Has it happened to you yet?
yes
stop asking
no, i was never with it
Nigga I wasn't with it to begin with
>got into /co/ around 2007
>seeing how troll changed into bait
>seeing how flame changed into bantz/banter
>seeing how butthurt changed into salty
I still see myself as a filthy newfag though
>>77794149
>>seeing how flame changed into bantz/banter
I never saw this.
i was born with Ass, nothing else
>>77794151
It's probably predominately used in /vg/,not in the other boards
I'm too socially detached to know what "it" is.
>mfw I can't stand the music I used to listn when I was 15 years old
>mfw all bands of rock get more and more boring
>mfw more and more into classical music, and in search for solid quality on things
Getting old is not that bad after all, I fell, in the end, more mature and less edgy about things than before
>>77794119
same
>>77794149
remember when memes were called macros, and before were called inside jokes?
>>77794227
Remember when sage did something?
>>77794149
>>seeing how troll changed into bait
>>seeing how flame changed into bantz/banter
>>seeing how butthurt changed into salty
Honestly most of these were changes for the better imo.
bait in particular I vastly prefer. It sticks to the original fishing metaphor without getting as warped as trolling did, and the images have much greater creativity and humor to them.
Though I could definitely see bantz/banter getting old real fast. Salty too, to a lesser extent.
>>77794237
remember when 4chan was the epitome of controversy on internet?
>>77794257
remember when meme wasn't a meme?
>>77794257
Sure do, pal!
>>77794069
Every 6 months they seem to change what it is. I just don't care. Its not worth the energy. I can't care about "it" even in the slightest.
>>77794257
That doesn't happen that often thanks to other sites doing their controversies instead
>>77794243
Real talk, I always enjoying seeing a new bait-fish image posted.
>>77794227
>>77794237
>>77794257
>>77794264
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
>>77794264
It was always a meme
But I remember the day I was reading a scientific magazine, and there was that full report on a new social concept invented by Dawkins called memetic mutation
So yeah, before fedoras, Dawkins produced a even more embarrassing thing for the world
almost free
>>77794227
>remember when memes were called macros
No. I remember when image macros started being called memes, but 4chan always had memes.
>>77794279
Same, it's the only subfolder I have in my reaction image folder.
Baitfish is just so charming.
>>77794293
Habbo never did a thing for me
Php forums and Neopets in another hand...
All the cool signatures with cool photoshop effects. Many hours were wasted on those
>>77794293
What the hell did you do?
>>77794308
Coincidentally haven't seen that one, thanks anon.
>>77794069
I'm23and it's already starting.
>>77794300
This guy's got it straight.
>>77794300
>4chan always had memes
Lolcats used to be "funny macros". The meme concept only came after and sucked every single internet joke on it. The U MAD thing is nowadays considered a meme, but at the time it was only a macro.
>>77794309
>neopets
Thanks for reminding that I abandoned my digital pet again
>>77794336
Could be worse. That one Level 100 Pokemon you transfered on Stadium to defeat all your friends still waiting for you to come back.
>>77794327
Because most lolcats were images with text overlayed on it, like the image you just posted. Those are image macros. They existed at the same time as memes like raptor jesus, happy negro, SHOOP DA WHOOP, etc. but are now just called memes themselves.
>>77794350
Jokes on you I never had a n64 and that jacked up venosaur addicted to rare candies is probably dead too
The problem was normies coming in and abusing our culture and stealing everything we had held sacred. We understood that jokes and image macros were meant to be used sparingly and were not meant to cross the streams. Like rage comics. They were designed to have one face at the end with original drawn faces throughout the comic beforehand, thus marking the contrast between stylized expressions and intensifying the joke.
Then along came reddit and tumblr and 9gag, throwing memes and jokes where they didn't belong, saturating them and removing what good came of them. Now every panel of a rage comic had to have a funny super-detailed face, and the last panel no longer had impact.
I remember those days before. I remember, and it brings me memories, both pleasant and unpleasant.
>>77794363
>using rare candy
>>77794350
>>77794363
>>77794370
>tfw transferred my entire team of lvl 100 pokemon to Collisseum
>corrupted memory card
>couldn't transfer because Nintendo were dicks about memory card data transfer
>lost everything
That's when I stopped playing Pokemon forever.
>>77794370
Fuck you misty I didn't knew rare candies was really bad when I was a kid
>>77794069
Yeah. Trannies and SJWs did it.
I miss goths and emos and punks.
>>77794350
At least being stored on Stadium allows it to survive starting a new game on the original cartridge.
>>77794369
>pretending /b/ rage comics were any less retarded than reddit ones
It was always stupid. The rage comes from kids using it to be the KEWL guy, like it was for some time. But again, no one in the right sense cares about rage comics nowadays, not even 9gag
>>77794149
>I still see myself as a filthy newfag though
It's sad that you've almost been visiting this website for a decade and yet you still feel the need to degrade yourself for the approval of its users.
>>77794383
>I miss goths and emos and punks.
>>77794383
I remember when this was emo, and for the last 15 years emo has been this psuedo-goth juvenile mutt of surface-level-underground subculture
>>77794279
>>77794069
Depends. in a way, yes. 4chan used to be my place, but I see it more and more turining into grampa, seeing more and morepeople complaining about young one wearing piercing and weird harido and things aren't like they used to.
>>77794398
>degrade yourself for the approval of its users.
I didn't got in the 4chan train on it's birth so every else that didn't got to it are newfags
>>77794369
I never saw any restraint with homegrown memes, just rage that anyone else used or was even aware of them.
>>77794419
I don't think it's a matter of the population on 4chan getting older. There are underage b&s all over this site. I think it's more of an issue of the massive influence that /pol/ and /r9k/ have had on recent 4chan culture. They seem to have warped the collective mentality into this almost puritanical, hyper-conservative hivemind where everyone is obsessed with "degeneracy" and SJWs.
>>77794426
>>77794385
I'm shocked that you guys don't remember REAL humor.
>>77794412
Ooh, and I didn't have that one.
I don't know if it's possible, or moral to have a crush on a meme, but I may have a crush on baitfish.
>>77794448
It's ironic that those two boards would have such opinions. Most of them are at least as bad as what they despise, and can't do anything to make the situation better.
>>77794467
If someone on /co/ forced himself to jerk off a picture of 63'd dobson then anything is possible if your dick was up to the task for it
>>77794464
201% legit
501% of chances of not being a strawman
now I believe it!
>>77794498
That doesn't even add up properly. What kinda measurement system you using?
>>77794069
This is literally how I feel about 4chan.
It's just not fun anymore. I think I only come here out of habit.
>>77794369
Rage comics were terrible. Nothing was lost.
I miss the macros though, especially advice dog. Nowadays people use them to write a paragraph length post instead of typing it out.
>>77794518
Metric
>>77794369
>normies
>>77794616
Normie detected.
>REEEES internally
>>77794607
I misscourage wolf
Yes, but with politics instead of media. All these young kids have pushed everything into extremes that either scare me or piss me off, so now I'm a man without a party
>>77794636
Is it pathetic that back in the day I used to read through mycourage wolffolder to give me a kind of confidence boost when I needed it?
>>77794694
It's in the same vein as actual motivators not the macros, hell I'd frame a courage wolf in a gym and no one would complain
>>77794069
>leave high school
>stop keeping up with new music
>stop pretending to care about sports
>spend all my time reading comics watching cartoons and drawing
I guess that counts.
>>77794585
>It's just not fun anymore. I think I only come here out of habit.
What I really hate is that I can say this about /co/. I could accept it when /v/ kept getting worse, and I don't mind not going to /vp/ as much as I used to, but /co/ was always the fun board with something going on and generally minimal off-brand shitposting. It used to feel like each boards were in our own little bubble, but now it feels like every board is becoming more monogamous, I think the word would be, and in the worst kind of way, at that.
>talking to a friend a few weeks ago
>mention they're starting to feel old, like they're only an adult now
>the kid is all gone
>asks if i feel like that since im older
>i bought legos and comics last week
>you were there with me
>we're fucking playing videogames right now you idiot
>no, we're not adults because we pay bills you tool
i get what the meaning was, but thats not what they asked
>>77794674
I hear ya, the extremes of both ends bother me. Hell, not even just politics, every thing these days, even fucking 'video game ethics'.
>>77794771
Can I come over and play with your legos?
>>77794787
only if you can build something cool
>>77794069
Yeah, I dont get why the fuckiPads and other shitty fucking touchscreen bullshit got popular. Seems like a really gross thing.
>>77794674
>young kids
it's been that way since day zero of the two party system.
>>77794069
>`*' instead of '*' or "*"
I'm fucking triggered!
>>77794820
Yeah but you have to keep in mind that I'm enough of an oldfag to remember a world without the internet being widespread. It ruined discourse and pushed everyone to their corners exponentially faster
>>77794843
There used to be a lot more agreement between the sides; bills proposed by one party could still pass because a sizable amount of the other sided with it. The divide only grew larger, to the point where it seems people disagree out of principle.
came here to post >>77794119
>>77794221
Damn Anon. Are you me? I can't stand today's music, and it's very rare I find a band I actually enjoy. I've been listening to more classical and Jazz lately and enjoying it more than any other genre of music.
>>77794448
I think it has less to do with boards infecting other boards and more to do with the demographical changes this site as a whole has gone through over the past five or so years. I think I started browsing sometime in '07 and it's changed quite a bit. I'm not saying it was a utopia or something back then, but it was definitely a lot more... habitable, shall we say. You didn't have nearly as many false flagging shitposting, boards trying to out-dank meme each other, normalfags, shills, etc.
Really the main cause of 4chan's drop in "quality", if you wanna call it that, is the fact that it got too popular for its own good.
>muh sekrit club
I mean, sure, you can throw that at me, yeah. But you know, clubs exist for a reason. They're a place to get away from the masses. A place with its own atmosphere and life. Before the internet you had bars and speakeasies, places where if they became too overcrowded with outsiders you'd dilute what made them great in the first place. When that happens, it becomes just another public place, removing anything that made it special in the process.
Look, don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I don't propose we build a wall and keep newfags out or try to remove the cancer that infects this place. I believe the changes we went through were inevitable. I suppose it happens to anything, given time. But saying the changes in this site can be blamed on a few boards is just silly. Boards raided other boards since the beginning of this site, and it never damaged things like it does now. No, the problem runs much deeper than that, and I don't think it's one you can fix. It's like nature, you can't fight it, you just have to accept it and try to adapt.
Or not. I'm sure there are plenty of better things I can be doing with my life right now.I just can't think of any. I'm probably never leaving this shithole of a site.
>>77794448
>They seem to have warped the collective mentality into this almost puritanical, hyper-conservative hivemind where everyone is obsessed with "degeneracy" and SJWs.
The best part is when they pretend they're oldfags and 4chan has always been that way and cite things like the Habbo raids as proof.
>>77794069
Nope but i can tell that it's starting.
>>77796111
That is a reasonable and agreeable post, and I agree with it.
You're a good poster, anon. Stay golden.
>>77794475
>Most of them are at least as bad as what they despise
They have this one strawman image they love to post, it's a SJW wearing a mask pretending to be a normal anon saying anti-SJWs can be just as bad. In their eyes, if you aren't some edgy child who types the word "nigger" to feel like they're part of some badass revolution against people that want to stamp out free speech, you are a SJW, kek, degenerate, insert other buzzword here.
>>77794221
liar.
it sucks and you know it.
>>77796111
I do personally think the rise of Generals, particularly the perpetually renewing ones, hasn't helped with that. Instead of one board where everyone has to rub along, while getting exposed to new ideas, developing pre-existing ones and pressuring the worst posters to change, there there's lots of little, tribal communities that don't interact with one another much and that almost inevitably fester. Terrible posters can become integral parts of these mini communities much more easily and just make them more like themselves, attracting more awful posters.
But this
>Boards raided other boards since the beginning of this site, and it never damaged things like it does now.
My first board was /x/, and that place never really recovered from /b/ back in the day. Why do you have to make me remember that?
>>77794069
Seems like it happened right after I graduated high school.
>>77796742
I bet you like film scores you hypocrite
I don't that Dubstep the kids are in to these days.
Just sounds like a bunch of car alarms going off being passed off as music.
>>77797130
>Not dancing to car alarms.
>>77797130
It's about dancing although a lot of dubsteb is terrible for that too.
If you don't dance you won't get it.
>>77794815
Don't say that until you've got 128gb of comics on a tbalet m80
anyone else here who used to hit the weebls-stuff forums back in the day?
>>77797130
Dubstep is pretty much dead. Not sure what replaced it just yet but it's been gone for almost a year in a half now if not more. Besides, vapor wave was always much better.
>>77794119
/thread.
>>77796456
what strawman?
>>77796111
I believe the issue not about 4chan being or not being a 'muh sekrit klub no gurls alloud' place but losing its more hermetic aspects. Back in the time 4chan was seen as a very weird and almost alien site not just because of it's unwelcoming, borderline hostile website filled with antisocial nerds at perpetual war with each other, but also because the interface and "culture" were quite different from other sites, like phpBB forums or similar.
Any newcomer would be at a loss with things like sage, age, tripcodes, macros, triforce, etc. Even the lingo would be a problem - everyone calling each other -fags, moot, CP, 'b&', 'v&'. It was hermetic; even if you knew about 4chan, entering was like going into a building were everyone spoke in code and handled their weird little rituals, and no one would explain things to you or show you the ropes.
But then the internet went even more mainstream over these few years and then 4chan even got its native extension and sage died and - much as I may hate to use the following term - things turned casual. Why, I still remember when Adblock was new and regarded as the seventh world wonder.
>>77794309
>Php forums and Neopets in another hand
My nigga, literally my first internet homes right there.
>>77794069
Social media boom did it to me in early 00s but I was never truly with it.
>>77794411
holy shit that girl is so hot
>>77797313
Catalog view too. You didn't have to hunt for what you wanted to see or make a thread yourself, which threw people because of the unusual interface.
>>77797335
Don't forget the BBS
>>77797275
I don't know where the hell you live, but here in downtown Minneapolis all of the EDM joints still play nothing but dubstep. You get Hardcore once a month.
>>77794448
I don't think it has anything to do with one board or another as much as it has to do with the entirety of the internet shifting towards an outrage culture. SJws/liberals gain power from outrage so the reverse sode has tried to mimic them
>>77796111
I don't leave /co/ because I really do fucking love comics and this is oretty kuch the only place that has discussion at any sort of speed, I'm not patient enough for other forums.
>>77794069
Yes, the extensive use of "desu," "baka" and "senpai" by the local youth has made me realize that I'm old and not as retarded as these mouth-breathing fucks are.if this gets filtered you know what I mean
>>77796456
But if you call out someone posting nigger on 4chan you probably are that. Someone who tells people not to use nigger on 4chan is not in the middle friendo
>>77797396
At an EDM place, it kind of makes sense. Dubstep is still the latest huge thing out of EDM. But I mean in the general population, it doesn't seem nearly as prevalent as it did a few years ago.
>>77797275
Trap music
>>77797498
Its just ebonics family
>>77794243
>bait in particular I vastly prefer. It sticks to the original fishing metaphor without getting as warped as trolling did
This. It also makes efforts to point it out much more effective.
When you think "troll" refers to the monster and use it as such, then you're not demonizing the post- you're attacking the character of the poster. Everyone rushes in with a response so they can get their witty retort/insult/threat, and in the end, the "troll" gets more attention.
However, when you point out that their post was "bait", then it puts the onus on the rest of the posters to not respond, lest they fall for the bait.
TL;DR: Calling a post "bait" shuts down responses to shitposting more effectively than calling the poster a "troll".
>>77794755
Oh jesus, I used to love going to /v/. It used to be such a fun place. I would never say it was good, but it used to be not as bad. Now it's just negativity all the time, drama and gamergate and tumblr boogeymen and antisemitism, and you're a shill if you like anything. It's just a depressing board to visit.
At least I still have /co/ and /tg/.
>>77794266
420chan still gets upset by that
>>77797783
hi, tumblr
I feel like this comic is relevant
>>77794069
Early 2010... that's when it happened
>>77794875
>There used to be a lot more agreement between the sides; bills proposed by one party could still pass because a sizable amount of the other sided with it. The divide only grew larger, to the point where it seems people disagree out of principle.
Sometimes. There were eras in US politics where fist fights, gunshots, and duels to the death would occur between politicians in Washington.
It's true- we are undergoing an era of intense partisanship that most people in this and the previous generation have never seen before.
However, it's a stretch to act like this is some kind of anomaly or abnormal state of affairs in US history.
>>77797884
>go to look for a solution for vidya or life
>see fourm
>scroll past signatures that look fucking ridiculous
>"oh wait I figured it out"
>>77797735
execpt it doesn't stop anyone from replying and troll at least called the person out for being a cunt
>>77794069
no, because i never cared about what was with it. i cared about doing stuff thats fun. that's why my house is built on awesome and win
>>77798072
>execpt it doesn't stop anyone from replying and troll at least called the person out for being a cunt
It does because attacking a blatant troll is generally seen as more acceptable than falling for obvious bait. Lots of people on internet message forums pride themselves on confronting self-proclaimed trolls. Harder to make yourself feel self-important about confronting to obvious "bait".
>>77794069
Yeah, it is kind of a relief, really.
>>77794069
Black nerds are cooler than they've ever been. So while I'm still not "with it", I still get more respect than I ever did in the past.
>>77796456
You're only mad because it's correct.
>>77797508
>But if you call out someone posting nigger on 4chan you probably are that. Someone who tells people not to use nigger on 4chan is not in the middle friendo
It used to be that you didn't have to. /b/ was pretty much the only place you saw people spamming nigger and the like, and if you tried that shit on other boards, they would ban you or dismiss it with "go back to /b/".
But then 4chan got really popular and people started equating it with /b/ to the point where they thought /b/ related crap was a thing on every board.
Even worse was when it started attracting legitimately racist/sexist/anti-Semitic assholes who saw 4chan as some sort of haven in opposition to other internet communities where their shit would get them permabanned.
When I first watched this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4jLgvAorI
>>77799127
>Even worse was when it started attracting legitimately racist/sexist/anti-Semitic assholes who saw 4chan as some sort of haven in opposition to other internet communities where their shit would get them permabanned.
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I really do feel like 4chan's old racism was just casual harmless idiocy, part of the whole "I'm being edgy because I can" attitude. These days I feel like just by posting here I'm being put on watchlists from a dozen government agencies just because I use the same website as /pol/.
>>77797884
>Shitting on /hsg/
I still don't get this,wenever left our box to fuck with anyone else,wejust wanted to shitpost about our comic
>>77794308
>>77794243
>>77794279Bait Image Thread?
>>77799265
The mere existence of /hsg/ was enough, and you know it.
>>77799238
pic related
>>77799265
As someone who's seen so many people shit on it for years, other than that spitting bucket thing, I've never really cared enough to see it worth taking the time to complain about. Though I also never got why /frz/, /sug/ or /mlpg/ were such a big deal either, and look at where those went.
>>77799238
>These days I feel like just by posting here I'm being put on watchlists from a dozen government agencies just because I use the same website as /pol/.
Well, that's true. Have you seen the Anonymous documentary yet? Pretty informative and terrifying.
>>77797313
>was
Nigger, people still assume those things about us, we are still the assholes of the internet, what are you on?
It happened when these damn kids starting "Skyping" and "Tweeting" each other.
>>77799384
The one the gook wants us to watch?
I been "with it" before, amazingly. It gets really boring, really fast. I'm just glad I've moved past worrying about such pointless shit.
>>77799536
Yes? Is that supposed to mean something?
>>77799417
They're saying that 4chan used to be a lot less accessible because of the layout, sage system, and adversarial- yet friendly way of speaking to one another.
However, changes were made to the format so it's more accessible. Also, people no legitimately call you nigger/shill/kike/kek/SJW/TUMBLR for not being an asshole outside of /b/.
>>77799127
>Even worse was when it started attracting legitimately racist/sexist/anti-Semitic assholes
why the fuck do you idiots keep assuming they weren't already here, it IS an anonymous image board after all
>>77794069
I was never with it
>>77799872
>why the fuck do you idiots keep assuming they weren't already here, it IS an anonymous image board after all
Of course they were here. They're at your school and your family, and at your workplace, and even among your friends.
But there's a difference between them being there and them thinking that they've finally found a place where they are free to be jerks and telling all their other openly asshole friends to come and join in on the fun to the point where you can't even discuss a movie trailer without them spouting off a half dozen racist remarks.
>>77794257
Don't worry, we still get all the credit for Gamergate despite them doing it mostly on the shitty knockoff sites and it being banned here.
Also the white supremacist shooters in Minnesota are namefags on /k/ and /pol/.
normie internet sees us as way more of a boogeyman than when we were cyberterrorists blowing up parked vans in shock pieces on local news affiliates.
>>77799947
Curtains and dogs, those were the days
>>77794311
vintage 2006 raid
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pools-closed
>>77799947
>Also the white supremacist shooters in Minnesota are namefags on /k/ and /pol/.
Fuck, really?
>>77799947
>GG
Man that was a ride from the start
Still interesting to see how GG caused so much shit that basically most of the vidya playscape is trying to cope & catch up
>>77797313
I found that with any site, just 4chan had it more extreme? If you lurked for a week or so and didnt post loads like a goober then you stood a high chance of not making stupid mistakes and fitting in better
>>77797884
urgh this, as shitty as 4chan is, other forums are so much worse.
>/co/ will never return to pre-MoS levels ever again
That fucking movie ruined this place tbqh
>>77798821
>le strawman image
Back to cripple Chan u go
>>77799265
This
Same goes for Toonami general
>>77799479
That's just you being a moron. Even old people, businesses and politicians skype and tweet.
>>77799267
It's too late, you missed the party
>>77794182
Naw, we got our share of it on /sp/, too.
>>77799315
/frz/ is something I never understood either. What was there to discuss? It was just a well animated film (despite Elsa's hair clipping) with some good songs . No new content to discuss aside from that, nothing. If I remember correctly, that lack of content was the one that killed /frz/, and it was banned more or less at the same time of /hsg/.
/sug/ and /mlpg/ on the other hand, are based around active and "alive" franchises or series. There is new content to discuss every week, unless there is a hiatus in wich case shitposting of many types is assured. That's the main reason why /sug/ is banned ritght now.
I used to browse /hsg/ for the art and for the rare occassions in which the comic was actually the center of the discussion (instead of Vriska's tits, for example). From what I could understand, the fact that those threads were so fast paced and the intra-reporting of posts drove the mods/janitors crazy, so they ended up banning the generals. Let's also keep in mind that Homestuck suffered from long hiatuses that were more and more common and long with the passing of time (we are having one right now), leading to the insane amount of shitposting I commented previously.I miss those days, though
>>77799127
>Even worse was when it started attracting legitimately racist/sexist/anti-Semitic assholes
Please explain what the difference between Pool's Closed, Muh Dick, and Le Happy Merchant is, please.
>>77799947
/v/ still has threads on it.
>>77800415
>cripple chan
>saying that while Hiro keeps fucking up the coding over here
>>77794279
True that. Say what you will about 4chan, but there are some creative motherfuckers around here.
>>77800747
>Please explain what the difference between Pool's Closed, Muh Dick, and Le Happy Merchant is, please.
"Pool's Closed" started because people on 4chan heard that Habbo Hotel guys were discriminating against brown characters, so they thought it would be funny to make a bunch of black characters to go in and obstruct the game. And it pretty much stayed in /b/. And nobody ever used "Pool's closed" as an insult to someone else on 4chan. The joke wasn't on black people. It was on the people at Habbo Hotel for being tools.
"Muh Dick" and "Happy Merchant" are taken from comics done by an honest to god racist white supremacist. They were picked up and used on 4chan pretty much exist for no other reason that to make fun of black and Jewish people. The joke is on black and Jewish people. Why? Because they're black and Jewish.
>>77799929
why it's a bad thing?
>>77801384
>why it's a bad thing?
Because then you turn into what /tv/ and /b/ and /v/ and /pol/ are now. You get guys like >>77799947 who actually go out and kill people over it.
Instead of everyone enjoying tv, videogames, or teh lulz.
>>77800612I miss caring about the comic ;-;
>>77800471
Really? Huh.
This board is already shit.
At least on /v/ they discuss games sometimes
>>77801464
how terryfying.
In case you're too autistic to know, I am sarcastic.
>>77800063
Because selling out for money is one thing, honest to god corruption.
Now selling out for ideological censorship is evil and fascist.
>>77801544
>In case you're too autistic to know, I am sarcastic.
I'm sorry I could't accurately read your tone of voice, body language, and non-verbal cues through a text medium.
>>77801628
Sarcasm can be used in text.
Of course, idiots on 4chan are the last people to get it.
>>77801628
Well I don't read your voice and body language to know that you're gullible and treat everything here 100% seriously.
I'm okay with 4chan being scary for normies
>>77801693
>normies
Kek
>>77801670
>Sarcasm can be used in text.
*Can* being the key word there. Some people are just really shitty at it.
>>77794149
>I remember how fucking stupid it was when everyone starting posting " U MAD" bullshit, then it transitioned into butthurt. it was an overall improvement.
>I remember when /co/ was love
>>77794370
>tfw the newest street drug steroid gets called Rare Candy
>>77794755
Aaaaah, I remember those comics. Loved the Fallout 3 ones.
The rise of Emoticons and Snapchat were the point I truly lost it. I don't get the youth.
>>77794069
When my "it" was out there I was too stupid to get it and isntead follwoed shit like everyone else - Avengers, X-men and Spidey. Once I've discovered my "it" they crapped all over it and turned best character into a shell of her former self, walking mcokery they parade around on fuckign Avengers
>>77801375
>"Muh Dick" and "Happy Merchant" are taken from comics done by an honest to god racist white supremacist. They were picked up and used on 4chan pretty much exist for no other reason that to make fun of black and Jewish people. The joke is on black and Jewish people. Why? Because they're black and Jewish.
Isn't it because the stereotypes are mostly true? Their ethnicity has only as much to do with as the fact that they still do the actions that are attributed to their ethnicity.
>>77802242
>Isn't it because the stereotypes are mostly true
They are self-enforcing, when people are being exposed to stereotypes about themselves, they try not to confrom to them so hard they fail and end up comfroting to them. Studies show that women perform worse on tests if you tell them sexist jokes jsut before taking the test, same with black people and racist jokes.
>>77802344
>They are self-enforcing, when people are being exposed to stereotypes about themselves, they try not to confrom to them so hard they fail and end up comfroting to them. Studies show that women perform worse on tests if you tell them sexist jokes jsut before taking the test, same with black people and racist jokes.
QUANTUM MECHANICS! SCHRODINGER'S RACIST/SEXIST CHICKEN EGG PARADOX!
>>77801520
They discuss games all of the time. On /co/ it's live action movies and video games based on comics.
>>77796456
Calling someone a nigger on 4chan is a bit different though because there's very few actual ways to prove the person you're insulting is black in the first place.
So it just becomes a generic catch all insult. Which is actually kind of nice. Fag is another example. We call drawfags drawfags. Are they actually gay? Who knows? Who cares? Are we even calling them fags out of hate anymore? Not really.
4chan takes the venom out of hate speech through sheer callous overuse. Whereas other places which need not be named have deified those same words. It's like in Harry Potter where they did that whole He Who Must Not Be Named thing and then someone goes "wait isn't that showing Voldemort way too much respect?"
>>77802860
>Calling someone a nigger on 4chan is a bit different though because there's very few actual ways to prove the person you're insulting is black in the first place.
That was back when anonymous referred to other anonymous as nigger.
Nowadays on 4chan, the term is increasingly used to describe actual black people/characters as a means of getting SJWs and anyone who gives a shit all flustered. Nigger/kek shitposting plagues every Star Wars thread on /tv/ for instance.
Those people just saw people tossing around the word and figured, "Oh, it must be okay to be a racist asshat here" without actually understanding what was going on.
>>77794069
i was never with it. i was considered 'before my time' or 'niche' and 'a nerd' then the next day i woke up and i was Grandpa Behindthetimes McOldpants
>>77794369
the problem is whenever memes became a genuinely fun game, post 2011 or so mods would just take them down because we were having too much fun
>>77794119
But then they made the fact that you never where with it IT.
It happened to all of us.
>>77794221
I liked Linking Park.
It shames me to no end.
Jesus I was edgy, at least i didn't wear all black and wore a hat.
>>77797015
Now /b/ is dead too.
Only bots there.
>>77801520
>At least on /v/ they discuss games sometimes
>i like this game
>well i dont so fuck off newfag
>>77801520
Start a thread on a real comic like Cerebus or Metabarons and you're good.
>>77799127
No fuck off newfag. You are wrong.
>>77803090
but remember anon.In the end, it doesn't even matter.
>>77803188
I'll never understand why /trash/ was made when it's literally just /b/. All they had to do was start telling people to actually go to /b/ and it'd save the whole trouble.
>>77799929
oh fuck off you thin skinned prissy little shit.
your self important ranting into the aether won't change their opinion and claiming that fucking 4chan of all places should be insulated from anyone from SJWs to stormfags is so antithetical to the point of the website I'm not sure why you even come here. You better at least be black and personally offended.
>>77803432
>start a thread about one of the few hivemind approved comics, or stop liking the wrong comics
>>77803018
>Nowadays on 4chan, the term is increasingly used to describe actual black people
Exactly how do people know the other is black? Nigger
>>77803654
Kill yourself retard people come in and shit on those just as much as your moviefaggotry
>>77803541
/b/ is irrecoverable
/s4s/ is irrecoverable
and by irrecoverable I mean any thread not about jerking off or talking like a backwards retard gets flamed to oblivion
>>77801488
>he's never had a job interview over Skype
How are you ever going to survive without your parents, Boco?
>>77803755
I do just fine.
And all my interviews are done in person. Like normal.
>>77802344
> Studies show that
studies by who exactly?
>>77803729
wew lad
>>77794369
>muh culture
nigga please, all culture lives and grow by what you call 'theft'. 4chan isn't some special snowflake that was desecrated.
>>77804203
>all culture lives and grow by what you call 'theft'
So exactly from where did the natives of the Americas stole their culture? You know since culture can't live and grow naturally.
>>77804203
>Americans
>>77803807
>Like normal.
Boco we all know you are far beyond "normal".
If you were normal you wouldn't even be here.
This has been quite the thread.
>>77804593
I'm not saying that culture is without spontaneous novelty dumbass
>>77794149
I been here since 2009 and it's pretty insane just how different this place for around 2012 after the tumblr wars. Not for the better either. All of the other boards were mean and aggressive enough to get them to leave but not /co/.
Fucking /b/ had to ruin it and expose us to Reddit and tumblr.
>>77794350
I pulled out my Silver version (not Soul Silver, fuck you kids) and was going to let my daughter play, but the save file was gone. She and I spent about 2 hours playing a new file (She picked Chikorita and named it Leafy). The next day she wanted to play again, but her save file was gone too. The battery was dead.
That little girl started crying over her like, 5 Pokemon. Bitch, I caught them all, don't cry to me about loss.
>>77794069
I can track usage of the word "on fleek" back to at least 2004 (with a rap Will I. Am made about Dexter's lab), yet google trends seems to show that the usage of the phrase pales in comparison to how it came in August 2014.
>>77804726
Touche.
>>77797015
>I do personally think the rise of Generals, particularly the perpetually renewing ones, hasn't helped with that.
Actually I think it's the underlying cause of the Generals that's the root problem. That /v/-like mentality that anything that's popular at the time and disliked by a vocal minority needs to be quarantined elsewhere, so that "true" discussion can take place. We saw it before with /v/ and it's spinoffs. We saw it with MLP. It's still happening now with live-action adaptions, and even superheroes as a whole, although at a dramatically stalled rate.
Honestly I think generals are the closest we can ever come to a happy medium on this site.
>>77807982
I admit, my experience is somewhat informed by /tg/ where its getting to the point that anything that isn't 40k or a quest is a general of some form that is usually perpetually renewing and with the same people posting over and over. At that point, why even bother with an imageboard? A traditional forum would be a more sensible way to discuss it
I also get that for more niche subjects a thread on something can become a de facto general as the people interested in it talk about different topics. I just think if you've got an idea, or tell a story or even just make a dumb joke you should feel able to share it with the whole board, and I think the impermanence of the image board format can be an advantage if its used to keep things fresh. Not everything needs to be a maxed out, here all the time mega topic, you know?I know I'm also biased because the general for a game I like got colonised by creepy weirdos that I ended up having to get off the internet for the best part of a year to shake off, and I can't say any more because I don't need that shit in my life again. .
>>77808966
>At that point, why even bother with an imageboard? A traditional forum would be a more sensible way to discuss it
See >>77797884
>>77808966
Fair enough. I think Generals are pretty useful, just for the sake of having a default thread to post FAQs and other things that don't really need a thread of their own. My homeboards are /co/ and /m/, and seeing people starting a new thread to ask the same questions ad nauseam can get old, you know? Plus I like the off-the-wall discussion that can pop up after a prolonged time, as long as it's not completely inane.I totally understand your pain. I've never seen anything that traumatized me on a deep personal level, but I have seen my fair share of depravity. Being a Transformers and Steven Universe fan is funny that way.
>>77798821
I want a "normal person" t-shirt.
I recognize that trends and currents will always change. What's cool to teenagers will always be relative to what generation it is. It's all good, as long as people aren't hurting other people, there's nothing wrong with liking what I like or don't like. Everyone's entitled to be their own person.
>>77794069
Yes. Fuck paying people to play video games. I don't care if I'm yelling at a cloud, it's completely stupid and if you do it you're stupid.
>>77794362
This annoys me to no end for reason. I know I shouldn't care but it still pisses me off
i grow up, capeshit don't.
>>77811562
FUCK YOU!!!!
I honestly can keep track what "it" was to begin with.
People still like Lady Gaga, right?
...right?
>>77815231
nah, she's kind of old hat sort of. Not that she's made much of an effort to be in the spotlight as far as I know.
>>77811831
Are you talking about twitchers/lets players? Cause there's nothing wrong with that so long as they're entertaining/informative. Part of the fun is they build a community and a lot of regulars form a community.
>>77815231
*can't
This is going to sound cringey as fuck but I'm in my early 20s and actually keeping up with what people my age like and listen to is kinda hard for me. I don't even really listen to the radio anymore.
>>77816649
>I don't even really listen to the radio anymore
You're more in tune with your fellow youngsters than you realize
>>77794069
What's trendy now doesn't seem scary or weird. It seems overly PC and mild. Is the world backwards or am I?
>>77800001
One of them made a video before hand specifically telling /pol/ to "stay white."
I've never been cool. Why start trying now?
Often all I'll know about a new thing is that it's a very contentious thing. People are for and against it with equal aggressiveness and and having the wrong opinion about it is forbidden. So it seems like remaining willfully ignorant about it is the best option for everyone.
When did "kek" become a thing? What is funny about kek? I don't get it.
>>77820100
>What is funny about kek
nothing, it's the same thing as lol
>>77794069
I was never with it. I was counter culture since youth like some kind of unconscious edge lord. I was the literal concept of hipster but at least I was genuine in my angsty non-conformity rather than joining into a subculture so as to feel like part of a whole.
Same thing in politics. Left and right is a joke. If you 'belong' to either you're most likely a line toeing idiot. Things should never be boiled down to two opposing views. Politics is so varied and broad you should have an almost neutral average because you actually think and consider you opinion on each point with its context not just consulting your handy party guidelines.
>>77797960
>However, it's a stretch to act like this is some kind of anomaly or abnormal state of affairs in US history.
What about that statistic that says this congress has done the least amount of actual work in US history?
>>77820100
Nothing, it's "old" enough to be accepted but "new" enough to be annoying and fresh. So it's used. Kek really became a thing around 2013, I feel.
>>77796111
>Really the main cause of 4chan's drop in "quality", if you wanna call it that, is the fact that it got too popular for its own good.
We don't even produce good OC anymore since whenever someone starts something, it's BACK TO /R/4CHAN HURR HURR.
We're living off tumblr memes like desu sempai. It's depressing.
>>77799384
>Well, that's true. Have you seen the Anonymous documentary yet? Pretty informative and terrifying.
Is it epic meme exploding van or does the person know anything about the site?
>>77800397
>spot the newfag
DKR and Ironman killed the board.
Hey, 2009 called. They want you to remember something
>>77794069
I was never with it in the first place.
>>77820639
Even now there is hope for man.
>>77820705
Just like that new Megaman game
>>77794327
No, wrong. There used to be image macros and memes and then people started using the word meme to refer to everything.
>>77799947
>da ebul white suprmaCISts
They can be what they want, doesn't change the fact that THEY were attacked and defended themselves after giving plenty of warning.
In the protesters' own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-XIGJZMEI
>>77798170
That hasn't changed at all. Back when it was called trolling people understood it the exact same way. The paradox is that people don't want to reply, but at the same time they want to make it known that they can see through the poster's intentions. So you get a stream of replies patting themselves on the back for not falling for it. This was true with trolls and it's still just as true with bait.
>>77803068
That's kinda true. And now they're redefining that IT to tell us we never were with IT to begin with, even though not being with IT was our IT.Moon pie.What a time to be alive.
>>77799947
>Don't worry, we still get all the credit for Gamergate despite them doing it mostly on the shitty knockoff sites and it being banned here.
Wasn't the Fox report showing 420chan as well? This is not new. Most people don't know that there are multiple 4chan boards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
>>77799267
Yes
With video games, yes, I just don't get most modern video games. I see them as lacking heart and soul most of the time.
>>77794787
>>77794804
Me too, can I play too?
Honestly /co/ isn't in the complete gutter like the rest of the boards I used to go to I mean
/v/
>[insert buzzword here]
/x/
>Hey guys does Luigi board work? How to succubus?
/a/
>Hey guys what this is anime?
>Boku no pico, it shit, boku no pico, it shit
Honestly this board and /tg/ are the most browsable
Even /his/ is already being invaded by polfags
>>77821708
Don't forget /tv/
>Interracial porn
>feet
>pedo threds
>Baneposting
>JEWS
>MEME CINEMATOGRAPHY
>FILM/MOVIE/FLICK
>>77821708
All boards have declined in qualty, though. /m/ used to be a helpful place with minimal amounts of fun posting and now half of it is just dedicating shitposting over various Gundam series.
The only reason why /co/ is better than /v/ is that we have containment generals for the worst posters.
>>77821876
/v/ has two entire containment boards tho
>>77821943
Most of the worst ones fucked over to /vg/ though. Or /vp/
/vr/ is probably the last bastion of maturity on /v/
