@RMIV @_Blank_ @rlier23 >why does loli matter in 8chan's downfall?
I gave a crude summary of the context that established partially why loli art, not just outright porn, but plenty of other loli art, getting banned was sign of the end of the site that we anons wanted to use and not how Hawkins and company wanted it used. And I already told you that loli is never strictly defined by these people, left- and right-wing, anyways. I also missed that 8chan only grew popular the way it did because of libshits Cuckchan mods and Moot banning talks about Gamergate and the political degradation of video games in 2014. We 8chan anons had always from the get-go been hair triggered regarding any censorship, good or bad.
To give a similar context, a year or two before Nigwheels lost control of 8chan in 2018, the board for Christian anons, /christian/, fell and fell hard. A Romanist, whose mod name I forgot and don't wish to remember, and one who then recently became a living UltraTradCath meme took over after his Easternist buddy Peter stepped down shortly after inheriting the adminship and ownership from a more free-minded Baptist. This fag made the board worse and worse for all non-Romanists in various ways over the following months, eventually killing the board with a simple announcement: all anime posting would banned, not just loli hentai, not just any loli art, not just any anime porn, not just any and all ero, not just anime with scintillating elements, ALL ANIME. Supposedly any anime will make you sinfully lust, as the Church of Rome wrongfully defines lusting, as well commit the fake sin of "scandal". The board never recovered, even before the first fall from Cuckflare or the ultimate fall by Hawkins' foolish decision. Nobody but a subset of Roman infidels can use a board like that. The full, sad story of /christian/ is for another day, but the mindset and set-up that lead to /christian/'s destruction is the same that lead to 8chan's complete destruction.
That same restrictive and destructive mindset exists among the stupid Boomers who constituted the Q cult and Trump fangirling, that were giving Hawkins thousands of dollars. These same American Boomers who pride themselves to be different from globohomo would gladly bitch and complain with the UN, Australian cucked government, and Japanese and Western feminists complaining about Sagiri Izumi, Ilulu, or Hana Uzaki being "hypersexualized" while being too "childlike". It would never and still does not stop with just "lolis", genuine porn (they don't care about sexual purity), or innocent anime ero for these people.
Hawkins had no excuse of ignorance regarding board culture and chan culture. He owned the original 2chan for some time prior to acquiring 8chan and lived in Far East Asia. He knew loli art was a thing and common in otaku circles. He didn't care. Anything that was a threat to his income source and/or the Q psychological operation had to go. Starting with the "easy" targets like the first and only main target before the site imploded, lolicon content. His removing of Mark and the botched "resurrection" of the site were just other signs that this was his true intentions. You can't foster a good otaku site like this.
Whether it was some sadistic Romanist force feeding Christian anons his fucked-up anit-Church's ethics or a faggot, race-mixing Boomer and possible fed fostering a terrible grift and/or psyop, the banning of loli content was the cannery dying in the ruined and poisoned coal mines and letting us anons all know it was time to move to greener pastures, lest things would eventually and inevitably become miserably worse.
TL;DR: Every non-Qtard or non-Trump-tard using 8chan knew at least implicitly and some fully that it would never have stopped with only lolis, Mark's removal, and the bad tech handling. It was the death of Cuckchan over again, but worse and conducted by right-wingers instead of the left.