do you believe imageboards can actually sustain a userbase the size of 4chan's without being shit?

its not even this board, everything is objectively worse than it used to be. mum brought up Q anon the other day for fucks sake. mainstream attention has lessened the quality of the individuals who actually post.

meme culture, AKA 'shitty referential humour', is itself not fucking funny either. why was 'i herd u like mudkipz' or advice puppy funny at all? if you're not explicitly trying to be in on the joke they're shit.