>>143018
Absolutely, and it's such a shame to see.

I think to me a big cause was the pandemic like you said. Sort of like a second eternal September, the pandemic forced massive amounts of normies online and caused a massive influx of people who don't lurk or learn the culture of where they're going into formerly very niche areas.

All these normalfags then freaked out and clutched their pearls when they saw things that to us are perfectly normal. I've seen so many of my favorite sites and communities or massive amounts of data become shut down or lost due to culture shifts or complaints caused by new people since the pandemic. These people are like a malignant force, finding small community after small community to degrade and turn into a husk of its former self.

You mentioned porn specifically. Fall 2020 was when PH purged an insane amount of videos over some complains about nothing. Other sites did the same thing and to this day there are no mainstream sites that have real amateur or random videos. Then there was also the imgur ban, gyfcat shutdown, and a lot of good subreddits I was subscribed to banned as well.

What a shame