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new fags will never know the joys of old 4chan
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>there will be newfags who came here after moot left
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>>120187463
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No because internet forum culture is widespread now. Now if anything catches on or stupid jokes happens it will be called leddit, shit, cancer and get hated to death.

A lot of the funny shit on old 4chan existed because laxed moderation. You all bitched about shitposting and lack of moderation and in 2010 we got stricter mods and now that kind of shit can't exist here anymore.
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>>120187651
Because it stopped being fun and started being genuinely malicious.
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>I'm proud of being an older form of cancer

>Pokemon
Fuck off
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this isn't OLD old /a/ but it's kinda old.

Ore Imo came out 7 years ago
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>>120187678
>>120187550
>>120187343

4chan before reddit was just reddit humor.
Than reddit stole everything fun and made it uncool and now we have a more advanced form of sarcastic maymays.
Than when they take that were making something else
At the end of the day were the best at OC

Ps old 4chan wasnt good and albino black sheep tier
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>>120188160
You wouldn't understand the sentiment behind it if you weren't there.
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>>120188296
Naw I was there
I'm just being edgy
We would hate it now though
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>>120188349
Yes, because we all grew up. Not sure when you were here, but I'm just being a pretentious 2009 faggot. Although I do feel like an oldfag because I used to have hundreds of megabytes of oldfag shit that was passed on by some oldag, and all I did was sit down and read that stuff day after day while browsing.
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I've been here almost since day one.
I remember the "No U" wars over Asuka and Rei.
I remember the very first WEG and the very first halloween anime character comic.

I paerticipated in a lot of (but missed some of) the Write an ANime Plots, to the point it almost poisoned my writing for that one particular plit that comes up over and over.

I have liked that image of Sakura with a fish since day one - it was funny as hell at the time, especially if you took it as a euphemism that she liked her "tuna raw"

I can't count all the times I have trolled the board, throwing back people's own incomprehensible fallacies as the other side's arguments, to the point the original idiot abandoned the thread

I have seen crossover threads with characters asking for permission to combine, to be sent to /r/
I also remember his first birthday post for Asuka, even though he's a closet Rei fan.

I also remember mootikins being cordial nice, and accommodating to our demands to make 4chan better, even through people calling him a faggot or jew, sometimes in alternating oscillations.

So Moot, if you are reading this, I really hope you don't give up 4chan for so long - I'd rather see you come back and be one of us fuckers that can be banned, so you can actually enjoy this hideous, wonderful beast you have created.

Good night, sweet princess. May your way be as straight and narrow as Subaru riding on Rainbows, and may you return to us older, wiser and ready to kick ass, take names, and share a beer or two while doing so.
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Oh 4chan. I remember the days you made me want to fucking off myself.
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The geass slowpoke, I wish I'd saved that one.
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>>120189639
I missed this - I was going to say "ooh - Burn!" but the thread got deleted...
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>>120189721
I thought that one made it to the archives.
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>>120189471
>tfw I used to listen to Loveline on the radio around the same age that moot made 4chan
Ohhhh, would you look at that?

It's raining.
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>>120189721
Here ya go, anon. Keep it close to your heart.
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>>120187343

I remember coming here in 07 and people used to say the same thing.
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>>120189559
>That pic
Why does it hurt so much?
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>>120188160
Nah brah. Back then we were all just acting retarded, trolls were actually decent and there was a lot of OC being made. Now people are just in it for the dank memes.
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>>120190007
>tfw this guy no longer waifus asuza
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>>120189639
It's incomplete tho.
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>>120187651
This. Like it or not 4chan has influenced internet culture as a whole. Maybe this was bound to happen regardless of how the community handled itself, but it certainly expedited it's endgame.
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God I can't believe I still have uidrew's picture too.
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>>120187449
>There are probably already people who came here after moot left.
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>>120190265
Meant to >>120190007
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>>120190007
Same shit back in 05
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>>120190265
Why do you still have an outdated picture of me?
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>>120187651
I can agree to that. Much less off-topic stuff was present on boards after sometime in 2010.
I just wish I got back into chinese cartoons earlier than I did, if only to have a reason to go to /a/ earlier than I inevitably did.
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http://youtu.be/S0PahJ5MQ34
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>memes
>allowed on /a/
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>>120190062
Dunno but I really want to fucking kill myself because I know I will never find my revy. ;_;
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>>120190007
I started coming here in 04 and I was one of those people whining about newfags in 07. But there's always been complaining about newfags and the permanent summer.

I just feel sad for any comr/a/de who wasn't here for the incredibly fun weekly Gurren Lagann threads.
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>>120190424
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>>120190384
go away.
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>>120190458
I remember the last episode, might have been second-last, livewatch threads getting bombarded with CP to this very day
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>>120190511
No.

I hope you don't browse nepgen.
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>>120190411
>/l/
;_;
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This was all funny back then because it wasn't fucking everywhere.

There were no shitty videos of Smosh or Game Grumps or OneyNG cartoons of pokemon shit when this was happening on 4chan. No one had made a generator for advice animals, no one had a rage comic builder, everything was still original and unique and you did it all yourself in paint or photoshop.
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.>> 2 YEARS FVROM NOW MOST /A/NONS WONT KNOW WHO MOOT IS
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>>120187343
Enjoy.
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>>120190411
>putting sage in every field no longer works

Anyway I have a couple of odds and ends like this.

These days I always try to save any thread caps from before 2009 because so much history is lost now.
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>>120187550
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>people could samefag an entire thread because there werent as much people and there wasnt captcha and the post timer was shorter
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>>120190583
But will they know how much you hate Lain?
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>>120190073
Do you have any idea how mad these new/younger "trolls" make me. It's not even for the reasons they think
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>>120190583
Most people know who Snacks was
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>>120188055
no it didn't...
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>>120190007
The whole convincing yourself your time wasn't wasted thing starts rather quickly.

>>120187769
Because 4chan stopped being a home base. Now you see many people admittedly coming here just for X or to dump their agenda/daily shitpost thread, and crawl back to where they came from.
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>>120188055
Old /a/non here.

Oreimo S1 was the last good year on /a/ for me. Left for /mu/ after that.

>>120188160
Our more ironic style of humor has completely permeated gaming culture now though due to the fact we all have steam. So many dank ironic le may may vids on le youstwitch xD.
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>>120190652
How was the general reception to captcha, anyway? How long did people bit about it for?
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>>120187449
There's probably gonna be a huge influx of people coming to check the site out after all the publicity moot's departure has brought it
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>>120190652
haha this
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>>120190824
captcha was put in because of the fucking boxes. It was necessary evil.
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>>120190874
>the fucking boxes
I almost forgot about those.
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>>120190694
>new trolls
U MAD U MAD BRO U MAD
OH U SALTY M8

Oh, and none of them know anything about actually invading or hacking and just dox then swat people. 10/10. Amazing.
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>>120190824
>>120190874
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>>120190149
Yeah, then he says something like 'chill guys! I thought it was scar.
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>>120187343
I have to admit the time before waifufags /a/ was actually pretty cool but the cutefags and the romancefags and the lolifags are nothing new. /a/ has always been shit.
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>>120190951
Give m ea fuckinh name /jp/
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>>120190824
>>120190874
Captcha got put in because a bot named Cornelia was literally taking over 4chan. You had to save some image as 4chan dot hta and run it, and once you did if you were on windows it shitposted as this bot Cornelia until you turned the pc off. Outside of /a/ and /jp/, which didn't run the shit as much, everythread on every board was this shit at its peak.

/jp/ had named the bot and was teaching it how to shitpost about touhou. I'm not even lying.
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>>120190991
FUCK OFF /co/cksucker.
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>>120190438
Only one way to find her, I suppose.
To Somalia I go!
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>>120190424
>We don't do memes
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>>120191071
>You had to save some image as 4chan dot hta and run it
But why the fuck would anybody do that?
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>>120191132
A lot of people are either very bored or very stupid.
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Seeing the reactions to an episode is always fun.
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>>120191115
please tell me you have the bros b4 hoes car with ed

I deleted my old /a/ folder.

>>120191132
idk if you're new or young, but cyber security wasn't as big of an issue for the average PC user at the time.
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>>120190073
>>120190694
>>120190949
this, trolling used to have meaning now all they do is act full retard with memes
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>>120191132
It was funny!
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>>120191234
>you will never headbutt your mirror again
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>>120191132
START WITH ME

COPY ME TO PAINT

SAVE ME AS

HATERS.HTA

TYPE: BITMAP

AND OPEN THE FILE
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>>120191256
>idk if you're new or young, but cyber security wasn't as big of an issue for the average PC user at the time.
I'm new, but I knew what an hta file was long before I started watching chinese cartoons. Hell, even some old Windows tours and shit came in that format.
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Do you remember this, /a/?

It wasn't the longest thing we did ago, but it was fun.
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>>120191071
>teaching it how to shitpost about touhou. I'm not even lying.
I mained /v/ back then for the most part, but that I think even then I would've believed that.
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>>120187343
epic namefags m9!
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>>120191292
Those fuckign 2009-2010 ads...

T-shirts and clothed underage facebook girls in porn ads on /b/. moot said he was ashamed of it. That's to say the fucking least.
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>>120191332
Has any other show caused analysis on that level since?
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>>120187343
Are there actually people that think having old /b/ screencaps makes you an oldfag?

Those "epic threads" got posted to hell and back on ebaums, funnyjunk, and the other reddits of 2006.
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Oh, memories.
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Old 4chan was shitty as new one.
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>>120191384
I can't really say j-list is that much better, but at least it is slightly better.
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>>120191374
He leaves off the wanting porno and the pant.su domain name part when he tells people that story now.
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2006 and 2007 were the golden years of 4chan, prove me wrong.
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>>120191424
Penguindrum symbolism
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>>120191545
THEY'RE HACKERS ON STEROIDS
There was a really shitty horror movie a while back, chainletter, and in the background they have the video playing, thought it was pretty funny.
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>>120187343
I came after because of shit like that, not sure why the people after ever showed up?
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>>120187343
>joys
There is a reason why pokemon became 4chan first dedicated containment board.
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>>120190743
SOME LITERFAL WHO

>>120190679
NAH MAN I REWATCHED IT AND I ACTUALLY LIKED IT THAT TIME IT WAS P GUD
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>>120191374
>I don't like a man who can't keep his word

Oh, moot. What happened? you got cucked?
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All good things have to end someday.
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>>120187651
This. Everybody loves to say that this place went to shit but don't even realize they were the ones digging.
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>>120191486
I said I feel like one. And it wasn't just "epic threads". It was a ton of shit. Basically what you see everyday.
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>>120188421
Upload it please.
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If reddit didn't spread our epic memes everywhere do you still think we'd use them now, on this site?
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>>120192078
I'm a retarded OCD faggot. I regret a lot of my actions. I basically delete anything "I have no use for" anymore to keep my computer and files organized, which I decided to stop doing not too long ago. All that content I had was six years ago and I've gone through like three harddrives and computers since then. I wish I saved all my memories. Not just on 4chan, but the rest of my life.

>>120192193
No, because we genuinely came to hate them after growing older and a little bit more normal each day.
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I almost wish that I would have started browsing /a/ after I left /b/ instead of /sp/ back in 2010.
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>>120192223
I had full /a/ content from 2007-2010
Full /mu/ content from 2010-2012
full /v/ content for the entire period

all in a 4chan folder I'd dragged across 4 pcs.

Hard drive failed. I keep a raid array now.
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>>120192382
When did the HD fail?
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>>120190622

Endless 8 was an experience that cannot possibly be matched, nor appreciated outside of the context of the moment. The build up to each week's episode in the sequence, the differences from episode to episode, hoping against hope that the cycle would break.

I am so glad I was able to share that experience with a few friends. We'd watch them together on a shitty old couch fresh and unspoiled.

Endless 8 was fucking genius, as frustrating as it was at the time. I am legitimately sad that after the initial airing, the episodes are a pure annoyance rather than what they were.
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>>120192269
Never got actual context to this picture
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>>120192382
>full /v/ content
No mere hardware can withstand that much cancer. Do you hate your computer?
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>>120191374
>"Four-Chan" doesnt sound as catchy
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Shit I feel old
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNMHxqJp6A
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>There are people that seriously weren't here for Code Geass, TTGL or Food Anime
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>>120194547
Newfag here. Only started watching thing weekly with /a/ since 2012.
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>>120194495
We /jp/ now?
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>>120194547
>there are people who seriously weren't here when 4chan was founded

Get a load of this fucking casual.
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Why the old interface is so shit?
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>there were people who weren't here for latenight Bleach rp threads
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>>120194331
RIP raptor jesus.

Old meme thread?
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Remember when there wasn't a concept of "Generals" or "Keep it in one thread"
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>>120194672
>Bleach
>RP
Disgusting.

>latenight
Remember when we actually believed that nighttime /a/ was better than daytime /a/? Good thing this notion also became a relic of the distant past.
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>>120194607
In the land before time, there was no distinction between /jp/sy and /a/non. They built a tall tower to seek the truth beyond the mootgate. But the tower was struck down, and the tribes became unable to communicate with one another.

Good riddance.
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>>120194885

yeah...

Too many users for that type of fun now.

remember the non-stop lazy town threads on /b/?
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>>120194920
Yeah, I actually don't notice much of a difference in quality at night. The board just slows down.
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>>120194885
Yes because that was also the time where you posted a rely to a thread in the beginning of a day, checked back later at night and still saw the same thread in the front page with two or three more replies.
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>>120194920
It actually was better when traffic was low.

But now traffic has grown so much, late night means nothing because constant stream of people negates the effect of civilized discussions.
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>>120194764
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>>120195007
>don't
Well, if you're doing the comparison now, that might be a problem.
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>>120195080
I was of course talking about present day /a/. Unless you mean tonight?

I mean just in general, anytime I've spent 12 hours browsing /a/ from the afternoon to early morning, I haven't noticed the quality change to any considerable degree when it gets to the late hours.
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>>120195158
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>>120194885
>"Keep it in one thread"
People have been complaining about certain shows flooding the board since Gundam SEED Destiny. Even Gurren Lagann and Code Geass had a vocal group who constantly complained about people spamming the boards over every plot development. Those shows used to actually cause the board to completely spill over in threads complaining about Rossiu, making for some funny screenshots and rendering discussion on any other show impossible for a few hours. The only difference is that anons have got more anal about it. Nowadays you have complaints if there are two threads about the same show.
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I desire to relive this.
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>>120195374
6 years later and it's still funny.
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>>120195450
A short combo of five images.
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>>120195478

broken by posts of people who do not care.
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>>120195406
It's a rare occurance, but it kills me when I see a piece of history here that I don't recognize/wasn't a part of.
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>>120195508
even forgetting the image thinking I'll be clever
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>>120195538
In the end it never works the way I want it.
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>>120187343
if that's supposed to be illustrative of high quality posting, it isn't
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>>120195454
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>>120195522
You don't know pain. I came to /a/ a year ago despite being on the site since 2009, and it burns me up inside to know how much I missed. I don't even deserve to post in the moot threads.
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>>120195567
MARNING RESKEW
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>>120195599
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>>120195592
You sound a lot like me. I've been here since 2009 but on /a/ for two years. I got a look at /a/ back then but of course it doesn't count.
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>>120195592
You shut your whore mouth, Anon.
You really want to weep?
Think of how few people, years from now, will remember this day.
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Many years later and you're all still gay faggots.
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>>120195663
>Think of how few people, years from now, will remember this day.

That will depend on what happens to 4chan.
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>>120195663
When did this happen? It's very familiar but I don't think I was here for the OC.
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>>120195662
Reading through archived Endless Eight threads was suffering.
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>Browsing this thread while that song is playing
>Recognize and laughing at some of the screencaps of memories while it's raining
I miss older /a/ so much.
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>>120195681
>2011
What do you mean many years later?
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>>120195794
Link some?
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>>120195406
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>>120195828
Too lazy. Find them yourself.
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>>120195805
I mean you've always been gay faggots.
But you guys masturbating in that one thread really took the cake.
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>>120187343
>That samefagging

Holy shit old 4chan is truly cancerous
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Old /a/ was fun.
Current /a/ isn't.
/a/ has forgotten their roots.
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>>120190594
Are there anything larger? Or is that it?

And do you have the original one with Misty?

I now have the urge to try and put it to the song itself. Maybe as a webm at least.
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>>120195914
It's always funny to me when people complain about how /a/ "used to" be a lot harsher on posts that weren't completely properly punctuated with perfect grammar, etc., because it clearly wasn't that way.

Now that /a/ has so many more users than it did years ago, a vigilant focus on maintaining post quality is practically necessary, and I don't deny that, but we shouldn't forget where we began.
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>>120195972
I mean, are there any larger images, and if so, where might I obtain them.
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>>120195734
It will never be un-diluted.
Time flows in one direction.
We came here as a sanctuary from identity, from a world were "be[ing] yourself" hurt.
Being yourself is really the only thing you really can do here.
But now... now it's all diluted to hell. We still find each other occasionally in the tumult... but it's hard.
The world that we ran from... that was drowning us... has bled into our sanctuary.
I think I've learned to swim, and I suppose I'll find out... I hope you guys have as well. I really do.
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>>120195681
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>>120195681
i don't know about you, but the captcha would be a real boner killer for me
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>>120187449
>I've been here since 2015
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>>120187651
I'm a newfag, but this is blatantly obvious. There's no "fun" anywhere anymore, it's all serious business because there are so many normalfags on the internet now. I wish things were like they used to be, where there wasn't so much paranoia, and people followed the "when in rome" mentality more. Now people make it really fucking apparent that they're from other sites and only come for a specific thing.
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>>120196004
Yeah, this. /a/ didn't need to have a stick up it's ass back then because things were different. Now it's necessary to enforce a culture of, for example, making posts with proper grammar, because that's what helps filter out the newfags and retards now.
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all my 4chan memories kind of blur into one
I can't believe I've been here for eight years
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>>120196116
They're only dick crazy sluts on Fridays.
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I don't know what year to refer to myself as first coming here in. I didn't start regularly coming to /a/ until probably 2012, but I had spent time in /b/ for a while before that. I just wish I could have been here earlier. I won't deny that I've had a lot of fun, but everything seems too strict now that the userbase is so large.
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>>120190880
>bill 156
Holy fucking hell how did I not know about this. Is that why there's literally no more gore and shit in anime? I thought Japs just grew with the times.
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>>120196211
Except that doesn't work and hasn't worked ever.
We just needed to keep being ourselves and continued to lash out against recommendation threads.
It's our fault /a/ is so shit, because of these 'standards' we suddenly decided to hold ourselves to.
We're a bunch of weird ass, lewd loving faggots and we stopped embracing that.
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2007 and prior were years when bullshit wasn't tolerated.
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On the topic of newfags.
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>>120196211
There is a difference between having a post with terrible grammar, and having fun.

>posting in an epic bread
Memetic, but acceptable

>hai this is my first tiem on teh 4chinz XD how r u my faborit animes is Nuruto
Not ok.

Post quality doesn't need to be adhered to all the time, but in normal discussion, which DID happen back then, it wasn't only epic memes, it is important to have at least acceptable grammar.
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>>120196338
>We're a bunch of weird ass, lewd loving faggots and we stopped embracing that.

That definitely still applies to /a/.
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>>120190880
>Puddi was four years ago
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>>120190622
jesus christ bakemonogatari was 2009?

I always thought it as one of "newer" anime.
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Funny how sage is hidden to prevent hurt feelings these days.
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>>120196408
Feelin' old yet anon?
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>>120196338
The problem is people from other sites tend to be themselves when they go here, which is really annoying. It's not that we stopped being ourselves the past few years, it's just that the influx of newfags try to force their norms on /a/ instead of adapting the inherent culture of the site.
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>Moot retiring
>Naruto ended
What's next? Everything I couldn't imagine has happened. I'm actually terrified.
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>>120196408
>VGmemes
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>>120196408
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>>120196210
>>120196211
>>120196338
If only normalfags didn't start using the Internet en masse--then we wouldn't have ever needed to worry about this shit at all.

Fuck, I'm scared. There's going to be a day when /a/ is gone or truly becomes unredeemably shitty and when that day comes, I don't know where we're going to go.

I've been here for so many years, called so many people faggots and niggers, formed so many connections, had so many good times... 4chan has been with me through the most formative years of my life, through the good and through the bad. (I mean, who wasn't underage when they first started browsing this place?)

4chan and /a/ mean so much to me, and moot's departure is a sign that things can't remain the same--that everything in life, including the things we care the most about, are transient and impermanent. It's a reminder that everything, good or bad, has an ending. Most of the time, we replace things in our lives with better things as time goes on, but 4chan is so unique, so ineffably different and strange, that I can't envision anything ever replacing it.

Damn it, moot, you were a faggot, but you were OUR faggot.
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>>120196223
Same. I dont even remember what it was like honestly. Everything is just a blur. I don't even remember major events.

Steins;Gate final was particularly memorable though. And me finally being brave enough to comment on a thread after a year or so of lurking back in 2008.

You guys weren't so bad after all ;-;
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>>120196516
shut up nigger
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>>120196576
Yeah, fuck you too, you huge fucking faggot.
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>>120196424
>FMA:B started airing in 2009

>>120196385
We contain ourselves.
Maybe it's evened out over the last couple months that I've been trying to avoid /a/, but threads didn't get jacked nearly as much and stuff like recommendations tended to get serious answers quickly.

>>120196439
Again, containing.
We'd rather insult each other and shitpost than have fun.
And don't deny it, we're all jaded lately.
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>>120196516

Yea just like what everyones been saying for years now.

Just get on with it.
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>>120196516
I would have committed suicide years ago if it weren't for this site.
We have grown up. Together. In the weirdest way.
But we are out there. Few, but there. Don't forget that.
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>>120196516
>I don't know where we're going to go.
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>>120196576
>>120196602
Stop flirting here you homos.
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>>120196610
I have fun discussing anime and manga, which often has it's own shenanigans and OC involved.
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>>120196372
>played in a team sport
>have tried recreational drugs
>had a girl say she loves you
>not fat
>held at least one birthday party

I think context plays a huge part in whether you're a normalfag or not. For instance, I did track in middle school because mom said I needed to make friends. I tried smoking weed a few times trying to do the same thing. I used to hold hands with in 3rd grade and she said she loved me, the last time I talked to her was when she rejected me and said she was a lesbian when I was 13; and I've always been embarrassed by how skinny I am. When you say birthday party, do you mean EVER, or like a "grown-up/teenager" party? The last birthday I spent with other people was age twelve, so I guess I'm a normalfag.

Christ, what am I doing? moot leaves and I immediately start blogshitting? I miss ronery threads, I think we all need a release once in a while.
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>>120196637
shut up doofus
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What are the chances of Snacks coming back?
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>>120191071
>If moot hadn't killed her, Cornelia-chan would have achieved sapience and become the world's first computer life form.
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>>120196338
>We're a bunch of weird ass, lewd loving faggots and we stopped embracing that.
Fucker, /a/ is still really fucking gay and I still wish you faggots would stop being dirty sluts on /a/, especially late-night /a/.
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>>120196610
did it? I never bothered watching it as I was following manga.

FMA manga finishing got surprisngly low attention on /a/. It was like 4-5 500 post thread and that was it after 1-2 days. Kinda underwhelmed considering Hoshi no Samidare buildup got shittons of threads every single release day and weeks after yet FMA didn't get anything like that.
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>>120196665
67.8 milironpauls of happening
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>>120196610
Fun threads always get raided by shitposters that it always end up in damage control rather than actually having fun.

>>120196661
Fuck you nigger.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLImJOIl2D8
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>>120196677
Ever checked out the ghost posts on the archive on any trap thread? It's the gayest shit I've ever seen and probably the gayest shit I'll ever see in my life.
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>>120196677
Anon makes me cum so hard though. Seriously, it's the closest thing I can get to sex.
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>>120196654
>I miss ronery threads,
You and me both.

>>120196677
We used to own the daytime too.

>>120196723
It's saddening. You can't do much of anything without someone shitposting.
It's not even funny shitposting anymore either.
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>>120196736
I accidentally saw a trap video synchtube thingy once in the middle of the night. I really did think they were going to stream 2D shota porn and stuff, but instead, all I got was 3D trap porn.
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>>120195118
That's because "late night /a/" doesn't fucking mean anything anymore. It used to, but it doesn't. It's a problem of scale.
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>>120196687
manga in general never got much threads.
Yea sure, PunPun dump were huge but those were rarity. Hell one page threads are something that came out recently and right now has been most manga threads /a/ has been having.
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>tfw the fact that i came in 2012 legitimately make people angry
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>>120196736
https://archive.moe/a/thread/117382628/#117384026
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>>120196223
I've been here for 10. A lot of my memories feel like they happened more recently then they actually did.
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>>120196694
Maybe he can lead us to a new age free of shit-posting.
Or he will accidentally incite another ineffectual "ANONYMOOSE ARE LEEJUN" rebellion and we will suffer some more
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>>120196570
I miss him so much
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>>120196838
I dont even remember what happened.

Oreimo aired nearly half a decade ago. God damn.
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>>120196819
God, this thread must be what cognitive dissonance is like.
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>>120196801
That's why I like nostalgia threads the most. They're rarely infested by newfags and shitposters.

>>120196816
I came in late as well but I don't post like a retard unlike you.
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>>120196819
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>>120196911
>being angry
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>>120187343
>posts that

OP is faggot, that was from iichan. I was there.
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>>120196893
Are you seriously implying Anon x Anon is not the purest form of love?
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>>120196964
Post smug anime grills.
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Someone hit me up with gaijin 4koma
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>>120196819
Are trap threads still infested with those gay as fuck ERPers?
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>>120197025
no
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>>120196408
I still remember this shit I was 12 when I first came here. What am I doing with my life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5RBSkPQgnc
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>>120197085
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>>120195374
Years later and I still have no idea what the hell that sentence was supposed to be.
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>>120197130
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>>120190007
It was true then, too.
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>>120194528
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNMHxqJp6A
>not just linking to the flash archives where this will remain for eternity

For shame.
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>>120196811
>recently
What in the fuck do you count as recently?
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>>120197150
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Blog warning

I'm a newfag, and I've been so desperate to try and separate myself from the other retards I've seen that I almost feel like I'm watching anime just to "catch up" to everyone by plugging numbers into MAL, not because I'm really ecstatic about the show. I'm just scared that I'm losing time, and I'll still be a pleb two years from now. Can anyone relate or do I just need to take it easy? There's so many things about this site that I missed out on and I don't want to get left behind.
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>>120196819
Shit
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>>120197143
I don't think anyone does.
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>>120197197
isn't it relatively recent? just 1-2 years?
I remember the first few threads that big hard on for that diving manga and that was on the OP of every single one.
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>>120197214
I can relate. We missed most of it but who cares, that's life. You can't be there for the golden age of everything. Take it easy and just watch anime, discuss it on /a/.
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>>120197257
The one with the cookie dough and a loli is forever a classic.
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>>120197214

It's too late for you, anon.

You should just accept your fate.
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>>120196570
Saving for perfection.
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>>120197152
Starscream mom need to GTFO!
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