>>72501944IMO it's because this board is full of people who have never used another board and only came because of Youtube videos. The same thing that happened to /k/, basically. You're giving posters way too much credit by assuming they're not complete newfags (i.e. they're just a secret 4chan subculture with no edge that no one has ever seen before). The off-site communities /vt/ intersects with are much safer and more sensitive than you get with other tourism boards like /biz/, /mu/, /x/, etc., so assuming these behaviors are from the natives strikes me as an unusual "best guess."