>>16635
I think it's something like:
8chan/kun scares off a lot of people because of the association it has to bad shit, no phoneposting, the need to use a VPN, being ungoogleable and getting sent to a wiki page that explains the bad shit again. Zoo is illegal in a lot of western countries. 2D loli is illegal in a lot of western countries. Most people just aren't willing to risk legal trouble for the sake of posting on a chan, and also just in general don't want to associate with a site that. Yes, it's unlikely anything will ever happen if they do, but if the average user isn't tech savvy they aren't gonna know that shit.
Then you have sharty which is just pure fucking cancer, both to browse, the culture, the insane amount of spam, the anti-fun thread killing, the moralfag double-standard puriteens, retarded boards and no porn, and >soyjaks
So you end up with most people trying to go on 8chan, getting filtered, going to soyjak, getting filtered, then giving up and going to twitter or some shit while waiting for 4chan to come back.
Not to say that I like phoneposters, I don't, but they do make up a large amount of the internet nowadays. Also there are of course bots, but I think most anons are overhyping the number of them.