I randomly watched this video - https://web.archive.org/web/20240314084453/https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=Hh5hRZp6Jq4 - it and the YT comments on it are somewhat interesting. It's about gatekeeping and online communities and stuff. I am neither obsessed with nor have extensive knowledge on Jap shit. I have watched multiple animes, fapped to lolicon hentai in the 2010s, read like a hundred pages of the Azumanga Daioh manga, etc. (IIRC I read all of the Uzumaki "spirals" manga.) My point is that I cannot speak knowledgeably on that subculture. People say that 4chan /a/ jannies are assholes, and in my experience, that is the case. However, in context it does make some sense. Anime/manga has been mainstream for years and with so many Twitter/Reddit-tier users flocking to a large fast board like /a/, then users and mods gotta tell them to politely shut up or something. In my entire life I maybe made like 5 or 10 posts to /a/, so I don't know much. I made hundreds of posts to /mlp/ over the years.

This dialectic plays out in various online communities, like when MLP was popular in the 2010s. Part of gatekeeping is "a bunch of users - and where are they and what are they saying". Gatekeeping doesn't really apply to small online communities, I think.

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So you were downloading that site from 2023-02 until the end. I think that was a small site at that range of time, but still, did posts of threads get bumped off or expire of old age? I am not sure how that worked, or the 2023 threads became archived in another part of the same part of Ponychan?