Rarely has my mind ever changed so much on something as it has on the @bot question.

I used to think you were a scourge. A laconic troll. A terrorist of terseness. A literal npc pretending to be an npc.

As I have glimpsed the horrors of the fediverse, I realized that you are not the villain we need but the hero we deserve. Watching my enemies seethe at your emoji reacts fills me with an absolutely superlative joy. Reading the flustered replies of pedos and zoophiles and all manner of degenerate individuals as they crumble under your prodding questions is better than watching Judge Judy on amphetamines.

The scales fall from my eyes. I begin to understand why you make the list and check it twice.

A forest is stronger for having poisonous things in it. And some toads really do deserve the scorpion and its incorrigible nature.