>>2553547It was designed to be /pol/'s lounge and off-topic thread repository, but it became deformed over time. /bant/ is an anomaly. It has all of /pol/'s DNA and none of its creativity. What this board has mutated into is something that's not 4chan. It's a human centipede that's crawling along the floor screaming in agony, begging to be put out of its misery.