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Troper seems to have an agenda

Some of Matitya's actions imply a certain political agenda. I'm not sure if any of this is worthy of mod attention, but users on the ROCEJ thread suggested that I make an ATT query about this.

• They seem to have a fascination with infamous conservative commentator Matt Walsh, having created a now-cut Useful Notes page for him, as well as pages for his works Johnny the Walrus and What Is A Woman (which was cut due to lacking properly-written examples). These last two works are infamous for being Anviliciously anti-transgender.
• On top of creating the page for Johnny the Walrus (which on its own is not that concerning, you can neutrally trope a work without agreeing with its message), they also created Awesome and Heartwarming moments subpages, which imply that they agree with the book's message.
• What Is A Woman?'s YMMV page also had some suspiciously-worded examples. One that I pointed out in the ROCEJ thread:
  • Uncertain Audience: Walsh’s documentary was meant to expose the falsehoods and harms of left-wing general ideology to the general populace but the film is still behind the Daily Wire’s paywall. Needless to say, people who made paid subscriptions to The Daily Wire likely agreed with Walsh about this already.
  • The way this is written makes it sound like Matitya agrees that left-wing ideology is harmful and full of falsehoods, and only criticizes the decision to distribute it through a service that prevents more moderate viewers from being exposed to its message.
• As shown in this previous ATT query, Matitya has replaced some characters' neopronouns with "he/him".
• And finally, they rarely, if ever, use WikiWords, instead always using curly brackets to link to tropes.

On their own, any of these things would only be mildly concerning and easy to brush off, but together, I feel like they may be painting a picture of an anti-transgender agenda. Again, I'm not sure if there's anything mods can or should do here, but bringing this up was suggested so I'm doing it anyway.