What do you think will happen once 4chan gets shut down? It's not like 4chan is or ever was run by a large company, like other social media sites, so outside forces could very well compel the site's shutdown.

And after that, what will happen to the user base? Will they just dissipate, settling for more popular social media sites? I suspect the vast majority will, but, as we can already see, there's a growing number of alternative image boards and textboards, and their user base, though most of it migrated to 4chan at the height of 4chan's popularity, seems to be returning.

Is his the advent of a new era for textboards?