I see this board more like a shitty pub then a forum, most of us have already giving up on the journey, but unfortunally the train only stops when you die. So we just linger, expecting and waiting for nothing, just for the pleasure of lingering anyway. This board specifically will not live forever, someday something like this >>19525 will happen, but people in our condition will not just remain, new will arise everyday, going to other places like this.
People on american IBs never experienced "chan wars", so they have this wrong idea that a type of userbase can be killed. In brazil there was a time from 2011 to 2014 I think, where IBs kept atacking each other trying to take the other down, falsely thinking that by doing so they would erradicate their users from existence, when that only makes the users migrate to other places, or create new IBs in less than a few days. Where there is demand there will be someone to supply it, not even an outsider, maybe one of us. If 8ch dies, this board gets deleted, or infiltrated by coordinated jobless transsexuals trying to make browsing the place unbearable this sounds so absurd I wouldn't believe if I hadn't seen by myself people like minded will just imigrate and settle in another imageboard. I have seen this happening dozens of times in brazilian forums.
About the question "where us, as a collective of people (or you as an individual) go from here", I simply have no answer. I don't even know what to do about myself, I'm in no position of telling others what they should do. If I look forward, I see only empty acts and bullshit done until the day I die, there's no much difference from being rich and sucessfull, or a complete loser, the finish line is the same.