>>7958972Because not doubling down and enshrining every unique thing about your board leads it to becoming part of the standardized culture that /pol/ and /r9k/ decided upon during the 2016 election. /sp/ was the largest victim of this, where at some points it was literally /pol/2. Even /int/ has become /polg/.
Old OC production was disorganized, like a small family farm. Modern industrialized focus groups that manufacture things like wojak variations work too efficiently for them to compete when they have organized discords and subreddits to coordinate their spread.
IDK really, that's just my thinking on the matter. I might be wrong.