dude, am I crazy or does /v/ feel way deader than ever these days? where the fuck did everyone GO?
>>749649880The whole website is emptying out, it isn't just /v/. Lots of boards are below 2008 levels. Only thing I've noticed is an uptick in absolute dogshit posts and porn threads.
>>749649880Every time a seasian posts an off-topic twitter thread. 10 poor incels blow their brains out.
>>749649976This is a good post and it's enough to say ''/thread'', and speaking as someone who is ironically posting here right now, people leaving the site or suddenly not posting anymore and lurking at most is something that this notorious site deserves.
>>749649880Russia got a massive data center destroyedResult: less bots on the overall internetDead internet theory = confirmed
>>749649880I don’t know what year it happened but /v/ has fully metamorphosed into a blatant marketing board with “people” begging you to buy shit
we still here
>>7496498804chuds went to discord, TikTok, Twitter, twitch etc. the site is full of uncs now and like reddit is slowly dying
>>749649880i'm still here but rapidly running out of things to post. i don't have anything funny to say anymore and my life is too uneventful to even blogpost which is the lowest common denominator of post a person can make.>>7496501094chan is just gradually decaying like a forgotten jack-o-lantern. i don't think this has anything to do with global politics.
>>749650214>4chan is just gradually decaying like a forgotten jack-o-lantern.You mean like humans themselves? Why wouldn't 4chan decay when everyone is slowly getting older. One day the site will be dead, and everyone using it will be dead. I'm hoping I die sooner than later, because I'm not happy with the replacements at all.
>>749649880Personally I'm tired of the fucking schizos and I've sorta adopted a lurking approach to this website now.Maybe I'm not any better than anyone else here, but I'm still tired of looking at mirrors all day anyhow.
>>749650214Not the guy you're replying to but there is 100% a bunch of shit ass bots on this site. That said I don't think that any real damage has been done by destroying a datacenter. If you can deploy a bot to one datacenter you should be easily able to deploy one to another.
>>749650068Every other site is jeeted to the max there is nowhere to go.
Anons have no capacity to improve the site and the mods want to keep a status quo, so with everything skullfucked by bots, political activists, schizophrenics, and now AI people just don't want to be here.
>>749649880The entire internet feels like this to me. Like every site I go to is getting deader and dead. Even if they were all just bots before for some reason they're all being turned off.
>>749650642>Personally I'm tired of the fucking schizos and I've sorta adopted a lurking approach to this website now.I lurk too, even though it's not very fun. I'm just passing the time anyway. Once it's November, I'll be playing WoW and these homos can shit up their own site instead of my site. If you hide a thread, does it matter anymore? No, and the same logic applies to the website.
>>749649976The only reason I prefer porn threads as they feel at least made my real people, even if coom addicted ones.
>>749650797Younger people dont use the internet the same way, they are on shit like tik-tok and instagram, or discord if they are a troon. 4chan is shrinking because there is nobody left to replace its current users.
>>749650893Where am I supposed to go if I don't like any of those?
>>749649880I use filters and filter everything being spammed by astroturfing shartyfags
This thread is NOT about video games!
>>749650797>The entire internet feels like this to me. Like every site I go to is getting deader and dead.That happens because people all move to any site that isn't dead. It shouldn't happen to 4chan, and if 4chan appears dead, it's probably due to issues like pic related where people can't even post.
>>749650717Speaking as someone with a YouTube channel and someone who uses YouTube every day for the most part, I disagree with that. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Reddit, Twitch, heck, even places like NeoGAF or ResetEra if you want a forum and not social media to discuss and post about video games. Of course, I don't use every site I just mentioned and I only have a few accounts related to the internet but what I'm trying to say is: There are other sites that are better than this one, 4chan is a site where positive discussion or a positive thread about a game is labeled as ''shilling'', among many other things of course...because we shouldn't have positive discussion and posts apparently, only negativity, ragebait and threads of Twitter posts related to video games...
>>749650947the abyss
>>749650947At some point we really are too old to still be posting on the internet. Think of boomers that still argue on facebook and forums, you want to end up like that?
>>749650887>coom addicted onesI would rather talk to bots. All the NTR and H-game threads are shit and way too fucking common. >>749650947Nowhere until you have too, just like the other anons. 4chan will still be around for a little while atleast.
>>749649880New captcha and rangeban. Idk if this whole site was just bots and indians before? But feels kinda demotivating if only 5 people are gonna read your posts so I kinda stopped effort posting.
>>749649976Can't forget the schizoposters that stick around.
>>749650893>Younger people dont use the internet the same way, they are on shit like tik-tok and instagram, or discord if they are a troon.And even then they’re the ones leaving first
>>749649976Speaking of porn threads. It's insane how awful /gif/ is now. All it needed was a bit of moderation or maybe a split for a few different genres but nope, just a cesspool of AI, tranny, racebaiting dogshit for a board that used to be a nice fap material search for generic porn stuff. Dumb ass leadership drove this site into the ground.
>>749650998Post your YouTube channel.Don't be shy!
>>749650893>>749651076Eh, wrong pic
>>749649880Personally I tend to go to /vg/ now/v/ is absolutely insufferable - it's literally all threads that are:>bitching about woke shit, as if it needed constant reminder>laughing at statistics or sales>trying to sell some shitty triple A game nobody cares about without their tireless marketing>fotm slop>thinly veiled coomer threads who's posters probably don't even play the game>non-vidya shitposts>ecelebs
>>749650893that's what I was going to post...we need new blood in here, but we will not get any, zoomers are on tik tok. And they are struggling wanting to leave
>>749650124It's just become (((official))) sometime after gookmoot took over or maybe when Rapeape assumed direct control. My schizotheory is they get some kind of kickback from letting different companies shill here.
>>749650158All the sites you listed are also dying, and were before 4chan I think this year is when the descent started. I still see normal people glued to their phones every time I walk outside, especially women. I'm pretty sure everyone is on chat apps now talking to their real friends. Public internet is dead.
/v/ would be way more active if the head mod ABIB wasn't a niggerfaggot who deleted discussion of games he didn't like like deltarune
>>749651131It entirely depends on what thread its for. Some /vg/s truly are worse then /v/ Pretty much any general that sustains itself on self hate of its franchise is pure shit
>>749651131>/vg/ better board quality than /v/lollmao
>>749650998>Youtube is totally bot and jeet free! :DWanna talk about how 100k subscriber, million view in 5 second TF2 youtubers fucking struggle to fill a 24 player game server?
>>749649880>people are sick of the constant console war threads infesting the catalog>known shitposters ban evade all the time>downright malicious moderation>if you try creating a gaming thread, it will most likely die after a few posts because people are too busy shitposting and being baited>a lot of people never came back after the hackThis too >>749650109 , there was a massive drop in internet users overall as soon as Yandex was destroyed.
>>749649880It’s kind of embarrassing to admit this but I think this is the first time since peak wojakfaggotry in 2018 that I’ve gotten genuinely angry trying to hold a basic conversation here, the average post feels unfathomably retarded now.
>>749650752There are like 3 or 4 different altchans where you can make your own board and no one goes to them.
>>749651169I hope he keeps deleting your shit threads tranny.
>>749649880I've begun using xitter unfortunately. This site is much slower these days and too much of what's here is garbage posted by bots and dedicated schizos, and the mods have no interest in doing anything about it. Years of meta threads pointing out the issues and suggesting changes and nothing happens.
>>749649976>an uptick in absolute dogshit posts and porn threadsbrowns and thirdies. it's amazing how you don't even need to see a picture of them to know exactly what they look like. their behavior drives people away. it's why they spend all day complaining about whites and americans despite desperately wanting to move there. browns don't even want to live around other browns.
>>749651026>Think of boomers that still argue on facebook and forums, you want to end up like that?Yea, whats the alternative though? Its not like half the people on here have better things to do.>>749651079They deleted 5 pages, so any threads that aren't alive enough to stay above page 5 is gone. /gif/ was dead for a while though, and the only redeeming quality was the gore.>>749651152Most of the 'new blood' is prolly over 20. The one thing that kept 4chan alive (it being seen as cool) is kinda not a thing anymore. Irnonic because every faggot always complained about newfags and shit, now 9/10 anons are newfags, even if they've been on here for 10+ years.
>>749651057>feels kinda demotivating if only 5 people are gonna read your posts so I kinda stopped effort posting.You should try to view your "effort posts" from the other direction. Go to the catalog; how many threads? I've actually counted, and it's like 200 if everything is still there. You want me to read your "effort post" when there's that many threads full of people posting shit they think is worth reading? None of it is worth reading. You know I'm right because we're in the same thread. People should post less if they don't want to post for no reason. I'm in none of those motherfucking threads. Little faggots writing their stupid bullshit.
>>749650998You are retarded, if the outside internet was cool, you wouldn't come back. Fuck off, but I am sure you literally can't.
>>749651186NTA but I can see that. Years ago, when I decided to play Genshin Impact (lmao) I went to Genshin /vg/ thread daily, and it was like a /b/, Genshin version (but blue, of course). It was nice. Same with wow classic.Now, I don't know nowadays or even other /vg/ generals, so who knows.
>>749651079/gif/ is the racewar board
>>749650893Can you even talk on tiktok or do you have to video reply?
>>749650973I want to hug Shamiko
>>749651169deltatroon sucks
I miss Claude Plays Pokemon threads. They genuinely felt like old 4chan. People just don't make anything anymore.
>/v/ was never goodThat said, 2000's /v/ was fun as fuck. You kids missed out on DS rom leaks, the one night where rickrolling was a meme, 8.8, the weekend where weegee was a thing, tf2 hangouts, kung pow streamsgamergate and epstein really did fuck this place up but truthfully the end started with all the chanology shit
>>749651026And what would you do as an old man?
I mean what's there to discuss?Normalfag shit, AI shit, Twittershit, E-celebshit.No one's posting real threads anymore and those that are get destroyed by the aforementioned in seconds. All I know is that any alternative that pops up will real active moderation and geoblocking of third-worlders.
>>749651304You can talk via direct messages, but that is hardly the intended use of it.
>>749651223based and FUARKING zased
>>749651080I'd rather not at least for now, I described this site as ''notorious'' and for good reason...I've reported many, many posts and yeah, they don't always get deleted.>>749651279You don't have to be mean, the rest of the internet definitely is cool and is often better than this site. If other less toxic, racist etc places aren't cool and/or better, then what is?
>>7496513564chan started in 2003, not in the 2000.
>>749650642Famitsu threads are kind of a guilty pleasure I browse because of morbid curiosity, but I've been trying to keep my posting to the bare minimum as of recently because holy shit, the current state of those threads is beyond deplorable.
There was a time when threads would get oc and anons had fun.
>>749651169It's funny when butt hurt morons like you talk shit about the mods and jannies when YOU get banned, but when you see other people get publicly banned, you say this:>Mods are gods! XDBecause you like to fit in and you think you'll get something in return! Make up your mind already!>>749651329Shamiko needs a hug from everyone!
>>749651256Look at this? Was I bluffing? Did I close tabs? I hope you faggots think I closed tabs, but if I did, this shit thread wouldn't be as spammed as hard as it is. >>749651421Yeah, that was old 4chan and we're on Ethnichan now. Don't be surprised that the fun is gone.
>>7496514132000's like the decade
>>749650893>>749651152everyone wants their social media activity attached to an identity it seems. 4chan isn't appealing to anybody who is interested in clout. even redditfags will bitch when they're talking to someone who has their post history hidden, it's the weirdest fucking thing.
>>749651421You already see the issue in these threads. People are quick to blame and hate and whine, not realizing they've become the very people they complain about. Its just basic irony poisoning and doompost addiction
>>749651421...fun?
hello, everyone
>>749651256>full of peopleTrying too fucking hard nigga
RapedApe ruined the site with his culture war shit. He ruined every board's unique identity and community. I feel no differently posting on /v/ than I do posting anywhere else.
>>749651204>Yandex was RussianWhat the hell?
>>749651478Its a power thing, it can give leverage and makes it trivial to clown on people.
>>749651131>>bitching about woke shit,I never got this. I stopped buying games like those 10 years ago. Think the last one was AC3. Like people are stuck in this 2013 mentality where gamergates a thing and the kool kidz are anti sjw. Half these problems are solved by ai and we already have more sexy women than ever with gacha games and the like. Hell ninja gaiden 4 was everything these people want and they just didn't play it because its not identical to the first game or something.
>>749651175>Pretty much any general that sustains itself on self hate of its franchise is pure shitThese kinds of generals suck so much fucking ass, they're entirely populated with people that have never actually played the fucking game and are just there to shitpost using information they got through a game of retard telephone.
>>749651531how is that surprising, most of your searches bring up websites with cyrillic text
>>749649976But where did they go? reddit? twitter? suicide? Hopefully not discord, cant stomach posting in the same board as cord faggots.
twitter, discord, and the vax
>>749651204yandex was destroyed?
>>749651356>the end started with all the chanology shitYeah once anons got a taste of 'hacktivism' it just kinda snowballed from there. Even if it was funny sometimes.
>>749651370>I mean what's there to discuss?video games? The destruction of the AAA industry? Upcoming comps, recomps, decomps withim couple days out of nowhere? PS5 now emulating Nintendo games?There are SO much shit going on with video games right now. Some things you might not want to talk about, and that's fair, but it's out there
>>749651592Twitter. Even the site admin spends more time on x than his own site.
>>749651169Unironically one of the few good things they still do.>deltafaggots shit up the board, invade threads to shit them up, even shit up the archive site when the board was down>literally alll of it is just gay shipping nothing to do with the game>reeee why do they not like us
>>749651228Idk how to even read that site but it looks like you can't even reply to people.
>>749651447>but when you see other people get publicly banneddawg this hasn’t happened in years because the fucking staff doesn’t interact with the userbase>inb4 completely dropped conversation because I was interacting with a fake person
>>749651631mindraped slave
>>749651492>Ah but you know what's worse than the admins who banned all the people who made original content because they were buttmad?>The people complaining about it years after it's been a cancer that's ravaged /v/
>>749651592I have a discord I originally created for crash team racing nitro fueled, but now it's just general purpose. we have like five regular users and even still one of them wound up being a tranny. i don't know how they do it but they're everywhere online.
>>749651291/vg/ has days old threads
>>749651514>He ruined every board's unique identity and communityWhat are you even talking about? What was /v/'s unique identity? >I feel no differently posting on /v/ than I do posting anywhere else.I don't believe that at all, or you wouldn't be using /v/. Me, for example; I don't use any other boards. Wouldn't that alone make /v/ different? If even one guy doesn't use other boards.
>>749651652Its gotten to the point now that the bans is all they talk about. Any Deltraune thread on /v/ no whas like 100 posts on "OMG JANNY GONNA FREAK" and then they wonder why the janny freaks and deletes them
>>749651206Same. When the site was hacked and you hung around only ghostposters on the archivesites you noticed the IQ was triple digits easily it was insane how huge the difference was even when people were just shitposting.
Every game I played and want to talk about get 24/7 spam about tranniesor gaysor blacksor sweet baby inc or some sort of anti-discourse psyop posting where you have a seemingly non-pol post that contains no information and simply encourages people to leave the thread somehow
>>749651592Anons who valued the discussion and 'friends' they could 'make' on here definitely left for discord, some of them left so they could escape perceived overmoderation, most probably left because it was funner to talk to the same fags everyday rather than risking running into a no fun allowed nigger.Otherwise they could've just gotten old and left, after more than a decade of using this website it gets old.
>>749651592>Hopefully not discordanon...
>>749649880I have noticed too. It's gotten to a point that /co/ is now faster than /v/ in terms of engaging with threads.
>>749651631a lot of those topics tend to get deleted by jannytrannies for some reason. i genuinely do not understand how they discriminate because it seems arbitrary.
>>749651131/vg/ is shit. It slows to a crawl unless the thread is a glorified chatroom and there's always a weird schizo from indonesia or some shithole that posts scat/blacked 24/7 and never gets banned. And thanks to AI he can churn those out non stop and they're impossible to filter.
>>749651678we don't sign our posts here.
I basically don't play videogames anymore but even if I did I wouldn't use current day /v/ as my primary form of talking about them
>>749651652Nigger like we don't know its your faggot asses roleplaying thousands of posts a day on /vrpg/ but can't get basic details about the game, even the free demo part right.
>>749651370>No one's posting real threads anymoreEverytime I post about real video game topics you get 1 reply that respectfully disagrees and then 3 posts of brain dead buzzwords either direction.
>>749649880Every time someone tries to talk about video games someone crusades against it. I don't know what you expect.
>>749651635Maybe its time to purge ALL mods since they either are paid by advertisers and indians/bots to spam, have a political agenda to push, or just powertrip too much.No normalfags, no bots, fresh mod team = better website
>>749651406Well, at least tell me how many subscribers and total views you currently have! Can you do that?>>749651668>inb4 completely dropped conversation because I was interacting with a fake personLMAO!Also, look at the 4chan's archival websites so that you can see people get publicly banned!
>>749651656You click the post and then enter in the reply box. You have to be logged in if course but it isn't complicated.It is however pretty terrible for any sort of discussion frankly. Had to sit there reading a chain of 20 posts just for the poster to make a few points on an issue.
>>749651678What would the free men do?. Nothing?. Fight for your cause instead?
>>749651607Ukranian missile attack to their data centers.
>>749651478You don't walk around town with a mask.
>>749651186lmao all you want but it's true>Fast thread, ask question about game on /v/>literally no replies or someone just gives some faggy pseudo elitistic snarky comment like "he doesn't know", "he still uses x?", "lol, lmao" or says "buy an ad" etcmeanwhile>ask question on /vg/, even in a thread that's borberline dead for 2/3 of the day>several expert on-topic answers and overall helpful and friendly posters who actually play the game instead of sitting on 4chan all day
>>749651678
>>749651652I legitimately think that if Toby just announced that he was an AI shill you people would just completely 180.
>>749651786Nobody actually wants to moderate this website, especially not for free.
>>749651631>video games? Threads get ruined by people like you in seconds.>The destruction of the AAA industry? No one gives a fuck if some faggots in California are out of a job. Literally irrelevant.>Upcoming comps, recomps, decomps withim couple days out of nowhere? AKA indians shilling their twitters by posting a mix of fake videos, glue code between minecraft and memory hacked games and "recomps" and "decomps" that are not done by AI but AI reusing existing shitty rust decomps for Skate3, GTA etc to pretend to have done something.>PS5 now emulating Nintendo games?Whoa a thinly-veiled PC is running an emulator, stop the presses.
>>749651727If they became discord dwellers then good fucking riddance, hope they never come back
This whole site is dying and as a multiboarder there's this weird phenomenon where every single kinda popular topic has at least 1 easily identifiable dedicated autist who shits up the thread. It's the weirdest thing ever
>>749651706we are slowing dyingentropy is a law of physics after all
>>749651789>Also, look at the 4chan's archival websites so that you can see people get publicly banned!lolwut, they omitted the actual posts that got banned a good while ago
>>749651764Where would you?
>>749651631>video games?Okay, what games?>The destruction of the AAA industry?We've already discussed this to death.>Upcoming comps, recomps, decomps withim couple days out of nowhere?LLMs have chewed up and spat out any semblance of meaning this might've had. There's no time to celebrate any of these because they're churned out en-masse and made by script kiddies asking an AI to do it, then instantly abandoned. There's no passion in it.>PS5 now emulating Nintendo games?This doesn't really matter, you know. Nintendo emulation isn't a novel thing and the only relevant part of this discussion would be emulating Switch 2 games, which isn't happening because the console can't be cracked.
>>749651891>off topic not vidyareally sucks because the time it is vidya
The owner of the site doesn't care. 4chan starting dying when moot sold it. It's just been momentum that's kept it alive. RapeApe has done nothing this entire time except collect 4chan pass money and live like a neet. He'll probably kill himself when the site dies and he has to get a real job.
People leave and no one comes to replace them. That's it. It's worse now when you have to contend with schizos and retards abound, worse than the ones spamming gore. At least with that, you knew mods would delete it while now, it's left to fester and shit up boards and threads. It also depends a lot on the board. /a/ is bad because a fifth of the board is just manga story times, and most of the rest is airing anime or ongoing manga. There's rarely anything else. Which would be fine if there was worthwhile discussion in any of those threads but that's rarely the case. /v/ has the opposite problem, where it's people making threads about whatever retarded shit they want to talk about tangentially related to video games, if at all, and retards respond to it because they don't give a fuck about talking about video games on /v/.
>>749651813I've gone to /vg/ for help at times. Years ago it helped, but these days I get nothing in response. Granted it's always been an issue with long running generals, the posters lose interest in the topic and just talk to the other regulars instead.
>>749651631>what's there to discuss>immediately brings up twittershit and AIshit in response
>>749651851ok anon, what do (You) like to discuss here on /v/?
>>749651891That's NOT an archival website, you butt hurt cretin! You must be new here.
>>749651865I have to assume those people are troons because only a troon would be so attention starved that they seek out negative attention. that or a brown thirdie who genuinely doesn't understand how to behave like a human. There's currently some brownoid posting with the name "I only have sex with anime girls" who I am seeing in every single fucking thread. There's also Saucy. If these are what is considered regular posters, then it's no wonder why it feels like there are only ten different people who actively post, because that's probably what's happening.
>largest and only altchan that isnt dead is the shartyGen alpha grew up..
>>749651421Claude Plays Pokemon threads, unfortunately, Claude finally beat the game, so those threads died along it.
>>749651079the commodification of clicks via instagram et cetera was a deathknell to video sharing across the internet. the amount of 'shilling' for corporate interests is overstated on 4chan but there are so many people who are only here because they are trying to self-advertise. i genuinely hope that one day /incel/ is made because step 2 will be to /fur/ it and rangeban everyone who ever posted there.
>>749651978Pon no Michi was shit but I agree with the rest of your post
>>749652031>cirnochadanyway did you mean b4k? like yeah, you can search deleted posts and all but I know from experience that you can get posts (or just images) deleted and not even eat a warning
>>749651865At some point i start to think some of those have to be some LLM tasked with disrupting the board. Even easier on 4chan where they dont have to keep the character consistent
>>749651978there's currently a thread on /v/ that's entirely about mcdonalds and fast food, and it has far more activity than any other thread. /v/ is only ever good when the thread is off topic it seems.
>>749649976thismore people are leaving (getting older/busier) and zoomers don't come here in enough numbers to replace themalthough overall it's worse because you have more shilling and porn being posted compared to 10 years ago
>>749651652Unironically... yeah.Any game that has multiple simultaneous generals across multiple boards deserves to have their thinly-veiled generals deleted from /v/. Same goes for XIV, Warframe, the lot of them.
The fix is simplewe bring back tripfags/namefags.
we are just being raided constantlyoutside people come here to shitpost, ragebait, buzzword, derail, you name it
>>749651865Its the worst, and probably the real killer of the site. No longer chose to open threads you'd like because the poopdickschizo will be there just makes you stop caring, and probably why the amount of people on the site keeps dropping.Even worse when they get this complex where they think being a schizo makes them cool and kind of ironically double down on it
>>749651965>4chan starting dying when moot sold it.4chan or /v/ in particular started dying during gamergate when moot banned the people most of the board who gave a shit about vidya, later when 8ch imploded and people started coming back it got halfway decent before all the fagmins started getting shitterhurt that nobody liked the shit they did: AI jeet shit and nintendo crap and after years of throwing a shitfit about all that's left is them pissing and moaning samefagging shit they want to be popular and crying that they had nothing to do with how things are now and that it was a MYSTERIOUS FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE that being a bunch of faggots make the only people that are willing to be around you are people that hate you and tell you to be better and you have no choice but to become an even bigger faggot.
>>749652045>Claude finally beat the game, so those threads died along itthose threads died because anthropic got good enough to the point where it can beat the game in less than a week, instead of being stuck in mt. moon for an entire month. the runs just don't last long enough to get any meaningful amount of OC. i was hoping they'd run gen 2 but it doesn't seem like that's ever going to happen.
>>749651223>>749651336>>749651403>>749651652>>749651718>749651778>749652119...Fine. You want to see what happens so bad?Watch what happens when I post an image I DON'T KNOW!* Threadgrave
>>749651592Twitter is a big part of it. Not infested with trigger happy jannies.
>>749651592Probably altchans, just like it happened with the hack shitshow last year.
>>749652032Oh look, here's one of them now.
>>749649880
>>749652050>i genuinely hope that one day /incel/ is madeit exists, it's called /r9k/
>>749652005I gave 2 or 3 examples of today news. But you are free to talk about anything, again I ask >>749652008 what would (You) like to talk about?
>know of one old style forum that's somewhat reminiscent of /v/>but it's full of east euros who have a mental spergout every other month and doxxes whoever catches their anger over being born polish that day>even started moving over to a discord and it's run by a tranny who demands info on you the second you go there
>>749652109Sometimes the retarded shit is good. Not 99% of the time, but sometimes.
>>749651865I suspect a lot of time one guy will start it and then it becomes like a "meme" and people will impersonate the autist and pick up his gimmick for him.
>>749651631>video games?I've done horror game threads twice already, both didn't even get 10 posts before reaching page 10. Meanwhile I take a peek at the catalog and I'm assaulted by a wojak thread that's already getting several posts per minute. No one truly wants to discuss what games they're playing.>The destruction of the AAA industry?Ah yeah I want to read about gaming being woke and full of LGBT pandering and people complaining about niggers, what an informative discussion>Upcoming comps, recomps, decomps withim couple days out of nowhere?You mean those that only get posted once and no one ever shows proof of them working? Let alone at a stable framerate because they're all being AI recompiled and no one does real testing on them?>PS5 now emulating Nintendo games?Oh sweet more console war material. I'll admit that the PS5 getting hacked to the point you can now download games for free is interesting, but people are more interested about the PS5 being fully bootable on PC for when GTAVI releases.
the past week i revisited 4chan for the first time in about 8 years for nostalgia. It feels very different now.1/3 of the posts are authentic anons.1/3 of the posts are people being paid to hype up and talk positively about a game.1/3 of the posts are AI bots that are trying to influence us like cattle to steer our beliefs and opinions on certain subject matters. It’s very obvious and it feels like being in a club where there’s cameras everywhere with scientists holding clipboards studying how we act. And there’s also undercover cops posing as normal people to get you to buy drugs, or hot girls trying to get you to go home with them so their acomplice can knock you out and harvest your organs.And to top it off the only actual anons left here are supreme losers who never made it out and have the socialskills of a middleschool kid, along with whatever mental problems they developed. So interacting with them is painful.This place has outlived it’s era. It was cool in a different time, now it’s just sad.
>>749649880>>749649976It's been relatively stable for a year or so. It's not the end of the world but it is kind of sad seeing it slow down. It's nowhere near empty though.A big reason for the slow down is the new captcha:https://files.catbox.moe/oivdpu.png>>749651592It's always Discord, and the rest probably xitter. Altchans can kind of suck up some of the users but imageboards in general are an endangered species.
>>749652113I browse 4chan at work, and i doubt other 35 year old losers somehow left it all behind got married and only use social media to post instagram photos or some shit
>>749652208>they become inbred vaguely game-themed chatrooms for autistic peopleThat already describes Undertale/Deltarune threads perfectly. Sounds like they fit on /vg/.
>>749651370most of the real threads either die in a few posts (mostly really niche genres that gatekeep themselves like puzzle games) or get derailed and turned into a battleground.
>>749649880>cumbersome captcha getting worse and worse>IP counter removal>hack last year>twitter encroaching on people's attention spans and unironically becoming the new internet culture center (you see more twitter screencaps reposted here than 4chan posts reposted there, memes go downstream from twatter to 4chan when it was the opposite before)>growing up/older for some>increase in consumers/lurkers who only consume instead of people making OC, webms, content of any kind leading to discussions feeling stale if not dying I REALLY suggest you reconnect with people in real life, if not the few options you have left for "genuine soul" online is either in friend groups on private apps or darknet hobbyist forums because the barrier of entry is still high enough that it filters retards, but not scammers/jeets unfortunately.
I feel like i've already had this discussion before, with the exact same kind of responses.
>>749652309One of them is an avatarfag from /vg/ actually and one of the major reasons they hate people that give a shit about the game is that they got caught trying to solicit what they thought was a minor.
>>749652279>>749652005>>749651851times up, you gonna talk about AI now, forever
>>749651865I've been basically only lurking nowadays but back when Stranger if Paradise released, me who had no interest in final fantasy prior to that game decided to check those threads.90% of them were derailed into any sensible discussion to be a conversation about the local Boogeyman Barry.This happens with basically every pocket of this website. Basically all discussion that happens in /pw/ the wrestlimtnboard is who is and who isn't the local freak autist everyone hates.At some point I had to move away from this website. My main interest is not discussed here anyway (Martial Set Movies) so I have to make do with twitter basically. It sucks but it is what it is
>>749652359I don't care nigga.
Has anyone else noticed what feels like really baffling attempts at derailing threads?https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/749140391/#749141959>Starcraft thread>Someone mentions female Ghosts>Sperg immediately flies off the handle yelling about tranniesWhat's even the endgoal here?
>>749652313The real threads used to have real postersthen the site was spammed4chan owner does nothingnow theres less people talking about games because they know it's a terrible experience with spammersthen the real poster vs spammer ratio gets worse4chan owners does nothingreal posters realize accepting the thread quality for so long means they should probably kys at that point
>>749652008Vidya.I know, hard to believe.
>>749652227I don't know what's worse! Incel Tears from Plebbit or /r9k/.
The only decent threads now are those malfoid spam threads, and even then you have people there going AIEEEE MUH RULES, but only in that thread and not any other off-topic thread
>>749652282>It feels very different nowyou forgot the shitposters>feels like being in a club where there’s cameras everywhere with scientists holding clipboards studying how we actthat would be the glowies, and yes, they are everywhere
I feel like I'm now really starting to see demographic collapse. If I go out to my downtown area like half the bars are closed or closing, if you go in one you're lucky to find five parties. Also I think this year I finally saw the flip from young being the majority to just half now. I thought they were all going online but every site has this same aging population, leaving users, fewer posters dynamic.
>>749652354>I feel like i've already had this discussion beforeThat's because you're an unintelligent person. Allow me to flex my three digit IQ real quick. If I search for posts with a particular image in the archive, I'll see if it's ever been posted before. Let's look at this one: >>749650983https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/TIX5dHyHt5Zy8p7aw63-Ug/One post. That means at minimum, this thread has one new post. "Feeling" is for stupid people, and checking is for everyone else.
>>749652436they're all on apps. they probably don't even know how to use a web browser either so they'll never find a place like 4chan.
>>749652354We've been having it a lot this past year or so. It's on other boards too, not just /v/.
>>749652394No endgoal, just pure and simple derangement from fully saturating themselves in culture war bullshit.
>>749652394Enough people leave so that jannies can samefag about shit they want to be popular without banning people all the time, and then endless seething because an astroturfed shithole is not representative of real human interest.
Everyone is busy with the horse show anni.YOu can see the moment the anni started we went from 525k posts a day to 507k.
>>749652410>AIEEEE MUH RULESI HATE these people. Ever now and again you see an actual fun OC thread and these whiney retards have a tantrum because its not their normal shilled culture war slop.
>>749652407you say that, but the catalog says otherwisegotcha
>>749652436Enough low effort woe is me I can't stop sucking dick and you have to deal with it demoralization shit you fucktard run your site better.
>>749649880AI datacenter got hit
>>749652154I saw a 4chan thread I was in posted on fucking twitter later that same fucking day. Just some random fuck ass vidya thread, nothing crazy or screencappable.10K+ likes and reposts and shit ton of comments.I really just can't understand it.
It's still plenty alive just go to steam next fest threads and enjoy finding demos of games to play
>>749652359Is this about the goat oc guy? Even the biggest retard in existence would be able to figure out that if the guy was a teenager at the time chapter 1 was being developed, there is no shot he was still a kid nowadays
I'm at the point where I honestly think I could scrap the archives from a nice year and tell an AI to emulate it and it'd be better company then here
>>749651421Threads for old games, pseudo generals, that are just a front to discuss the whole franchise and upcoming games tend to be pretty chill even if slow. These last days and even get oc.
>>749651978they split /v/ into 7 boards so practically any ontopic videogame thread you could make is still at risk of being deleted.
Hell yeah, I schizoposted like 10 times in my life and completely raped this board. We should have Claude replace the missing posters I raped.
>>749652410>but only in that thread and not any other off-topic threadAnd then you ask why they aren't bitching about the other off-topic threads, and get hit with>le frog picture>"They are on-topic."
>>749649880besides anonimity, genuinely what is the reason for usung this place over twitter now>theres actual discussion there>4chans site culture has basically infected it along with half the rest of the internet>roughly the same chance of being banned only there i can evade easily>isint an old piece of shit that STILL cant do better than 4mb file uploads
>>749652612This shit has been happening for a lot longer than that though.
>>749652582As a veteran of the masterduel massacre and deltagenocide. It goes always the same>MUH RULES>But you only care about the rules on on-topic threads you dont like while leaving real off-topic alone>MUH WHATABOUTISM?????And the nig stop posting until the next thread.
>>749652725Anonimity is a huge reason and you can't just brush it aside
>>749650998>YouTube...is not a forum to discuss video games, but rather a platform for ecelebs and general content consumption, that I have never cared for in the slightest. No, YouTube comments do not count as a "forum".>Facebook>InstagramFucking lmao.>Xhitter99% engagement bait and/or mental illness, otherwise only short-form interaction that barely classifies as serious discussion.>RedditWorse power-tripping autistic moderation than this shithole, also full of retards and troons, and with the sheer spread of its userbase you're likely to have a hard time starting a longer discussion on a niche game or topic.>TwitchEceleb content consumption garbage, not a discussion forum.>NeoGAF or ResetEraTroon-infested shitholes.That aside, I'm also not happy posting anywhere in public where my posts have to be tied to a username or similar identifier which allows schizos to archive and scrutinise my entire post history. Meaning all of those sites are off the table regardless of any other points I made.4chink is sadly the only site which provides anonymous discussion and mostly-reasonable moderation, while also having a reasonably-sized userbase/post rate where your threads have a chance to be seen (yes I know altchans exist).4chink aside I suppose there is D*scord but the last group of "friends" I met through /vg/ schizo-ed out on me after a year or so, not an experience I want to repeat.
>turn fun nerd website into politics website>the people who don't want a politics website start leaving>eventually so many people leave that the website starts to feel completely dead
>>749652637Not sure who you're talking about but that was what happened re-evaluate how big you think the biggest retard in existence is.
>>749651631>5th gen and past that "recomp" gets posted>it's just a slopped up emulator fork
>>749652725because i can call you a faggot and tell you to kill yourself, which you cannot do to the paid retards on xitter
>>749652751>MUH WHATABOUTISM?????I’ve especially noticed this corny word had gotten a huge upswing
>>749652725>Actual discussion>on twitterEven before elongated fuck took it over and it got swarmed with Indians it was notorious for being a shithole full of sockpuppets
>>749649880>where the fuck did everyone GO?This is the main question, for me. I get that 4chan only gets worse with time, but whenever I poke my head out to look at other websites they're infinitely worse than this shithole. I just can't fathom why anyone would actively choose to spend their time on xitter.
>>749652725Xitter is fucking horrible to use. The search doesn't work. How do you find topics you're interested in? Do you just pray it shows up on your feed? And then you can't even write out long posts. Xitter honestly feels so terrible to use for discussion. 4chan is much better due to the centralized nature of the boards. Hell, even reddit or hackernews are better.
>>749649880Like it or not, you have to use twitter now. you can bitch about the screencaps all you want but there's a reason they get posted so much, and no, its not le third world shills or whatever nonsense you're convinced it is. Its because thats literally where everyone is, and where everything relevant on the internet happens. Plus its the only place on the mainstream internet thats a good combination of an active userbase, not being cucked by terrible moderation done by ineffective retards or biased liberal faggots, and having actual effective tools to filter out garbage. Guess what 4chan fails at, all three of those things. The last one especially can really never be solved because of how posting here works with being IP based and anonymous. filters alone arent enough and its just too easy to ban evade or whatever and you'll never ever be free of someone determined to shit up your thread. On twitter its just a few clicks to block and mute and the site is infinitely more usable. And if you're lucky you can find some like minded cool people to make a discord or something with, and really thats the end goal, just finding a small group to hang out with while ignoring every other retard online
The tranny obsession here is genuinely getting out of hand, most of it are deranged shartyfags who are so far gone they will call anyone a troon.
>>749652765>the last group of "friends" I met through /vg/ schizo-ed out on me after a year or so, not an experience I want to repeat.
>>749652612Has fuck all to do with it. If anything there's more retarded bots and shills on here right now. It's not like the quality improved.
>>749652875You need like 10 accounts though or your feed never diversifies and turns into an echo-chamber or something.
>>749652875if you feel that way then you never belonged here and should stay on twitter
It's the god damn captchas they've gotten way too difficult. It's not worth it to wait and fill it out just for a simple post
>>749652725the removal of ego, you don't have an identity here, I can let go and call you a hundred vile slurs and not be afraid of having to keep a public image intact
>>749650983I wonder how many people simply can't post because of spur and the fake IP rangebans. Posting on desktop is basically impossible for me and I have to use a different browser to have a chance at mobileposting. Of course, blocking desktop users is only making the site worse.I'm surprised it's not talked about more.
>>749652725It's okayish for short form discussion, but absolutely not worth it otherwise. Twitter is not structured like a forum, the character limit in posts alone disqualifies it for that purpose. It's designed as a way to consume content and stay updated on news more than a true space for in-depth information exchange. Imageboards are better on that front.
>>749649880Probably because of the absolute fucking torrent of zero effort goonbait threads about nothing the fuck at all that somehow aren't being pulled down by the Jannies because they have a connection to video games more tenous than a fucking dump truck balanced on a tightrope. Seriously like half the catalog RIGHT NOW is the embodiment of the: "Lust Provoking Image, Irrelevant, Time-Wasting Question" meme and nobody does a fucking thing about it.
>>749649976I’m fine with 4chan being a quiet little unchaven. Every single mainstream site is an irony poisoned unusable ragebait engagement farm. 4chins has some of that but it’s nowhere near as bad as other social sites and will only get better as the normies leave
>>749652875>>749652725I wonder if posters like this are actually LLMsAnyhow fucking kill yourselves tourists
Did you guys know that bots won't reply to spoiler text
>>749652967You are literally the problem if you think those threads are the real issue
>>749652875>and no, its not le third world shillsYou sound very true and honest, I believe you
>>749652875I am autistic and a reject, I can't go there
>>749652949you can do that on twitter too if you arnt a faggot
>>749652891>please, someone call me a tranny!!
>>749652946Anyone who says the captchas are bad did not have to sit through the old google captchas that would randomly make the images load super slowly, and then fail you when you did the captcha right anyway at least once every time. The current captcha is WAY easier and faster, and it gets easier the more often you post. Old google captcha would take me like 20 seconds to a minute depending on how shitty it wanted to be, the current captcha takes literally less than 10 seconds most of the time for me.
>>749653012You were right to push back, I can't see what you posted
>>749653012that doesn't make sense
>>749652967>aren't being pulled down by the Jannies because they have a connection to video games more tenous than a fucking dump truck balanced on a tightropeWhatever connection they have to vidya doesnt matter. if the mods wanted them out, they could. The forbidden seven are proof the mods could moderate, but choose not to.
>>749652725Im not using anything with loginIm not giving my info to elonIm not giving a photo of my ugly mug to elon
>>749652993When someone posts something like this in response to a good post or good arguments, with such unnecessary hostility and ''kill yourselves tourists'' which is just trolling, one has to wonder why people leave here...posts like that don't help, and just saying ''kill yourself'' instead of making a good post or simply saying ''I disagree'' or whatever *do not* help.
>>749652967porn addiction IS a big problem in the website
NO FUTURE
>>7496529674chan has always been a site for posting memey low effort threads with the gold hidden in between, honestly I don't know this reddit tier obsession with needing to make threads all serious like. It's the low effort shitposting, AI and derailment that's getting out of hand.>>749653039Why are you this fucked in the headGo to a fucking therapist
>>749653013how so?
>"go back newfag">newfags go backWOOOOW
>>749653106kill yourself redditor/xitterer
>>749652993>>749653021Mentally ill people like this who feel compelled to call out opinions they dont like to accuse them of being their boogeyman they think they've caught on to are why people are leaving 4chan
>>749652875Nah Twitter and it's clones can all eat a bag of dicks
>>749652751I just hate how some games are forced to go to /vg/ jail even if they don't have the numbers to survive a faster board. Yugioh is a good example. Shit sucks man.
Yeah I’m not replying to you anymore nigga
>>749653104are you like 9 years old just make a burner gmail it takes probably less than 2 minutes didnt have to send my face either youre either retarded or in a hyper cucked country
>>749653184>>749653158we get it you're from the sharty, you idiots are getting psyopped by the feds if you haven't realized it yet
>>749652725>besides anonymityThe sole arbiter of truth. Wherever anonymity resides, truth sits. This is the only place on the internet you have any chance of finding truth, even with the difficulty of wading through the schizopostingThis is genuinely the only place left on the internet you can speak the truth and not be banned, and sole reason for that is>anonymity
>>749652279>but people are more interested about the PS5 being fully bootable on PC for when GTAVI releases.Even if this happens it'll be practically unplayable
>>749653087>post a picture of a cartoon horse in a random thread>instantly get nuked from orbit>post absolute fucking garbage>stays up for several hours or never even gets deleted because supposedly the mods are just too busy
>>749652121They never left, they’re all on /vg/ now.
>>749653167This is what I mean...not someone trying to make a point, writing a good response, respectfully disagreeing, nothing, just ''kill yourself'' and accusing the person of being a redditor or twitter user even though that's irrelevant regardless if it's true or not and in this case, I'm not, I'm not even a redditor or twitter user!
This isn't something that should come as a surprise, 4chan users have been tapering off since the Covid peak and then the extended shutdown last year swatted away a chunk of stragglers that had no real connection to the site.Realistically between the influx of users during the 2016 election cycle and Covid the natural state of the site was way, way off for a huge period of time. I guess to some it was the natural state of the site seeing as it was 10 fucking years long but this really is just a return to the mean.
>>749653158>n no not like that!honestly what this place needs is an oldfag purge
>>749653237hey remember when we made fun of people for taking 4chan super seriously and believing anything on here? those were better times. bring back homemade crystals
>>749652725>theres actual discussion thereIf that was true they would fuck off spreading that shit here to talk about it
>>749651978/a/ is shit because you have retards defending shit like this anime. It’s only better with the trollsubs and even then it’s still shit.
>>749653273question is, will the wound heal and scab over, or will it get infected and fill with pus?
>>749653142Because your just taking the things you do and don't want to see and trying to structure it as some righteous rule following way of thinking. You said it yourself fit has a vague connection but there's plenty of other equally dumb vague connection to vidya threads that also exist. Do we ban them too? What explicitly set of rules can we define to make sure it doesn't happen, and when we set those rules up, what if they still can post lewd pictures and follow it? Then what? More rules? Its really just the mentality of "I HATE X AND WANT IT GONE" to such a degree you'll drag the rest of the site's quality down to remove it, and then have another meltdown if someone feels that way about something you like.
>>749653273>return to the meanthere are plenty of boards where traffic is at an all-time low
>>749653293I member
>>749652214He lost Samurai Showdown
>>749653201If mods weren't gay they'd move all the schizo (gacha) /vg/ threads to their own board so non popular /vg/ threads could survive.
>>749651157it's worse than you think
I got banned for racism last week. I know it's against the rules but that never happened ten years ago
>>749653273>Um 4chan was actually always a shithole with nobody posting and it all being vapid passionless shit and people samefaggingI said it in 2010, I'll say it again now you retard.Fucking Elijah Wood posted on 4chan.This secret club never fucking existed.And even if it did it's not a version of the site you'd even want to post on you dumb faggot
>>749653315you have a fair assessment
I am starting to think today and yesterday were particularly low cuz anons fucked off to try and see the sharty kiwifarms board
>>749653042That one had an audio version that was easier and could be done with an addon
>>749649880Is this the new sleepy shilling?
>>749653452>the underages are leavinggod i wish
>>749653328Ebbs and flows in interests, shit happens. A lot of boards got an inflated bump because of the two peaks I mentioned./tg/ is a turbo-oldfag haven, /fit/ was always sort of an ugly duckling when compared to the overall culture of the website, and /mu/ has been dying a slow death since the end of the hipster days. /g/ dropping off is a bit strange though.
>>749653328Something I realized lately is that the various charts don’t convey how a big part of the problem is that the remaining traffic per board is really disproportionately slanted towards certain topics, usually generals Take /co/ for instance - slow boards aren’t necessarily bad on paper, but most of the damn board’s activity comes from the fucking Death Battle general alone
>>749653452sharty is just schizo spam and bots, completely unusable as a website
>>749653391mods will go through your post history when you say something they didn't like
>>749652875I tried doomscrolling on twitter but yeah it's better to doomscroll on the log here
>>749652893It honestly sucked, they seemed alright at first and we bought & played a bunch of games together, seemed to share a lot of views etc.Long story short one guy eventually started schizoing out, claimed I was """stalking""" him after I'd occasionally hop in VC from time to time to hang out, went straight to the server owner who just believed him and booted me out of the group, no questions asked. Then went and used his connection to a friend who owned an unrelated server to boot me out of there as well.At least I ended up finding another non-/vg/ group shortly after that, but sometimes I still get mad about the way that all went down.
>>749653379/vg/ shouldn't even exist no where was it necessary to turn vaguely game themed chatrooms into threads.Hell most of the cancer in the admin staff is from there and swears up and down>Nooooo guys you don't understand /vg/ is toooooootally better.Like if that wouldn't just be taken for granted if that was the case.
>>749653526When was /g/'s peak anyway? 2020-2021?
>>749649880the sad part is being smaller and slower does NOT improve the quality of discussion. a lot of posts just feel "weird" now, like random tourists posting for the first time and they don't fit in, it's reminiscent of youtube comments or facebook boomers or something
>>749653261the point is you sound like a vapid faggot and almost like you expect to get upvoted for posts like this, you're exactly the kind of poster that should fuck off alreadyI welcome the slower threads, I only wish botters and mentally ill shartroons weren't a thing.
>SEAnigger mod bans videogame threads because he's a gachafag so all that gets to stay is genshin shit and AI slop.
>>749653535Based /dbs/ 2.0
>>749649880they're playing all the recomps
>>749652208thanks for wasting my time, what a dumb screenshot
there is a lot of porn on every board now. I like tits and ass as much as the next guy but it didn't always used to be like this especially on blue boards. Feels a lot more /b/-like but you eventually left /b/ for a reason
>>749653408>Why is the site slower>Here's an explanation as to why the site is slower>"UHHHH RETAAAARD IT WAS NEVER LE SEKRIT CLUB"Where was that even implied? I was talking about the speed of the site, numbnuts.
>>749651738Not every day I see a Superjail reference.
>>749653526every board has a similar pattern.
From years of browsing, I have learned that few people around these parts actually value anonymity, or at least the veil in which 4chan presents it. I find it most convenient myself, as no matter who or what I become, so long as I offer some sort of value to the thread i'm browsing, there's a chance for it to be appreciated. In a climate where it is often highlighted that one's whims can potentially destroy your chances at ever providing for your peers, your 3rd place, your 2nd home, no matter the quality of your work, sounds soul crushing to me. Admittedly, I did call that a veil, the more paranoiac, neurodivergent may not even be able to bear the idea of others' pattern recognition, or a site owner's past putting them at risk, and so on, but still, I personally find it invaluable. I simply do not care for who you are or what you may have done. In this transactional exchange of gaming infos, original content, culture, and so on, you are what you post. That is my ideal. It may be one that's very easy to abuse, flawed, or morally questionable, but I stand by it. Unrelated to the idea above, but while I am thankful for the UI & general design of imageboards, it is undeniably a desktop friendly interface. I abhor phoneposting to this day, but I can't deny that it is a large part of this site's traffic. I would assume that on such a small screen, the amount of information you have access to is much more limited, neutering one of the big draws of 4chan and imageboards.I do not frequent enough young people to really know of any generational shift in regards to the value of anonymity, I can only assume growing in a web 3.0 Internet ought to shape you in such a way that may be unfavorable to ever visiting 4chan. We are all products of our time to an extent and what I may question or value may just be someone else's norm. I can't confidently make that claim, but I do believe 4chan's userbase is definitely ageing.
>>749653558Think about it this way. It's better that you got kicked out right there and then than giving that schizo more "reasons" to sperg out on you in a more serious way.
>>749649880good maybe all the normies will finally leave
>>749652875even twitter feels dead though. like others have said, the whole public internet is dying. tiktok and instagram reels are probably most alive for young people but that's like the equivalent of youtube comments, not a forum
>>749653137yeah id say this post sums it up well literally every single on topic thread has some faggot in there trying to ruin it of course the retards (who are probably him samefagging) who absolutely deepthroat the bait every time are equally at fault
>>749653452Why does KF meatride sharty so hard
>>749653583Well, excuse me for wanting good posts instead of trolling, bad faith, not engaging with the points or whatever, so if there is a a poster who should ''fuck off'' is trolls and/or mean people like you.
>>749653629You're full of shit trying to say apples are oranges you cockbite retard. That's where it came from.It would not kill you to not try posting manipulative shit for 5 fucking seconds and acknowledge the problem that's as clear as a sunny day and reeks of a trash heap you useless fucking toad.
>>749653619The biggest mistake 4chan ever made was never making a blue /b/. Now it's far too late, that needed to happen in like 2010 at the latest.
>>749653720I get it, you're an ebin troll from the sharty, you're not clever, just a waste of space.Do you faggots have absolutely NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR LIVES?
>>749653535even with death battle autism the board's traffic is completely dead compared to years ago
>>749652671Sorry, I thought it'd entertain you guys a little.I honestly think I'm a karmic parasite, I've never posted at times and felt the lifeforce of this website drain away. I made /a/ troon out with 'I want to be the little girl' by giving them mania since I blocked their lifeforce. Everything you see and disagree with can be programmed, think the board is dying? Then change it, but the change necessary is sometimes too deep and internal, you can't directly interact with it, and the solution is insanely complicated. When issues become this compressed you might as well call it a metaphysical problem.You have metaphysical health problems, I understand your issues, and I really want to fix them, I blame myself for everything. That's the last part I wanted to say. I want to clear all your spiritual blockages and make you happy, I am the demiurge and I really do know how to spiritually program but I'll do it quietly from now on.No more schizo ever again!
>>749653786The biggest mistake was undeleting /new/ and not doubling down with a "no politics" global rule.
Do you think the people who made thousands of posts about trannies on /v/ are real people who play video games?
>>749653526/mu/ and /lit/ are the saddest deaths here. those whole cultures are just gone
>>749653671>good maybe all the normies will finally leaveI'm tired of normies too. >I've got a 150k/y job but my friends are getting married and shit and it makes it harder to play multiplayerReal post in the blogpost thread with Heather in the OP.Meanwhile, I'm thinking about the rice and eggs I'll be having for dinner. It's like, do these niggers really come here to shit in my mouth.
>>749653790I think that ''sharty'' means another site similar to this one but that's all I know, so no, I'm not.
>zoomers>non-whites>leftcucks>botsThe four horsemen of the /v/-pocalypse
>>749653867>rice and eggs I'll be having for dinnerNo tuna or chicken?
I am not surprised really.Anons have spend more time pretending they care about the site than the actual time they really cared about it. Anons like to say xeet doesn't offer anything but the top 10 board are nothing but reposts of it so many just go there since they will see most of the popular tweets here anyways.Funnily the board with the least OPs like that are /b/ and /trash/ who are mostly propped up by AI pornfags fapping together/teaching fags how to make lolis with 6GB gpus.
wow a lot of you are really gay nerds and argue over really gay nerd shit. it's why anime and video games love me only and only have sex with me. you can have GTA girls and naughty dog girls, though, /v/. i've done some studies and they are perfect matches for you guys
>>749653907>No tuna or chicken?No, I don't have tuna or chicken. I add onions sauce, so it's not just plain eggs and rice.
>>749653942soi sauce*WHY is that filter still a thing
>>749653863I do wonder where the older posters go, is everyone just consolidating on Discords? Did they suddenly decide they had no interest in music or literature anymore?
>>749653896Replace leftcuck with culture warriors
>>749653535What website is this again? I always keep forgetting.
>>749653919highest quality post in this thread unironically
>>749653535What do they talk about on /lgbt/?
>>749653705Josh like them cuz they are(to his eyes) everything good of old 4chan:raids, doxxings, OCs and shitposting without any of the bad(pedophilia, perverts, anime, etc)Mainly I think he sees all the chud/basedjak content that has been made these last 5 years and widespread normalfag presence and he wants to create a sort of nest for them for him to watch over.
>>7496540064stats.io
>>749650109these exact same posts were made when Israel got shot up by IranKnown political hacks are using this exact talking point right now to smear their opponentsthis poster is probably a bot or useful idiot
>>749653705Probably the underage users going by the old allegations against moon.
>ctrl-f (you)>no hits on my posts;_;
>>749652294Interesting read. It's surreal to know that the Ick on Eck guy went on to be one of the largest menaces to this entire site. I still have no clue what the mods did to piss him off, specifically.
>>749653918Oh yeah I forgot let me open up my 4chan random anon admin panel and unban all the fags that made shit worth a fuck and ban all the jeet slop twitter threads.OH WAITI'M JUST A RANDOM POSTER, AND I'M NOT THE ONE THAT GOT ALL THE GOOD USERS TO LEAVE OR MAKING THE SHITTER AND AISLOP THREADSIT'S YOU, THE RETARDS RUNNING THIS SITE.
>>749653918Its why I always like porn threads. They might be deranged coom addicted weridos, but they're real people at least
>>749653978>Did they suddenly decide they had no interest in music or literature anymore?Maybe. There's lots of options for oldfags, and I know because I am one. You can>go to another site i.e. Reddit>quietly continue your hobbyIt's really easy with video games.>replace 4chan with a more parasocial relationship that can be found on YoutubeThey could listen to someone talking about their hobby. The "you're here forever" meme isn't even true, and people will leave if they're not happy. I've been on 4chan all my life, but I wasn't always on the same board. I used to be on /tv/. Am I on /tv/ right now? No, so that's a place I left. You can't leave the planet, but you can change country.
>>749650109Fuck Ukraine
>>749652378how can you faggots even use twitter, the post format is atrociously bad, and it even has infinite scroll
>>749649880I assume they went where the most frequent posters weren't folk that spend the entire day telling you every game in existence is terrible and you should kill yourself for playing them. Shitposters make this board one of the worst places on the internet tk talk about games. Crazy /v/ is the containment board so the other /v/ boards can talk about games in peace.
>>749652294alt chans feel like small islands you go to every now and then to have cozy discussions, they like to pretend they're enclosed communities but we all started out here
the nutty part is 4chan is too slow for zoomers. only millenials browse this site, its probably the same for reddit.
>>749654082Here you go. Don't spend it all in one place, okay?
the aliceschizo shitting up threads and getting them deleted is really annoying
>>749654052Danke.>/co/ is slow as hell but almost scratching top 10 at this moment
>>749650947You find a discord that aligns with your tastes like everyone else.
I want more original ideas and collaborative efforts again. Only repeating ones from the past still persist and while I'm thankful for them still being around at all I want something new. It's rare to find someone trying to actually do something with others on this website anymore.
>>749653978a lot of people just lose interest in talking about the same old things as they get older. maybe they have family or career or something taking more energyit was a youthful thing where people where people were obsessed with exploring the whole medium, curating their taste, having their 3x3 chart of favorites, etc. though young men now don't seem to be as interested in that kind of "canon" consumption culture anymore. women are still into reading but they're all on booktok or booktube. music fandom has died in general.
So does anyone else feel like the average poster these days is really chronically dishonest in a way that’s very unnatural? Like they want you to believe they get mad at [insert game here] because of random reasons but you can distinctly tell they’re just fucking lying and beating around the bush as to why they’re actually upset
>>749653918No shit. You think "you're here forever" was anything anyone cared about except as a joke? The same goes for everything else about "board culture".
>>749651447I don't support any game being banned
>>749654162I think it's funny how quite a few of them like to pretend they're so above 4chan when most of them still browse it and/or found out about the altchan from it. I feel like altchans have been extra dead lately though. Don't even see them talked about here anymore. I used to browse kissu off and on until they made it so you have to enable javascript. So it goes.
>>749654220but discords are cliques and once the "main group" is formed everything becomes a circlejerk around those people, 4chan has some of this but it isn't nearly as bad
>>749654240/v/ still makes new shit occasionally. Look at other boards. They cling to shit they made when creative people actually browsed the board, which can be as old as over a decade ago.
>>749653535That's not the whole story either. I can't speak for other boards, but /jp/'s fate is an interesting one that is perhaps the biggest of spiteful moderation.Earlier this year, /jp/ rolled out a new, 14-day til autosage format. This was the final blow to the morale of much of /jp/'s users, which may have been few, but they valued their long threads. They may have seemed vapid image dumping to an outsider, but they created a cocoon, one of comfort & safety. Going on /jp/ to see the almost 2 months old Medicine or Eika thread was a balm to the soul, and that time left everyone enough time to create stories or OC at a pace fit for /jp/'s motto: Take it easy.The hack also revealed that this was done in a (failed, as you can see from the stats) to reinvigorate the board, and even kick out the aforementioned people who enjoyed these threads and the general atmosphere of the board. Since then, a large part of this userbase stands divided in several alt chans and /jp/, and while the morale certainly isn't as dire as it was when this new feature rolled around, I would argue the remaining users have yet to heal from the scar. The board simply isn't fit for them or their culture. There's a lot more issues that have plagued /jp/ (Notice how I didn't say anything about Hololive or /vt/ as a whole) but this most recent one was the straw that broke the camel's back.
>>749654196There are quite a few schizos here that shit everything up.If they aren't bots it means they are spending a ridiculous amount of time here just to shit up whatever topic sets them off.
The second people started seriously repeating redditor shittalk about Japan without getting permabanned I knew it was over.
>>749654082surely you use 4chan xt for a thread watcher and automatic notifications on chrome for replies
>>749651718Situations like these are so funny to me because they wouldn't talk about that if they didn't get deleted and the mods wouldn't delete them if they didn't talk about that. It's like a spiral of schizophrenia
Dude I know a lot of the trump dick sickers in here wont admit it either but I think theres a not insignificant amount of people who are anti political correctness in terms of calling people faggots and retards but are also vehementally anti trump because hes such a piece of shit pedo. But because 4chan is so contrarian you have all these maga dick riding fags shitting up every board with that shit especially on /tv/ and I think a lot of the less contrarian people left as a result. That mixed with every board being filled with porn just really grates on anyone trying to start a thread. I made one for a game with like 100 reviews and first three replies were like "buy an ad" and some shit. So what? I can post endless porn threads but dont talk about your obscure games. Then lastly every /vg/ thread is completely and totally shitted up by autistic trannies who fucking suck to try talking to and they bring their discord drama into every thread. So basically I blame MAGAts, brown porn obsessed indians, and attention seeking trannies pushing away the average job holding adult thats been posting here for the last 10-15 years or so
>>749654250I think most of them you notice are people that get zero joy out of life except by shitposting and they just decided /v/ was there main source of autism. Yeah they most likely hate their lives or soemthing but will never confront that while they have internet access to make their problem everyone else's as well
>>749654301I know the aliceschizo is a bot, it will say some really nonsensical shit sometimes, and the handler sometimes posts as well but he's really easy to identify, guy sounds deranged as you'd expect.
>>749651169This game's threads are the only threads where i feel like i am talking to actual human beings
>>749651198Nigger are you mentally defective? All the TF2 Jewtuber servers have players in them
>>749654286Compared to what? /v/ is literally just off topic threads, threads with enough peoole that like soemthing to keep it on topic and the remaining 80% disingenuous shitposting. Finding a discord that shares your interests at least gives you something to actually talk about besides having someone spending all their time trying to rage bait you.
>>749651228>>749651790I had like 5 accounts get flagged as bots and i have no idea why. Now i'm too lazy to make another one
>>749654317I've been raw dogging 4chan since 2007. I tried the various userscripts and ended up never using most of their features. I do change the theme to dark though, like my soul.
>>749654272Sadly alt chans need to use convoluted anti spam measures these days to prevent CSAM posting that could get the owners arrested, probably by fedbots that just want to kill imageboards altogether. Kissu still seems really lively though, it's basically where most of /jp/ went to (besides 39) after the jannies completely nuked the board these last two years.
>>749654063well, I am no bot so...
>>749654335Yeah I can't imagine someone making a bot to post here is mentally well
>>749654250I kinda feel like this is the end result of the demographics shifting from blunt autists with no tact to skittish weirdos from very low-trust societies
>>749654298>/jp/ rolled out a new, 14-day til autosage formatwhat the fuck
>>749654292>tfw the only actual oc on /co/ nowadays is from tournament threadsthis entire website so fucking dead
>>749654357I have some good conversations in the rare rts threads. But it's mostly nostalgia posting because no one seems to really play rts as much, just remember them fondly. Try to get a custom game lobby going for sc2 or wc3 has ended in failure many a time, even though other games have managed to pull together lobbies. For a little while sts2 lobbies were up every day. That was fun too.
>>749652109>there's currently a thread on /v/ that's entirely about mcdonalds and fast food, and it has far more activity than any other thread. /v/ is only ever good when the thread is off topic it seems.which one? You got me curious but i can't find it
>>7496543244chan used to be a website where nerds would have fun and discuss their hobbies but also you could say slurs and make edgy jokes without getting banned. When it became a website for politics it drove off everyone who wasn't interested in right-wing political activism.
>>749654324>political correctnessIt's funny, you used to be able to tell what that meant. Then everything went to hell and it became impossible to tell anymore. /pol/'s title is "Politically Incorrect", but if their dogma is the norm, doesn't that make them politically correct now?
>>749649880It's not just /v/ retard.Lets use as normalfag an example as possible. Look at the /pol/ charts for each election for example since 2016.The fact is that /v/ got their chain snatched by twitter, tiktok, and instagram reels. The proof is in the pudding, half of /v/ feels like an RSS feed for random shit some redditor wanted to spread to the 'epic 4channers' and it's a twitter screencap. All the zoomers edgy or not found their spheres in the wide ocean that is tiktok and instagram. Maybe years ago, 4chan has this edgy forefront of the internet aura, but calling someone a monkey nigger is just par for course in the modern age, and if you're a troll you have a wide variety of people to troll on the bigger websites. Literally the only reason normalfags go on 4chan is to farm screenshots to actually make money engagement farming because the anonymous photo framing confers some kind of comedic anonymous aura to it that you're supposed to believe has value, meanwhile 4chan steals twitter screenshots FOR FREE>>749650109You're fucking retarded lol, this has been a trend for over the last decade.
>>749654401I frequent threads where I can have cool discussions, I enjoy the funposting and don't mind the gooning so long as it doesn't become excessive. All discords I tried to frequent just become this circlejerk as I tell you where no matter the quality of your addition, the clique will only talk about themselves.
>>749654286>once the "main group" is formed everything becomes a circlejerk around those people, 4chan has some of thisWhat are you talking about? Who is the "main group" on 4chan? I need to hear this bullshit. 4chan discussion is the equivalent of the darkest area of the school, and I know because I was one of those kids. There's no main group. There's everyone, and the people who don't belong. The dudes who walked over to see why people are even there and they don't realise we're in hiding. That's 4chan.
>>749654323>I'm a busy admin time to go spam the same unfunny repetitive shit for the 500st time this month and delete the thread again>boy I'm glad everyone believes this and I don't have to learn anything I am so good at samefagging threads about games I hate that I've never actually played
>>749654456I usually enjoy the Castlevania threads but recently they got flooded with culture war faggotry because a new game is coming out and it doesn't look very good. It was very obvious that shit flooding was done by external people (or mostly bots)
>>749654406>fedbotsUnlikely desu, there's some lengthy discussions about countermeasures on some of them and what solved it for one of the bigger ones was banning anyone from, and I quote, "Vladivostok, Tashkent, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Sao_Paulo, Bangkok".Doesn't seem like it's state actors from any of them either, mostly criminal fucks trying to shill their own websites.
THe site has been dying for years but it has accelerated so much these last month that you can tell when a schizo enters a thread. It has gotten so bad that I now believe the "poopschizo" pic was a butthurt schizo being called out. The latest one I seen is that weirdo that spams requests in any thread with AI, oc, drawfrens etc.He will talk to himself to pretend activity/engagement. Will have like 5 bots reposting requests across multiple threads/boards at the same time.He only got banned cuz the regulars hated his ass so much a particular day and got like 300 posts in a single day banned.At this point the only way these annoying rats, who hate being ignored, get banned is IF they post child porn otherwise they spend the entire day samefagging in hopes so retard engages with them.
>>749654501This is exactly it. I still do post here semi often but maybe once or twice a week now days. I lurk significantly more because im tired of politics that so many threads become. Of course some are thinly veiled to be political from rhe start, but even ones that arent seem to end up that way at some point
>>749654403ctrl F yous for 20y must mean you have severe autism
>>749654542certain posters become easy to identify and start avatarfagging around certain topics, and generals suffer from this the most, which is why they're just schizo central.
>>749654546I'm afraid i don't fully understand what you are trying to say
>>749654601>where you think you are.jpg
>>749652208idgi
>>749654406What's 39? I may give kissu another go.I went through most of the old webring at various times over the past 10 years. Kissu was the best overall. Smug was a decent circa 2013ish /a/ clone, but I don't like anime anymore so I don't have much of a reason to browse. There are smaller, way slower ones like sushi, but they're so slow they're basically unusable. There are many 7-8 year old threads there. I've been mostly browsing 4/g/ and /v/ for the last few years, so lainchan seemed like a decent option. But then I realized most of its users are extremely gay and annoying psueds, and that most of the threads are boring or about LE DRUGS........The sh_rty is off limits for me. I explored the new 8 somewhat during the hack, but it seems more like an activist site and frankly I prefer how toothless 4chan has gotten. I don't want to be on an activist site. There's /ghost/ I guess, but I'm not sure if it's even around anymore. Also mostly /a/.There are probably newer ones I'm not aware of since I haven't looked since the hack. The thing all of them are missing is the chaos and funny stupidity of 4chan. People always say this site has gotten worse, and in a lot of ways it has, but to me it's still the least worst site of them all. It's the only site that regularly makes me laugh. I'm a simpleton with the humor of a permanent 15 year old in 2006, so maybe that helps. Anyway, I guess my main point is that I looked everywhere else and still came back to 4chan. It is what it is.
>>749649880Gaming is a millennial hobby nowThe modern-day zoomshits that are coming up (Gen Alpha) don't have the patience, let alone the attention span, for gaming. They just want to watch anime all day.>An assistant teacher in a high school.
>>74965467139chan, or mikuchan
>>749654672How do you feel about the teen girls marriage potential after spending so much time on their phones
If you wanna see something bad just check the catalog on /g/. Even half a year ago it used to be about various technologies, computer components, programming languages and such. Now the entire board is AI and very little else.
>>749654607>certain posters become easy to identify and start avatarfagging around certain topicsThanks for being super vague, but I obviously don't frequent any of those threads. If you don't like a thread, then leave it. I never tell people to do something I wouldn't.If you stay in a thread where you don't like someone, you're essentially just jealous that they're getting attention and you aren't. It's really feminine behaviour.
>>749654554I wish I enjoyed castlevania and adjacent games more. I try but I just can't get into them. I probably put the most hours into dead cells, as far as a vania adjacent game goes... but even that I wore out maybe 15 hours in and I dont think I ever beat it. I did beat the super nintendo metroid game back when nintendo first launched the online retro game thing. Its too bad because I like the lore of castlevania itself a lot (I even watched the entire Netflix series which was... well it had cool fight scenes) but just cant get into the games.
>>749654540I've had the opposite problem. Outside of a few games almost every game thread on /v/ is overflowing with shitposters that cant have a genuine discussion to save their lives. Im in 5 different discord I can chat about games in with different people. Yeah they can get a bit like a clique but they will all chat all you want about games they are interested in.
>>749651652I'll be honest, I thought blanket deleting threads because of /vg/-style posting might be a solution to these issues before the hack, but it's not. In reality the same ritual posters stick around whenever the rare thread for these series manages to stick around, and the people who actually want to discuss these games move on. The jannies need to take a different approach or unironically go back to doing nothing about the issue, because things were better before.
>get fake IP ban message>go to verify email>jump through a bunch more captchas>verification request invalidthere's your answer
>>749654707No one can afford anything during mem crisis and no one has a job anymore so they wont be affording anything in the future so
>>749654671the sharty is genuinely schizo central, utterly unusable site filled with deranged zoomers getting psyopped by feds. I'm a polfag but these dudes are the reason nobody takes the right seriously, besides trump selling out and doing dumb shit non stop these days.
>/v/hu thread>gay erp avatarfag bullshit with the typical "we already talked about those games so were just gonna be niggers forever" >/2hug/>actual game and character discussion the fuck this isint supposed to happen
>>749654572>It has gotten so bad that I now believe the "poopschizo" pic was a butthurt schizo being called out.I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels like this desu ne sempai
>>749654671yeah I think /int/ and /tv/ can still be funny, even if they're past their peak./v/ at least had deltarune and claude plays pokemon, there's still some life left in this place. claude plays pokemon was genuinely surprising with the amount of great OC
>>749654518/pol/ are fraudulent faggots who did the 2015 era "Trump is literally Hitler but this is based" to being standard boilerplate 2026 twitter conservatives after the mass refugees from reddit (ironic) murked their board. Does anybody buy their natsoc larp seriously anymore? They got pushed around by boomer conservatives reheating the 2hu Momiji maga hat nachos. They still try to larp the charade of antisemitism for appearances sake but it doesn't change the fact they simp for a guy who is migamaxxing. It's frankly a weird dynamic because for the sake of 'old 4chan' they'll call you a kike shill or whatever when you contradict them, but they ride for a guy who says jew haters need to GTFO. Like the dude literally rides with the same synagoge you guys meme the jew rat tunnels about (Chabad-Lubavitch), has Lutnick (jew who 'luckily' ducked 9/11) and a literal homosexual/Soros Apprentice named Bessent who dicked over Japan by shorting their currency and hangs out with Larry Fink lol. The average tiktok zoomer is more anti-Israel than /pol/ is and that's just sad.
>>749654520what's wrong with keeping a tradition up then, fuck face?
>>749654741Is there anything you think could work? as a fan of many of the forbidden games, i wouldn't mind if the posts engaging in /vg/ behavior were deleted and their posters banned but i know that wouldn't work at all
>>749654770I regret not getting into the claude plays pokemon streams earlier. By the time i became interested in them the project was almost over
>>749654709you know how certain games like pragmata and klonoa are impossible to discuss due to ritual schizoposters? that's what I mean, it's not rocket science anon.
>>749654771/pol/ is a Israeli support board now
>>749654620Nobody buys that anyone in the 7 different /vrpg/ threads trying to piss off the 30 other people there or the same threads on /v/ every day actually give a shit about Deltarune so quit trying to sell it you fag.
>>749651652>Check deltarune thread>first five posts are AIEEEE /VG/>before anyone else posts about the game>Most of the thread still is someone playing hallmonitor
TestI had to verify my email for the first time
>>749653273I unironically blame mods for being no-fun allowed faggots. I remember wrestling streams on twitch happening like ten years ago, nowadays they just ban everything but leave up every flavor of twitter screencap thread. Additionally their schizophrenic policy on '''generals''' where you actively need to fight the moderation to talk about a game. Remember when they made boards nobody gave a fuck about because they were annoyed at a given FOTW game that was popular? Remember when they left bing ai threads up because they had a contract to not fuck with it so people could generate peach porn?>>749653293Mentality of 4chan changed where people unironically believe trolls who shitpost don't exist anymore.
>>749654856No it isn't, what the fuck are you talking about? Do you even actually go there?
>>749654884Dont do that fag, just quit posting lol
