What was your most favorite time on /a/?
Another: Pie
>>143019175
>warmly
>turns it up way past Warm
Sometimes after my first year when the Geass hype was dying down and people were making generals with my favorite anime.
>>143019175
>that sort of abuse
"Lelouch and Suzaku are your two gay dads" threads.
Honestly? Endless Eight. It was a pretty chill time in my life, too, and I seem to recall it being pretty chill in /a/, too. Geass had died down and Accel spammer hadn't popped up yet, Monogatari was this brand new thing that wasn't getting subs, Hox was scanlating the finale of Bokurano and Askeladd'sdeathin Vinland saga. I was getting into Blame! and Bio-Meat, and Biscuit Hammer was this really cool manga that Snoopycool had scanlated three volumes of before he disappeared.
N/a/ruto to be honest.
>>143022860
That day really cemented how humorless and out of touch the "anti-narutard" crowd is
>>143023963
so all of /ɐ/
Fuck quest was fun.
Most recent hilarity was vulvarave for me.
madoka airing
>>143021252
This.
Another threads were the pinnacle of /a/.
R2, nigga.
>>143019175
That would actually make poison fumes if you did it for real.
>>143022717
>Snoopycool
I miss that group.
>>143027373
The closest group I know of for finding and translating really weird stuff is FwPA, and they're not nearly as weird.
endless 8
>>143024384
whatever happened to that anyway?
I remember it got moved to /tg/, but they didn't want it. Where did it go?
>>143027461
Fingernails girl has a whole group now? I guess I wasn't paying attention.
http://archive.is/e5M62
This thread, and any other Aria thread. I don't see them much, though admittedly I don't go to /a/ often
>>143027373
Chicken Panels:
Woah, woah, keep me level.
Hi, I'm a chicken.
Something wrong, you look troubled?
Fucking panic, bitch! He just said 'dead'! I wanna live!
>>143027049
This, and specifically unraveling and theorizing about the runes/references/mythos/etc.
Midnight manga threads with Hox and the other anons from, what? 2008ish?
>>143027699
Yeah, and making the manga charts. Those things lasted forever.
Molester Man finale, the best new year's eve.
Every day with /a/ is my favorite time on /a/.
Pie memes or watching mirai nikki turn into a trainwreck with /a/ was fun.
>>143029529
>not in katakana
what
>>143029424
This, I cried, I laughed, but we were all together this night.
>>143029688
Hiragana is prettier
The last few chapters of TWGOK was fun times. Butthurt and bitter tears at that level is rare nowadays.
All the Kannaposting when Ano Natsu was airing was fun toorip bears poster
>>143027734
Christmas Punpun was another great time. Hox is truly the hero of this board.
>>143029688
Stylistic choice. Happens occasionally. See:
>>143029739
2007/2008? Definitely up there
>>143029739
>>143029758
Ah, I didn't know that. Makes sense. Thanks.
A toss-up between the discovery of the waifu school, and that one Lodoss thread that lasted close to a week.
>>143029529
oh god yes
>>143019175
>spic hands
Yep, that's an /a/non.
Unlimited Essay Works
Does anyone remember the time /a/ made a Death Note, or anime_expert (have watched 300+ anime)
>>143029424
Came here to post this. The hype was too real.
The guy that stuck his bayonet through his computer screen with a picture of kirino on it.
/a/ wasn't even better than /v/ until gamergate.
M/a/yoiga time
>>143029994
Oh yeah, definitely
>>143029994
memeyoiga
>>143019175
There have been many.
I have a particular fondness for the Medaka Box threads, especially towards its climax and finale.
There was something of a perpetual fury around Maria-sama ga Miteru, which I enjoyed a lot (broadly speaking, I think '04/5-'08 was the heyday of /a).
More recently the Hokago no Pleiades threads were great - /a/ has changed, but I still like being here.
I joined in the autumn right before the first "summer", and I haven't had such stress free and fun posting since that autumn and winter
autumn and winter are always the best time on /a/ though
>>143030223
University holidays were the best - not only were winter holidays comfy, but you didn't have to be up for anything, so you cycled through the different timezones of /a/. Even the namefags changed.
Reading finales of manga with /a/ has always been fun. Really just reading really hyped chapters of manga with /a/.
Most recently I recall the finale for Sakamoto last night or the Sengoku Youko one. Or the like 6000 post Akame ga Kill thread. I also really liked the Shield Hero live translation threads.
>>143029994
Are you kidding? By the time it became evident nobody was going to die, the threads had descended into an orrgy of tumblr and crossboarders. I enjoyed the clusterfuck of the show itself, but the fanbase was easily one of the most cancerous to alight upon this board in years.
>>143030359
Finale of SZS. Fuck me that took a month to get over.
Code Geass s2
>>143030125
/a/ is mostly newfags now
Gurren Lagann 2007
Code Geass R2 2008
Haruhi Endless Eight 2009
Panty and Stocking ruining Christmas 2010
Madoka episode 10 causing peak hype followed immediately by the Tohoku 2011 earthquake
That was /a/ prime. Nothing after that has been good.
>>143030578
Yeah, it is. That said, I don't think the board is in too poor health. We have too many show related generals, and I'll never understand why Naruto is tolerated (I'd rather have the Elfen Lied threads back), but overall /a/ is still better than the alternatives.
Still sad /anime/ went though.
>>143030680
TTGL and Lucky Shit were the end of /a/, it only got worse and worse after that.
kill la kill
>>143029754
Was that when the series was finished? I never really cared for Punpun; it's my least favorite book by it's author.
Mysterious Girlfriend X finale, jumping in to poke fun at those poor obligate completionists that sat through it all those years. Of course, those threads were not worthy to unloose the latchet of the shoes of the Nisekoi finale threads that are to come.
>>143030692
/a/ isn't better then the alternatives its the same. All the people who ruined other sites with constant namefagging and wanting to create community for just them selves came here. Ruining /a/ culture in favor of normalfag culture.
![[Mushishi Zoku Shou][20.5(Special Hen)][BDRIP][1080P][H264_FLAC_DTS-HDMA_DTS].mkv_snapshot_46.28_[2015.08.03_15.08.30].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QSCcniM.jpg "[Mushishi Zoku Shou][20.5(Special Hen)][BDRIP][1080P][H264_FLAC_DTS-HDMA_DTS].mkv_snapshot_46.28_[2015.08.03_15.08.30].jpg")
The final mushishi movie thread. 3 days long, thread hit cap and went down remembering the good old days.
>>143030965
>normalfag culture
Can't disagree there - although I think it's also to do with an ageing userbase. I hate to say it, but I'm fairly sure I've become something of a normalfag over the years, not least as elements of internet culture became mainstream.
>namefagging
It's astonishing how negatively the tripfags have affected the board - especially given that names were commonplace in old /a/, at the very least within the context of a discussion/thread. Yet somehow this has spiralled into the ego monsters that are (most of) today's tripfags.
>>143030729
Gurren Laggan on /a/ was terrible. I went to /m/ to talk about it. They used to be cool.
>>143030125
>Hokago no Pleiades
Awww yeah. Under rated show is under rated.
>>143030680
KLK threads were a similar but toned down TTGL response, which made them more fun IMO since the TTGL threads got way too fucking out of hand. Also the KLK OST saving christmas was a pretty great moment.
>>143030420
Every fanbase turning into this eventually.
The same was with Osomatsu, with Psycho Pass, with Rebuild 3.33 generals, with NagiAsu and KlK. I'm not even mentioning how cancerous was Code Geass fandom by nowadays standards. Cancer, shitposting and memes would turn into nice fun memories as the time passes.
>>143030965
4chan's explosion in popularity and it eclipsing other sites like Gaia, Animesuki, etc really ruined this place, it became the first stop for new weebs and now we are flooded with low quality posters and literal children
The Free! backlash.
>>143029929
I remember when /a/ was for experts.
Anime_expert was the original tripfaggot who ruined trip codes forever.
Where my retarded dragons nigs?
>>143030874
No that was IIRC the point that everything truly went to shit as we hit the stride of the final story arc. You should give Punpun another chance if you like Asano's style, probably my favorite manga. Of course you need to go in with it being a feel bad story in mind, but if you are familiar with Asano's other work they are mostly feel bad stories.
![snapshot_21.34_[2015.07.28_03.12.45].png](https://i.imgur.com/JWOzi8Q.jpg "snapshot_21.34_[2015.07.28_03.12.45].png")
>>143019175
sound threads 2012
>>143019175
New years on r/a/dio, definitely.
>>143019175
Easily Star Driver Sundays
KIRABOSHI!
You also now have OP2 stuck in your heads.
>>143031249
What series is this? I want to read and/or watch it.
>>143031198
>Cancer, shitposting and memes would turn into nice fun memories as the time passes.
...am i happy and i don't know it?
>>143031482
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
>>143031205
>>143031224
So where do we go now? Even the text board is gone, and IRCs are largely dead/bad.
>>143031450
Zettai Bouei Leviathan
There are too many "favorite times" on /a/, but my highlight of the month used to be moot coming on here to drunkpost and fuck around.
I guess maybe the last time I had fun on /a/ was when Kill la Kill was airing and people were going crazy with speculah. The threads got really cancerous towards the end though.
>>143031550
>So where do we go now?
Honestly? no where.
at least on /a/ we can call people out on being retarded. And we can voice our love for anything and get met with like minded individuals without having to resort to hugbox environments.
I wish i knew the alternative. but there really isn't any.
KLK's airing and the OST at Christmas was the last time I had fun and hope that /a/ would lose the tumblr/reddit/gaia crowd. Ironically enough KLK did the exact opposite.
Now with naruto not being banned anymore the floodgates are broken and /a/'s culture is dying
>>143031550
Hope that Hiro makes a retro anime board so all the FoTM newfags can have this board to themselves
>>143031749
Board splits are never good, have you forgotten /jp/?
>>143031749
This is a horrible idea.
>>143031749
A retro anime board would probably not be a bad idea, but you'd run into the same problems /vr/ does - arguing over what is and isn't retro, and having the same threads over and over due to lack of content.
>>143031678
Wish more people realize how damaging N/a/ruto was. Literally single handily killed /a/. Naruto/DBZ/Bleach/OP shitposting kept almost all of the newfags away.
>>143031678
Have you seen how terrible One Piece threads are now? It almost makes me miss Set Sail for Fail.
>>143031749
Not enough interest by far. There's not even enough interest in manga/light novels to move them away from /a/.
>>143031835
I love One Piece, and even I agree.
A time with no generals.
>>143031835
As a last act of spite moot killed /a/ before handing it over to the oriental jews.
>>143031952
We always had generals, they just didn't survive months and months like they do now and they had no name.
>>143031835
>Bleach shitposting
I thought Bleach threads were okay back then. Naruto threads were banned and OP threads not so active as they are now, but I distinctly remember a relaxed atmosphere in Bleach threads before moot left. There wasn't nearly as much shipping cancer in 2012, for instance.
>>143031778
Those were different times on this site back then and due to a necessity from people needing a place to discuss Touhou, VNs, and the like
>>143031806
Explain why then
>>143031835
It was terrible, and it was obvious how terrible it would be.
Not least as we had just finished fighting off a year of shitposting from trending anime.
As I said earlier, I would rather have the Elfen Lied/Ergo Proxy/My first anime XD/etc. shitposting back - at the very least one could handle it effectively through recommendation charts, and telling people not to spoonfeed. Furthermore it was a type of post that, whilst rejected, could lead to people integrating into the board culture, rather than existing concurrently (and divisively) to it as is the case with naruto etc.
>>143032040
>necessity from people needing a place to discuss Touhou, VNs, and the like
People were generally fine with those things, it was only moot who threw a pissy fit because "muh pure anime and manga imageboard".
>>143031987
We used to shit on anyone who even brought up the anime in One Piece threads. Now people go on and on about it and post those awful colored pages. They have really filled up with faggots to the point that they are the majority.
>>143031825
It could drive interest in getting a lot of old series translations, there are still tons of shows out there that most people have never seen or even heard of
>>143032101
Do you not remember Touhou hijacks or something
>>143032101
>People were generally fine with those things
Speak for yourself, I found them annoying enough.
/jp/ being a massive failure is funny in retrospect but I would argue that it technically did its job in containing that rabble. Or at least it starved the 2hufags of any coherent discussion.
my favorite time is right now Op just having the pleasure to be on this website with all these great people brings me slight bit of joy in my life and even when everyone says /a/ is shit nowadays i still know that /a/ is one of the best places on earth because when ever i feel down i can always come here and talk to my friends c:
Geass Sundays
>>143032198
I've never understood the popularity. Isn't it a bullet hell game or something? With, like, weird looking characters who appear in all kinds of really really weird doujin works?
>>143032285
No one really likes the game, they just fap to the girls and draw doujins and compose music. Same deal with KanColle: the game itself is pretty bad but the girls are great.
>>143032040
Neither flavor of the season, nor retro threads are a problem on /a/. Splitting them makes no sense. If you look at the threads you will realize that combining both together would only even amount to maybe 60% of the threads at any given moment. Seasonal shows sometimes don't even get a thread on its release day on modern /a/. Retro threads are far and few between. The bulk of /a/ is now either in a general or shitposting with
>I want to sniff her butt.
>>143032040
>Explain why
It's impossible to have good discussion about a series that isn't receiving any new content. This is exactly why general threads always go to shit.
A retro board would end up filled with generals for the few "retro" shows people still care about (eva, bebop, etc.) and the rest of the board wouldn't even hit bump limit.
Geass is the obvious answer but a special mention goes out to the years before Katawa Shoujo came out and we had those excellent Bromont threads
>>143032374
>Oh, look, it's a [anime] thread!
>nope, just anons discussing what sex with [anime]'s characters would be like
When Mamare answered Log Horizon questions here. I wished I had asked him even more questions about the setting.
Grate nyanderful.
Watching K-ON! with /a/ was pretty good. Now the threads are nothing but cancer.
>>143032360
It has some really fucking weird doujin. The first Touhou thing I ever saw was a doujin manga were there were a lot of 'Marrisas' which were just tiny bouncing heads of, I'm assuming, a character from the series named Marisa. They were murdered, bullied, tortured, and treated kindly at random.
>>143032427
Not every board needs to have every thread hit bump limit and 20,000 anons all vying for epic shitpost upvotes and spamming memes, 4chan used to be comfy before it became overrun by people
It works fine for /vr/ which is magnitudes better than /v/
>all those Fate/Zero coincidences
What a fucking trip
>>143032427
Yeah, It's better to just wait and then try to have a thread about your favorite anime once a year or so.
That's what I do with Tylor.
>>143032440
I loved Bromont threads. The KS ones were better than that monster girl shit.
>>143032498
Not only did he forget to come back as he promised, he got busted on the taxes - and S2 was a disaster - and Japan abandoned Log Horizon. I hope he rebounds soon.
>>143032538
>tiny bouncing heads
They do have weird doujins but the one you're talking about is the most extreme it gets. You're talking about Yukkuri. Touhoufags are cancer but I wouldn't judge their whole thing by yukkuris alone, that's like staying away from all anime and manga because Elfen Lied was your first anime.
>>143032506
K-On was always garbage for newfags
![[Zurako] Log Horizon - 23 - Student of the Mage (BD 1080p AAC) [551AAA9E].mkv_20141004_060125.484.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4GSEpij.jpg "[Zurako] Log Horizon - 23 - Student of the Mage (BD 1080p AAC) [551AAA9E].mkv_20141004_060125.484.jpg")
>>143032498
Best times.
Still waiting on him to come back.
>>143032647
I've looked at some of the other stuff on sad panda, none of it looks interesting and the game certainly doesn't. I can maybe see why it has fans, but not why it has so damn many.
>>143032647
>he got busted on the taxes
I hadn't heard. What happened?
>>143032498
This. Log Horizon wasn't the greatest anime, but Mamare was awesome.
>>143032756
It was a mixup between reporting things as his business and as his personal finances. By the time that story hit the whole thing had been resolved anyway.
>>143032923
>vegetable requirements
>tomatoes
Tomatoes are only vegetables for the purpose of importing into the US. I don't know why people want to turn one of the only good fruits into a vegetable.
>>143033103
>only good fruits
Wow, you have some of the shittiest taste I've ever heard of. Tomatoes are fucking garbage and don't deserve to be a fruit.
>>143033158
Cherry tomatoes are GOAT.
Geass Sundays
Katawa Shoujo release
P&S Christmas
Molester Man threads
Guilty Crown was fun.
>dropped every week
>sage was killed off
>big 3 became allowed on /a/
These hurt, but not as much as
>spoonfeeding is now allowed on /a/
>recommendations are now given out freely
>tumblr fucking filenames (and imgur)
Every time I see this shit happen, I don't know whether to call them out since I'm sure I'm in the minority now.
I miss Gestapo military /a/.
>>143033158
I have seven varieties in my garden of only tomatoes. I grow over 30 plants and I live alone. I love fucking tomatoes. I don't really care for really sweet things. As far as fruit goes, I eat mild apples like Cameos and Galas and tomatoes, lots of tomatoes.
>>143033386
>recommendations are now given out freely
We always gave out recommendations freely, we just shat on people that asked for them instead of lurking.
>>143033386
Call em out and do your part. It's the only way.
>>143033103
>>143033158
>>143033199
>>143033419
>trying this hard
>>143033270
2015 was a shit year not just for /a/, but for the internet in general.
I'm pretty sure the world ended in 2012 and we're all in hell.
>>143033485
Trying to... like or hate tomatoes?
I don't know what you are trying to imply.
>>143033535
I haven't updated my OS since 2012. Hopefully that's just a coincidence.
>>143033535
GG alone was a literal shit storm. I wish both sides of that conflict would kill themselves but we all know that won't happen.
>>143033602
Nope.
Favourite time on /a/?
Everything before Geass aired. And I know the joke, "/a/ was never good", but, honestly, it was better than this.
I can't think of anything single other thing that has irreparably changed the overall posting tone and style of /a/ as much as the shitposting clusterfuck maelstrom Geass wrought in it's wake on /a/.
>>143032360
>No one really likes the game
Why not though?
I hardly remember any of the Touhou characters but I find the games quite enjoyable.
>>143033897
Windows as an operating system? Haha, no.
Although I love accidental windows 10 upgrades. They've made me so much money.
>>143031198
>Cancer, shitposting and memes would turn into nice fun memories
but what if I was already having fun during code geass sundays
>>143034017What job?
See this?
I love this series.
I think it's a great manga with lots of great characters, strange and unique adventures, great fights, good art and everything. I think it's great and I've always loved it and I loved our monthly Steel Ball Run threads and occasional "Araki is immortal" threads inbetween.
So what the fuck happened? Was it really just the anime? Or was I always a part of such an annoying and obnoxious fanbase and I just never realized it? Like it's every fucking day with these Jojo threads. I just don't understand how it could get so out of hand. We have more Jojo threads made by the exact same people with the exact same posters every day then we have Naruto threads.
>>143033898
That probably had a lot to do with the perfect storm of new internet users in 2007-08.
>>143034223
IT/repairman/maintenance/drone
I'm some kind of weird contract work. My job changes almost every week, and then sometimes I'm temporarily unemployed for random spurts.
Tons of our clients somehow accidentally their entire workplaces. So I got some overtime rolling back machines and teaching windows 10 refreshers.
Fucking phone rings at 5 in the morning. "X small law firm had their computers upgrade to windows 10. Can you get over there and roll them back before they open at 8."
>>143034302
Anime kills all good manga discussion on /a/. People who only watch TV are cancerous.
>>143034436
>Cheaping out on Pro
>Or even Home Premium
They deserve every extra headache and incurred cost for trying to pinch pennies at the start
All I know is as a lucker /a/ is boring to read now. This place use to be perfect material to read before bed. Now it's so boring I can't even bother to come here most of the time. I've only been around here for 6-7 years and even I can tell there's been a nose dive in quality posting.
>>143034538
None of the lawyers we do work for are large enough to have an employee who even knows there are different versions of windows.
>>143033270
2015 gave us Dandelion, that's something.
>>143034613
I don't think we've lost anything, it's just all overrun by a sea of useless repeated shit.
>>143034302
It was "manly" and "serious," and it got a good adaptation.
This attracted a lot of people who don't normally get excited about anime, and you can probably guess what happened next..
It's not your fault.
>>143019175
>>143034678
>lively threads while airing
>incestposting more or less at a minimum
>never developed into a general
>occasional Dandelion threads now and then to this day
I don't think we could ask for anything better.
>>143019175
>What was your most favorite time on /a/?
the Toradora-K-ON time, 1st time I followed animes as they was airing rather than wait til it was finished and watching it all in one go
>>143034871
>animes
You just lost your license to post in this thread.
>>143024055
this guy knows whats up
the /a/ I browse nowadays mine as well be someplace completely different from the home I once knew
>>143027049
Think it was this, watching live, speculating endlessly, seeing everyone crack and translate the runes, and the endless stream of OC. That kind of thing is my favorite part of /a/.I'll always regret missing the SnW threads.
I will say this: more stuff is translated than before and therefore accessible. More people know Japanese and are able to translate. I guess that's the silver lining.
That functionally retarded tripfag who got everyone worked up over the summer
>>143032439
>tfw I made part of this
Fucking good night, that was.
When /pol/tards weren't a thing.
>>143032498
It was magical.
>>143032719
The community doesn't revolve around doujin, as in, hentai manga. It revolves around all kinds of doujin content, as in fan-made music, games of all kinds, art and even whole anime.
It also helps that the series creator Zun loves and has enormous respect for this aspect of the community, where anyone is free to take whatever from the universe and interpret and express as they want.
I only fap to the doujin, though, so I could be wrong somewhere there.
>>143019175
When the first season of Haruhi aired since that's when I first got stuck in this place.
Code Geass threads always had the best content though.
>>143035626
Back to the oven kike.
>>143035626
Did you buy yourself out of the oven?
Anyone who found this site in 2007 or later needs to leave permanently
>>143035626
Hello newfriend
>>143035880
>>143035939
>>143035989
Don't worry, I'll pay your board a visit when Hillary wins.
I didn't knew /pol/ was so easily triggered
>>143036060
>"UGH I HATE /POL/"
>proceeds to be the only poster ITT to bring up politics
This is why no one wants your triggered vagina here
Probably be the yearly Komm Susser Tod, or related when Moot left.
Shirobako airing threads. Great anime, lots of bullying but also some quality niceposting OC.
>>143036060
I'm still wondering which side will have the bigger riots if they lose. Granted the progressives are having daily riots anyway, but I wonder if trump losing would actually get people off their asses.
And for some reason I see Hilary's people rioting even if she does win.
>>143036132
JEWWWWS! WOMEEEN!
You sound happy.
I really enjoyed the Guilty Crown threads and dropping it every week.
>>143036201
>>143035718
>doujin, as in, hentai manga
No, I meant doujin as in doujin.
Most of the Touhou stuff on exhentai seems to be non-h, although I never looked hard or counted.
>>143036221
I don't really care who wins, but whoever it is, if they sign that fucking TPP we should all fucking riot. Just look at what the last fucking trade partnership did to us.
>>143036545
I've no idea why he went for such a plain and boring girl, she probably doesn't watch anime too
>>143027049
HOMURA IS A CAT RIDING AN INVISIBLE UNICYCLE.
>>143030333
I notice that post quality drops abysmally around noon and picks up again around midnight in the summer. In winter and fall it's usually better all day, except on the weekends towards the end of winter.
>>143036545
But Honda-san is happy making donuts. Donuts drive the bakos, so he's still supporting them.
>>143036783
Does this count?
Lots of things have still been fun on /a/, it's just rare that we get massive, board-wide shitstorms. Say what you want about board quality but the KlaK's are fun as fuck when they come around.
>>143030680
Panty and Stocking ruining christmas was truly the greatest.
Most recent fond memories? Shooting the shit with /a/ during hiro's Q&A, good vibes all around.
But I always tend to either be asleep or busy or just put off during the big habbenings. I just like /a/ in general. There's always atleast one thread doing something fun.
I miss the clones trip.
>>143036998
He looks kinda bored
Maybe thinking of boobs he could've juggled right now
>>143019175
endless eight
Every year.
Nothing will ever beat CG R2.
Star Driver sundays were a lot of fun.
Valvrave was so bullshit the threads were 10/10
![[gg]_Star_Driver_-_19_[BBD77D4D].mkv_snapshot_17.24_[2011.02.13_16.57.34].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5AmK2az.jpg "[gg]_Star_Driver_-_19_[BBD77D4D].mkv_snapshot_17.24_[2011.02.13_16.57.34].jpg")
>>143031399
>not YOU ARE MY SHINING STAAAAAR
>>143030680
I've been right there with you, and here I am still.
2009-11 for sure, the community was funny, thriving and dynamic while having a respectable standard of dialogue and behavior. Jesus, I fucking lived to get on /a/ everyday. Pre-2008 was too elitist to be honest and now 4chan is just edgy Reddit.
>>143038216
i can relate to this
>>143027049
this
>>143031399
>>143038150
Star Driver Sundays were the best. I remember getting up at 7AM on Sundays just so I could download the episode, watch it and shitpost in those threads.
>>143033386
>sage was killed off
that was the nail on the coffin...
Penguindrum for sure.
I guess the mememorable time that sticks out is when that one guy speed translated onani master kurosawa.
>>143033386
>big 3 became allowed on /a/
I know one piece and naruto were never welcome here, but bleach has been an /a/ standard series for a long time
>>143038216
What the fuck actually happened? Is it because 4chan became so well known? Now you can barely find any threads with any actual substance or meat. Most of the threads in /neoa/ just devolve into samefagging. crossboarding, and waifu wars.
>>143038469
>trying to re write history like no one would notice.
>>143032198
>>143032285
It's a bullet hell series that,s 20 years old and have an absurd amount of official manga, books, games and like it's creator said, Touhou is a doujin game series for doujin works. Fans went with the flow and created hundred of thousand of fanarts, music remixes and fan games of almost any genre you can think of. .
>>143038508
>What the fuck actually happened?
entropy
>>143033386
You can still sage silently if you put it into the options field. It does what sage does in the first place, not bumping a thread.
>no gorespammer or accelerator spamming
Those are some of my most precious memories of /a/.
>>143038508
Standards just haven't been tight or well defined, a core userbase hasn't been well served. If you can't ban someone just for posting a tumblr gif then all hope is lost.
>>143038604
It doesn't communicate disgust, though.
>>143032040
look at every time the split /v/ up
>>143030680
The wait or the madoka finale after the earthquake was fucking excruciating but probably helped make it all the more satisfying.
>>143038635
>No DESU spamming
>No more happy negro, cock mongler and pedo bear
>>143019175
Why would you even do that, it's not even an /a/ thing...
S1 of Valverave was pretty good to do.
"Call me Moses." - Moses
>>143038654
>sage as downvote
that's what reaction faces are for
>>143038635
>>143038635
>accelerator spamming
>>143038508
A lot of different phenomena will occur over a span of several years, like new users imitating previous precedents and deforming them, or utterly replacing whatever culture was there first. Basically people leave, people come, things change.
Even though 4chan is a shadow of what it used to be, I'm actually surprised /a/ hasn't changed more than it has. It's pretty insane, goes to show you just how tight self-moderation used to be.
Akame ga Kill 2013 - 2014
>>143031377
This. Those were so much fun.
>>143038853
oh fuck off with that shit
visible sage existed far longer than reddit
and all getting rid of it did was bring in cuck spam,
you good job fuckhead.
Endless Eight.
Watching the board lose its shit week after week was exquisite.
>>143019175
I really enjoyed late night moot drunkposting.
Those were the days.
>>143038953
what of course /a/ fucking changed
a few years ago translatorfags using a thread for blogging or flirting with each other wouldn't have been tolerated.
>>143039027
"nice blogpost"
thats literally what the response today would be, even though it was funny as shit.
>>143039015
Why do you type like a retard?
>>143034764
chaika posting was the best.
Call on Mwee was even better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZTxpUyIuk
The day pun-pun ended
Puddi Day
>>143038216
>that was 6-7 years ago
I remember the oreimo threads when it was airing well, shit got intense
>>143038523
Bleach has been a mainstay on /a/ since the anime started airing.
>>143039060
Reading comprehension anyone? I didn't say it didn't change. It's changed dramatically, but relative to other boards it's at least retained a semblance of its previous image. Go on literally any other board and tell me /a/'s been hit as hard. /jp/ has been lobotomized and castrated. /v/ is literally children trying to be as wacky as possible. /b/ is... I don't even know what to call it honestly.
>>143039198
so was one piece ,
naruto was the only one that got shitted on.
>>143039220
/b/ has always been babbys first board but the once in a month I pop in there it just looks like something from fucking 9gag, Its become that goddamn cringey. In comparison /a/ is still god-tier.
Difficult to understand how people can list something after 2012 as their best time on /a/
>>143039220
/b/ is like one off those mirrors that goes on forever, every thread and every post is a re-post of a re-post of a re-post. It's like full on meta shitposting for infinity
>>143032623
Too bad UBW was shit and the threads consisted of shitposters only.
>>143039401
>>143034302
The fanbase was fine. The new fanbase when S2 started killed it. It mostly came from conventions from what I know.
>>143019175
Code geass R2 and KLK threads.
Star Driver Sundays were my favorite. Also I remember watching Shin Mazinger live with /m/ and nobody knew what the fuck was happening.
>>143027318
>tfw I'll probably get some form of cancer from melting anime figures in ovens
>>143039220
/b/ is literally just endless dick rate threads
Who was that guy who used to do Katawa Shoujo and then monstergirl quests? That used to be fun.
>>143019175
Go back to /v/ with you unrelated op posts you faggot
>>143034302
>Was it really just the anime
probably, i've seen it happen so many times, that I jumped ship when the anime aired.
don't know what the threads are like now , dont want to know, not going back.
>>143019175
Watching Code Geass R2 with /a/, closely followed by Guilty Crown.
>>143038508
>Is it because 4chan became so well known?
Almost the entire reason 4chan became popular was because of /pol/ interfering with the left and happenings. It is shit now almost entirely because of the election now.
>>143039220
/a/ is pretty much the only board which has any resemblance to it's old self.
I'm here since 2008 and /b/, /v/ and many others have changed so much over the years that I can barely recognize them.
Even /pol/ is completely different from a few years ago.
Someone once posted a graphic showing the growth of 4chan's daily/monthly(?) unique visitors. It went from somewhere around 50k in 2006-2007 to almost a million in 2013.
>>143039551
What were they?
Even though I hated the series, I loved Oreimo threads. Constantly followed the threads while the series was still airing.
>>143039768
>to almost a million in 2013.
yeah but that was its apex, its been decline since then
![Puella.Magi.Madoka.Magica.the.Movie.Part.III.Rebellion.mkv_snapshot_01.44.11_[2014.04.03_04.16.27].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ihMcRtd.jpg "Puella.Magi.Madoka.Magica.the.Movie.Part.III.Rebellion.mkv_snapshot_01.44.11_[2014.04.03_04.16.27].jpg")
I regret missing Madoka airing, but the Rebellion BD threads were great. A nice couple weeks of good discussion before spiraling back down into infinite shitposting.
I don't understand when some of you say nothing has changed, when almost everything has
Self moderation was a thing
Resident spammers were great at pruning shit threads
Idiots were ignored quite often, baiting people was much more harder
I legit lurked for months before making my first post, just to be told to fuck off and so I lurked again
>Muh sikrit club
Quality of posts was higher, I can bet on it
>>143024384
Fuck the mods for moving that shit to /tg/.
The fun died with Fuck Quest.
