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It's a combination of different factors but OC is really a non factor
The memes and videos and what not were always cool but never the core of what made sharty enjoyable, it was the userbase. Sharty still has OCs but its shit because the userbase is shit. It's all immigrants and retards. The core of the website was the people who were witty and intuitively understood the culture and the very specific brand of humor, once a critical mass of immigrants who didn't or couldn't integrate arrived, the sharty began it's slow and painful death.
>how do we avoid this?
Impossible. Websites will always bleed the OG users. Furthermore, communities don't grow, they get diluted. And the dilutant won't notice or consider the loss of quality as he himself is that loss. So every community that inevitably goes to shit will continue to be paraded as alive by people who killed it.