Exactly. While alot of my friends, online and otherwise, spent their time making fun of (under the guise of critique obviously) Christians and Muslims, I usually spent my time arguing with other supposed atheists, because I mistakenly thought the point was to interrogate poor thinking, not just dunk on obviously stupid ideas.

Like, the largest problem for me was that people would treat the Bible as some sort of unerring word or first hand account, when any honest Biblical scholar knows and talks about how that clearly isn't the case. But the fact that it isn't the case makes the world a much more rich and complex place, as opposed to flat and simplistic. In the same way, many online atheists were bound and determined to make Christians and Muslims into flat and simplistic caractures as opposed to trying to understand the logic and mechanisms of social faith. This limited perspective is what made me think the movement was doomed to fail and sputter out, even as a high schooler. We had abandoned philosophy in exchange for science, without understanding that science is a method of philosophy, thus making our understanding more incomplete.