and yet I still want the board to split

>>152669605
4chan is dying in general. The internet is dying in general.

>>152669605
That's what happens on a website where everyone is a hateful asshole who doesn't like anything. Maybe try actually having a genuine discussion about something you enjoy, and the board won't be so fucking dead. But oh wait, you literally can't because enjoying media is cringe and woke. Fuck you and shut the fuck up. Boring asshole.

>>152669635
>um no acksually you don't like things because its a cybersocial faux pas
Fuck off retard

>>152669635
>ut oh wait, you literally can't because enjoying media is cringe and woke. Fuck you and shut the fuck up. Boring asshole.
Congratulations on being part of the problem, you direction-brained dickwad.

There's nothing to talk about when it comes to comics or cartoons outside of random indie stuff, what did you expect?
Congrats, this is what the hobby board for a dying industry looks like.

>>152669633
4chan is dying because it doesn't foster community and gatekeep undesirables. The site is run by people who are proven from the hack to relish the idea of tormenting random anons and shitting up the site. The same people who thought /qa/ and wojak spam was funny until they went after a faggot board, then deleted it and got hacked by those same schizoids.

>>152669651
You DON'T like anything. All you ever do is bitch.

>>152669659
I try to talk about stuff I like all the time. Threads are either ignored or shitposted to death by some obsessed freak. Every single time, about every single piece of media.

4chan is decaying in general.
It's honestly better to look for niche forums at this point for discussion online. Even though most of those sites mods are power hungry.
The internet just sucks too much now.

>>152669605
thats because you dont gain money nor fame from posting here, (namefags exist for that reason) you post out of passion and troll 4 fun,
normies dont do that so they dont care about 4chan anymore,

(You) should thank the autists for keeping your favorite threads alive, anon.

>>152669605
>Industry is dead for both comics and cartoons
>The only things worth discussing will be dead soon
It yabba dabba do be that way sometimes

>>152669635
i like you, anon

>>152669605
The alt /co/'s are little better

>>152669605
>Only site that makes you wait a minute to post again
>Only site that makes you solve 2-5 puzzles to make a single post
>Only website that kills off discussions unless you replied in an arbitrary time
>Only site that IP range bans you for no reason given at times unless you give your bank information and removes the point of posting here instead of other websites
>Only website on the planet that does its hardest to try to prevent you from posting anything
”Gee why is our website dying?”

>>152669902
Look at all these things they have to do so we just don't have to fill out the namefield.

>>152669605
it's impressive that 4chan is still kicking for two decades straight despite the terrible mismanagement over last 10 years.

>>152669605
X replaced 4chan as the evil Nazi site, 4chan is just more edgy Tumblr now.

>>152669947
>it's impressive that 4chan is still kicking for two decades straight despite the terrible mismanagement over last 10 years.
Institutional Inertia is a bitch.

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There are so many compounding factors as to why this board it's dead, it's very depressing to think about. Now all that's left is garbage discussions with sad 30 year olds, and very few 30 year olds these days are having kids so this site won't have fresh blood the next 5 or 10 years. Who knows what happens after that

>>152669605
Yeah, threads are slower than ever before unless it's a porn dumping ground

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>>152669605
Just because they told you you're here forever doesn't make it true. The Wild West has been tamed and it's time to find a new frontier to explore. No one knows where we're going or what it would even look like but at least we know we're going there together because we're all feeling it.

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>>152669605
this site is 'coming like a ghost town
all the boards are winding down
this site is 'coming like a ghost town
noobs don't post no more
too much captchas make posting a chore
>YYAAAAAAAYYYYYAAAAYYYYAAYYAYYYAYYAAAAA

>>152669676
>>152669822
Reminder that even fucking twitter has more active discussion on comics than /co/

>>152670261
I don't want to use twitter it's full of dickheads.

So's /co/ but at least I can call them faggots without some gender special cunt trying to ruin my life IRL over it.

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>>152669635
there should be more good things to talk about, then

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But I don't want /co/ to go away. I like 4chan and /co/. I remember back in the character tournaments (Ms./co/, Mr./co/, etc) there was much less voting than in the previous years. I think it was the captcha. Depending on your provider it almost entirely blocked mobile posting, and let's be real not everyone wants to sit at the desktop to post. I think that was a really bad decision.

>>152670302
*the captcha prior to the current one

>>152669605
/co/ is a cartoon board now, the comics aspect is fucking fossilized with always the same old shit because the new shit is posted once and forgotten

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>>152670302
>Depending on your provider it almost entirely blocked mobile posting
Good. Mobile posting sucks. If you go onto basically any altchan the quality of discussion almost immediately becomes a thousand times better because most people on those websites are posting on their computers, not their cell phones.

The ban on posts from (most) cell carriers really was a double edged sword because it stemmed a lot of the low-effort shitposting, but the surviving shitposters are much more high-effort schizos who are better at driving people away.

>>152669605
The future of cartoons is so over. There are barely any fresh good shows worth talking about.

>>152669605
Toonami and death battle are the most active threads here and they are barely /co/

>>152670322
Is a reduction in shitposting really worth losing so much activity though? Is 4chan really fun anymore when you take the chaos out of it?

>>152670359
No one likes you and everyone wants you to die

>>152670369
Cope, faggot, you lost

>>152670359
Nigga you're one of the hateful assholes he was talking about

>>152669635
its 4chan what do you expect?

>>152670400
Don't flatter him.

>>152670319
cartoons are dying too
>>152670326
>>152669902
They enshittified 4chan
I think the site going down was the final nail

>>152670384
Lost what? The seething faggot brainwashed by pedophiles on a cartoon board here is you

Maybe the solution for this dying website really is to bite the bullet and make a login

>>152669605
the IQ-test captcha is a good filter tho, everyone here had to either pay (lol) or pass it

>>152670359
Like it or not you just listed the only people who give enough of a shit to make more than five cumulative hours of interesting media in the first place.

>>152669902
This. They implemented some spyware IP-tracking shit that won't let you post. I had to disable uBlock and uMatrix to even make this post. It's just garbage. Too much effort to post.

>>152670471
No, that's you

>>152670302
>I don't want /co/ to go away
on one hand, i agree with you to a certain extent. i like the cozy atmosphere here. you can banter with another anons about cartoons. but on other hand, it should've died long ago so altchans can filled that niche
>>152670261
grim
>>152670286
can't blame you, twitter is filled with too many retards

>>152670482
Dont be pretentious its not an IQ test its just annoying and a waste of time when they already perfectly fine captchas before

The only active boards left are /v/, /a/ and /sp/

/pol/ is like 70% bots now

>>152670365
>Is a reduction in shitposting really worth losing so much activity though
Yes. Quality > Quantity any day of the week. You should be able to see this firsthand with the torrent of AI slop washing over the internet.

>Is 4chan really fun anymore when you take the chaos out of it?
You're falling into the same false dichotomy fallacy that people have been doing for years. Shitposting =/= board culture. Board culture requires high quality posters to survive. Shitposting erodes board culture and undermines post quality. 4chan does not need to be an ocean of piss to be able to have genuine, fun discussion away from censorship, cliques, and SocJus retards.

>>152670302
It was a mixture of the captcha changes and the needing a google account to vote these last two years. Besides that yes I do agree. I like this place, as shit as it can be sometimes. You just need to find a good thread every now and then.

>>152670554
I guess. I can't really argue with you there, part of me just feels like there were good posters lost too, surely most phoneposters couldn't have been that way, right?
>>152670559
Agreed. I don't think it's all lost yet.

>>152669708
>The internet just sucks too much now.

Yeah the net is so sterile now. It's hard to find sites that foster good discussions. Everything is botted and astroturfed to hell, sites like Reddit have restrictive rules and powertripping jannies with an agenda, social media isn't meant to foster discussions and the users are mostly braindead anyway, basically indistinguishable from the many bots that infest those sites. 4chan is unironically one of the best places to engage in a free exchange of ideas with both likeminded and differing viewpoints, which is pretty sad.

>>152670302
What's wrong with captcha?

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I used to be a lot more active on /co/ around two years ago, only just recently started poking my head around again and thought I was going crazy because everything felt so inactive. Went to a thread and the first reply was loli art that the jannies never removed, even hours after the thread was posted. Saw a lot more low quality OPs than I remember there being. Felt disheartening since I despise social media and don't want to go there to discuss cartoons, especially since every site is filled with kids who are very loud and annoying.

Even then I've still come across a few threads that were a lot of fun, for things I wouldn't have expected. Whatever Happened to Robot Jones of all shows has had a handful of threads that have hit bump limit, with a healthy mix of shitposting, discussion, and even OC from drawfags. /co/ may be dying, but it's not dead yet, and I will always feel at home no matter how bad things get.

>>152669605
It's mostly bots now even on /co/. Some bought a pass or scammed one via a stolen credit card or discordjanny's giving them out to stifle threads.

>>152670302
>Depending on your provider it almost entirely blocked mobile posting, and let's be real not everyone wants to sit at the desktop to post.
Not my problem, death to mobileposters.

>>152670319
Absolute?
All-ages stuff tends to get solid threads as well though not guaranteed

>>152669635
Hmmm, I dunno about that, I still enjoy plenty of stuff; lots of current video games, anime, manga, novels, the only current stuff I generally don't enjoy are music (current music is literally 99.99% shit, it's so bad that AIslop is topping the streaming charts) and cartoons (except some stuff like Primal, Smiling Friends, and CSE, but those are basically ending or dead).
The issue is that I just don't have much reason to post here nowadays because there aren't many cartoons or comics I'm interested in nowadays, I'm only here now because of the recent Smiling Friends announcement.
Comics and cartoons just aren't really *for* me anymore, so I see no reason to engage with them.

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It's not just /co/, it's every board. I browsed /tv/ the other weekend and it shocked me to see how slow it was. Almost as slow as /co/. Everything with the exception of a couple of boards (like /v/) feels like it's on Euro timezone hours now, except for the Euro hours, which are straight-up dead. One sobering effect of this which has become apparent over the last few years (I'm sure people here will agree) is how you'll find yourself in a discussion about something and realize that the anons you're talking to seem to be the same ones you had been talking to days or weeks or months before. It's usually not bad enough that it's worth interrupting the thread to make a comment about it, because if you're wrong you look like a schizo, but if you're right... why spoil the illusion of a fresh conversation? Sometimes it can even be oddly comforting. Nice to see your weird internet pen-pals are still alive and kicking, you know. Still it gives me pause when I encounter it, and it makes me wonder how often others have come to that same realization while talking to me. This entire site feels more and more like a virtual retirement home for jaded millennials who don't fit in anywhere else or who simply hate social media and prefer anonymity. That's not such a bad thing, but it sure does feel more lonely than it used to and there's no reason to assume that it won't get lonelier from here.

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It's odd to see graphs like this and think that there's 1/4 as much activity on here each day as there used to be, because maybe it's just rose-tinted goggles but it generally feels like there's even less than that.

>>152670856
/tv/ and /co/ are generally dead, for much the same reason.
Current TV and current cartoons are both kind of shitty, and the amount being made is downright anemic compared to even just a decade ago, so you end up with the most active discussions on these boards being culture war shit surrounding the industries and the occasional perma-generals for the few things people still care about (ASoIaF and related properties on /tv/, TADC/Hazbin and Death Battle on /co/).

But you are right about there being a lot of discussion with the same anons, and this is largely because the "old internet" no longer gets young blood, all the young people are content with AI and whatever the algorithm on TikTok feeds them, this just ends up more pronounced with /co/ since cartoons in general attract a lot of autistic teenagers, and that cohort used to make up a significant proportion of /co/ posters.

>>152669605
To be honest I go to boards where my interests align at the time. If I'm obsessing over an anime or manga, I hang around on /a/ more. If it's a cartoon or comic series, I'm here on /co/. If it's a video game then /v/ (or other more specialized boards), /m/ if it's a mecha series, and so on.

Aside from Hazbin, there really hasn't been much /co/ material that interests me for a while.

>>152670656
Anything not sterile is sunk in a culture of being maximally hostile to anyone who tries to do or talk about anything because that's seen as the only way to prevent being sterilized. There's only extruded industrial paste or crab bucket/tall poppy culture.

>>152669605

> you must solve 4 ai training captchas to find out if you are already banned before you can respond to the scraps of conversation you were able to figure out isnt a manufactured botted discussion

Yeah, it sure is a mystery.

>>152670925
Enjoy your AIDS

>>152670925
Hazbin is the main reason I'm on /co/.

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>>152670690
it filters out anyone below a kindergarten education, ie a lot of anons

Do storytimes help?

>>152669605
No one wants to be associated with this website as American heads to a surveillance state. At some point the younger generation got brainwashed into hating pedos so much that it overrides logic and will let the government arrest (enslave) whoever they want. Soon we'll all get vanned just for having posted here.

>>152669605
It looks that way, until somthing actually happens

>all the jobs have been cloosed doown

https://youtu.be/dKiGUP98YkE?si=WFjUcfhj8gaS-q0a

>>152670925
Same

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It's nice to have the occasional thread to air out the many grievances that come with this site's decline. I sometimes wish there was a place to discuss these things in depth without a mod Sword of Damocles hanging overhead to smite the thread right in the middle of the discussion, even if there is a reason that spaces for meta discussion are taken out back after what happened with /qa/. Things don't need to be so intentionally obfuscated though. Taking away the IP counter is one example- we all know the site's metrics are lower, why try to hide it? We can all tell! It's like a balding guy getting Turkish hair plugs.

>>152670856
>One sobering effect of this which has become apparent over the last few years (I'm sure people here will agree) is how you'll find yourself in a discussion about something and realize that the anons you're talking to seem to be the same ones you had been talking to days or weeks or months before.
On /co/ it's especially bad because a lot of the same anons post the exact same ritual threads week after week. Those Tushy Tuesday threads for instance are maybe 5 guys at best dumping the same images time after time. I've also noticed an explosion of weird ERP posting that I hope is just bots because it doesn't have a human speech cadence.

>>152670751
maybe it's time to start a blog? maybe a renaissance of blog is necessary? I made a blog about my hobby, and while it has only 100 views daily, it slowly builds a community with 3 regular commenters.

>>152670856
I have a confession to make, I do pretend to be different anons for fun, sometimes posting contradiction opinions, albeit I avoid doing it in the same thread.

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>11th fastest board on the site
>"ghost town"
genuine retard

>>152670967
>>152670977

>>152671049
Anon, 11k posts per day is pretty slow for anons who are used to /co/'s peak in the early-mid 10s.
During the peak of Gravity Falls' popularity this board used to hit 4x that number.

>>152671049
genuinely depressing that /pol/ is the main board of the site. Guess that's what happens when you run them off every single platform and then force all their hangouts to get dropped by cloudflare though.

>>152671029
A similar thing is happening with Tvtropes. User engagement is down, the mods and admins know it's down and are trying to fix it but they get violently angry when you address the elephant in the room. (captcha, draconian rules, annoying userbase)

>>152671029
1 thread per board doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.

>>152669635
I hope your next animation gig falls through
>>152670488
lol no you faggot, conservatives were just gatekept from jobs. I’m making my own work for free.
>>152670400
Cry ya pussy.

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>>152671073
>1 thread per board doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.
It's not at first, but then it soon becomes a general, and then you get all the usual suspects that can be expected to spoil both meta threads and general threads. It's probably for the best to have it be an informal thing that crops up out of the blue.

>>152671049
>the bot and foreign agent infested Epstein funded board is the fastest
Really makes you think...

>>152671071
Captchas are never going to go away because they're the only bulwark against rampant bot spam from mega-autists.
Even now, the only reason 4chan's captcha is the way it is is because it was specifically implemented to stop the autistic furry from /v/ who set up an entire proxy site and was using it to spam CP on residential IPs all over the site for at least the last 2-3 years.
You are never going back to a captcha-less internet unless you want to create an account tied to your real identity, that's just the simple fact of life, and it's largely because some autists just can't control their autism.

>>152669902
This. There are plenty of reasons why this site has a god-awful community, but the majority of it comes down to the site being openly hostile to even posting at all. All this effort just to post a reaction image shitpost? Yeah, I don't think so. It's fair to say that the site's decaying setup is the reason that 4chan has so actively lost users.

>>152671091
But then it always inevitably gets deleted. Sometimes before much discussion can even happen

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>>152669605
this board is 60% aging angry autists getting mad at le woke, 30% gooning, and 10% actual quality threads. i will be here for the 10%, but the people posting some twitter screencap as the OP need to be shot on sight

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>>152671047
Here's a confession. This site's so dead that sometimes I post intentionally bullshit obvious retard-tier information and then even respond to myself calling myself a retard just to get other anons to jump in and start some kind of conversation about an actually interesting topic.

>>152671029
Reminder that /qa/ was intentionally gutted to encourage shitposting so that it drowned out all meta discussion and user participation in the site activities.
Of course that shitposting was what brought in the soijakkers. And instead of stamping them out we got them watering until they made Sharty, which led to the hack since Rapeape & co would not update exploits which then dropped posts here by 25%.
A huge reason for 4chan decline is moderators did not want to hear criticism or put in effort, so now the remaining jannies have to put in more effort lol

>>152671105
Plus, the grim reality is that AI and bot tech are getting so advanced that even captcha can't stop them. Hell you might be a fucking robot and I'd have no way of knowing.

>>152671124
Phew, I thought I was getting paranoid. Sometimes it's obvious anon, so you have to work on your baiting skills

>>152671134
At the end of the day, if the discussions is bringing some joy and makes you think, then that's the best you can hope for. But then again, I don't remember the last time I was happy after posting on /co/. Maybe like, 10 years ago

>>152669682
I'm still convinced that mods intentionally let /qa/ turn to total shit so they could have an excuse to close down the one board where anons could criticize them within the rules, and didn't think about the consequences of supporting the growth of a schizo culture.

>>152671118
>this board is 60% aging angry autists getting mad at le woke
Avatar threads are the most revealing I'd say. A bunch of fanboys that scorn everything new and only want to talk positively about one show that ended in 2008 for ever and ever.

>>152671118
I hate to defend twitter screenshot threads because I think that platform is a cesspit. But, that’s exactly why I never go there. Yet I also think that an industry professional making a public statement of some sort is often a board related topic worth discussing. I wish Twitter didn’t have to be the place they’d do that, but I dunno where else they would.

>>152671148
That’s a good thing, slopper

>>152671164
yeah there's a difference between posting an industry announcement or something from a writer or showrunner vs posting some literally who's dogshit opinion in the hopes of riling people up.

>>152669605
You know how to fix it. Just erase that pesky GR and let the herd take their rightful place back.

>>152671164
i get posting industry announcements, but half the time it's some dipshit take by some literalwho teenage girl they want to cyberbully

it's unironically because you guys weren't brave enough to call zionists out

>>152671049
was this supposed to be a gotcha?

>>152669635
True

>>152671199
>they all come here
>everyone else leaves
>now you have two less active boards for one long-dead show
Oh, good.

Watch out, the jannies are watching this thread with banhammer in hand

>>152671242
If this thread's been allowed to survive this long, that should be the assumption.

>visit /co/
>say you don’t like a specific Spielberg cartoon
>Get blasted by a wall of text about how the show is not at all mid but actually the cultural juggernaut of the 90’s because it was animated by this one specific animation studio and anyone who says otherwise needs to get a life

>>152671268
Oh god, yea, /co/ has a much higher (proportionally) amount of annoying autistic spammer schizos.
Famicom is just one of many and every single time he shows up in a thread you basically have to vacate because he will turn it into random spam of made-up bullshit based entirely on nothing but his schizoid delusions.

>>152671265
not when this is up >>152667160

>>152670359
Congrats dipshit, you're part of the problem.

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>>152671268
Ruegger cartoon fans are OG internet psychopaths. That guy spamming his wall of text at you could potentially be a veteran of early 1990s webrings who's in his 60s or even 70s by now. You should be honored.

>>152671174
Case in point

I hate when threads turn into the same thing over and over. It's not /co/, but one example is Hellsing on /a/. Everyone has had the same opinions on it for 20 years and they're not liable to change so discussion is genuinely impossible.

>>152670995
nah lol anons read them, they get discussed & then fall off
bigger ones like combined absolute or ultimate or spider-man or x-men can hold on for a few days

>>152670995
I quite enjoy the storytimes for older pulp/war comics.

>>152671199
*merging with /a/

>>152670995
they're one of the only reasons i come here

>>152671345
Oh god no, I do not want /co/ merged with /a/, that's the only board left where I can still somewhat escape the awful American culture war shit.

>>152671315
No

>>152671307
How so? Maybe if trannies and fags went away so would I, so long as they exist so will I.

>>152671345
We saw what happened on April's Fools
/co/ got drowned out hard

>>152671345
Oh fuck no. Might as well merge th entire site with Reddit at that point.

>>152671345
/a/ is a bigger cesspit then /co/, can't even shitpost without getting banned from all boards.

>>152671345
This board is cringe enough without retarded pillow dating threads

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>>152670690
For some reason it wouldn't work on mobile a lot of times, it would just reset the timer when you got down from 300. This newer one doesn't do that, it was the one where you had to slide the letters around. Mobile seems to work fine again but idk how much a difference it makes now.
>>152671131
I remember supposedly one time an anon went out of his way to get rid of a persistent schizo on /trash/ by trying to talk to the mods about it. They took reporting for spam specifically off and said in IRC chat that you can't do that anymore after.
>>152671068
It makes me really sad to think how many people I've talked to that I would see semi frequently that are gone now. I wonder if they'll ever come back.
>>152671345
I don't think /co/'s population would last that way. No offense but I'm not a fan of the idea of having to share a board with the "thing: Japan" people.

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>>152669633
>The internet is dying in general.
Between increasing draconian age restriction (read: surveillance and censorship) laws all over, and AI driving up the cost of computer parts, storage space, domain hosting, and energy, it's hard to imagine the internet as we know it surviving into the 2030s. The "world wide web" is being phased out for a global panopticon- which it has been for many years, except they're soon not even going to bother hiding it, or affording you the luxury of entertainment and free speech for much longer. It's all grim but it makes me thankful to have been able to talk to all of you during this strange period in history.

>>152671421
>They took reporting for spam specifically off and said in IRC chat that you can't do that anymore after.
feels like they ignore that rule here very hard

>>152671056
(You)

>>152671345
/a/ is genuinely fucking awful. It's probably the only board with actual engagement left, but it hardly matters when 90 percent of it is absolute trash. No one there cares about anything that isn't the most bland FOTM, isekai slop imaginable, or shonen shitposting. It feels like an entire board of perpetual 12 year olds.

>>152671345
I would rather go to twitter than to share a board with those animals
Making a general "comics board" would have been possible like 20 years ago when the average mangatard wasnt a culture war obsessed freak

>>152671345
>can't discuss anything without shitting on /a/
well that says a lot about you guys

I'm curious to know where you guys went to when the hack happened, and where you'll go when this place finally gets the Old Yeller treatment.

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>>152671496
For me, it was just

>>152671496
I occasionally use Kiwifarms but that place is a hell hole. Just a bunch of fat losers that hate everybody.

>>152671508
I lurk there sometimes and checked there during the hack to see if a mass migration was gonna kick up, but it’d take a lot to push me to post there.

>>152671496
Tumblr

>>152671496
I went to the other site to jack off on the vore board

>>152670530
>so altchans can filled that niche
i really wish this will happen but i don't think any of the others picked up very much at all when the april outage happened last year

>>152671345
Yes, we will merge with /a/ to become... /aco/.

>>152671508
yeah same I used to lurk there too but the userbase is fucking insufferable. And the owner is the most insufferable of em all.

>>152671097
yeah the painful truth is that account making is the only real stop against schizos and is really only a good bandaid
i really love 4chan for being able to post without having to login but it just doesn't work very well when you have probably literal 1000's of mentally unwell people shitting things up because of such system

The only other thing that excited me more about here were the drawthreads, too bad spamming mongoloids had to ruin them.

>>152671473
Saying this on /co/ of all boards shows an immense lack of self-awareness and is part of why this board is dead nowadays.

>>152671496
I was on somewhere that was made just for 4chan loudfags (like me). It was extremely fortuitous timing that we had that during that period, it wasn't created with that in mind.

>>152671496
I was on some other altchan boards a little but really just filled the time with more games and stuff
I kinda liked it a bit just for the break. Really wish other altchan's took off from it though
>>152671618
I never cared about drawthreads for the longest time but it has occured to me that stuff like drawthreads and general drawn interactive oc are something very unique to the imageboard format, something I don't think any other site really does, at least with the kinda forum aspect that 4chan has.
No other site really quite replicates not just the function, but also the community interaction in quite the same collaborative way

>>152669605
If you want to see a board that's a shell of itself look at /pw/. The AEW vs. WWE autism (which is basically just a proxy war for a few fucking subreddits) and joshifags have basically run everyone else off.

>>152669613
Would be good, yes.

>>152669635
based

>>152669605
i made a thread just like this and a few minutes later sharty attacked the site

>>152671618
The drawthreads have actually been shut down on some boards because of how bad some of the spammers are. It's a real travesty since they're some of the few places that still produce OC on this site that used to do things other than regurgitate twitter memes.

>>152671097
Man I hate that fuckin proxy site. I run a general on another board and shitposters use that site to make it a nightmare to upkeep, and the mods don't care. It sucks.

>>152671691
The drawthreads get attacked like that because they're one of the most visible sources of OC and so they're an easy target for "burn it all down" types.

>Mods used to so carefully monitor boards that not properly spoilering something was basically a guaranteed ban
>Now they let extremely well-known shitposters and schizos just run amok of the site with no regard for them driving users away or completely destroying conversation about certain topics
The fuck happened

>>152670302
Cooldown timer needs to go back to being 30 seconds for OPs so storytiming is less of a time sink. Storytimes were one of the lifebloods of /co/ but the 60 second timer makes them a giant hassle because you basically have to dedicate an hour and a half or two hours of your day to them where previously the same amount could be done in half the time.

>>152670690
The current one is fine unless you are genuinely too retarded to recognize shapes. The previous one before it sucked dick though.

BAN ALL REMOTELY OFF-TOPIC THREADS
MAINTAIN BOARD PURITY

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>>152671496
plus4chan. That site is even slower than /co/ so I don't know if I'd actually use them. Still, it was pretty fun with the USSR music and backdrop when the raid happened

>>152671496
i just hung around on tumblr which kinda sucked

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I think the main issue is that there are just no new successful cartoons in the 2020s. Where is the 2020s Gravity Falls? Adventure Time? Regular Show? Gumball? Steven Universe? MLP? ATLA (or even Korra)? Bojack? Rick and Morty? The comics are actually doing okayish but /co/ has never been driven by comics discussion.

Indie shows that only release an episode every 6 months can't carry this board. Smiling Friends was the closest and it already fucking died.

>>152671817
>Where is the 2020s Gravity Falls?
Owl House and Amphibia aired in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Problem is they're done and over with.

>>152669605
I genuinely believe the mods allowing AI slop to run rampant is a major factor in the site's decline, that shit is a massive repellent for most people. The only board where AI slop is banned is /a/, and to no one's surprise it's the most active board by far.

>>152671738
Thr schizos BECAME the mods, specifically so that they can post their shit unimpeded.

>>152671817
>there are just no new successful cartoons in the 2020s.
hazbin hotel? amazing digitial circus? people in the real world will have actually heard of those.

>>152671840
i rmember being in some thread where an ai slop guy decided to dump 200 images he just generated that were similar but slightly different of some hot girl when everyone else was posting fanart of the hot girl, killed the thread completely kek

>>152669635
> People say this when the yearly Usagi Yojimbo Storytime is coming up
Grim.

>>152671840
>The only board where AI slop is banned is /a/, and to no one's surprise it's the most active board by far.
/a/ is like 6th or so in terms of activity.
The most active boards are /vg/, /pol/, and /v/.
Though /v/ did recently ban the shitty AIslop general that was clogging up the catalog there, not sure why the same hasn't happened on /co/.
But yea, AI spam is fucking cancer, I have no idea why all these smaller websites and image-hosting platforms aren't banning that shit immediately, it is literally just worthless spam that no one actually looks at or engages with outside of the NPCs on TikTok, facebook, and twatter.

Unc website not having .avif and .webp support makes phone posting a pain.

>>152671908
No one should ever support webp

>>152671908
>Unc
Shut your fag mouth

>>152671908
webp is dogshit
But yes, filtering out phoneposters is a good thing, everyone knows that allowing webp would just result in even more AIslop spam and copy-paste twitter bullshit, the same way adding mp4 support did.

Back in my day this board would've rightfully crucified anyone admitting to phoneposting

>>152669605
The site has lost visitors yearly since 2022.
The hack made it loose even more.
Terrible captchas designed to force you to pay for a pass make people post less. I second guess starting threads now, the star ones are hell.
Would be bliss if India and other places were rangebanned but they will never do it.
Questionable moderation on this board and a few other places also sours the spirit of posting here. Bascially no fun allowed.
Removal of feature after feature. Bans page and contact page are a joke now.
4chan will likely die in a few years from a combo of soaring hardware costs due to AI and other countries making it impossible to visit due to online age verification laws.
And lets me honest post 2016 its so full of misery and hellish autism it is no longer the geeky hideaway it was in the 2000s. Everyone screaming at each other, /pol/ crap seeping everywhere else. /co/ is love? Hasn't been for a long time.
Enjoy it while you can, and by enjoy I mean put up with it as best you can. It won't be here forever.

>>152671908
This isn't tik tok underage

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>>152671943
Cringe

>>152669605
I had noticed this when I view the catalog by creation date and over half of the catalog are threads from yesterday or older than that. Used to be under half, content was fresher. Now new threads struggle to get anywhere. And threads overnight used to need bump assistance now its so dead during American sleep hours you can go 2-3 hours and still catch it on page ten when you wake up.

>>152669635
You're part of the problem you nasty ass bitch.

>>152671775
Start with the coomer threads. /aco/ is even deader than this place because they refuse to take the hint.

>>152671908
Anti-phone posting gotta be the most retarded regurgitated meme this site has ever created
Im not turning on my PC to browse fucking 4channel fuck off

>>152671965
How?

>>152671977
Then fuck off and stay on twatter where you belong.
Not like your posts bring anything of value, you might as well be an AI bot.

>>152671927
No one cares anymore, old 4chan is dead and has been dead since 2016 and considering the cancer it generated on the internet its probably a good thing its dead

>>152671988
Suck my cock you insufferable autistic faggot i post in whatever shitty website i want and you wont do shit about it

>>152671954
Narf

All the underages/born after the Nintendo DS fags in this thread makes me wish 4chan was dead already

>>152671977
>Im not turning on my PC to browse fucking 4channel fuck off
You had no choice pre smarthpone era. Return to your roots.

>>152672046
>Return to your roots.
Anon, I have bad news for you.
That poster is almost assuredly younger than this site.

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>>152669605
I can't imagine why.

>>152671977
Shitposting skyrocketed because shitters use their home PC internet and then their smartphone provided internet. Depending on provider all just need to turn off your internet on your phone and turn it on again for a fresh IP. Mobile phone posters suck.

>>152672039
The fact that you can't tell the dudes speaking in zoomer lingo are just trying to get a rise out of you is exactly why this board is so shit. You're either too old or too stupid for 4chan.

>>152672055
There was an Urkel cartoon? Did White come back to voice him?

>>152672055
Honestly, I'd be fine with black cartoons if they weren't all so utterly lame and shitty.

>>152672073
It's just a Christmas movie. Also, yes.

>>152672046
Well, i do have a choice now, if i had to use my pc i probably wouldnt post at all since theres actually more interesting things to do with a computer rather than just endlessly scroll here waiting for someone to actually make one interesting thread
>>152672054
What part of suck my cock and stop being a whiny little spergy faggot didnt you understand?
>>152672060
Getting a different IP is not hard at all on pc if you know what you are doing, you guys are talking about shit that was only true 7 years ago

Semi-retired storytimer here
Still sorting through past recommendations a while back but I guess more won't hurt depending if I got time
Preferably something that isn't
>Past 300 pages per volume
>Superheroes or licensed
>Has never been storytimed before or in recent memory
>Blue board appropriate
Preferably something you're almost certain would get attention on /co/
Ideally something that could develop a following or see other Anons recommend
I promise nothing

>>152672097
>Getting a different IP is not hard at all on pc if you know what you are doing
No, it's definitely a lot harder, nowadays residential IPs are almost always static in western countries from all the big regional ISPs, so you can't just reset your modem like you could back in the 2000s and 2010s. If you're using satellite or one of those mobile network hotspots though it's exactly the same as on a phone, and a quick restart WILL net you a new IP.

>>152672055
But I actually like sexy brown girls.

>>152672046
Even on pc you still need extension to save images from other sites because everything is webp or avif now. It's really inconvenient. Just as is 4chan with it's fucking stupid image resizing when browsing on phone.

>>152671877
>I have no idea why all these smaller websites and image-hosting platforms aren't banning that shit immediately
Nearly all of them had monied intetests in pushing it. Deviantart is owned by an Israeli company with AI stocks, Twitter is owned by a flat out pedophile pushing his Ai as a literal CP machine, and 4chan is one of the most astroturfed sites on the net. Mods and admins were almost certainly paid by AI companies to turn a blind eye to all the spam.

Though the fact that /v/ of all boards banned their general is news to me; guess that money is finally running dry.

>>152672097
>if i had to use my pc i probably wouldnt post at all
That would be an improvement, that's the point.
Why the fuck would I want to spend time talking to people who admit that they have nothing to contribute besides pointless literal shitposts that they shit out on the toilet or on break during their shitty retail job?

>>152672097
There was one dude in /sp/ that managed to shit up the entire board for 3 years by just using a VPN provider from a website, its not like the mods are really trying to prevent bots

>>152669635
This is the correct observation. For the past 10 years it kinda feels like 4chan has shifted from a place where people come to discuss their hobbies to a place where people just come to bitch and moan about how everything is shitty. The site has simply been taken over by doomers who dont enjoy anything other than porn and who shut down any sort of discussion. People typically do not enjoy negativity all the fucking time so they just leave for greener pastures, mainly discord servers centered around hobbies where people actually talk about the stuff they enjoy.

>>152672143
What part of "scrolling until someone posts an interesting thread" you didnt understand? I dont give a shit about shitposting, stop fighting ghosts you retarded faggot

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>>152672146
>so they just leave for greener pastures, mainly discord servers centered around hobbies where people actually talk about the stuff they enjoy.
But those places are also dead and full of bots, I know because I'm in multiple discords and they're all basically ghost towns outside of 5 or 6 people who use them to ERP (won't be happening for much longer now that Discord is forcing ID verification on everyone).

>>152672144
And that /sp/ faggot only stopped after he managed to get his whole family doxxed.

>>152670995
Nearly impossible with the new captcha, makes doing so twice as long.

>>152672055
You /pol/ (AKA epstein mindrape victims) infecting every board with your retarded babble are also one of the reasons why this website is fucking garbage

>>152672174
In pretty sure hes still going, but idk maybe he stopped and i havent noticed
>>152672178
If you post alot (when i say alot i mean ALOT like atleast 50 posts) with the same device and IP they start getting easier, i find this proccess to be easier on a phone and with Kuroba installed

>>152671967
/aco/ is dead because nobody EVER cared about that board, threads lasting multiple months was a thing since its inception and now it's being flooded with ai

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>>152671097
>Even now, the only reason 4chan's captcha is the way it is is because it was specifically implemented to stop the autistic furry from /v/ who set up an entire proxy site and was using it to spam CP on residential IPs all over the site for at least the last 2-3 years.
Fucking what

theres a lot of posts pointing a lot of fingers at the admin and similar factors like the proxy site but no one is talking about the real reason this place feels dead. there's just no good shows out right now! i cant even name anything worth talking about right now.

>>152671817
>Indie shows that only release an episode every 6 months can't carry this board
>puts Gravity Falls and Steven Universe in the list of cartoons that carried the board

>>152672055
the threads actually talking about these cartoons and talking about wanting to plap the characters were actually fine. the threads whining about them, such as your post, contributed nothing.

>>152671874 (Me)
> Grim.
I've read through the whole thread now and just realized the few (one?) anon talking about sameposting uses the word grim quite a bit.
Weird coincidence as I don't normally use that word. Slang osmosis I guess.
>>152672123
Any European comic would be neat, there was one I believe about a hunter but I was sick that week and wasn't able to join it.
>>152672199
I don't know what Kuroba is, but sometimes I email/send images and responses to my phone if I realize I actually am invested in a thread because the Captchas are so much easier on it I might as well

>>152672211
There's Smiling Friends.... Which will be dead next month.
There's Digital Circus... Which will be dead this year.

There's... Yeah you're right, anon.

>>152672224
Kuroba is one of those third party apps for posting on 4chan, way better than posting on the browser
If you constantly post from it and you dont clean your cookies eventually all of your captchas will get easier or they wont require a captcha anymore at all

I find it easier to do on mobile than pc because my pc browser likes randomly deleting cookies from time to time for some fucking deaskn

Any notable drawfags who haven't been seen since the hack? I can't seem to have any in mind right now.

>>152672246
Reason***

Dead? No way. I posted in a Simpsons thread recently and it was archived only 1-2 hours after my post. That's absurdly fast, much faster than /tv/.

>>152669635
Fuck off, retard

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>>152672248
When I was too young to be on 4chan I actually got a draw request filled on a regular board and it was the dumbest fucking thing possible
Those days are over, I can only get genuine requests filled on the damn cute boys board

>>152671496
Went to other chans, browsed youtube and shit. When this place does shut down i honestly dont know what ill do. The fact that (((they))) keep pushing for digital id not just for websites, but fucking OSs such as Linux, is very concerning. Im just trying to enjoy what i can with all the other anons.

>>152672162
I thought peter was going to say "perhaps"

Meta threads are pure cancer because at their absolute best, they consist of nothing but complete retards with horribly sorted priorities incessantly and impotently bitching and moaning about a board's quality instead making any kind of worthwhile attempt to actually improve it. Things like making high quality threads and posts, reporting rule breaking and low quality ones, encouraging others to report, and self moderating.
Furthermore, meta threads at their worst are a divide and conquer tactic employed by trolls where they complain about problems that they themselves are directly responsible for, they do this in an attempt to persuade anons to either stop coming here or join in on their destructive crusade to ruin this site purely for the sake of acquiring a fleeting sense of sadistic pleasure. They're nothing more than dopamine addicted sociopaths who don't care about the physical or psychological well being of themselves or others, and only care about getting their "precious" fix, exactly like your average junkie. Since they think like a drug addict, they must be treated like one, and either be rehabilitated of their unacceptably anti social and psychopathic behavior, forcibly removed from civilized society, or outright euthanized if they prove to be beyond saving.
Also, meta threads are against>>>/global/rules/3 >>>/global/rules/8 and>>>/co/rules/1
It is absolutely vital that all true /co/mrades fulfill their civic duty by utilizing the report function for its intended purpose against rule breaking threads for the greater good of our home.
https://sys.4chan.org/co/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=152669605

>>152672218
The Gravity Falls and Steven Universe general threads were some of the fastest threads on 4chan period during their respective peaks. Say what you want about the shows, I think they were shit myself, but they were absolutely helping to drive board activity at the time. There's really no ongoing cartoon that matches them, the Vivzie cartoons and Digital Circus threads aren't even half as fast as those threads were.

>>152672281
What year and what was the request?

>>152672289
Shaddap backseat janny.

>>152669635
Sorry enough retards didn't fall for the toxic positivity meme.

>>152671496
I only come here to talk about my hobbies, when it died i just used other social media to continue doing so

It will suck not having storytime threads anymore if this place goes down forever tho

>>152672292
/co/ seemed to genuinely like those shows at the time, which you can't say about Vivzie, Digital Circus, or for that matter, Owl House or Amphibia which are only remembered for the porn

>>152672303
Sorry that people like actual discussion.