Hey /lig/, it's been a while since I did a metafaggotry post like this, so here we go.
It's our 6 month anniversary today (or half-anniversary, I guess). In that spirit I went on a bit of an excursion through the archives and reread all of the old /lig/ threads from January 25th to an arbitrary cutoff point mid-June. And it was a lot of fun, honestly.
Seeing /lig/ go from its humble beginnings as a small general that everyone assumed would die and be reabsorbed into its parent threads in a week, with about two dozen IPs and a speed of ~1 thread a day (it was a little nostalgic seeing my old posts, even if it was only 6 months ago). To the beast it is now - ~80 IPs and a turnover of ~5 threads a day, often contending for 3rd fastest thread on the board.
I made reams of notes about it, actually. Jotted down information about posts I found interesting, general trends of discussion about chuubas and flagged up periods of time where we saw a real increase in posts/IP counts.
I did a huge writeup on my findings. But upon going over it I realized it was very dry, lots of factoids and information that required a lot of context and /lig/ history to make sense. So I scrapped it. And it's kind of a shame, because I had a great conspiracy theory in there about how the stand up comedian anon was actually a /here/posting chuuba.
Anyway, considering that the majority of this thread likely has crippling ADHD (and probably hasn't even read this far) and this IS an imageboard, I made something much more digestible.
Presenting "6 months in /lig/gerland" - a big, messy collage of all out OP images in (more or less) chronological order, too big for gookmoot's bandwidth.
>https://files.catbox.moe/ft9q9z.pngA couple of caveats; it's got a transparency layer as its background (but defaults to awful off-white on catbox) so you can lift and shift if you want, duplicate OP pictures (of which there were only 4 or 5) have been removed and there is also a slight chance some OPs were missed (no subject or poorly linked to other /lig/ threads) but this is the vast majority of them.
Hopefully you can look at this and interpret any number of things about the chuubas that were/are discussed, how /lig/ tastes and memes have changed over the threads (RIP Sully, you live on in our hearts), the unexpected longevity of the thread, when certain 'historic' moments in /lig/ happened or just appreciate how much OC this thread puts out - barely any of the OP images weren't some description of shitpost made in /lig/.
Even if you can't do any of the above, maybe you can at least see an old OP image you recognize and go "Oh yeah I remember that thread! It's the one where that anon larped as Cimrai!" or "Those are the threads where Saruei got drunk and pissed on stream and the detective ringoanons isolated the audio!" "What good times we had!".
Well I've rambled enough, so I'll leave you with this.
Whether you've been /here/ day 1 fresh off the boat from /wvt/ or /vsj+/, you came over during DiveGrass, you're a summerfag just here for the shitposting season or maybe this is your first day in the thread - this is /lig/, we discuss independent vtubers and pee shivers. Welcome in, enjoy stay, I love it here and I'll do this again in another 6 months.
Also, Momotexx has never had an OP dedicated to her, somebody be a pal and make the poor girl some OC 