This term seemed to pop up spontaneously and become common place a few months ago in response to inaccurate date predictions. How did the repulsion against datefagging become so popular? Why the negative connotation?

I understand that for practicality sake date predictions will probably be inaccurate but I still think it should be a positive thing to try, and give people some hope for upcoming dates. Yes, some people will be sad or doom if it doesn't happen but a part of that symptom is from putting too much hope into the dates, rather than a balanced amount of hope and skepticism.

I see lots of shy posts with sentiments like "I hate to datefag but..." or "I'm not a datefagger but..."

People seem to be generally hopeful but scared to get shit on for predicting dates with optimism. I don't think this should be discouraged. People should not be scared to speculate on specific dates of things happening. The Q posts naturally encourage timing and dates.

So in my opinion, go ahead and datefag proudly while emphasizing both skepticism and hope as long as it doesn't break the rules.

Doomer side of post, warning Another theory I've had in the back of my mind is that this term was rigorously and nefariously pushed through this forum by very intelligent people so that we continue to hold out hope until Trump/Q is back in public power, only to find out later that we were just continuing to get herded along with no end in sight until we had lost without even putting up a fight, and so any attempt to predict a certain date would undermine the mysteriously timed and spontaneous nature of the Q plan that would never come. So this is one of the reasons why datefagging is discouraged. (Don't get your panties in a bunch, people are allowed to understand both sides, expanding your mind is one of the rules.)

Do I believe that theory? Not really because of the fundamentals of the Q posts regarding doing research and learning about things. This doesn't equate that Q is just a way for people to become complacent or be herded along until the commies/cabal etc. are in full control.

But anyway it's more likely that there is a negative connotation about datefagging just because people don't like to be disappointed and become doomers. I think if you 'datefag' with skepticism and hope, it only helps to strengthen the general resolve.