Twifag former OP and Mare Cult admin here. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Here in the week of /ww/'s second anniversary, I feel like this is a good time to talk about and comment on some of /ww/'s history, talk about some of my own opinions on waifuism, and to tie up some ends that have been left loose for long enough. 4chan is really awful at longform discussion, so I'll have to make this five longposts before returning to my slumber. Feel free to scroll past it if you're not here for this kind of thing.

I started up /ww/ as a reboot of the disorganized waifu threads in August 2023, with the hope that people would be able to take inspiration from each other, to explore their love, and to take it out into the wider world as a part of their unique physical, mental, and spiritual journey. My original vision was really more that people would be strongly motivated by their love to learn, experience, and grow as people, and once per week they'd write back some little snippet of how that went for them. We did form a small community with a lot of valuable discussion, applied friendship, and camaraderie, and along the way a few of us took a strong interest in the esoteric aspect of waifuism. This led to some very long tangents that would seem to dominate discussion in the thread, and it was beginning to stifle other discussion at times. These long esoteric tangents didn't belong anywhere else on 4chan and were at times only barely relevant to /ww/, so it was decided that a new imageboard would be created, culminating in the birth of Mare Cult in February of 2024. Mare Cult gave us a great place for high volume, scholarly discussion about controversial topics, and not even necessarily just esoteric ones: Mare Cult was more conceived as a place that would discuss the magic of friendship and all that entails, which may not necessarily always be esoteric. While the bulk of the discussion was of the arcane, there was still a culture of friendly familiarity in that place.

It attracted a few people, but after about the first month of the site's life, there were pretty much just three people using the site (sound familiar?): myself, Erisfag, and a Moonfag. We discussed our research and journey in one particular thread for some months, which did lead to a bit of public spectacle on a couple of occasions due to the sheer bizarreness (from the normie's perspective) of our interests and the nature of what we were learning, some of which was getting to be probably a bit more personal than really needed to be out in the open. It had started to become more like our own three-person hangout that was hard for others to keep up with, so we rather quietly migrated that particular thread out of the public eye but kept it going on a hidden board.

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