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forced creativity is inherently bad. There is a large demographic of 4chan users who worship OC and the result is cringe OC that stands no test of time. An era where this nature was in full swing was 2010~ /v/ with the rageface culture. I mean the /v/ rage character and not ragecomics. It was very cringe and unfunny because people had the mentality "OMG OC GOOD" and therefore there was a surplus of OC yet everything painfully mediocre. Because "oc good", mediocre was allowed to thrive and it was never criticized. These people are who yotsubajak is targeting and is why yotsubajak was created btw.
The opposite of rageface culture was soijak culture (I am saying this because it's true, not because /qa/ is the topic) in that early soijak culture (2019-2020) had soijak tempered and strengthened by clever contrarians. Go dig in the /int/ archives, those og jakkers were narcissist losers and not doing it for laughs. It attracted those clever intelligent people because that first group we talked about, the "oc good" group, would freak out and lose their shit over wojak sitewide, hence yotsubajak was created.
/qa/'s death started when it became obvious to the outside that it was actually a funposting contrarian culture meant to screw with people, then the "AAAH WOJAK BAD" crowd bent the knee and /qa/ was now open to the public. Some people tell me that Wholesomejak caused this death, because wholesomejak and the humor around him is what made it obvious what /qa/ really was.
The final stage was when buck breaking + keyed/locked failed. It caused word around the street on /tv/ to be, "/tv/ sucks now. /qa/ is the real meme powerhouse these days!" and underage retards, managed to get into jakking. Captcha sticky played a part in killing /qa/ too.
/qa/ is now gone but by the end it was spiritually dead. There were no new variants (last variant was cob, he's from half a year ago) and all that remains is onions party. Impressive that an OC culture lasted that long though.
