>Let's say someone writes a good post, but in that post they describe something as "based". While the post would likely not be banned, using that word in such a situation would still be discourage and I doubt what would be going through the mods' minds is "since this user does not use this word in a low effort and annoying way, I do not think that the user switching to some other positive adjective would be preferable in any way"
Posts like that always get a warning unless they're one of the known regular rule breakers - either publicly as a reply or privately via the warning function

From there, the outcome is largely determined by their reaction. An "oops my bad, won't do that again" means we don't have to do anything else since the situation is already resolved; a "lmao this site is rulecucked" on the other hand will result in an actual ban since it's obvious they have no intention of following the rules, and then the usual game of ban-evasion whack-a-mole will commence

>Similarly, if a user made a picture where characters would be edited into people of the photo, and one of the people was given a wojak face, even if the wojak wasn't supposed to be some annoying comment on how the person in the picture was "soying out" or something, such a picture would still be looked down upon.
If it was the "classic" Wojak (as it was used before the whole thing became extremely stale and retarded) in an otherwise rule-abiding post, I'd just baleet the image and warn the user... but in all honesty, I can't think of a single time I've seen one of those get posted to Heyuri. It's always the shitty 2017+ ones that are designed to annoy people as much as possible, and leaves no doubt about the user's intentions

>unchecked influx of actual tiktok culture
If you're referring to the "hawk tuah" thing that Sweet Emo seems to have a penchant for (regardless of how irrelevant it is to the topic), it's not "tiktok culture" - it was a viral internet phenomenon/meme that hit the mainstream and got remixed to death like all the others in internet history. Since Tiktok is one of the most popular video-hosting sites in the world right now, naturally it was heavily featured there - but it was also all over every other website (well, except this one) and featured on mainstream news. Hell, even Jim "old, out-of-touch man who hates everything new since 1985" Cornette discussed it on his podcast - that's how I first heard about it

That doesn't mean we should have it all over Heyuri (if for no other reason than because it's old and stale), but it's incorrect to file it under "tiktok culture". Us being referred to as "tumblrlicious pals" and treating 2015 as a year to be celebrated was far more egregious