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That's not even worth arguing about. There are a lot of imageboard users tired of seeing pepe/wojak (even the more innocent "feels" variations), so the bare existence of R8 is enough to appeal to that crowd. Heyuri also isn't a place to complain about being alone or hating on women or any of those stuff. You can go use countless other web spaces to do that
>I wouldn't mind seeing more low-effort, garbage tier posts desu
Perhaps what you call "garbage-tier" is different than what we know, but when you first find a website, you are usually expected to lurk around and not contribute lower quality posts than the norm. If you aren't sure if your post is fitting on boards, go post it anyways. Unless you are trying to deliberately break rules, in the worst case, we would just delete a post you didn't spend effort on making anyways and move on.

>and blatant shitposting
Meaning of the term "shitposting" is unclear, so don't use it. It could either be used to refer posts everyone agrees to be shitty (which will probably break R8) or to having fun making very high-quality posts (which shouldn't an issue as long as you don't break R8)

Lastly, Heyuri isn't trying to replicate a certain community from the past, but rather aims to have the feeling of pre-2005 internet. This doesn't mean we ban new stuff (save for R8 stuff and intense politic topics) or only recycle old memes. In fact, most of our users including myself and our first wasn't a part of communities from those eras, nor we have any attachment to their cultures.
Now, when looking at archives of imageboards like iichan, obviously there are some similarities. If we post about something that's not from Heyuri's own thing, it naturally tends to be old anime pics (check this hawt nekomimi anime girl I found on the internet!) or something originally originated from 2chan (like moot first intended 4chan to be about during ADTRW era). Consider this a part of Heyuri too, and just enjoy contributing to boards as they are now