>>31562
I don't think *split* is the right word, here.
8ch died b/c political nonsense, and after a lot of struggle, 8kun arose from the same folks, and they felt fondly about /pone/
During the absence, someone upset about not having more say in how 8ch was ran, made a mockery of it calling it a 'hobby site' but it had a /pone/ and a few ponies took notice.
Then everypony forgot because they liked pain more than pone.
fwiw I'm the current BO of /pone/ on both .top and moe. To quote Scootaloo, "It gets lonely here, sometimes"
but it gets more posts than here, though some cuckchan refugees tried a hostile takeover, failed, and created a separate board where they can jerk off instead of speak using whole sentences.