>>108974233/vt/ never had a chance, boards used to have unique cultures but due to aggressive tourism they became overrun and many had the life choked out of them. /vt/ had a good few years but the malaise eventually caught up to us so we too fell. There were many factors, the metastasis of /#/, phasebeggars, dramafags, niji implosion, vshojo's perfidy and a growing trend of negativity time loops. The black swan event was the hack and subsequent exodus, frustration had been growing, amplified by the April fools event and when alternatives presented themselves the embers of passion that had been buried for so long suddenly roared into life once more and it was clear they could never burn this way on /vt/ again. The death knell tolled and /vt/ is now much the same as the other boards unable to protect their culture, a shell of its former self.