effortful to being targeted by the slow corruption: characters will magically become unlikable just so that JnJ's air-quote deity, Pin, can actually get an advantage!
On the subreddit, say anything bad about our deity (Pin)? Get the whole army of her glazers mocking and harassing you in the comments!
This show has lost all of it's original charm: flanderization, vote rigging (making characters act like dipshits just to get them out, as they're in said deity's way or JnJ just hates them inside), and a community slightly less toxic than Twitter's makes 2024 BFDIA kinda suck...
On the subreddit, say anything bad about our deity (Pin)? Get the whole army of her glazers mocking and harassing you in the comments!
This show has lost all of it's original charm: flanderization, vote rigging (making characters act like dipshits just to get them out, as they're in said deity's way or JnJ just hates them inside), and a community slightly less toxic than Twitter's makes 2024 BFDIA kinda suck...
Based off of a true story
Goofy example of how toxic the community is sometimes:
1) Some poor redditor: Makes Pin get an F on their tier list
Pin, the air-quote "deity": nuh uh
*Summons her whole fanbase to harass him in the comments section*
Me: Are they intentionally making her go through this just to get random characters out? That's just the Post-Hiatus BFDIA Community, I guess.
Goofy example of how toxic the community is sometimes:
1) Some poor redditor: Makes Pin get an F on their tier list
Pin, the air-quote "deity": nuh uh
*Summons her whole fanbase to harass him in the comments section*
Me: Are they intentionally making her go through this just to get random characters out? That's just the Post-Hiatus BFDIA Community, I guess.
by Urban Opinions (Not affiliated December 25, 2024
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A community on yt and tiktok that consists of mentally troubled teens or just furries making short animations to audios. Also there are cringey chronically online edgy teens who glaze problematic memers like toffuxx and birdie and jewc zone, either that or someone overrated has a cutesy style and 90% they end up being into loli or zoophilia or being a groomer + only 5% of animation memes are good so I don't recommend. The kids in this community are very suseptible to grooming because of being desensitised to furries putting weird coomer bait crap in their animation memes. Only 1% of the amc is chill and that percentage doesn't even like to associate with the communjty
by shmiigyツ January 1, 2025
Get the Animation meme community mug.A community on yt and tiktok that consists of mentally troubled teens or just furries making short animations to audios. Also there are cringey chronically online edgy teens who glaze problematic memers like toffuxx and birdie, either that or someone overrated making head bop memes has a cutesy style and 90% they end up being into loli or zoophilia or being a groomer or was groomed into being problematic + only 5% of animation memes are good so I don't recommend. The kids in this community are very suseptible to grooming because of being desensitised to furries putting weird coomer bait crap in their animation memes and they forgive too easily (or theres a 50% chance they will cry abt something did 5 years ago). Fortunately there is a small minority less than 10% of animation memers who are chill and don't associate with the community.
by shmiigyツ January 1, 2025
Get the Animation meme community mug.A community full of edgy teens and adults with 12-year-old middle schooler behavior (they never grow up), that makes Old Roblox Revivals but something suspicious of those revivals in the community is the old roblox revival clients contain viruses such as malware, spyware, trojan and can remote access your PC, the members of the community with malicious intentions would threaten, humiliate, witch hunt, harass, dox and RAT anyone, and worst of all, the members can be racist and ableist to anyone.
Don't join that fucking community for your own safety, sanity and mental health.
Don't join that fucking community for your own safety, sanity and mental health.
Person 1: Bro what happened with you and The Old Roblox Community that you told me about?
Person 2: I was harassed, discriminated because of my skin color, witch hunted, doxxed and got my PC ratted by the Old Roblox Community for no reason
Person 1: Dang, that's not good, I have a friend who has a bad experience with that community too, that community is a hellhole, maybe I should consider leaving the community too for the sake of my safety and sanity of my mental health.
Person 2: I was harassed, discriminated because of my skin color, witch hunted, doxxed and got my PC ratted by the Old Roblox Community for no reason
Person 1: Dang, that's not good, I have a friend who has a bad experience with that community too, that community is a hellhole, maybe I should consider leaving the community too for the sake of my safety and sanity of my mental health.
by Pancakes55556 February 28, 2025
Get the The Old Roblox Community mug.A community full of edgy degenerate teens and adults with 12-year-old middle schooler behavior (They never grow the fuck up) and would dox, harass, discriminate, humiliate/make fun of, and be a racist and/or a bigot and make false accusations to any innocent person who joins the community, the community makes Old Roblox Revivals but something bad about the revivals are containing malware, spyware, and/or trojan, the Old Roblox Revival websites database can be leaked depends on the level of security on the website, and the worst part is a Remote Access Trojan in the Old Roblox Revival clients. And the darker side of the Old Roblox Community is creeps and pedophiles that groom children (13+ and Under 13) in the community and/or outside the community.
Don't join that community for the sake of your safety, sanity and mental health.
Don't join that community for the sake of your safety, sanity and mental health.
Person 1: Bro, what happened to you? You look depressed as hell, no offense though.
Person 2: My mental health has been ruined by The Old Roblox Community.
Person 2: My mental health has been ruined by The Old Roblox Community.
by Pancakes55556 February 28, 2025
Get the The Old Roblox Community mug.A fork of the OSC involving alive celestial bodies.
Started out as a comic in March 2017 and is still alive to this day and even has multiple Discord servers involving this community.
Despite this it's been a target of certain communities.
Started out as a comic in March 2017 and is still alive to this day and even has multiple Discord servers involving this community.
Despite this it's been a target of certain communities.
by Pluto2022 May 4, 2025
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