>I'm sure most of the oldbies (like me) would say because of iichan/wakachan and world2ch.

I've been here for three years and found the place by Googling
"English 2ch" and following links from there.

I didn't even realise that iichan linked here until sometime
last year when someone posted something like "sup iichan" on
General and I was like "what".

And these days I tend to confine my posts to DQN and General,
but I do lurk on Romance and Personal Issues occassionally.