You know, whenever I want to post a meme from my /pol/ memes folder, I have to look for it. I've saved everything from 4chan since 2005 with the original filename and data, so if I think of some random meme, I have to scroll and find it (although I do have some categories like Breivik memes, VTECH memes, George Floyd memes, Turk memes, etc.).Most of the time I have a pretty good clue of what year the meme is from, or even the month, which makes it easy to find because the filenames of files you save from 4chan are UNIX timestamp. So the filename is basically the exact moment in time down to the second the file was posted (hopefully that is helpful information to some of you newfags out here, or some of you who have been here for a while and are a bit clueless).But, sometimes I meme could be from anywhere between, say, 2012 and 2017. And then I have to scroll through it.And you know what? I can always find a meme by how genuinely creative or funny it is, because as time goes along, all the /pol/ "humour" gets more crude, it becomes bland propaganda instead of actual humour, instead of people coming up with things themselves they make deranged stonetoss edits and shit, after 2020 the AI slop starts pouring in, etc. Even the very best shit I've saved from recent years pales in comparison to what was just normal "background memes" 10-15 years ago.Sad.
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>>524619592can you post the train pic?
Stop, this is a checkpoint.Post your rarest Floyd meme.
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>>524623624>>524623624>>524623624these three are the ones I have never seen apart from the time I saved them
>>524623624This one pretty good as well, and it kind of flies under the radar
>>524619592>I've saved everything from 4chan since 2005Are you insane?
>>524626084I'm autisticAlso, in retrospect, I am incredibly grateful to myself that I did it. There is a treasure trove of content in there. I've saved everything in the same folder so it's one huge folder of images of all kinds (also from other places on the internet in general). I've been sorting it for the past 2 years like, whenever I'm in-between things and I have some time and focus to go through it. Some of the stuff I find is truly incredible, the amazing creativity and humour people had in the past that is now gone, shit from /b/, /pol/ and the news that kind of foreshadows events of the past 10-15 years with crazy accuracy, random shit I saved that I found interesting at the time that are incredibly useful now (mostly infographics). But the most amazing thing is a bunch of shit about neuroscience, genetics, psychology, again random shit I found interesting like 20 years ago that I didn't really do anything with. Neuroscience and endocrinology are my career now, my passion and my interest, but also incredible tools to get the most out of myself through diet, lifestyle, supplements, etc. Every now and then, I find some random thing someone wrote on 4chan like 15 years ago, some random screenshot from a book, some random infographic, something that gives me amazing new insights into the bread and butter of my current life.Also, the internet is dying, hard and fast. Even when it's gone soon, I'll still have 2 decades of images too look through and browse, just as I always have on 4chan. I'll still have my own little internet.
>>524626785It truly is painful how far this place has fallen. And yet I can’t leave. There is simply no where else to go.
>>524626785I get what you mean I don't think I've saved a single /pol/ meme this year. Maybe one or two at most. It used to be a daily routine for me, but now everything here is just bad. Back in the day, /pol/ was infamous across the internet and even shaped the culture on other boards. These days you'll find this boards talking points all over X, and the real /pol/-style humor the stuff that's actually clever and well made is thriving on instagram and tiktok. People there put genuine effort into making it funny. Those other social medias have relaxed on censorship but it's too polarized and heterogeneous so it gets insufferable being there despite the memes and reels being far better.
>>524624940thanks
>>524630446show me your favorite meme of all time
What's the size of the folder on something like that?
>>524619592I've also saved everything since 2004
>>524630446people have extra incentive to post content on instagram/twitter/tiktok. /pol/ is mostly irrelevant soilennial seething nowadays.
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>>524629726There will be though.You will see. This is like the late Soviet Union. Stagnation. And then everything exploded and was completely new and unknown again.
>>524626785How much do you have, in total?
>>524630446I think this stage is almost over. There is no going back, ever. No resurrection. It's a fundamental law. A new thing will appear out of the blue, and take us all by surprise.
>>524626785>>524630446Why dont you just post all of your folders on a drive, i lost all of my memes 4 months ago
>>524631434>>524632328On the left is three folders of content I have yet to sort. I had to split it up at one point because my drive was struggling whenever I opened the folder and I didn't want to corrupt it. I can't save my files in my backup folder, because, it's a backup, and I've have to save everything twice all the time. On the right is the stuff I've already sorted, plus a segment I've copied over from some of the folders on the left to go through. Whenever I'm done, I copy over a new section. So there's a bit of overlap there, but probably like 10-15% at most>>524632685I'm thinking of doing it when I'm really done, but not before. I never use cloud services, I store everything on multiple drives.>>524630446It just makes going through the old stuff more worthwhile. The laughs I get from shit I saved 15 years ago and forgot about are incredible, and it's in part due to the fact that shit has become so garbage in the past 5-10 years. I probably wouldn't drive as much enjoyment from it if my funnybone was being fed more regularly.
AI slop didn't start until the first instance of ChatGPT 2022. Prior to that it was all Floyd edits & Covid memes.
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>>524634674Look back. It's crazy how much shit flew under the radar before it became popular. Some with a bunch of photoshops from 2005-2010. So many images that nobody questioned at the time, reposted and used so many times on all kinds of websites, from 4chan, to ebaums, to reddit, to facebook, to tumblr. Now, when you look at some of them, it's so fucking obvious they've been shopped.
>>524634549you'll never be done, you'll never quit, i was saying the same things as you before frying my fucking hdd, trust me, you'll die before quitting this board
>>524623624not rasest but bestest
