>>18653262
Saggerchads where we at?

>>18653258
millennial uncs stuck in the 2010s

>>18653258
That Wojak is 90% of this board.

Bump

This thread caused so much seething.

What DID happen to this board?

>>18653258
instagram, tiktok, creator paycheck incentives, onlyfans, wechat, rednote, xiaohongshu made this cia honey pot data mine website that moot sold to thiel/epstein's associates obsolete, no traffic.

>>18653313
>>18653414
>>18653439
damn nigga chill out, its a slow board.

>>18653262
This was so lame when it came out. I never understood "soft" rap.

>>18653460
Gotta keep it bumped so the fags who keep making watch, boot, selvage, workwear, trad/ivy, menswear, and fragrance threads get the hint that everyone knows they’re a shill operation.

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>>18653258
Just blame r*ddit and move on.

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There is no point in effortposting anywhere on 4chan or other parts of the surface level internet anymore. The internet is too easy to access thanks to every child having a phone, tablet or laptop, and every home having an internet connection; people grow up being able to access the internet as a normal part of life. In the 2000's and even creeping into the 10's in some areas, internet access was uncommon and required relatively knowledge and equipment (access to a computer and an internet connection); you had to make an effort to get online, and putting effort into things is too hard for the average person. Thus the surface level internet was full of people who were nerds, specialists and other geeky social outcasts; the average quality of discussion was higher because there were fewer people to drag it down, Myspace aside. If someone wanted to say something online, their options would be limited to a forum or usenet group of likeminded users dedicated to a specific topic, a comments section on an early Youtube video or a blog, or to create their own website, which required expert knowledge and time/money investment.

Along comes social media, showing up right before the iPhone. Suddenly, not only does John Smith have an easy to use platform, but also an easy to use device that lets him access the internet from anywhere in the world, and he doesn't even need to own a computer.

I believe that the quality of (discussion on) a website decreases the easier it is to access. You can observe this without leaving 4chan; boards like /p/ have some of the best content on the website because it has a relatively high barrier to entry - both effort and monetary - and therefore a slow post rate. On the other hand, fast boards like /v/ are notoriously low quality because of the low barrier to entry and short lifespan of threads, discouraging long, well written posts. The physical dimensions of a phone also does this, because writing a good post on a small screen is difficult.

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>>18654210
All the good posters on /fa/ grew up and moved on, either quitting /fa/ggotry or moving to mainstream websites, and there was noone to replace them. The trouble is that it's not possible for forums like sufu, /fa/, stylezeitgeist etc to exist again; this goes beyond fashion and extends to all hobbies and interests. The internet is ruined now, the signal to noise ratio being too low with good, genuine discussion being drowned out by shitposts, normalfags, advertising and heavy handed often automated moderation. You can still find good places to discuss things, dig through archives and posts from 10+ years ago, but the type of person into fashion and the nerd behind 7 proxies in a private IRC channel are two very different people.

Lurk m0ar, board and site culture are also largely dead, the former having disappeared from the internet's zeitgeist and the latter being replaced by stateless wojak and frog spam that's infected the entire internet

I would also add that the social acceptability of fashion, and increasing ubiquity of fake clothes, has been disastrous for it as an interest. You end up with people like >>18653262 polluting online spaces with pointless, garbage posts and terrible outfits. And it's in the interest of fashion companies to make easy to wear clothing, because normals don't want to put effort into things. Why should someone wear 6 pairs of pants to look /effay/ when they could just slap on $1000 'vintage' jeans that look like they belong on an incontinent 500 pound woman and call it a day?

I get more out of /fa/ by looking at threads from the golden era; very very little is worth browsing for here lately. Everything (?) is saved on warosu and you'll never run out of genuinely valuable, interesting content.

>>18653448
Same with every hobby/interest forum. Nobody besides aging uncs use image boards and forums now. Everyone's on tiktok, instagram, jewtube or discord.

I’m checking this board for the first time since, like, 2010, and I have no idea when the OP pic was created, but it’s insane if people are still Rickposting today. You’re an aging millennial like me unc, time to call it in and get back to the spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentations.

>>18653488
And what should they make threads about instead?

>>18654274
No, nigger. people will always hate blacks regardless of kikes. Blacks are literally the worst race on the planet.

>>18654280
I think that image is from 2013-2014 maybe even earlier.

>>18654295
Thanks, how funny. I only regularly browsed /fa/ back in 2008 to 2009 when I was in my last year of high school (though I'd check back in every couple years for a while; the Rick Owens stuff got bigger after I stopped being a regular iirc) and remember the conventional wisdom at that time was to buy Levi 511s and a pea coat. Fucked up.

>>18654337
I was reading through the archives today and saw someone talking about selvedge 511s and I honestly got full body chills

>>18654337
man the peacoat years were bleak, that whole early 2010s 'book of manliness' crap

>>18654358
>peacoat
I wanted to buy one again, but I think the date has passed on them.

>>18653258
Rickfags and other obscure/avant-garde/artisan fashion fags went to two (maybe more?) discords. Stopped posting here.

>>18654358
Yeah, it was the era of basically-menswear-but-trying-to-be-10%-different fashion for a new 4chan board that was trying to establish its own image without much to go off of. I don’t remember if the whole Reddit r/mfa stuff was around then (if it was, I don’t recall visiting it at the time), but it all sucked really. I have nostalgia for it, though.

>>18654221
what bothers me most is that the only(!) modus operandi left anywhere on here is talking shit (without posting fit). everyone is too cool to like something. bad example, but thinkin back you had people calling that one lunarcore dude a retard but there were also people who enjoyed his stuff, people who didn't but also wanted to explore lunarcore in their own way. it's like a new generation of internet users heard about how "edgy and trolly" 4chan is and how you can call people faggots and trannies without repercussions and they decided that would be all they were gonna do.

the great migration of specialists/nerds and people with passion for things who fucked off into various discords has lowered the quality of discussion so hard. but discord sucks ass since there's no cross-server discussion and everyone retreated into their bubble while also bringing back the worst part of early 2000's online communities: egos and cliques, people ass-kissing people because of who they are instead of what they have to say and mods going on powertrips. i wish we could go back.

>>18654337
You forgot about getting the Hitler youth/young Stalin haircut

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Fashion trends come and go. People get tired of a look then move onto another, and it's usually contrarian and cyclical.

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>>18653258
>why isn't this board still obsessed with le rick le raf 2014 trends

>>18654228
only good goy zoomer algorithm slopslaves are on tiktok slurping jew slop like good goyim

>>18654337
Fuark, I fell for the peacoat meme. But at the time I had a job thatrequired a suit so I mostly wore it with the suit. Got rid of it about a decade ago.

>>18654466
I still have a peacoat, but it's long and it's YYPH.

>>18654387
People used to wax lyrical about the benefits of anonymity on here. It's sad because now it's needed more then ever in an age where people literally get paid for commanding a "personal brand" on the internet.

>>18654425
Not really. There are people of all ages on tiktok, instagram and jewtube shorts. Algorithms are designed to make you addicted to slop by track your consumption patterns. It's over for normalfags.

>>18654246
>Those people can change their style.

Then why do they all look like they stepped out of Banana Republic for almost fifteen years? They also insist that you can never deviate from looking like you’re going for a job interview at a journalism firm.

>>18654422
You can literally replace the Rick characters with anything else yet keep the Wojak and the point still stands. Just about every general thread aside from hair and skincare threads are described in that Wojak standing in the corner and faggots still haven’t moved on. The weirdest part is how militant people are on this board now stating you must look like that or else you’re called a child or a nigger, which is nothing but gaslighting and lies.

>>18654484
it's over for anyone who doesn't limit screen use including internet, video games, and TV, to 1-3 hours a week maximum

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If Cooltop, Unpop, Slater, Tomorrow, Casemods, and Spoony all came back, /fa/ would be the best mid-30s-washups board on 4chan, bar none.

>>18654566
Imagine a balding Cooltop.

I just swing by the shoe thread but I noticed every ones a negative faggot whenever someone has swag, and too many gays

>>18653258
Rabbi poster killed the board. He must’ve mistaken it for a Palestinian baby.

>>18654584
I honestly feel like it’s Zara or Nordstrom corporate shilling on this board. Everything looks straight out of a cookie-cutter menswear Macy’s section.

>the same cuffed selvedge denim
>the same perfume section colognes
>the same classy mature boots
>the same dad jackets
>the same basic button-downs

>>18654367
what servers?

This is an important thread

>>18654586
crazy how one spammer can kill the whole board because mods don't ban him

Holy shit it's linkara

>>18654906
Also sorry /fa/ I'm from /v/, probably part of the problem, I don't know anything about fashion, my favorite outfit is a blue tank top to show off my arms, jeans and bright red running shoes.
And really I only came here to ask you guys if being naked still counts as fashion?

>>18654711
Rick Owens discord and Carol Christian Poell discord.

>>18654910
Nakedness is the highest form of style. Exercising is modern couture.

Back to page one with you.

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Get back here.

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>>18655348
>>18655394
>>18655494
Daily reminder that suit is scumback/corruption core: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AxaZ-KTGyMw?feature=share

>>18655013
Unironically this. The beautiful body is the quintessential fashion statement

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>>18655013
Nigger, where do you think the word gymnasium comes from? Exercising is as old as civilization.

>>18655554
Not what he meant though, you missed the point

>>18653485
Wintertime is for NY boombap, summer for G-Funk, baby.

>>18654387
this pretty much hits the nail on the head. i used to lurk around here back in the late 2010's and it had a lot of crossover with people from places like sufu and etc. now most of those people either just got off the internet forums or are mostly just posting on instagram or work in the industry

>>18654221
>I'd choosen

>>18654387
This. Especially the part about the edgelords who are just here to abuse their first amendment rights.
They're ruining every single board. And if you complain about it they tell you to go to reddit. Because 4chan is all about off-topic hatespeech and conspiracy theories now.

I think the biggest thing is 4chans demographic change over the past ten years. Not only did 2016 bring a lot of election tourists but everyone on here is old now. If you look in the archive back in 2014 and before there were regular posts about being in college. Not so much anymore. Most people naturally get less interested in fashion as the age I think.

>>18655007
id imagine those discord are significantly worse after ricks been shilled and on clearance sale to browns and the nose tribe are actual active there

>>18654210
>boards like /p/ have some of the best content on the website
/p/ fell off extremely hard. I was there in 2014-16 then took a decade-long break. 90% of new posts now are brainless brand shitflinging and schizoposting done by a small handful of people that always make it their duty to derail every tangentially gear-related discussion into a biggest tard contest.

Red pill me on watch and fragrance threads. There’s no way those are organic.

>>18655954
all general threads are nothing but shills and other bad actors

>>18655954
Fascinating. I think men really do sperg out about watches . . . Even when they cannot actually afford most all of the ones they talk about.
But you may be right about fragrance. How do people talk so much about normie-mainstream men's fragrances? I guess they want to attract chicks? But sperging about the historical, and classic fragrances is near-non existent on those threads. Where is the individualism and sophistication which comes with wearing a legacy fragrance? -- Nowhere to be seen. Rather, discussions about the stuff that the mall sells to fuckboys.

>>18655958
It’s obvious, but why on this board? I can understand a political board, a video game board, or even an adult board have some sort of shilling, but why here? What’s the narrative they’re pushing? The only people who I know who care about watches are third-worlders stuck in the past or people trying to hype value into an item like NFTs or crypto.

>>18655961
Again. Seems dated like people from a poor nation. Like Arab cab drivers who bathe in cologne and wear chains. Pickup artist types who dress like they’re going to a nightclub and smell like battery acid. Like you said, the shit they shill can be found at a basic store at the mall like Macy’s or Nordstrom.

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>>18655954
Bunch of indian, SEA and slavs shilling they "exclusive" slop, while i made amateur porn documenting that Bois Imperial got me laid. Since then the brown incels and shemale jannie went jealous and bitter.
I still shill my fougeres here and there. Sotd Aigner Statement

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>>18656007
>I still shill my fougeres here and there. Sotd Aigner Statement

Why? Why shill watches and fragrances? What’s the agenda? To hype a trend and increase value in an “investment?” Watches will never be popular.

Yes

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>>18656559
>Why shill watches and fragrances? What’s the agenda?
Just sharing our SOTD, in my case Montale Sandflowers

Back to page one with you.

What happened to this board?

>>18657812
Wat

>>18653258
Everyone on the internet is so mean now. I mean there were always mean people and trolls, but in the past you could mostly just ignore them and talk to the all the other normal people. But now everyone is mean. It's not surprising that forums and image boards are dead.

>>18658112
Nobody is mean here. If anything, old /fa/ was mean, but the posters were at least experienced and had some sort of vision. Now it’s just shilling and spam.

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>>18654210
>like /p/ have some of the best content on the website

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>is x effay
>what makes this soi
people are more interested in aesthetics and looking cool rather than actually being interested in fashion. there hasn't been a diy thread in 2 1/2 months. no one talks about fashion week/new collections aside from the one or two "controversial" pieces. even the generals which used to have slightly more quality posts compared to the average, are now just people parroting the same things since covid

>>18658112
Also ppl used to be occasionally mean but insightful whereas now there's way too many lowest common denominator spouting retarded opinions.
Case in point: the average "review" on imdb with midwits extolling frankenmovies and giving low ratings to more complex movies

>>18658207
The whole point of fashion IS aesthetics and looking cool. Thing is, everyone keeps posting the same outdated carbon copy smart-casual dweeb outfits since 2012. The mentality of this board is fedora-tier and mimics r/mfa to a fucking tee.

>>18657877
dude can you not tell its a schizo avatarfagging with pornstars lol

>>18658262
Giving smartphones and the internet to the unwashed masses was a mistake. The internet should have been restricted to only desktop and laptop PCs, so that only the ones who really need to or care enough about the internet would get access to it. The internet should have never been turned into a means of consuming slop and generating endless engagement.

Good thread

>>18658287
retarded algorithm-brained take. fashion is about self-expression and creativity. stop giving a shit what other people on the internet think about your outfit and actually wear what you like

>>18658590
I agree with you that it's about self-expression and creativity, but to express yourself is to have something that you want to convey. Feedback can be useful because you can see if the vibe you want to create is actually being created. Of course there is bad feedback too which should be ignored due to it not being useful, but anyone trying to express themself should be considering if their message is being received.

>>18658207
>>18658590
theres a whole board for that >>>/diy/
/fa/ is about consuming and copping them new rickies

>>18658637
>can't discuss making clothes on a fashion board
genuinely when is the last time people have worn/posted rick on this board. everyone here is poverty stricken. there's not even a recent cops thread up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIgwwhPPtNc

>>18658679
I have a ton of rare and expensive clothes but I'm not posting them here for some poor deranged faggot autist to save and spam and make up gay stories. faggots like this ruin boards.
there is little point to this nboard and 4chan in general anymore due to how massively retarded everyone is

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>>18658824
True. There's a troll in every thread who doesn't own shit and is prepared to try and insult everything anyone posts. They're bitter about their failed lives and they want to spread misery.
Most days I laugh and just keep posting, but sometimes they do ruin my good time. They're just dripping with hatred. I don't understand how it makes them feel better to be negative. What motivates someone to be that way?

>>18653258
Incel looksmaxxing shit went mainstream with gen z, so now 80% of the board is "i'm a clueless dork please tell me what to wear to get a gf" posts when it used to be like 25%.

>>18658945
looksmaxxing just lends itself to the idea of male modeling, also its very gay

the era of street wear hype beast shit is over.

>>18658948
>the era of street wear hype beast shit is over.

The era of dressing classy and looking mature ain’t coming back. Dressing like a nerd although you never got the grades.

>>18654297
you're black lol

This thread should be stickied.

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>>18658992
Thank God i'm black lol

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Why isn’t this thread on page one? We need to fix that.

>>18653258
zoomers didn't pick up the slack
oldfags have nothing to discuss

>>18660648
It’s not oldfags in general. Old /fa/ had a larger variety. Now it’s just a few bitter aging faggots who are trying to force a “smart” look insisting they’re distinguished and still hip. They’re mad that someone new took away their spotlight. The rest are scammers behind three watch threads and a fragrance thread.

I miss doug

Plain and simple: there’s just better places to discuss fashion. Slow board plus the reactionary/outrage posts just dissuade people from actually wanting to post something meaningful. The last 4 recurring generals are just echo chambers with the occasional contrarian/tourist calling people gay for liking something. A lot of low effort posts skirting by because the jannies dindoshit.
Why would I post something meaningful when it’s just going to be surrounded by is (thing) fa posts.
I blame the low barrier of entry to post to be honest. It used to be good but lack of gatekeeping/lurking just makes any retard spout whatever is at the tip of their tongue.

>>18660708
The generals aren’t even organic. The majority of them don’t even like watches and cologne. It’s a business.

The boot threads and menswear threads are by folks who are upset that the trends are changing and that it’s not the 2010s anymore where everyone looks like they work at a BoHo hipster office in Seattle. They hate younger people who now get more attention than they do. They even try to artificially prop up a false narrative that they’re the “it” style or the general consensus of what is /fa/ or looks best.

>>18660708
What are those better places?

The bumping will continue until board quality improves.

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it's full of late majority and laggards who wish they were innovators and early adopters
>they aren't. you aren't. you're aging, socially crippled losers. yet despite being terminally online, you still can't keep up.

>>18654221
so basically you're an aging laggard trapped in the past and objectively wasting further and further into irrelevance and being more and more unfashionable

>>18654520
based and the most effay and fashionable amount of screen time

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HUSTLE BONES COMING OUT MY MOUTH

>>18653258
bots

>>18653258
that fucking shitterspammer ruined it with aliexpress nonstop shillposting

>>18662616
What are they spamming?

>>18662677
Duck you, bro.

>>18655838
>off-topic hatespeech
been here since 2011, it was always kind of part of it.

>>18663508
"hate speech" isn't and has never been a legitimate category and people who use that term are womanbrained, but a lot of zoomers do seem to think 4chan is the place where you go to be as nasty as possible 24/7, with zero irony or self awareness

you can tell them they don't fit in and they're ruining the board and they'll try to "win" by doubling down on nastiness, it's like tourettes for tablet kids

>>18663508
It's definitely gotten less fun and cheeky. As the other poster said it used to be a bit more light hearted, now more often than not you'll be talking to some fool that thinks the future of the white race depends on him being rude to you about sneakers.

Get back to page one.

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This thread is FIERCE.

Start shit posting again guys we can keep the board fresh for newcomers. It might not be what we want to read but itll keep us growing slightly.

>>18663508
It wasn't the same at all. It was ironic. Now it's "kill 'em all". Disgusting.
I was raised by decent parents and got an education. I can't sanction this hatred.

Return this to page one.

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>>18655838
>the edgelords who are just here to abuse their first amendment rights.
Most of them don't even have first amendment rights because they're not American, this site is completely overrun by third worlders now, and jeets and arabs in particular.

OP’s picture is what matters. Not whining about racism.

Too much bickering. Focus on content

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>>18654210
the main reason I have never posted any of my own photos here is because I don't want to be recognized by normies REEE

>>18661566
if you hold out on being a laggard long enough you eventually become an early adopter trend setter again

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>>18662616
>>18662661
Haha, me?
I can’t stop spamming!
Wearing my new Proxima this fine Sunday afternoon.

Based thread

Put this thread back to page one.

>>18666100
Faggot

>>18654221
man that photo from the meetup really was amazing.

>>18653258
bump

>>18653258
social media killed it. you can now post an outfit in IG or tiktok and criticism will get you reported and banned. people hivemind and yas queen over nigs in zara jackets now. fashion is dead. you can wear tee shirts and trousers and you'll look better than 99% of fashion fags out there

>>18667265
true but that's the silver lining. it takes almost nothing now to dress better than most people lol

bump

Woah! Almost lost this thread!

Death to watch threads
Death to fragrance threads

I know that I'm a scumbag

>>18667358
Yeah, even dressing slightly better than the unwashed masses makes you stand out like sore thumb. All these fucking animals think that you're trying to look fancy and pompous, when you're just wearing basic clothes like jeans or chinos and maybe a buttoned shirt.

>>18668828
You can still dress tasteful, even “adult” without looking like the Wojak in OP’s picture. Even in hick town USA I dress with style without looking like an office drone or a teacher.

I think a lot of it is this aversion to being cringe. If you look at the recent WAYWT threads, we only have a handful of people even posting their fits. Genuine participation seems to be low as people dont want to be screenshot and then posted as cringe. And then of course the trolling completely derails things, and while there has always been that on here, at least for every troll/bait/low effort reply you would at least get some genuine advice or constructive criticism