Anon 11/21/2020 (Sat) 21:16:03 No.6870 del
>>6868
and I forgot to add that if you try to replicate /b/ or the old chan spirit in an altchan, while you can deliver that throwback in this current age, yeah, you can do it perfectly in a small scale.

However, that attempt will be flawed by itself because of the traffic that /b/ had and the board in which you recreate doesn´t, the idiosyncrasy of the site (what people call board culture) and even by getting rid of these previous factors...it won´t be new.

If you managed to be successful at bringing back completely the heart and soul of the original chans, it would be a movement like the Renaissance was for the Greek and Roman knowledge but translated to the current times. Either those memes/ways of shitposting stay completely timeless among the people you interact with (or are recycled with a sense of freshness), or the likelihood to bring it back will be basically impossible. Even the word Anon feels so alien to a few anons these days out there that they only think of the OC of /mlp/ and not the original word itself!

It would like playing an old video game with an emulator. It plays the same, the levels are the same, everything is the same (even more polished with updated textures/graphics, typos corrected, fan translations and so on) but... the medium which you are using in order to play it is NOT the same because you are not playing with the original cartridge that would make it so valuable and nostalgic.

Hence, replicating it... seems to me mostly useless even though I have a certain amount of respect towards those who are looking for that past and still try to bring it back....but even that reaction of claiming that old sense won´t work in the same way as it did back when the internet was younger and more innocent.

The same can be applied to the golden era of MLP by the way (even though this one is in a smaller scale and it is more communal (and even intimate) than the popular channer boards)