do any native r9k users from before the incel colonisation still use this board? what was it like before?
It was like slow /b/. People used to call each other "gentlemen". It was a bit nondescript really.
>>82703190Those guy's have all moved to /a/
Do you remember SpaceDicks, me boy?
>>82703190I dunno there was always a general disdain for females, as Eggy our lord himself said there are femanons but not fembots. That being said it's not really clear when the incel invasion started in earnest probably 2016 like all the other shit posters on this site I am from 2014 btw so far cry from an oldfag though I did lurk alot before thenI would say that there was less porn, less racebait and politics but it was still just as disgusting, but more overtly ragebait like gore and shockposts but probably a lot less, all the good posters hide anyway in certain threads now the catalog is shite
Smokem peace pipe at the pow wow, bow wow take her to funky town. My knowledge is limited to 3rd person as an immigrant myself. What I've heard is when the white man incel come, we give lands and welcome him in peace sharing our gifts in times of plenty. We pretend we are incel to make him feel comfort of family and home. Then suddenly the incel tell us these incel lands and force us into reserve in barren wasteland. We go in peace because we understand incel having hard time. We wish one day incel will feel happiness and rejoice. It is fine if he never think of our gifts and our peace. We are at peace because it is our natural way. If incel come to our land he should act as we do and share with us comfort of knowledge of our ways, our heritage and our tradition in common between us. When this day comes, only then incel will truly be one with respect for this land and all of its peoples.
>>82703244"incel invasion" was like 2009.There was a time when "ronery threads" as they called them were frowned upon, but that just took over the board because everything else kind of had it's own place to go. /r9k/ became the designated board for failures to complain about their lives.
>>82703240>Do you remember SpaceDicks, me boy?ESCAPE FROM PLANET BROCCOLI ABOARD ALL NEW DORITOS SPACE CHIPS!https://vocaroo.com/1oVb1y8RM5yo
I remember when moot deleted /r9k/ for like a year because the experiment failed, and people were just talking about not having girlfriends, instead of engaging in a variety of discussions that would bring fresh topics to the site.
>>82703266That was ages ago 4chan was barely a site before 2008 and didn't really become mainstream until way later you a gaiafag or somethingI'm not sure, wasn't there a time where you could post your face and stuff? What was r9k for back then?
>>82703300This what I mean, it's always been the feels board as far as I can tellIt's ironic because people forget what r9k really is...y'know the algorithm for originality? It's funny how despite a mathematical system in place encouraging infinite creativity people just end up using it for the most repetitive sloppa instead. Humanity amiright???
>>82703300I'm sure you do, but if you can remember that, surely you can also remember what he said on both the IRC channel and the related blog post. Amirite, fellow oldfag?
>>82703303I was never a Gaiafag. I became aware of 4chan essentially though Newgrounds and Encyclopedia Dramatica somewhere around 2005, and then slowly filtered in. I don't think I was a regular browser until 08./r9k/ was supposed to be for fresh content, because there was a sense even back then that the site was getting stale, and people were just posting the same template threads over and over.
>>82703300>I remember when moot deleted /r9k/ for like a year because the experiment failed,The idea came from a joke about how NOT to do moderation in a comic. It was a satirical comic strip itself. It's only with great irony that anyone should call themselves a "robot" and then refer to "normies" or "NPCs". A robot is a normie NPC that's precisely what it means. Albeit the term autism comes from Ancient Greek, "Auto" (self) and "Ismos" (condition or state of being.) In that light an automaton can be interpreted to refer to one operating independently free from external control.
>>82703324Nah, I never used IRC. I was a Newgrounds kiddy who liked funny memes, and thought Anonymous was epic for about six months. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. I was like 14.
I was linked from IRC back around 2004 - 2005. My girlfriend at the time used 4chan apparently. She was getting sex advice off 4chan and learned such methods as "grab and cup his balls when he's doing you doggy style as he cums by reaching between your thighs." and "take lots of selfie photos of you after he cums inside you."
>>82703341Well, if you happen to remember what he said, you will then have to reconcile with the fact that this board was never colonized by "incels". This board predates other incel communities and had a similar demographic even before the word "incel" became a part of our vocabulary.
>>82703363Bro, just because people weren't calling themselves the name, doesn't mean the sentiment wasn't there.
Newfag here:i was born in 2007 and im 18 years of ageHow do all of you 30+ anons feel about my presence
>>82703326Shit, ED is that old? I had no idea, it's where I learned most of the lore about this place spent some time on newgrounds mostly for vidya before flash died not that much though lolShit man, you've been a inmate of this liminal prison for 20 years (its 2025 now XD) i mean I guess you anons weren't lying about how you're here forever, honestly disturbing how I can see myself still using this site when I'm in my 50s with the same shit 2008 code and and everything I dunno how I feel about that
>>82703371Whatever, I guess.I'd tell you to leave and live your life, but realistically, you'd just end up on an even dumber part of the internet.
>>82703368waow, epikally baited me by pretending to be retarded XD
>>82703371I don't feel anything but slight pity and amusement that this website still has an allure despite being hopelessly outdated, just remember you're here forever
>>82703371>How do all of you 30+ anons feel about my presenceI feel nothing. Are you cute? How fuckable on a scale of 1 - 10 sex doesn't matter. Call me Pepper Onii-chan and we can make this happen.
>>82703372I have gone through patches where I left. I even tried to leave this year, but then I just ended up raving like a mad man on Twitter.When the 8-site was still going, I really did manage to stay off 4chan for maybe 3 years, but that place just got worse and worse.
>>82703380>>82703382You're making us look bad come on guys let's go. You didn't even demand to see tits and point out it doesn't matter if they're man tits. Also post mangina.
>>82703384lol mate you dont want meIm a diagnosed sperg with epilepsy and who has baldness and diabetes genes from my dad
Just put your cock between your thighs and pose like that. We can make this work with the mighty power of the imagination the mind overcomes all in reality.
>>82703403>Im a diagnosed sperg with epilepsy and who has baldness and diabetes genes from my dadThat shit is hot. I broke my dick falling down the stairs in an icy concrete stairway whilst playing in the snow with a boner so it sort of goes *zingearchclank* if you know what I mean. It will still work just it'll be literally "up your ass and around the corner" if you know what I mean.
>>82703382only reason im here is that its anonymous and its got less censorshipalso i feel im the traget demographic for r9k
>>82703394Yeah same I left a few times, the good news is that I was able to convert my /pol/ addiction to an /r9k/ addiction still mentally damaging but I think it's better, I was an unironic nazi for a bit when I was 14 because of this shit-hole also been browsing blueboards more and more always liked /v/ and /a/ used to also like /lit/ and /his/ but with work I'm too tired for that, my goal is to cut out red boards entirely but I kinda realized it would be impossible at this point I just view it as a strange hobby I mean it's gotta be better than melting my brain on tiktok at least I maintain my agency hereAnd yeah cripplechan is bad, I checked it out never found anything that I couldn't find here, too slow for my taste though I did frequent endchan and glowniggerchan alot never been a big imageboard / forum outside of 4chan and KF though I have probably been to every corner of the clearnet social media the ones with domains listed at least
>>82703419>also i feel im the traget demographic for r9kAnd what do you think that is? I'm genuinely curious, I felt the same when I drifted onto this place in my early teens though I feel the answers people give for what they like about 4chan keeps changing
>manginawhen a guy pulls his dick and balls back between his legs (forming a basket of fruit behind him) and then putting his legs together to simulate the look of a vagina>That's one hairy mangina.by Jake E. Pants July 14, 2002
>>82703190No, but I can make up some shit if you want
>>82703397Shit man that brings back memories, thanks for the image, I had a copy myself but I nuked my memes folder like 4 times and it's still regenerating
>>82703447When 8 started, there was a sense of optimism that maybe we could make something even better than 4chan. It was fun for a little while, but outside of 8/tv/ being a really good shitposting board, the whole dream never really took form.Mark ruined /v/ by being an insufferable autist and banning people for memes, the tard in control of /pol/ was probably a literal agent from somewhere else, trying to stifle the sight before it took off. At one point he decided threads about books were "cucked", and banned the /brit/ general thread because they kept making fun of him.After a point, Idk man. There were too many pedos, and too many feds, and being there at all started to feel like a liability. No one was posting anything good either.
>>82703458i think 4chan is full of social outcasts like mealso it's kinda the wild west of the internet (as much as it can be in 2025 though, what i mean is that most internet culture comes from here)
>>82703512That's a real shame, it seems that autistic mods ruin everything.That's probably honestly no joke the key to the continued success of 4chan, say what you will about them but m00t and gookm00t always ran a respectable moderation team (I dunno about jannies though lol) which is really fascinating since you wouldn't expect a users named RapeApe to be a good custodians for one of the largest sites on the net...Same reason every disc*rd server I've been to and I've been to many eventually turned out to be utter garbage same problem with plebbit I dunno something about the power of online moderation seems to turn seemingly functional autists into absolute fuckheads
>>82703522>i think 4chan is full of social outcasts like meActually 4chan is full of Anonymous. Consider what that means, literally, Anonymous means "Nameless."
>>82703560The key to any ruleset or moderation policy is to allow for subjective interpretation of the rules. This makes it possible for corruption of the moderation team, but, this is why the moderators themselves must be moderated by a purifying overseer. This is ultimately the purpose in a representative democracy. Voters do not choose who to elect or what policies to support. They only control ultimately who to remove from power. The odds are that anyone seeking to be elected into a position of power will without a doubt appear to "lie" in terms of policy, because, true policy is beyond the capability of the public to understand. The emotional reaction of the public to bad policy however is valid outrage. This is why for example United States politics alternates between hard right and far right. (Democrat vs Republican most recently.)The possibility of corruption is a BENEFICIAL FEATURE, not a bug or flaw. By witnessing this corruption, the public SHOULD BE outraged and remove those from power who use that power to benefit themselves to the detriment of the public.
I started using 4chan in like 2011 and /r9k/ was already the "loser board" and /pol/ already was nazi hell. The only difference is /b/ felt useable. If 4chan was different it must have been years before
>>827031902012 user, idk I cant really fucking remember if i'm being honest, its always been sort of samey but I suppose it really went downhill in 2016 and when r/incels shut down, I remember there being a clear and distinct difference between robots and incels and robots didn't want to be associated with incels.
>>82703605>this is why the moderators themselves must be moderated by a purifying overseer.Pretty much, moderation is not a democracy, imagine if we didn't have gookm00ts Irenic guidance and instead had random glowies and autists shitting up the board on a fundamental level just because of their temper tantrums, that's really why cripplechan failed hotwheels sadly had good intentions but was too lax and created a system built to fail, online imageboard moderation is better left a flexible dictatorship in the hands of someone competent and most importantly invested in the website like gookmoot monetizing itEvery website with an open moderation model team perfect examples being discord or god forbid reddit also often collapse into garbage because of this, that's honestly the only reason I would leave 4chan if Elon Musk bought it or something and started turning it into something else on a systematic levelI really hope that doesn't happen lol Elon apparently joked about buying 4chan a few times I hope gookm00t doesn't put it up for sale that sounds like a nightmare
Yes I am from before incel was invented, there was gentlemen era, then feels era before incel came around
>>82703610The main issue with >>>/b/ and >>>/r9k/ currently in my view is failure to moderate effectively for violation of the anti-guro rule 3.d.>1. You will not upload, post, discuss, request, or link to anything that violates local or United States law.>2. You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.>3. You will not post any of the following outside of /b/:> a. Troll posts> b. Racism> c. Anthropomorphic ("furry") pornography> d. Grotesque ("guro") images> e. Loli/shota pornography> f. Dubs or GET posts, including 'Roll for X' imagesIdeally 3.a, b, c, d, e would be enforced better by removing off-topic porn threads and images which belong on another board. While these are allowed on >>>/b/ it seems young people's humor has in general become far more edgy and motivated by "it's funny to piss everyone off by ruining the board." That did definitely exist I was an edgy shitposter myself, but, I never specifically wanted to harm or offend other posters. My motivation was that talking about homo erotic fanfics satirically was, at least to me, hilarious if not taken seriously.
>>82703718This has been asked about and discussed a bunch of times, unfortunately /r9k/ is large enough that it's a red containment board if you want a blue version of /r9k/: /adv/ and /s4s/ is basically that, also I doubt the jannies come around here too much just too much shit to filter and the dedicated spammers like cagecuck/blaine or whatever are all trannies with infinite proxies and whatnot so it's kind of a lost cause anyway
>Picard: Will, I'd like to speak privately. I'll be in my ready room.Cmdr. Riker: Yes Captain I'll be right there once I'm finished here. *non-chalantly abruptly leaves the panel as-is and rushes into the readyroom*>Picard: *stepping out of steamy shower wearing only a bath robe* Ah, Will! You've already arrived I thought I might have a moment to prepare.Cmdr. Riker: You know I can't stand these uniforms Jean-Luc. The fabric is too soft. They rub against my nipples and I'm left constantly stimulated.>Picard: Will you're getting me at the ready now but I see despite you having removed your top you're still wearing your trousers.*bow chicka bow wow music intensifies*
>>82703758Yep r9k is sadly considered to be (the last time I spoke on IRC to the mod or owner, whoever it was who could override site control and unban me directly) a garbage board of sorts. I use it because >>>/b/ is far worse and albeit >>>/adv/ and >>>/s4s/ exist I don't like spamming there as much. >>>/r9k/ is a decent middleground not as awful as >>>/b/ but still appropriate to shitpost for fun with rare genuinely good posts.I'd post on >>>/s4s/ if I really strongly felt something was super funny or interesting in an ironic sense.
>>82703718I don't think there's anything major wrong with /r9k/ /bant/ is supposed to be the better /b/ but maybe no one knows about it
I was here first day, late march 2008 I think.Robots liked to call themselves gentlemen, but it all was in jest back then.It was decent timing to open the board, as /b/ was just terrible by then.No one wanted incels to invade this space, but here we are.
>>82703891It's just the whole idea of >>>/b/ and other loose rule boards is you CAN post something that might be offensive. The main issue is people seem to jump at the opportunity and only post troll threads and guro stuff. That sort of "buries the lede" making it really difficult to find threads with worthwhile topics, like this one. I don't think it's wrong, just observing the delicate balance that is ultimately up to board posters and not the responsibility of janitors or moderators. Board culture is easily overwhelmed by guro spam (like BBC or porn posts) if the culture itself is too weak to stand out. Imagine a culture so minuscule it is shrouded entirely within the shadow of microscopic BBC spam.
>>82703190Imagine one of those comfy small boards that get like 40 posts daily but with quite a bit more speed.
>>82703988I wouldn't mind if /b/ was all troll posts and offensive. Those global rules specifically don't apply to /b/. The problem is that it's porn. 17,000 porn threads and zipcode threads. Occassionally with that andy six scat guy between, which I still don't understand.
>>82704090That's a pretty strange thing but it makes sense if you realize how bad porn addiction is for a ton of people these days. It wasn't like that previously because porn hadn't become so big. There was a lot of pirate porn, but it wasn't until when like ~2012 or whatever that pornhub really made it huge by providing a pirate haven for virtually everything legal or not. Since the covid stuff where I guess pornhub introduced modern browser DRM features and poster authentication (eliminating anonymous posts and therefore most piracy) 4chan took on some of the spillover from places like that. It's like genital and anal warts spreading through a population of incels who all suddenly turn gay because it's popular now.
>>82703718>currently in my view is failure to moderate effectively>> a. Troll postsdo that and you just killed the entire website and turned the last enjoyable place on the internet into anonymous reddit
>tfw part of the problem
I'm still a virgin but not an incel because I've had sex with another incel. It doesn't count as losing my virginity because it wasn't in a vagina, but, I guess I've lost my anal virginity now giver and taker.
>>82704158>do that and you just killed the entire website and turned the last enjoyable place on the internet into anonymous redditThe only bigger losers than regular 4chan posters are 4chan trollers fishing for 4chan posters.
>>82704186Ever tried to be the solution?I guess not.
>>82704204So? This was always supposed to be a website for losers.
>>82704236>So?Oooh my time is worth less than a 4chan poster so I'm going to get an ego boost by troll posting woolooloo.
>>82704288Good for you, I guess. Enjoy yourself.
>>82704157yeah 12 hour goon sessions weren't a thing back then.You just got your nut off and got back to normal posting.
>>82703190>before the incel colonisationThis board was always incelI would just be called something different and was just for forever alone guys
>>82703190Been on 4chan since 2008, back in ye olden times the term was gentlemen instead of robot. The tfw no gf crowd was always here, 2016 just shat everything across the board up with election garbage. Honestly I feel that while r9k can be a decent board at times (rarely), the main problem is most discussions already have a particular board setup for them. If I want to talk cooking, there is /ck/. If I want to talk cars, there is /o/. Weebshit or cartoons, /a/ and /co/. Hunting or military/weapon shit, /out/ and /k/, and thats not even talking all the porn boards. Hell even /int/ in a way is a more successful /r9k/ in that in between the black Turk larping they do have various discussions of things on the regular. It was pretty much destined for /r9k/ to become the incel space because there really wasnt anything else that could be discussed here thats not already present elsewhere on the site. I know I primarily spend time on the boards for interests I have but still come here to scope for a decent discussion now and again. >heya heya heya heya >>82703371If true then bewilderment more than anything, my youngest sibling was born in 2009 and the thought that will be 20 years in no time is kinda nuts. At the very least I am not doing too bad, just gotta embrace the inevitable unc status. A lot of you guys are retarded as shit and genuinely brainrotted though, really feel for the normal ones because it must be hell being younger in all this slop bullshit.
>>82703371Don't talk like a nigger and don't like tranny shit like futa/(femboi) or obsess over ass like an amerishart third worlder and you are alright
>>82703190There are a million other places online for you to post. Let incels have our own place.
ahoy.there was more real talk. but the internet was also younger, and so was I. I feel like there was a sense of introspection and exploration of the world around and inside you was a common theme. people did grief eachother and say the n-word for epic lulz but overall the tone was very different. it feels more aggressively negative and aggressively hostile now.>>82703300even then, it was "man this sucks" and "how do I fix this?", and shared "feels". it was not as bitter.>>82704417you've seen how user count DOUBLED in 2016? if it wasn't already dying, that was death. but it's whatever, it's natural pressures.>>82705649lmao>>82703371ngl I project a lot of fatherly impulses on you boys
