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Didn't 8chan's death produce a shitton of spinoffs and increase in traffic for other chans? By this reasoning 4chan being kept alive artificially is actually profitable for the powers that value control and centralization. 4chan does its job of serving a specific demographic that doesn't fit anywhere else and is also easier to control, manipulate and influence than any of the more niche sites of the same kind. Controlled opponents are a highly valuable commodity.

Also, moot works for google now. All the philosophies, ethics and knowledge possessed by the creator of the first western imageboard belong directly to the biggest internet company in the western world now.