When did /r9k/ become so boring and terrible?
when you showed up
>>83667189I only joined in the past few years and I'm sure it was way better before that but even as long as I've been around it's gotten worse
>>83667212yeah it does seem like it's gotten even worse within the last two years.
Gamer Gate + Pandemic = 50,000 extra assholes on 4chan that shouldn't be here.I see regular users less and less, instead it's literal children and ESLs from some shithole god forgot.
i started visiting during 2019, it was full of egirls already
>>83667189they seem to have killed the bots right now so the board is deadpost something dumb in here that would be hard to explain to someone not poisoned by the internet
>>83667189When all the faggots started using this board to cry about holes.>B-But it's always been like thatI've been here more then 14 years and can assure you that's not true.
Take a look in the mirror and you'll see why.
>>83667314here's a picture of me teaching foreign students about the sharty>ur fatI know.
>>836671892012/2013 or soNot that it was ever great, but man it used to be a lot closer to good.
>>83667189When the incel subreddit got banned and redditors started flooding here.Combined with Virgin vs Chad going viral among normalfaggots essentially starting the process of popularizing r9k lingo. And also 2016 election and the fappening bringing in alot of newfaggots around the same time.All these happened in the 2014-2018 span if I remember correctly, it wasn't bad yet but at that point the damage was done and it was only going to get worse from then on, modern 4chan is just dogshit compared to what it used to be, especially r9k and v fell off extremely hard. The biggest issue is that despite it getting so much worse, it's still so above every other site on the internet in terms of quality it's not even funny.
>>83667323how was it in the past?
>>83667346dangerously based meme scientist
>>83667376A lot more comfy and less schizo for sure. I remember the threads where retail workers would greentext stories and other shit about their jobs that I enjoyed since I also worked retail back then.>>83667370Gamergate was probably the final nail in the coffin for /v/.
>>83667394interesting, I never lurked 4chan as long as I've been lately, usually would just take a peek and not come back. I think I'll keep watching for about a week or month
>>83667346lmaowhy are you teaching brainrot
>>83667466because I wanted to take a funny picture
>>83667248The average online age on Discord is why I spend most of my time here. I'm in my mid 20's, and everyone I meet is like mid or late teens. It often feels that way here, too. Whenever I join a Discord server advertised here, that's not /soc/ it's always full of teens. Internet culture in general has shifted to be so infantile the past 15-20 years in general. Calling each other faggot, used to be the infantile thing to do. Refusing to use the word now, is the infantile thing to do.
>>83667625i just don't join many public discords or engage with them because of thisactual ocean of dogshit
>>83667370>The biggest issue is that despite it getting so much worse, it's still so above every other site on the internet in terms of quality it's not even funnyThat's only because every other website is also much worse, 4chan now is pretty much equivalent (debatably even worse) than what reddit was in the late 2000s/early 10s when it was stealing everything from /b/, except now 4chan just regurgitates the same twitter/tiktok posts over and over when obsessive coomers aren't spamming their generic low quality porn everywhere. I remember thinking moot was a humongous faggot for leaving after gamergay, but he definitely made the right move in hindsight.
>>83667189Like a week after the board was created.
>>83667625Saying the faggot word all the time for no reason makes me an adult.
>>83667189because nobody cares so theres no point in being entertaining or good
>>83667727That was actually my point. Saying faggot just to be edgy and an "adult" is annoying. Holding the word in contempt is even worse, in my opinion. It's also a slippery slope, you can't even say "Autistic" on fucking r/Linux. At least time I tried, my post got auto-removed by the autojanny.
Since whenever we lost any moderation, it allowed homosexual discord crap to take over, then other groups joined like retarded blogspammers who think this is twitter, pol spammers, so on and so forth.Now nothing in the catalog is good and even if you report it all you just get banned instead for complaining about 4chan instead of having anything solved. We need competent moderation again
>>83667806Join the CIA, perform super poorly until they realize you're a lost cause. Get assigned as an agent/Janny here, actually clean up the board AND get paid for it. Genius.
>>83667189when the fucking NORMALS got too comfortable talking about their normal ass sex lives.I'm on 49 hidden threads RIGHT NOW just from filtering words relating to gender, sex, or relationship terms.
>>83667806apply when they do the yearly janny applications lolei think the one on the fag board knows me personally and hates me, bans me over nothing pretty often
>>83667906I think I get auto disqualified for saying I want to do it here as the main board. I don't really care about other boards. The other off topic boards are an actual lost cause and the hobby boards lost the battle to reddit ages ago
>>83667189when 4chan got zogbotted and when women realised they could get infinite attention here and men stopped being misogynistic
>>83667346>teaching Chinese students about western psyop methodswhen the Pacific Theatre eventually turns upside down i'll get the fucking popcorn to witness the swarms of East Asians and using their languages with polymorphic variations of characters with varying semantics in tandem with Markiplierthey drink to their youth and to days come and gone, as their population pyramids all become anorexic, as they age, as they become more decadent whilst fucking spamming these things with incomprehensible semantics for that their languages is (figuratively) fucking witchcraft in the eyes of anything outside of their borders for that it intimidates them.
>>83667212It was extremely comfy 13+ years ago before the entire catalog became nothing but facebook frog spam and the normalfags caught onto the "rare pepe" fad. I don't know if it's worse to have experienced that sort of internet culture and witness it being molested into what it is today or to have never experienced it at all and only know the modern internet.Lately I feel a profound sense of loss every time I come back here and see the kinds of threads that make up this board, and all of 4chan really. I know people have always said this, but every decade it just seems to ring more true than the last. It isn't really an imageboard specific thing, though.
