>>53900732Disclaimer, 4chan's never been perfect. What people know of it are just snapshots of the best moments giving the illusion that it was all golden. It was plenty shit back then, it's just gotten a whole lot shittier since thanks to newfags shitting up the place with their very presence.
>Everywhere else is just a red board in disguise. Was it always like this?Normalfags lack a creative drive, they're animals in human form. Sadly, normalfags have infested 4chan, and all animals are driven by lust, so horny is ever present.
>memesThose still happen, just not as much now that normalfags are here. Normalfags would rather spam the same old wojaks, OC scares them unless it's a fotm fad like bowsette or mousely.
>big projects>concentrated autismI'm not sure what you mean by "big projects", unless you mean something on the scale of Pokemon Clover, which is quite an exception. But they're, as above, diluted by the normalfags.
/qst/ is one of the few boards that acts as a natural normalfag repellant. It's all creativity all the time, something the non-player characters lack. Although it's odd you'd voice this in these threads of all places, which are a cut above most of 4chan in those terms.