Yeah, But is Tailwind a Cult Tho?

I’ve been a part of “cults” before, whether that’s being a total Apple fanboy or a total Ruby fanboy or—perhaps more recently—a total web components fanboy.

So as the seemingly never-ending debate over Tailwind CSS continues to rage on, some haters of Tailwind hurl accusations that Tailwind is a “cult” and überfans are responsible for perpetuating it. Even pro-Tailwind promoters are getting in on the act, as a recent blog author states: “I’m in a cult, but hey, I’m happy, and this Kool-Aid tastes delicious.”

Now I’ve made a name for myself I suppose as a frequent critic of Tailwind, so you might think I’d point to this and say “Haha, you said it, you’re in a cult! Pwned!” But I think we need to be careful here. Lots of people get excited about all sorts of technologies and tools. If we actually believe that a fan community has crossed a line, we need to be careful to point it out in a reasonable manner and back that up with hard evidence.

So here you go. I will now endeavor to present hard evidence in the form of YouTube comments on Adam Wathan’s keynote at the recent Tailwind Connect conference. I simply scrolled through the list of comments and pulled out anything that seemed, er, rather in the direction of sounding cult-like. Does this prove Tailwind is a cult? Well, you be the judge!*

(* Actually, I will also be the judge but I will hide my commentary behind disclosures. Feel free to ignore! 😉)

Shoutouts from the Fans Cult Members? #

Everyone that can afford buying Tailwind UI should do it. These people deserve that and more.

nothing but love for the tailwind team and the extended community - you both revolutionised styling and allowed me to go from struggling with maintanance to getting creative with ease. I salute you, and am excited for what else is in store! Thank you from the bottom of my heart

Steve is so smart when it comes to design. Dude is literally a genius. By far one of the best designers on the web right now.

The greatest thing about Tailwind for me as a beginner was I didn’t have to discover what were the best ways to achieve some things, Tailwind had already done the hard task of figuring out browser compatibility issues and on top the most amazing tech documentation I have seen anywhere. Also not to forget that I haven’t had to deal with any bugs whatsoever. You guys are amazing.

Tailwind is hands down the best thing that ever happened to css. Thank you 👏

Adam Watham is turning into Gigachad with all the self-improvement and I’m all for it!

Tailwind team is the definition of the perfection

Glad to see they’re striving for the ultimate DX.

Just wanna start using Tailwind CSS. Can’t wait to get into it.
Just love it already 🥰💯

“My vision for what I want to help people with Tailwind which is build CUSTOM stuff” -Adam
that’s why I use tailwind since his first release, I never use css frameworks, no bootstrap, no anything, until I discover tailwind! because I’d always want CUSTOM stuff, thank you Adam!

Always a joy to listen to Adam

After i tried tailwind i couldnt stop using it, i use it for everything to the point where I feel like im forgetting vanilla css syntax 😂

after an year of raw CSS i switched to tailwind css and felt like heaven

Adam and the team, you’re all just awesome. Thank you.. Adam and the team, you’re all just awesome. Thank you..

I think Tailwind should just become the new css standard, like even when am in vanilla css, I check tailwind for documentation on the css property!

Great product glad to be alive and see the revolution of css hahah 😂 to tailwind

The single most revolutionising architecture ever created …

OK, I’m calling it.*

👉 Tailwind is a cult. 👈

(* Also I’m sick of scrolling through all those creepy YouTube comments. Yeeesh!)