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>tragedy
It could work the other way:
* 4chan dies
* /lit/ anons, with literally no other option, read some books
* 4chan returns
* /lit/ anons are now the patrician men of letters they previously only pretended to be
* their brush with death has imbued them with a sense of purpose
* they put away childish things and crowdwrite
THE GUILD OF THE TAPIR
(Book One of The Tapir Chronicles)
* self-published, it attracts a series of excoriating one-star reviews on Goodreads from the usual suspects
* the Streisand Effect kicks in
* $$$