What is /a/ culture?
Lurk and you'll know
Shitposting.
Shitposting
memes
>>135635722
>>135635866
To answer OP, it's dubs.
>>135635475
vans and shit
Shitposting, memes and dubs.
>>135635475
Mostly these.
>>135635475
This.
>>135635475
Everything. The way things are posted, what things are acceptable, the general atmosphere of the board, its elitism, its loving nature, the love for anime. All these things are /a/ culture.
>>135635475
This. Rape, and being degenerate.
>>135636478
>love for animecrackin' me up
Political incorrectness without outright racism.
>>135636517
Ironically hating the board topic is not a meme on this board. Please lurk more.
>>135636581
I-is this Ken-sama?
>>135635475
Go to a Madoka thread and see.
/a/ used to have one. Then newfags came and ruined everything.
/a/ is complete shit now.
>>135635475hatingand enjoying anime and manga without being chuuni or having a boner for glorious nippon
That's pretty much all /a/ has going for it
>>135636581
Why is he depicted with watermelon?
>>135636772
only right answer
certain events that have taken place on this website changed the culture noticeably in the past and now there is none.
>>135636772
Nah, it's not that bad. Or at least, it could be much worse.
Still lightyears ahead of the quality of most other boards.
>>135635475
Shitposting, metaposting and rare on-topic discussion. Whoever claims otherwise doesn't yet realize /a/ is constant stream of newfags who hate other newfags because they didn't come during the "good ol' /a/".
>>135636891
Thank you for your insight good sir
*tips fedora*meta threads get fucked
>>135636781
Because it was taken in summer.
Summer is the season of watermelon.
>>135636781
Meme fruit.
>>135635475
Autism
A lot of the cancer of this board was easily avoidable with better moderation and less clique infiltration.
The biggest detriment to this board was actually crunchyroll and the demise of sub groups.now you have shitposting galore and the elitist cartel who thinks it owns /a/.
>>135636595
it is a meme. Many people do not believe anime is good and that it is only good for cute girls doing cute things and that everything else is basically pointless. Writing, animation, music, nothing matters so long as there are some cuties and you're dumb if you think otherwise, go read a book or watch a movie if you want quality
It's a super duper ultra fantastically jecht shot mark three toxic mindset
Hating everything popular to distance yourself from the masses and feel superior to them
>>135640136
>>135638383
>>135636595
>>135635475
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhx6IfKrvEQ
All of this here.
>>135640631
>implying you can leave 4chan
I miss visible sage.
>>135640631
I've never watched this and don't want to listen to some cocksucker drone on for twenty minutes. Gimme the cliffnotes
>>135635475
Telling people to go to either/v/ or /jp/
>>135635475
Something we are not allowed to have anymore because people call it off topic.
We used to have fun and share our lives a bit.
Now it is just "Go back to Reddit!" "Go back to /b/!" "Not your blog!" and such. Everyone here has to feel superior by policing and telling everyone else how to act and masking it under the guise of quality control.
My first favorite memory of /a/ was powerlevel threads where people shared funny stories of having there power-levels exposed. Now and the shitters would scream "BLOGGING" instead of just staying out of threads they don't like,
>>tripfag bait
What is a good about movie ? Some rehash stupid blabla since long ago. Another nigger star wars, jurassic park, terminator, bla bla superhero and others. Like every medium you need go through shit to find quality one. Anime is not exception.
And we love anime and dislike 3DPD shit.
>>135641870
Guy takes everything on the internet seriously and gets butthurt.
>>135643081
There is still quite a bit of meta and blogging though, especially around the holidays.
The inter-/a/non love is quite strong.
>>135643081
Depends on the blogging, if someone actually delivers a half decent story that is relevant to /a/'s interests, such as incest or something, it's quite popular. Regular shit blogging like "so me and my gf" is told to fuck off and rightfully so.
>>135635475
Cute lolis discussing cute dicks.
It involves a lot of spoonfeeding, I'm sure.
"Self Moderation"
Just ignore that general threads are taking over the board. We're self moderating guys.
>>135643571
>mark my words
>>135643081
>not .gif
Stop fucking up
>>135643081
Nah real life stories is acceptable if /a/ interest in it. Like in eupho thread people blog about thier experience with concert band in high school.
Of course spaghetti and power level not accepted because /v/ love them and we hate/tsun /v/ so much.
>>135643081
Nice blog faggot.
Remember when /a/ used to spam Naruto threads with dubs and pastas and people responded to sauce with Boku no Pico? Good times.
>>135644413
Naruto ended and people still do the latter all the time
If you:
>Think that the "I come here to shitpost" mentality is/was anything more than a tongue-in-cheek joke
>Think that /a/ "hates anime"
>Think that elitism is always a bad thing
Then you're cancer and need to fuck off. Board culture is not about memes, and even if it was, being a retarded fuck is only going to drive away the actual contributors that think those things up and make good posts.
>>135644510
This board doesn't even have that many memes.
>>135644510
If you wanna get down to it, all culture fits the actual definition of a meme.
>>135644558
It has plenty, it just doesn't spam them because it's the "hot new meme" and run them into the ground. Most people actually wait till it's applicable or relevant and funny.
This is one example
>>135644863
Yeah this. It's not that /a/ has less memes, it's just less obnoxious about them and there aren't dedicated meme threads. /a/ understands the importance of context when it comes to memes, unlike /tv/ which just runs things into the groundwhile still somehow keeping them funny
>>135644558
Uh, I don't know about that. There's a lot of iconic stuff that comes from here.
>>135635475
The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
>>135635475
Sexualising every girl except for yotsuba even when it's completely inappropriate
>>135644863
It doesn't have any dank memes though
No odd scene or frame or scenario has taken the board by storm since like 2012. Or what, is a handful of different thread openers to talk about a girl like "x a y" or "pretty good for a nine year old" original content? Elf rape is original content? There's nothing new and that's partially due to generals keeping everything in their own little corners
>>135643173
What a faggot.
>>135645179
>doesn't have any dank memes though
Good? People on /a/ actually like discussing anime. Now go back to /v/.
>>135636781
To appeal possible Nippon niggers.
Pic related
>>135645179
/tv/ is an awful board and you should stop being a faggot.
The /a/ I loved is the one where it was a lot of meta yet still anime related shitposting that coexisted as a minority together with normal threads
People used to make great OC whether it be in the form of images, videos, or just writing.
The /a/ today is just a huge cesspit of trash made up of reposts.
Newfags don't lurk.
Less new newfags spoonfeed and cultivate an environment that promotes blogshitting. Yes, there was the occasionally post where Anons referred to an event that occured in 3D but it was usually related to the topic or purposely unrelated but they definitely weren't in the tier of posts like "So me and my gf were watching anime lol and so and so happened".
Oldfags have largely died out or the few still here are bitter like me and just try to contribute as much as we can but tend to just go with the flow because there's no stopping this downward spiral /a/ is going in due to such a large population of newfags who bring their baggage from other websites like reddit and tumblr.
I'd like to see what would happen if /a/ had the robot filter that /r9k/ has. Even if people try to get around the filter...it will still be more original than what's being done right now.
Are we being raided?
>>135645179
I tried to make a new ebin maymay earlier today.
It failed, but if you think that /a/ isn't producing new oc you are wrong.
Just look at those paint threads for example.
>>135645179
>It doesn't have any dank memes though
KYON KUN DENWA
This is /a/ culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaYTSdmWfY
>>135644952
I wish it was a smooth movement instead of that powerpoint-esque. Still funny tho.
>>135643386
What happened after? Don't tell me that faggot left us hanging
>>135645252
>>135645315
So what's /a/ made that unifies everyone together as buddies? There any how to kill the BETA threads or swordcutting gifs or even something as simple as photoshopping silly things? Chaika was the closest thing to the last one and even as popular as it was there's hardly anything you can do with her face
The popular in-jokes and OC are all old. They're still used, but nothing new is made and spread around for everyone to connect to. /a/ doesn't discuss SHIT when over half of the threads at any given time are 1)inbred generals or 2)fetishes or what would you do with a given anime girl. It outnumbers most threads that pose a specific topic to promote discussion, you cannot say that /a/ likes to discuss with all the stale recycled threads. Don't post anything about how 'OC' would be recycled either, because IDEALLY it has a period of popularity and use, then dies without coming in day in day out for months the way half the threads on /a/ do
>>135635475
>handholding is the lewdest, most degenerate sexual technique known to mankind
>everyone who posts on /a/ is a little girl
>a masterfully done recommendation thread is the highest form of trolling art on /a/
>your waifu a shit
>/ak/ scanlations
>live translation threads
>feels so moon
>daily general threads for anime you hate like Nasuverse or mahou shojou
>thoughtful, poignant analysis of some trivial detail in a popular anime
>YOU'D KNOW THIS IF YOU READ THE LN
>sometimes /a/ manages to lure an unsuspecting mangaka and attempts to converse in English with him or her
>>135645384
Good post. 4chan as a whole has been on a downward spiral for years now though, not just /a/.
>Less new newfags spoonfeed and cultivate an environment that promotes blogshitting.
>Newfags don't lurk.
That's what really makes most threads unbearable.
>>135645501
>go on the street, and then other people come up at me and say "Hey, do you do you have autism"
Is this a common gretting in brooklyn?
>>135636781
He has I-402's soul
>>135645649
I honestly doubt that the second part was even written by the same guy. At any rate, that's all that was written as far as I know.
>>135645682
If you think that a board has to be constantly spamming memes to have "board culture" then you should just fuck off back to reddit.
>>135643081
Fuck, I remember some of those threads. We should make one now, let the newfags who shitpost in the thread go fuck themselves.
>newfags making constant "what anime is like this" threads because of falseflaggers
>spoonfeeding everywhere
/a/ is dead
>>135645179
Lurk more faggot. Do you knew how much moot and hiro love us. Are you crossboarder jelly and come to shitpost here to spite us ?
I don't want spoonfeed u but give some example like Umaru and Katawa Shoujo. Even other board use our things. Now get out.
![[Frostii]_K-On!_B-Side_Theater_-_Uraon_01_[BD][A4804380].mkv_snapshot_00.09_[2014.07.19_20.17.05].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ginud69.jpg "[Frostii]_K-On!_B-Side_Theater_-_Uraon_01_[BD][A4804380].mkv_snapshot_00.09_[2014.07.19_20.17.05].jpg")
>>135645831
Original content is not the devil you halfwit.
I very much like your notion of an elitist board where you can discuss anime seriously so there shouldn't be any light jokes or popular images on an imageboard, however /a/ is far too ill informed about the medium as a whole and spends far too much time speaking about how they want to fuck anime girls constantly for me to take that elitism about discussion seriously
Whenever people reflect on the past by posting caps of threads about the good ol days, most of it is about original content, you know that right?
>>135646123
Please kill yourself. There is no space before punctuation.
>>135646356
>Ha ha ha i get rekt i dunno how to reply so i use spelling and grammar mistake because you can't edit that in 4chan.
Pathetic.
Honestly what /a/ needs are less generals and more spread content. Its hard to find threads for even moderately popular current airing shows, even Un-go with its 5 fans had more discussion then the last season had for half its shows.
Generals destroy discussion, I'd rather see 20 yu-gi-oh threads on front page all discussing different topics then a general. Even if you hate a series there are usually aspects worth reading about, now its impossible to find those topics as every thread that is outside the general = deleted and every topic in the general is "First for x", "Hey guys check my sic oc" and "X for best girl". Usually posted by the same people.
>>135645649
I found this in the archive.
>>135646572
Generals are cancer and awful.
>>135646245
Original content is made all the time on /a/. We just don't then spam the entire board with it. People like it, go "yeah that's cool", save it, and then maybe reference it every so often. After anon did his masturbation video, everyone didn't then go out and make a new one, because it had already been done. I'm not sure what exactly what you're expecting.
I do agree that some threads on /a/ could do with being purged, mainly along the line of generals and constant waifu threads, but for the most part if you're watching an anime on /a/, the threads will be filled with discussion and OC, unless you're in the shit threads for the season (see Rakudai and One Punch Man last season). At the moment we're also in between seasons, so there's not a whole lot going on as well, and it'll just be some rehashed threads and shitty generals until shit starts airing again, but that's the nature of anime and the board, and some pretty fun shit can happen too, like at the moment some anons are having fun naming cats after anime tropes in >>135645990. I doubt we'll ever see that picture posted again on /a/ after that thread, but it's fun and naming cats after anime cliches is what binds us together as anons.
The fact that content anons make isn't constantly spammed helps keep newfags out who think they know everything and can join in because they've seen the hot new meme spammed a few times on the front page.
>>135638383
>go read a book or watch a movie if you want quality
but this is true
>>135646245
Jesus Christ you are a fucking idiot.
>Original content is not the devil you halfwit.
Yeah, and this board has plenty of it, unless all you want is shitty forced memes constantly being spammed.
>>135636517
Right, love of manga.
>>135635475
I thought it's that Chiyo ribbon story thread. Did the anon ever finished it?
>>135646508
I'm not the guy you were replying to. Anyone who can't use proper English while telling someone else to "get out" should end their life.
>u
Try south american 4chan, monkey.
>>135636517
/a/ don't hate anime, /a/ just hate your favorite anime, fucking /v/erming
>>135646572
The problem with no fun shitposter they hate general but they also hate multithread discuss about same anime. So when we make new thread discuss other topic they will reply with "keep ur shit in one thread pls" everytime.
>>135643571
Any self-moderation is deleted and subsequently banned from generals. Don't say there aren't people still doing it.
>>135646744
General threads for currently airing anime is fine, there's no point making several threads when a new episode has just come out,unless it's a massive shitstorm.The problem is when these generals persist past their time of the season, since at that point they are pointless. If there aren't new episodes coming out during the week, and there isn't a manga or LN chapter, then there's nothing to say that hasn't been said it becomes the usual blogging and circlejerking and refusal to let the threads die. At that point they should move onto to /vng/ if they want to continue that shit.
>>135646742
/a/ dislikes all the good anime and likes all the worst. /a/ has terminal, cancerous shit taste.
>>135646816
No one ever really cared about normals on /a/. It's when you start posting about it that you become a normalfag.
>>135646897
>general threads are fine
No they aren't. They are cancer, regardless if the anime is airing or not. They attract the people that make /a/ borderline unbearable.
Czech them
>>135643081
Doesn't this still happen in nighttime /a/ though?
>>135646897
They're fine only if you can guarantee they will be dead when the season is over. When it's some long running anime, no fuck you.
>>135646897
Even then its stupid. Kill la Kill would not have been as much fun if it was limited too one thread. A general pretty much makes it so that discussion is limited to one or two topics, by having multiple threads it keeps discussion of multiple separate topics alive.
So what's stopping /ag/ from being created?
>>135643386
>>135646633
Huh.
The world is a small place.
>>135647082
A few moderators who aren't cancer.
None. Us oldfags of 2007 and prior babysit.
>>135647082
/a/? And hopefully any moderators with any sense of the board. No one has ever wanted any splits since /jp/ and they have never solved anything.
>>135647082
Ask Hiroyuki Nishimura, the current owner of 4chan.
>>135636891
>getting beaten by /v/
I'm not having that.
*tips fedora*
>>135647151
The solution is actually really obvious, just flat ban every single general and enforce it as well as they did the Naruto threads. Do that and it will solve most of the problems, honestly its only like 50-100 people keeping most of the generals alive anyway.
>>135646897
Not all general like that bro. When the fame ending and people generally forget about it, the general will died. This true for seasonal anime.
If they persist we actually recommend them move to /vg/ instead like idolmaster and love live.
The reason with precure, aikatsu and kancolle still there because they have new things to discuss. Even that it not the thread up everyday.
Same like Saki we only open new thread when new thing coming. The reason we put there Tanoshii in title so ppl can search quickly.
Of course if stupid OP start with "lalala edition" of course we mad and sage or delete the thread.
Oh well other general like digimon can died heh.
/a/utist culture, from what I've seen, is thinking moeshit like Non Non Biyori and K-On is better than masterpieces like Cowboy Bebop, TTGL, Eva, and Samurai Champloo while being an elitist prick and being smug about watching 500 shitty cartoons when they're just depressed virgins rotting away in their basements.
>>135643386
That story is really cute
>>135647263
>ppl
You need to start speaking English, because that physically hurt. And I don't mean the abbreviations, I mean your fucking grammar. Digimon is already dead because they saw how dumbass they were. Kancolle has nothing to discuss all the time, they talk about the game still. Which is not /a/ related. I don't even know why it's on /a/ because it didn't start as an anime.
>>135647263
>heh.
>double spaced lines
>that english
These are the types that the generals bring in.
>>135647255
That's the dumbest "solution" I've ever heard.
>>135647263
This right here is the cancer that needs to go back to >>>/v/
>>135647082
At this point it would be preferable. I used to hate the idea because it seemed like it put us on the level on /v/ but there is not really any actual reason not to have it.
All the newfags would just make Dragonball, Naruto, Jojo, etc. threads on there, relieving us of the newfag issue. I feel like the reason that the mods haven't killed off the generals in the past months they've sprouted up is because an Anime/General board is their final solution and don't want to delete them until it's time for them to migrate.
>I'm the newfag cancer that is killing /a/
What can I do to better myself?
>>135647349
>>135647424
Report. Tell the right people to fuck off. Derail threads. Get banned. Stop posting.
All possible solutions.
Now /a/ culture is Generals and Circlejerks threads like these
>>135591527
>>135618737
>>135597452
>>135618677
>>135557441
>>135637392
>>135629695
>>135620761
>>135618794
>>135641395
>>135638221
>>135619790
>>135623059
>>135638636
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>>135612808
The worst ones are monstergirl(this one is just toxic), drawfag, DJT, 3x3, /ai/, waifu threads
>>135647263
>ppl
Nobody gives a fuck what you think when you can't even speak English. Your opinion is irrelevant. Abbreviations belong on shit boards. You are the personification of the cancer that is ruining this board and should kill yourself to save your family the hassle of having to live with such a irredeemable moron.
>>>/sp/
>>>/tv/
>>>/v/
>>135647424
Stop posting.
>>135647492
Monstergirls is the worst, agreed. They also think they're 'superior' posters immune from mods, because well, unfortunately they have a monsterfucker mod on their side.
>>135636781
Colonel Sanders is an honorary black man.
>>135647082
>people want the literal death of /a/
Oh boy and they keep telling me this place hasn't changed.
The general thread is an affront to /a/'s itself, at least its seasonal incarnation that it's spent the vast majority of its life as. The minute you've got longterm threads about shit that's not even airing it's over. The /a/ that follows current shows is gone. You've permanently balkanized the community along the general's lines instead of the shuffle that occurs every new season.
>>135647492
Literally, literally, killing the board. I watched this happen to /v/ and we're next.
>>135647383
Splitting the board does nothing. The same posters will still be here while also being there. Fuck off.
>>135647492
I honestly just don't see why this is considered an issue. /a/ is a relatively slow board and if people wanted to have serious discussions they could, but they don't. They want to post in generals
>>135647349
>masterpieces like Cowboy Bebop, TTGL, Eva, and Samurai Champloo
Maybe if you didn't have taste that resembled a top ten list on YouTube you wouldn't be called such an idiot all the time.
>>135647082
The biggest issue with making /ag/ is the retards who aren't going to allow anything that has a general over there to be discussed on /a/.
Something I can think of happening if /ag/ was made is Jojo threads not being allowed at all, even if there is something airing or discussing a new chapter in the manga. While I don't want /a/ to be a bunch of generals a split wouldn't improve the quality of the board.
>>135647533
Thanks for dumping those fucks on /jp/ by the way. Now nothing is different here and /jp/ is worse.
>>135647349
>Champloo
You make a thread and people will often praise it and agree it's better than Bebop. So you're wrong there.
>>135647492
Some of those aren't generals, abuse threads aren't, waifu threads have almost always been /a/ and need to exist. Also DXD is hardly a general even if its a shit thread.
Everything else can fuck off to other boards though.
>>135647600
>/a/ is a relatively slow board
Shut the fuck up. The board is insanely fast these days. Don't compare us to shit boards like /b/ or /pol/.
>>135647600
They actually do but cancer like yourself aren't aware of it because you don't view those threads. The people who want to post in generals are just as thoughtless as yourself and should be banned.
>>135647643
>DxD literally has "edition" in the title
It's a general. "Edition" should be a flat out ban word.
>>135647470
Are all newfags cancer?
>>135647600
This is like the 5th or 4th fastest board.
>>135647616
/jp/ is dead. Monsterfuckers are just scum, I don't wish them on anyone. I was absent from the board the most of the time they spiralled out of control from their chapter threads to this.
>>135647643
>DXD isn't a general
It has edition included with it. You are the cancer everyone is talking about.
>>135647672
Only those who refuses to lurk moar.
>>135647383
Generally i support the idea to split the board like /v/ doing. In the end i am actually afraid /a/ turning to /v/. Everyone actually discuss good things in their containment board and left /v/ as newfag central. It will become cancer that kill 4chan like /b/ and /v/.
>>135647672
The rule on /a/ is and has always been if we can tell you are new, you should lurk more.
>>135647492
Waifu threads ARE /a/, and it's not like abuse and 3x3 threads are up all the time. Generals need to die though, and I still don't know why Daily Japanese Thread is here instead of /jp/.
>>135647672
Newfags are a naturally part of the lifecycle of this board. As long as they lurk and don't immediately post, there's nothing wrong with them.
>>135647600
You don't see how this isn't a problem? If all people want to do is post circlejerks in generals they should make a subreddit for it. Having constantly bumped generals that are just pictures or namefags pushes other content off the board. It segregates the community further into their special little threads. A "general" might as well be a separate board which is just for that topic.
>>135647672
Newfags who aren't cancer don't get called new. They spend the time to not bring the quality of the discussion down because they care about it.
>>135647740
>3x3 threads are up all the time
Yes, for 24/7 containment of cancer.
>>135647735
You can't capitalize "I" so nobody gives a single fuck what you think. Kindly drown yourself in your nearest cesspit.
>>135647643
>>135647740
Yeah waifu threads are not circlejerks or blogging threads
>>135647689
>>135635475
Stealing other boards gets desu >>>/pol/60000000 about to happen.
>>135647774
>>135647738
Caveat is when newfags try accusing other people of being new. If you know that they're in fact the one in the wrong, then you're probably not that new. I've been called a newfag more times in the last few years than my entire history.
>>135647827
>containment
>cancer
That's usually called amputation.
>>135647492
It is the same shit all over 4chinz though, /int/ /r9k/ /v/ even fucking /ck/
I want to go back in time, to enjoy my /int/erp/a/ls again, fuck it
>>135647670
>>135647720
"Edition" doesn't make a thread a general, it might be a shitty way to start a thread but dxd isn't discussed here on a regular basis. Just a quick check thread archives showed like 6 threads, most of each had ~5 post in each.
>>135647866
That is drawfag thread, not a waifu thread. Waifu threads are usually just picture dumps and have always been a part of /a/. Drawfag threads have always been complete cancer.
Frontpage right now"
7/15 threads on the frontpage are generals
3/15 are meta (this thread included)
1/15 is crossboarding shit
The rest are normal. /a/ is largely kill
>>135647866
That's a drawfag thread. Those are circle jerk hugboxes on every board the pop up on.
Oh look this thread turned super angry and shitty.
Who could have seen that coming.
>>135647963
>4chinz
Kill yourself
>it's the same in these shit places
What relevance does that have? Thanks for mentioning all those boards that you have to be cancer to browse unironically.
>>135647650
It's actually pretty slow. Threads can last upwards of 3 days at times. That's impressive given /a/'s large population.
>>135636891
Quality post, my friend.
*tips fedora*
>>135643081
I saw a power level thread a little while ago, probably inspired from here. Seems like it was deleted though.
>>135647888
Only newfags say newfag.
>>135648020
Meta discussions are the worst. They only give trolls more ideas on how to fuck up the board.
>>135648020
>having shit taste
>>135647990
/a/ is always kill. But /a/ doesn't die when it is killed. It just sort of limps along.
>>135648072
Back when /a/ could, it could make a thread last for more than a week by deleting posts over and over. This was when people actually wanted to keep something up at all times for good or important shit.
>>135647989
Yes it does. The "edition" bullshit only happens with crossboarders who think they can get away with it here. You are an ignorant dipshit.
>>135648072
Threads lasting several days only happen because they're either generals or a few people keep bumping it back to the front page even though the thread itself isn't popular enough to hit the bump limit.
Try making a thread about lesser-discussed anime or especially manga and see for yourself how quickly they die.
>>135648072
The only boards that don't do this are /v/, /b/, and maybe /pol/.
This doesn't include boards with half the bump limit like /int/.
>>135648036
this place is at its extinction, i can do what ever i like so take your faggotry for once and fuck off
>>135648072
Because they are generals constantly kept on the board through 5-10 people making a post every 10-20 minutes. Its pretty easy to keep something alive if mods aren't deleting it and no one post in the thread.
>>135648108
No this is well and truly it.
As bad as /v/ got before general threads it was still a relatively contiguous community. Once people start retreating to circlejerks that goes out the window.
It's simple evolution, isolated populations in differing environments selecting for differing traits.
>>135648072
That really depends on the tenacity of its circlejerks.
Currently, it's obvious that a Phantom World fan is trying to have a constant discussion going on for that topic, bumping any such thread from being archived, or immediately making a new thread with the same picture showing that blond athletic girl doing her stretching exercises.
>>135648149
Try learning English if you want to bait, shitskin.
>>135647151
>>135647082
man I really dislike /his/. /lit/ already had a small population and making /his/ the defacto philosophy board fucked it even further
What if everyone just cheered up and got along?
>>135648284
Too much cocksucking.
>>135648255
Report, do not reply.
>>135648259
/his/ should've been strict history, but then it would have a tiny ass population too. But I like it existing, because historical discussion is impossible anywhere else.
>>135648284
That's impossible when anons do the equivalent of never leaving their house (the general).
>>135648320
Unless you have a related manga, in which case after everyone discusses the chapter you get '/a/ - anime and history' until the thread dies.
>>135648284
There's a shitstorm brewing, can't you see it? It's almost time for our perennial purge.
Get ready, because /a/ will be nearly unbrowsable for about a week, and it's coming soon. Sharpen your pitchforks.
>>135648284
>>>/r/eddshit
It should be obvious why the average /a/non is pessimistic at best.
>>135648284
We're only doing this because we love each other, anon. We want to get along.
i want my old /a/ friends to come back
>>135648359
>Sharpen
I like my blunt force damage, thank you very much.
>>135647643
>XD
Fuck off.
I swear to god, I will never understand the bipolar ass mods on this board sometimes.
Out of curiosity, how many times have you people been banned for something you posted on /a/?
I've made a similar thread like this and been banned before, then I get banned for posting something in this thread.
>>135648352
Every board is like that. Remember how many times Yuru Yuri threads devolved into ice cream discussion?
>>135646816
>christian
>needing religion to sustain yourself mentally and personally
>needing to be a pawn for yet another aspect of the factic powers
Neigh! Also success is not in stone, you shitwaffle.
>>135648149
>>135648255
>>135648316
Faggots
>>135648379
I'm sorry but I ate your friends.
>>135648386
You expect me to remember how many times I've been banned?
Do you want me to say what I had for breakfast 15 years ago too?
>>135648392
Not so much anymore. Especially if you looked at any of the YRYR generals for the last year. What could it devolve into? Just godfuckawful general garbage.
>>135648425
Yes.
>>135648386
The vast majority of the times I've been banned were thread bans. I've probably been individually banned like twice.
>>135635475
>What is /a/ culture?
A series of carcinogenic hives attached the of the trunk of /a/, suspended by the branching pseudo-general threads. The previous residents were taken over by a swarm of autistic angry wasps during 2007 and 2008.
/a/ now is full of newfags and the last year was a shitty year in terms of quality of the shows, there is no a really good reason to post here anymore, the only thread that I lurk is the utawarerumono general every saturday, and is because nostalgia, this is my first post in 3 months. Maybe the state of this board is just my imagination and I'm too old now for this site, like most of the users that are mostly in their mid twenties.
>>135648386
>I've never been banned
When do I get my gold star?
>>135648469
Then leave faggot
>>135648379
give a reason for everybody to be buddies instead of 'we all use /a/'
>>135648485but when this was objectively a secret club it was at its best
redditors/normalfags destroyed everything
>>135648485
We allhateanime.
>>135648485
>tripfag
Yeah, sorry but we can't be friends.
>>135648386
Once for sarcasm that obviously wasn't clear enough, once for thread ban and the numerous rest concentrated in the last few months for many of the concerns in this thread.
>>135648481
It's hard when you have spend half of your life here, is like when you have a husband that beat you, but you still are with him because you think that he will change, just like the old times.
Person A posts a thread with a title of
"Currentley Airing Show Thread"
Person B posts a thread with the title of
"Currently Airing Show General"
Guess what? Both could be good threads if it weren't for retards in the one with general in the title bitching about the word.
/a/ kills itself by getting pissed off at any little thing that makes its way into its gay little clubhouse. Bunch of whiny fucks.
>>135648435
Generals have definitely ruined this website all over, due to it separating peoples opinions apart and easily causing hiveminds. Leaving them alone turns them into forums with internet personalities. You can't have an opinion without someone saying "johnny is that you hahhaha".
Why not create good threads and contribute with quality content instead of complaining so much?
>>135648519
Anyone that thinks this needs to leave. This board actually likes its topic; it just tends to hate the fanbases of many shows.
>>135648457
same here.
I keep my shitposting to an absolute minimum so I dont get individual banned at all but my god, these mods will ban you and delete your thread for the stupidest reasons. I got banned for starting a Re-Kan discussion thread back when it was airing during the spring.
>>135648622
Because this is /a/
There has to be at least one meta thread that reaches 500 posts every two days so /a/ can whine about unimportant shit like the word General.
>>135648469
Its not the quality of the shows. They have always been the same, usually a couple of moe, battleharem, ln/manga adaptions, mecha or two and then the popular stuff. Its the posters, the whole "lel secret club amirite" spam, naruto shitstorm and widespread acceptance of generals pretty much alienated most of the older posters which let the new ones run wild. I mean there was a literal rec thread yesterday that had mostly on-topic discussion for almost 400 post.
>>135648599
The problem is crossboarders thinking that their general garbage is the same garbage that's accepted on /a/. And unfortunately it's already creeped in. /a/ seems to hide the fact that a thread is a general more than any other place, no matter how unmistakable it is, and I don't mean the ones who just don't want to be deleted.
>>135648523
I don't want to be your buddy either. You're mean most of the time, to everybody, and when you say you're buddies it doesn't any any impact behind it because of how jerky you are and how unlikely it is to actually speak to the other posters because of how the threads have everyone segregated.
I do want to let you know I would be nice to you most of the time if most were nice most of the time, but that's just against the culture currently
>>135648622
These are the most fun I have on /a/, outside of my monthly manga threads.
>>135648599
You are the cancer killing the board.
>>135648121
>>135648161
>>135648225
What's wrong with slow, comfy threads?
>>135648386
Like 5 times individually for GETS posts, most from Shomin Sample threads. One or two thread bans.
>>135648750
Sure, whatever makes you happy
![[HorribleSubs] Fate Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILYA 2wei Herz! - 03 [720p].mkv_snapshot_15.11_[2015.08.15_17.22.27].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PjKb7zg.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Fate Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILYA 2wei Herz! - 03 [720p].mkv_snapshot_15.11_[2015.08.15_17.22.27].jpg")
We need more loli threads. Lewd loli threads.
Then ban everyone who shitposts about pedophiles in said loli threads.
Half the cancerous normalfags are gone just like that.
>>135648622
Entryism.
It doesn't matter how much good quality you create if you also choose to permit shit. If someone shits on your casserole, the answer isn't 'just add more casserole to it.'
This whole 'naw man it's fine, just let them do their things over there and I'll do my thing over here" is exactly the way of thinking that turns a board into a subdivided reddit-wannabe full of generals.
If you don't like something, then you complain, you shitpost about it, you spam, you argue, you stir a shitstorm, make insulting and demeaning OC and cause a ruckus. You make contact with and communicate with others whom you disagree with and do not share your opinions. You seek conflict and resolve conflict through conflict, because that will always be better than just separating everyone into their own little containment subreddit for the sake of some asinine and utterly false sense of harmony.
>>135648756
Nothing if that's what it is. But I didn't realize that comfy meant echo chambers and hugboxes where the same two guys will say they love this same character now and until forever (realizing that they are in fact the same two guys but simply want an excuse the same thing over and over again).
>>135648794
Ban everyone who hates dfc too.
Also cowtit lovers, been them as well
>>135648756
Nothing if people are actually discussing something. Its when post are made strictly to keep the thread alive that it stops being ok.
>>135648756
I think a thread should be allowed to die instead of being an eternal zombie if nobody is currently interested in talking about that topic.
>>135648813
I think /a/ has more threads that are just common and slow, but aren't like that, than it has threads that are legitimate generals.
4chan sucks because everyone using it is an insecure manic depressive growing steadily angrier at the world and using the site as an outlet for their frustration while using "I'm trying to save the board/site!" as a coverup to justify their angry outbursts.
![[Exiled-Destiny]_Bottle_Fairy_Ep01_(E7BC7A7A).mkv_snapshot_04.48_[2014.11.29_12.53.56].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xKMf4LB.jpg "[Exiled-Destiny]_Bottle_Fairy_Ep01_(E7BC7A7A).mkv_snapshot_04.48_[2014.11.29_12.53.56].jpg")
>>135648794
The loliposters are shitposters who make eternal generals not talking about anything in particular though
Sorry
>>135648847
nice psychoanalysis, jew. /r9k/ is thataway
>>135648847
Stop describing me except for that last part anon
>>135635507
This is the only acceptable answer, The culture has evolved,
>>135648847
I take out real world problems on /a/, and take out /a/ problems on the world.
>>135648847
If you want to talk with normal people you could just say so.
>>>/r/eddit is that way.
The need for threads like this are why I use 8ch.
>>135648803
So what your saying is, we need to start a revolution if we want to save this board
>they will never come back
>>135648844
And it's these legitimate generals that I would like killed, because they stand as something to mimic.
>>135648866
So use a single thread of shitposters to bait out the normies for extermination.
I'd rather have a loli general that we're taking advantage of every other day than nonstop jojo, opm and even yahari bullshit. Would you disagree?
>>135648924
>normal people
>>135648954
Someone told me Sheldon still posted.
>>135648973
No. No more fucking generals. They're all equally bad.
>>135648756
comfy is the most despicable buzzword I've heard since 'edgy'. It means absolutely nothing except "thing I like which is in contention, but should be beyond criticism because I like it"
Your threads aren't comfy, their shit. You find comfort in them because they're shit like you and you'd wallow in that shit and your shit in an utterly dead thread, bumped from page 10 repeatedly for 500 posts, across 24 hours and then remade again, and again, and again 7 days a week. You'd sit in that dead filth listening to your own echoing voice and ignore the board around you until there is no board around you, and just a 10 page catalog of similar echochambers, each self-contained and still as the grave.
Because that's what your comfy amounts to. Shit. Dead shit.
>>135648879
>>135648924
Also nobody is capable of original arguments or insults any more. It's just become an endless cycle of mccarthy-esqe boogeyman accusations and shitflinging for randomly chosen other boards or websites
>you're /v/!
>you're reddit!
>you're tumblr!
>you're facebook!
And of course now I know full well people will respond to me with even more posts like that because they think they're being funny.
>>135649002
I used to hear it for actually good threads, until generals latched onto it. Particularly manga threads with decent discussion.
>>135649018
>he doesn't know about New Sincerity
Your time's already over, gramps. Post-post ironists are the new fad.
>>135648973
I want you to sit down. Get a blanket. Get a bottle of water. This is going to hurt you
Loli generals are probably the worst threads on /a/ atm because of their population and tendency to talk about nothing even vaguely related to any series in particular the way general circlejerks are. They just post pictures of lolis and dance around the fact that they want to fuck them by making all these situations up with lolis
Please note that lolis themselves are good
>>135649082
I thought shota generals were more retarded. Because they tried copying "It's Time".
>>135648964
Did you mark his words, anon?
>>135649082
This
Loli generals belong on /c/
