>game slowly dies off and players move on
>>726659769the fuck happened in 2012
Trump tourists are finally moving on thank god
>>726659769Who cares about /a/?
>>726659834redditors unironically
>>726659887>TrumpGAWDs are growing up, starting trad families>you're still here as a bitter liberal incelLOL
>>726659834the end of the world
>>726659887lolmore like everybody else moved on
>>726659887More like /pol/ took over and now people are leaving because this site sucks due to it
>>726659769by the dip
>>726659769the really bad thing about this is that this place acts like a mental illness trap. all of those people flow in and then out and most of what we're left with is severe mental illness but now much more concentrated
>>726659769now do /v/
>>726660030And why are you here?
is the site back?
>>7266597694chanz will never die :D
>>726659769the site is infested with LLM bots posing has regular posters, bound to happen
>>726659769>type out post>forgot to start the captcha timer>start the captcha timer>wonder why I'm even bothering with the wait>close the tab and browse another threadThe thirdworldification of the internet combined with low-effort phoneposting zoomers has made every website significantly less interesting.
>>726660183This, anti-woke fatigue is setting in
>>726659834GG
>>726660032bingo
>>726659769where do you get these stats?
>>726660701>Can't bring himself to post without expecting instant gratification from it>Whines about low effort postsThe captcha timer should be stricter so that fags like you keep getting filtered
>>726660032YepSeal broke/ancient gears started turning etc. The eschaton is in motionI'm dead serious. Repent and seek God
>>726660701That only happens after you ban evade.
>>726659769>the ending of Attack on Titan will forever remain the highest shitposting peak in /a/'s historygrim
>>726659769How is this bad? Half of the catalog is completely unrelated to videogames at any given time
>>726661460Because the good users leave and the deranged schizos stay.
>almost impossible to hold a vidya discussion because every title has a dedicated thread schizo and he WILL derail everything>absolutely no tools to effectively filter out thread derailers, not even a thread ID of sorts which is a thing on 2channel since foreverThank fucking god some hobbyist sites like rpg codex are still active.
>>726660760That was 2014
>>726661521The schizos fade out the moment you stop giving them attention
>>726659769>gamer slowly dies off
>>726661632lol no, just look at FE threads
>>726659769>the sharty hack actually killed 4chan
>>726659887lol schizos are the only "people" who still use this site
>>726659887/pol/niggers are the only ones left, they drove everyone off
>>726659769What game?Also Can Blizzard finally kill World of Warcraft and put their cult out of misery? Kthanks
>>726661632It doesn't work this way. When 4chan was down, several other chans revealed that dedicated schizos will samefag in order to keep thread presence.
>>726660000test
This happens to every site as people age out, no one wants to be on a site full of 50 year olds talking about back pain.
>>726661632No they don't, they start fucking replying to themslves, or you get another schizo and they fucking babble to eachother. That's when threads get REALLY bad, when there are schizos battling eachother.
>>726659769>half the posts in seasonal anime threads are from a bot dumping images and webms without any sort of context or discussion>over a dozen daily storytime threads at any given time, each with less than a handful of unique IPs in them>chinks, gooks, and trannies from /u/ all given free reign to shitpost and advertise their garbage by the mods>actual general threads are also dead as fuck but still bumped from page 10 for weeks on end by autists that refuse to let go>post quality is the worst its ever been but retards still have the same holier-than-thou attitude from 15+ years ago/a/ is a truly terrible place and yet it's still one of the better boards on 4chan.
>>726659887more like this website is specifically being targeted to be made less interesting to browse because it hosts /pol/fags and people are deciding that the "schizos" and the ritualposters outweigh the relative freedom of discussion the site provides compared to the rest of the normalfag internet sphere
>Lurk 10 different boards>after half an hour I am out of threads to peruse>try checking out different sites>they are even more deadBy all metrics I am a newfag who only got on the internet in the mid-2000s but it has never felt more empty than it does now.And that is with all the sites being swarmed by thirdies on their phones and chatbot powered shills.
>>726660701yeah, and if you have 2 tabs open and start the timer on another thread then you have to redo the timer on the first after
>>726661967I haven't been on /a/ for a good while, sucks to hear it has fallen so low.
>>726661835>several other chansSpeaking of said other chans, they're all quite dead too. Oldfags kept gloating before the hack that they'll go to them if 4chan goes down but that didn't seem to happen. So where did they all go? They can't have ALL moved on.
>>726662306I just fucked off to several gaming sites. All chan replacements are shit.
>>726661632>The schizos fade out the moment you stop giving them attentionno they don't. Look at pic rel, the guy who spams dozens of STEAM IS LE BAD threads daily. Dude thinks he is some moral crusader improving the internet by shitting up /v/. And he can do this because he is a neet.
>>726661970Exactly. Games discussion keeps being killed off by faggots spamming in those threads to make them unfun.
>>726659769Where are they going? There's nothing quite like this website anywhere out there. I'll likely be here until the day I die if Hiro bothers keeping it up.
>>726662397>I just fucked off to several gaming sitesHow do you find them when the search engines all went to shit? Do you just look up your favourite game name's or something?
>>726662547Getting married and having kids, probably. The kids then go to tiktok or whatever for their brand of propaganda instead of here.
>>726662547reddit, tiktok, real life
>>726662615>married and having kidsthat's horrifying
>>726659769Every board on this site is on the decline.
>>726662417>schizos don't need attention to shitpost, here's proof!!!>posts a screenshot of him replying to somebody clearly talking about him, which means somebody was giving him attentionthanks for proving his point
>>726662556Lel i was a part of some of them for nearly 20 years, including the ones for my native languageFrom bigger ones, rpg codex and neofag are decent. Gamefaqs can be fun too.
>>726662774and half of those replies are the dude samefagging himself stupid nigger
>>726662852Thanks. I'll keep them in mind once this place becomes completely unbearable.
>>726662774
>>726662898go make your 100th seething reply at him then, I'm sure this is the time he'll listen and it will not just further derail the thread instead
>>726662547the people that leave just post the same stuff outside of here, either getting repeatedly banned or learning that a website like tiktok would actually let them get away with even more shitposts.
>>726663047There was a poster who got banned on /vt/ for>replying to his own post 33 times
>>726660712>>726660183More like india gained internet and this site sucks due to it
>>726662417>>726662546>>726662774>>726661970I swear to god, I don't care if somebody's crazy, I don't care if somebody's a retard, I don't care if somebody has the worst fucking opinion in the worldJust put it out there, say your piece and SHUT THE FUCK UPThere are so many posters with logorrhea and I could literally strangle all of them. I even agree with the "they're not in it for attention" take because they don't want other people posting in their threads, the perfect thread is literally just 500 replies of their own repeated spam and folder dumps.I don't even give a shit if the spammer in question is in some way "on my side" or has some idea I nominally agree with, literally everyone who behaves like this should simply be murdered>you're not gonna talk about RPGs, look at this gay porn>you're not gonna talk about Family Guy, look at these AI posts about ice cream>you're not going to talk about WW2, look at these Palestinian gore webms
>>726662547alt chans (which are even more dead than here)or they try their song and dance on normalfag sites.>>726662774see pic rel retardbro. They just reply to themselves, only moderator action can stop them but mods are too busy helicopter modding their off topic gay porn threads to do their fucking jobs.
>>726663296This is exactly how I've felt browsing lately. If I could give you the tools to moderate this board I would. 4chan sucks again today but it has never sucked as much as it has now. The offtopic posting is by far the worst plague beyond any ESL shit I've seen, even if there's a high overlap.
>>726662774I've seen a schizo poster get banned and have 150+ posts deleted in a single thread once. Went from a 500 post thread down to 350 in an instant. He immediately came back and started reposting the same shit again. Ignoring them doesn't work when they just reply to themselves when no one replies to them.
>>726661632This USED to be the case for low-tier attention whores of the old. Those people who actually cared about attention and would go insane when not given it. I've seen several of those people and they generally disappeared when their fix wasn't delivered anymore.These days we have browns with sub-80 IQ who are also a mental basket case. These people do not think like normal human beings and simply cannot be handle with normal means. In a good world they'd already be dead or locked away in an asylum for being unable to function in society.
>>726659769are those bot spikes
>>726663170>>726663190>>726663047>>726663401I was dismayed, horrified and slightly amused when I learned the Stellar Blade guy spams here, and spams Reddit, and spams Facebook, and literally spams fucking LinkedInI assume he's some kind of actual medical retard, like if he didn't have a computer he'd be physically smearing his feces on the walls, but my personal pet theory is that he's a random, different, Polish guy who hopes to dox the guy he hates and provoke an internet schizo into killing him
>>726661632There is a thread on the catalog RIGHT NOW that has a Wild Arms 2 OP pic, and its just a big argument about proper grammar.
>>726663563he is a real guy and he is legitimately 100% clinically insane, like padded room medicated retard insane. Before stellar blade he did the same thing internet wide since 2012 with different fictional girls.
>>726659834>>726659887>>726660006>>726660183You guys realize that OP's post is about /a/ right/a/ just died around like 2014-15. /a/ today is basically just /v/lite, all the same posters with slightly more aggressive moderation.
There is just nobody who wants to fix /v/ on the mod/janny teamthread idsinsta purging of ai slop general and gacha goonerismno thread flooding rule honestly enforcedno threads allowed that start with a tweet as OPNow this still would leave the worst schizos and cp spammers but atleast it would mildy improve the board
>>726661632I've not seen anyone reply to the stellar blade schizo (can't post his name it seems, my first post attempt didn't work) for months, yet he's still there, even in unrelated threads, what now?
>>726663296>you're not gonna talk about RPGs, look at this gay porn/v/ range banned the entire country of Uruguay to get rid of him (he is actually from U R Gay holy shit) so now he does his thing on /tv/ and /pol/
>game gets ruined by a flood of new players
>>726663721The post cooldown thing has totally killed this site. No one new, and it does nothing to stop bots. Why'd they even bring the fucking site back if they don't care if it dies?
>>726663905mods care so little about the site that the only thing that has gotten them off their asses to do their fucking job is a known pedophile abusing a vpn to spam CP. And even then they are relying on the Kiwi Farm's admin to either get the guy arrested or develop a functioning anti-cp filter.
>>726659769Hopefully this means no more endless bait and gooner threads but I know that won't happen.
>>726659769the more /pol/ succeeds irl, the more they migrate to x.com, the more they'll realize their ideology is gay & retarded and kill themselves, nature is healing
now factor in every /v/ board split
>>726663905>left for a couple years>come back because you're here forever>expected most of that for some naive reason>at least thread id's>they actually turned off the new ip's counter insteadI get /v/ is a shithole and you shouldn't take it seriously but christ why?
>>726659769Where are they moving on to?
>>726664217/v/ board splits do not actually take much traffic from /v/. Altogether, excluding /vg/ and /vp/, it's only about a million posts overall.
>>726661632You ever seen that show 600 lb life?One of the chicks on it was some fat fuck 700 lb loser who created hundreds of online accounts and spent hours all day catfishing people online.That is your average schizo. They are mostly bedridden/extremely autistic NEETs who spend all day shitposting on the internet to distract them from their awful lives. They will never go away, if you ignore them they will samefag for hours all day because it's all they have. It's why so many of them were super asshurt about thread IDs on the other chans.
/a/'s old culture was killed on purpose to pander to normalmutts and shonenspics/v/ is being spammed 24/7 by over 9000 glowie sub-organizations and raid discords/vg/ same deal as /v/ except with added indian shitposter for hire discords being paid with gift cards to spam popular threads/jp/ has a mod that has spent the last 3 years letting his /trash/ discord buddies raid and kill the board on purpose while he bans legitimate posters and anyone who reports his friends
Alphabet soups and co. have successfully enshittened this place. They did the same with 8ch, albeit through different means. Moderation is complicit here.
>>726663905>mod actually takes action to improve the board>immediately gets a call from the local feds asking why some of their bot farms were range banned>followed by more calls from marketing firms wondering the same thing when they clearly paid for the ad space>mod gets removed and the board goes on as usualIt's not going to get better.
>>726659769Compared to most boards this one's holding on quite well.
>>726664316>/a/'s old culture was killed on purpose to pander to normalmutts and shonenspicsNo lolEveryone left retard. /a/ was dead from like 2016 to 2020, and only in 2020 did it even get a new culture.
>>726664316>/a/'s old culture was killed on purpose to pander to normalmutts and shonenspicsthe mod responsible for that runs the website now btw
>>726659887It's the thirdies.>Barely speak/write English>Poor as shit>Worship and obsess over anything resembling the female form>Collectivist mindset, seeks approval from mass consensus (number/chart threads)>Actually plays gacha and similar skinner-box games.>Regularly watch women with fake voices pretending to be anime characters play games.They flood civilized spaces, ruin them, and leave. Like biblical locusts.
>>726664521rapeape doesn't moderate /a/ newfag
>>726664562rapeape is narutomod
>game's fanbase is gradually taken over by retards
>>726664562>he doesn't know
>>726664651>>726664667He literally only cares about /pol/, that's why it's called his pet project. He doesn't give a shit about any other board and only really does /pol/ and overall management.
>>726664316/a/ was always self hating weebs who hated both popular anime and themselves for pretending to like obscure shit all because the somethingawful dna never left the fucking site
>>726664736The only reason why we have is doxx is because someone did during the naruto shitstorm on /a/.
Are any of you actually oldfags? How long have you been here?
>>726664659I hate the third world so fucking much. They ruin every ecosystem they inhabit, physical or digital.
>>726664801We only have his doxx because EVERY mod got doxxed dumbass.
/a/, /v/ and /tv/ are the last semi-decent, active boards. Everything else is dead or just a circlejerk of the same fucking threadsThe last fumes of the internet hate machine.
>>726664890lurk at least 15 years before posting
>>726664521>gaymergate won games are still being censored and uglier while both sides are defending censorship gg lost hard and these grifters saying otherwise are revealing themselves to be a whole new level of newfaggotry where they dont even remember this site before covid they probably dont even know who internet aristocrat/jim is
>>726664865No. I got here in 2007, which means I am permanently a newfag.My first board was /tv/ and I remember it being obsessed with The Dark Knight and Cloverfield and LOST and the underaged bitches from terrible Disney Channel sitcoms, and then a Russian schizo obsessed with James Cameron's Avatar completely ruining it in much the same way everyone's talking about ITT
>>726664909I am surprised that /pol/ is dying too. Most threads die with one or two posts.
>>726664865I imagine most people here now are cancerfags, there's not really many of the oldguard left
>>726664909>/a/>semi-decent90% of the threads are the following>twitter outrage>image dumps without a soul in sight>schizoid generals that are mostly made up of bots
>>726664236Discord>>726664865I was here when /z/ and /l/ were boards
>>726664064>no one is newIf that is true, then the average IQ of the email verified or 4chan pass must be in the negatives or their average age is a zygote. Because, holy hell, never in the endless summer have there been so many anons who are this fucking new to the internet let alone the subculture of image boards.
>>726659887Not this is probably going to get a million times worse actuallyAll those exposed xitter accounts will need to move to anonymous locations to continue shillingXitter was literally a containment board, once they achieved mass appeal they pivoted to public accounts they could shill on
>>726665007/pol/ is easily the most astroturfed corner of the internet. It'll never die but the number of genuine posters on it will continue to plummet.
>>726659887>wanting everyone to know that the website behind "an hero", zippocat and pedobear had your exact political beliefs before 2016, when most oldfags got troll's remorse why does 4chan being lefty matters when people will still think of it as the nazi pedo hacker site?
>>726664976lol you're posting on his website right now
>>726665037>>726664986>>726665115So why are you still here, if the others left?
>>726665007Most threads start with one post.The most jarring thing about post IDs is that the overwhelming majority of posts are made by an OP who will never returnLike even if he was an actual troll, you'd think he'd pop his head in to keep goading things along, but nope, he's gone, he doesn't even know/care he got 300 (you)s
>>726665007Too much spam./pol/, /co/, and some of the smaller boards all seem to have an issue where autistic thirdies spam whatever immediate pointless thought pops into their head, so half of every thread on those boards is a single-post thread that quickly drops to page 10 because no one wants to interact with some random autistic third worlder who just spams their endless stream of thought bullshit on the internet.
>>726665162Touched a nerve?
>>726665147Nah that’s still reddit>remember when they doxxed themselves and showed all their traffic is from fucking military bases
>>726665196even as bad as this place gets, everywhere else is still worseI also am a foreveralone permavirgin so I don't have the wife/kids social circle to back out on
>>726665196>So why are you still herejust to suffer
>>726665007Most of /pol/ is/was just [insert any country here] propaganda shills and dumb edgy teens trying to appear smart
>>726661632Patently false. The easiest example that counters this is the XIV folder dumper. Even if nobody is posting, he'll be there, on his lonesome, flooding the threads with the same screencaps of trannies and yt thumbnails every thread he finds.
>>726665196I like being able to talk to people outside of my circlesIt's this or the Fediverse, and the Fediverse has a pretty narrow range of interests
>>726665078There is no better active board though
>>726665216They're not trolls, they're bots/shills intentionally flooding the catalog. The replies are oftentimes from that same farm.
>>726665256im not a trumpfagi just want to know why oldfags with troll's remorse do the "4chan was lefty" dance is it because they realize the "i outgrew 4chan/never used the site" narratives they try to sell to normies dont work?
>>726665224Christ, /tg/ is littered with this shit, it's awful, and due to the nature of how slow the board is, you either have a general or those one line generic question threads with almost no effortposrs in between.
>>726661632Lmao, the hoyo generals have schizos that literally make 400 posts in one thread, replying to himself. A literal majority of the thread is one single faggot.
The same thing is happening to Reddit. Google search AI is killing everything that isn't Google, Twitter, and Tiktok
>>726665078Hey, at least you still occasional active mod tard wrangling. Everywhere else staff gave up and just let people post whatever since it boosts "engagement" and creates an illusion of activity
>>726664550>Worship and obsess over anything resembling the female formNewfag nigger, fuck offAnime website btw
>>726664521Did they? or did the shartening scare them most of them off? The biggest problem with post-shartey /v/ are the new mods who can't even stick to a simple rule-set like "no gamergate"
>>726664865I doubt many true oldfags remain, I usually only see them these days in the yearly r/a/dio threads and Sora/Madoka streams.Personally I'm a newfag who discovered /b/ via TGWTG in ~2008.>>726665450The AI shit is genuinely turning so much of the public-facing internet into a bot-infested hellhole, that shit has accelerated the death of the internet arguably even more than smartphones did.
>>726661632that works with trolls. trolls are just kids farming for attention. schizophrenics genuinely belive they're fighting the holy war here and don't ever go away
I hoped that traffic dropping and the board slowing down would move discourse quality back to the blissful pre-GG era but it's been tanking exponentially in the last couple of years and the board is fucking horrendous The abyssal state of the board makes me yearn for the shitty 2015-2022 state everyone bemoaned back then, at least you could have a good thread here and there despite the board getting consistently worse, these days there's simply no way to have a good thread no matter what
>>726665473Engagement is massively down in /a/ and in every board. That’s the fucking thing. Letting schizophrenic thirdies and bots spam all day kills engagement, it doesn’t boost it
>>726665423his post was never said that 4chan was lefty
>>726659769But the "oldfags" said we're here forever?
>>726664316Naruto is peak fiction and you were just being contrarian faggots and m00t didnt like youFuck you niggertron
>>726664865I've been here since 2010, so half of my life. I don't know where else to go, every other website I used to use has since died.>>726665450Google is financially incentivized to ruin their own search engine because more searches = more paid results (advertisements) shown to end users.
>>726665575Either we get some self-moderation tools like thread IDs, or this site is fucked
>>726665578Thirdies and bot users don't even come here anymore. They stop at the google search like everyone else
>>726665392>>726665473What is this consolation prize shit?/a/ sucks. It's worse than /v/, it's a board for people who don't watch anime, all that happens there is, again>image dumps>twitter fights>bot generals
>>726664521What is going on there? Imagine seeing the White House post this embarrassing ChatGPT sepia Gaylo Trump and thinking "Guys, we're winning so hard right now."
People really sleep on how bad /k/ has gottenEvery other gun board on the internet is the exact kind of dudebro/boomer/trumptard/redneck stew you'd imagine. I do find that tiresome in its own way, but as a gun owner I also find it's a very genuine reflection of what gun shops and clubs are like IRL. My local gun store has this absolute eyesore statue of Trump as Buddha on the counter, and I cannot tell how many layer of irony the anthropomorphic walrus who owns the place was on when he placed it there.But /k/ and only /k/ is the home of pic related, "The Second Amendment exists to defend polycules from cis pigs and capitalism" typesIn fact, I bring evidence>>>/k/64544045Here's a massive, days old rolling general with a tranny pornstar in the OPAnd all the posts insulting the tranny are studiously banned while all the posts praising him are left in place
>>726664316>/a/'s old culture was killed on purpose to pander to normalmutts and shonenspicsImagine my shock when i came back to /a/ after few years and naruto threads werent spammed with dubsIts naive to hope for your microculture to be preserved indefinitely but it still hurts
>>726664865Whenever the fuck code geass r2 aired
>>726665196>why are you still hereMy friends are here! Specifically /v/. I don't know about other boards. The other social sites are pure cancer, I hate walking around eggshells. Here I can call them faggots and they'll laugh with me. I don't care if the traffic is lower, as long as (you) are here.
>>726661632this retard has never been to /vg/ lmao
>>726665510When every other post is a coomer post with horrible spelling and grammar, people start to leave, while the coomers stay. The coomers then become the dominant force in the community, which results in no creative or interesting content being made, other than coomer posts. This results in more people leaving.This is exactly what is happening right now.
>>726663905Being against "gacha goonerism" tells me you're the one who needs to be purged. Gacha is bringing back the focus on male players that this medium had since its inception.
>>726665746Rapeape is a glownigger.
>>726659887quite the opposite
>Oldfags either died, moved on or went full lurk mode>Newfags and most people born after 2000 are a bunch obnoxious, retarded cross siters who are no better than yo average MySpace/Tumblr/Twitter/Reddit user
>>726665943Good. Those people SHOULD leave. They are feminists and need to die.
>>726665992>>726666078seething coomergacha "games" aren't games
You're glowing.
>>726665765I knew /k/ was over when four American soldiers got killed in a drone attack and there was an actual red text modpost forbidding anyone from talking about it, surrounded entirely by webms of Russian soldiers being killed in drone attacks>>726665943It's a difficult line to cross because I do like porn but I don't understand why you can't run a NSFW discussion board. It's funny how /b/ used to be the beating heart of this website and is now just literally nothing except porn. There isn't really a site to just gossip about pornstars like the one whose boyfriend killed her kid by putting him in a pillowcase and beating a wall with him Jason Voorhees style
Glownigs either soft censor every single site with biased google search algos and spam the old guard into submission with retarded bot schizo spam (this is obvious on sites like this)
>>726664659Just glassing india china and africa would remove like 4-5 billion "people" off the map btw.
I feel like /a/ is what happens when the community mistakenly conflates "Gatekeeping" with "AIRTIGHT, VACUUM-SEALED POSTING RULES, NORMS AND OPINIONS YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST FOLLOW OR YOU'D BE BETTER OFF POSTING ON /b/" You could be an OG anime fan who's been watching since the 80s, but if your autism doesn't align within the fucking plank of theirs, you will never belong.
>>726663721Yeah quite a few /a/vantguardists were part of the exodus and then diapered among the webrings after that site died.
>>726666205Holy chatGPT slop
>>726664309Gacha not being quarantined to /vmg/ was a huge fucking mistake. They don't use that board because they have the numbers to flood /v/ and /vg/ with their generals instead.
>>726666205*planck
>>726666048So at what point does the newfag become a oldfag and how do we know that everyone complaining in this thread isn't just a newfag upset at the state of things that they made? No one so far is lurking.
>>726666140>why you can't run a NSFW discussion boardTf u talking about? You have a bunch of boards dedicated to porn>Inb4 I mean gamesBoth /aco/ and /h/ have threads related to vidya
>>726659887>trump tourists>biggest spikes were in 2013 and 2021what did she mean by this?
>>726666221>diaperedThat's one hell of a typo.
>>726659769Well the relentless shitposting without any news about new games or interesting things going on will do that to the board
>>726663928The stellar blade schizo is not there for attention. He floods the threads deliberately to kill them. He's a deranged hater and a gcj troon
>>726666205>/v/ loves self-moderation until it actually filters themlol
>>726666319Pre-2005
What happened to 'lurk moar'?
>>726666319I would say 10 years
>>726666205>You could be an OG anime fan who's been watching since the 80s, but if your autism doesn't align within the fucking plank of theirs, you will never belong.Good
>>726666370culture war tourist retard. kill yourself
>>726666285dumb faggot
>>726666319never, you are defined by the era you arrived in
>>726666354Fucking hell, I could have sworn I fixed that to dispersed.But yeah my keyboard sometimes doesn't register strokes properly, well might be a user error desu ne.
>>726666471>gif >filenameWhat’s next some en dashes
>>726666129>>726664550>>726665992I do try to pass the Sally-Anne test with this shit. I can, if I hurt myself stretching my brain, comprehend the kind of jerkoff who buys every new FIFA and Call of Duty every year, both in their intent to seek entertainment and the sheer number of them.I still can't extend that to gachafags. It is literally not a video game.It's like when I was a kid at Funcoland and I could go through the shelf of cartridges and intuitively identify the ones that were Not Video Games, like I had to focus to even make my brain see them.
>>726666375I don't think you quite understand. There's self-moderation, and then there's pure, unbridled, autistic echo-chambers. >>726666442Hello, zoomer.
>>726666557>and then there's pure, unbridled, autistic echo-chambers.What do you think gatekeeping is intended to create?
>>726663721/a/ died when it started allowing Naruto threads
>>726666618Nta but a standard of discussion quality.Something /a/ did not manage to retain.
zoomers and indians killed the board.
>>726666329>Tf u talking about?Nobody ends up discussing anything. I'd like /v/ except you don't get banned by posting a webm of Widowmaker digging Tracer's guts out with her 18 inch cock except the board doesn't also just become 100% that./b/ was a lot like that for a long time but for some reason it ended, years later, and only the porn survived
>>726659769>players move onYeah, you would think the amount of IPs rapeape banned to fight 'ecker wouldn't affect legitimate users LMAO
>uhm actually the gacha porn dumps are le good! No they're not. I've seen these threads, there's no fucking discussion in them, just endless spam of pictures. It slides actual good threads off the catalog and makes the board look like a cesspit of lobotomites. Which is exactly what's happening right now. It's as bad as the twitter/reddit ragebait threads.
I can't imagine why
>>726660712I have woke fatigueI haven't seen anything anti-woke
>>726666375>>726666557>>726666618If you want to self-moderate THAT much, why not just go off and make a Discord server or something? The only reason I can see even bother keeping public access is because you enjoy the act of gatekeeping as much or more than the actual thing you're discussing.
>>726666618That isn't gatekeeping. That's something else. There's probably a term or other phrase for it somewhere. But it's basically what happens when the community self-sabotages by infighting or by exiling the actual earnest members in favor of the performative ones, or the members who are just the most outgoing or obsequious.
>>726666686/a/ died when more than half the posts started having major grammatical and spelling errors.
>>726666319Never. That ship already sailed long ago. It's just newfags mimicking newfags and believing this is what oldfags were like. These threads are always the same, none of them can even attempt to imitate sincerity.
>>726664236people just stop going on social media. My friend used to browse as much as I did. Now he just rides his bike instead
People who create or use 'Anons' as self-insert characters, be it in fanart or in-game are the true newfaggots. This shit almost never happened, you'd be ridiculed, and you only found those kind of spergs on late 10s /mlp/
you can talk about why the site sucks all day long but at the end of the day all that matters is site moderation. Mods are either too lazy, too busy powertripping in their favorite threads, or just don't give a fuck. This site will continue to rot away until hiromoot either shutters it or sells the site because all this was to him was a source of passive income (read: lets rapeape do whatever he wants so long as he gets paid by advertisers on time).
Mystery for the ages
>>726666780It happened on 00s forums all the time, it just turned into in-jokes and sucking the mod's dick to the point it was just him and his friends dominating everything.
>>726666460>a tourist troon calling anyone a touristBack to pleddit, faggot
>>726666779>>726666780There was no self-sabotage on /a/. It had a crisis in the late 00s, and it recovered through sufficient self-moderation.It then self-moderated and gatekeeped until eventually, 4chan itself was not a desirable site to stay on, and so everyone left./a/ succeeded and then died by its own terms.
>2008 two week long threadsIf only that was all that changed.
No one will ever know.
>>726666759Sorry your dalle / cucksole war / tendie general spam garbage got archived by gacha threads LMAO
>>726666781Valid desu. Enforcing proper spelling and grammar does a lot simply by forcing people to put more effort into posting.Especially if you consider that auto correct is surprisingly bad at this and even has issues with its and it's.
>>726666814I 100% associate "Anon" as in the green guy who is a self-insert with /mlp/. I never saw it past like 2014 anywhere but there.
the scary part is how much of the existing userbase is just LLM bots, we could be well under organic posters from 2009
>>726666779If /a/ really self moderated that much shounenfags would still be verboten/a/nons didnt go far enough
>>726666962See >>726666906/a/ died 2014-15. Everyone left.
>>726666779I post on 4chan cause I can be anonymous. ANything involving discord always breaks down into cliques, ERP cliques in my experience from /vg/ discords
>>726666929Both things can be bad retard. I don't have to like your third worlder shit to hate the other.
People who want to discuss anime have been on Twitter/X for a decade now. It's only the older hangers on or the ones who found it when they were underage and can't leave
>>726664402>Everyone left retard. /a/ was dead from like 2016 to 2020Yeah I wonder what happened in 2014-2015 that killed the board. Couldn't have been the old culture being killed on purpose to pander to normalmutts and shonenspics, no sir. Fucking retard.Fact is that /a/ and /jp/ were purposefully and maliciously killed, and /v/ and /vg/ are intentionally allowed to be killed, probably for for glowie reasons.
Everyone who argues about what 4chan's politics used to be like is a tourist because they never seem to remember himFuckin' Digg and SomethingAwful had official Obama fundraisers
>>726666906I made a thread on Gintama. Fucking Gintama. It actually went in depth on the entire fucking anime, the ending, etc. And do you know how /a/ responded? >bro, /a/ doesn't respond well to long-form posts on here. Keep it short. Fucking verbatim. You either stay in their lane by following their autistic, arbitrary rules, or you are out. That isn't gatekeeping. That is forcing earnest fans OUT of the community based on derpy fucking metrics or simply because they're rocking the proverbial boat.
>>726666850>bot thread gets prunedWhat's the problem?
>>726666935Doesn't /mlp/ still have a reputation of mostly being "pure" and having managed to retain most of its core identity?Whatever they are doing must be working.
>>726667028Yeah that means there should be even LESS gatekeeping because no one knows anyone and nothing lasts for a long time. How are you going to gatekeep a guy you can't even name? Just ban discussions/interpret people having certain opinions as being outsiders?
>>726667035Your seething at gachas only makes them stronger btw.Rule19
>>726667136>>bot thread gets prunedWhat reality is lil bro from :skull:
>>726660264to further kick your teeth in, tranny
>>726666814>nope.aviAnon, I...
>>726666929>dalleThey are the same coomers as you>cucksole war / tendie generalThis is video game discussion. Pictures of gacha characters isn't
>>726666881You will never be an oldfag.
>>726666814>>726666935this is news to me
>>726667089>Yeah I wonder what happened in 2014-2015 that killed the board. Couldn't have been the old culture being killed on purpose to pander to normalmutts and shonenspics, no sir.If you're trying to assert N/a/ruto as the cause, then you're forgetting that 2013 was the most active year in /a/'s history.>>726667121See >>726666906Current /a/ is just /v/. That's all it is. Anyone saying otherwise is retarded. The only difference is that it's slower, so it seems like the mods do more, when in reality it's just that threads stay up longer and thus, have more chanced to get deleted.
>>726667085Twitter is literally 90% brown thirdies and brown thirdies pretending to be westerners.
>>726667121Non sequitur
>>726666618This isn't a country club, anonymous is not the freemasons. Gatekeeping implies there's a "gate", a process to admit or deny people- 4chan has none. The site owners did try, 4chan passes, the captcha, emails, timer etc but so far has not achieved much. We're not here to be colonized or be a refuge for rapefugees, rather anyone who sticks around make their best attempt to assimilate. The newfags and tourists have yet to even understand rule 10, decades of fucking around with zero attempt to even engage with board culture let alone be denied access to it.
>>726664550giving india complete access to the Internet has doomed modern civilization. at least thankfully the world has realized how shitty that place is
>>726667271Earth is literally 90% brown thirdies
I just think that the current youth has barely any attention span to even bother discussing anything long term or take any hobby seriously. The 'hiding behind irony, behind irony, behind irony' also doesn't help in that regard
>>726667271so the majority of people who discuss anime on the internet
>>726667227>MY tendie coom general spam is ok Gachas will exist for eternity. Seethe.
>>726667112>Both parties are in favor of massive government spending nowgrim
>>726667237You will never be a woman
>>726666370He's been obsessing over Eve since before the game was even a controversial topic. Try as you might to fit him into this dumb left/right dichotomy the guy is the real deal, just a genuine crazy person who's been doing the same thing all over the internet for years now.
>>726667282You're an idiot. You say gatekeeping doesn't exist, and then describe gatekeeping. Funnily enough, you describe something that didn't happen- because 4chan was colonized. You are a refugee. You didn't assimilate.
>>726667308Yes, and I don't want to be around that.Not even thirdies like thirdies.
>>726667112I think I was too young back then for politics and I don't remember a lot either, thanks Obama.>mfw I was actually 12 and what is this
>>726667238>>726666935>>726666814Personally, I look and behave exactly like this
>>726667271Hilariously it wasn't this before Musk bought it. It was liberals shaming everyone but it genuinely was all white Americans. Your "freedom of speech" came with endless Indians trying to ragebait you because it pays well.
>>726667112if only we had listened.
>>726667271Who do you think watches anime?
>>726662306I migrated to the kiwifarms off-topic board. Turns out that when they're not gossiping like housewives, they're pretty chill and the verification process keeps out the third worlders, spammers and schizos. It's slow most of the time but gets fast whenever there's actual news for whatever game. Which is the best of both worlds.
>>726667309>The 'hiding behind irony, behind irony, behind irony' also doesn't help in that regardpeople are fucking vicious especially online, and there is no worse feeling than being genuine about something only for someone else to dump vitriolic ass all over you for it.
>>726667238The niggas blocking the pool are closer to anon than ze green man
>>726667309The current youth have been trapped in that mindset for 2 generations now, Z and α. At this point, only a world war can break this pattern for β.
>>726661967>>post quality is the worst its ever been but retards still have the same holier-than-thou attitude from 15+ years agoThis is the most annoying part about nu /a/
>>726667402epic ..er....far-out guy! i remember that
>>726667409It wouldn't be a problem if that retarded faggot didn't make his "town square" pay people for engagement, it turns out that it's more profitable for a third world brown loser to sit around spamming bullshit and scamming people on twatter for $2 a day than it is for them to get a real job in their shithole country.
>>726659887Yeah that would explain why not only the board but the whole site is so shit now- oh wait.
>>726667445I just cannot tolerate their cattiness, turns out most lolcow followers are borderline alogs
>>726667275Conclusion, not an argument. A conclusion that is not backed up by supporting evidence or any sort of rebuttal or contradictory information.
Am I a meme now?
>>726667451It sucks when you try and talk about a less popular game and you instantly get labelled a shill for doing so.
>>726667518The sad truth is most of the worlds problems could be solved by removing thirdies. And most aren't willing to accept that.
>>726666793>Now he just rides his bike insteadThat sounds really boring
>>726667309I guess you could say that sincerity died
>>726667156Pure, concentrated autism. It is a self-gatekeeping perpetual machine. /mlp/ is not a containment board, every other board is the containment board and exists to keep /mlp/ pure.
>>726667409No it wasn't lmao? It was just endless copy pasted sassy zingers from blacktwitter
>>726667518The average monthly salary in India is $400 USD. But Twitter payouts are so poor that they're not likely to even get to that, even if you have a tweet that tens of millions of people see. It isn't more profitable, but it is more accessible.
>GUYS /a/ is gatekeepy!!>/a/ has high post quality!!>/a/ has real moderation!!!!/a/ currently has two Naruto shipping threads on the catalog.
>>726665706Gookmoot for some reason moves in the opposite direction removing IP counter
>>726667616that's not what gets you labelled as a shill. it's the thing you're doing now.
>>726667409Twitter being nothing but pajeets arguing with eachother about burgeroid politics is kind of absurd, are they all paid shills or are they treating it like norfs treat a footy game?>CAM ON 'EMOCRATS BASH SOME FOKKING 'EDS SAARS
>>726667445how are the variety of topics? Only reason I'm here is because of niche discussion I can't find elsewhere.
>>726667664Still Americans talking with other Americans about America.
>>726667702Don't you have someone running storytime now?
>>726662774Several times we've seen one of the XIV schizos get banned, wiping 200 posts from the thread including many self-replies. And of course he ban evades and is back posting within a few minutes. There's genuinely no counter to such reckless faggotry.
>>726667702This is like Halo threads on /v/, if Halo hadn't self destructed into irrelevancy.
>>726660545I sincerely feel like vomiting when I see that thing.
>>726659769What happened 2021?
>>726667638Well I have to respect them for that, it is quite impressive.
>>726667451I know that feeling. You have to grow thick skin, but sometimes the barbs get through anyway.
>>726667373You think all the schizos actually buy 4chan passes? No smooth-brain thinks this lame verification process does anything. Go to fucking kiwifarms and see how easy it is to post something. Hell go to basedjack, THAT is how you do gatekeeping you cancerous retard.
>>726667784Yeah, the third Naruto storytime in five years is currently running.
>>726661632May as well add that one of my generals moved offsite entirely because some schizo(s) would just samefag, ritual post, and flood the thread. If there were people replying then it would've just been other schizos fellating each other. Not much you could really do about it since the mods protected them
>>726667751The standard is >Show video of some specific group doing something that is bad>"This is what America is now, I am ashamed of my country, we used to be better. Send them back!"That or pictures of 1990s nostalgia slop and "THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU"
>>726666793This is a big one.I used to spend literally hours browsing the net, looking at random shit, reading random webcomics and such back in 2010-2016, but these days I rarely spend much time online outside of listening to podcasts or music while I work out.On the plus side, it's let me make significant progress on my anime, vidya, and manga backlogs.
>>726667814>delirious post made by some underageb&>can't even save images properly
>>726667451Anon, people back then were waay more vicious, going from casual doxxing to pizza-to-the-door or diapers left in mail.
>>726667773And now it's still Americans talking with other Americans about America. Your /pol/ brainrot and Trump worship preventing you from treating hyphenated Americans as Americans doesn't make them any less American.
>>726667785Death squads are the only answer.Hunt them down and execute them in the streets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sJijxXt_d4thread song
>>726667398Ron Paul was an interesting figure because he fit so poorly into either of America's political molds>Weed? Hell, you should be able to smoke crack if you wanna>Gun control? The only gun control you need is a compensator for the machine gun you bought at Walmart>You wanna marry one of those ladyboys? Knock yourself out champ>Free speech? Why yes, I NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER>Black people? Not racist, I just don't like 'em>No, there should literally be no taxes or welfare whatsoever, if you're a shitter just starve. You think I'm kidding? I literally named my kid "Rand" lol get Shrugged on bitch>America should never go to war with anybody, it's always a waste of time, if you really want to get rid of Bin Laden then take that "I will pay you $20 million to kill him" contract seriouslyHe had something in his hat to piss off everyone in America, he was a hippie and a nazi simultaneously and he was completely sincere in hating George Bush, John Kerry, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
>>726667804SnK's extremely shitty ending
>>726666205in a certain way yes. what should be stopped isn't someone's taste but what and how they post. shonen threads on /a/ should be fine in theory but they have all devolved into /dbs/ tier cuckshit because people were on dbs threads to shitpost
>>726667928>thread songactual thread songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak
If the majority of the community responds to how your thread looks, how much it gives them the "ick," or nitpick about the format or some other such nonsense instead of the actual content of your post or discourse, then the board itself has a community problem. It's not a gatekeeping issue, it's not a low-quality post issue. It's a fucking community problem. Any community that focuses its priorities more on the superficial, on the "decorum," on the "way things should be done," instead of the actual crux the community itself is based around, then that is one retarded group of people with a skewed sense of priority.
>>726667805Its not, he's being ironic. The most recent post on that board was from 20 days ago. If /mlp/ was still active we would still have barneyfag and goodra copypasta on every board.
>>726667937That was 4 fucking years ago? Christ
>>726667931I mean there is a reason why he appealed to many posters, if solely for fun posting, well that and the core contrarianism many anons had.
>>726668003 beautiful duwang
>>726667931>because he fit so poorly into either of America's political moldsI mean, he's basically just a libertarian.Something that was very popular on 4chan before we (both the site and the western world in general) got overrun with third worlders.
>>726667702Naruto threads aren't even that bad compared to schizo containments like CSM and SnK. Old /a/ couldn't even fathom how terrible it can get
>>726667894
>>726667754Decent. You won't find anything super obscure probably but I've seen threads for Dragon's Dogma, Escape from Tarkov, Project Moon games etc. So probably not as good as 4chan but leagues better than something like r/games. >>726667573Most of the worst ones stick to their dedicated lolcow like a remora. But I can't entirely disagree. Still, I would take slight bitchiness and female coded behavior over insane schizos replying to themselves 50 times and hiding behind anonymity. Someone else recommended neogaf which is kind of the same dichotomy so I imagine others will feel the same way. No alternative will be perfect but I figured I'd throw out a rec.
>>726667937I didn't realize it was such a big happening to cause that large a spike
>>726668021>The most recent post on that board was from 20 days ago.Why even lie about something that anyone can easily check?
>>726668018Anon, caring about "decorum" is literally the modus operandi of 4chan. Why do you think the first thing everyone is told was "lurk more and dont post on the first day"
>>726659769Hope you realise this is a good thing.
>>726666618norms for how to post. you can have good quality discussion about bad topics if you manintain quality posts. imagine a world where you can enter /v/ and talk about something you dislike in a popular company or something you like in an unpopular company without being swarmed by retards being mad at your opinion
>>726668151Learn how to english before trying to larp.
>>726659769/a/ is doing fine. The threads that have lost traffic are mainly the shounenshit ones, and that’s a good thing.If you looked at 4stats a few years ago, the fastest threads were almost all shounenshit, mainly SNK and DBS. However, SNK’s ending was a massive disappointment, so no one wants to talk about it anymore. /dbs/ (one of the worst generals on the entire site) used to hit bump limit like five times a day, but the lack of new content plus having a dedicated mod finally killed it. Now a single thread can last for days.Other shounenshit shows have lost relevance too: Boruto’s anime is dead and nobody cares about the manga, Bleach is seasonal now so there’s no weekly episode discussion anymore, BNHA and JJK ended, the CSM anime flopped hard, etc. As a result, tourists and crossboarders don’t have any reason to show up anymore because they mainly consume shounenshit.In other words, /a/ is healing.
>>726668021You sure? I just checked and while it is slow it is at least still active enough to have had a few dozen posts today
>>726667931You need another Teddy to have a third party option
>>726668234>zoomers once again defining words based on what suits them instead of what they're supposed to mean
>>726668101the lolbert to nazi pipeline got highlighted pretty hard when browns get involved and start moving into your country en-masse
/a/ died when they started allowing pseudo-generals. Now the entire front page are shounenshit generals but they're allowed to stay purely because they haven't got the word "general" in the subject and they don't link back to the previous thread.
It really is astounding how much garbage there is on the board. Feels like I have nearly half the threads hidden or filtered at any given time>Screencaps of twitter posts>Screencaps of youtube videos>Screencaps of game journo opinion pieces>Screencaps of fucking steamcharts numbers>Vapid "what are some games where you ____?" threads that are very blatantly just an excuse to ERP and dump sexy images>Political ragebait that's only tangentially related to video games>The ever-present console wars circlejerking from retards who treat corporations the way they treat political parties...and at least one or two other flavours of cancer I'm probably forgetting to mention. Feels like I'm playing whack-a-mole every time I open the catalog
>>726668256>/a/ is doing fine.Lol, lmao even. /a/ is a shit hole and not in the fun way.
>>726668256Reminder that Hiro mismanaged 5ch and that site is just as dead as 4chan. Most of the 5ch posting happens in 2-3 threads and 4chan is following that trend.
I got a question: why do you (YOU) personally come here? When everythings degraded beyond the point of redemption? Hard Mode don’t say everywhere else is worse because 4chan feels like a mirror extension of social media hellscapes and Tiktok.
>>726666618Please point out the definitelynotgeneral threads that you hold dear to your heart
>>726668256You're an idiot.The most active threads on /a/ (excluding imagedumps) are>One Piece General>Loli OP>One Punch Man General>Precure General>One Punch Man General>Chainsawman General>Jujutsu Kaisen General>Isekai General>WSJ GeneralIt's all cancer.
>>726661970I keep asking this, but I never get an answer. what is the final solution to schizo question?
>>726668440It seems you can't keep up. I already said /a/ died a decade ago.
>>726668308>>726668234
>>726668151This may be true to an extent, but /a/ takes it to the extreme. The point where it becomes a tedious chore to post. Imagine FFXIV. Now imagine Savage/Ultimare Raids. Posting on /a/ is like doing Savages full time. Suddenly, playing FFXIV feels like a grind, a job. After a while, the whole game becomes not fun at all. If I were to post on /a/ regularly, I'd quit 4chan forever.Probably a great idea actually to anyone who DOES want to quit 4chan forever.
>>726668407>why do you want to be around stuff that's happeningWhat a stupid question.
>>726668496I'm talking about threads not the board as a whole.
>>726659887>not a single spike or even uptrend in 2016Election tourists aren’t real
>>726668407Bro I lurked here back in late 2003 when I was still in primary school I don't know any other place to go.
>>726668534The threads are what make up the board retard.
>>726666929>>726667161>>726667335I have no idea how terrible your life must be to be defending gacha games on /v/. The worst part is that it's probably the worst ones, the chinese ones
>>726668407I go here because it's not a social media site. The problem is every other niggerfaggot that's been coming to 4chan within the past 11 years is obsessed with social media and bring their shit here like rats carrying a disease.
>>726668407Owning /pol/tards. It's so easy to just post some interracial porn and see their meltdown.
>>726667924Indians pretending to be Americans to make Americans mad for money will never be Americans.
>>726668407Any other place will ban me for wrongthink
>>726668407I cling to good memories because I'm maladapted faggot
I've noticed engagement dropping massively on lots of other sites, I feel like everyone's only talking to ChatGPT these days because it tells you only what you want to hear
>>726668338>>726668101There are two lolbert pipelinesOne for lolberts who really loved guns and saying the N wordAnd one for lolberts who really loved weed and gay rightsTrashman went on CNN and literally admitted that he hates Trump more than he loves freedom so the whole lolbert thing was over
>>726668407Very rarely, there's still a good thread in here to participate in. I also mostly go on /gif/ and /wsg/ for the vids.
>>726668407I guess it's mainly to find weird obscure stuff you never see discussed anywhere else. Frankly the site has become near unusable lately with the amount of conservative retards turning every thread into "MUH GOOD OLE DAYS" nostalgia masturbation. I never thought that I'd see idiot boomer 50s nostalgia happen for the 90's and 00's yet here we are.
>>726668570Yes, and I fucking asked YOU what threads you oh so love. So stop dodging and answer the question
>>726666551I think your conception of Gacha is still stuck in 2016.Nowadays they're more like offline MMOs.The audience is people who play things like FF14, Xenoblade etc. It's really no different content wise other than a different pricing model. You can say you hate those games too or whatever but the fact is most gacha topping the charts these days aren't anime girl png autobattlers anymore.
>>726668694I don't "love" any threads in /a/. I figured that would be obvious.
>>726668680>I guess it's mainly to find weird obscure stuff you never see discussed anywhere else.Nothing that is discussed here is weird or obscure, and any discussion you find here will inevitably be better on other sites.
>>726661564>thread IDhonestly the only good thing about /biz/, /pol/, etc.just give everyone an ID per thread so I can at least nuke retards who keep shitting up convos with their rage baity no argument bullshit.
>>726668725Oh so just another poser, okay
>>726668680What are you smoking?
>>726668657it's a damn shame we've all been psyop'd into these counter-productive extremist positionsit really feels like there's just no way out regarding the shitshow that modern politics has turned into
>>726668652The internet is such a commercialized, AI hellhole that people are using it less and less. Forums also well, they died too. Online gaming sucks because everyones a sensitive pussy or wants you to join their discord server full of trannoid pedophile monkeys. Its funny how the pendulum swings back.
>>726668407I refuse to use platforms where a content algorithm determines what I get to see.
>>726668652Everyone is on shitcord
>>726668407I can't say nigger or retard on other sites without getting banned or screeched at. And as much of a hivemind this place can be, the lack of any upboat-based algorithm gives dissenting opinions more visibility.
>>726668134>Project Moon games etc.hmmm might check it out then. Do you still need to use a VPN to browse so you don't get doxxed by the trannies that hate the site?
>>726668792There's nothing to like on /a/. That was my point. I'm not going to pretend I like chapter dump threads, or autistic insular generals, or twitter screencap threads, or anything else, because that's all that exists on /a/.
People REALLY need to read all the internet rules and not just rule34.
>>726659834unironically the end of the worldstagnation and time frozen ever since
>>726668407no accounts and thus no algorithm
>>726668134PM turned into a joke buddy. LC was their last decent, albeit buggy, game
They should honestly just take the risk of making a general spinoff board for /a/. It'd either completely kill /a/ or help it regain it's identity.
>>726668721>MMOs but without the thing that makes them funwhat the fuck. that's somehow even worse
>>726668394>Favorite ongoing series releases a new chapter>Thread is made>Gets to bump limit with quality discussion over the course of a day or two>Thread dies until next chapterLiving the dreamPeople should really realize generals are the antithesis of quality
>>726664309Is /vrpg/ still mostly autistic arguments over what is and isn't an RPG?
>>726668954
>>726668467One Punch Man (manga) threads have been long dead. Only the absolute trainwreck of season 3 has ignited some activity
>>726669070MMOs were never good. A genre for the masses
>>726663721/a/ has been dying a slow death alongside the anime industry, which has just stopped producing much of anything aside from seasonal shounen slop, isekai and direct-to-streaming garbage. There's just nothing to discuss if you aren't a nostalgia-addled autist that can continue sperging over Code Geass into your 30s or an unironic fan of isekai and shounen.4chan slowly being overtaken by bots and indians is much more visible there than anywhere else, because the board has slowed down so much the inorganic posting stands out so much more.
>>726666205/a/'s problem was not enough gatekeeping.
>>726668770>>726668801You don't see it much anymore, it's true, but it used to be pretty common to find interesting shit that very few knew about by keeping an eye on /v/. I got into Falcom based on a 2012 steam sale recs thread for instance. 7,62 High Calibre, Ghost Trick and 999 (back when they were obscure), Thief Fan Missions, these are all things I love that I got into thanks to this godforsaken site.
>>726669061I liked Ruina, Limbus and its Marvel-tier story killed my interest.
>>726667373> the definition of "gatekeeping" is: things I dont like
>>726668940We don't want tranime here
>>726659769The sharty leak made people find other altchans and they decided to stay there.I for one have like 3 saved I always have tabs on, I just keep using this garbage because it's the most active one.
>>726669069It would kill /a/.There is no anime community on 4chan or whatever, and nobody is coming to 4chan for anime. Splitting /a/ would just cause this to happen>people make generals on a theoretical /ag/>the non-schizo but still retarded members of those threads leave /ag/ to have "better discussion" on /a/>thread schizos occupy all threads for their series on /a/ and /ag/>drop in traffic on /a/ itself means nothing as the only posters on /a/ are from /v/That's it. /a/ would just become more and more like /v/. Generals would still be there but now with bases of operation that keep up a delusion of their "containment'".
>>726669061>me when Im a retarded contrarianLC was only worth playing through because of the storyRuina's gameplay is leagues better
>>726669242>>726669148see >>726668308
does anyone have that post with image of that guy with beard holding up wine and saying eat shit i think it was arguing with holes
>>726666140>go to nu/k/ one week>threads about current war are allowed to exist>go to nu/k/ the week after>threads about current war are 404'd near-instantly>go to nu/k/ two weeks after>threads about current war are allowed to exist againi think nu/k/ has a mod/janny infighting problem or something honestly with how inconsistent they are over there
>>726661632FF14niggers still shit up the catalog constantly so no
>>726659834Obama reelected, staining the space time continuum. Without racism to power them, gamers briefly gave up in despair before rallying to eventually decisively win the war.
>>726668407Because I'm too lazy to log in.
>>726669069I don't see how this would help when /v/ still has generals despite its numerous spin-offs.
>>726665804The real redpill is that the Naruto ban should have extended to ALL shonen equally. Going "w-well I like this one :3" allowed brown third worlders to get a foothold through Dragon Ball and take over the whole board. But /a/ was always hypocritical about that. The targetted persecution of Narutards specifically worked for a while when Naruto was one of the biggest things but it soon backfired when /a/ didn't change with the times and still thought only a Naruto ban was enough despite the series' decreasing relevance.
>>726659769people stop coming as often because /pol/tards make every thread about politics, even if you agree with them it gets boring
>>726665765Libertarians were saying "I want gay couples to be able to defend their marijuana plants with machine guns" 15 years ago Anon.
>>726669090Yep.
>>726661806lol >what gameif you can read, it's /v/>board timeline>posts per day
>>726669420Naruto wasn't liked because of its fans. That's it.Bleach and OP had legitimate roots in /a/ culture. Naruto didn't.
>>726669504>if you can read>it's /v/Maybe you should try reading
Who here first started visiting in 2010 in the puddi era?
>>726669090>People should really realize generals are the antithesis of qualityzoomers require constant interaction
>>726664028Covid really changed the internet. It's like if a high tide came and went, but it eroded some places.Sure the bots, sure the indians, but I bet the real reason is that normies made people run to discords and they never left.
>>726659887tsmt
>>726660030>starting trad familieskwabablooey
>>726661246Shitskin Jannies ban you for the most inane reasons. they're all either jeets or trannies. Your point is moot
>>726668407This site discusses a lot of niche topics that I don't get regular in depth discussion for anywhere else, it also has relative freedom as to what you can say and usually the fanbases on here are way less annoying than other sites in my opinion.
>>726669452Do libertarians also go into wild frenzies calling you Russian if you criticize the US military?Hell the prepper threads get attacked to death now. That's definitely new. Apparently only Russian domestic terrorists ever used the phrase "shtf"
>>726669263>>726665135>>726667638>>726668109>containmentI seen this word posted ad-nauseam for 17 fucking years now with different meanings. "Containment" (in the context of 4chan) doesn't do anything. A regular poster from one thread/board/site can go somewhere else without being identified, there's nothing stopping them from doing so. This is why we had tourists, this is why the endless summers happen, THIS is why the schizos keep samefagging this thread. USE YOUR DAMN BRAINS AND KNOW THAT NOTHING IS CONTAINED ESPECIALLY THE BAD ACTORS. The only thing stopping bad actors is a ip ban or a rangeban and there is not enough of that happening.
>>726663721/a/ really died. it used to be the board I hang around on all day. I think I left years ago when people started to post spoilers everywhere and the board is wholy unrecognizable today, full of retards discussing big three and similar trash/v/ was always kind of shit at least
>>726669516And that kind of thinking is why the board is now an unusable shonenspic playground>N-No this anime is /a/ culture! (I like it)All shonen with a popular dub is "a gateway anime of the worst kind" but again, I expect /a/ posters will NEVER admit they were wrong about this even though it's plain to see for anyone who doesn't have a retarded bias.
>>726668775How come every time I propose this people yell at me, and yet this guy at very least isn't told to kys himself?
>>726661632Why do mods and jannys like, just not do anything about them?
>>726669798No, the reason why it's like that is because everyone left. The only people posting on /a/ today, and for the past six years, have been /v/tards.
>NarutoLucky Star and Melancholy were the real final nails for /a/ and overall anime
>>726669839The gangstalkers follow you
>>726669905You're a normalfag
>>726666205This
>>726669798If you ask most zoomers, their first exposure to anime is probably through the abridged series.
>>726659769Massive newfaggot which started browsing in 2019, but one of the most consistent things I've seen about this site the last 6 years is any thread talking about how shit it is/can't talk to anybody consistently gets 400+ posts. Like, this is a mainstay, moreover than any kind of thread. Anons will consistently have loads to talk about the shittiness of this website, rather than, y'know, reply in a vidya thread.
>>726659769People are noticing most people on 4chan are bots and grifters. Why do you think they removed the IP counter?Everyone with a brain is using an altchan.
>>726669798You're just a seething Narutard mad that his community was cancerous and seen as cancerous for years.
>>726668407Mainly habit, but also become some of the slow boards and threads are nice and I'll get banned for doing anything elsewhere and I also don't want to have to make an account for shit.I think most of the people complaining about the decline in quality on 4chan are the people who just browse major active boards like /v/, /vg/, /pol/, /tv/, and /b/, and don't check out the less active niche boards where there's plenty of actual discussion to be had because a majority of this site's users are no better than the zoomers they make fun of when it comes to the need for constant stimulation from active threads and shitposting. If you don't mind only seeing a few new posts each day then there's plenty of great discussion to be had in slower threads and boards.
>>726669839Because your dissenters are waking up to the truth.
>>726670000>Everyone with a brain is using an altchan.Why are they so dead then?
>>726660545this is who encourages /pol/ to shit up the rest of 4chan BTW
>>726670000>Everyone with a brain is using an altchan.8ch lost 80% of its posters immediately after the hack ended, and every thread outside of /v/ is dead now.The only alts that really have any traction are the sharty and the /vt/ one.
>>726669991Here's one that'll really bake your noodle:Why do the spammers and schizos not show up to derail this thread?If only we could distill this ward and put it around other threads
>>726669839Do you perhaps go further than that guy and also want flags?
>>726670127Slow boards represent quality
>>726670127>shartyI flinch every time I remember there's a massive site for people who are too gay, subhuman and retarded for 4chanIt's like being such a nigger that you get deported from Africa
>>726670181Quality of room temperature milk.
>>726670028shitposters and schizos hit the slower traffic boards the hardest, /k/ and /tg/ have been rendered nearly unusable.
>>726670137>Why do the spammers and schizos not show up to derail this thread?People have trouble accepting this, but spammers and schizos do what they do (if they aren't obsessed with a specific thing, i.e., Barry) to "improve board quality". They shit things up to draw attention to how bad everything is or just out of spite. There's a reason why the sharty arose out of /qa/, a board people mistook as a feedback board (when it was just a board they forgot to close).
>>726670127>8ch lost 80% of its posters immediately after the hack endedDeserved, it's among the shittiest altchans anyway. The good ones are on the webring.
>>726669991>one of the most consistent things I've seen about this site the last 6 years is any thread talking about how shit it is/can't talk to anybody consistently gets 400+ posts.Eh, always has been.
>thread about "4chan dying" reaches bump limit in less than three hours>>726669991its easier to complain than to make a good thread
>>726670249>/tg/ dear god that board is terrible. I don't even think its shizos I think its mostly reddit/twitter crossposters
>>7266701818ch has about the same quality as here, just with 5 hours between posts instead of 5 minutes.The webring is just dead though. Maybe 10 posts a day on each site.Other places like wap are similarly dead too.
>>726663721Shit medium, shit board.No one has even come close to beat Vampire hunter D in animation this decade. Or even your average mecha show of that age.
>>726670137Have no fear, mods will delete this thread just as it's about to hit bump limit. Same as always.
>>726670026>You're just a seething NarutardSwing and a miss. I've never seen a single full episode of that show. I did watch Dragon Ball as a kid though. It's not hard to be objective about things.
>>726668407I'm mostly just posting in the Inazume eleven thread with the other ironic lolicons. No you cant post like a degenerate about it anywhere else besides discords
>>726670352I get it, you were shitting your pants while watching bad dubs on Toonami, and you never managed to move on from that formative experience.
>>726661632Half-chan literally went down for hours/days because of ONE schizo from /ffxiv/ that was mad that people were using the videogames board instead of the one he made (he was mad IDs were on)
>>726670341What about prolike?
>>726670237One of them did break the site and they gatekeep/verify even harder than most alts. I mostly agree, because I can't take sharty seriously, but those guys manged to preserve their idea of the oldfag spirit better than this shithole. When was the last time you heard from the hacker known as 4chan?
>>726670464sounds hilarious, qrd?
>>726670137I've noticed that too. There are a few bait replies in this thread, but no one bites.I guess they don't want to draw attention to it.
>>726659769>>726659887>election tourists leaving>phonefags bulled out by captchas4chan is healing
>>726670496>oldfag spirit>some embarrassing shit that was never actually real"Muh old 4chan" had adventures in hacking like /b/ DDOS'ing itself in its own stupidity.
>>726664153QRD?
>>726668407i've answered this question a lot so i'll make it short:OC. that's kind of it, really. i might dabble into making my own as well. also the porn
>>726670443>Doesn't even pretend to address the pointkwab
>>726670616>i might dabble into making my own as wellWe'll see
>>726659769Imageboards and any anonymous discussion boards in general, are not suitable for today's state of the Web mostly because of AI. They can be shat on very easily.I've been in alt imageboards adventure, and non-gossip imageboards and forums are pretty very slow with less than 50 per week from the same 10 people. And a lot of them had that CP pic and link thread in dead boards. I've seen one on funking Futaba.
>>726669798Shonentards are like gachatards where they get really huffy and snooty about their specific brand of slop and about how it's not like the other slop (even though it's all exactly the same).You will never convince a Bleach pseud that he's on the same level as a Naruto watcher just like how you'll never convince a JJK pseud that it's on the same level as MHA. Same shit different year. They're also all brown.
>>726670137Because they are in this thread complaining too and don't realize they are literally the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if a quarter of this thread is scum desu, we all just seem to agree. Personally, as bad as /v/ is, I legitimately think my home board /g/ is at least 100x worse currently. I ended up putting /v/ as my default now.
>>726659887you can literally see when all the biden election tourists raided the site
>>726670464Kill yourself 8gag tard. Go fellate each other with your permanent tripcodes
>>726670602>for two decades there has been an infamous pedophile with full dox out there that shits up websites he doesn't like with CP >reports his own posts to ISPs/cloudflare to try and get sites taken down>has done this to 4chan, KF, sharty, several boorus and catbox>despite his full dox being available he somehow hasn't been arrested>4chan mods are so incompetant that they reached out to KF's admin to help fix the problem>KF's admin has a solution in the works along with trying to get irl law enforcement to arrest the guy (assuming he isn't just a fed)
>>726665510There's a middle ground between shrieking at the sight of the female form and demanding they all be put in hijabs like Resetera and every thread being a thinly veiled softcore porn AGP ERP exchange like modern /v/. Like it or not the latter does kill discussion and makes people not involved in your little discord roleplay not want to post there.
>>726670580I mean the fucking jacks. I cannot wrap my mind at how many versions of a hand-drawn mspaint man can drive a community, nor the kind of person who consistently finds them amusing.
>>726663721/a/ didn't die, it was deliberately murdered.
>>726668472There is no good solution aside from making a website that by its very nature deters schizophrenics.
>>726670137We are tormented with figments of good thread to keep us on this accursed site
>>726660183>>726670103if youre a whiny leftist, why not use reddit?
>>726664865Here since 2005
>>726659887Trumpfags drove everyone off and now metastasize to kill another community.
b4k.dev doesn't seem to let me search before 2014 but I always lol when people pretend like this website used to be the pinnacle of quality but then you look in the archive and it's almost the same.Also funny when people try to deny that 4chan was a racist or rightwing website in the past and then you look in the archive and there are still threads and posts of people talking about how much they hate niggers or whatever.
>>726668407i get banned/shadowbanned everywhere else due to my antisemitic nature
>>726659769I am posting less and less and even lurking here less and less because there are unironically too many stupid people doing nothing but propagandizing and shitposting, on all boards. I’ve been here since 2006 and I seriously think unless they start moderating the site better this place is toast. I don’t even really like using the internet anymore, it seems less and less possible to engage in real discussion anymore.
>>726670971My Uncle trolled the comment section of the Fox News articles and the Washington Post for decades. I'd imagine they are a lot like him.
>>726670971>was a right winger once>did nothing>now I'm an evil left wing nazi-commieWords have no meaning.
>>726671021/t/ archives exist, oldfriend exists.>this website used to be the pinnacle of qualityCorrect, now please fuck off charlatan
>>726665992Gachas represent everything /v/ (and gamers as a whole) have traditionally hated, just with anime girl mascots. You'd be defending horse armor if it had a naked anime girl drawn on it.
>>726671021old.sage.moe for a handful of archived posts (without pics) from before 2010.
>>726670496>the oldfag spiritanytime i read a post like this i just get an image of a zoomer who learned about 4chan from youtube videos
>>726670971You have to log into Reddit and most the major subs are full of tourists anyway. It's like r/tea vs r/puer. Personally I hate logging in so much I just won't post. Even on hacker news I use a throwaway 99% of the time.
>>726671021
>>726670137Because this thread was already derailed in the second post. The narrative is already being set and the artificial consensus manufactured.
>>726668597>leftist has a cuck porn stashi saw the grass growing today
>>726665992>This is what lil Timmy believes in
>>726662547Can’t speak for others but I’m just not using the internet at all anymore. I’ll sometimes go for days now without engaging in or reading discussion. It’s ironic that as the world becomes ever more digitized I want to spend less and less time there. It unironically feels like white flight to the suburbs, but since there’s no suburbs online left the only option is just to go back to life before the internet.
>>726671208>just ignore the traffic stats proving it
>>726670834The sharty are trolls in the traditional sense that they literally just want to elict a reaction from people. If you seethe about the sharty, you're just feeding the trolls. That's why they're deliberate as obnoxious as possible. If people just ignored shartyfags and söyjak spam they would've stopped a long time ago, but because people would keep complaining about 'jaks, the sharty users knew they were getting a reaction and so they kept spamming.It's something that should be obvious but people have really forgotten how not to feed the trolls in this era.
>>726659769tranime is killing 4chan
>>726669839A lot of threads are generals and generals are full of autists bumping the thread every hour. I assume they're against IDs because they don't want others to see that 2/3 posts in any given thread are theirs.
>>726670137Because there isn't some spamming schizo faggot that's over himself with autistic hatred for board quality meta-threads..... yet. The usual suspects are at their usual haunts and don't care for this particular topic.
>>726669484I'LL TEAR YOU APART
>>726668394>see thread about anime/manga I don't like>start linking the new thread in the previous one>deleted I love this one though.
>>726671258this guy is a turd worlder btwmost schizos are
>>726671183>4ChanIt just infuriates me so hard
>>726671285>>It's something that should be obvious but people have really forgotten how not to feed the trolls in this era.>implying they ever knew how to not do this
>>726671273>instant kneejerk reply to avoid anyone getting the wrong idea™Who could've predicted this :0
>>726671285trolls will spend hours replying to themselves pretending to be multiple different people.
>>726671183>he still hasn't realized
>>726664865nope. I started coming here in 2016but NOT for the reasons you're probably thinking. I was hyped for the upcoming Pokemon games and wanted to join in on the fun on /vp/That place wasn't even particularly great back then but good lord it's so much worse than it used to be. Every third post is just shitty bait now.
>>726670834Just remind yourself that all Pepe and Wojak posters are actual feds and the children they're trying to groom.
>>726671378what do we do about the india problem?
>>726671378>blacked out of nowheremindbroken
>>726671415wow great argument faggotron, you sure showed me. you will always be a tourist btw
>>726671483Unironically a parallel internet. And it's inevitable, sooner or later western companies will be tired of being scammed by indians and will do something.
>>726665992You're brown, which means you should be on twitter. See ya!
We need to create a new Internet, where you have to prove you have white skin before being allowed on it.
>>726671483go back to /pol/ and jerk off daddy trump the blacked
>>726671483There are just as many shit bot accounts running in the USA too. You just have confirmation bias. The real answer is to stop using Xitter, nigger.
>>726671378this must be edited, how do you confirm this?
>>726661970>>726668472This more or less. I really wish you could just personally block user IPs or something like this. It would probably go a long way to making this place more tolerable. Even more so if you could share custom block lists.
>>726671483make country-exclusive social media sites since the language barrier for english is dead now
>>726670329There's some dude who keeps churning the catalog with nothing posts, and he's been doing it a long time, which makes having any kind of slow thread a lot harder than it ought to be. Some of the generals are OK but you still deal with the dedicated schizo problem, like bottom-anon or Manic in /btg/, who just post garbage, and retards who can't help but sperg out about Current Thing. I miss the old Nechronica threads.
>>726659769Good. I like slower 4chan.
>>726668937You just need a throwaway email really.
>>726671525Newfags having to invent a new insult to avoid saying a hecking homophobic slur and settling on tourist is the funniest shit :3
