/bant/ is great because it does it's own thing. While the rest of 4chan is being obsessed with internet culture from sites like reddit and YouTube, /bant/ is just being itself. This is why old /b/ was great, because nobody cared what was going on in the surrounding world besides organized trolling events. Even when things are shit here, it's our shit. The rest of 4chan is shit, but it's covered in a pile of shit from everywhere else making it more disgusting.