>For whatever reason teh "old internet" thing is appealing to young females. I gather that knowledge of this website spreads among them by word of mouth in their Discord communities.
Most of our now-B& joshi users came from the likes of VidLii and SpaceHey - both of which are sites that are trying to replicate the experience of mid-to-late 2000s websites

Various things associated with the 90s/2000s are the "in thing" with certain segments of today's tweens and teens - the same as the 70s/80s was for those of us born in the 90s. It's the usual "I wish I was around for the things that today's adults are reminiscing about, but that I was born too late to experience" phenomenon