>>126584
I'm with you on that. I connected with some special people on early /jp/ because of the name and trip culture it once had. Normals use anonymity to escape their social media accounts. That is the only use anonymous imageboards have to them, i.e., the imageboard part of it is of comparatively little value to them. More and more, posters don't even use images, and when they do, they might attach some awful image they saved on their phone from some mega-popular website. No proper filename, folder organization, cultural impact, or OC....
Technically speaking, it isn't even about pure anonymity to them. Anonymity is just a way for them to circumvent censorship. If there were no censorship, they would have never been interested in being anonymous. For them it is merely the only viable counter-action. They openly say as much "elsewhere" (4chan.)"Everywhere else is shit. There's nowhere else to go." They seem to think anonymous imageboards are forums as well. Maybe some people would technically consider all boards a type of forum, but that's not what I'm talking about — my point is that imageboards are becoming much more popular, and newer people barge in without the slightest clue what they are; "imageboard" does not even seem to be a term in their vocabulary, so they just use forum as a substitute.