This is an interesting idea that we've tossed around in the past. If people are aware of or are members of other communities that could potentially merge, let us know. We currently market (if you can even call it that) ourselves as the original ASMB community, because I determined that it would be easier growing at first by laying a trail for lasped ASMB users before targeting new folks. Obviously we will broaden that out as a prerequisite to growing, and we don't need to leave it just at [as] - the original mission was to be a site centered around media, which is basically all-inclusive. And I think I've culled down the original folder layout to something now that would efficiently balance traffic rather than divide it into oblivion outside of general noise and Toonami.
There would obviously be issues to sort out like creative control (also, do all their admin/staff etc. become the equivalent here?) or what a merger would actually look like (does the conversion tool that we used to transfer to this software allow you to merge a second board/its accounts onto this one, or would we literally be asking people to stop posting on site X and register here? i don't even know). But I think that assuming those sorts of logistics can be worked out favorably, that might be the best way to get a snowball going as the ASMB snowball tapers off.