I don't know if anyone has already said this yet, but without seeing how many brofists each post ITT has received, I feel no desire to read through it whatsoever.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
It's a good thing. You're being weaned from your addiction to what are essentially Facebook likes.
Forum software "like" functionality suddenly and not coincidentally became popular around the same time Facebook became hugely popular. Also not coincidentally, this was around the same time Internet forums were flooded with housewives who'd discovered the Internet thanks to Facebook and advancing cell phone technology. I know this because I've owned my own forum for some time and watched it happen.
All farcical bullshitting about agenda-based Brofisting aside, forum "likes" do indeed encourage declined behaviors such as pandering for likes, sycophancy, constant reposting from Reddit's front page, etc. I'm on record stating this years ago here on the Codex, though good luck finding it thanks to the shitty new forum search functionality. That said, Brofists will be back sooner rather than later. It's impossible to completely eradicate decline once it's wormed its way into the fabric of forum culture.
Surely the answer to all this is to make brofists invisible only for Blaine.
Interesting you should mention that, because they are. I blocked them with AdBlock a long time ago, and only occasionally unhide them during big gay arguments to see which polesmoking sycophants are cumswapping Brofists back and forth with each other.