The thing is that the Internet revolves around social media these days. People don't really want to discuss things, so much as to find a few marquis that they want to follow and emulate. I've seen a few old Internet communities I was a part of as a kid die out recently, which is a shame. Forum culture is dead, and the last vestiges of it live on Reddit.
There's no doubt that this place helped propagate things like raw denim, helped to popularise whole goth-ninja aesthetic, among many other things.
