>>1166443The Cirnoposters were originally hardly discernible from the Cirnofags (people who just like Cirno, read most "weeb" modern Cirnopsters) and initially shared heavy overlap, and both would group together in /jp/ and exchange conversation, Cirno threads notorious for veering on at the time tolerated non-otaku related discussions because damn it man you can only talk about the mechanisms behind Cirno's freezing for so many times before it's been said and done. The Cirnofags, while very different in constitution, had their own type of charm. They were the artists, the artisans, the movers and shakers who inspired the getposters to continue their crusades in spite of criticism, and they made OC, both for themselves, as well as for the Getposters, as well as snuck traces of Cirno into whatever they touched. This would lead to Cirno getting a full range of reaction images, allowing her to be used in a similar fashion to conventional memes like trollface and what would later become Pepe the Frog. 2012 was the year that GETposting reached its apex, and for a while everything seemed pretty sweet. A prolific artist known as the Ambassador of Gensokyo had gotten a banner with Cirno on it featured after hosting a series of Cirno AMAs, and Cirno had even gotten a games where she was a playable character such as GFW and Hisoutensoku (see: /v/ Hisoutensoku threads, which contained the Cirnofag Atai who was the only one among their number confirmed to actually know how to play the game she came from). Things were looking up, and the year afterward /jp/ was noted by Moot himself as the model example of how a board should be ran, the Cirnoposters happy to be part of the show. It was thought it would be that way for the discernible future, but Moot, or one of his subordinates had other ideas.
