Do you have any evidence for or against the claim?

>>291593349
No, OP is actually 12 years old

Why do people bump blatant low-quality ragebait threads is beyond my understanding.

God I love edge lord slop bros. Never gets old. I love watching cute girls suffer.

>>291594005
to bait rage, presumably
4chan spent the past 20 years telling everyone that cares to listen that everything you do is justified and correct and epic and based so long as it makes somebody else mad. The barren wasteland you see around you is the inevitable conclusion of that ideology

>>291594081
Speaking of the state of things. I've just returned from a fairly lengthy exile, and /a/ seems... different.
A lot less activity, but also a lot less shitty ritualposting.
Was there a massive exodus over the past 2 years? Or is this just /a/ with fewer bots?
What did I miss?

>>291594224
There's been a steady exodus, many of whom left when 4chan went down after being hacked last year,
but also Ukraine blew up some russian data centres the other day and a lot of certain kinds of activity and topics have virtually disappeared around the internet

>>291594224
/a/ has been in a slow decline for years. It's had some bumps (covid) but it's been pretty steady. Truth is that 4chan as a whole is just dying. You can see it on 4stats.

The truth is that most people prefer to seclude themselves into their own small pocket community rather than engage with a topic at large. Which is why generals are still flourishing. You can see that places like /vg/ are barely losing posters. It's also why most of the activity on /a/ is specifically the generals and psuedo generals (DB and story times).

>>291594419
it doesn't help that you can discuss popular anime with less trolling and spam on /vg/ than on /a/ if its an anime with games

>>291594486
Nah trolling is fun. It's really the image dump spam with no discussion and the one line post stating "X is really cute" which just kills discussion outright.

>>291594569
there's nothing fun about seeing a thread get derailed by off topic posts about cuckoldry and diaper fetishism and IRL wars and wojaks because someone is trying really hard to bait the trannies/nazis/indians/mexicans/capitalists/communists/fans of other manga that they are convinced are posting in the thread

>>291594821
Look, at least it's something to argue about and drive some kind of discussion. I'm not saying it's good, but it's better than one guy just posting images or pointless one-liners to bump a thread up. This places runs on arguing and fighting over stupid shit.

>>291594922
All it does is incentivise more people that actually want to talk about anime and manga and post OC to fuck off and find discussion groups elsewhere rather than try and get the thread back on topic

>>291593349
Bully becomes EVEN STRONGER after getting molested

>>291595422
For one, you can make a new thread. Two, most threads are abysmally slow, if you aren't getting attention, it's because your post isn't interesting to discuss. Three, those people have largely already left.