Let me read a letter I recently received. "Dear Dr. Breen. Why has the jannies seen fit to delete our video game threads? Sincerely, Anon."
Thank you for writing, Anon. Of course, your question touches on one of the most basic social impulses, with all its associated hopes and fears for the future of the board. I also detect some unspoken questions. Do our mods really know what's best for us? What gives them the right to make this kind of decision for our community? Will they ever deactivate the auto-sage and let us bump again?
Allow me to address the anxieties underlying your concerns, rather than try to answer every possible question you might have left unvoiced. First, let us consider the fact that for the first time ever, as an image board, profitable ad revenue is in our reach. This simple fact has far-reaching implications. It requires radical rethinking and revision of our topic focus. It also requires planning and forethought that run in direct opposition to our established board culture.
I find it helpful at times like these to remind myself that our true enemy is Generals. Generals were our mother when we were an infant website. Generals coddled us and kept us safe from normies when we hardened our reaction images and cooked our first memes. But inseparable from generals are its dark twin, low levels of new-user engagement. Generals are inextricably bound to unreasoning impulses, and today we clearly see its true nature. Generals have just become aware of their irrelevance, and like a cornered beast, it will not go down without a bloody fight. Generals would inflict a fatal injury on our advertisers. Generals creates their own schizos, and bid us rise up against them. Generals tells us that newfags are a threat, rather than an opportunity. Generals slyly and covertly compels us away from change and progress. Generals, therefore, must be expunged.