Their chickens are coming home to roost.
They have quite a bit to answer for and not to the woke mobs they are scared of now. These mobs are simply the fruits of what they started many years ago.
It was subtle but not unnoticed that their protagonist was a precocious teenager. Adult were none to bright and the dimest of them all was naturally the father figure, Homer. If any brightness was displayed by adults Marge would be standing ready.
Subtle undermining of authority and the nuclear family aimed at children and teens.
And now they are reaping their harvest. Scared of being cancelled we now see them pandering to the woke masses they helped create.