Do you think 4chan has lost its "cool kids club of the internet" it had in the 2000s? I feel like most normies know about this website's existence now and just see us as another incel site or whatever. People who want to see "alternative opinions" can just go on twitter nowadays.
4chan was never a "cool kids club" of anything, that's zoomer revisionism. It was known as a place for degenerates and antisocial freaks since the beginning. It was originally created as a split-off from Something Awful over not being allowed to post lolishit anymore, remember?
>>541329103one might argue we got the ball rolling
>>541329227wtf is sumthin awful nigga
>>541329103All roads lead back to e*stein
>>541329631The website that this one came out of my zoomer friend
>>541329103It's wild how goons started proto woke shit with "shit-reddit-says" which transformed reddit into a woke shithole which lead to gamergate which lead to where we are now. The goons turned on lowtax so much that he killed himself. SomethingAwful was weird and in hindsight it's pretty obvious how much it glowed which was confirmed without a doubt when a goon died in Benghazi which proved that he was a glow in the dark. Also it explains why there was a gamerghazi. I try to go back to SA but all threads are megathreads which are super unapproachable because they all have 100s of pages of context.Anyway all the cool goons left anyway.
>>541329103You should put "4chan raids Habbo Hotel" and "Steak salesman becomes president" on the other 2 dominos.
It's still the only place where you can say whatever you want to a general audience
Yeah it's probably time for you to leave
>>541329779I literally emailed lowtax when I was like 12 and tried to argue that he should give me an account for free and he was just like "...no, wtf"
>>541329103I've been here since 2003 when the site went live in october. You don't understand that this place was the cool kids club, we didn't have the faggotry or attention whoring of myspace/livejournal users, tripfags were looked down on. and moot was one of us. In 2005 we got a surge of newfags and this place has been going downhill ever since. But, since we were at the peak over 20years ago, we are still not at the depths of other popular sites.
>>541329103I never tell anyone I use 4chan, too embarrassing
>>541329103I think 4chan was always pretty odd and somewhat hostile since I first started posting in 2008. I've taken several year long breaks from the site since then.If anything is bringing traffic back to 4chan today, it's that the big normie social media sites have aggressive moderation bots that make it very hard to establish your footing as a new user, or get picked up by algorithms, or whatever dumb shit they've stuffed into their platforms.
This site fucking sucks, but I have no where else to go.I am too retarded to figure out twitterx's user-interface / set-up my feed correctly.reddit is just bots talking to botsI am not part of the cool-kids club so I didn't get the invite to the cool discord or telegram group.
Peak was 8/pol/ and 8/b/ before trump
>>541329227pretty much.it was however a place where you'd find information you could not easily find elsewhere, or ahead of time.that's not really the case anymore, all news you find on here has just been screenshotted from twatter or elsewhere
>>5413291034chan went mainstream with this current administration and twitter. It's not a secret club, it's a pool of populist, low IQ, low info memes that impress centrist Joe Rogan types and, even when they're wrong or dumb, at least feel authentic. Adopting 4chan memes, signalling to 4chan politics, is basically bread and circuses while creating distraction issues and the shallowest of voter issues. It reduces politics further to just aesthetics while policy talk get further side lined. This helps the richest do what they want without consequence.
>>541329103Ranjeet you swim in shit I don't think you know what cool is
The internet itself isn't cool anymore
RIP Lowtax
>>541329103No, it will remain the best place on the internet for as long as I post here.
>>541329227This. Now, it's even worse having been overrun by bots, shills, and, most offensively, esls and native speakers with poor reading comprehension.
>>541329227I agree, it never was. However, a majority of the mainstream internet culture you see today such as on shitter or instagay originated from here.The reason i mention this, is because you have a lot (too many in fact) of terminally-online losers that think they're "cool" because they have tranny discord servers that inflate their ego. even more normies than ever directly relate their sense of self-esteem to the numbers they get on social meteor (updoots, reshits, etc..). my schizo-guess is that this is all by design, to further demoralize us and keep us feeling like we're never Kenough.
>>541331393That's why tiktok is so popular. It doesn't feel like the internet, it feels like spontaneous, authentic, communications outside of the internet. Like calling a friend and talking. Low info communications.And that's what government has become too. Look at all these podcasters. Remember when "expert" and "fact checker" became a bad word here? This is the result.
>>541330189>This site fucking sucks, but I have no where else to go.that's because the internet is dead, picked and pruned by greedy corporatists who worship money and want nothing more than to add 0s to their bank account(s). modern social media sucks because it's essentially a giant mall; made to hock garbage and is made palatable to lowest-common denominator. >>541331689there's a lot wrong with your post, it's myopic even. first off, it absolutely does "feel" like the internet because we had such garbage before (anyone remember vine?). second, it does not feel like "calling a friend", it's goyslop for your brain. it's meant to flood your dopamine receptors and kill the part of your brain that appreciates delayed gratification. the overarching problem around this is parasocial communication; your brain thinks its doing all this novel, interesting stuff but you're really just getting flooded with the mental equivalent of diarrhoea.
Pretty sure the Kool Kids Klub is still around Op.
>>541331689Suck a shotgun nigger stop shilling your slop
>>541329103/b/ was never the same after 2007/pol/ was never the same after 2015
>>541329631A gay comedy roleplay forum. Ask your dad about it.
>>541331945Parasocial includes communication that feels spontaneous and candid which includes streaming, podcasting, and tiktok. Vine was too short, aiming to mass produce memes than communication. Tiktoks are encouraged to be camera phone video messages to a mass of people with a reply and stitch format that allows for response, like a conversation or a series of reactions. Sure, it's often "content" but it's distinct from facebook and twitter.>the overarching problem around this is parasocial communication; your brain thinks its doing all this novel, interesting stuff but you're really just getting flooded with the mental equivalent of diarrhoea.Yes.
>>541329103>implying that Gamergate did anythingokay, I was also pissed off with wokeshit in games but these were just incels wanting to see more tits and ass
>>541330189I also agree with you. 4chan does suck, and I don't really want 4chan to be the only place I post, but there really isn't anywhere else I fit into.
>>541329103The world is 4chan now. I saw a guy talking about Jews sucking baby penises, with his full name and employer available. You won.
>>541332506Gamergate was probably a co-opt of a legitimate realization that the entertainment industry was captured by white hating kikes and probably Chinese and instead turned into a loosh farm for politics. That's why they blasted it on 11
>>541329631Mostly gay but photoshop friday was amazing
>>541332401it's all the same garbage, man. >Sure, it's often "content" but it's distinct from facebook and twitter.algorithm-led slop with a likes counter. it's all the same, just a difference vehicle of delivery. memes are also a form of communication, and they are very effective. just look at how quickly normies change their attitude on things when popular thingTM changes online.
>>541332650GG was legitimate in the way that Edward Snowden described, but there was no follow through on that basic fact: video game journalism always gave positive press so they can maintain access and continue to profit from exclusive information before it becomes more public. He likened that to the relationship between governments and their media. GG didn't focus on this though, the major magazines and websites were left unscathed as it became more about culture war and fighting website with less traffic than Destructoid.
>>5413291034chan'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.
>>541329103>incelwhat does that even mean
>>541332826I'm addressing how it become more popular than facebook and twitter. Yes, it's algorithm slop. Did you think I'm supporting it as a positive by pointing out basic facts?
>>541331689>"fact checker" became a bad word hereIt was weaponized scientism and narrative control, you really think it was about le facts, eh.
>>541333336i did not think you were explicitly supporting it, but your argument tries to legitimise a progression in social media which is utterly pointless. the reasons you provided to explain it try too hard. the answer is a lot more simple: shiny new thing.that's all it boils down to: shiny new thing, it's no secret that the average person is devoid of any sophistication. what you're seeing with dickdonkey, is simply a result of the furthering retardization of humanity.
>>541329631millennial burger humor but “edgy” because they stalk fat autists in their free time and dream up fantasies about how much cooler they are than literal retards (they aren’t, lest they’d post about themselves, which they don’t)only funny thing from there is the DOOM bathroom which was posted unironically by one of them so… make of that what you will
>>541333352It extended beyond that. One of the podcasters who got the first round of "Epstein files" this term described herself as gossip and not a fact checker. At Mike Lindell's cyber symposium where he was going to show proof of election fraud by showing Matrix code on a screen, someone there was frustrated with the journalists there and told them to just report and not fact check.The point is is that the "based" form of communication and getting information is conversational. You like for people to tell you "yeah maybe" instead of taking the time to fact check, debunk, and look at what experts have to say.And yes, that can still lead people to fake and gay info, but that reflexive push against it carrying over to letting podcasters run the country is the result.
>>541333483There's a difference between the formats. Shrugging that off to jus assume it's the most popular just because it's newest is fucking retarded, anon. The newest is a factor, but there are other factors.
>>541329631its where newfags started hanging out after the IRC GODS got tired of them
>>5413291034chan has been a CIA honeypot and foreign propaganda outlet since Hiroshimoot took over.
>>541329631A forum where a bunch of leftists pretended to be edgy and politically incorrect, similar to how godlikeforums is a bunch of feds pretending to be conspiracy theorists.It had very little impact on anything, which is why you never heard of it.
>>541333676so in the same breath that you agree with my point, you call me retarded? KEK.not that i really care, i just found that funny. that said, that's the easiest factor to discuss. another factor is simply that people are too stupid to create, the change in format was made to facilitate these brain-broken retards. i think the format change followed the growing stupidity of the general population. look at how people used to write letters to each other, the quality of language (for the most part) was much more elevated in comparison to the "CULCHA" we have now. also last thing, it's not that it's popular because it's new, it's popular because it's the easiest way to feel like you're doing something without doing it i.e "learning" without actually gaining knowledge.the "shiny new thing" was about the content itself not tiktok. when you can flood your brain with short-form "content" at a rate of 3-5 seconds per swipe, you are literally flooding your brain with useless information-hence "shiny new thing".
>>541329103>4chan begat Gamergate begat Trump's idiocy Might as well go back to 1945, or, better yet, the invention of fire.
>>5413291034chan used to do cool stuff, like trolling Shia Le Bouf, Getting the OK hand symbol trending a white power, and "It's OK to be white". You don't do anything of significance any more. Sort it out M4GAMake 4chan Great Again.
>>541331465literally who?
>>541333749wtf is IRC GODSwhy you niggas always sayin weird shit on here
>>541334781>>541334843>>541329631you are too fucking young to be posting here. go back.
>>541335003irc is old, old internet now gramps, let it go already.
>>541335134it's just a harrowing reminder of how the world that we used to live in, is completely gone.
>>541333264incel: a man who enjoys not having pustulating sores and agony lesions burning when they pee
>>541334128The last relevant meme of ours was the NPC meme, I dont see new memes get made anymore.
I dont think normies flock here. No SNS integration.
>>541329631all the faggotry of kiwifarms minus the psychopathy
>>541329103Nigger tounge my anus
/pol/ died in 2016 when the election tourists invaded this place.
https://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/text/Do%20you%20think%204chan%20has%20lost%20its%20%22cool%20kids%20club%20of%20the%20internet%22/
>>541329932He needed those 10 bux for those gourmet cookies
