>>420073061
Sameface is very real, but it's not like today's situation is worse than how it was back then. The first few popular booths like mishe and mimino got overused and ran into the fucking ground, other than that nothing changed.
Back in the MMD days it wasn't much different. Sure we had a bit more soul back then... but you couldn't round a single corner without running into about 8 of pic related, or the same 5 vocaloids.
Shading was also super uninteresting back then because the only decent thing we had was Cubed's Flat Lit Toon.