Was gaming better in the early 2000s?
>>726113494Yes.Everything was, to be honest.The advent of social media, smart phones and casual gaming has been devastating.
>>726113494It wasn't, but I had fun
>was everything better when i was sheltered in my little bubble, ignorant of how real life works outside my little consumerist bubble?yes
Starsector, MHworlds, Halo 3, Squad etc weren't created back then so no
>>726113494I miss Buki Buki.
>>726113617The trvke that zoomers aren't ready for, and likely never will be.
>>726113617Fuck 4chan and the internet, give me back the old society and economy . Fuck zoomers for ruining everything, useless niggers
>>726113494I wonder what the /l/ board looked like
>>726114868Where have all the namefags gone?Why is /v/ so boring?
I miss iichan. So many ultra specific boards like "sad girls in the snow", but holy shit was it comfy.
>>726114868I miss when there were very few normalfags on the internet and you didn't have a horde of niggers screeching at you for breaking their gay social rules
There used to be a time when the dumbest people online were kids and not low iq third worlders living in povert
>>726116456cut the undersea cables and go back to it
>>726113494I would say everything was better back then.Normalfags should not have access to the internet.t. old man yelling at cloud
>>726113617Social Media is pure poison.Smartphones giving thirdies access to the internet killed it.Casual gaming only came as a result of those two.You are completely right.
>>726117210>Smartphones giving thirdies access to the internet killed it.ridiculous how zoomers bandwagon on this psyop to cover up their own crimes against humanity e.g. being online themselves, just look at tiktok, indians are not the problem there kek
>>726116456Read the screenshot. Back then moot and Saber told people who bitched about slightly sexy loli pictures on /a/ to shut the fuck up. Even in the 2000s faggots like that were there.
>>726116456>>726117409Sorry meant to say /c/ and it was mostly posted by a trip dude called buki buki who posted tons of vns cgs.
Evrything gets worse every year.
>>726117310Normalfaggots have ruined the internet just as much as 3rd worlders. Both are the prime reason as to why the internet sucks ass and social media and smartphones are the reason they flooded the internet en masse.
>>726116170Attention whores realized that you could easily filter out names and trips, so they stopped name/tripfagging in favor of just having a recognizable "style"
>>726118106Yeah and the content they post isn's as important as being recognized so they're just happy with being "that guy who shits up x threads"
>>726114328ignorance is truly bliss desu
>>726113494And earlier. Studios back then made games with passion. They weren't mostly developed by committee. Now, as we all know, it's nearly impossible to make such a game unless you do it yourself. The most popular indie games are exactly like that.
>>726117210>Casual gaming only came as a result of those two.it was the wii and ds and fucked us. gaming suddenly became for old people(wii sports) and little girls(nintendogs) then the entire industry started to try to cater to new audiences instead of focusing on gamers.
>>726115751>zoomers*millennials
It's hard to find things that weren't better in the 00s when compared to modern times. Although quite a few things were better in the 90s than in the 00s. We have internet speeds, I guess.
>>726120650I think speed and access made the content a lot less meaningful.
>>726116170The valuable ones left because nothing of note happens here. Also why drawfags no longer exist.
>Games were made to function and be good day 1 with no internet required>Cheaper>Still had immersive massive scale games like Morrowind or San AndreasYes. It's not up for debate. It was the peak of the medium. Graphics faggots and corporate monetization have ruined everything.
>>726121519Oh wow this is updated to the month. Nice.
>>726113494Yes. Troons didnt exist. Jeets were still in their slums. Chink bots got hardware ID banned. Shartphones didnt exist.
>>726121519(/v/ can at least be thankful that it's not the fastest board when it comes to dying off)
>>726113494everything was better, unless you were a thirdie
>>726122083The natural death of 4chanI can't wait to see it
>>726114868Back when /c/ was good...Back when /c/ wasn't run by arabs...Back when you didn't get 3day'd for having 3 pixels of panties...
>>726120650what good is high speed when the internet is as dogshit as it is now?
>>726116170>Where have all the namefags gone?>Why is /v/ so boring?They're still here, but they post images from their Steam posts or X/Twitter with their names clearly visible.The RPG threads get certain tripfags a lot unfortunately
>>726115751>>726120541>muh Zoomers and MillenialsIt's the Jews you stupid fucks.
>>726122518I mean, it's always been the jews, but they still need golems to do their bidding.
>>7261220834chan is no longer a gaynime websites as much as the ancientfags and oldfags think. There's literally politics everywhere nowadays so it has become a political website. Which isn't any better btw.
>>726121519>>726122083Saying all that though, it is interesting to note that one of the /v/ spinoffs have seen continual rise in usage. The others are doing pretty shit, but what can you expect from a strategy games board.>/vm/For 2025, its already surpassed its 2024 count with 506,185 posts and 1.5 months out from the end of the year. That's its largest jump in post count ever, even beating out its first full year of usage.>/vmg/241,940 posts, which still puts it among the smallest drop-offs for the board, and it probably would've averaged out if not for the hack. >/vrpg/188,598, which is the largest dropoff its had since its second full year and means the board has had an activity dropoff of roughly 50%. Even accounting for the hack, that's pretty weird. >/vst/Shittalked it earlier, but this is the only board outside /vm/ here to increase in activity despite the hack- 317,461 posts,it might fully recover to its 2023 levels.For the three bigger spin-offs if anyone cares,>/vg/2024 had 43,583,037. 2025 has had 34,597,884 so far.A less significant dropoff than /a/ or /v/, and it'll probably hit 40 million if it keeps up current activity. Shows that the only people the hack got rid of were the non-schizos really.>/vp/1,997,622 posts for 2024.1,469,368 post so far. Could scrape up the missing 500K, so it's not that bad currently, but it is worth noting that even with one of the largest data breaches in Pokemon history (for the second time this decade), its activity hasn't changed that much.>/vr/827,195 for 2024.631,780 for 2025 so far.This is another dropoff, and /vr/ has been bleeding posters for years now. Last time I was on there, about a quarter of the catalog was one spammer making constant threads that all used this same "Sega System" phrase. Not Sega Master System, just "Sega System".
>>726121519It's a good thing 4chan is slow>Less is more>Quality over quantity
>>726113617I miss 1999Imagine not even knowing what y2k isCouldn't be me
>>726117310True. People underestimate how old the Zoomer generation really is and forget that the oldest cohort of zoomers were part of the "pissing in an ocean of piss" era.
>>726113617>Dark Forces but no DF2>Jedi Outcast but no Jedi Academy
>>726123123>Quality over quantityThis is /a/ currently. These are all dump threads with the exception of that one Re:zero thread that snuck in here.Post activity is declining because people who make good posts are leaving. The only people who feel any sort of strong attachment to 4chan are some form of worthless schizo whose greatest contributions are complete abhorrent dogshit.
>>726123002exactlyimmigrants should dictate the course of communities, oldfags whining should just cope
>>726123093Merge everything back together and increase bump limit to 1000. Less threads in the catalog, faster to hide uninteresting shit, easier for the jannies and mods to clean up. There's always plenty of vg vp vm shit on /v/ anyway.>>726123314I came here in 2009 for memes and vidya because GameFaqs was dying. I never gave a shit about gaynime, religions and politics but those were forced on me because of normalfags lmao. That's the reality.
>>726123264What chased me away from /a/ is the fact that they've been running threads for dead anime/finished manga for a decade now, and it's just ritual posting. /a/ is also trying to have it's gamergate moment, but the mods step in quickly to stop it any time that discussion about the current state of anime or localization comes up. Organic discussion about the state of our hobbies is suppressed so people either resort to simple shitposting, or they move on.
>>726113494everything was better
>>726123123>>726123264Additionally, looking at the most active threads, /a/ looks like this>Dump Thread + Schizo General>Schizo General>Schizo General>Dump Thread>Dump Thread>Dump Thread>Seasonal thread>Seasonal threadSince we're on /v/ though, here's /v/'s most active threads>Zelda thread (inevitable schizophrenic general)>Queen of /v/>Schizo general>A thread about masturbation with "coomer" in the OP that has been up for 3 hours>Metroid Prime 4 hate thread>Chinkbaiting>"APOLOGISE">Fuentes threadAdmittedly, there's more variety than /a/, but most of this isn't quality.
>>726121519>>726122083>>726123093don't let it end this way. don't let 4chan become no different than the ancient forums and message boards, lonely and coldly in their tombs you stumble upon in a google search. it can't....
>>726120541Millennials made the site, retard.
>>726123264I only see on topic threads discussing certain series. Perhaps too many generals and not enough individual threads, but I can say that 4chan 2025 is much better than 10 years ago.even the worst board, /x/ is improved in 2025, with new content like the unga sphere threads, ROY JAY, Semen Retention general, old world/new world threads.I've been here since summer 2006 and it's been a general rule of thumb that the slower the board, the more quality and on-topic it is. /po/ is always quality and on-topic. A slower board is always better, less % of women, old people, and 3rd worlders if there is just less people in general.
>>726123762>what is gamergateMillennials were the downfall of the internet, retard.
>>726123570>/a/ is also trying to have it's gamergate moment, but the mods step in quickly to stop it any time that discussion about the current state of anime or localization comes up.That's not /a/, that's /v/.Most of those generals are also /v/. That's why nothing on /a/ feels organic, it's just people from here who go to /a/ whenever they're banned from /v/ for the day. There was a localization thread yesterday that was literally just filled with images that had been posted on /v/ mere minutes prior.Anyways>current state of animeAnyone who discusses that simultaneously admits to not even watching current anime, so those threads are, inevitably, irrelevant and offtopic, just an excuse to repost stuff from twitter.>or localizationInnately irrelevant and offtopic because rarely are any of the examples actually from anime.
>>726123264Dude I can't talk about any manga over there it sucks they don't read shit expect fotm garbage and it pisses me offI wanna talk about fucking Tank Chair
>>726113494Yeah. But the good thing is, you can still go back and play those games. The ones you played and even the ones you didn't, and usually for free too!
>>726123860>I only see on topic threads discussing certain series.Those aren't actual topics retard.They're image dumps. Over half the posts in the majority of those threads are just images with no surrounding commentary or discussion.
>>726113617>>726123196>no Need For Speeds eitherthe fact so many good games don't even show should tell you something about how insane 1993 through 2007 was
>>726123532>I came here in 2009 for memes and vidya because GameFaqs was dyingin 3 more years, you will have been a newfag for 20 years! that's wild hahaha
>>726123958>They're image dumps. Over half the posts in the majority of those threads are just images with no surrounding commentary or discussion.Then you have to blame AI bots, those aren't legitimate posters.
Zoomers really don't understand how based the internet was when it was only middle class and lower middle class whites and Asians.
>>726123863>>what is gamergateguessing it's something you read about on wikipedia or knowyourmeme
>>726121519>90% phone fags>no direct uploading unless it's a picture of a drawing>none of them draw anywayEveryone in this thread is absolutely right. Except those few that are objectively wrong
>>726123863>trying to shift the blame from normalniggers and corporates on usFeel free to leave any time, tourist shitstain.
>>726113494Gaming surpassed the movie industry in gross revenue by the end of 2007. After that, moneyfaggots immediately set their sights on gaming. AAA games surged in quality and that's easily shown by Call of Duty; but it was a bell curve. While graphics have always been relatively impressive, the soul of gaming started to die after 2010~ and has degenerated to everything being a BattlePass™ that just so happens to have a game attached to it now. If games didn't have forever-grinds that slowdripped content to you, then we; and by "we" I don't mean /v/ags who already have a pulse on what's shit in gaming, but casuals who keep this slop floating; could stop keeping this slop afloat by shoveling money into it.
I was born in 2006
>>726123636The mods don't give a shit. Moot used to stir the pot from time to time, which caused healthy stimulation to occur. We're long due for some things being straight up trimmed, or excised. The problem with letting it go for so long is that stagnation causes abscesses to appear, and we've got pockets of pus that have been building up for a decade now.Shit like a lot of really old generals on /vg/ need to go. A lot of the generals on /g/ need to go. The sharttards should have been given their worksafe /b/, or been told that what they'd been looking for already existed (/s4s/, seriously. Just make it blue). Schizo ritualposting threads on /a/ for shit like Yuyushiki needs to fucking go. Nagatoro threads, too. How is that even allowed? /pol/ needs cleaning up badly. It needs the bump limits raised, and the new threads limited on a timer. It's sucking utter ASS as a containment board. /b/ needs porn threads purged. New word filters need to be used to wean these morons off of the commonly abused boogeyman words. Doing these things will lance the boils, and it's going to be painful and messy but it needs to happen.
>>726124053>>726124091>pretending to be retardedLol. Zoomers weren't at the headfront of that shitstorm newfaggots
>>726123978Eternal newfag* >feelsbadman.jpg Nothing is worse than being a 2016 tourist though. I dunno if there's any new terms for post-covid fags.
>>726113494gaming was always good, and still is
>>726123532>Merge everything back together and increase bump limit to 1000. Less threads in the catalog, faster to hide uninteresting shit, easier for the jannies and mods to clean up.Horse shit, that just means the board will be the same 30 threads over and over. Look at /g/, you practically have no original threads.Reduce the bump limit to 250 or even 100 instead, and kill the archive. Threads will recycle so fast, the jannies will literally have no jobs because the boards will auto clear any offending posts in a few hours, just as how they used to back in the 00s.>quality over quantity blah blahposts quality used to be higher because crap threads disappeared fast.
>>726124091>normalniggers during that time suddenly weren't millennialsActual fucking retard.
>>726123570The mods on /a/ are the few decent ones. secondary or tertiary drama gets nuked and /v/ does not understand why.
>>726124163>pretending to be retardedAs opposed to your 100% natural retardation, apparently.
>>726124162The longest serving mod on 4chan joined this decade. There is not a single moderator or janitor on this website from the 2000's or the 2010s. The may leak proved this. At this point they should remove all captchas and delete all threads when they are 1 hour old.
>>726124345>n-no uNice rebuttal, nigger.
>>726113617>best gameThat's just a bunch of zelda, mario and pokemon, i prefer modern casual games
>>726113494Started using 4chan 9 years ago and it has only ever been downhill since.
I'm a newfriend but I'm generally of the opinion that gaming as in literally playing games is better today but that gaming as in the adjacent culture is worseI think that the best games being made today are better than the best games being made in the 00s but there's way more garbage to sift through>>726124037Part of the fault of this is oldfags. You people did a very poor job of archiving the old culture, a completely dogshit job of transmitting the old culture, and instead of making and moving to new sites when shit got bad (as I am told was the old way) you guys all just kind of squatted on the same sites the normgroids were coming to and let yourselves get fuckedA few years ago I wanted to see if any spinoffs or era competitors were still alive and it was all ghosttowns or raped to high heaven. desu, 7, 8, 420, 999, etc etc. Those places were abandoned but there was no trail left behind to follow either and from what I've been told and seen most all oldfags just integrated into the new net or walled themselves off in some digital bunker that is now dying as they all get bored of breathing the same recycled air.
>>726124178>I dunno if there's any new terms for post-covid fags.they're all (literal) boomers from facebook and zoomers from tiktok, it is hell sharing this site with them
>>726123532/vg/ is faster than /v/ is nowadays, do you really want to go back to 2011 when at least half of the catalog is clogged up by generals where the same 10 people talk to each other all day?
>>726124508>You people did a very poor job of archiving the old cultureit annoys me that the oldest archives only go back to like 2013, idk when the spergs who used to run the archives simply gave up but they did at some pointtransmission of culture isn't on us, though, newfags are aggressively retarded and proud of it
>>726124387But anon if they remove the capchas we'll start seeing the Kimmo Alm posts again LOL
>>726113494>no /v/Yes
>>726124628/vg/ and /vp/ were the only times when splitting was necessary. General spam and pokeshit spam was horrid. Then to top it all of, it was also during the era of Off Topic /v/. So you either had circlejerk generals, pokespam, or the ocean of piss.
>>726124710>Kimmo AlmI remember this but I can't remember what it was about. Didn't they spam links to infinity?
>>726124638Yuki was pretty extensive and then just died one day without anyone knowing what happened. And the ones still around have to constantly combat the illegal shit to the point that they too have downtimes every now and again.
>>726124837He was some Swedish pedophile basement dweller that had it out for Moot. All of his posts were ads for his 4chan alternative (can't even say the name of it) or requests for moot to reply to his email.Pre-capcha 4chan was great. But holy shit every fucking board on the site was covered in spam because of one dude.
>>726113494Half-Life, CS 1.6, TFC, good shit.
>>726124710Desubots are still trying to get in, as the last time we removed captcha proved.
>>726124941Is saying the word still an autoban?
>>726124514Boomers on /pol/ perhaps but not on hobby boards.>>726124628I check 4stats sometimes but /vg/ is mostly waifu faggotry or namefag drama. These people don't talk about in-depth shit like /v/ or even surface level gameplay mechanics or story, lore etc.
>>726113494Yes and no. Three best games from 00s are still the best. There's nothing like deus ex or aoe2 or stalker out there and never will be. At the same time there was so much more shit. Especially on consoles.Now you can play proven classics and even emulate almost all platforms and consoles have no games so it's an improvement.
>>726125047"SAY THE WOOOOOOOOOORD, AND YOU'LL BE FREE!!!"
>>726125047Not him, but probably marked as spam. It happens sometimes with "reddit" on /pol/ if i remember correctly or "8 c h a n" marked as spam.
>>726125047Dunno, but I'm not gonna try to find out.>>726124976When moot had a melty and took the capcha down from /pol/ was insane. I think that board, and /v/ are still paying the price for gamergate.
>>726124638>transmission of culture isn't on us, though, newfags are aggressively retarded and proud of itNewfags gonna new but for people who wanted to integrate there was kind of nothing to grab on to. I can't post like its 08 because all the newfags will screech at me and all the oldfags don't even know what 08 posting was like enough to model the behavior nor do they really give enough of a fuck to follow along if I triedits kinda like boomers whining about "they don't make music like they used to" but none of the classic musicians passed on the old style and none of the listeners will bother with listening to new attempts at emulating or recreating the old style
>>726124823Fair enough. The newer /v/ shootoffs could all be merged back in, as long as those two remain separate things. Maybe also keep /vr/ separate just because trying to start a retro game thread on here nowadays will just end up with half the thread being generational trolling.>>726125054>These people don't talk about in-depth shit like /v/ or even surface level gameplay mechanics or story, lore etc.Exactly, which is why they should be left to fester on their own containment board.
>>726125208Most variations of "go back 2 pReddit" are autofiltered still. Lots of the old console war insults like 10 year old are still autofiltered. moot tried to care about this place.
>>726121519>>726122083>>726123093NOOOOO NOT LE HECKING NORMALFAGORINOS!AAAAAH I'M GOING INSANE HELP ME EBAUM
>>726125378>Exactly, which is why they should be left to fester on their own containment board.I kinda think /vitagen/ and /ksg/ should be pruned, though. /vitagen/ because quite simply it should probably go shunted onto /vr/ by virtue of it being a dead handheld or just outright erased entirely and /ksg/ because it's time to send those old horses to the glue factory. It's time to end that misery once and for all.
>>726125445eric bauman was an art-stealing slut.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j9u-1ohP5Y
>>726125286I missed the fappening completely because i took a break from 4chan but everyone say a different event ruined the site.GG made me come back for a while but i didn't actively participated. My biggest participation was the 9th gen consoles launch shitfest.
>you will never live in a high trust society againcowabummer
>>726125054>These people don't talk about in-depth shit like /v/kek
>>726116170Why the fuck would anyone care about namefags? fuck em
>>726113494Yes
>>726125652Unironically in my slavic shithole general trust for other people is higher than in the '90s.Feels good.
>>726113494>remember hanging out with friends at lan parties and cyber cafes>computers had no pozzed software and jeet code, literally felt faster>all the modern game types we enjoy today were already a thing, only more fun I hate to be the back in my day boomer but it was literally better in almost every way
>>726125392They haven't removed or added auto filters since Moot left. RapeApe post more on social media than here if ever. Hiro is the owner but only collect the money in the end.
>>726123093/vr/ went to hell when the sixth gen got allowed, with most good posters leaving due to all the garbage that flooded in as a result. It's mostly just shitposting and dumb kids now.
>>726113494Yes, and it's not just about vidya games
>>726125330kids come here from tiktok thinking this is the edgy exploding van site and emulate the narrow range of behavior they were shown there, creating the culture they're supposedly coming to ogglenobody is asking for tips on how to be a better poster, nobody lurks, nobody even attempts to post images anymore. because they are all fucking phonefags with no foldersand if you call them out they are proud of this. idk why you're acting like we just didn't train our replacements properly or something, these fucktards come here explicitly to shit the place up and if you push back at all they will just make shit up and declare victory while ruining everything
>>726125695Like it or not but meta builds is more in depth than talking about which cartoon you want to fap to lmao.
>>726121519seems like the hack barely had any effect, it was already going down hill
>>726113494We've gained a few things:>Better internet by far>More powerful machines>Better graphicsBut we've lost so fucking much:>The internet is normalfag central now, even this place. Friday threads are full of guys talking about fucking girls from the club and stuff for instance>Games companies catering to a generic everyman rather than specific groups so nobody really likes the end product, no modern classics are made>Politics getting way too important for some, so character designs and writing suffer>Endless generic garbage comes out every week in the indie spaces>All games are getting dumbed down>Too many studios clearly want to make movies now instead of games, so shit like The Last of Us and Dispatch are super popular when in the 90s and 2000s they'd rightfully be mocked by most or at least ignored.I'd say things are worse.
>>726125807>you will never get this backfuck.fuck.
>>726125330>and all the oldfags don't even know what 08 posting was like enough to model the behavior
>>726125863Im still of the opinion that only desktop user should be able to post and mobile is for lurking only, that would fix 90% of the problems we have.
>>726125861zoomers will call this consumerist while buying skins in some game they have a monthly subscription to
/c/ Anime CuteI've been here for 10 years and still don't know what that board is
>>726113494I never understood how they managed to push monthly subscription for something as fundamental as multiplayer in the PS4 generation. I moved to PC from PS3 around that time so I don't know much about how that happened.
>>726125859This. I only really post in the Doom/retro FPS general, and the amount of shitposting and spergs trying to shove Halo into everything has exploded since then.
>>726126067It's for posting more blobs
>>726125810We need new filters bad. They had a great effect on stimulating these retards creativity and imagination.>>726125629It was a combination of shit. /pol/ kept doing invasions and making it painfully obvious that they were from here which caused lots of people to do counter-invasions. News media and journos kept coming here for stupid shit. Think tanks were coming here. Then the Fappening happens. Not long after that fucking GG happens. Then the 2016 election happened. I don't hate /pol/, but they put the wrong kind of spotlight on this place. Sometimes for the lulz is not an acceptable excuse.
>>726125863Phoneposting is dumb as shit. Let yourself get bored and read a long book like the Count of Monte Cristo instead, when you're in bed. If you want to post, do it on your computer and at your desk.
>>726126040I'm not a tech wizard but i'm posting from consoles built browsers. That's an in-between way to come here.Phones are too small and i hate touch keyboards.
>another thread where a bunch of people who had a part in killing this site pretend to be sad about itcool.
>>726126067>newfaggot remains a newfaggotColour me surprised.
This board is dirty. Clean it up with Dial soap!Or.. whatever it was. It's been too long.
>>726126216>the enlightened fencesitter poster
There's a loli con board??
>>726125859I got a warning for this.
>>726123860> content like the unga sphere threads, ROY JAY, Semen Retention general, old world/new world threads.What improved about /x/ was the more specialised talk practical about occult and spiritual practice becoming more widespread, for all its faults it’s by far the best board to talk about spirituality and religion with /his/ being an absolute normalfag Reddit-tier joke. If you aren’t an occultist or a spiritual person then /x/ is objectively worse. Not like there wasn’t high quality occult talk in old /x/, but now you can make a thread about some niche grimoire or an eastern spiritual practice
>>726125863Closest place I could find to the vibe of old 2006 4chan (/b/) was modern SA's FYAD board. Surprisingly that place somehow does a good job of balancing the aggressively anti-slurs Tumblr crowd with the oldfag edgelords who recently came back and started posting there again.
>>726126293Because you mentioned pokemon?
>>726125807Renting the whole café for a night to play vidya with the friends was something everyone should experience.
>>726126161Everyone is more political nowadays but even /pol/ is now trying to sell religion which is embarrassing.
>>726125859>It's mostly just shitposting and dumb kids now.that's the entire site
>>726126161>I don't hate /pol/, but they put the wrong kind of spotlight on this place. /pol/ attracted normalfags in unseen numbers and forever cemented 4chan as the "far right website"
>>726126216>another shitposter in a thread he doesn't care about
>>726126341... no?
>>726126313those guys were always insufferable fags, I don't know how you can possibly think that's worth looking at. Basically proto-redditors who never got the memo
>>726126465anyone who's been here for a long time isn't as invested in this shithole as you people pretend to be. it's embarrassing and performative.
>>726126391/pol/ has had Christians on it since forever. The 77777 get was "If this post gets all sevens, Jesus is Lord and you must forgive the Jews."
>>726113494Human civilisation peaked from 1985-2007. It's not even nostalgia since I was only alive for five years of that span.
>>726126408If i recall, Fox News called it a far left website because of the distribution of cheese pizza back in the days.
>>726126292there wasnow its on /b/
>>726121519You'd think this place would accomplish more after Notch and minecraft, but that was the peak of a very long downfall.Now you have AI garbage generals and blatant sponsored threads with AI bots posting
>>726126618To be fair Fox News called everything far left back then. Fox News during the Bush era was like watching The Onion.
>>726125962Activity returned to its (new) normal midway through May, so only really one month was heavily effected by the hack, but the site itself has been declining for ages.The big issue is that there's been no big "draw" for 4chan since 2018. If you looked at a timeline of "happenings", it'd be like>2006/b/ day>2007HACKERS ON STEROIDS -t. FoxNews>2008Chanology (is a thing for a good few years)>2009Time Magazine article>2010Ted TalkTumblr war>2011Bronyism starts getting REALLY big>2012/mlp/Dub the Dew Raid>2014Gamergate/Luggage LadThe Fappening>2015Gamergate still kind of happening>2016Trump>2017 Qposting (attracts a LOT of actual facebook boomers)HWNDU in full force>2018Internet Historian makes about 20-30 multi million views videos talking about 4chan events, most notable HWNDU which got about 40 million views altogether>2020-21Covid increased activity, but didn't actually add many new postersAnd since then, nothing has really happened. Hell, since 2017 its just been people making content on 4chan which drives people here, but nothing actually happening on 4chan. Even big events like January 6, the 2020 election, and the 2024 election didn't have a big draw to 4chan since most of that discussion is now on twitter.
>>726126709>>2006>/b/ dayit's actually insane how fucking old i am
>>726125863>idk why you're acting like we just didn't train our replacements properly or something, these fucktards come here explicitly to shit the place up and if you push back at all they will just make shit up and declare victory while ruining everythingI don't mean that everything is on old posters but I spent a good year or two trying to be a model citizen of the before times and the oldfriends really just did not give a fuck. Not in a giving me asspats kind of way but just nobody playing along. Maybe I started trying too late though
>>726126408We need someone like W.T Snacks to buy this website from Hiroyuki and make /b/ the dominant board on 4chan again. This website isn't 4chan without /b/ being the biggest board.
>>726125859abloo abloo I am forced to come to terms that im getting old
>>726126709Probably because the admins and mods actively discourage that kind of stuff now. HWNDU would get jannied hard if it happened today.
>>726126546All you had to do was not post to not be invested as you say. That is all. >>726126570Religionfags are just annoying because it's all jewish bullshit in the end.
>>726126831it's because this place has been subjected to an eternal crapflood. It's exactly what happened to usenet except orders of magnitude worse
>>726126838or you guys could just post somewhere that isn't fucked to high heavenyou don't even have to ditch here, just make a habit of visiting your preferred secondary site
>>726116170this video absolutely blew name/tripfags the fuck outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
>>726126853Yes, but modern newfags really are cancer. Not the old funny haha we disagree about our preferences in waifus kind of cancer but the kind that kills you and isn't treatable. This site is a zombie at this point, and even that is dying somehow
It might just be me, but I find the internet so empty since 2022. I've seen a lot of interesting people checking out of the Web in the late 2021.>>726124638old.sage.moe fren
>>726126702I just remembered that people also called it faux news then many years later, cnn was branded fake news.
>>726126709even shitposting is souless now, at least we had a billion new OC content every time the site shit itself.People don't even want to make new wojaks, everybody uses the templates only
>>726126838The problem is that despite the complaints that there's a lot of stupid kids around here, the truth is that the population (sans boomer facebook tourists) is trending older. Older people are less interested in places like /b/. At least for the funny shit people did back then. Older people also get more interested in politics and current events. /pol/ really has replaced /b/ in that regard. It often also functions as an off topic/random board at times, as well.Maybe a non-political off topic board would be good.
>>726126936Not really, it's moreso people aren't creative.Stuff like Fappening would probably get discouraged the moment the first DMCA complaint comes in, but that's to do with money. Fappening drained all of 4chan's legal resources when that happened.But stuff like HWNDU wouldn't be disallowed, there's entire generals on /pol/'s that are basically just that for more mundane shit, like the ones that are just livestreams of bodycam footage, or the old /r9k/ and /b/ generals where you'd creep on open security camera channels. Of that entire list, the only thing that wouldn't get endorsed would probably be /b/ Day and Fappening. That's it.
>>726123093The thing about /vm/ is it adopted some of the /vg/ generals.
>>726126709Boxxy being on the front page of youtube in 2009 is how i found 4chan lmao.
>>726127057Fox News got lots of hate from it's competition. It was also utterly retarded in terms of content for a while, as well. But now it achieves the same draw by simply just reporting the news as it actually happened. Turns out that these days it's easier to be salacious by simply telling the truth.
>>726124161Hi born in 2006, I'm dad. Why did you get your name changed?
>>72612640295% of the site is dead for a reason
>>726127245He said "was". That means he is no longer born in 2006
>>726127092>OC>wojaks
>>726123860>/x/ is improved>by off topic schizopostingPost discarded. Leave immediately.
>>726124162Generally great ideas but the slow threads like yuyushiki and nagatoro are the least of the problems those take up like 10/150 threads tops and at least aren't the newest of newfags and they actually enjoy what they're talking about.
>>726113494gaming? yesgames? debetable, leaning on also yes
>>726127214If it wasn't for normalfags irl from 2016, i would've never got involved. I always avoided politics and religion like the plague until faggots couldn't stfu about Trump. Sure GG was a bit political but not on a national level. Sorry 4 teh rant/
>>726127350nta but it's the fault of mods that semen retention had to seek refuge there after being banned from multiple boards also it's on topic because retaining semen will you give you magical powers
>2004+21... I am forgotten...
>>726127348>pepe the frog edits Same shit.
>>726127195Same. That and Lulzsec shutting down PSN, so I couldn't play LittleBigPlanet.
>>726127048appreciate the link>I've seen a lot of interesting people checking out of the Web in the late 2021I'm trying to do the opposite and go deeper. I've been on the oldweb revival shit for a while and hope that can sustain itself for the next decade or more
>>726127362Well my reasoning is simply that I think ridding the site of some of it's stagnation might force the anons in these ancient, long-running ritual threads to go and do something else for a change. Do something -new-.Though I will admit that I've only been a lurker on /a/ off and on for a long time, and never became a resident of the board, so my knowledge of it's problems is limited. But I have seen people complaining that there's an issue about what to do when it comes to discussing older stuff vs the latest FOTM/new season stuff.
It's boomer and millennials. Boomers for being narcissists and locking their children away from the world so they would never become their own person, and millennials for shitting over the world as soon as they stepped outside to overcompensate and raising their kids the same way, creating the lazy mfs known as zoomers
>>726127504one is funny and reflects 4chanthe other is not funny and reflects nu-reddit
>>726126709As an aside, a lot of these are really the same event. Like, all of these intersect with each other>Gamergate>Trump>Qposting>HWNDU>Internet HistorianFrom 2015 to 2018, those last years of happenings, all of them were branches of GG, and not in the "GG made Trump" way, in the cultural way.Without Gamergate, you wouldn't have droves of redditors and forums users getting banned and coming here.Without that, a lot of the newer politically inclined users wouldn't be here, and when the_Donald and other sites/forums got deleted or deplatformed, maybe their first instinct wouldn't have been to come to 4chan, and instead populate other parts of the internet. Also remember a lot of youtube commentators at the time like Sargon throwing around 4chan lingo, pepes, saying shit like "Kekistan", etc. That in turn lowers the intensity around the 2016 election specifically (that's why 2020 and 2024 was pretty quiet here compared to how massive 2016 would end up getting). That then means Qposting and HWNDU are either far smaller scale or just don't happen, which then means the IH videos probably don't happen for those events (or maybe even in general).
>>726127348point fucken proven
>>726123732Bro just check out altchans. Barely any posts. Threads in the catalog that started in 2015. Last post in 2022. It'll happen.
>>726127640pepe stopped being funny after smug pepe/poopoo peepee shit. it has not been funny in over a decade. it's just laziness.
>>726127640Neither are funny and should be banned on sight. The /tv/ pissing and shitting spam was the last hurrah for these two characters and they should have disappeared after that.
>>726127625Honestly this stupid shit is something moot would have addressed, as well. All these fucking 'oomer' words need to be filtered/autoban for a while, too. Add Millennial to it, as well. Absolutely no productive discussion arises from these inter-generational spats.
>>726124161>he missed Milan choking against Liverpool
>>726127549You should visit Spacehey, the MySpace remake. It's cool as fuck.
>>726127625>millennials>their kidsthey're like five years old bro.. the people shitting up this site are zoomers (ranging from early 20's to 30's now kek) raised by gen x'ers (now 50's and 60's)also the literal boomers on /pol/, idk how those dusty fuckers figured this site out but they did
>>726127732>t. unc
>>726127625gen z parents are overwhelmingly gen x. kids of millennials are mostly gen alpha/ipad kids.
>>726124162Damn good ideas, but I unironically think 4chan is a operated completely as a NSA honeypot these days.
>>726127518>6 weeks offlineI lurked /v/ alot in that time. I remember buying Dynasty Warrior 7 to pass the time. >>726127640They were 2 reaction pics before being edited to hell and spammed to death. Not funny or original anymore.
>>726127725>>726127729fair points, but you have to admit that the modern 'jaks are significantly more cancerous. At least Pepe has pedigree. becoming cancer later is just something that happens with age
>>726127625Looking forward to when gen alpha, mostly literal iPad babies, turn 18 and start making idiotic posts on 4chan about Roblox and Mr. Beast on their computers because they're having an anxiety-induced meltdown over not watching YouTube on a tablet.
>>726127729Thinks are not supposed to get erased, just mix them with new stuff, it's always been the way. Zoomers didn't achieved anything during their era because all they did was piss shit and moan about things they didn't like.
>>726127865>but you have to admit that the modern 'jaks are significantly more cancerous.You're a newfag that doesn't remember 2016.
>>726127853>They were 2 reaction pics before being edited to hell and spammed to death. Not funny or original anymore.sorry but this is still significantly better (and has a history here) than>wojak, but indian>wojak, but with the mouth edited to be larger>blushing girljak>homosexual zoomerjak>doomerjak>literallymejak
>>726127826Yeah, Lowtax's (something awful creator and schizo kiwi farms troll) kids are all now 20 year old zoomers. That guy was gen x.
>>726127640Pepe and wojak are literally the same ugly, stupid shit.
>>726127640How new?
>>726127997>You're a newfag that doesn't remember 2016.I found this place from ebaumsworld in 2003, im pretty sure /g/ was guro at the time
>>726127916>Thinks are not supposed to get erasedyeah the same memes that were unfunny a decade ago forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
>>726127664The whole reason t_d existed was literally /pol/ wanting to create a colony on R*ddit without thinking of the consequences, so if there's anyone to blame, it's /pol/.
>>726113494Well I didn't have to go to work to have my basic needs met and didn't know anything about the dominant socioeconomic and political systems I was born into, so yes gaming was objectively better then than it is now.
>>726127763Already on it. melonland, neocities/neko, so on. Though the barrier to hop on those is a bit low so I don't expect them to live too long if they get actually popular
>pepe is controversial amongst 2010's newfags pretending to be oldfags and 2020's newestfags trying to fit inlol seethe more newfags
>lan cafes for multiplayergood times
>>726127625see >>726127826Most Millennial kids are alphies unless they had them really early. It's probably why I'm starting to see more posts in-favor of Alphies, since the oldcuck normalfags here are literally raising them.
>>726128102welcome to culture baby, would you like a catchphrase like "in god we trust" with that knowledge? >unfunny Don't like it? leave
>>726128173people are just sick of lazy edits. shit like apu/helper/whatever the fuck is still just an edit of pepe.
>>726128097nta but I got here in 2004 while looking for doujins. I spent a lot of time on various different chans back then, but never ventured outside the porn boards here, because I wasn't interested in getting into the autistic slap fights this place loved having.There was a time when the concept of an image board was a magical technology because there wasn't an easy place to find good, high quality scans of drawn nip porn.
>>726128173found the triggered 2016 newfag
>>726127916>Thinks are not supposed to get erased,That mentality is the reason why we keep rehashing the same old shit instead of making anything new. Endless remasters and remakes and re imagininga forever.A thing gets madeIt gets appreciated or notIt disappearsThat's the natural lifecycle of all things including memes. If not, we would still be doing Cockmongler and Happy Negro.
>>726128317>people are just sick of lazy edits. shit like apu/helper/whatever the fuck is still just an edit of pepe.there's nothing else, there has been no OC of 4chan origin since before covid
>>726128150It's Moot's fault for banning gamergate, many /v/ users joined /pol/ turning it into what it became
>>726128173Nobody posts trollface anymore because it got old, played out, and spammed to death by normalfags. Same with shit like desu and IMMA FIRIN MAH LASER and cockmongler and giganigger.The same would be true of pepe if he didn't get appended to a political movement.
>>726128173It's an ugly, lazy, unappealing meme that gets worshipped because it's appealing to autists. There's no value in wojak or pepes. There's no wit or humor or point.
>>726128339not saying you are not supposed to make new things, i'm saying the old things have a place in modern times, they are called classics for a reason. not like it matters, you niggerzoomers are creatively bankrupt
>>726128313that's the issue. 4chan "culture" has been stagnant at best and actively awful at worst for over a decade. this place potentially dying having little to no impact everywhere else except tumblr says volumes.
I miss old9k. /lit/ and /sci/ are such EMBARRASSINGLY HOT GARBAGE.>forever stuck on a website full of below-the-bell-curve newfag revisionists who try to tell me that 4chan didn't launch until whichever 2016+ year they found the place
>>726128317This. Memes need to be allowed to die. Pepe and Wojak (and all of their respective edits) have been around so long they're practically zombified. I mean shit. The Simpsons were great but they stopped being good after a while. Same goes for memes. Sometimes the jokes just get old. It also doesn't help that both of them came from the cesspit that /r9k/ turned into after people ran out of unique things to talk about and it became a longhouse for depressed virgins.
>>726126838Is 4chan on sale now? lol
>>726127486Hi desuposterPractice self-love at all possible times!Everyone reading this too!Anon out!
>>726128335i was posting here when obama got elected and that was many years after i started lurking. I was a proud nigra. i pretty much spent my entire life on the Internet from about 1998 onward. my first pc was an emachines "never obsolete" with like 32gb ram running win95, found this place through a combo of ebaumsworld + loser friends at school, eventually stumbled onto /b/ somehow. I have seen pretty much every era of this site firsthand with occasional breaks
>>726126838Snacks was a faggot who wanted to stop moderation because the website grew too big then he spent years and years advertising his dumb radio weekly on /new9k/.
>>726121519>why drawfags no longer existsomeone clearly hasn't been to any baloon threads
>>726128542I jack off all the time no need to tell me that
>>726128370Dead internet theory is no exaggeration. /qa/ was 4chan's last good board because of how much of an anarchic schizo hellhole it turned into. Closest thing we ever got to old school /b/.
>>726128438>>726128431>played outyou talk like a niggeralso see >>726128370
>>726125859Retards have a hard time understanding that technological progress will plateau after a point. There is nothing meaningfully different between the first Xbox and Xbox One. Dreamcast is the last retro console forever.
>>726127601Your reasoning seems sound but I think a bigger problem is the cabals of shitposters, and the single shitposters that are more mentally ill than an entire cabal. Until jannies are given permission to delete posts for being bad and not for literally being rule breaking the board won't improve. I realize that's a new can of worms but there needs to be a purge on low quality posts. It doesn't have to be harsh with crazy bans but they need to start being deleted or called out.
>>726113494So why does /b/ allow loli but we can't have a dedicated board? Same for shota.
>>7261284788ch and Wiz used to have good /r9k/ alternatives, hotwheels partly made 8ch because moot kept fucking with /r9k/ if I recall, but Wiz got raped by GG stuff and 8ch's death killed every community it really had that wasn't anchored to another site (or its version of /v/).
>>726123885/lit/ too. All they do is circlejerk the most popular bestselling entries in whichever genre they prefer while lambasting anybody for not licking the ass of <insert megapopular author here>.
I really do feel blessed to have been a kid during the NES and SNES days. Holy shit, what a good time to be alive. No, it wasn't just "you were a kid you didn't know any better" the messaging was entirely different, so was the level of safety and stability. No, this isn't a result of Clinton as Bush and Reagan were president just before him, it was a cultural thing. Something new and better was constantly happening. For the first time you had real, easy access to all the information in the world, cable TV was still easy to steal, you had to pick between phone and internet use for the longest time, every minor upgrade vastly improved your PC - Getting to see the development of games from that 8-bit era where video gaming was a novelty nerds got into like train sets into this sterilized, normalized, forever descending drive to extinction has been something else. I was around when home users got the internet for the first time. It was so much better. The internet was better before brown people got on with phones. The tower PC being the barrier to entry meant the few brown people who managed it could have meaningful exchanges rather than every stink skinned dalit being able to drag his piss drinking reek online. God, I miss it, and God I can't wait for the next one.
>>726128727Bans do nothing because there are entire collectives of CP spamming retards with thousands and thousands of proxies that can spam day in day out.
>>726128649/qa/fags/jakposters/posters from the jak site that shall not be named hate 4chan and want it dead. i don't think old /b/ was actively malicious towards 4chan as a whole.
>>726123264schizos has caused irreparable damage to 4chan and still cause damage to this day, I truly can't stand them, hell if you want to just try and look back and check some old threads you'll literally see over 100+ pages of some pissed off schizoid spamming the same post a million times. it's true cancer
>>726128727jannies have been infiltrated and subverted in multiple waves at this point. Jannies on this site are literally running cover for various competing interests. There are even jannie ambassadors for old neonazi forums that came and went in the period between 2014 and 2018. This place is manipulated to hell. Jannies don't want to make this place better, they want to facilitate the advancement of their own special interest groups
>>726128317Apu is cute af wtf
>>726128909The guy from the simpsons?
>>726128727Yeah but the janny system seems like it would be easy to abuse, and you'd have jeets who would sign up just so they can tackle anti-india posts rather than actually do any real good here.I do agree that low quality posts need to be tackled. It's why I push hard for new word filters. There's just so much stupid stuff getting posted that serve no purpose but to drive down the quality of threads (every word that's some variation of 'oomer' for example).
>>726128909are you a woman or a gay? fuck you.
>>726128879>Jannies don't want to make this place better, they want to facilitate the advancement of their own special interest groupsThey discuss the same exact shit in their exclusive boards if you take a look at the leaks. Some of their threads were just like this one.
Every newfag "thread personality" that shits up every thread on every board on every website is worse than the most extreme of tripfaggotry ever was.
>>726128491>Sometimes the jokes just get oldThe memes didn't get old, the anons did. They will be new and still funny to new anons.
>>726128370why make OC?I could write some cool story here but nobody is going to bother to read it much less cap it and repost it.I could draw or edit some meme but it'll get lost by the end of the day.I could make some music but nobody will listen.Me getting views doesn't matter much but if I make something so that other people can have fun with what I made and nobody even tries to have fun with it then why bother?At least a dozen boards on this shithole have drawthreads. How often have you seen art from a drawthread made in the last 4 years reposted elsewhere on the board after it was made?
>>726128808They hate this site because they're irony poisoned gen-z'ers that hate porn because they have porn addictions. They turned /qa/ into their worksafe /b/. When /qa/ got killed, they vowed revenge. Honestly just giving them /s4s/ should have sufficed, but there's no real reasoning with the retarded.
>>726128875Schizos and autismos. I feel like the average poster of 2007 was aware of his status as a weirdo nerd, but he wasn't a complete autistic dumbass that took everything literally.
>>726121519why is this a bad thing?
>>726129042are the thread personalities in the room with us now?
>>726128771can't believe even /x/ is unusable trash now, i don't use other boards, everything is so boring or strange, only come here because is an old habit and i like vidya girl pictures (/a/ fotm girls killed all my interest for the board forever).
4chan is dying because there's no moderation. Schizos who made it their life mission to shit on everything and to ban evade just to repost their mental illness everyday ruined the site for everyone else and mods arent doing anything about it. When someone mentally ill posts the exact same posts everyday at the exact same time, anyone with sense will just quit and move on elsewhere.
>>726129076Yeah because we've got so many newbies coming here just clamoring for more Teh Rei
>>726128783Next what? Eternal life cycle timeline recycling of our souls into this exact same timeline reality of Earth?
>>726129157It is statistically likely, my new friend.
>>726113494No it was much worse. However. Back then games that got big adverts and everyone was talking about were actually good unlike today where you only find good games in obscure corners of the Internet.
>>726128803Yes, I agree. Those are some/all of the cabals and cabal-tier individuals I'm describing.
>>726123732I find altchans and old forums comfy>Searching for help on an old game or to see if something is possible>There's an answer in a forum from 2005>Stay and read through the thread, wondering where these people are now and if they're happy in this shitshow of a civilization we currently live in.
>>726129169/x/ merged into /pol/ some time back. Same with the older /v/irgins and some of the original /b/tards.
>>726128973Filters would be good yes. Get rid of tranime first.But yeah you need a good mod to look over jannies and boot shit ones once you start the "delete bad quality posts" campaign
Losing millions of users is actually good. I think the only ones left will be people like me who have been using 4chan for most of their lives and are simply unable to let go. We'll have our old 4chan back then.
i'm convinced pepe is some sort of comfort character for certain autists. that's why they can't let him go.
>>726129350>newfag dictating website policyevery time
>>726129157>>726129242I'm in that image.
>>726129113I'm sure some of them are older too.>>726129147It means things get schizoer>>726129118
>>726129235I do hope that some bizarre quantum event means we're recycled again into slightly different worlds or timelines when we die. I'd like to see people I've lost again, only I'd want things to go differently too.
>>726129375No, most of the people who stay are more and more mentally ill (I'm not talking about you).>>726129413Debate the idea, not a strawman
>>726129337I'd kill to find some nice forums.
>>726129581I actually do believe the whole time is a flat circle thing and we’ll all be here again forever
>>726129147>number of posters goes down>number of schizos remains the same
>>726129581tatami galaxy
>>726128317pepe, wojak, nordic gamer, "chad", etc. need to be banned because they are almost exclusively used for normalfag posturing (i am the based chad you are the onions cringe virgin). i would exempt apu because he is just a character not used any worse way than spurdo, gondola or rage comics.
>>726129608>tranny tranny trannyThere's nothing to debate. You are a newfag, you will always be a newfag, and 4chan started as an anime website. See yourself out, nigger.
>>726129375It's not good because the ones that are left here are mentally ill losers. If you havent noticed, they make the exact same threads everyday with the exact same posts everyday on /v/. It just drives out everyone else who's not mentally ill once they realize they're in an insane asylum.
>>726127048man I so fucking wish there was a 2016 and before archive with picswhat could have been
>>726129703Bro. You're actually attacking someone that agrees with you. He wants to word filter 'tranime' because it's a stupid shitposting word that serves only to tank thread quality.
>>726129703What? I'm saying to filter out the word tranime. Reading comprehension
>>726129773>>726129784Well that is fair. Carry on. Have a nice day, anon
>>726129769>theyIt's one person (j) and he does it on /a/ and other boards too. Check the boards at 2am pst ish
>>726129350>Filters would be good yes. Get rid of tranime first.newfags lolThis site's actual most iconic export is a slur for anime fans.
>>726129652Apu at least had a bevy of OC attached to him. And he satisfies that old school 4chan feeling of not being self-conscious of how you looked here, just be a retard for fun and run with it.
>that niche board you used to frequent that is now dead
>>726129769i thought the average 4chan poster was a successful and happy sex haver with a family and career...
>>726125859/vr/ was always kind of shit honestly, even before allowing sixth gen it was one of the most insufferably perpetually angry boards on this site
>>726129856You too
>>726129948As someone that was here when that happened, and understands what moot was trying to accomplish, only to have it spectacularly backfire, I can tell you that you have truly acted the newfag in this instance.Weeb/weeaboo is/was a Chanology moment. The retarded lurkless at the time thought it was some epic maymay.
>>726130001remember when labo killed /po/, i member
>>726113494Everything was better in the 2000s
>>726129220dickbutt
>>726124163Zoomers have been in college for 12 years anon since gamergate, with the early transition gen being occupy wallstreet. They are 80% responsible for the campus protest going on since gamergate as it lines up with the timeline. You can cope all you want but your early gen is largely responsible for all the tranny shit and continues to be largely responsible over millennials
>>726116456If the major nations do this block chain check with VPNs and start the firewalls that they claim is coming next year you may get your wish. Assuming 4chan can survive on such throttled traffic.
>>726129948Weeaboo never meant anything. Nobody EVER uses wapanese anymore.
>>726127549I've been to a lot of them since 2015, but most of them are active for a few months or year, then they go completely dead. Not to mention some sites on neocities since 2021 are trying too hard to be the epic 2000's website (so must of them are copycat of other site on neocities) and are dead by the end of the year. You also don't revive something that never died. Tumblr was a good blend of personalisable page and social media until 2017 or 2018 porn ban made a lot of people .
>>726130260i can't but wonder if whores were unironically great and the best way to lose your virginity, but i missed out
>>726130001isn't that most boards? Are any trending upward?
>>726130350I'm 40. When I was their age we were making Buffalo Bill jokes about trannies. But to be fair, a lot of the pro-trans shit also comes from Millennials with terminal cases of troll's remorse. You also know them as Redditors.
>>726130001Niche boards died because of the heavy user bleed that characterized gamergate combined with the influx of users who only played video games / talked about politics.No point to /cgl/ when all it is is just the same ten or so guys doing the same convention runs every year.That's why they all moved to discords or just have each other's phone numbers.
>>726129375This. Also, less users means less advertising bucks so jannies will need to be purged to cut costs.
>>726130419Just go to Japan bro
>>726129102>I could draw or edit some meme but it'll get lost by the end of the day.You just missed out on Queen of /v/ and the tremendous amount of OC it generated.>I could make some music but nobody will listen.I just downloaded all /v/TM albums over the last week>if I make something so that other people can have fun with what I made>and nobody even tries to have fun with it>then why bother?it sounds to me like you are the one who doesn't try to have fun
>>726129017don't bully aspie
>>726129581Reincarnation without retained memory is in practice the same thing as complete death. If reincarnation is real, and you've already been through it, then that means those previous lives may as well not have existed at all, because you don't remember any of them and likewise your next incarnation won't remember you or anything other than his own existence
>>726130608I've avoided poll/tourney threads ever since /v/ cucked out at the last minute during Bub and Bob.Had I known some real OC was going on, I'd have checked out Queen of /v/.
>ima not neewbag im le bold
>>726128169>Already on it.post ur handle nerd lol
>>726129118I've found that the schizos of today are usually mexican or seaBack in 2007 we had mostly white nerd autists
>>726129375so a bunch of 50 years old alternating posts that try to replicate threads from 20 years ago and posts about back pain and how the job sucks? because that's what usenet and IRC and forums are now.>We'll have our old 4chan back then.You never will because a young userbase was essential to that, and i'm not even mentioning slow internet speed and slow computers.
>>726130482Forgot to include it, but /cgl/ is at its lowest year yet (again) with only 19,836 posts so far. The only major convention left in the year is, of course, winter comiket which bleeds into January, so this year will probably top out at around 24K posts or a decline of 50%. Not many big cons were missed in April during the hack as well. I recall Anime North 2025 being active on /cgl/ for that weekend, and that's the biggest spring convention really, so it really is just the board dying out.
>>726124249>posts quality used to be higher because crap threads disappeared fast.No people actually used to sage threads or shit up offtopic threads with rollan
>>726130802don't miss King in December then, faggot
>You'll never can go back to the times of Unreal tournament 2000 in a Adolf Hitler Skin with a massive raging cock together with friends with the Stranglove mod riding nukes
>>726131000Dubs were used as a downvote to spam threads Someone Didn't Like. Dubs was newfag shit.
>>726129118>but he wasn't a complete autistic dumbass that took everything literally.There was 1 guy, the guy that stole his sister panties or something like that and he kept repeating the same thing over and over.
>>726130929I feel like conventions/events are dying in general
>>726131000>No people actually used to sage threads or shit up offtopic threads with rollanThat just proves my point further, things used to be better.
>>726121519>that increase during trump's first termNo need to thank him
>>726130929How do people come up with this shit
>>726130597the older i get, the more i realize i probably should.
>>726129629>>726129581>>726130771Good morning. 1 life, No continues. Memento Mori :^)
>>726131020F-fine! I wont!
>>726130608The art in the Queen thread was really great.Just keep in mind that the mods even wanted to ban those because they consider it metaposting.
>>726131128Nah, they aren't, it's just nobody on 4chan does them, and the few who do (outside the old groups that still sometimes post on /cgl/) don't really get them.Like, I saw one schizo who thought conventions were a place for deep discussion or something, it was pretty funny. Conventions are largely for>finding indie artists >sex with overweight 4/10s while drunk>the inevitable parking lot meetup/party >a few good panels>the R18 vendors>the lingering few decent vendors with shit you want>if it's a big one like Anime NYC, Anime Boston, NYCC, SDCC, the big events where they show new things (if you're dumb enough to book a ticket for those half a year in advance)>the secret 'dealers' at the aforementioned parking lot meetups
>normalfags ITT actually have the audacity to talk down to autists who made this site and kept it running in spite of them after all this time>actually having a normalfag circlejerk about itYou forgot who your superiors are, normgroids
>>726131402See that's what's the crux of the issue here. Actual constructive behavior gets fucking attacked by the mods while the filth is left to fester.
>>726131341Yeah, that's pretty much what I said
>>726131341>i hold all the answers in life give me attentiondoesn't matter what comes after, you are still a gaylord
>here lies anon>he was a gaylord
>>726113617This is truly peak.I would add that increased corporate bureaucracy when they realized the potential also contributed the decline. Instead of making something with passion that might be niche, they try to just make everything 'ok' enough to make enough people buy their games, dlc, and microtransactions. The Madden series in general is a pretty good barometer of where the industry is at as a whole I think.
One of the things that I've come to be acutely aware of on /v/ these days is that threads will have a moment where they suddenly slow down/die at around 300 posts. It's as if a lot of people around here don't realize that on -this- board, the autosage doesn't happen until 500 posts.
>>726124343They're not decent anymore. They keep up moralfag threads crying about loli, they keep up the recent trend of aislop evangelist threads, and they keep up generals like /dbs/. >>726124508A lot of us speaking for 8ch specifically either came back here, went to discord servers with likeminded people, or went into super secret TOR bunkers after Jimbo Watkins killed the site to cater to Qboomers. It's even harder now to get an alternate set up because it'll get spammed with cp and raids to get the owners in legal trouble and force a shutdown.>You people did a very poor job of archiving the old cultureIt's hard to do that when the moderation will ban you for trying to enforce or utilize old culture. It's been brought up countless times in these pseudometa threads how just trying to have a drawthread or posting newly made OC gets you fucked, all while the 550 reply thread about current politics is left untouched except to ban users who are vocally against whatever stance /pol/ is forcing. Just having an empty newline between paragraphs is enough to get newfags screeching about "reddit spacing". The old Metal Gear thread from that screenshot? Were someone to try making a thread like that today, it would be nuked from orbit after a bunch of newfags got their ritualistic "this is reddit go back tranny" posts out of the way. An anime image alone is enough to trigger them into screeching about trannies. Everything is about whatever current unperson group is popular to go after, and everyone who disagrees with the newfag hivemind is simultaneously a federal agent, a jew, black, gay, trans, and indian. It's scarcely possible to have a real human conversation anymore, and things are enforced in such a way to keep things at this level or worse.
>>726124162Holy shit I just realized with the downfall of /b/ that means that all the people that shit up boards have no place to go so they migrate here and others
>>726129337I was playing Castlevania Belmont's Revenge recently and while looking for help found some ancient boards right out of the late 90's early 2000's with a walkthrough by some autistic French guy who seemed like a nice guy, and hasn't posted since 2019, and I was filled with an indescribable sadness and longing https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=83165
>>726131593das rite
>>726131726Dude, /b/ hasn't been the "gateway board" (anon's first board that they visit before migrating through the rest of the website) longer than it ever was./v/ and /pol/ regularly compete for the most active board, barring outlying events.
>>726129337I used to check and read old threads talking about wargear on the Relic Forums every time I re-played Dawn of War 2 + Chaos Rising. Had to save two or three to my computer cause they shut them down.C&C3 / RA3 also had incredibly useful forums I used to read in 2010 but those also got removed.I don't understand why, can't these companies spare a 30$/month VPS, the $200 a year for the vBulletin license, and two guys in different timezones whose jobs is to manage the servers and look at them regularly to prevent spam (and looking at new posts can be automated with RSS)? Shit I already do that on my own sites, as a hobby.
>>726131436>fat 4/10sWhy not skinny 6/10s anon
>>726131721>and they keep up generals like /dbs/./dbs/ is fucking dead man.It has one thread up, yeah, but those threads last three days instead of three hours now. The mods killed it.
>>726130573>Also, less users means less advertising bucks so jannies will need to be purged to cut costs.
>>726131436>>the secret 'dealers' at the aforementioned parking lot meetupsTell me more...
>>726131990Those faggots at /a/ can never look their noses down at us ever again now that /dbs/ was a thing. Fuck those stupid up niggers.
>>726132139They can actually, since /dbs/ was entirely a /v/ colony and only cameabout after most of /a/'s userbase had already left.
>>726113494I didn't know that /s/ went that far back.
>>726130573>We gotta cut your wages 300% jannies
>>726131975hush woman don't ruin it
>>726114328>muh you just were a kid and it’s nostalgia argumentthese type of arguments are so disingenuous. genuinely look how much the game industry was rapidly innovating year over year back then. you really saw a true variety of games even if some where shit. now what? the innovation now is how they can jew the playerbase more and more. its fucking disgusting fags like you just ignore this and think the past had nothing special. sure today has special things here and there but the majority of the industry is jew ridden shit hidden behind the veil of “gaming”
>>726130898>so a bunch of 50 years old alternating posts that try to replicate threads from 20 years ago and posts about back pain and how the job sucks? because that's what usenet and IRC and forums are now.Shit that's also what altchans are.
>>726131721This. I'm starting to think that if it isn't feds or corporate interests doing it, it's discord groups moving in packs to mass report shit for kicks, and most forum moderators simply work on volume of reports rather than quality.
>>726127482No, it's off topic schizo shit that has no reason to be on /x/. /x/ is for PARANORMAL topics. Ghosts, aliens, cryptids, the shit you'd hear on Art Bell. Soimen Retention is just nofap cultist shit and belongs on something like /b/ along with the gangstalking threads and the rest of the botted schizo spam.
>>726113494worse until the late 00s when indie games became a thing.
>>726132189Genuinely odd since /v/ is almost always a better place to discuss /a/ topics than /a/ and especially for dragon ball
>>726132189No, fuck that. You can't blame us for everything you fags.
>>726113617Took the words right outta my mouth
>>726113617>no PSOYou're a fucking faggot I want to kick your head in
another meta thread devolves into normalfag circlejerking. as is da law.
>>726131436As a sperg I thought cons were a way to make new friends in a fan group you didn't already have friends in and not just a way to hang out with the friends you already have in a fan group
>>726113617
>>726114868/c/ has always been trash huh. Glad /l/ died too >>726116170>namefagsattention whoring on an anonymous imageboard is a new low
>>726128751If you like that gay shit, you're a mentally ill freak like troons. Simple as.
Seriously, why are there so many old people here? I always assumed that most of the posters here would be between the ages of 18-21. I'm 19 and if I saw myself posting past the age of 21 I would kill myself, so I can't imagine all these guys in their mid 20s and 30s using this website and feeling okay about it.
>>726132559This is a millennial site. Go to a site for your generation i.e. Reddit.
>>726132342>since /v/ is almost always a better place to discuss /a/ topics than /a/That's only because /v/ only talks about the same 20 or so normalfag anime every single time, whereas all those topics were worn out years ago on /a/.
>>726128370>>726128690>>726128649Make OC. It's not that hard. It's 4chan, not twitter. You don't make it in hopes of going viral and getting attention, you make it to make it. And I mean make OC, not just 'shop a hat onto a wojak.
>>726131726Yeah, man.Why do you think /v/ is filled with meta threads and blog posting? It's the new /b/. I really wish the mods would purge /b/ of the porn.
>>726132617>responding to blatant newfaggotry
>>726132559>I'm 19 and if I saw myself posting past the age of 21 I would kill myselfEveryone thought that, you're simply not old enough.
>>726132559you're 27
>>726132626Couldn't be more wrong, you old stuck up twat.
>>726131402>>726131496That's why I don't spend much time on /v/.Hell, even my current "home" is degrading at fast pace. (And it won't be the first one to die/become a shell of its former self.)Main-ing one website in the modern wasteland of the internet doesn't make much sense.>>726129102>I could draw or edit some meme but it'll get lost by the end of the day.You are doing it wrong. Internet is in the moment, not to be reposted.Rage comics were fun.Rare pepes were fun in the first week/month.Feels good man felt good.Look at what they are all now, what is their legacy. Do you want your OC to live forever like that?Or do you want to laugh at 7 lines, even if they won't carry the context nor won't have the meaning to the newfag of tomorrow?/v/ is lots of fun, if you want to find fun and have fun. It's out there, right now.What the fuck am I doing in this garbage thread anyway? Reading anons bitching about not having fun is not what I'm here for.
>>726114328>sheltered in my little bubbleTell us how it's a bad thing to be sheltered from the influence of juice
>>726132559People who were 18 in 2003 are now 40.
>>726132767Pretty much every anime thread on /v/ is either about the most popular current battle anime or about shit that was extremely popular and spammed 15-20 years ago. Hell, /v/ still has daily Naruto threads. That's the baseline of /v/'s anime discussion.
>>726113494>Was gaming better in the early 2000souter wilds didnt exist in the early 2000s so no
>>726132626/lit/ does the same.
>>726132965>a game that could be ported on a ps1 lol lmao roflcopter
>>726132559>I always assumed that most of the posters here would be between the ages of 18-21That was probably true a long time ago but the new blood is running dry. The old userbase is just getting crankier and more jaded as the years go by.>>726132617Reddit is also a Millennial site, where do you think all those pictures of Millennials opening their mouth over the new Star Wars/Nintendo product came from?
>>726132769>You are doing it wrong. Internet is in the moment, not to be reposted.Not true, one of the rules of the internet is that every post is a repost, and new content is new for 5 seconds and then either gets old and forgotten (if it is bad content) or gets reposted (if it is good content).By extension; archiving everything utterly ruined this.
>>726132940LoGH belongs to /pol/. Or at least it used to during better times.And no, I still disagree with your assertion. That applies more to the never-ending TES and White Wolf lore dump threads. I haven't seen a Naruto thread on this site in years.
>>726133105what are u even talking about anon
>>726131721>keep up generals like /dbs/dbs/ died, tried to posses the death battle general, and got pseudosealed inside of it as a good chunk of the population will shit on attention whores (to a fault most of the time)
>>726133121>where do you think all those pictures of Millennials opening their mouth over the new Star Wars/Nintendo product came from?Star Wars and Nintendo got a shit ton of new fans in the 00s due to the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars cartoons, and the Wii/DS/3DS (which also started the virtual console libraries where you could play SNES titles).
>>726123002>literally politics everywhere nowadays so it has become a political websiteThat's a major issue affecting everything.>"We at [hobby & media Inc.] are moving in the direction of [art, concepts, & quality our audience hates] because of [political trend] sponsored by [formerly-laughable conspiracy Co.]. We hope you continue to invest your time and money into us. Thank you."The internet makes it easier to sleuth the causes of these changes, so people will discuss why their hobby is declining. Even looking at >>726113617 , these are all games that continue to be discussed to this day because of how stellar they are. Without games that cement themselves as cultural icons like them, there isn't much constructive discussion to be had.>What about Notch, ConcernedApe, and other 4chan developers?Not everyone's game will appeal to everyone on the board. Most anons will have at least tried their games, but discussion will peter out eventually.The internet is a reflection of real life, so I cannot imagine it will improve until irl non-fed action is taken (or the economy collapses over the next Shemitah year or two).
>>726132965I agree with you to some extent. I think a lot of the best games ever were made in the last ten years, but we've also lost a lot of AA devs who made console libraries very interesting. I think the downfall of Japanese game dev is partly to blame. There was a lot of innovation and simple weirdness coming from the nips. It doesn't happen anymore because everything is owned by two or three large companies.
>>726133161>LoGH belongs to /pol/. Or at least it used to during better times.No, it really doesn't. >And no, I still disagree with your assertion. That applies more to the never-ending TES and White Wolf lore dump threads.That's completely unrelated and doesn't actually say anything against what I'm saying. /v/ does not actually discuss anime beyond supremely normalfag shit. You can't disprove that, and based on the direction this is going, you never will.>I haven't seen a Naruto thread on this site in years.There have been 175 threads on /v/ with Naruto in the thread body.14 with Naruto in the subject.22 with Naruto in the filename.Thus, yeah, it's still near daily Naruto threads here.
>>726133250I just think it's funny to think that outer wilds couldn't be done in the early 00's and you almost say the 00's weren't as good as of now because you play a pseudo ps1 game in fucking 2025.Do you not see the irony? Yes, games were better then than now.
>>726133432>No, it really doesn't.Yes, it does. I will die on this hill. /pol/ LoGH threads prior to Gamergate were peak.
>>726133476yes anon, because outer wilds really is inspired by ps1 games, holy american brain infested with 4k graphics
>>726133510>peaktotal zoomer death.
>>726133432Yeah well you can't fucking prove that /v/ does only discuss "normalfagshit" so fuck off asshole.
>>726133476Do you know what a PS1 game is?
>>726133161>I haven't seen a Naruto thread on this site in yearsLurk a lot moar and stop making up blatant lies.
>>726131294Transexualism
>>726130608I genuinely did miss out on queen of /v/. I was off of 4 for a good year or two and just started opening /v/ again last week>it sounds to me like you are the one who doesn't try to have fun>>726132769>Internet is in the moment, not to be repostedIsn't this the current problem with the internet? Everything is for right now so nobody cares how good it is or if its actually fun or if its cancerous garbage. I make the draw because I know if I make the draw today then a week from now somebody will be like "oh hey remember this draw from a week ago" and that'd be cool Whereas I shitpost because I want to have fun RIGHT NOW and the most immediate visceral way to kinda sorta have fun is to throw out garbage to get an emotional reaction from somebody.If I want to have fun and I don't care about what other people think or don't need other people to participate then I'll just do something alone. I don't know why I would spend effort on something for here specifically if nobody will care when I can have more fun spending the same effort on something just for me. I'm not going to bake you a cake if you aren't going to eat it. If you aren't going to eat it I'll just make myself some cookies since I'd rather eat that.
>>726133121>The old userbase is just getting crankier and more jaded as the years go by. Is this really the case? I've just mellowed out with age. I think most of the really angry culture warriors are a lot younger than me.
>>726133579Poor widdle oldcuck has to deal with new slang, now you know how boomers feel about all your retarded jargon from the 90s and 1337 speak.
>>726133567resolution =\= graphicsYou can have 4k textures in fucking skyrim(PC) a 2011 game on the ps3.
>>726133715Quake 2 and Warcraft2 :^)
>>726133883Everyone's picking up zoomer lingo except the boomers, it seems.
>>726133319>>726131990The damage is still there. Half the board that isn't just ritualistic waifuposting, such as elfcunts making garbage like that isekai Sunrise degraded itself to making look "popular" by dumping images of the retarded elf character is full of garbage shounen like JJK and Chainsoi Man with the same DBS/console war tier rival shitposting.
>>726133510LotGH discussions on /pol/ was a facsimile of what had already occurred years prior. It wasn't some niche anime only /pol/ understood, it was in aniDB's Top 10 for ages.>>726133596The, at the very least, 175 Naruto threads THIS YEAR does prove that actually. What's the baseline for "non-normalfag anime"? Here's some "anime classics" I guess and their /v/ archive results for 2025.>Anne of Green Gables21 posts>Nobody's Boy Remi2 posts. >Ashita no Joe72 posts.>Gegege no Kitaro9 posts.>Ojamajo Doremi25 posts.>Aim for the Ace27 posts, and most of them are just posts that contain those words.>Urusei Yatsura57 posts.>Zero no Tsukaima29 posts.Meanwhile, if I type in Naruto, for just THIS YEAR, I get 6755 posts.
>>726123570/v/ lost gamergatepolitics should stay out of hobby discussions
I think things getting worse is beneficial. Since everything good requires time, skill and effort to do, but everything bad pretty much occurs by itself, you may conclude that the natural state of things in this world is bad, crap, evil or whatever you want to call. And so everything becoming worse is the same as everything becoming it’s true, natural self. Thanks to it, people may clearly and easily see the world for what it truly is and has always been - an irredeemable piece of shit that naturally rejects anything good.
>>726134029Nobody cares, you twatty little asshole.Go fuck yourself and go back to your gay little board. This exact behavior is why that other anon was right when he said that /v/ has better anime threads than /a/. /v/irgins are more down to earth when it comes to anime, whereas you fags were always snooty as shit. Imagine acting like hot shit over a hobby that's essentially just passively consuming media.
>>726134461You're having some kind of spazzout when I'm just stating the obvious- the anime /v/ talks about are just normalfag anime that already got discussed to death elsewhere, ESPECIALLY on /a/.People don't talk about Naruto anymore because it was a current series for the majority of /a/'s existence. That's why any /a/ Naruto thread is just shitposters, but on /v/ you retards treat it like the fucking bible. That's why you can't even SAY any anime that /v/ discusses "better than /a/", because you know I'm right, and you saying what those anime are would prove me right.
>>726134249Politics should stay out of hobbies, period. Sadly we've lost that. And to say /v/ lost gamergate is a misnomer. Everyone lost. Because all niche nerd hobbies are fucking destroyed by politics.
>>726133883>1337 speakThat used to seem the tightest shit, it took Megatokyo to make me reconsider.
>>726134452Good things always came with effort exactly because the world is normally shit for us. It's not like aliens taught us how to use fire. And it's not like Altman or any other alien-wannabe is helping this effort either.
>>726134452You should read Schopenhauer.
BRING BACK /dis/ & /sug/!!!
>>726132559Am the same age as you. The Oldfags are completely right about 4chan and other social media platforms. Normies went and fucked every form of "nerd" culture and pushed goysl0p down our throats.Still hate oldfags for not gatekeeping the troons out. Tranime his destroyed the anime community like what crack did to the blacks in the 1980s and 1990s
>>726123264/a/ has been trash since it was filled with daily dumpster spam chapter threads and every other thread has been nothing but inorganic shilling for trash seasonals and negative criticism is suppressed by faggots paid or otherwise>>726123870t.Industry Shill Defence Forcetotal ISDF death
>>726134860Luck Star was truly the end of good anime and the bringing of the tranime fad. Sad.
>>726134860Gatekeeping is a meme.Want to know who gatekept? /a/ and /g/. Look at the good it did them. Old /a/ fucked off, and left nobody behind that knew how to behave properly./g/ chased off all new blood with impossible to meet standards of admittance and now it's insular and the remaining population is going crazy. Just look at /pcbg/ for a good example of what a tumor that place is now.
>>726134918>t.Industry Shill Defence ForceNo I just actually watch anime.The quality of most shows is the same as it ever was. Sometimes its better, sometimes its worse, but very little has really changed.As for translation, I'd love it if people raised actual examples aside from the same five or so anime ones (most from over a decade ago at this point, and primarily from dubs which are ultimately irrelevant) before immediately descending into video game examples. That's the issue with those threads, they're not about anime. They're about video games.
>>726127048>emptyI call it sanitised. Every kind of fun gets either quenched in the bud or ridden to death within the hour since everyone smells a couple more cents to make with new "content". Even if it starts organic, it stops being it the moment the fist "content creator" gets a whiff of it.Being able to make money with youtube and twitter has been a disaster.
>>726134860>Tranime his destroyed the animegrandpa had a stroke
>>726135020lucky star was always overrated, even at the time. i will die on this hill.
>>726135059FUCK OFF BACK TO YOUR BOARD
>>726113494I miss my friends, I should've been a better person to them.
>>726116170All raped and killed permanently and irreversibly.
>>72611361797-98 back-to-back was so wonderful
>>726135059>The quality of most shows is the same as it ever was.Not with the absolute state of censorship, you're not fooling anybody.
>>726134029I agree with the statement that Naruto ruined /a/ but not because of it weight alone but because it opened the gates to spicfags and their One Piece and DBZ generals.
>>726134860>>726135126The site was created to talk about anime and weeb culture, if you don't like it why are you here? You obviously don't fit. Catalogue is full of anime 24/7
>>726134918>>726135059Translation threads seem particularly tarded in current year given old weebs had to deal with dumber TLs or TL shit themselves.Whiners could learn nip and start their own fansub groups or retranslation modding groups but instead they just bitch.
>>726135201It's crazy how Square at the time was so strong, but then so dead after that flop that was The Spirits Within.>Final Fantasy VII>Saga Frontier>Final Fantasy Tactics>Parasite Eve>Bushido Blade>Xenogears>all within 1 year of one another
You should see the absolute state of /pw/ if people thinks /v/ is the worse. Weebs and simps ruin everywhere they go and that's not a joke.It's like gaynime bullshit that shouldn't be on /v/ or religionfags that shouldn't be on /pol/.
>>726135059>akctually I heckin love derivative run-of-the-mill isekai/romcom/yuri/yaoi/moe/shounensloppa that people will forget the minute the last episode ends
>>726135338>all released within a year or so*I should have said. Getting tired.
>>726135297This isn't 2003 and that culture is long gone, nowadays it's just zoomers avatarfagging as anime girls making off-topic garbage here.
>>726135265>muh censorshipPetition the japanese government to lessen restrictions on what content can be aired on television if you care so much. You won't. Most shows can't show your precious nipples because the TV standards aren't as lax as they used to be, not because boogeyman mcfaggot wanted to spite (You) specifically.
anime always had a lot of shitty or boring shows, a lot. people seem incapable of understanding this and just think anything they have nostalgia for or anything cel animated is a 10/10.
>>7261348604chan is now 2010s reddit, it was inevitable. You can't gatekeep if you can't post gatekeeping material. Hell you can't even self moderate anymore. All you can do is watch in horror
>>726135497I never asked for you opinion or your delusions. If you don't like weeb culture and anime you shouldn't be here, the catalogue is full of anime 24/7
>>726135126Yeah my spelling is bad but atleast you know it's a human being and not some AI chatbot talking.
>>726134918>total ISDF deathI remember that brand fanboys were always a thing. But can anyone tell me when we started having industry fanboys? Vidya has the same exact problem: no matter how much you point out that things are bad, some cunt is going to show up and "Nope" at you for hours. For what purpose.>>726135398I want Crunchyroll to die so bad.
>>726135497I like these retards because it's faster to hide the threads lmao. I judge a thread by the OP's alone, sometimes i hide it by instinct based on pic posted.
>>726135602>delusionsYou just have to check one of those threads and see it yourself if you're curious, and no it actually isn't. If your kind talked about videogames you wouldn't even be disliked here.
>>726135297what if i like anime but hate weeb culture
>>726135745Stop being fucking retarded. Idiots like you will tank an on-topic thread just because someone used an anime reaction image while still posting on topic.You're the cancer. You always were.
>>726135692A good guideline for filtering is>twitter or reddit screenshot (bonus points if it's a phone screenshot)>pic from a FOTM show OP is baiting people into talking about>pic of a girl from an isekai anime (aqua etc)>anything involving culture war outrage bait (i.e. trump halo shit)
>>726135172You're so mad. >>726135265Most censorship is about the same as it was 20 years ago aside from nipples and panties, but that's on Japanese broadcasters. Ranma has tons of full frontal nudity but they're just not allowed to draw nipples because of its broadcaster. Shit sucks, but most 2000s anime dealt with the image getting fucked by dimming and having to hide most instances of blood or smoking (if they weren't omitted entirely) so it tends to balance out.>>726135398That's not a new thing, that's just most anime in general.Like, are you going to call 1993's Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai a genuinely memorable anime? 1980's Space Emperor God Sigma? 1969's Attack No. 1? 1975's Umi no Triton? If you go back to the 70s and 80s, you'll see a lot of the best shows got cancelled. Ideon and Baldios were the best mecha anime of the early 80s and BOTH got cancelled and rushed into pretty shit endings for a weekly viewing audience. You want to know what got fucking EXTENDED air time though, that same year? Muteking, a pretty ugly but well animated anime intended probably primarily for export, about a kid rollerblading to fight octopus aliens, and it has no story beyond just advertising the robot toys and probably the rollerblades.While Legend of the Galactic Heroes was STRUGGLING to even make its first 26 episodes, they literally begged at the end of the LDs for more money, Megazone 23 III got made. One of the worst sequels I have ever seen, that is already following up a pretty shit anime, Megazone 23 Part 2. Hell, look at the 90s and how every Gundam anime was a derivative pile of shit that said nothing new and wasted everyone's time. There's always bad shit dude, bad shit that gets forgotten until someone brings it up 30 years later because now it can be seen as an oddity for its staff or its brand name.
>>7261215194chan has been loosing people since 2022.The hack worsened things, people left because it was clearly shown site owners dont care.Funny how more people online than ever before, but, less people on 4chan.
>>726135873No, that's clearly not true and let me show an example.https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/726104595/Do you think this thread is about videogames?
>>726132686There was an attempt for like, two days some years ago by simply visibly banning every single porn thread OP (but not actually deleting the threads, probably in the vain hope this would prevent new ones from being spammed). I assume it was literally one mod trying to make it his crusade and giving up once it became obvious it was an impossible task without all hands on deck.
>>726134847I've already read plenty of Schopenhauer and I think more people should do the same.
>>726136020Fuck off, retard. It's 100% truth. You dipshits will derail entire threads because someone posts an anime girl reaction image.
>>726135959There's quite a bit more bad shit now than ever.
>>726113494Imagine no MTXImagine no invasive DRMImagine not every game being a console portImagine no browns everywhereYes, it was better.
>>726135959>>726135528>i-it's the same if we disregard the most important partsretard
>>726135873Not him but you're wrong. OP's pic make the thread in MOST CASES. I just hide your trash and move on.>>726135958Rarely, you get vidya news from a dev on twatter though. Don't forget e-celeb shit and wojak/pepe spam threads.I don't use filters, i do it manually. Archaic way to do it but what if in the 1% chance a good thread is filtered.
>>726136149Was that thread about videogames or not? Look at the replies, none of them talk about videogames, they just post about their tr/an/i.meslop
>>726114258There were no culture wars back then. No trannies, no BLM. It was better by default.
>>726123093Do co and trash next
>>726136385>>726136285You're both wrong, and intentionally being disingenuous. You know precisely what behavior I'm referring to. This is just purposeful trolling on your part.
>>726136169That's just because there's more anime, but there is more good anime NOW than there was back then in turn.Like 20 years ago in Fall 2005, there was some good anime. Akagi, ARIA, Mushishi, Shana, Mai-otome, but that's really it, and a lot of that still got buried under longruning battle anime, I believe Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, and Gash Bell were airing by that point, among many others, and 2005 also saw the release of some pretty bad shit, Hunter x Hunter GI Final still lives in my mind as the biggest waste of money on imports I have ever committed to, it was that bad. >>726136243I didn't disregard anything.
>>726136385It was obviously a meta thread based on the OP's pic alone. Put some glasses on.>>726136479Uh uh. Who's to say that you aren't?
>>726136438>There were no culture wars back then
>>726121519The namefags got old and started raising families. The drawfags got old and started Patreons
>>726123093>6+>40->actual dead boards like /cgl/ /ic/ /i/damn
>>726136559Fuck off sharty.
>>726136563There was but it wasn't remotely as pervasive as it is now
>>726135338We were eatin' good. Now they're the butt of every joke, and deservedly so.
>>726136507>aside from
The freedom of 4chan will never return because then we could talk about naughty things like certain flight logs or corruption in everything.Most importantly, we could be free and mind our own business without constantly being dragged back into the normalfag us vs them.
>>726136479>someone makes an off-topic thread with a t.ran.ime reaction image>retarded newfag weebs come in and talk about how they want to have sex with the girl in the image and/or talk about the show she's from rather than videogamesIf you actually made any thread that was related to vidya, this would not happen and I'm sure "tranime" spam would stop too.
>>726136637I've seen political posting as far back as 2008 here. I remember there being a lot of anti-libertarian memes being thrown about because of the "ron paul, /b/!" thing that moot did.
>>726136694>balances out
>>726134461>other anonUH OH NEWFAG THREW A TANTRUM BAWWWWWWW
>>726136563Politicians and soccer moms cracked down on games but it wasn't a culture war. It was a generational battle. Old generation vs new.
>>726113494yesanything else is just braindead users, bots or astroturfers who want to sink this notion
>>726136618Who? Are those the faggots who made Hiro shut down /qa/? I have nothing to do with that double retard.
>>726136790Actually it was the old school progressives doing it. So it kinda was a culture war thing back then.
>>7261367184chan freedom will never return because the place is flooded with fucking retards. All you need is text to start having fun but newfags are literal troglodytes
>>726129432Post with tripcode so I can call you a tripfag plox
>>726113617FpbpEverything got dumbed down so retarded niggercattle could use it and be profited from
>>726136939Anon... those old trips are gone forever... when 4chan came back after the hack, all the tripcode hashes changed.
>>726113494Better than today? Sure, if only because everything wasnt gacha or gay slop. But it wasn't the best era for sure. Early 3D was kind of dogshit. I much prefer SNES to N64 personally. Now late 2000s until the woke era was kino
>>726136892The MK and nighttrap hearings were bipartisan, unfortunately. Conservatives hated the "filth" in those games and the old proggies didn't like that you were doing weird shit to chicks
Does anyone know what happened to 8kun? Did it officially die a few months ago?
>lolikon>kon
>>726113617The golden age of gaming. Glad I got to experience it.
>>726137201Nobody really gives a shit about 8kun, nor should anyone care about it, but no, it's alive.Barely breathing, but alive.It should tell you a lot that it has gotten "339 posts" in the last hour, and /qresearch/ has a PPH of 267. The rest are probably spam bots.
>>726137003The hash may have changed, but if you get the characters in verbatim it still counts in my book
>>726137250>loli k-on
>>726137143Yeah, but the major names involved in it all were all Democrat. People who weren't around back then, or were very young also often forget that this was when Democrat progressives were about fixing society through laws that limited bad behavior, and used to consider homosexuality immoral. Moral Majority types loved that kind shit, so they liked Democrats back then. The important thing to remember is that it's not supposed to be viewed through the same lens as modern politics, because the parties back then were vastly different than they are today.
>>726137428Different URL?Tried the one I had a few months ago it didnt work
6th gen was the last era before the rot really set in
>>726131721>It's even harder now to get an alternate set up because it'll get spammed with cp and raids to get the owners in legal trouble and force a shutdown.I heard that 8moe banned Israel after they kept getting peppered by CP from Israel IPs and they found they had no legitimate Israeli users. Which just sounds like good practice honestly.
>>726137576Still the same one its always been, just takes a while to load it seems. Watkins only uses it to make money off of Qboomers, so it's not gonna be that maintained.
>>7261376764chan without South America, India, Israel, and Canada would be a much better place.
>>726131721In the end 4chan died because of incompetent mods who refuse to do their jobs and moderate. They stopped caring and thus let the rot fester and there's no going back from this as everyone slowly leaves with the memories they made before.
interesting thread, this almost feels like mods asking us how the fuck we go about saving the site. Seeing the statistics about just how fast we're bleeding users is fascinating, you can really see where other social media platforms got big and overtook everything else.The Answer: We do not. Let it rot, it was nice while it lasted but hasn't been worth saving for a very long time. I'd post a related image if i didn't wake up under a range ban for some reason.
>>726137497Reminder that the Democrat party was opposed to gay marriage in the early 2000s
>>726137745>>726137676Just ban the turd world. We really don't need them.
>>726137469I can get behind that.
>>726130597I should have done it like a decade ago man
>>726137764That's still /v/'s fault thoughbeit.GG was basically a loud statement of intent that mods and jannies shouldn't be involved with the site, and the result of them doing their jobs was everyone getting doxx'd until moot left.
>>726137786Be careful of what you wish for american.
>>726114868>Back when people weren't afraid to talk on /c//a/ was the beginning of the end
>>726137784Indeed they were. They love to throw the party swap on Nixon, but in reality it was Clinton that caused the major shifts to occur. The Republicans only got huge with Christians because Bill got his dick sucked and it became a major news story.Snooty puritan Christian types were a huge voting bloc back then, and they thought the 90s was disgustingly sleazy, and ended up blaming Clinton for it. Once losing them the Democrats had to find new support and they got it from cosmopolitan shitlibs and LGBT.
>>726129218There is just so much mods can do, eventually a board or general has so many schizos that banning them becomes unfeasible because they have become the main drivers of posting. /vt/ is a pretty good example of this. It became in a relative short time the hub of english vtubing and also one of the fastest boards on 4chan. Initially the schizos were part of the charm, since their craziness made discussions about anime girls more interesting, however eventually the board started to accumulated just too many of them and every general turned into schizophrenic screeching, dox posting and deranged spam. When the hack happened people found better places to talk about vtubers, so post hack the board permanently lost like 3/4th of its traffic. The schizo situation is worse than ever but mods don't even bother to ban them anymore because they are the ones driving the traffic, without them you might as well delete the board. It's basically 4chan's history in a nutshell and it doesn't look like there is any fixing it.
>>726137745What's wrong with Canada?
>>726137930All moot and the mods had to do was let the ggfags have a thread to discuss their happening on. It was them trying to silence it that caused the blowback. Moot made things worse by being a faggot.
>>726124162logposting on /b/ is maybe my least favorite part of this website
>>726138115I can't tell if that's a serious question or not
>>726138150If 4chan had gotten any kind of lawsuit, even a winnable one, because of GG, the site would've shut down at that point. That was publicly stated several times.
>>726138272Serious.
>>726137967American website turdie.
>>726138115Canada and Australia had many shitposters back then on /pol/. Anyone mentioning nations on a 100% anonymous board like /v/ is from /pol/ or shitposting.
>>7261382834chan would have never gotten a lawsuit over GG. Moot was trying to ingratiate himself with the same crew that Anita was running with because he wanted off this rock.
>>726113494Everyone is very pessimtic about modern gaming but modding and emulation are really the crown jewels of gaming. Increasing the resolution of old games on a PC is better (imo) than any old console experience or having fun modding Morrowind on OpenMW.Modern AAA Gaming might be dead but who really cares?
>>726138383Canadians are the lowest quality posters on this site. They're also viciously unfunny and a major source of the bitching about Americans thread derailments.
>>726138476>4chan would have never gotten a lawsuit over GG.The chance was there as the entire discussion was around how much dick a chick was taking, and later spiraled into doxxing and harassment.
>>726138107Excellent example. Mentally ill schizos should be in an asylum somewhere locked up, not being given internet access and pushing their mental illness on everyone else. It's extremely easy to filter out these people on normal websites because you can ban them, block them and have them be destroyed by the algorithm but on 4chan everyone gets and equal voice and schizos are insane and awake 24/7 which gives them a more equal voice compared to anyone else. I also remember a screencap where a schizo completely replied to themselves nonstop on the other chan during the site being down and was easily caught due to IDs and such. In the end 4chan needs to be updated with modern tools and abilities for each user to filter out the crazies and for mods to care more. Alas, the only way to save yourself from escaping this site that's continuously being run by the inmates is to just move on elsewhere.
>>726129218>>726138107Mods are shitting up the boards just as much as some schizos, stop pretending you aren't aware of this. /v/ of all places is especially bad in that regard, just look at the Aquafag who pins his own stolen jokes for (You)'sEven if there are some theoretical "good mods" who want to make this place better, they work with absolute subhumans who don't. This place is just going to get worse until its completely dead
>>726137745
>>726138150>have a thread to discuss their happening onyou faggots couldn't keep it your threads.
>>726138456Well yeah, a turd world website, by turd worlders for turd worlders.Therefore banning youself would be counter-intuitive.
>>726138582Nope.
>>726138476Moot was also "dating" an anti GG journo. Some anons probably have the images on their HDD somewhere.>>726138581You're on /v/ faggot, we're all anonymous here unlike on /pol/.
>>726138746It doesn't matter if we're anonymous here. You're still here. You're still posting low quality garbage, you fucking frostback.
>>726138721Why do thirdies always cope like this?
>>726138602Even just /vg/ getting thread IDs would fuck up so many of their schizos
>>726138746Yeah, moot did the ultimate simp move. He put pussy on a pedestal.
>>726138853I don't know, why do you?
>>726138746>Moot was also "dating" an anti GG journoWait.. Moot wasn't gay?
>>726138887The problem with schizos is that they make people paranoid after a while. /hdg/ had only like 3 or 4 of them since Helldivers 2 launched, but you can see that the damage has been done. Now people are pointing fingers in the dark and accusing everyone of being the latest schizo poster and it causes threads to drop in quality.
>>726138746who also cheated on him lamo
>>726139005No? He was hitting on chicks in the SMA (small medium average) threads on /soc/ when it launched lol
>>726138547>Everyone is very pessimtic about modern gaming but modding and emulation are really the crown jewels of gamingback in the day "modern gayming" was ps2. I already played everything i cared about, there is nothing left to do.
>>726138827American culture is centered around niggers and kikes. Is that what the world need? >>726138912then he left with his tail between his legs. >>726139005Only a figurative faggot and a literal weeb.
>>726139078That implies he was never friendzoned luggage lad to begin with.
>>726139078 roflcopter even
Remember when we discovered that moot's mom was a Jew AND a spook?
>>726139061Tbh so many /vg/ generals should have taken out back years ago, but the mods expanded the board instead so practically any general can survive now. And now they can even move to one of the /v/alkans instead.
Good thread i r8 8/8 no h8 m8 it was gr8
>>726139367True. S'why I advocated for cleaning some of the really old ones up. Katawa Shoujo's got to go.
>>726139005only in denial
>>726139527That's still a thing?
>>7261394098.8
Good thread, fellow /v/irgins. Many of you complained that the site is unsalvageable, but to me it seems like there are still many posters with insight and good ideas. Here's to another decade or two!
While we're laughing at moot, you now manually remember canv.as
>>726139607Yes.
>>726139527How old are we talking? Personally I think 5 years is more than enough time for any general to have existed
>>726139134>>726139143>>726139535But he was always so effeminate. He even had the lisp.
>>726139735I called out vitagen and ksg for a reason as:The Vita is dead. There's nothing left to discuss. You've created a chatroom at this point.Same thing for Katawa Shoujo General.
>>726139607They are on thread number 4080 and they lost count like 3 times
>>726134847>>726136105Now you should read someone that got over Schopenhauer after considering him his father like Nietzsche.
>>726139858You say that like they don't all devolve into chatrooms
I'm surprised this thread lasted as long as it did without "our benefactors" purging it. I feel they do this on purpose for us to "vent it out" every once and awhile so that nothing like the May hack happens again any time soon.
I think I may also add the Kenshi general to this, as well. If you can't manage 100 posts in 48 hours, you gotta go.
I don't want 4chan to die.
>>726139858I mean Vita (vita means life btw) hacking is popular so I can atleast understand its existence.
>>726140009Yeah, but I think at a certain point when your subject matter has ceased operation, or you've been around past a certain point, or you can't meet a minimum PPH, you gotta go.>>726140050Fair. But maybe it can get honorary retro status and go to /vr/.
>>726138632Mods being obnoxious fags or playing favorites is gay but that's not what's killing the site. The problem is there are just too many crazy people whose life revolves around this site. They wake up, shit up the board for 20 hours and then go to bed. You can really see it in some generals on /vg/. You can have a decent thread for a couple of hours but then the schizo wakes up and thread quality instantly takes a nosedive. That's just not fun to deal with and drives people away.
>>726140137The subject matter can go to /vr/, that is. NOT the general itself.
>>726116456cute pic
>>726140207Yeah. I think the reason why they don't do much about it is because they can't. How many of the schizos are using the pecker proxy, I wonder...
>>726140265Men should never use the word cute or any variation of the word cute.
>>726125973>Friday threads are full of guys talking about fucking girls from the club and stuff for instanceYeahhh.... Drawfag threads are the only things I care about. when I heard anons fucking I knew it was over
>>726140376Are you implying that men should care about you pointing your fingers at them while attempting to shame them?
>>726140376SHUT UP NORMAL FAG FUCK OFFWE SAY CUTE HERE
>>726140207maybe if mods banned samefagging but it might as well consider it """board culture""""" just like how they consider vidya blacked girls RP threads IMPORTANT part of the board to the point that any criticism or shitposting the threads like any other is meet with 30 days bans.
>>726140376retard
>>726125973>Friday threads are full of guys talking about fucking girls from the club and stuff for instanceGenerals are bound to be sanctuaries for schizos and blogposting faggots. Same with the Waifu threads.
