>>942133352
No, like I just said, an invasion of right wing retards who believed they were in good company occurred.
For reference, moot made an anniversary post talking about the unique daily visitors (although it's worth noting that VPNs were not actively blocked by 4chan until 2013)
From 2009 to 2010, the website grew from 60 million to 130 million unique visitors; in 2011 it was 190 million, in 2012 it was 229 million.
In 2013, when they began actively blocking VPN addresses, it was 223 million by the beginning of November. My point is, the website grew the vast majority of its user base well before 2016. I know many of you can pinpoint 2016 as your join date, but that's because you're the right wing morons I was talking about.