I left time ago after the weird changes. how many anons that were here from pre-2025 are still around?
I'm new
>>50744257how new?
>>50744259just some months
>>50744263How did you discover Touhou and /jp/? What are your experiences with it?
>>50744267i only got into it in 2021 after seeing mystia's theme in a random video and looking into it. i got really into it, and it's been my favorite series since then. very fond of the characters and music in particular. never really used 4chan prior to last year, i liked this site because you didn't need to make an account. i have fun posting touhou art that i found. what about you?
>>50744244Still yuriposting!
>>50744285Well, I am in a similar situation with you. But I joined 4chan since 2021.I discovered Touhou in that year and then I started my first posts in /jp/. I enjoyed posting about a lot of things, generally lore or simply characters I liked. But when the sage-dump change happened some months back, I left. I have been addicted to /jp/ and Touhou for a long time. But some days ago I have been trying to leave. Thought, I came back still to see the state of 4chan and the fandom. Maybe I will stay around for a while.
>>50744244Not as active as before, but still here lurking and waiting for chances to waifu post
>>50744267I discovered /jp/ at the same time as I got into Touhou around back in WBaWC's release on /v/ threads .Back then /jp/ was for me the "serious no fun allowed" board for hardcore touhou fans which I didn't complain about and instead I used to learn more about the franchise and heritage.Now after recent events seems like most of the interesting nerds left and there's only some strays left and mentally ill posters, and people who don't care about touhou nor japanese culture at all, which is sad really, I miss it.
>>50744472>Now after recent events seems like most of the interesting nerds left and there's only some strays left and mentally ill posters,Yeah, I was precisely wondering how many old or mildly old /jp/ users left. It looks way more dead than before. Something I always notice is that there are no long discussion threads like a lore thread.
>>50744477>long discussion threads like a lore thread.Exactly, these were my bread and butter when lurking /jp/.I still feel like a newfag not just in /jp/ but with touhou as a whole, like I was late for the party. So now I try to participate in any interesting thread I see around by contributing with OC.
>>50744484I used to make a lot of lore threads and also the esoteric Touhou threads. I also made others were we discussed different topics related to Touhou. Now I don't think a thread like that could be kept right now. The last time I made one of the two they died early.>I still feel like a newfag not just in /jp/ but with touhou as a whole, like I was late for the party. I sometimes feel that way. When I talk to Touhou fans, they know things I don't, like things I don't, etc. They have a whole different vibe to mine. Apart from most Touhou stuff being very old.
>>50744490It doesn't help that the new 14 day rule effectively killed any long discussion threads.
>>50744497Yeah. But even before that I feel like the board was going down. After the hack it was harder to keep up a thread and everyone was complaining about the /v/fags. I remember how I tried to make threads that just two or three years ago would have been normal/fine going down with less than 20 replies.I want to continue seeing and discussing Touhou but without /jp/ and not wanting to use platforms like Discord/Reddit, it feels hard.
>>50744505>I want to continue seeing and discussing Touhou but without /jp/ and not wanting to use platforms like Discord/Reddit, it feels hard.Same dude, sameIm fine with continuing to use /jp/ until it gets scrapped, but I need my 2hu anonymous discussion so I've been trying to quickstart a spark in different boards across the site, without much luck.
>>50744244i'm here
>>50744579>but I need my 2hu anonymous discussion so I've been trying to quickstart a spark in different boards across the site, without much luck.My idea was trying to get other image boards. So far the only one I know is Lainchan, but it doesn't have as much boards as 4chan.
>>50744692Yeah I'm looking at other altchans as well, and they seem to be a good alternative, but it doesn't mean I will stop using this site.
>>50744756I have always had a love-hate relationship with both /jp/ and Touhou in general. I remember trying to leave both things because 1. Touhou took a lot of my time and mental space and 2. It was related to an addiction I had.The chain of events was usually entering back in /jp/ and getting into Touhou again.I wonder why you would not want to stop using this site. Not saying you should or something, just wondering why, do you like it here? Amidst everything?
>>50744777>It was related to an addiction I had.Oh hey same, I'm addicted to touhou.>just wondering why, do you like it here? Amidst everything?Brand name I guess? Knowing something might still happen and I might miss it.It's not like I browse all the threads I don't like and get mad about it, I just see less things I like so I switch and go somewhere else to get my fill.
>>50744832>I'm addicted to touhou.I also was for a long time. When I get obsessed about something, I often get so to the point where I talk about it all the time. Back in the Touhou days I listened to fan music all the time, posted in 4chan, played Luna Nights, made fanfics in my mind, etc.
I've been on 4chan since 2014, I feel really bad for new anons who don't know what it was back then, I don't like all the newcomers, but maybe /jp/ does need fresh new blood, seeing anons like >>50744285 does give me little hope this place may be salvageable, as long as they don't stray too much from /jp/ traditions of course...
>>50744878I'm on the same boat but unfortunately I got into the gig way too late, most of the people have moved on or they have burned out (because they know everything and nothing susprises them anymore) that they start to deprecate and abuse the hobby in hopes that something new happens, so they turn into degenarates.So my effort goes to getting into new lands and showing what 2hu is and how cool it is.
>>50745002How was /jp/ pre 2020?
>>50745008I wish I was able to see Touhou as an innocent and beautiful thing again. Thanks to posts in /jp/, porn and etc sometimes I feel like I hate Touhou, and it makes me feel bad because I feel like it doesn't to be hated that way. But then I engage with canon, and see things like the girls saying bad stuff about humans or general being bad people and get a generally bad idea. I don't know what to think.
>>50745019I don't share the same sentiment, maybe because I get to experience touhou from an outsider experience when all the important things already happened, so everytime I discover something it's new and exciting and I have the full context already established so I don't fall for biased opinions.And from I can see it's pretty much bad actors who do bad things while representing 2hu and I'm not going to hate an idea because a couple of degenerates throw shit at the walls and make the hobby look bad, it happens anywhere to any popular fandom. These people do not represent me nor the hobby so I can't be mad about it.Since I didn't grew up with an ideolized version of touhou's canon none of the things that happen or contradict upset me as well since I know ZUN doesn't take things seriously and the juice of the franchise is what people can create with their own stories.
>>50745019Sounds like you're burned out or just engaging with things you don't like in general. Touhou is full of derivative works so just consume what you enjoy or even better create what you enjoy about it. Characters, music ect. Or just take a break and come back when you feel refreshed. As for canon it's not all mean spirited most of that sort of thing is played as a joke or it's just how youkai are portrayed because that is their nature.
>>50745133This
>>50745133I sinned greatly of taking Touhou too seriously. I used to believe that Gensokyo was real and when I finally got that thought away I was conscripted into a Touhou Project cult where they worship Yukari (a character I fell in love with) and got the idea again. My personal project for Touhou right now is trying to see it outside of fandom lenses, fictional and also as a got source for art I can make. Like inspiration for drawings or music.
>>50745010shitty
>>50745216Its the first time I see in a fanwork that Cirno says something actually intelligent and well-informed.
>>50745199Gensokyo is real so it's Yukari
>>50745228The Gensokyo is real sentence gives me PTSD
>>50744244I'm still here because I have nowhere else to go. Touhou and /jp/ was here for me during the worst of times, but now /jp/ is dead and it feels like the worst of times are coming back.
>>50745239
>>50745239>I'm still here because I have nowhere else to goIt is so sad to see how many /jp/ users legit have nowhere to go and are attached to the site. I am going to be fair, I have had a lot of 'emotional' threads here and sometimes have nostalgia about it. Not as attached as you but I understand.
>>50745199Sounds like a pretty wild form of escapism or people taking advantage over others seeking such. In any case sounds like you're aware of it and are trying out a creative aspect to move on to which is nice to hear.
>>50745260>Sounds like a pretty wild form of escapism or people taking advantage over others seeking such.If I can ask for an outsider perspective, where does telling me to integrate Yukari (which I was told I embodied) and try to become like her through worship fall into?
>>50745269CIA recruitement psyop
>>50745269Some convoluted, roundabout way to groom you into a tranny.
>>50745251Meant for >>50745238
>>50745288We're never beating the troonhu allegations are we....
>>50745269I think the person you're talking to is probably crazy/unwell or using you. It's not something rational to suggest doing like that. It makes little sense because it is fiction.
>>50745288>>50745275You know, putting perspective on it. I think I was right when I first assumed they were a cult. They literally worshipped Touhou characters and mixed it with chaos magic. I remember perfectly that they did a ritual for Yukari around the star of the year and almost every single user was head-over-heels for the same character (Yukari). If that where not enough, they were pretty gay. I remember that there was a guy I talked to that could sense energy and he described them in not a very pleasant way.I find it utterly insane that there are so many (There TRULY is) a shitton of cults in Discord and niche websites.
>>50745298>we
This board died many years ago, mods should just rename it to /vt3dpdg/ or something because that's all it is.
>>50745327>/vt3dpdg/what gpu is this
>>50745314This is why I don't touch discord servers
>>50745340I had that rule for a long time. Right now I don't have any social webs apart from YouTube. Discord is truly one of the worst social webs, specially if you are someone that can get addicted to the internet easily.
Lights up in activity in threads and recently had it’s birthday /jp/ is okay imo
>>50745314>YukariNo need to perform a ritual when there are hot single MILFs in YOUR area!! They don't want to remarry, they just want sex!!!>>50745327Should've been an exclusively 2hu board from the start...
>>50745334It has six gorillion vram and can AI generate 110% of your frames
>>50745399the horror
>>50745375>No need to perform a ritual when there are hot single MILFs in YOUR area!! They don't want to remarry, they just want sex!!!Okay, how do I get them?
>>50745399So it stacks generated frames over each other?
>>50745360I'm waiting for a fun CDS chapter to drop and cause mayhem like last time.
>>50745417are you ignoring that it has six gorillian vram? how does it even run?
>>50745420Don't worry the Mima reveal this month will cause enough mayhem alright
>>50745422I can finally play Touhou 20054 at 60 fps
>>50745422>are you ignoringYes.I am tech illiterate.
>>50745433>>50745434what would touhou 20054 even be about lol, would it even be a bullet hell
>>50745444Pic related
>>50745444Of course it would.It's a versus Shmup
>>50745460pofv bros? we are relevant again?
>>50745019it's silly to dislike cute 2hus just because in some hidden lore text that no one cares about it says oh actually shes like a bad person and eats people or something, you're just fucking your own enjoyment of it with that
>>50745462If it needs a 6gorillion vram to get 60fps, it's probably worse than 19
>>50745471Nothing can be worse than 19
>>50745467yeah, Touhou should not be taken seriously. Hell, there are characters from fiction like movies or other anime who have done way more batshit insane actions who I have never put a bad stare at. I don't understand why for me and so many people the 2hus are different or more 'guilty' .
>>50745507guilty?
>>50745019Just ignore the canon you don't like. It's what the professionals do!
>>50745553I am used to /jp/ users saying that the 2hus are bad people or evil. If this was another franchise, people would just be like "yeah, they are bad people, they are villains," etc, and maybe discuss their ideals. But here people have debates and shit, and partially I think it is because its not the same seeing evil in a male villain than of a female character with no 'clear' alignment that a lot of people are in love with. I don't know if I am explaining myself properly, I hope someone knows what I am talking about.
>>50744244Mentally trapped here since 07'But I stopped playing Touhou at 14.I need to catch up sometime, I'm probably rusty af though
>>50745575I think those might just be the same few people arguing between each other every other time
>>50745612Kinda like Mokou and Kaguya huh?
>>50745678Unfortunately (most of) these discussions don't have any homoerotic tension in them like Mokou and Kaguya's fights do..
See. Same people with the same, idiotic topics.
>>50745713You are an idiotic topic
>>50745575Yeah I get it, most 2hus are just as evil as the plot needs them to be, I don't exactly hate any 2hus but I do have favorites.
>>50745314>I find it utterly insane that there are so many (There TRULY is) a shitton of cults in Discord and niche websites.I'm surprised that there are that many autsts falling for fuckin touhou cults
>>50745199Wait, were you the Anon that made a thread asking for horrible things Yukari did in order to stop loving her? I remember that thread, because at the end it turned into discussion on tulpas and recently I wondered how do those Anons fare.
I hate schizos who attach themselves to Touhou.
>>50745888Same but idolshit as well.
>>50745888Same but any franchise
>>50745903Idolshittery is inherently mentally ill.
>>50745886Why is she smiling like that
>>50745903>>50745939I blame idolshittery and the 3DPD general threads for /jp/s current state
>>50746078Ye
>>50745888Don't care having sex with my wife Suika
>>50744244This place has been my homeboard for a decade at this point. The state of the board gets worse each year, but I can never bring myself to abandon this place. Guess I'm going down with the ship.
>>50745002I came a year later from /c/ of all places (!!!) realizing freshman year of hs that I can like anime and not immediately be a weeaboo (OCD is a hell of a drug). I stumbled upon /jp/ curiously absorbing the different boards, saw Touhou on here, and the rest is history. I took lurkmoar seriously and I think I could count the number of times I posted on the entire website my first year here
>>50746491!!!!!
>>50745886Can you link which thread was that? This sounds extremely familiar but I don't remember a tulpa discussion.
>>50745886>on tulpas and recently I wondered how do those Anons fare.I accidentally created a Touhou cult, no joke. I want to publish a thread here or in /x/ explaining the whole story but I am wondering if anons would be alright with it.
>>50744244I'm here cause the other places are somehow even deader than /jp/
>>50747370Places like for example?
>>507473728
>>50747384Insane how there are like 5 places to talk about Touhou and most of them are quite dead.
i only got into touhou last year which feels pretty silly to me considering how many of the themes resonate with me. its a great medium to work with for making all kinds of art. just a shame /jp/ is in this state. still, im enjoying seeing what gets posted here and i really dont want to leave. other boards move so much quicker and just aren't as charming. just wondering where everyone is heading. i love my wife Alice... she's literally me
>>50747471Can I ask how do Alicefags usually behave like? They are one of the most bullied fans and character in general. They are often said to be very gay.
What happen to the elona thread?
>>50747384it had a good run at least
>>50747413I personally don't use /jp/ to talk 2hu that much, mainly for other threads
>>50747492Hit the bump limit and got archived like usual, you can make another but I'm personally waiting for collageanon
>>50747313Sure, it was this one.https://warosu.org/jp/thread/49400502At first it was evil women posting and discussion about morality, but then it pivoted to tulpas in all but name. Did >>49430979 experience characters moving on their own? Did >>49446810 visit psychiatrist in the end, or not? We might never know.
>>50748857Yes, I was the anon that made that thread. In that time, I had a bad relationship with that character. I hated myself for loving her.
>>50744244too much moderation, too hard to post with the captcha and IP range blocks, etc. it is like watching paint dry compared to when it was good years ago
>>50749140>when it was goodlol
>>50747488well, i enjoy sewing plushies and clothes to wear, as well as reading all sorts of books, mostly non-fiction. i live in solitude and very much enjoy nature. i keep to myself a lot. perhaps i just see the parallels in alice and it makes me very happy. i present quite shy to others but it's only a facade since i advocate for myself constantly and do not even consider myself a bottom. i have my handful of irony and edginess but i try my best to be as caring as possible for others. otherwise i'm my own best friend all of the time. i'm not sure what to write.
>>50749150Oh my god this is so cute
>>50749150Oh my god this is so gay
>>50749348gay!! (´･ω･`)
>>50749150Show us a pushie or cloth you made!
I get the impression that most people who use /jp/ as their main board these days first joined after vtubers took over the board in 2020.
>>50751474I don't
>>50751474that is statistically true since most of the board activity comes from vt*mors
>>50751474I doubt it. I don't think /jp/ ever was an easy board to get into as a newfag, especially now that it's mostly generals. If you don't find a general of something you're into, why would you stick around?
>>50751474So sad and true
>>50760246Was /jp/ really that abrasive back then? I remember fondly my first days here.
>>50744244I browsed it more from 2013-2018, I'm glad the monster girl threads are still around.
>>50761978Remember "get out of /jp/"
>>50744244I've been here for about twelve years now.I mostly post in the Untranslated Eroge thread nowadays.
>>50764698Amazing image, maybe is should check these threads once in a while.
>>50744244>is /jp/ still alive?It's a rotten zombie, dude. And I say this as a 2022 newfag with a web archeologist habit who constantly looks into the archives far years back and realize how good things used to be and how everything slowly decayed until now it fucking sucks. It even makes me sad when i realize how much I missed.
>>50744244ive been here since 2019 but this place has been in a sorry state since 2025
>>50764749like, i felt better at some thread in /a/ (vampire threads accept the scarlets!!! and rozen maiden is somehow always welcome there) than any thread here
>>50764738I despise faggots like you.
>>50762082Also IMO vtumours killed this board
>>50764758>web archeologistYou're not nameless rumia
>>50764813whoops meant for >>50764738
I'm still here, but I no longer contribute as much as I used to. Been depressed for several years now....
>>50765113I should add, I just post an image and then run away now. So, like, I don't add contribution via conversation anymore. I don't know why, I just feel like I have nothing good or new to add.
>>50764757>/a/ (vampire threadsyou too? lolivamps are the best>>50765113>>50765115don't beat yourself up over it, there's not much worth contributing to anymore
>>50765213while i like yuyuko the most, i have a soft spot for vampires, adultpires and lolipires
>>50761978It's not even that. This is an enthusiast board. Someone who only watches anime or plays video games will likely come here, not find many threads that interest him and dip back to /a/ or /v/ or whatever. And at least there was more thread variety 10 years ago. If you're not into Touhou or any of the topics covered by the generals here, what would you make you keep coming back? And if you do stay, what would make you leave your section of the board?
>>50766731My interest in /jp/ has always been Touhou and the occasional Japan-related threads.The besr thing of /jp/ for me is being able to talk about any aspect of this franchise without being judged like in Reddit or other websites.
>>50744244EhhI think I stumbled on this board sometime 2016 and didn't start posting at all until 2018 or 2019.I had a great time here up until 2025 then my priorities started shifting and I just wasn't into what had me coming back to the /Jay/. THAT and the huge drop of activity after the hax convinced me it was time to sunset time spent here.No current hate or anything. I don't even recall a single negative experience I had on this board(mean words from b8 don't count!)
>>50766817>talk about any aspect of this franchise without being judgedWhat? This place judges more than anywhere else.
>>50767290I mean, could you post in r/touhou a thread asking something deranged like "What 2hu would fuck the best?" I meant mostly something like that.
>>50745002>2014it was already bad then
>>50768318But it was touhou bad, not 3DPD bad
>>50768330What does "touhou bad" imply in this case
all of 4chan is slowly dying threads and boards slower than ever, makes me wonder where everyone went
>>50770460That it was still full of touhou, albeit the part parts.
>>50770472discord, matrix, private servers, etc...everything good is now locked behind a private door
>>50770631Gated communities are inevitable when the average internet user has become much, much more unlikeable and undesirable in the past 15 years.
>>50770472When I am on public transit everyone seems to be watching short form video content. Tiktok. Instagram. It feels like something people are succumbing to. Eroding their attention spans.
what is it with the annoying ass nostalgiafagging lately
>>50745886>tulpaslets NOT go there
>>50770472>>50771255>>50770631>>50770680perhaps /jp/ dying is merely a symptom of a larger, structural decay in the so called west? i wonder how touhou is doing in inaccessible parts of the internet, like in russia, china and south/central asia.
>>50770472They went to Gensokyo
>>50771579what did they do to get picked before me? why was i fated to stay on this shitty website and not go to gensokyo to spend time with my 2hu wife?
>>50771590You still have to do your job here
>>50744244I must be one of the few people on /jp/ who is here not because of Touhou or VTubers since I'm more into the celebrity threads.
>>50744244I think the invasion of the new generation of fans just made everyone drop the facade. Even the most secondary of fags before would know some tidbits about a character, would have at least some idea of who they are if they liked the characters and would like to imagine situation, hypotheticals etc. Even if it was surface knowledge it was knowledge, and they'd keep up the facade of having knowledge of Touhou to fit in with the actual fans around and bring up something worth talking about even if it was just a few posts worth.Being a "fan" of something changed greatly in the last few years, accelerated here by the hack and there's no more facade. People don't even pretend they like a character/world/series at all, they realised they can just talk about the porn or made up bullshit and get discussions going because they and every newfags were raised on garbage discourse. Of course these types were always around so the non newfags just join in now. If you know a character's name you're a fan now. No one has anything interesting to say anymore and that's so disappointing. Those that did ran off to their gated communities or are fighting a dying battle here. I lurk 99% of the time nowadays but I'll pipe in when I see an interesting topic and I've come to realise I keep talking to the same people. Not just guessing I am, it'll come up that they talked about X before so I recognize them that way or straight up link a doc or something that has their username attached to it.Knowing who I'm talking to is so boring, there's nowhere to run off to anymore, maybe altchans but you need to find one that's not shit (lunatic) and if you do find a good one, you'll need to lurk for a long time before you can think of fitting in.I'm honestly considering just giving up on any english speaking community period, but my native tongue only use forums which doesn't help my problem (plus the whole reason I speak english was to not interact with them)I'll just come out and say it: it's over.
>>50772219idk if so much secondary as people larping as primaries being the problem. I feel like fanworks don't get talked about that much either. It's just ''muh (head)canon' or memes.People could casually talk about whatever but some people seem hellbent on something being canon in a game they haven't played nor read it's story.>I keep talking to the same people.I'm just guessing but I feel that there are like 4-6 or so posters that actually want to read and discuss Touhou stuff as opposed to /pol/shit or saying stuff like "Touhou getting ruined at x point" that also seem to fucking refuse to talk about things before that point.I guess there's also hyperseccondaries caring more about specific spammers, artist and circlejerk and so on.Fandoms have become something else. Like a proxy to discuss whatever /pol/shit or people just talking about things based of memes...idk if there's any anonymous place for 2hu honestly.
>>50772383>idk if so much secondary as people larping as primaries being the problem.What I'm saying is that people don't larp anymore. Being a secondary is the default now, there's no more need to larp and bother to know some stuff to maintain the larp in any fandom.
>>50772417Really? I thought that the primarly larping only got stronger with time in the Touhou fandom, it's just that they got worse at it imo.But I've kept away fro /v/hu and such and been less active lately.
>>50744244I'm not really a regular anymore.
>>50772219>admits that he's brown>says it's overlmoa
>>50783766>>50775098Wrong thread, boss.
>>50783776my bad
saw it
>>50771259probably the wave of hatred and flaming that started during the hack, although the most annoying thing is that everyone keep acting like it was any better before
>>50772383I've never understood why people can't just keep the two separate. There are ideas I enjoy, but which clearly aren't canon. So what? Nothing 's stopping me from indulging them in fanworks. ZUN's story is what it is regardless of what I do. The hell is up with this strange notion that there can be only one existing narrative?
>>50784935NTA, but my issue is that everybody only ever seems to want to discuss fanon and 99% of the fandom doesn't even understand canon.
>>50786037Playing devil's advocate here, probably has to do with how the fanon keeps moving and creating new stuff so leaves more room for interpretation, while the canon can get dissected in like a week (when a new game releases)
>>50784935>The hell is up with this strange notion that there can be only one existing narrative?Kinda funny seeing that with Touhou. But "objective" way of thinking where there's only one true answer only got stronger over time, especially on the internet.Whatever counts as canon or not seems also to get some heated debate.>>50786037You can start discussing canon, but the problem is that you know how it will probably go.>99% of the fandom doesn't even understand canon.Probably sums up how people about the rest of the posters in those discussions.>>50786113>while the canon can get dissected in like a week (when a new game releases)Not technically wrong, but it reads like a really funny joke imo.There's indeed way more fanworks than canon stuff.There's also probably the wiki, lore videos and the canon stuff itself satisfying the curiosity of most people about canon.
>>50744244Reckon I started visiting /jp/ around 2021, which was the start of college for me. now I'm graduated with a job. Crazy how time flies by... Truthfully I just enjoy saving images of cool art, and reading the discussions around the lore and characters. Sometimes I just open up my folder of /jp/ and just scroll though the hundreds of photos I've saved just for enjoyment.Been a while, but did they change something with the autosage? Threads don't last long anymore, and that hurts me the most. What can you do though, gotta grow up and leave eventually. Hope you all are doing fine wherever in life you are though.
>>50799388>did they change something with the autosage?Threads gets autosaged after 14 days>What can you do though, gotta grow up and leave eventuallyLeave where? there is no better place left on the internet, there's a reason people say "You're here forever"
>>50744244i was going to write a wall of text, but pic related shall sufficethe site should have never returned after the ``hack''i don't know what kind of a sad creature would feast on the rotting corpse that is /jp/ in 2026, but you all have my pityand /jp/ has been dead since the janiturds let in the monster shit general, or arguably even earlier, so you're at least over 13 years late to the party
>>50744244I'm a ghost.
>>50744267Uhh, to interact with /djt/ niggers?
