The thing is, this faggot who ran catbox probably was somewhat familiar with chan board culture. He should know he does not represent a mainstream. I'm just baffled so many people from the 4chan days are this fucking dumb considering we've watched tons and tons and tons of people get dePatreonformed by faggots.
Its not that unreasonable. I've made things over the years that were chan-culture adjacent. Tools, scripts, a video site, etc. You make them for "your friends" in the anon world, have a couple hundred regular users, and get used to everything being fine. But then one day normalfags start using it. Now you have 10,000 hits a day, and suddenly soccer moms are hearing about it and now you're on the hook every time something objectionable passes through the service because unlike anons, normalfags will complain. Loudly. Things that were never a problem become huge, existential problems literally overnight and now you have to weigh whether you're willing to put in the effort to keep up with it. Most are not. I'm too ashamed to admit that one of my projects from years ago, an experimental video uploading site called Tortuga, was something I gave up on because it got popular. You have to pick your battles.
The thing is, this faggot who ran catbox probably was somewhat familiar with chan board culture. He should know he does not represent a mainstream. I'm just baffled so many people from the 4chan days are this fucking dumb considering we've watched tons and tons and tons of people get dePatreonformed by faggots.
Its not that unreasonable. I've made things over the years that were chan-culture adjacent. Tools, scripts, a video site, etc. You make them for "your friends" in the anon world, have a couple hundred regular users, and get used to everything being fine. But then one day normalfags start using it. Now you have 10,000 hits a day, and suddenly soccer moms are hearing about it and now you're on the hook every time something objectionable passes through the service because unlike anons, normalfags will complain. Loudly. Things that were never a problem become huge, existential problems literally overnight and now you have to weigh whether you're willing to put in the effort to keep up with it. Most are not. I'm too ashamed to admit that one of my projects from years ago, an experimental video uploading site called Tortuga, was something I gave up on because it got popular. You have to pick your battles.