4chan is still around, maybe not as popular as it once was but it’s still kickin. VOAT was pretty big for a long time, and my guess is, they would’ve kept their user base to this day had the CEO of VOAT not chosen to shut the site down. I remember the excuse was he didn’t have the funding necessary to keep the site up, but there were tons of users willing to ease that burden and he shut down the site anyway, which made a lot of the users feel like it was a honeypot operation or some shit. The CEO dealt with repeated DDoS attacks on VOAT, PayPal dropped them, the German server dropped VOAT, so it was an uphill battle always, probably a big enough headache to just let the site go. Obviously, VOAT was never even close to as big as the major social media sites, but it was big enough to survive a lot longer than it did if the CEO didn’t let it all go.

4chan is still around, maybe not as popular as it once was but it’s still kickin. VOAT was pretty big for a long time, and my guess is, they would’ve kept their user base to this day had the CEO of VOAT not chosen to shut the site down. I remember the excuse was he didn’t have the funding necessary to keep the site up, but there were tons of users willing to ease that burden and he shut down the site anyway, which made a lot of the users feel like it was a honeypot operation or some shit. The CEO dealt with repeated DDoS attacks on VOAT, PayPal dropped them, the German server dropped VOAT, so it was an uphill battle always, probably a big enough headache to just let the site go. Obviously, VOAT was never even close to as big as the major social media sites, but it was big enough to go to survive a lot longer than it did if the CEO didn’t let it all go.