>>8406872Sometimes you can tell by the way they make their posts, but yeah I know what you mean.
I've been posting on and off on /bant/ since about July 2017, not long after the board was first made. I was a devout /b/tard before that but moved to here due to all the porn (so same reason as you I guess).
Back then /bant/ was only at about 1.2 million posts and apu and cirno dominated this board. Especially cirno. You don't see either of them on here now anywhere near as often as you used to. Frenposting was also quite common back then, but now it's very rare.
There have been a lot of notable namefags that have and come and gone too, although some seem to periodically return, like PD and Kureizy.
>tl;dr /bant/ has changed a lot since it's first days