I think he's part of a generation of obnoxious arrogant online nerds from the 1980s and 1990s - you know, the obnoxious "RTFM" crowd, the "I'm smart so I deserve to take advantage of people who are less smart than me" Fortune 500 symbol manipulators before the .com bubble burst - who became redundant in the age of visual media and what he's doing on Reddit right now is a kind of The Nerds' Revenge for him. All these "Nazis" he's targeting are just dumb teenagers being subjected to a form of psychological algorithmic manipulation unlike anything his generation ever experienced during the nascent civilian internet. That's why he's particularly gleeful about targeting younger people like the /r/detrans mods who are all literally half his age, those girls that run /r/detrans could've been his own daughters. Bardfinn hates these kids, not because they are "transphobes" or "Nazis" but because they make him feel old and irrelevant. These male midlifers with a midlife crisis that want to become women don't actually want to appropriate womanhood, they only want to appropriate youth because these narcissistic nerds are psychic vampires that never grew up and never want to grow old. It's about infantilism and a refusal to grow up rather than femininity.