I haven't been on /a/ since 2011. What have I missed?
>>139593764
What the fuck have you been doing for five years?
>captchas
>1-minute per post
>"sage" no longer visible
>IP count
Not much
>>139593831
Dying.
>>139593831
Vidya and shitposting on /vg/ mostly.
>>139593872
Pretty much, yeah.
>>139594050
Feel free to stay away for another five years
>>139593764
A steady decline in quality, in every single aspect. That's been the case since 2007, though, so you're probably used to it.
>>139594050
Fuck off
>>139593764
/a/ is dead look at this thread >>139591134
>>139594805
I remember when one peice, bleach and naruto were shunned here and we were proud of it.
Those days are long gone.
>>139593831
He's waiting to post an even slower slowpoke
>>139594050
>Vidya and shitposting on /vg/ mostly.
Then you'll fit right in here, considering the state of the board right now.
>>139594144
>>139594274
>>139594234
>>139594805
Everything seems more or less the same as I remember.
>>139593764
Nobody talks anime. It's all about memeposting.
Try to talk anime and you'll get flamed/trolled/banned
a lot more normies post here now
>>139593764
All of 4chan turning into 9gag.
>>139595163
>banned
Where are the proofs?
>>139595129
this place has never been better and that's mostly thanks to you having left
go back to /v/ and /vg/
>>139595259
as clearly seen in op
>>139595013
I remember when Kubo threads were the highlight of my day.
>>139593764
Kyoani entertained us and there were some other meme anime that blew up and sputtered out.
>>139595323
Please, you flatter me too much. I only shitposted here occasionally.I'm still the same weaboo faggot I was 5 years ago, and I haven't left my house in 8 years.
>>10688922
5/10
>>139593764
desu senpai baka
You missed out on the greatest anime ever.
>>139595661
I am sure /vg/ wants to read your blog.
>>139595696
>10688922
Missed it
>>139595661
>niggers browsing vg like to blog just like tumblrinas
colour me surprised
>>139595939
>>139595764
I'm not blogging, I hold that accomplishment as something I take pride in. The /a/ that I knew, was full of hikis.
>>139596153
still is
we don't need to know tho
so please fuck off, you are not needed nor wanted, even made a fucking thread announcing you came back, if that is not blogging idk what is
>>139595747
FINDS A WAY
>>139595747
i wanna fuck keitai girl
>>139593764
I wish there was an Anime General board
OP, you also missed moot's death.
RIP in pieces Christopher Poole.
>>139596205
I asked about what I may have missed; major events relating to the board, and any noteworthy series that may have caused a stir.
I was simply contrasting the years.
>>139596418
>>139596475
RIP Morning Lescue man ;_;
>>139595747
I'll check this out sometime. I only picked up around 5 things each season at most while I wasn't around. I'm sure there's probably tons of gems I missed.
>>139597123
>KoG is kill
>Pork Wrangler is kill
>Taiga is kill
Where have all of the good shitposters gone? ;_;
>>139597463
Leddit?
>>139597463
>Pork Wrangler
Oh boy, those were fun days.I was mistakenly banned in his place back then, because of the trip I was using.
Rebellion and ensuing shitstorm
>>139597463
>KoG is kill
He's still here, a long while ago someone outGet him and he abandoned the trip due to that
Aghhh ye olde 4chan innit
catalog was a mistake i tell ye
>>139595013
>bleach
>shunned
And when was that exactly?
>>139599661
>purple Anonymous
I miss this
>>139599751
>being this much of a newfag
Bleach was shunned but kubo threads existed for the funny and the heart.
>>139599959
>but kubo threads existed
And what exactly was discussed in these "kubo" threads you fucking retard? His personal life?
>>139593764
I'm afraid I missed it this year.
>>139599860
I still sage properly whenever appropriate
>>139593764
degrade in quality
>>139593764
The fact this thread is still up will answer your question.
Everyone says "cuck" instead of NTR now.
No, I don't know why either.
>>139600292
>now
forced memes from crossboarders
truly, there are some worse than hitler
![[NoobSubs] Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid OVA (720p Blu-ray 8bit AAC).mp4_snapshot_13.09_[2015.10.24_23.11.54].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/w1ekpIs.jpg "[NoobSubs] Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid OVA (720p Blu-ray 8bit AAC).mp4_snapshot_13.09_[2015.10.24_23.11.54].jpg")
You missed Chaika
>>139593764
Everyone hates Madoka now because the fans of the show are cancerous.
No one even remembers the threads.
>>139600292
It's a /pol/ meme. I just try to report the worst offenders.
>>139593764
>Vanillafags coming from the brink of extinction
>Plebbit and normalfag invasion
>Exponential increase in shitposting
>Memeposters
You should probably just leave for an eternity. The /a/ you know is dead.
>>139600528
We will remind them once the next actual anime comes out.
Happened exactly the same when Rebellion came out.
>>139600528
This is fine though. It's /a/'s elitism force field working properly.
>>139597463
Taiga's a tumblr feminist now. She has a blog and is in the process of becoming a man.
just a few memes
>>139600781
link?
Webm's being implemented into the site.
Moot leaving and being replaced by Noot.
Gay swimming.
Gundam started putting out a new series every year.
Monstergirl threads got banned, then came back while pretending to be about just the series or two and have now gone full cancer 99% of the time again but just slightly short of how bad they were pre-ban.
Chaika.
Umaru.
DBZ threads became more common place and power level fags killed OPM threads.
Nyaa got attacked and went down for like a week.
Naruto ended, and then it didn't.
Working! ended with everything tied up nicely.
The Koroco connect prank back firing.
/v/ sending dick pics to Watamote's author.
The author of Log Horizon coming onto /a/ to discuss what we think of the anime a couple of times.
>>139593764
There was a boom of translations of light and web novels mostly about wish fullfilment of transported/reincarnated in other world and virtual reality playing
Oh and fansubbing is dead
I took a break from /a/ in the beginning of 2012 and returned back only few weeks ago. Since I was still occasionally visiting other boards I don't feel like /a/ changed a lot. I still really dislike is "bait" meme instead of just using word "troll'. And "triggered" instead of "butthurt".
And the only thing I really miss are isketch threads. It was fun playing and drawing with /a/. Though they died even before I left /a/.
>>139600528
I remember when Madoka started airing some people were saying that everyone will forget about this show in a year. They were comparing it to IS and PSG. Ha.
>>139601149
>The Koroco connect prank back firing.
>The author of Log Horizon coming onto /a/ to discuss what we think of the anime a couple of times.
Sounds interesting. What exactly do I need to put into archive search bar to find these threads?
>>139601281
>>139593764
>Sounds interesting. What exactly do I need to put into archive search bar to find these threads?
Oh yeah about that, the archive died
>>139595259
>normies
Kill yourself, newfag.
>>139601281
>Sounds interesting. What exactly do I need to put into archive search bar to find these threads?
Forgot to mention, the arcive died and there's a new one.
>>139600035
If you can't be arsed to look it up yourself I'm not obliged to help you imbecile.
I don't peruse kubo threads, I just know they exist and roughly know why they exist. If you're that invested in kubo's online reputation why don't you do the fucking research yourself?
>>139595259
>normies
>>>/plebbit/
>>139601281
>The Koroco connect prank back firing.
Long story short, the studio publicly humiliated a VA as a prank to promote the series while it was airing and fans got disgusted and cancelled their preorders en masse.
>>139601481
We've been through a few actually since green oval.
>>139593764
Not much... Only underage garbage called people.
>>139596475
>major events relating to the board
Some random shota took over the website, then he pretended to care for a couple of weeks and now he's dead or something.
The mods/janitors also stopped doing their "jobs" more or less.
>>139601149
Wait what the hell did you tell the Log Horizon guy?
I hope it was something like "SAO sucks balls, you're kind of okay."
>>139601771
>The mods/janitors also stopped doing their "jobs" more or less.
There was the thing with nipple mod
>>139601869
We told him his sister sound tsun for him and what he thought of the fact that most of us were pirating his ln and anime.
>>139600292
At least the retarded twitter-speak mostly died down.
Well, turns out I still remember how to lurk.
Here's one of Log Horizon threads if someone is interested too, but is not smart enough to do a simple googling: https://foolz.fireden.net/a/thread/95479152/
>>139601890
Yeah, but just because one mod went full newfag doesn't mean that the other ones have to go into hiding now.
>>139595299
>3 years later
>Still this salty about occasional shitposter
Accel-spam
Loli-mod banning Yotsuba
Loli-mod banning T-shirt bro thinking he was promoting merch for a spammer because she didn't know accelerator was an actual character from a series.
Moot banning Loli-mod from moderating /a/.
MD Geist mod arriving and attention whoring for like 2 weeks and then never being seen again.
>>139593764
Valvrave destroyed /m/ at the end of 2013 while just this Easter Iron Blooded Orphans created an Eye of Terror on 4chan
>>139602291
Also I forget when exactly, but captcha was implemented due to self learning ad bots.
By the end there they had grown so intelligent that they were making their own on topic threads with over 300 posts of relatively coherent replies of just bots.
I wish I still had some of the screencaps saved. It was spooky how accurate their responses were getting.
>>139593764
No more boat
>>139593764
We only talk about western shows now because anime is for losers.
Who here excited for the new GOT season?
>>139602077
>However, nipple slips are common in non-pornographic anime/manga for older demographics
>older demographics
So, Shounen is "older demographics"?
>>139602452
>By the end there they had grown so intelligent that they were making their own on topic threads with over 300 posts of relatively coherent replies of just bots.
I like reading them in the archive
>>139602542
Pretty sure that Valkyrie Drive wasn't running under shounen.
>>139602643
Before I lost it my favorate was when someone made a Working! thread and the first response was a bot saying it wanted to rape all the girls.
>>139602489
>That was fast!
>>139602643
This really happened? Do you have an archive link or is everything gone?
>>139602077
i don't like this rule because "safe for work" means that if you're browsing in a public place, like work, people or your boss won't get mad at you.
i don't think that'll fly with nipples
>>139602452
Actually, they just copied threads from the archive and reposted word for word
The more replies a thread/post got, the more likely it was going to be reposted. Somebody "manually" started those bot threads though with some picture from the latest episode and "I had such high hopes for this series, but it just keeps getting worse and worse with each episode"
>>139602866
At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if the Madoka-threads were nothing more but bots replying to bots all day along, and bots reposting the so-called crack images while another bot automatically makes the crack-replies.
>>139597463
>pork wrangler
As much as I hated that faggot, it at least kept me entertained. Good times, especially when spamming with scripts was simple and mods never did a fucking thing.
Ruined a ton of bleach and naruto threads that shitter made. I honestly don't know what point in time it became okay to post bleach and naruto thread now, but it makes me sick seeing them. People said we werent invaded by leddit but the proof is right there.
>>139602746
How would you know it was a bot?
>>139603069
You must really hate Naruto if it makes you physically sick.
>>139603079
All bots posted varients of the same image advising you to save them with a certain file name that would save the embedded virus to you computer and turn it into a bot.
>>139603186
You would to if you were here at that time.
>>139593764
nothing much. the website becomes more and more shittier and the moderation team just doesn't care
>>139603420
>that would save the embedded virus to you computer and turn it into a bot.
Oh, I actually remember something like this floating around when I first got here. Thought it was just a joke.
>>139595163
This, or you get spammed with "kill yourself"
>>139603548
Nope. It's the reason captcha was implemented. Over half the site was bot spam. The slower boards were completely overrun.
Absolutely nothing of value.
>>139602861
If you're browsing 4chan in public place you deserve everything you get. Hide your shame, boy.
>>139603469
It's good your body forces you to fit in.
>>139593764
Nice blog faggot
>>139600781
>google taiga tripfag
>all the tripfag crew tried to shitpost on gaia 6 years ago
They were probably responsible for the death of that website
>>139593764
>people unironically calling people pedos
>substitution of normalfag and other -fag suffixes for things more politically correct
>shit taste in anime
Well, the last one is the same at least.
>>139604521
I've never seen someone called unironically pedo, but then again, I hardly visit the threads.
And death of -fag suffix was a good thing.
>>139593764
Not one single thing of value. Why in blazes did you come back?
>>139602358
Good times
>>139593764
>Captchas are getting weirder and weirder
>Moot is kill
>Chaika on the front page
Yeah, Mamare's visit was basically the only thing worth mentioning.
But then his anime got DEEN'd and he never came back anyway, so meh.
>>139605447
From what I understand his publisher told him to stop posting here.
>>139593764
Moot got killed then by the power of Google's quints got resurrected and now works for them
>>139604662
Sorry you got offended you actual fag.
>>139593764
Generals
>>139605447
>>139605570
He also didn't pay denbts.
>>139593764
A massive upswing in shitposting
>>139605680
Shit memes that become widely used will die in here, which should be a no surprise you considering this is some sort of reminiscence-thread. I don't even know anymore if you're butthurt about reddit stealing your secret memes or implying the posting norms should become more like reddit.
>>139597463
>good shitposters
>>139605570
Wait, why?
>>139605861
The use of fag was never a meme. It's just board culture and our site specific honorific.
This happened.
>>139606299
The use of -fag is pretty much the definition of a meme.
>>139606347
dark times we live
>>139606347
>the big three
Those have been around since time immoral
>the middle row
The bait row
>bottom row
Legitimately good shows
>>139593764
You missed the latest episode of boku no pico
>>139597463
still here, hardly post
>>139606347
I miss those days where /a/ didn't allow Naruto's thread survive.
>>139595299
That's just a baitposter
>>139606680
>Those have been around since time immoral
Actually no, naruto threads were always deleted.
>>139606790
>>139606809
Why did jewt do this to us?
>>139595299
>baited so hard you're still posting screencaps of a 3-year-old shitpost
Wew lad.
>>139606865
/q/ happen.
I got banned like 10 times back then in a single day.
>>139607362
>2013 was 3 years ago
Whoa.
>>139602052
>https://foolz.fireden.net/a/thread/95479152/
I was in one of these threads, but it was hard for me to get invested because by that point I had dropped the anime thanks to DEEN. That and I just got tired of it.
>>139603069
This.
>>139602861
Learn how to use your shift key before you talk, retard.
Also you're out of luck.
>>139603069
>I honestly don't know what point in time it became okay to post bleach and naruto thread now, but it makes me sick seeing them.
You should ask moot about that.
>>139593764
Well /a/ is not called /a/ - Anime and Manga anymore but /a/ - Blogging Garbage
>>139608059
So same as it's always been?
>>139605861
>>139604662
Go and choke on a dick, faggot.
>>139608121
I just find it ironic for a board who hate normalfags can't stop blogging.
>>139593764
The state of the board is awful. Do your part and tell blatant redditors to lurk more and report people who break the rules.
These things should not be tolerated
>google image filenames
>imgur filenames
>tumblr gifs
>emoticons other than;__;
>/co/ shit
>/mlp/ shit
>recommendation threads
>non /a/ reaction images
>/v/ shit
>>139603628
>Started posting before captcha
>didn't even notice all the spam
Huh, and I posted on boards like /3/. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
>>139602358
Valvrave S1 is great, almost. The cast is zany and colorful and each episode was packed with things to laugh at that made enjoying it with /a/ a real treat rather than a sanity destroying experience. S2 failed by doing the worst thing a bad show can do, be boring.
Incidentally that's the same reason why I enjoy S2 of Aldnoah.Zero more than S1. Slaine's rise and fall is like a rollercoaster of stupidity and betrayal.
>>139608181
It's not ironic when the idiots that are blogging are the normalfags that don't belong and are beating the board beyond death.
>>139593764
Remember how /a/ was on a decline from 2007 to when you left? It kept declining.
>>139608122
At least you are not using the suffix. Thanks anon!
>>139608379
Fuck you faggotfag
>>139608290
Im sure most of them are hypocripte asshole who tell people to fuck off and then proceed to blog post in another thread.
>>139604521
>shit taste in anime
This, especially.
>big three threads unironically hit bump limit
>cancerous generals for shit series like Jojo
>shounengarbage all over the site
>>139608379
Fuck off cancerfag.
>>139608266
>imgur filenames
>non /a/ reaction images
On the more serious note, imgur can be used for easy linking of images and there's nothing wrong with using it.
As for non /a/ reaction images, those have been around for a long time. Does that mean we can't post cats anymore? Where do you draw the line?
/a/'s taste has been progressively getting worse
>>139608569
The only time imgur links are acceptable is for nsfw porn. That is the only time.
>>139608630
>posted the right version
Good on ya, anon.
>>139608655
I don't understand why you are so autistic on this, it's just an image hosting site.
>>139608899
if you actually lurked you would already know
lurk more, watch more anime, stop posting.
>>139609046
>being this mad at an image hosting site
It's literally just images you fucking autist.
>>139609238
Kill yourself you dumb redditor.
>>139608266
How exactly did;_;get a free pass?
>>139609238
Idiot.
>>139609285
Your arguments are top-notch today shitposter-kun.
>>139609477
Lurk more.
>>139609477
Lurk more.
>>139609508
>>139609545
>Still being this butthurt over image hosting site
>>139609477
>linking to an imagehost
>linking to an imagehost ON AN IMAGEBOARD
Fuck off and lurk more newfag.
>>139602489
Hadn't seen that yet, hilarious
>>139609872
Saucefags are now welcome on /a/. You can thank our beloved moderation team for that.
The site has always been in a "state of decline". After years pass, this moment will be remembered as the golden days.
Nothing ever changes.
Nothing.
>>139609905
They aren't linking to the imagehost. The original complaint was posting pictures with an imgur filename. Read the post chain.
>>139610096
The shitposting contest however is about linking imgur.
>>139610096
I've seen newfags link imgur itself instead of uploading an image. The conversation looked as if it was going either way.
>>139609383
>How exactly did;_;get a free pass?
You're supposed to be using it ironically.
>>139606751
Fuck you.
>>139608266
Don't forget the amount of cancerous tripfags increasing, just look in he mirror.
>>139593764
I feel you man, I too came back last year after five years of absence (leaving mid-09) and it took me a while to get what was going on. At first I was suprised that it's normal to discuss things like Naruto and Fairy Tail now and that shows we used to love like Gurren Lagann get a lot of shit. But soon you realize that, even if everybody is accusing themselves of being from reddit or tumblr, many people from the old days are still here complaining in thread like these and deep down not so many things have changed (but to be fair, there is a lot of cancer).
Horewer, I really miss the Daily Yotsuba Threads.
Thought about making a thread like this last year, but desisted since I even back there I was more of a lurker than an active poster.
>>139609477
Lurk more.
>>139611126
Im tired of complaining to be honest. Im slowly going insane.
>>139611043
It's funny how we need to resort to tripfagging to tell people to lurk, the concept of 'lurk more' is fucking gone.
>>139608266
>non /a/ reaction images
You wouldn't believe the amount of MD5 hashes I have in my filter list.
>>139611247
i deleted all of my filters so i could keep reporting them
>>139610074
>Nothing ever changes.
>Nothing.
Must be nice living without the ability to remember things.
>>139608266
I am quite confident that reporting people does nothing on this website. It's up to the moderators to delete or ban people who post what they personally dislike.
>>139609477
/a/ is a nexus of hardcore anime fans. This is a neutral ground where facts and evidence, presented within the confines of civil, inclusive discourse, prevail through careful moderation. Don't post spam.
>>139611379
It's because they mostly bother with obvious offenses, low quality posts have been so deeply ingrained into /a/, that removing them would make people cry about 'board culture'.
>>139606809
Only Naruto threads that weren't the weekly release were deleted.
>>139610012
Got a problem with our trusty moderators, pal?
>>139611329
What's the point in reporting if mods don't care?
>>139611626
Sense of satisfication, I suppose?
>>139611489
>>139611626
This, mods do their job of taking obvious rules breakers out, but they don't do anything about board quality.
>>139611702
They don't care about GR 16.
>>139611653
It satisfies you to waste energy on fruitless reports?
>>139611743
They do if someone made a thread just for a request, actually saucefags go away free.
>>139611825
The vast majority of saucefags aren't in OPs though.
>>139611626
Sometimes you get lucky.
>>139611489
>low quality posts have been so deeply ingrained into /a/, that removing them would make people cry about 'board culture'.
They used to be a lot more aggressive about this sort of thing not too long ago actually.
>>139603069
You don't remember this anon?
>>139611885
What is this /b/ garbage?
>>139611350
I could say you the exactly same thing. Even the complaining about change remains.
>>139611978
Really? I've been in and out of the military recently, could you clarify?
Not surprising. This is the best example of an echo chamber you'll ever see, ideas are reinforced not by merit but by identity.
>>139611899
I think /a/ is actually fairly effective at telling those people they're just lazy. Almost every time I see some idiot asking for sauce they only get mockery/"fuck off"/"google it faggot" from at least 2 people.
I can't remember the last time I saw someone give sauce without being reviled.
>>139612160
Yeah there are usually some people doing the right thing by telling him to fuck off, but even if dozens of people do that, there is always that one faggot who gives the sauce. Just today I saw someone ask sauce for Chaika and like 3 people gave it.
>>139612160
>>139612255
Also, here it is >>139606536
>>139611626
>it's better to do nothing than attempt to fix the board
this is why we're in the shithole we're in
>>139612255
Yeah, what a bunch of faggots, they know less than we do and that makes me proud of myself.
>>139612255
>doing the right thing
Is this a hivemind?
>>139612160
Try this thread >>139602719
>>139612160
I'm pretty sure that most people asking for the source of an anime or manga picture are just trolls anyway, and there's a good chance that the ones who provide them with a source are sometimes they themselves, doing it to piss off a bunch of anons if it looks like there are enough of them participating in a thread.
Redirecting anons asking for the source by pointing them towards /wsr/ does help, however.
>>139612160
Incorrect, and it's not just limited to saucethreads.
Shitty threads will get 380 replies, even after the first 10 people tell OP to fuck off.
>>139612374
If wanting to follow the rules is being a hivemind, then yeah.
>>139612160
I tell them to stop spoonfeeding probably 60 times a day and there are fuck tons I miss, so it still happens.
It's pathetic when they ask for source on shit that gets 46000 results in google. This coddling is what makes the dumb newshits stay.
>>139612345
Hello retard, you seem to be lost. Hiro made a board just for people like you >>>/wsr/
>>139593764
/a/ turned into the /r/anime of 4chan.
>>139612494
What is that even supposed to mean?
Why not go to 8/a/ if this place bothers you?
>>139612494
how fucking sad is it that this is almost true?
does anyone even remember when /v/ wasn't a blight?
>>139612491
Who's Hiro? Sauce please?
>>139612551
This place bothers me because it's becoming 8/a/.
>>139612591
No it doesn't.
>>139612626
Yeah, it is.
>>139612494
When I went to check how reddit was doing these days, /r/berserk had the exact same posing style and content as berserk threads here.
>>139612494
No it's more like g/a/ia, think about it.
>>139604521
>substitution of normalfag and other -fag suffixes for things more politically correct
This is tumblr's influence.
>>139612553
Almost true? Look around
I don't think it's poe's law anymore
>>139610136
>>139607658
I feel like mods openly interacting again/more public bans would help tremendously, but that will never happen after nipplemod.
>>139612661
>When I went to check how reddit was doing these days
you should have stayed
Chances are mods are reading this thread. Anything you'd like to say to them?
>>139612786
"FUCK YOU NIGGERS"
>>139612786
stop banning me
/a/ was my home.
>>139612786
>Kill yourselves you useless pieces of human trash
>>139612786
No, they can go fuck themselves. Incompetent pricks.
>>139612827
Fuck off.
>>139612786
More interaction/public bans.
>>139612827
>ban evading
this would be a good example of a time to public ban
/a/ has been the least effective of the big 4 boards w.r.t. the normalfag invasion. And it has been our elitism that has done it.
>>139612886
You and me anon.
>2014
heh
Is this the designated circlejerk thread?
Hey guys, the board has become shit. Like reddit everywhere. They stole our memes. Remember back when things were good? I can't actually name anything that was good back then but I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to say it was better back then.
>>139612974
More interactions, yes.
They should PB the shitty template threads to tell people to fuck off with that shit. I don't really like the Yotsuba public bans, they somehow seem forced now.
>>139613144
/a/ is a nexus of hardcore anime fans. This is a neutral ground where facts and evidence, presented within the confines of civil, inclusive discourse, prevail through careful moderation. Don't post spam.
>>139613178
Why did the >>>/wsr/ sticky even get removed?
>>139612786
Please save me and save /a/. Stop being inactif for 1+ hour.
>>139612786
Mods start posting more, your words does more than your actions unless you were that mod who said he was getting rid of generals.
>>139613177
>MoMH
>2014
>>139613093
*affected
