>>402877I think it was a combination of a lot of things, and they all just happened to coalesce at the exact same time.
>death of forum culture following the centralization of the internet into Facebook-Twitter-Reddit paradigm>loss of the old guard on 4chan as site changes hands and mods quit en masse>boomers introduced to internet outside of chain emails thanks to Trump campaign>more normies and third worlders using the internet than ever thanks to smart phones>monetization of everythingAnd it's only been made worse in 2020 thanks to rona bullshit. You can't even create fake accounts on most social media platforms anymore without them requiring a phone number or shadowbanning you. The internet went from the wild west to China-tier dystopia in less than a decade.
