>more than half the posts are about anime & manga that are more than a decade old Is anime & manga creatively bankrupt now? All I see is nostalgia being posted on the board.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
>>288426279It's not limited to anime and manga. Everything new is shit by default. Look at /tv/, /v/, /co/ or /fa/.
>>288426374This is because copying only leads you to be a shadow of what you're mimicking.
>>288426374At least those boards do focus on new stuff regardless and not just dwell in the past in a loop.
>nooo you can't talk about the classics>>>/v/
>>288426744Ah yes, mentally ill eternal timeloop of regurgitating ''classics'' to the point of being just generals. /v/ at least doesn't have those.
>>288426279/a/ and 4chan in general is on life support. Most people left here are oldfags (but not even true oldfags, but ones who were newfag cancer a decade ago).
>>288426279Zoomers are too dumb to get past the new captcha.Jokes aside try to post in incognito mode. They make you solve the cloudfare captcha + 5 very annoying 4chan captcha and if you try to register your email you have to go through it twice. If I was a new user I'd just close the tab and never come back here.
What's the formula to a good /a/ thread in your opinion?
>>288427561Yuno threads are good threads.
>>288427561Discussing an interesting series in an interesting way. Speculah, analysing details, effortposting.Of course not every series can have threads like this; it needs to be a series that actually has stuff worth talking about, and the fanbase needs to hit a sweet spot between being large enough that the threads are not dead, but not big enough to drown the thread in shitposting from subhuman tourists.
>>288427266>too dumb to get past the new captchaDUMB? That captcha is just tedious. I think the captcha filtered majority of the users. It killed 4chan
>>288426920ok so go back to /v/? You don't like it when people talk about anime, right?
>>288427981>>288427266If you idiots stopped getting banned you'd realize that the capcha gets easy after about a week. You don't even need to keep the same ip.
>>288426279>OGNB poster getting more retarded with each days
>>288426920It's more preferable than being scammed by companies over and over again, chimp out and coping because you get scammed and then backtracking
>>288426586no they dont
>>288428104How many captcha's must I solve before it gets better? Maybe people give up before realizing it, because it doesn't seem worth it to make posts anymore. Even this post doesn't seem worth the time it took on doing the captcha
>>288428104Well duh you fucking retard that's why I said to try it in incognito but having such an annoying captcha even temporarily will shoo away a lot of potential new users.
>>288428081I do love talking about anime, just don't like when board's obsessed with old content to the to point of becoming abhorrent generals. >>288428140What the hell are you talking about?
>>288428171I don't post very often so I think it's more based on how much time has passed since you last posted with clearing all your history. I only have to fill in three extremely easy capchas now.
>>288428104sucks for people trying to browse privately. i have to wait 60 seconds + cloudflare + 2-5 captchas every time i open 4chan. they really want to fingerprint the browser and attempt to ban any vpn range they find, soon it'll be residential proxies too.and all of it for what? that one furry spammer and because feds want to unmask every user on request? hopefully they tone it down (they won't)
>>288426279Most just aren't into seasonals anymore, the time when anime fans went out of their way to like anime is no more so nowadays if something isn't an iconic masterpiece that everyone loves then its not worth watching for most people.Wait another half decade for the shows airing now to stop being new=bad and people will start mentioning them without just saying they're shit.
>>288428269All your posts are already being collected by alphabet agencies and have been for years, might as well just stop being bothered about it. This new jewish organization they're using just makes the process easier.
Problem is seasonals no longer try to push "boundaries" or be "revolutionary", it's like they adapted to their own niches.They have their inspirations and stick by it, creating a very cyclical industry.It's no wonder you can trace where certain things come from, because it's actually all recycled.
>>288428249Thanks although since this isn't something most people would know about, I bet this is contributing to killing 4chan. All it takes is making 2 posts to realize this website sucks and then they never come back.
>>288428104I delete my cookies every once in a while, and that resets the captcha progress.
>>288428369Most newfags shouldn't come here anyway and making them leave is good for their sake. If this actually stopped spammer it would be good but the main people it seems to be punishing is ordinary posters.
>>288428246>ohmygod you can't talk about X that is a general>you have to talk about a product released 1-2 years, no wait, the past month>X is not from this monthThis is not normal. People have always talked about non-recent things, just look at books. People will talk about non-recent books. There are threads for airing anime, that means you get triggered by non-airing anime for some reason. I don't know what your problem is, seek help.
>>288426279Hyouken no Majutsushi s2 is in production and will save anime.
For stuff that isn't the most popular shit, posters know or at least some of them try to push for not making thread after thread with nothing to talk about. So you get maybe one or two threads weekly for an anime and monthly for a manga. Meanwhile for popular older series and the most obnoxious ongoing series they have their 24/7 generals. Most old good new bad posters also seem to not actually watch or read newer stuff and so they cluster into their little circlejerk threads about 20 year old anime while the newer series may die before they hit bump limit.
>>288426279>more than half the posts are about anime & manga that are more than a decade oldProof?
>>288428449>ordinary posters.
>>288426586This definitely does not apply to /co/, most of the threads are literally about shit that came out in the 2000s and earlier
>>288426279Art is getting worse the whole world over.
>>288426279No, this is just an old site used by old people. There is plenty of new anime and manga being created and there are plenty of places where people are discussing it, but 4chan isn't one of them. It's been well over a decade since the last time this place was culturally relevant.
>always used to get mad at old = good new = bad nostalgia posting>tfw realizing the new animes I would post as examples of still being good are 10 years old nowwtf man how am I almost 40?
>>288426279/a/ just happens to be dead and its corpse crawling with bots and ritual posting moeshittersalso this season kind of sucks otherwise I might make a thread or two about what I'm watchingbut nobody will post in them because they treat that one bot thread made for each episode as a week-long generalbecause they're bots
>>288428948that just means your pineal gland calcified and you stopped being able to recognize how each season is better than the lastwhich is ironic because 10 years ago was the absolute lowest point anime had gotten and if you were a newgood you were wrong
>>288426279Anime has been around in some international pop culture representation for more than 50 years. Yeah. We’re going to talk about everything that’s gone on in its’ history. Most of anime is historical now.
>>288428892Everywhere else outside of 4chan I've seen talking about anime is largely dead. More dead than people are saying current /a/ is.
>>288427973So why don't you do exactly that instead of a shitty meta thread?
>>288429218that's because the "places" "people" are talking about anime are twitter and Instagram and discord
>>288429223I didn't make this thread.
>>288428876You can thank AI for this. many artists losing passion over it.
>>288426279All the good mangas being published right now are pretty obscure, anime fell off
>>288426279>>more than half the posts are about anime & manga that are more than a decade oldI refuse to watch anime that will get another season. I'll just watch the whole show once its done. But thats exactly why I can barely watch any of the anime they released in the past decade
>>288429265I do go to a few discords and they're not that active either. And even when they are everyone is watching different stuff that it's difficult to get any kind of discussion going. I could just go to the ones flooded with normalfags but even if it was active I doubt it would be any better for discussion, especially about less popular stuff. Twitter and Instagram aren't good for discussion. Their formats are not made for it.
as it turns out, good things remain good for decades. there will always be more good things tomorrow than there were yesterday
>>288429342There's plenty of shit being made now that will just get a single cour and nothing else. For me that's the issue.
>>288429322imagine being such a bitch that watching people generate silly memes with their computer makes you give up your hopes and dreams
>>288429402post your work anon. prove to us you're not like them.
>>288429381hence why the three people who care enough about anime to watch more than the one trendy title every season are stuck here
>>288426744>>288428081>>288428495If you continue talking about the same thing over and over for years on end, you eventually run out of fresh discussion. I remember that back then, /a/ used to loathe Cowboy Bebop threads, because it's a series so popular that it had been discussed to death, anything that one could talk about had already been said.Now we're seeing the opposite of this, these generals aren't discussing anything, they're just circlejerks akin to discord servers.
>>288426279Everything is woke and gay now. Especially western media but it's leaking into anime too recently. New anime don't even have the moe art style anymore, it's like they no longer have men as their target audience
The weird part is that every year it becomes the easiest year to interact with old media that you’ve never touched before but it’s very rare to meet people that do the same thing
>>288429481>moe art styleWhich one?
>>288429509Anything that's actually appealing, rather than hyper detailed hair and eyes that are constantly dazzling for no reason like we've been getting since covid
>>288429401Thats stupid too. Its hard to figure out of we'll ever get a second seasond though
>>288429587I think you just don't watch newer anime.
>>288429442sure, I'll post the treatment I've been working on once I've finished integrating the new character I thought up that's totally not my umafu transplanted into the story once I manage to imagine her and not give her horse ears
>>288429618nah this looks like shit, soulless
>>288429836Explain why instead of just throwing out buzzwords. Also what series do you think is a good encapsulation of the "moe artstyle" for you?
>>288429883Everything is too bright, the forms are too round, the whole thing is too unserious.>what series do you think is a good encapsulation of the "moe artstyle" for you?OG Sailor Moon, Haruhi, Madoka
>>288429618yeah I don't like this, the resolution is high but it doesn't have enough detail, the lines are too clean and the color palette wasn't carefully chosen so it looks flat and dull the moe artstyle worked better for SD content where the stylization allowed you to be more expressive with the limited real estate, but these days you have the bandwidth to faithfully recreate a pretty manga
>>288428892Eh, you'd be surprised at the amount of ""weebs"" who got into anime very recently, only watched old stuff, tried one new thing, hated it, never watched anything again, just bitch about how nothing new is good and how anime used to be super cool while posting aesthetic 80s animation they found on Pinterest and twitter.
>>288429322It’s been happening for longer than that
>>288428892this is not true. i refuse to create a discord account and talk to 5 normalniggers that started watching anime with jjk. new anime are simply not as good, still there are threads about frieren daily and some new stuff sometimes.
>>288427201Its a shame because either you get a minimal chance of a good discussion here, or you go somewhere else on the internet and there's many discussions but only about the same 5 things , if only there was a successor to 4chan
>>288426279They're simply not that good. And the ones that are good don't allow for much discussion, like Odd Taxi or Cyberpunk. Anyway, there are plenty of garbage threads of new shit like JJK.
>>288430271And where do we go now?
>>288430101>it doesn't have enough detail,You don't see to be the same person I initially replied to but one of his complaints was about too much detail. >the moe artstyle worked better for SD content where the stylization allowed you to be more expressive with the limited real estate, but these days you have the bandwidth to faithfully recreate a pretty mangaI'm a manga reader and no, I almost never see manga styles faithfully recreated in anime. It's less about "bandwidth", whatever that means in this context, and more about having the time and manpower to draw to the same level of detail that a mangaka can do while also drawing the number of frames required for animation. Along with replacing shit with CGI and filtered photo backgrounds that destroy a manga's art style.The resolution of modern anime is certainly higher than stuff in the early 00s but I do not believe anime has ever been quibbling over pixels here and there to the extent that your argument seems to imply. And that's not to mention that cel anime were made on cels, which weren't limited to pixels on a screen even if at the time their end presentation was on low resolution TVs (though you also had movies which didn't have those limitations).
>>288430319>nu-oldgoodnewbads don't even know what a scan line is
>>288430271This is pretty much as good as it gets discussion wise. Anything else is either thing: bad or twitter speak.
>>28842627990% of the new stuff is pure slop, even the most broccoliheaded zoomgroid can see that DBZ mogs almost everything coming out nowadays in terms of raw quality.
>>288430271>can't even use RetroShare because FedJews blocked the ports/protocolYou are a funny one, i bet discord is installed in your pc
>>288430315You stay here, unless more people realize sites like 4chan are more beneficial to discussion than social media , it'll stay like this until it shuts down, and then the end, like a fart in the wind, gone
>>288430423Idk what retroshare is but, i haven't used discord in a year or two, yes its more active than here , but the people are insufferable , especially the mods
>>288430354Where did you get that I'm an old good new bad fag, anon? I believe I've been arguing from the opposite position. And maybe I'm just being retarded, but anime does not seem like it would be limited in the same way by things like scanlines like you're saying as video games that do rely more on pixel to pixel information. The home release versions of things in the past did suffer from that kind of thing, but the way anime is made doesn't really play into that kind of technological limitation in terms of how it's made (in the same way). The animators draw the images, often on paper, which is still done today, and then some work is done on a computer. Anime isn't being made like pixel art where the number of pixels in your sprite is going to affect how you're going to design it to look, or even modern video games where pixel information is important in how things are rendered. And that kind of thing makes even less sense when talking about cels that are a fully analog medium that's essentially smashed down to fit into whatever the current home media is. There are plenty of issues with modern bluray releases of things, but you can still often see the kinds of compromises made for VHS or laserdisc that aren't required for bluray releases. I'm sure there were concessions in the production process because of the limitations of home media at the time but it's still a different thing from what you're talking about.
>>288430488I'm sorry, I'm not interested in reading your autistic ramble, that's why all your "effortpost" threads die btw
>>288430423I'm reading about it and it sounds really nice, your saying it doesn't work anymore?https://retroshare.cc/
>>288430532All my friends reported the same as me, can't connect to others after some time, whatever that means.
>>288426279No, it's because THE BOARD IS FUCKING DYING AND IT IS A RETIREMENT HOME FOR WASHED UP MILLENNIALS WHO CAN ONLY SHAKE THEIR FISTS AT CLOUDS AND COMPLAIN ABOUT RETARDED KIDS.https://4stats.io
>>288430624Damn, i guess only the good die young , there's got to be something else out there, maybe
>>288430686>/adv/ 142%lmao everybody's killing themselves
>>288426279It was always like thisStop whinin' and bitchin'
>>288430776'08 is firmly post-reddit cancer era
>>288430488nice schizo manifesto, are you a yurifag by any chance?
>>288430791>redditACKTUHALLY it was tumblr at the time.
>>288430488I would say something to the effect that you weren't able to parse "detelecine" as a word let alone know what the option in handbrake was supposed to de, but you're probably the kind of anon that would call GUIs bloat, even though that's just cope because your computer is hardly strong enough to play 1080p video let alone transcode it
>>288430823>>288430791ok but what does mainchan think
>>288427561why /dbs/ of course
>>288427561Waifu threads are usually the best ones (excluding the discord circlejerk ones)
>>288430266Frieren is new but it's made like if it was old, if you understand what I'm saying.
>>288430488>maybe I'm just being retardedobviously, i don't think anybody wants to read a wall of text regardless of what your point even is.
>>288430909eww I saw someone greentext outside of 4chan and that site actually makes the text green and it made me throw up in my mouth a little
The old net is completely dead and the new net is the future, whether you like it or not new culture is made on twitter/discord/tiktok and not decrepit forums like 4chan which haven't been culturally relevant in over a decade. Most anons don't post anymore because they either left for twitter/discord/tiktok, became normalfags, committed suicide or just lurk out of habit. 4chan is on its death bed and you all are being left behind. Not to mention most of the Internet is dead anyway as most discussion nowadays is ragebait or bots. Either conform to tiktok/discord/twitter or eventually you will have nowhere to go once 4chan shuts down for good. Being anonymous is a relic of the past and it's about time you all got with the times.
>>288430686>>288430725A lot of anons have committed suicide over the years, it wouldn't surprise me that many anons are now considering suicide in 4chans final years. They wasted their lives here and have nothing to show for it.
>>288431081I do admit that I don't post a lot anymore, and the main reason for that are spoilers. 99% of new anime are adaptations and every thread is filled with manga/LN spoilers. I don't want spoilers, I want to talk about the anime. It fucking sucks.
>>288430803Rent free.
>>288431151Been watching Liar Game, and the threads are surprisingly spoiler-free, despite the manga having ended like a decade ago.
>>288431165Apparently not.
>>288426279AAAAAAHHHHH PANICPEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT ANIME AND MANGAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH
>>288431081>Being anonymous is a relic of the past and it's about time you all got with the times.Nice try, Starmer.
>>288430505>>288430803>>288430898>>288431011I expected insults but I also expected someone to reply with an actual point. I guess this is why /a/ is dead. I accept your concessions.
>>288430315>>288430464Discord/twitter/tiktok, reddit maybe but reddits pretty dead nowadays. If you can't handle not being a sperg and getting banned then maybe it's good you will be alone here will all of the other schizos and freaks of the Internet.
>>288431204The problem is that they're not talking, because there's nothing to talk about old series. Those threads are just circlejerks posting the same old pictures over and over and generally being like discord servers.
>>288431228now concessionschizo is one I need to get better at recognizing even though I think I'm good at noticing the other onescan't you please pick up a gimmick like dumping reaction images that don't fit the context at all or randomly ranting about the prime minister?
>>288431280>calling someone a schizo while accusing them of being another person you're obsessed with
>>288431204PANIC THE FUCK OUT!!!! AAAH YOU'RE BEING LEFT BEHIND BY TIKTOK EDITS AND TWITTER THAT FUNCTIONS WORSE THAN THIS WEBSITE ITS OVER
>>288431302I literally didn't recognize you until you unleashed your final catchphrase how am I obsessed with you
>>288431228nobody read what you said.
Board activity has fallen to 2009 levels by the wayThe website is dying
>>288431223It is, being anonymous is a relic of the past and namefags are the future. It must suck to be you where you need to hide behind anonymity otherwise you likely would get banned for being a sperg. You can even make a lot money if you people like your posts nowadays. Why waste your time on 4chan where everything is transient and ultimately meaningless. On top of the activity declining more and more as people realize the same thing.Also >>288431310Anons like this are very scared that their favorite internet shithole likely won't exist by 2028 so all they can do is lash out, most anons like this either conform or commit suicide eventually when the dread hits them. A lot of posters here have no friend group and are neets, realizing that lifestyle isn't really sustainable in 2026. Look at /adv/, it's actually increasing in traffic with tons of anons trying to get off this boat and get there life together while other anons on /r9k/ are discussing the best way to kill themselves. The reality check is starting to hit many anons.
>>288431231Reddit is like 70% bots, and 4chan is not much better.
>>288431378what was the ratio of bots to humans in 2009
>>288431393Do you guys really think anyone gives a damn to bot on 4chan?
>>288426744desu evangelion sucked
>>288431419>most posters now are bots>out of the few organic posters, most of them are mobileposters
>>288426279Yes.
>>288431387>likely won't exist by 2028 and blah blah blahJust making shit up. What proof do you have for your claim? You're just yapping entire paragraphs of bizarre nonsense. If it's so dead and we're all gonna ack ourselves why are you even here then? Nobody asked for your retarded ass theory about the future of the internet here. Fuck off to tiktok and laugh at indian dance edits or something since that place is apparently so alive and full of discussion.
>>288431456even if you don't believe crunchyroll is behind the useless screenshot spam airing threads meant to promote the dominance of subsplease aka their product so they can take it away when the last fansubber kills himself, then you at least know site administration has an interest in fooling advertisers into thinking anyone in their right mind would ever use 4chan without an ad blocker
>>288431231Implying that there's not thousand if not hundreds of thousands more freaks on those websites than here, and you can get banned here as well so idk what your talking about nigger
>>288426279>more than half the posts are about anime & manga that are more than a decade oldThis was also true 20 years ago anon.
>>288431387>>288431081I dunno. You say all that, but I've come across sites more niche and older than 4chan that are holding out well enough. This isn't a deal where it's 'one reply a month' either, the users engage with each other frequently. Forums and I guess whatever remnants you might consider as the "old internet" will obviously lose out in popularity compared to its newer contemporaries, but I don't believe it'll truly die out.
>>288426920/v/ doesn't gave those because they're all forced into /vg/, and frankly they would be preferable to the garbage that makes up most of /v/.
>>2884314564chan is pretty much the perfect place for bot training. We have seen examples of anons who saw their own posts from years ago getting reposted to other boards.
>>288427561The actual best threads are episode specific threads that follow currently airing anime originals. Unfortunately those are rare, and even among the few we get they tend to be niche and/or boring, so the threads tend to be inactive.
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>>288429218Does this mean studios will finally stop pandering to the west?
>>288426279>>288426279>>288426279There are just no good anime anymore.You either get shit for women, shounenslop (also for women), or isekai. Anime that cater to otaku is dead. Ninkoro for example was just an oddity that stood out for that.Also, modern anime directors are crap. I'm watching Liar Game this season and despite it's low budget, the biggest issue is the incompetent direction.
>>288434996>Anime that cater to otakuEvery single isekai.
>>288435304Exactly, that anon is delusional. The fact of the matter is that the average Otaku has shit taste and nowadays just want shitty self-insert escapist fantasies with no depth or intrigue.
