I went through a similar situation on reddit. I was part of a small community, and the sub creator decided to talk about how certain vendors were “raping us” with overpricing.

I pointed it out, and they went full blast on me, called me evil, claimed to be a survivor, and did all possible mental gymnastics to blame me for making their life harder (because they were “having panic attacks” having been reminded of their victimhood by my callout?).

I don’t know… but at least all the adjacent subs used my case as a bullet point in his multi-sub ban argument.