>>33That's literally been one of the defining differences between textboards and imageboards since Futaba's inception. Even moot himself pointed out how imageboard culture was more conducive to a quick-but-spartan posting style which he compared to IRC rather than the traditional posting method of long, thought-out posts punctuated by long periods of time. In the early days of 4chan, people literally posted in intervals as small as just a few seconds. When 4chan's userbase grew and bandwidth became more of an issue, the artificial posting limit was implemented, but left unadulterated, 4chan would still be a glorified IRC channel. Doushio is kind of a testament to what could have been had it not been for the practical constraints that come with being a poor teenager.
I would speculate that the reason for 4chan's radically different userbase is probably in the fact that it supported images. After all, an image is far more stimulating than text. For the amount of text it would take to illustrate an idea on its own, an image and just a few lines of text would be sufficient; plus, images lend themselves to a more informal, colloquial type of dialogue at a significantly lower difficulty threshold, making it more accessible to a more modern audience. Or perhaps it was because of success of 4chan and the qualities it popularized in Western, mainstream social media that modern audiences are the way they are now?
As an added thought, I just visited /tech/, and I was really astonished that a community that thinks themselves better than /g/ is using words like ``faggot'' as a pejorative without a lick of irony. The whole site is just petty, shallow locker room talk, and I can't help but wonder if the absence of an age limit on creative boards has something to do with that. I'm not stupid; obviously 4chan is also populated with a bunch of worthless teenagers, but couldn't it be argued that maybe the age limit encourages teenbros to
pretend like they're not underage? Either way, it sucks. What an awful site.