>>4558191It's not polite to bring the dirty laundry of one board to the next, but
>>4558310has it best. /r9k/'s own obsessions with depression and self-loathing were, if not the prime cause, certainly not helping matters in his final decision, and I can certainly tell you that anime predated the depressive era that the board is currently known for and during that time there were no verified suicides committed.
It is an unfortunate case. /r9k/'s current culture is a mixture of attempting to act smug with their privileges and supposed lack of vices that the rest of society must suffer through while not so subtly desiring a life of responsibility that would preclude having their supposed "benefits", and certainly anyone with intelligence can see through the lie they project and that has earned them many enemies, including the gayposting discord of /a/, /qa/, and /bant/ itself, as a person who gloats over his lack of responsibility yet wishes to have higher purpose in life in different breaths reeks of a hypocracy that would be hard for a kind man to swallow, let alone the cynics of 4chan.
The end result is that you have the board itself encouraging self-defeat and resigning to their imaginary throne, other boards constantly deriding them and wanting nothing to due with them or even worsening their board out of spite due to the nonsensical message they preach, and given /r9k/'s current success as the "face of 4chan in the current era" via the frog and Wojak, a pressure to keep face less they fall into irrelevancy which further stresses them and convinces them that their current course of action is needed or they'll fall out of the public eye of a Japanese Image Board which they hold in high regard.
All that together is a recipe for stress.
