>>2578299They rarely have much of an impact in the long run, at least.
The effect you see, after a decade or so of watching this kind of stuff happen, is that about 99% of the newfags from an explosion peel away by the end of the year. We're almost a year into it since the big blowup, and at least 2/3rds of the newfags have been filtered out by this point, and by that I mean the legions of dead subs and initial interests that died off.
The remaining group, that gets strained through the times and filtered out, they just settle into the existing communitites and either adapt or die off, with a small few becoming schizophrenics.
That's how it tends to go with any community that has barriers of entry. It can get worse if the creators are desperate for recapturing that blowup and twist themselves silly trying to do it, but that doesn't typically happen often anymore; over the last three years there seems to have been a move towards trying to preserve the unique qualities of a hobby while bringing it into the spotlight by highlighting it's complexity or barriers to entry as a selling point. So I don't think newfags are as big of a problem as many want them to be. Mostly just retards using the guise of newfaggotry to shitpost, with the occasional retard who actually fits the mold, while most adapt to the communities and try to blend in.