what was your concept of 4chan before you ever set foot in this place? around my schoolyard rumor was that 4chins was basically nothing but /b/ with you getting constantly jumpscared with gore pictures while illegal drug deals were going on in the threads.pic unrelated btw, just some bread i made
>>85582557bread and thread
>>85582557Cool bread.I didnt know 4chan existed before the pandemic. So I had no concept of it. I grew up without internet or TV in a rural country. Then the pandemic happened and the star link or whatever went up and now everyone has WiFi.
>>85582557I first started posting here in 2007 so I had no preconception. Someone on the internet told me to go to 4chan, so I did. The end.
>>85582951Pretty much this. I was a typical 2000s message boarding dwelling computer nerd. Someone mentioned 4chan, maybe on SomethingAwful, and the first place I landed here was /b/. That was also 2007.
>>85582951You should rape whoever told you to come here.
>>85582997I think my life would have been a lot worse without 4chan dot org, in the long run. I was a depressed teen with absolutely nowhere to belong, so arguing with people on 4chan gave me an outlet. This website instilled incredible fear into me regarding coming across as weird or autistic in public, so I taught myself how to be socially capable through trial and error and lost my virginity in my teens and enjoyed sleeping around and doing all the "normal" stuff in my late teens through to my mid twenties. If I HADN'T found 4chan, there's every chance I just ended up an even worse recluse and maybe even a Chris-Chan level autismo.
I found 4chan in 2004 on google while looking for hentai. There were no preconceptions or rumors because nobody knew about it yet. Jesus that a blessed time, before the secondaries and normalfaggots invaded. Fucking hell this site has gone to absolute shit.
I think I read about it on Wikipedia, not sure what made me look it up, I think it may have been Hackers On Steroids, since it was the current thing at the time.I went on /b/ and remember seeing a bunch of inane comments and thinking "is this it?"Then I saw a casual post of that one gif where a chink gets squished by a truck and went "huh... I see".
I saw it as le ebin hackerman site.>around my schoolyard rumor was that 4chins was basically nothing but /b/Yeah i thought so too. I was a child who had COMPLETE unrestricted access to the internet like you guys. I was such a strange kid reading Encyclopedia Dramatica and adjacent things at 12.
>>85583017I wouldn't say my life would have been worse without it, but it certainly helped me understand people and myself, while now it's just an outlet, a habit.Funny to think we see it as mostly a positive thing, while I'm not sure the younger people who come here to get demoralised and psyoped see it that way.
>>85583139The internet (and world at large) have changed. The internet used to be a place where you would go to escape from the world, now it IS the world and everyone is online at all times. In my day to day life, I rarely use my phone. I don't have any social media. I spend most of my time working, gardening, cleaning, cooking, and exercising, and on weekends I tend to either lock myself indoors in the dark or go check out local events and markets. An extremely quaint, normalfag lifestyle that is now considered exceptional and maybe even a bit extreme. 4chan has been completely subsumed by general culture, mostly for the worse, since normalfags were simply not meant to be exposed to anarchism of a site like this. Smirking, cynical, hyper-awareness wasn't meant for the masses, it was meant for lonely weirdos as a coping mechanism.
>>85582557I thought I would get hacked for even going on the site
>>85583177The iPhone caused the final Eternal September. 20 years ago it was fairly normal for people to exist and never use the Internet - unthinkable and sometimes even literally impossible today.>>85583178711chan used to give you literal malware, for the lulz
>>85582557I didnt know 4chan existed I was raised with loving parents. a friend introduced me to 4chan in my college days, thought this place was funny and stayed.
>>85582557>what was your concept of 4chan before you ever set foot in this place?The place for Caturday.
>>85583060A sandwich place I used to frequent ("Roy's Place") had a 23-page menu with hundreds of sandwiches, all with entertaining names.They actually served the sandwich in that pic as "A Good Cold Sandwich."
