It's the forum cycle. You create a new forum/subreddit/discord or whatever and it's fun, everyone is getting on swimmingly and nothing is being said that's cause for debate.
Then gradually over time, rot sets in. Either through too many new users joining or people getting a little 'too' comfortable with the company and start posting shit that causes tensions in the general group.
So at some point, the admin of the forum/discord decides that it's a little too uncomfortable and cleaning up these messes every fucking week isn't fun anymore, they just want to chill with friends and log off and go do cool shit in their free time, not clean up shit from toilets like a jannie.
So enter the autistic mod, someone who is a decent part of the community and is always online and is fairly trustworthy. The admin goes and gives them a mod role and then fucks off into the sunset. The forum continues seemingly as normal because nobody is noticing any drama, but typically it's because once the mod is in control they go around banning or censoring others and becoming more and more powerful as time has gone on. The admin has noticed that they're doing a good job so that's that.
Now, either the mod in question was a tranny or they've got tranny friends (because trannies are mostly autistic and aspies stick together like flies on dogshit) so when the first mod says they need more help to moderate said discord/forum whatever and they know a guy who is capable of doing it, the admin happily obliges.
And boom, out of nowhere you've got at least one tranny on the team and either it'll get worse from there or they'll use their tokenism to keep their power. Either way, the whole place is cursed and that's the end of that fun ride.