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I find it funny how an American is the only one to get it right and basically sum it up.
Anyway to add to it, old 4chan grew until 2016/17 because 1) Americans thought that this was a pro-American safespace (hence 90% MAGA/kekistani dominance) and 2) no one in Europe hated America yet. A point of cultural convergence was achieved where both sides settled on the same love for America and used its culture and language to create memes, which propagated in the American ecosphere and brought more people in. There was no friction. The problem nowadays is that this was put to an end with the mutt spam. Seeing one of these mutts spammed at you is a lot like a thought-terminating cliche, it's the thing that sucks the energy from the room and blows up the convergence point. Too negative for growth. You can even see it ITT where a lot of newfags (notice the flags!) are complaining about shills and psyops. That is because a board that sucks Trump and America off unconditionally is a completely different place with different social values and rules compared to the one that calls him a zog slave and calls America an anti-white shithole that needs to be put down asap. So, when this becomes the dominant conversation and people start being too critical and there's mutt pictures spammed in every thread, the newcomers get alienated because you need like a decade to get it and they are like 15 and have no idea what any of that stuff is (and statistically likely to be the mutt in question), so they just leave and go for the greener pasture of xitter's pro-America echo chamber which feels like 2015 /pol/, while this place feels like you're about to read an essay on why America sucks. And since 50% of the traffic here is from the USA, put two and two together and you get the answer. No newfag inflow due to excessive hostility with a passive oldfag outflow.