>>183713
having been there i truly do not believe phoneposting was anywhere near as devastating for the site as what came later, even gamergate was a drop in the bucket. the site was still somewhat recognisable until around 2018 when suddenly it became the favourite site of the weird uncles of the original users. even on boards with a relatively high proportion of original users you can still often feel the presence of twitter users and its quite gross. arguably twitter posters have done more damage to 4chan than actual phoneposters.

>>183765
i think the post stats from /d/ are particularly telling. back in the peak of user posts there was a great deal of eroge content being released and the old userbase was still intact. it seems the newer users do not enjoy such things.