What happened to this board?
>>18653258https://youtu.be/GdYpxVQ1BZs?si=GQ1VI4-7AZZW2AQPIt's the G-funk era, funked out with a gangster twistIf you smoke like I smoke, then you're high like every dayAnd if your ass is a buster, 213 will regulate
>>18653262Saggerchads where we at?
>>18653264One of them dames was sexy as hell, I said, "Ooh, I like your size"She said, "My car's broke down and you seem real nice, would you let me ride?"I got a car full of girls and it's goin' real swellThe next stop is the Eastside Motel
>>18653258millennial uncs stuck in the 2010s
>>18653258That Wojak is 90% of this board.
Bump
This thread caused so much seething.
What DID happen to this board?
>>18653258instagram, tiktok, creator paycheck incentives, onlyfans, wechat, rednote, xiaohongshu made this cia honey pot data mine website that moot sold to thiel/epstein's associates obsolete, no traffic.
>>18653313>>18653414>>18653439damn nigga chill out, its a slow board.
>>18653262This was so lame when it came out. I never understood "soft" rap.
>>18653460Gotta keep it bumped so the fags who keep making watch, boot, selvage, workwear, trad/ivy, menswear, and fragrance threads get the hint that everyone knows they’re a shill operation.
>>18653485Smoothest 90s rap
>>18654144Deez Nutzhttps://youtu.be/PaFPafetNwU?si=a9KOjuvJi_7TeeVu
>>18653258Just blame r*ddit and move on.
There is no point in effortposting anywhere on 4chan or other parts of the surface level internet anymore. The internet is too easy to access thanks to every child having a phone, tablet or laptop, and every home having an internet connection; people grow up being able to access the internet as a normal part of life. In the 2000's and even creeping into the 10's in some areas, internet access was uncommon and required relatively knowledge and equipment (access to a computer and an internet connection); you had to make an effort to get online, and putting effort into things is too hard for the average person. Thus the surface level internet was full of people who were nerds, specialists and other geeky social outcasts; the average quality of discussion was higher because there were fewer people to drag it down, Myspace aside. If someone wanted to say something online, their options would be limited to a forum or usenet group of likeminded users dedicated to a specific topic, a comments section on an early Youtube video or a blog, or to create their own website, which required expert knowledge and time/money investment.Along comes social media, showing up right before the iPhone. Suddenly, not only does John Smith have an easy to use platform, but also an easy to use device that lets him access the internet from anywhere in the world, and he doesn't even need to own a computer.I believe that the quality of (discussion on) a website decreases the easier it is to access. You can observe this without leaving 4chan; boards like /p/ have some of the best content on the website because it has a relatively high barrier to entry - both effort and monetary - and therefore a slow post rate. On the other hand, fast boards like /v/ are notoriously low quality because of the low barrier to entry and short lifespan of threads, discouraging long, well written posts. The physical dimensions of a phone also does this, because writing a good post on a small screen is difficult.
>>18654210All the good posters on /fa/ grew up and moved on, either quitting /fa/ggotry or moving to mainstream websites, and there was noone to replace them. The trouble is that it's not possible for forums like sufu, /fa/, stylezeitgeist etc to exist again; this goes beyond fashion and extends to all hobbies and interests. The internet is ruined now, the signal to noise ratio being too low with good, genuine discussion being drowned out by shitposts, normalfags, advertising and heavy handed often automated moderation. You can still find good places to discuss things, dig through archives and posts from 10+ years ago, but the type of person into fashion and the nerd behind 7 proxies in a private IRC channel are two very different people.Lurk m0ar, board and site culture are also largely dead, the former having disappeared from the internet's zeitgeist and the latter being replaced by stateless wojak and frog spam that's infected the entire internetI would also add that the social acceptability of fashion, and increasing ubiquity of fake clothes, has been disastrous for it as an interest. You end up with people like >>18653262 polluting online spaces with pointless, garbage posts and terrible outfits. And it's in the interest of fashion companies to make easy to wear clothing, because normals don't want to put effort into things. Why should someone wear 6 pairs of pants to look /effay/ when they could just slap on $1000 'vintage' jeans that look like they belong on an incontinent 500 pound woman and call it a day? I get more out of /fa/ by looking at threads from the golden era; very very little is worth browsing for here lately. Everything (?) is saved on warosu and you'll never run out of genuinely valuable, interesting content.
>>18653448Same with every hobby/interest forum. Nobody besides aging uncs use image boards and forums now. Everyone's on tiktok, instagram, jewtube or discord.
>>18654221Nope. Suits, porkwear, neofolk, Saarbour all larping by conservative soilets are actual garbage.Bootcut is king.
>>18654239See, those people can change their style, but you'll be a nigger forever.
>>18654246See, those people have superior style, but you'll be a genetic dead end forever.
>>18654262Until you get shot in your hood, or when white people get fully fatigued by you and stop giving you gibs. Then you'll have to go back to oogaboogaing around a fire while wearing leaves and dying of famines.
>>18654271Thankfully through the shekelfiles more and more people wake up who are the real oogaboogas
I’m checking this board for the first time since, like, 2010, and I have no idea when the OP pic was created, but it’s insane if people are still Rickposting today. You’re an aging millennial like me unc, time to call it in and get back to the spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentations.
>>18653488And what should they make threads about instead?
>>18654274No, nigger. people will always hate blacks regardless of kikes. Blacks are literally the worst race on the planet.
>>18654280I think that image is from 2013-2014 maybe even earlier.
>>18654289Spoken like a true eternitycel
>>18654295Thanks, how funny. I only regularly browsed /fa/ back in 2008 to 2009 when I was in my last year of high school (though I'd check back in every couple years for a while; the Rick Owens stuff got bigger after I stopped being a regular iirc) and remember the conventional wisdom at that time was to buy Levi 511s and a pea coat. Fucked up.
>>18654337I was reading through the archives today and saw someone talking about selvedge 511s and I honestly got full body chills
>>18654337man the peacoat years were bleak, that whole early 2010s 'book of manliness' crap
>>18654358>peacoatI wanted to buy one again, but I think the date has passed on them.
>>18653258Rickfags and other obscure/avant-garde/artisan fashion fags went to two (maybe more?) discords. Stopped posting here.
>>18654358Yeah, it was the era of basically-menswear-but-trying-to-be-10%-different fashion for a new 4chan board that was trying to establish its own image without much to go off of. I don’t remember if the whole Reddit r/mfa stuff was around then (if it was, I don’t recall visiting it at the time), but it all sucked really. I have nostalgia for it, though.
>>18654221what bothers me most is that the only(!) modus operandi left anywhere on here is talking shit (without posting fit). everyone is too cool to like something. bad example, but thinkin back you had people calling that one lunarcore dude a retard but there were also people who enjoyed his stuff, people who didn't but also wanted to explore lunarcore in their own way. it's like a new generation of internet users heard about how "edgy and trolly" 4chan is and how you can call people faggots and trannies without repercussions and they decided that would be all they were gonna do. the great migration of specialists/nerds and people with passion for things who fucked off into various discords has lowered the quality of discussion so hard. but discord sucks ass since there's no cross-server discussion and everyone retreated into their bubble while also bringing back the worst part of early 2000's online communities: egos and cliques, people ass-kissing people because of who they are instead of what they have to say and mods going on powertrips. i wish we could go back.
>>18654337You forgot about getting the Hitler youth/young Stalin haircut
Fashion trends come and go. People get tired of a look then move onto another, and it's usually contrarian and cyclical.
>>18653258>why isn't this board still obsessed with le rick le raf 2014 trends
>>18654228only good goy zoomer algorithm slopslaves are on tiktok slurping jew slop like good goyim
>>18654337Fuark, I fell for the peacoat meme. But at the time I had a job thatrequired a suit so I mostly wore it with the suit. Got rid of it about a decade ago.
>>18654466I still have a peacoat, but it's long and it's YYPH.
>>18654387People used to wax lyrical about the benefits of anonymity on here. It's sad because now it's needed more then ever in an age where people literally get paid for commanding a "personal brand" on the internet.
>>18654425Not really. There are people of all ages on tiktok, instagram and jewtube shorts. Algorithms are designed to make you addicted to slop by track your consumption patterns. It's over for normalfags.
>>18654246>Those people can change their style.Then why do they all look like they stepped out of Banana Republic for almost fifteen years? They also insist that you can never deviate from looking like you’re going for a job interview at a journalism firm.
>>18654422You can literally replace the Rick characters with anything else yet keep the Wojak and the point still stands. Just about every general thread aside from hair and skincare threads are described in that Wojak standing in the corner and faggots still haven’t moved on. The weirdest part is how militant people are on this board now stating you must look like that or else you’re called a child or a nigger, which is nothing but gaslighting and lies.
>>18654484it's over for anyone who doesn't limit screen use including internet, video games, and TV, to 1-3 hours a week maximum
If Cooltop, Unpop, Slater, Tomorrow, Casemods, and Spoony all came back, /fa/ would be the best mid-30s-washups board on 4chan, bar none.
>>18654566Imagine a balding Cooltop.
I just swing by the shoe thread but I noticed every ones a negative faggot whenever someone has swag, and too many gays
>>18653258Rabbi poster killed the board. He must’ve mistaken it for a Palestinian baby.
>>18654584I honestly feel like it’s Zara or Nordstrom corporate shilling on this board. Everything looks straight out of a cookie-cutter menswear Macy’s section.>the same cuffed selvedge denim>the same perfume section colognes>the same classy mature boots>the same dad jackets>the same basic button-downs
>>18654367what servers?
This is an important thread
>>18654586crazy how one spammer can kill the whole board because mods don't ban him
Holy shit it's linkara
>>18654906Also sorry /fa/ I'm from /v/, probably part of the problem, I don't know anything about fashion, my favorite outfit is a blue tank top to show off my arms, jeans and bright red running shoes.And really I only came here to ask you guys if being naked still counts as fashion?
>>18654711Rick Owens discord and Carol Christian Poell discord.
>>18654910Nakedness is the highest form of style. Exercising is modern couture.
Back to page one with you.
Get back here.
>>18655348>>18655394>>18655494Daily reminder that suit is scumback/corruption core: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AxaZ-KTGyMw?feature=share
>>18655013Unironically this. The beautiful body is the quintessential fashion statement
>>18655013Nigger, where do you think the word gymnasium comes from? Exercising is as old as civilization.
>>18655554Not what he meant though, you missed the point
>>18653485Wintertime is for NY boombap, summer for G-Funk, baby.
>>18654387this pretty much hits the nail on the head. i used to lurk around here back in the late 2010's and it had a lot of crossover with people from places like sufu and etc. now most of those people either just got off the internet forums or are mostly just posting on instagram or work in the industry
>>18654221>I'd choosen
>>18654387This. Especially the part about the edgelords who are just here to abuse their first amendment rights. They're ruining every single board. And if you complain about it they tell you to go to reddit. Because 4chan is all about off-topic hatespeech and conspiracy theories now.
I think the biggest thing is 4chans demographic change over the past ten years. Not only did 2016 bring a lot of election tourists but everyone on here is old now. If you look in the archive back in 2014 and before there were regular posts about being in college. Not so much anymore. Most people naturally get less interested in fashion as the age I think.
>>18655007id imagine those discord are significantly worse after ricks been shilled and on clearance sale to browns and the nose tribe are actual active there
