Ever look at a 4chan banner and feel extremely nostalgic? it's like the banners are the only thing that remains to remind people how 4chan used to be
>>108745512Yeah, absolutely. I wish I knew about 4chan earlier. We aren't ever going back to normalcy.
>>108745512My personal "archive" of random thread screenshots, old reaction images, etc spans almost 20 years. Over the years I've stopped going through the older sections, eventually fully archiving them to cold storage backups because being reminded of what we lost (not just in regards to this shithole website) unironically hurts too much.
>>108745557I'm a 2024 'fag, what did I miss?
>>108745557Lame. I keep all my old shit out in the open and love looking through it
>>108745512lolz you win teh internets XD
>>108745651Ever seen that old skit of a teacher/parent being asked something about the past by children, thinking about it for a moment and then just sighing and saying "how would you even understand"? Unironically how would you even understand? If you're >30 you've grown up in such a wildly different reality that I genuinely don't know how to even begin explaining it to you. How do you explain the difference between green and red to someone that's been blind from birth?
I started using this website in 2018 during a massive depression cycle and it took out like 6 years of my life in a blink of an eye
>>108745651nothing, when you start studying other time periods you begin to realize human nature doesn't really change much. these fags whining about boomers and zoomers etc when humans have been doing the same shit for all of recorded history, if they weren't shitposting on an imageboard they were doing it on a clay tablet
>>108745743You're wrong. The 4chan of 2006 had your peers (if you're an introverted weeb) just like the clay tablets had people from your town with shared experiences.the public net of 2026 is just ESLs going in circles looking for first world attention or bots, if you're not playing discord social games to find your people it's dead (and that platform sucks for conversation beyond a tiny group anyway) go do stuff in the real world, we've flipped
>>108745651>I'm a 2024 'fag, what did I miss?Basically everything. The closest thing you'll experience to old 4chan is the maid threads, and even those happen in a bubble of newfag retards crying about "trannies".
>>108746148Trannies weren't a thing in society during old 4chan. It was basically just a porn thing and you'd be called gay for liking it. If by "old 4chan" you mean 2018 then maybe.
>>108745626Sharty and jeets ruined everything
>>108746290I'm not saying they existed back then. I'm saying that retards show up to cry about them in tons of threads where it isn't relevant now, and that didn't used to happen before. We didn't used to have five billion retards crying about "trannies" or Indians or "tranime" or whatever the current flavor of the month is for people suffering terminal soi slop brainrot.4Chan was better when less people used it, and less people overall had internet access. The fatal blow came in 2016 when /r/the_donald got banned and a shitload of redditors and boomers moved here so they could use /pol/ to masturbate to Trump. We're all just hanging out in a carcass now, hoping it comes back to life, but watching it rot further.
>>108746329>sharty, jeets, trannies, /pol/fags, post-GG and covid tourists and newfags, the hack killing at least half of the already declining site traffic, and zoomers ruined everythingftfy
>>108745743It's literally not about human nature by who had access to the internet. The whole internet was very different 20 years ago.
>>108746290(You) want to be the little girl.
>>108745512Yes and retarded newfags will still complain about animeposting
>>108745720>difference between green and red to someone that's been blind from birth?Green looks like celery, red looks like radish.
>4cuck>good>everhell no, this place was always a shithole full of insufferable retards and braindead pedophiles, and that hasnt changed one bitlook at the current leadership and say that isnt the case
I remember when /b/ was more than porn.
>>108746487Wasn't it just THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST when I whistled for a cab and when it appeared it's license plate said fresh and there was dice in the mirror DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU to do look more like duckroll pedobear we are legumes snape kills dumbledore
>>108745743All this post does is prove you didn't experience it and even explaining it to you would be pointless because you'd refuse to understand.
>>108745720I remember late 2010s Discord, could I just extrapolate from there?It was a little more wild, but at the same time people were less suspicious of each other. I feel a constant tension and coldness in the air whenever I go on Discord now, but maybe that's just me being older and wiser.
>>108746542>All this post does is prove you didn't experience it and even explaining it to you would be pointless because you'd refuse to understand.
>>108746635It's not even close. Discord's very format of being IRC with cute names and profile pictures attached adds a tension and expectation that creates social competition from the onset, even as early as 2015.Modern discord is even worse due to the fact that all it takes is one person to get you banned by reporting an edgy joke, so a standoffish approach is necessary and on top of that it's full of ESLs that you likely won't click with now since the early adoption wave is over so you'll end up infatuating a thousand annoying people by expressing yourself too much. There is absolutely no way to explain how poisoned the net is compared to what it was. It works for your current friend group that you chat with, but that is what the entire internet has compressed down to, your discord friends list.
>>108746635In my opinion the atmosphere had already irrevocably shifted by the early 2010s (2010-2012) at the latest. Probably in the 2000s if we're being real and the underlying decay started in the 90s already.The only real way I can describe it is going from an extremely high trust society made up of more or less interconnected but distinct groups into a full on civil war and ethnic cleansing ridden failed state within the time it take a child to grow up from kindergarten to being old enough to drive. If you're familiar with the late bronze age collapse imagine that but instead of the collapse being a relatively long and drawn out process that lasted roughly a human lifetime (~50 years give or take which was the median life expectancy of that time pre collapse anyways) it happens within just 3-5 years. Imagine being a 2 year old in a perfectly working society and everything is lying in ruins and people have lost even the ability to read and write by the time you're supposed to start first grade.
>>108746708To clarify the warning signs were there in the 90s, the "collapse" as in notable and rapid change I'm drawing the analogy to here happened (in my opinion) roughly between 2007-2012.
You can go on archive.org and browse through other people's old 4chan folders id you're feeling particularly nostalgic.
Anyone else use 4chan XT and have the filename disappear but only for webm files?
OP will never be a real woman
>>108746524Objectively better than being flooded with porn/fetish threads.
There is no oldfag shit on the banners.
>>108746883Yes
>>108745512I have a few saved, it's a little depressing how most of the banners reference stuff from more than a decade ago>>108746484was always shit, but is used to be less shit at least
>>108747005I think I have a maid fetishI want more maid threads on /g/
>>108745743>people complained in the pastWhy must that mean that "nothing has changed" instead of "things are always getting worse"?
>>108747227Because these people are too weak to accept reality so they come up with these elaborate believe systems to cope with the fact that yes it's unironically been downhill for much longer than it was going uphill for us as a species.
>>108747227It's much more likely that (You) simply didn't pay attention to how shit everything already was in the past.
>>108746883And I can't close them when I expand them. wewglad its not just me
>>108745538THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
>>108747265if you click on the webm and drag to the left it should close it
>>108745512it legit makes me happy that the banners have been recognizable for years and yearsnew banners should be created, but it's comforting that old banners aren't retired (or only so rarely that i've never noticed)
>>108747425There's not really anything to make new banners from. It would just be Wojak or Chad pictures.
>>108745512Picrel is my favorite banner desu.
>>108747493Posting soi slop should be a bannable offense on all boards.
my adblock blocks banners and ads. it makes the site load so much faster.
>>108746041>>108746342I don't think it was that different, you and all the other normies just weren't exposed to it without filters and without a limit on access.
>>108747746This thread is unironically better than everything on /g/ right now.
4chan has honestly been awful since 2007, I don't know why I'm still here
datamine bot thread
>>108747746>Big Black Controller
>>108747746>I don't think it was that differentThere is a huge difference. The demographics for the internet changed entirely, It went from 95% first world nerds who spent a lot of time on their desktop/laptop computer to everyone on the entire planet.
>>108746394>14 year old bolivian shartypedo has a translator app on his old yeye ahh iPhone 3GS that he found in a sewer inside his favela so that others can understand him
>>108745626I don't really understand the shartty culture. It seems like it's focused on extreme contrarianism for the sake of it while trying as hard as possible to seem like they don't care about anything. It is reminiscent of jewish revolutionary spirit to mock and tear down anything without any objective other than to destroy.It's basically post-post-modern 4chan
>>108749960many right wing youths don't really believe in actually conserving anything so much as they do tearing others down, which is why their memes are mostly grotesque caricatures of people they dislike and why they actively avoid pursuing the ideal life for older conservatives (marriage, children, and a stable career) because all of those things come with responsibilities and a need to grow as a person. its very sad.
>>108750182do you call all paragraphs of text memes
>>108745651>I'm a 2024 'fag, what did I miss?Unless you're baiting, you missed everythingYou started using 4chan after everything good about it was gone. Peak 4chan was basically 2004-2014God I miss what this website used to be
>>108746342>>108746355/pol/ used to be entertaining and tangentially informative a decade ago, especially 8/pol/. I used to call it one of the world’s best news sources, but now it’s just retards circling the drain.
>>108745512Not really, it was always bad and septic tank of intellect. Fuck the day I posted here for the first time.
>>108747040>Looks at pic>The word "cockmongler" immediately appears in my headI've been here too long>>108750314>it was always bad and septic tank of intellect.Sir, this is an anime website.
>>108745512Sometimes I remember 4chan banners that don't appear anymore and I get sad
>>108750299Its big problem is there isn't anywhere near as much discussion or in-depth understanding of things.What seems to happen now is>someone says something>someone else responds with a one word label>the endLike commie, fag, tranny, jew, jeet, etcThe one word insult is considered a victory and that's the end of the interaction, label and nothing more.
>>108746708this is narrative spinning.
I remember when these current banners replaced the old ones and thinking how shitty and soulless they were.
>>108745512No. This place was always a dump. I deeply regret wasting the golden years of the internet here.
>>108747746wasn't irony poisoned, people were a lot more constructive or laid back, just having fun not being resentful assholes, nobody gave a shit about politics and people weren't mindfucked by tranny lgbt feminist fagops yet, none of that shit really existed besides the odd weirdo, most of "that type" of person were furries back then and they were banned off 4chan pretty much immediatelythe biggest difference is probably how constructive things were, people built threads up better, it wasn't just constant teardowns or exploitation. /tg/ doesn't have as much cool theorycrafting or worldbuilding anymore because some jeet fucks have been stealing what people come up with to try and commercialize itlike justfucking everything is so much worse you have no goddamn idea unless you lived it back thenlike yeah you'd have assholes and arguments but it wasn't goddamn suffocating, now you try to do something cool and it's 15 people telling you how retarded it is and what a faggot you are, but back then there was a serious chance of people pitching in and adding onto what you did - that's how we got all the early memes, not by bitching and being awful to each other
>>108745512No, I fucking hate this place, been stuck here for 20 fucking years.
>>108750299once news stories started being posted there, and after the influx of retarded newfags who never used the chans with the 2016 election, it just nosedivedused to be a policy of always archiving news articles instead of linking directly but the jeets and discords spam shit day in day out like it's fucking reddit or something, there were space elevator threads to keep people moralized and looking forward to the future, there was much more in depth discussion and less "news topic of the moment" and far fewer stupid bait gotcha threads.Current /pol/ genuinely feels like 40% discord trannies just raiding it every day spamming inflammatory news articles/threads, like a quarter of 4chan is just people with severe mental illnesses now.
>>108750613You got it, that guy, at least it feels like it's one guy, he just demoralizes on /g/ constantly for some reason.
>>108750414>NOOOOO DON'T FUCK WITH THE HISTORICAL REVISIONISM THATS LOADBEARING!Yeah that's great go fuck yourself.
>>1087455124chan died when /l/ died.
>>108745651I found this website in 2018 and it was already awful. My impression from screencaps is that before 2015/2016 it wasn't entirely dominated by (political) baiting/flaming, possibly it was also less deranged all the time. Possibly people were trying harder to be funny and amusing, and there was more OC. Although that last thing might be rose tinted glasses. By 2018 when I showed up it was already all over, I don't think any element of site culture originated after 2016
>>108745626This should be a bannable offense, just saying.
>>108750408>You lost, tranny/iranny.The death of meaningful discussion, in three words.
It's rapeape fault this site is so shit, let's fucking find him and kill him.
>>108745512Yes, I do. Especially the really clever ones.
>>108750235What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
>>108745512You shouldn't have made this thread.Now tranny janny will delete them.
>>108749960Its kids who found cringe culture before finding the opportunity to be conventionally cringe. It's the same thing as every other weird teenage behavior, if they're actually maturing they'll look back and realize how much of an annoying faggot they used to act like and maybe have a laugh about it.
>>108750182>two lines of text is wordswordswordsAbsolute state of broccoliheads
>>108745512the oldfags went to the darkweb and made sure not to leave any trails this time
>>108752009It is>Trolling outside of /b/.
>>108749960>It seems like it's focused on extreme contrarianism for the sake of itso...for the lulz if you will?
>>108751865>Possibly people were trying harder to be funny and amusing, and there was more OC.THIS is what I miss so much about old internet and image boards. There was a shared culture and everyone worked to contribute to it. We have no such culture anymore. Anything resembling such gets actively torn down by /pol/-grade spam. The meme war of 2015 was the last gasp of that shared internet culture. I remember anons calling it the "first meme war" ... We did not realize at the time it was actually the last. Internet never recovered from the fallout. It's been 11 years since. A whole few generations of newfags have grown up in the post-/pol/ internet. To them this is normal. There is no recovery.
>>108753461https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uRLJZxINAQThe soundtrack of the death of the internet. We did not at the time know what horrors our contributions ultimately would lead to, but we had fun.
>>108750182How do subhuman troglodytes like this even stumble on this site? How do you manage to focus long enough to type 4chan.org into your browser when you have a sub 3 second attention span thanks to cooking yourself with digital heroin?
>>108753427>>108752009>a greentext with a wojak is considered trolling nowdamn, when did this place get so sensitive? theres even a whole board dedicated to such sissy fags like you
>>108753975Your kind of sharty bait spamming is exactly what ruined our image boards. Peak post-/pol/ newfag behaviour. It contributes absolutely nothing except make the website ugly and our culture more atomized.
>>108753975>waaa waaa waaaatypical of sharty kids all they can do is impotently cry and seethe over shit they don't understand
>>1087456512016 changed everything for the worse. Things were never the same after Drumpf.
>>108754121The site never recovered from the /r/td rapefugees
for good, or illthis site is not what it used to be
>>108754189
It’s time to leave, anons
>>108754235You're here forever.
>>108754222ill>death of culture>death of community>death of oc>death of high effort postinggood>???????????????????????????????????????????
>>108754063The meme on the right is funny as fuck. Edgy absurdism is cool, old 4chan was not just wholesome and cute posts, it was full of edgelords worse than the COMniggers
>>108747236The only one living in an alternate reality is you, retarded faggot from a comfortable 21st century western country
>>108754273Of course absurdist ms paint humor was always part of the culture, and my country (finland) was the leading exporter of it. But it was HUMOR. Politically weaponized sharty wojak garbage just isn't the same.
>>108754334>muh west
>>108745512As a 2016 oldfag I really miss how things used to be
>>108754273Nothing from sharty is funny. It is all just digital poop flinging. The end result is threads covered in shit by a bunch of annoying newfag tourist retards who are incapable of contributing anything interesting.>>108754645>2016You never saw the site before it got totally ruined by /r/the_donald refugees and /pol/ leaking into every board.
>>1087467182007 is when the mainstream and actual normalfags started spending more and more time on the internet. Even the country boy hunting outdoorsy hicks were talking about youtube videos in 2008.Id say 2013 was still a good year, but then 2014 corpo was full set in. Then 2015 was the start of trump and that led to more general retardation and trolling everywhere.
I started browsing this site in the summer of 2006, and I got bored of it around 2012 when my favorite boards got too retarded.I've been back for a few months. This place is worse than ever, but I'd rather lose braincells here than on reddit, HN, slashdot or some slow as balls alt-chan, even if the /pol/ spam can get really bad.Still getting used to these new banners.Pic related.
>>108745512what you mean back wheb it started and it was full of pedos or then when it was full of troons trying to post at what hey thought were underagers, or do you mean when people mistrakenly thought it was l33t hax0rs in anonymouse or do you mean after the kremlin hijacked to encourage spree killing and luv putin shit? Or in 2016 when the horde of low IQ brainlets obsessed with US politics came here from reddit? Or do you mean the current day broth of state spammers and retarded turd worlders? It's never been one thing. There are still diamond posters buried in the shit though.
>>108754740>2007 is when the mainstream and actual normalfags started spending more and more time on the internet.Wrong they were all over AOL and the internet a decade earlier kid. To me (you) are one of them.
>>108754645>As a 2016 oldfag I really miss how things used to beI really wish you'd go back and make reddit great again, You represent the single most worthless cancerous shit that even took a dump on this site.
>>108755651AIM and aol were a mostly self contained thing as I recall. The aol browser kept people in it's own ecosystem for the most part, so normalfags didn't spread themselves out.
>>108745743stupid retard
>>1087506298/pol/ was starting to correct itself by moving all the qtards into their own forums, and the worst of The_Donald posters found there way there. It was the mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant who started the collapse of 8ch and the “Garlic Festival” shooter finished it off. During they peak it was pretty comfy, you could have debates with people across the political spectrum, with a greater emphasis on good arguments rather than just throw-away insults.
>>108745512I miss /prog/, the buying charts, the guides (installed arch and gentoo for the first time following these things), the bigass charts about which android apps too install or really any subjects, the REAL desktop threads (ie before they got banned and provoked the first massive /g/ exodus), real ylyl threads, no troons, no paid shills>>108745557I lost everything pre-2013 and I'm still butthurt about it
>>108755620i'm still using ATH-M50, 15 years later, because /g/ recommended it to me. thanks /g/.
>>108745512usecase?
Kill rapeape. Behead rapeape. Roundhouse kick rapeape into the concrete. Slam dunk rapeape into the trashcan. Crucify filthy rapeape. Defecate in rapeape's food. Launch rapeape into the sun. Stir fry rapeape in a wok. Toss rapeape into an active volcano. Urinate into rapeape's gas tank. Judo throw rapeape into a wood chipper. Twist rapeape's head off. Report rapeape to the IRS. Karate chop rapeape in half. Curb stomp rapeape. Trap rapeape in quicksand. Crush rapeape in the trash compactor. Liquefy rapeape in a vat of acid. Eat rapeape. Dissect rapeape. Exterminate rapeape in the gas chamber. Stomp rapeape's skull with steel toed boots. Cremate rapeape in the oven. Lobotomize rapeape. Mandatory abortions for rapeape's mom. Grind rapeape mom's fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown rapeape in fried chicken grease. Vaporize rapeape with a ray gun. Kick old rapeape down the stairs. Feed rapeape to alligators. Slice rapeape with a katana.
>>108746524Reading this brought a tear to my eye
>>108753975deserves the same treatment as >lol u tk| him 2da bar?
Oldfags are still here because there aren't any other places to go. They just got diluited with the great amount of newfags
4chan was so much better before the poltards invaded
>>1087455124chan's metrics are declining in general, why do you think they got rid of IP counters? Most of the threads and posts nowadays are schizos spamming the same thing over and over. 4chan has no relevance any more, in large part because of the election tourists who've destroyed the site's culture over the past decade. We have no influence, no creativity, no humor. We are destined to rot away until the server costs finally outweigh the generated ad revenue and hiro pulls the plug. The sooner the better, quite frankly.
>>108755923>Countries with the highest percentage of Internet users>Not even 1 in 5 peopleFuck's sake, man...
>>108757177Yeah. I still visit the site quite frequently out of habit, but I barely post. "What is the point" I think to myself, seeing potentially interesting threads getting filled with underage sharty contrarianism, phoneposting and unreadable ESL/LLM crap. Anons barely even actually reply to each other anymore, why bother with high-effort posting when you'll just get ignored these days?
>>108757655Yeah same. I still shitpost out of habbit but I stopped putting in any effort a long time ago exactly because of this shit.
>>108757655>>108757666Things are usually better on slower boards, ones where threads can easily last several weeks.
>>108757655>why bother with high-effort posting when you'll just get ignored these days?A decade ago when Discord was taking off I noticed zoomers communicate like this, spouting off without ever actually talking to eachother. I figured it was Twitch's influence and they'd grow out of it, but they never did. Adapting to that kind of "socializing" makes sense though when the bot/ESL/schizo noise is so high that the signal can't make it through anywhere on the open internet. The internet isn't for us anymore.
>>108755923>only 1/3 indians have ever been on the internet.They're just getting started are they?
>>108757781https://files.catbox.moe/9gce1o.mp4
>>108745512Yeah. Sometimes i see banners i remember from 2005. Sometimes i even see banners i recognize from my 2005 screenshots. It's nostalgic but also makes me sad. I can't ever go back
>>108757781there are also 1bn of africans without the internet
>>108757754>The internet isn't for us anymore.I refuse to hand it over. They can take it from my cold dead hands. Do not go gentle into that good night.
>>108755620>Recommending head-fi
