/co/ was love?

I need to ask, because the trolls above us are starting to get on my nerves. But I need to know the route of the matter. How did this "I remember when /co/ was love" bullshit began anyways?

At the very beginning /co/ was a fairly positive board where people could talk about cartoons and comics without being trolled to death. It seems like everything started to change when a tsunami of Avatar posts would take up the front page EVERY day. It was still fairly positive, but it wasn't long before that began to change.