Are there even any oldfags left on this fucking site? Everywhere I look on here it seems like posters are 15 year olds excited to be on the Scary Ooh Forum. I've been on xitter recently, and the amount of teenagers I've seen excitedly screaming out buzzwords and slurs to try and seem like a channer is genuinely making me sick. "ahahahha larp!! foid!! hahahhaa nigger nigger nigger!!! im such a femcel!" Am I the problem?? Am I getting old or some shit
>>84161599There is, but i feel like very few on r9k
>>84161599the spammers and zoomers keep pushing our threads off the catalog so going to take a break. We're too old to still be posting on 4chan anyway.
I've been on 4chan for almost 20 years. I don't get offended at incel, chad, moid, foid etc. All seems like fag slang to me. We had our time.
>>84161656Sorry to break this to you, but you are here for ever.
Zoomers are alright, they're just missing something that oldfags had. They're not "full of pregnant women".
>>84161599i have been here 10 years, not oldfig but better than a total newfig
>>84161599>>84161613We lurk.
Back then 4chan was a lot better in quality, yeah /b/ was never good but there definitely has been a drop in quality posts. Memes now are just recycled wojak and/or pepe templates, or shit made by fucking preschoolers. At least there was OC back then. At least we did raids. At least Launchpad McQuack won. Hell, even back in Mario Retardy streams on /v/ were alright but you can't even do that now because of jewtendo. People complained about Eternal September and summerfags but the real nail in the coffin for this place was the fucking 2016 election.
Im late 30s and have been posting on 4chan since abatap was spamming /tv/. Im stuck here mostly because theres nowhere else to go on the internet and everywhere else is even worse than this place
>>84161737The Internet used to have many places to go. Then Obama got elected, and the Internet got worse.
>>84161599that pic kinda suggests you're also a retarded edgy tiktok zoomerregardless i don't know what you expected from /r9k/. actual oldfags either moved on, or they're on the hobby boards and /adv/
>>84161752Politics in general is fucking gay. It spawned so many uppity moralfags all reeking with USI.
>>84161599People used slurs and rage-baited all the fucking time before. I think the difference is in the purpose and demonstration: it was arguably mostly out of banter/discord, 1331speak lulz, or uncensored frustration, and more often hand-crafted to boot. The younger gens were raised with greater fear around unmoderated expression, and drip-fed content instead of actively engaging in it, so it stands out more I guess...which feeds the attention-seekers. They do it to troll, but because they don't participate directly in the culture that spawned it, they just recycle shit they don't understand. Negativity inherently attracts the human mind more than positivity after all, and is even a big part of modern marketing.It makes sense when you consider how 4Chan has substantially more permissive content guidelines compared to Tiktok, Insta, Twitter, or whatever the fuck normalfags use these days. Consider for example how people would say "unalive" instead of "kill", "die", or "murder" for a while now. Everything is under surveillance and sterilized to an extent. Hell, I had a silly profile picture of Charlie from It's Always Sunny in a WW2 Nazi uniform eating a banana as my profile picture on my Oculus profile when I was into VR. When Meta/FB merged with them, without having ANY friends or even logging in, they screened my account somehow and penalized it.>t. 29 years old, think I was 9 or 10 when I first got on 4Chan around 2006-2008, I don't even fucking remember anymore.Was old enough to have been an underage Gaiafag too. I can't believe that site is even still around too.
>>84161795I was born in 2008. (170 iq lol I gradyated highschool at 15) You really missed out. Not even just by being old, fat, ugly and autistic but generationally. 4chan knowledge and lingo is the shit for zalphas my age because we all wanna be niche and different. The real niches are a few forums non retarted wizards here might know that still haven't been taken over by the mainstream.
>>84161613>>84161599this board has always kinda been seen as the younger people board on this website, but even though its complete dogshit for the last few years i cant ever being myself to leave. i started browsing here as a teenager and now im 25. the topical boards just dont provide the level of freedom in discussions that this board does, and i think thats what makes it valuable, its like a free flowing irc/discord chat without the accounts and pseudo friendships. consequently, that also makes it the most easily accessible.
>>84161763Picrel. 13 year old girls whore themselves out on twitter, refer to themselves as bpdemons -- it was either between something like that or Incelcore Tomoko!!though to be honest i was referring more to the rest of the internet, and how they're enshittening this place too>>84161795I get what you mean. THat actually makes a lot of sense, they want someplace to be edgy and seek attention and express themselves, but they aren't really able to find themselves first. They cling to shit like y2k and the late 2000s "aesthetics" to feel better about the fact that they aren't special and are better off crying about loli on tiktok. also fuck yeah i love iasip
>>84161891people our age are just obsessed with being seen an weird niche people since half of them are brain dead and have no actual personality besides unfunny ass trends like babyboo and shit.
84161599Retarded faggot. You just wanted to make the 72 iq statement. A bot bred did for this. All fields.
>>84161952I know man. This is the normal. Every generation has had their thing, ours just so happened to 4chan inspired for some reason lol. We try so hard to be "different."The real counter culture is ditching the internet entirely. I'm without screens 4 days a week. The rest I'm on forums obscurer then prime 4chan. (Burgie web spaces with loke a few hundred/a few thousand people) No tiktok. No instagram, snap, nothing. Its all so gross. Its like the mcdonalds ot the internet. I spend time offline reading studying, exercising, listening to music and working. You should too. When was the last time you took a week offline? Do you even remember?
>>84161941>this board has always kinda been seen as the younger people board on this websitethat is absolutely not true.
>>84162031not really to be honest i moved the beginning of this school year so i have no friends and the weather is bad so i dont even wanna go out i used to have a weekly screen time of 2 or 3 hours a week since i only actually used my phone on the weekends but unfortunately ive been more glued onto it lately.
>>84162101You know that shitty tiktok audio all the lil peep cart and vape addicted broccoli bpds used about smoking? Like heroin addicts acknowledging their addicted but still using?"You must break the pattern today or the loop will repeat tomorrow"Well it's true in the sense that dopamine has never been more accessible to our brains as a species than now at any point in our history, and it's all we've known. Our first memories are screens. Dopamine used to be rare as fuck. A successful hunt. Sex. Infatuation. Cooked food. Now it's a few seconds away at anytime with a few taps. It's also unpredictable so it's EVEN more rewarding. Scroll, gore. Scroll, Ass. Scroll, music, Scroll, a funny. This is as harmful and prevalent as 21st century lead. A dark era in our history. Again, our generations real counter culture isnt saying "huhuhuhuh mog huhuhuh chad huhuhuhhuh based." It's ditching the fucking internet.
>>84161891I'm not honestly sure what you're trying to convey from the first half of your post, but the latter part is true. A lot of people split off and remained on these smaller forums/boards, 'altchans', whatever. It's hard, because the circles become extremely isolated and cannot survive easily long-term either. They have to be gatekept to a certain degree to maintain the culture, but they don't get new blood and stagnate all the same. I've seen some mentioned before, but I never really felt at home, and it's not like I was going to make friends on those sites anyway.>>84161945>they want someplace to be edgy and seek attention and express themselvesIt's kind of ironic if you consider that imageboard and webforums (and the associated cultures) were similar outlets for many back then. I suppose it was so core to a lot of our identities that it shaped how a lot of us even engage with the internet, or beyond that, society now. It's kind of hard nowadays, you know? The internet is harsh and isolating for people molded of that subculture once centered around greater anonymity and open self expression. Yet, it's so all-encompassing now that you can't avoid it unless you exclusively post on gatekept, private forums. You either accept some of the mind disease, or you isolate yourself further.It feels so brain-numbing either way. It sucks. Maybe I'm just getting old, I don't know.
>>84162159true but i think mostly more of all these gen alpha kids and how they are gonna fucked and brain dead because theyre already glued onto fucking bluey and shit and they dont even play with toys anymore they just watch straight fucking brainrot.
>>84161599I have been here for 4 years, not oldfig but better than a total newfig
>>84162181I don't know man, I failtrolled and just wanted to bragfag because my accomplishment are honestly worthless in this economy, plus my brain isn't fully developed for another 7 years so I'm emotionally immature. Gatekept altchans are kewl as fuck. We still keep internet culture going and there's a few with enough people to find atleast SOMEONE cool.
>>84162190The silent generation was right about one thing before they all died in 2015. This comic meme was their last message to us.
>>84162192yea i've only been around for maybe 7-8 but the decline is horrendous, not to sound like a boomer or whatever but so many kids are just so inauthentic chasing after a better time. i feel bad for them but at the same time what else can they do??
>>84161599I've been on 4chan for about 19 years. I've legitimately been on this site for longer than some of the legitimate posters have been alive.
Some people have been posting here for over half of their life.lol
