Was there ever even a "Golden Era" present on /a/? Is the best time on /a/ relative to when you first arrived, or have there been better times since you have arrived?
How is it that some memes that were extremely popular have died out completely whereas others are still going strong to this day?
ITT: Your experiences with /a/ and your hopes for the future.
By the way, /a/ currently has 140.4M posts while /vg/ has 139.4M posts. We could be literally less than a month away before /vg/ overtakes /a/'s post count.
Does this depress you?
Everyone's golden era is different because everyone was 16 at a different time
>>140407884
Why would having less posts depress anyone?
Being less popular is good.
>>140407925
For over 10 years now, /a/ has been regarded as 4chan's third biggest board. /vg/ has long since passed /a/'s posting rate (as has /pol/ and other boards), but once /vg/ passes /a/'s post count, it will be official: /a/ will be 4chan's 4th largest board for the first time in 4chan's history.
>>140407884
/vg/ literally encourages circlejerks, though. It's like a board full of it's time threads with extended post limits. You really can't compare the two.
And the golden age was, of course, the first six months I was on here.
I hope generals, simultaneous threads about the same theme and needles tripfagging become bannable in the future.
This is not going to happen though.
>>140408041
That will NEVER happen. Banning generals on /a/ is like banning ponies on /b/ -- it's a great idea on paper, but all it will do is encourage people to spam it needlessly.
>>140407982
I really don't understand why anyone (with more than 4 braincells) would care about this.
I'm even struggling to be sarcastic due to apathy
>>140407982
>>140408070
How long have you been on /a/ for?
>>140408041
Reminder: this mod has been purged.
>>140407860
>that whole fucking image
my sides
>>140408122
10 years I guess
Not like it matters.
>>140408122
I'm a wretched newfag that got here just in time for Geass Sundays and I don't care. I really don't. I don't care if everyone goes away and our threads last two weeks like we're /diy/ or something. We'll still have our esoteric manga threads.
>>140408145
There's a whole bunch of 'em.
1995 - 2008
Back when I actually had time to watch anime.
i haven't been on /a/ for a while, has kog and taiga memes died yet?
>>140408070
/a/'s relevance on 4chan is falling daily, and instead of this site being seen as an anime website, it's now seen as a /b/ and /pol/ site.
Old /a/ a best.
>>140408231
KoG doesn't win anymore.
>>140408261
I'm pretty sure it is /a/ that should be hammering that fucking rodent
>>140408065
And yet that's how life was before they were a thing. And also when /a/ was undeniably better.
>>140408231
Taiga? Yes.
KoG? On /a/? Yes. On 4chan as a whole? I'll let you be the judge:
June 8th, 2009 - 22000000 {22M} on /a/
April 24th, 2011 - 6000000 {6M} on /vp/
October 27th, 2011 - 115000000 {115M} [S] on /v/
January 19th, 2012 - 22222222 [S] on /mu/
March 30th, 2012 - 390000000 {390M} [S] on /b/
April 17th, 2012 - 394000000 {394M} [S] on /b/
November 6th, 2013 - 217000000 {217M} on /v/
December 18th, 2013 - 2000000 {2M} on /hr/
January 27th, 2014 - 101010101 on /a/
September 24th, 2015 - 131313131 on /a/
November 9th, 2015 - 133333333 on /a/
November 17th, 2015 - 2000000 {2M} on /an/ and 317000000 {317M} on /v/
December 24th, 2015 - 321321321 on /v/
January 14th, 2016 - 61000000 {61M} on /pol/
January 22nd, 2016 - 8000000 {8M} on /gif/
February 3rd, 2016 - 137000000 {137M} on /a/
February 9th, 2016 - 327000000 {327M} on /v/
March 14th, 2016 - 674000000 {674M} on /b/
April 5th, 2016 - 27000000 {27M} on /mlp/
April 7th, 2016 - 138000000 {138M} on /vg/
April 16th, 2016 - 58000000 {58M} on /int/
It can be argued that KoG's influence on 4chan is stronger now that it has ever been in the past, just not as much on /a/ anymore.
>>140408233
That sounds terrific.
Wait, when was this seen as an anime website? It was a Hacker Named Anonymous website.
>pre-2007
>seen at all
>>140407860
It's conveniently far away and always at a steady rate of several years ago.
>>140408231
Yes, meme's are created to die.
>>140408233
So? If you really cared that much you would have left years ago. If anything that's a good thing, I would rather have a slower board than a fast one filled with the same stale meme and bait OPs every single day
>>140408295
That's because 'those people' weren't here yet. Now that they're here, they'll keep making generals and you can't chase them out.
>>140408298
so let me get this straight...kog got 7 millions in a span of 8 years...then all of a sudden, he has gotten 10 millions in just 5 months?? i'm going to need some proof...
>>140408320
>>140408329
This site being seen as /b/,/pol/ site just means more retards will flock to 4chan thinking it's for le ebin raids and trolling.
1990s /a/ was the best.
>>140408285
Put your grasses on.
pooleykins should've just killed the site
he's letting retardation breed
>>140408334
That sounds like loser talk
How it works is you ban their general, then they get uppity and spam the place.
Keep banning until they get bored.
Eventually they'll go back to wherever they came from.
>>140408233
4chan's popularity back then came from /b/. Now it's most probably from /v/.
>>140408346
I'm not going to sit here and post screencap after screencap. If you don't believe it, just check the archives for the specific boards listed.
>>140408140
Nowadays, rather than starting a thread about a specific topic and letting it live or die based on its merits, people start a thread based on a specific anime and it hangs on the board for 24 hours or more without fail until it hits the bump limit. General threads destroyed /a/ just like they did /v/. An anime - generals board would be a godsend.
>>140408353
Again, if you actually cared about that, you would have left almost a decade ago.
>>140408233
I used to see 4chan as a /b/ site 10 years ago.
To be fair, 4chan was more fucked up back then, every week I would see 1 or 2 CP threads on blue boards. I hardly see illegal content nowadays.
>>140408391
>An anime - generals board would be a godsend.
Kill yourself.
>>140408377
Great idea! Let's just get the mods on board and, oh wait no we can't because the mods decide what the board is not the user base. And the one mod who agreed with /a/ about generals was purged himself.
>>140408391
News Flash: People. Just. Don't. Care. You see that Pokémon thread on /a/ with 500+ replies that has been up for about 20 hours now? They have an entire BOARD for Pokémon, yet there it is, sitting on /a/. You can literally make an Anime - Generals board, and although a huge portion would move to that board, the small, highly autistic portion would stay on /a/ out of protest and continue to post generals regardless of how many times they got deleted/banned.
The only absolute way to get rid of them for good would be an incredible amount of moderation.
>>140408377
>ban their general
>Keep banning
Right, because I am mod.
Since you're too dumb to get this: mods approve this shit. You can cry and report all you like. The mods won't ban them. You can keep bitching about it being loser talk all you like while in reality you just have no idea what the fuck is going on,
>>140408391
That's what you faggots said about dealing with rec threads. Guess what? /wsr/ basically became MAL and they still can't stop making rec threads on /a/.
>>140408391
The day this board splits even further is the day I leave this place for good. Jesus fucking christ, that would be so horrible. All it would manage to do is make /a/ lose its subject theme. Just like it did for /v/. /v/ isn't about video games anymore after /vg/ was created(although you could argue it was like that before, but that was the final push).
So I hope you'll enjoy an /a/ that gets threads only about waifu circlejerks and meta garbage, because that's what would happen.
>>140408451
>mods approve this shit
Mods tolerate this shit because they don't want to start banning anime/manga based on a fanbase. That's why garbage like RWBY is "allowed".
>>140408377
Wow, banning them is all it takes? What a brilliant idea, can't believe I didn't think of it... oh wait, I did. I reported the threads and mods don't give a fuck.
>>140408440
>>140408451
That's a different problem though. It's not a case of 'it can't be done', it's a case of 'it won't be done'.
/a/ is already /ag/. Hiroshima needs to make a new board, and call it /a/ - Anime and Manga
>>140408385
can you at least post that 133333333? pretty please??
2007 will always be the best time on /a/, I've seen most shit on /a/ but I would say 2016 is the shittest year so far even 2015 had it's moments.
>>140408523
Fine.
>>140408334
Not if people trying to get banned by mods, no.
>>140408491
/vg/ and /wsr/ taught us that you can't give these people a safe space, you have to eliminate them.
However, similar to US politics, generalfaggots now run 4chan. Asking the mods to get rid of generals is like asking the fox to redesign the chicken coop.
>>140408493
>That's why garbage like RWBY is "allowed".
A mod practically camp in the threads to babysit and delete any other posts that disagree, while a bunch of other shit threads are still left untouched.
That's not a mod 'tolerating' it. That's a mod openly wanting that shit here.
>>140408512
Explain that to >>140408377 instead. Unless you're him, in which case, your initial post was stupid since you're the one who confused the situation in the first place.
>>140408512
Except it isn't. More than 50% of the board for the sake of not doing the actual counting is actually not generals, unless you're retarded and have no idea what a general is. You can cry and whine all you please about Jojo and whatever other shit like One Piece and Yugioh. If you go and take a look, you'll see that they're the minority.
>>140408546
2007 was the year of innocence. It can be argued that 2007 was when /a/ really sped up to its peak. There were some time periods where /a/ was actually going faster than /v/ or /b/. Death Note, Lucky Star, Code Geass, Gurren Lagann -- truly, that was a great time to be alive.
>>140408187
I wish these would come back.
They were pretty fun and light hearted. Though back then it was a simpler time.
Too much normalfags. Literally every single fetishes threads turn into blogging shit all the time.
>>140408512
>make a new board
You idiots never learn, do you? Look at what's been happening. New boards just encourage more of them coming and they don't stick to one board. Look at fucking /wsr/. Adding new boards was never a solution.
>>140408610
So, nothing changed?
>>140408566
Whatever you do, don't go to a Steven Universe General on /co/.
If you think /a/ generals are bad, I've got news for you...
>>140408606
I could make another one of these, but the problem lies in /a/ not really having much of a personality anymore. All I can see going on it is something Jojo related, Reiji ARC-V antics, some Dragonball Super stuff...and what else? Everything else is so bland and uninteresting.
>>140408628
I don't give a shit about other boards. Just because there are boards in worse conditions doesn't change any damn thing about the situation on /a/. If anything, it's that sort of 'at least we're not X' attitude that make people complacent until it's too late.
>>140408622
The point went over your head a little.
>>140408442
>the small, highly autistic portion would stay on /a/ out of protest and continue to post generals regardless of how many times they got deleted/banned
This is the real problem, there's no way to get rid of these people. They are fanatically obsessed with their favorite series and even if you made it against the rules they would still shitpost day and night 24/7 just out of spite because they're horrible people. If they're not having fun then nobody will.
How do you like your lolis, /a/?
>>140408670
And what do you propose we do to fix /a/? /a/ has been complaining about /a/ SINCE 2007. It is literally never going to change.
>>140408491
Agreed on the first point; /v/ died years ago, even before the split. However, waifu circlejerks and meta garbage are not exclusive to outside general threads - general threads are practically the worst offenders for having zero content, zilch, just bumps, so that pure shitposting and waifu circlejerks and meta and everything "/a/ culture" become preferable to that. Would you rather have 5 threads of 20 posts each of "/a/ culture" with one eventually reaching 200, or 1 400-post monstrosity on X show of the season? The 5 threads may look worse, but the 400-post thread is worse for the board because of how many time it bumps.
>>140408659
Of course not. The need to make one big general meant that people are contended with sticking to their own circle and don't interact with others anymore.
It's why a jojo thread is so different from a bleach thread, which is in turn so different from an aikatsu thread that it's hard to believe they're supposed to be from the same board.
I don't know about the "golden era" but the absolute worst era was before captcha. The spam was fucking ridiculous. It hit an all time high when Accelerator would go on a spree. 8 pages worth of his faggot ass face.
>>140408546
I have to agree. There were a few months there in 2015 that were enjoyable and things actually looked decent. Now there is literally nothing but generals and overused memes. God forbid you enter a general for a discussion that doesn't involve image dumping or circlejerking, you will get shouted down by a bunch of retards who think what theyre doing is the norm because thats all they've ever seen on /a/, fucking generals.
how long til moot is fired from google?
>>140408737
You didn't like GIRUGAMESH and clockwork orange?
>>140408706
I've got some news for you, and I know this will be a hard pill to swallow:
They are NOT, I repeat, NOT, fanatically obsessed with their favorite series. They are fanatically obsessed with posting with other people about a series they can easily talk about. There is a HUGE difference. They don't care what they are talking about as long as they are able to talk about it and get a constant, steady stream of responses. It's like a succubus. The succubus doesn't care if the man it is sucking from is a hot stud or a fat, obese, lazy neckbeard. All it cares about it is subsistence.
The hyper autists don't care about the anime they discuss. They just care about their subsistence, and they will literally spend, as you said, day and night 24/7 doing everything they can to keep it going.
>>140408712
Solutions have been proposed. It just won't happen (proper mods). And that in itself is not justification for allowing shitty actions to be taken.
>>140408697
Just admit you don't know what's going on. I've seen people like you try and play that card too many times after being called out on your rubbish.
>>140408659
These images replaced pyramids, because every fanbase and thread has it's different things.
>>140408710
Baked, not fried.
>>140408404
Yeah, remeber when people were actually dumb enough to post cp IMAGES on here? Or sometimes someone would get mad about an unfair ban and just spam cp to piss off the mods. These days it's just tor links.
>>140408610
This and the Tomoko threads and shit that Anons think that the shit in anime is the same as in 3DPG
Like god damn it, in fucking /h/ and /e/ sometimes i even see the words "wife" and "girlfriend"
>>140407887
This as well
Everyone had fun when one is 14-16 but after that the only way to have fun is watch anime with /a/
>>140408716
That's why all the normalfag trash like dragonball, DBZ and shit needs to be banned again. These people do not keep up with anime news, these people do not watch the latest shows, these people do not interact with anime or manga other than their "big" show. Any large news goes completely over their heads.
>>140408737
Bro, Accelspam was the chemo curing this board. He would spam terrible threads such as Naruto and "precursor" generals.
Don't you find is strange how literally the second accelspam stopped and captcha came in, THAT was when the generals started?
Yeah, gee, I wonder why.....
The RWBY thread is putting me in despair.
The problem is internet culture as we knew it is dying/dead. Anyone that has been here a decent amount of time should see it by now. We were in the golden age and didn't even know it.
>>140408770
Give it 2 months pretty soon every general will have their own discord or skype group link in the OP so everyone can have easy access to their online friends and community!
>>140408836
>mfw I put dragonball and DBZ
I'm retarded but you get the point.
>>140408855
It's already derailed, so it's fine.
>>140408775
>Just admit you don't know what's going on. I've seen people like you try and play that card too many times after being called out on your rubbish.There is already a board called /a/- Anime and Manga
i just wish kog would come in and get integers again.
or have cirno be off by 1.
those were some fun times...
No question as to the darkest time of /a/.
Obligatory.
>>140408855
try to become taller sensei
>>140408855
>touhou has manga and an OVA
>thread deleted
>RWBY has manga although thread is just another meta theads
>it's OK!
I can only imagine the mods are keeping up because they're actually collecting feedback from it or something? I couldn't fathom what other purpose it could serve.
>>140408854
The problem with Accelspam was he started to spam any series he didn't like and went on a massive powertrip because most of /a/ supported him when he would bomb Naruto threads. It was almost impossible to talk about a series he didn't like because that faggot would never sleep. If he would have just stuck with Naruto it would have been that bad.
And we at /m/ all laughing
>>140408855
Shit, really?
I didn't saw it
>>140408859
I bet over half of /a/ doesn't even know what is this;_;7
fuck your meta threads
>>140408861
Please don't feed them any ideas
>>140408893
I never thought there would be a day where I'd want to see this asshole again.
Ironic weebs and ''otacool'' are killing /a/. You can thank cancer like CrunchyRoll,Twitter, Twitch.tv and Netflix for trying to make anime mainstream.
>>140408859
Pretty much. You can only do so much when the entire internet is breeding retards constantly.
I always thought the Umineko red text threads were pretty cancerous but at least they stuck to one thread.
>>140408907
I think it's just them not wanting to reward spamming threads you don't like. RWBY is "manga" so spamming it and getting it deleted could then be done on any manga or anime thread.
>>140408859
It's already happened to every other online community. It had to happen. And I'll still be here unfortunately.
How much you wanna bet this won't get deleted?
>>140408891
>>140408907
Because as has been said, a mod actually want it here. Look at the current thread. Like the previous ones, any posts telling them to go to /co/ get deleted.
>>140408974
Didn't stop the threads about literal chink cartoons, among other types of threads that get spammed. It's blatantly obvious that RWBY threads get special treatment.
>>140408974
But it only happens with RWBY. It's happened with nearly every single thread they try to have. /a/ doesn't want them here. Most of us accept other shit even if we don't like it.
>>140408859
>>140408991
This.
I feel like dying there is no good place at all left on net. Everything is pure cancer.
I actually don't get why there isn't an /ag/. /a/'s fast enough it could handle the split, and it seems to have worked pretty well for /v/.
>>140408930
Fuck off faggot
You can fucking close this thread anytime or just fucking go somewhere else
>>140408940
>It happens
>>140408854
>Accelspam was the chemo curing this board
The first time he ran the script was on a Homura thread back in August of 2011, simply to test if it worked.
He only gave the excuse that he didn't like Homura so he decided to trash that thread at the time.
After that he started to spam some particular threads here and there, simply because I also guess, he didn't really liked them.
As time went on, he was given a persona, as similar to Accelerator due to the common threads at the time "How do you kill Accelerator", etc. Simply because, much like the spammer, you couldn't really kill / stop him.
He took a liking to this persona and decided to make a tripcode, naming himself from there on in up until his disappearance as the Accel spammer.
He then decided to spam more specific threads, such as Naruto threads or more things he didn't consider to be appropriate in /a/.
In other words, he took upon himself the envision of that this board's content should be, and like a hero of justice, he committed himself to purge anything and everything that went against his ideals.
Though sadly this proved too be too much of a impossible task or maybe he just went mad with power.
Either way, when he leveled up to level 6, /a/ was constantly spammed for hours on in.
Those times were a constant. Until he ascended.
This script up until today continues to be a amazing work of code and a proof that if you really want something, even if that something is to mindless spam a Anime imageboard, you can achieve it.
Those were simpler times. I enjoy and miss both the good and the bad things about them.
It's been more than 4 years now. Time goes way too fast.
I found this on [s4s]. It seems like KoG is doing fine and well these days.
>>140409027
I wouldn't worry about RWVY threads. They get shitposted non stop when one comes up.
>>140408944
This has always been something that actually pissed me off. Fucking normalfags who stumble upon anime and take it up as some cool fad they adpot for a while then move on after they get bored playing pretend weeb. They seem like the majority now more than ever and it only gets worse because a certain someone on the mod team supports their cancer.
>>140409048
It was hell, but it was a funny sort of hell. I don't miss it so much as I'd like to see something like its level of dedication occur again.
>>140409048
>The first time he ran the script was on a Homura thread back in August of 2011
>August of 2011
Accelspam has been around much longer than that.
>>140409061
God is kill
I just like to join the intelectual fate/ threads because you can't discuss with normies about it.
>>140408921
It'll happen to you.
>>140408996
>1 reply
It's gonna die a natural death.
>>140409092
I don't think so.
>>140409132
>normies
>>140409048
>>140409092
According to my research, he actually started around 2 months before then back in June 2011, but it might have done experiments before then.
>>140408991
>It's already happened to every other online community.
It's sad but true. I've unfortunately witnessed both the death the ytmnd and SA. The day 4chan dies I might just retire from the internet.
>>140409153
i am not a normie i know how to enter this site
>>140409132
>intelectual
I'm not sure if this ironic or not.
>>140409061
Yeah this shit is exactly what im talking about.
>>140409155
>back in June 2011
Maybe this is more accurate.
I clearly recall it being summer when the first time he started spamming threads.
>>140409169
After this post I assume it is.
>>140409165
>>140409184
>>140409061
>>140409110
How do you guys feel about people like Brennan Williams?
>>140407884
/vg/ is a literal chatroom and I'm pretty sure moot reset the post counts dozens of times during the early years of 4chan
>>140409165
>"Normies" can't find and enter this site
If only that was true.
>>140409204
Well he likes Asuka so I think he's pretty cool.
>>140408714
I think the ebin cuck memes from Erased made sure I'd rather see a 400+ post general
>>140408346
Its almost like more and more people starting posting on 4chan and driving up the post count.
>Am I out of touch?
>No. It is the generalfags who are wrong.
When did we get so old? Someone stop this from happening.
>>140409213
Basically every general is. They go against the premise of the site, but you can't just kill them, you have to relocate them. I'm of the opinion that every board that's over a certain speed should have either their own version of /vg/ or share a /gg/ of sorts so that these people can circlejerk each other forever without affecting board culture.
>>140409254
They should just be culled. Fuck them.
>>140409222
I love the brotaku aesthetic, and I think Williams is a cool guy. I assume that differentiates from what people are talking about here? Is it basically just a matter of cultural appropriation?
When GA was relevant
>>140409084
Pretty much what is happening with video games culture right now. We are all aware of the ''xd im such a nerd lol'' shit right well the same thing is happening to anime and manga.
>>140409233
That's not it. You probably don't browse [s4s], but KoG has made several threads there recently about his newfound abilities and how accurate he has become.
Whatever happened to the "If your waifu is posted you go to sleep" threads?
Those were really fun.
>>140409270
>cultural appropriation
What the fuck are you talking about? Please tell me you're being ironic.
>>140409269
It just doesn't work. I'm with you, but there's no way to make it happen.
>>140409254
>Katawa Shoujo General #2992
You've got to be shitting me.
>>140409254
Believe me, those anons who continue to post under a specific pattern like "x is your date tonight", "what do you think of x", or "post x or I'll eat your soul!" won't go away even if you try.
Where else am I supposed to get dubs?
>>140409288
They're on /b/ now because they kept being banned on /a/.
No, I'm NOT joking. There are "waifu posted, go to bed" and "waifu claiming" threads on /b/ right now as I'm posting this.
>>140409163
Expect it sooner rather than later.
>>140409270
>brotaku aesthetic
>>140409291
I'm not. Every time someone complains about people like Miley Cyrus wearing stuff like that, or the gamer grrlz taking over their culture, they are literally using the same basic rhetoric as people complaining about cultural appropriation. The only difference is that people who specifically talk about CA only tend to talk about race based culture. It's the same stuff, and the same source of outrage.
>>140409288
All the shitcunts with non-anime/manga waifus came.
>>140409320
Remember the good old days when the OP of these kinds of metathreads would be KoG in disguise making a board-related thread so that he could have Cirno get 9999 and Yami get quints?
I wish those kinds of threads would return, you know?
I don't think purging every general is going to improve the board the way you think it will.
But I agree to an extent, It's really tiring seeing the same daily threads.
>>140409322
>2016
>going on /b/
Its just a porn board with 3DPD.
>>140409325
I just wanna get swole and watch anime with my bros all day. Is that so wrong?
>>140409322
>go check out /b/
>all I see is porn
Yeah, that was a terrible idea.
I would consider 2 main eras of 4chan. Pre-2007 and Post-2007. Post-2007 has honestly not changed that much. In fact it's probably better now because the ronery/no gf off-topic spam threads are long gone, crossdressing "trap" attentionwhore threads are mostly gone. There are more on-topic threads than ever and even the fetish threads at least mostly stay in the realm of directly relating to anime/manga.
>>140409342
don't kid yourself. there's no way in hell cirno is getting 9999 in this thread.
>>140409288
They were really stupid along with sip and reaction image threads. You complain about generals having no content but like this shit? I don't know why we need to always have some variant of these stupid game threads where everyone posts and nobody replies.
>>140407982
who are the first?
>>140409394
/b/ and /v/ most likely.
>>140409381
>hating sip threads
>>140409394
/b/ and /v/, who else?
>>140409356
>/b/
>supposed to be random
>has generals
>3/4s of the threads are porn
At this point /b/ is basically /s/ 2.0.
>>140409394
Probably /b/, /vg/ and /v/
Did you know /b/ and /vg/ are on a special separate server? That's how different they are to the rest of 4chan.
I actually want /a/ to die and get slower. Shitposters only attack popular board because they know its free (You)
>>140409348
>tripshit defending generals
Go drink bleach Lelouch.
>>140409061
>tfw she goes into voice acting
Don't reply to him.
>>140409429
I wish that 'you' garbage was just outright disabled.
>>140409422
They have to be. If /b/ and /vg/ shared a server with the rest of the site, the rest of the site wouldn't work most of the time due to /b/ and /vg/ stealing all the bandwidth. /b/ gets absolutely nuts when there are 6 or more repeating digits.
>>140409394
Dev on /qa/ said is /b/ and /vg/
https://desustorage.org/qa/thread/286041/#287893
>>140409451
Why do so many people go to /b/? Why is it the flagship board? I've only ever been there a handful of times, and it always sucked.
>>140409431
Hardly defending but I don't see how deleting all the generals and then loads of other threads stemming off it pop up and then people complain,
"LOOK AT THE CATALOG, KEEP IT IN ONE THREAD." Some generals cough madoka need to be purged.
>>140409451
Reminds me of the time that one anon crashed the 4chan server with his reply thread on [s4s].
>>140409441
Didn't she already do a ghibli at some point?
>>140409459
>Why do so many people go to /b/?
It's the infamous /b/. Whenever you hear about 4chan you immediately think of /b/.
>>140409446
It won't stop them. It didn't stop them before so it certainly won't them even if it get removed.
>>140409459
I remember when DESU was the queen meme. Now, barely anybody mentions her anymore.
>>140409459
I don't know, its has more reposted content than any other board on the site why is it still so popular?
>>140409523
There was a desu thread a day or two ago.
>>140409531
>he actually browse /b/ daily
>>140409528
Porn.
I am not joking.
Porn is the #1 reason.
Pics you shouldn't share, loli, sister, secrets, etc.
>>140409523
We're in a different era now. Most of /b/ is full of normalfag retards now whereas before it was anime retards.
>>140409528
Apparently it still counts as internet-cred. Which is pathetic.
>you will never post on an active chan with your peers
I've grown out of the ignorant and petulant phase of meeting anybody who disagrees with me or holds an opposing opinion with personal attacks, assumptions, and general infantile behavior butI'm stuck here forever. Kill me.
>>140409459
>>140409528
It's porn and social media. Normalfags love that shit as well as the bragging rights they go to 4chan.
>>140409561
I thought he meant on /a/ for some reason.
/pol/ and /v/ is more old /b/ than what current /b/ is right now.
>>140409580
>tfw you actually come here for the conversation
This is a shit place to talk about anime, but there is literally none better.
>>140409484
Her imouto voiced Ponyo apparently.
>>140409591
/v/ really is /b/ 2.0. Offtopic threads dominate that board.
>>140408921
You could have saidI came here to laugh at you.
>>140409459
Take a look at the catalog and it's not absolutely 100% shit. There are some fine threads there. Not enough to make a community out of like an /a/ or an /r9k/, but 10% of that stuff is worth looking over. 10% isn't a terrible number if you're getting hundreds of threads every day.
>ITT: We impose stress WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CHECKED YOUR BANK STATEMENT?
>Whenever someone mentions McDonald's online, everyone and their mother comes to talk shit on it. Yet, it's the most successful fast food chain ever. Why do people lie about it? Are you guilty of this too?
These are stupendous threads when you're expecting trash porn and feels. Never thought I'd be defending /b/, but there it is.
I need a new home. You guys know any good place without normalfags and casuals plebs?
>>140409682
If we did, why would we be here?
I don't even know anymore but
I have a dream
A dream that i hope it can be true
I hope that we could time-travel /a/ and make all the good posters come back
And finally, the day that we have more bad fame than the "good dank maymays" we have now
My favourite time on /a/ was 2007, when Lucky Star and Gurren Lagann were airing simultaneously. The tension between the moefags and the garfags resulted in the best threads and the best original content.
I joined in mid 2006. Actually, I guess my 10 year anniversary is coming up soon.
>>140409459
/b/ was a lot of fun originally because it was just a bunch of nerds fucking around, talking about/doing whatever. Then through a combination of a huge influx of faggots and more new boards being added which diffused discussion it just became a worthless place for normalfags.
>>140409693
Because it hard to leave this place. We know its shit but we can't leave and so everyday we come here and become more and more jaded.
>>140409682
If such a place existed, you'd have to find it yourself. Otherwise it would seize to exist immediately
This is basically /b/ in a nutshell:
>porn
>>140409682
Gensokyo
>>140409734
brb
>>140409731
oh wow, that pic reminded me how much i really despise that stupid text-image combination, you can literally have threads with 700+ replies at their bump limit with garbage like this
>>140409682
Lets be real here, No other place will top /a/.
We're stuck here forever.
Any other place will either be
Ruled by retarded rules.
Generic retarded forum threads like who is the most badass anime character.
a cheap 4chan knock off that dies in 2 weeks.
I've been here a while and i guess one trend i've noticed is, i guess i'd call it the stronger desire to emulate the japanese audience?
The emphasis on moe and waifus, probably not helped by the deluge of moe series and there has been a vocal group of /a/ posters who felt that any anime that isn't moe is trash, and you can only truly appreciate anime when you've gotten to the moe stage.
Not that i dislike moe, but i've always preferred the serious, slightly edgy series and comedies.
>>140409292
Sure there is. Every general is a dubs thread and a roll thread and a spiderman thread or whatever the kids are doing these days. Just like the good old days with Naruto.
>>140409682
/jp/ is what you're looking for.
Are you man enough?
>>140409755
You forgot slow as shit. I don't want things fast but if you only have two posts a day there's no point lurking.
>>140409713
Honestly I still have loads of fun on /a/. Things may be better or worse than before, all I know is that when a show's airing, being in those threads is like being at home, surrounded by my friends and family, shittalking each other, making fun, joking and generally chilling. Without any shows to watch though, browsing /a/ is pretty miserable.
>>140409731
Fun Fact: If you try to say on /jp/ what the pic is asking you to say, you will get a free 1-day ban. Try it! :^)
>>140409725
>>140409713
Not him but does that mean we are in the last "floor" of good sites for anime?
>>140409767
I've gotten banned doing anything remotely close because they babysit all those threads. And I've seen a lot of other people just the same.
>>140409472
Some tripfags need to be purged.
You don't scanlate and you don't encode, Lelouch. Get outta town.
>>140409783
/a/ does have pretty much the absolute perfect speedunless it's a show getting shitposted the fuck out of like Mayoiga or something.That'll be hard to find anywhere else.
>>140409814
All is perhaps an exaggeration, but the worst of them.
>>140408921
Quit lying. /m/ is my main board after /a/ and the situation isn't any better. Just look at all the shitposting whenever G-Reco and IBO are mentioned. Or when both are mentioned at the same time.
That onahole thread is practically the only thread on /m/ right now that resembles old time fun and chill /m/. /m/ really isn't in any position to laugh.
>>140409814
That's the problem. Instead of moderators modding a whole board, they have learned to sit in specific threads and mod only those. That way, they will meet their "quotas" and only have to stay in one thread while letting the rest of the board rot sans the rare CP or drug thread where they will immediately go and take care of it.
all generals will be purged
mark my words
>>140409811
/a/ always was. /a/ and some fringe low traffic forums and communities from back in the day when forums bloomed in the 00s.
Now it's all reddit. What a cancer of a website.
>>140409779
I like touhou but I kinda want to discuss anime too you know.
>>140409848
>drug thread
Do you not see all the 420 blaze it threads right now? Fucking degenerates.
>>140409848
We need to get Hiro's attention somehow.
>>140409766
A real /a/non will like all anime genres no matter if they are for girls, guys, mecha or even the most moe anime we could see
>>140409790
Pretty much. The only good threads on /a/ are the seasonal show threads.
>>140409872
Yeah, what's up with that? I remember 420 threads being deleted instantly, and now they're everywhere?
>>140409898
Check the date.
I don't know if generals can be completely removed. People are still going to want to talk about those subjects, and to delete any thread on that subject just because it might morph into a general is actually asking to outright ban a lot of series with legitimate reasons for discussion (new chapter came out etc). I also remember generals existed long before we started calling them that; it was just "____ thread". Bleach/One Piece had constant fucking threads all the time in the early days of /a/. Even after that huge user shitstorm against the Big 3 overall they still had long-ass threads all the time. Same with Index and Death Note etc, they often had threads that hit bump limit.
The other thing is that 4chan's innovations have only vastly helped generals be more viable overall in the years. Instead of click through multiple pages (amusingly some boards seemed to have a lot of users unaware there was something beyond the first page) you can just pull up the whole board in the catalog and find the general. 4chan's built-in temp archive makes it super easy for generals to link back to old threads to continue conversations; you sometimes even see people continuing conversations on quoting from archived posts.
I think one thing that could facilitate less stagnant use is to immensely lower the bump limit on threads. Back down to 300, but ideally even 200 or less imo. Threads constantly die, but when they are remade are revitalized. Pictures can be reused in different threads more, different OPs can change conversations in threads rather than carry on the same stale talk all day etc. I forgot when moot changed it higher on here and on /v/, but having 500 post threads on /a/ really helps facilitate not just general having long staying power but board stagnation overall, because any thread that isn't a common general can still last a few days if even one or two people slowly bump it and it's otherwise boring and useless to all.
I got banned for telling a BnHA general to fuck off to /co/.
/a/ is trully dead
Please please PLEASE let someone posting Cirno get 9999 in this thread!
Onegai senpai ;_;
>>140409766
Just imagine, "moefag" was once used sincerely instead of ironically.
Nowadays, moe is the standard. If something isn't moe, it's shounen. If it's neither of those, it ain't selling.
>>140409923
It will happen!
Feels bad that dedicated generals including ones for topics that don't belong on /a/ invaded, and topics like LNs, loli, and other historically /a/ threads are deleted asap by mods if they aren't overrun by people shitposting with "doesnt belong on /a/!"
>>140409790
This, really. Macross Δ airing was a godsend, I don't remember having this much fun in /a/ consistently since last year. The previous season was filled with such horseshit that no ongoing anime thread was interesting. This one is more promising.
>>140409920
There is some jani and mods who participate in some of these general threads. I always get a warning for reporting the useless circlejerking monster musume general.
>>140409861
Oh now that I think about it reddit has pretty much killed off every forum in existence hasn't it? Fucking hell, its nearly impossible to find isolated unique communities anymore on the internet they're all being assimilated into these massive content aggregators.
So, what happens when summer comes in guys?
I'm starting to think we will have one of the strongest and worst summer this year, don't know why but i feel it
BEHOLD, THE STRONGEST FAIRY IN ALL OF GENSOKYO!
Lewd Cirno get.
>>140409923
The honor would be mine.
>>140409979
20 more do it again.
>>140409915
>constant fucking threads
And there were times when they were also confined to exactly one day a week. And people actually stuck to it.
Lowering the bump limit without fixing any systemic issues is just only going to inflate general # counts. We'll have drawfag #10000 or whatever soon enough.
>>140409920
Let me get banned. It makes me feel better about myself.
>some shows that get slower threads and aren't generals get shitposted to death with no moderation to help them
>say one negative thing in a popular general
>get a warning with in 10 minutes
>>140409979
>>140409998
>>140410000
You fuckers let 420 take the day. Damn you to hell.
>>140409997
>>140409998
>>140410000
>>140410001
Its over. /a/ is doomed.
>>140409998
>>140410000
I'll never get tired of this.
Never.
>>140409946
Kantai needs to fuck off. They should shove off to /vg/ or some shit.
>>140409998
>>140410000
I bet it's some general >>140409999
AHAHA NO 9999 FOR BAKAS HERE
>>140410000
>>140409998
>off by one twice
>>140409998
>>140410000
Miserable.
