Sometimes, it’s about the perception of power, but these people tend to make the worst sorts of moderators. Sometimes, it’s about wanting to steer a community in a certain direction or to stabilise a community in the direction it’s already going in. As for me, I’ve gone through the first two, plus had a third path - I was effectively deputised as a moderator twice as a spam-catcher.

“LibsofTiktok” is clearly just a right wing actor making liberal viewpoints look stupid, yeah?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok