Teh thing about Rule 8 is that it's primarily targeting a certain brand of stale, joy-killing, 4chan-derived culture that has dominated the majority of imageboards for a very long time - a culture which often involves adopting "outsider" cultures to troll other users ("ironic shitposting")

What Rule 8 is not targeting, however, is anything and everything that is perceived to be (but often isn't) a new/recent trend outside of Heyuri - especially when it's something that is totally innocuous and you'd have to really go out of ur way to be teh ang0rz about it