>>123100Honestly, I got the shit end of the stick in my /b/ experience and I'm a bit upset for that. Chanology would start just a few months after I started using it, which was what sowed the seeds for kuso political slacktvism there. Chanology was something I absolutely did not give a single fuck about since I'm not American, don't particularly care about politics and couldn't even care to learn anything about what they were protesting against. I thought it was dumb as fuck and was puzzled about what "Scientology" actually was. Americans sure have some weird 'religions'.
Anyway, I'd say Chanology was what made it possible for 4chan to turn into complete garbage in the next few years. Then Gamergate and the 2016 election finished the job. Boards like /a/ and /jp/ also had their fair share of individual and independent problems such as moot and the staff actively working against them to undermine their culture. To summarize, it was mostly political slacktvism and the staff abusing their powers which caused the decline in 4chan's culture. Political shit-stirrers abused the anonymity there to post their controversial opinions without any repercussions.
The speed is simply something I gave as an example of making proper discussion harder. It doesn't really affect the production of OC/memes though. A meme gets posted multiple times unlike a single thread/post made with effort, so it doesn't matter if a memepost archives, because it will be posted again sometime. Or it can live through screencaps if it's funny enough like the pics we're posting. This is a bigger problem in boards that have discussion instead of memes as their primary goal. moot was upset with people treating /v/ like /b/ back then because he wanted the board to have on-topic discussions (he's still a fag though, but he wasn't exactly wrong on this one).