>Meanwhile at 2010 /co/
I can't hear you adventure time fags over our emmy!
We all know what happened on /co/ back in 2010.
The world will never forget.
something something gay agenda
This Hub channel is pretty neat.
In time it may even top Nick!
>>78373707
>>78373737
Shut up Boco. I hope you're permabanned by 2012
>>78373786
Imagine if he hadn't bumped that thread.
>>78373786
Always surreal to remember that it started so innocently.
>>78373928
>Hypercrisis:4chan
>>78373931
Everything always starts out so innocent.
>>78373928
We gotta get back in time, /co/!
>>78373449
I like Adventure Time and Regular Show. Hope they stick around for a long time, cause they're funny as fuck.
>>78374059
Were the shows positively received back then? Did the tumblr boogeyman exist yet?
>>78373814
Shut the fuck up. And stop enabling that Sonicfag's attention whoring.
>>78373449
This was a great time for cartoons, DESU senpai. AT and Regular at their prime before their turned to shit, early Gumball, etc.
I hear DC's making a cartoon about the younger superheroes, but it isn't going to be called Teen Titans.
What do you guys think?
>>78373928
Just think if a mod had the sense to delete it before it was too late
>>78373928
Be careful of the choices you make.
As insignificant as they look, they might change the world.
>>78374454
>>78373990
Something else would have just harnessed the rising tide of degeneracy, anons. Maybe even something worse.
We were always too late.
>>78373931
> "started so innocently"
> literally the first thread has people talking about jerking it to cartoon ponies
>>78374534
That's pretty innocent for us.
>>78374534
innocent by /co/ standards
>>78373786
>The Zam
Now I know who to blame.
I like Adventure Time, but wouldn't it be sweet it the writers did more serious stories?
>>78374736
>>78373928
>/co/ didn't found out about the show
>tumblr and reddit found it instead
>eventually /b/ would have found it and spammed it in other boards
Didn't changed anything in hindsight
>>78374135
Hell yeah!
AT was my shit back in my days of junior college.
>/co/ sucks now
>4chan as a whole sucks now
What happened that made shitposting quadruple in the last 3-5 years?
>>78374830
Pretty much. People forget that there wasn't much cancer with the show until it became a forced meme thanks to /b/.
>2010
uh shit all I remember is getting into comics for the first time and coming here for recs and storytime threads. Only cartoon on my radar then was old stuff and airbender
>>78374908
Korra was the start. when korra first aired, the influx of shitposting increased
2012 generally
jesus christ where did the time go
I had no idea RS, AT, and MLP is this old already. They all still feel like new shows to me.
>>78374908
>4chan was considered the source of memes before image sharing sites became big
>the facade of the internet hate machine died out
>now asshats think that posting in 4chan is cooler instead in forumsI was one of those asshats when I stumbled upon it when I used to post in the dota 1 forum
>>78373931
>scat fetishists
>innocent
2009, but close enough.
>>78373449
>Why are comic book movies so dark and edgy? Why can't it be fun and colorful and funny?!
>>78374908
Honestly it's not that different. I think people's memories just filter out the pointless shit.
>>78375054
Now that you mention it, the only thing I really remember from /co/ this year was when Breakfast Of The Gods was storytimed, because the OP was a chill motherfucker.
>>78375054
Yeah, after a few years your brain is just sorta conditioned to do that.
>>78374928
How long after the show aired did it actually start becoming a problem and form the notorious following?
>>78375054
There was much less bitching about other social media sites and politics.
I can't remember if generals had become a problem by then or not. Things were definitely better before that turned into a common practice.
>>78375054
gorespam and wikispam kinda worked on fending off newfags though
>>78375019
The fuck ever happened to him? Do I want to know?
>>78375089
I'm pretty sure the ugly side of the fandom started flaring up towards the start of season 2. The off period between seasons 1 and 2 fostered cancerous developments with no new content to discuss. I can't remember exactly when the /b/ threads started, though. That might have been towards the end of season 1.
>>78373786
It's so telling how the first thing was /co/ sexualizing as usual.
Every time I see a brony I think it's funny how they probably got into through some place like reddit or some video game community. Having no idea how it started as /co/'s usual "over sexualize cartoons" meme. No no no they insist they really like the show and not just following memetrends. Not even realizing where said memetrend even originated.
>>78375054
I don't know. I recently downloaded a fuckton of archived threads from various boards that span from 2008-2013 and there's a noticeable drop in quality leading up to now. And these weren't hand-picked "epic" threads that were archived, they were randomly selected.
>>78375019
thisactuallyhappened.jpg
>>78375194
It can be hard to tell, but some boards are definitely experiencing a drop in quality. For example, /x/ was never great, but it used to have some pretty fucking awesome creepy threads, and tulpas/bullshit wasn't nearly as dominant as it is now.
I'm not sure what's happening. I think maybe there's been an exodus of older anons from 4chan in general, but it's just speculation.
>>78375184
>the first MLP didn't have that much porn, why would this one?
Man, I wish I could be that utterly wrong about something.
>>78375116
Hung himself, hopefully.
>>78374908
moot tried to stop a lot of shitposting before he left. Between the post timer, getting rid of the sage field, and some other third thing
>>78374135
Man /co/ fucking loved AT when it first aired, it was what pulled CN out of the dark ages other than Flapjack and Chowder.
That talkback thread for when Tree Trunks exploded was amazing for everyone freaking out.
Not sure about RS but I'm sure it was liked too and wouldn't get shat on for another few years.
>>78375116
Good question. Does he ever pop up on /co/ anymore?
I think there was also once a video of him cosplaying Gwen Stacy at a comic convention?
He actually seemed like a pretty decent regular. And if I'm totally honest, I do miss having a collection of infamous tripfags.
>>78374498
>Earth 901412
>A world where /co/ started watching and giving pointers on Johnny Test
>The writers, animators, whipcrackers take notice and it becomes the greatest animated series of all time
>>78373637
That wasn't until 2012 you sillyhead.
>>78373928
If you about going back in time lets get it.
>>78375640
Man, some of those names take me back...
>>78375019
And this was all posted on /co/? I'm glad I missed this shit. WTF.
>>78375608
I fail to see how he would think that any of those changes would be anything other than ineffectual if his true goal was to curb shitposting.
I can't believe some people actually miss moot.
>>78375708
whats with the trip boco
>>78375019
Like anybody would believe this shit
>>78375871
You know what? I do. Because it was MTL.
>>78375871
You really think people would post blatant lies on 4chan for the sole purpose of entertaining their peers? Get out of here, you crazy nigger.
>>78375827
Moot was generally great for the site. If anything, he was probably TOO relaxed with moderation, hoping the community would regulate itself.
Which, it did for the first few years. But that became increasingly unreliable as 4chan became more and more populated.
I'll never understand why people try and frame him as the man who ran 4chan into the ground, or "sold us out", or whatever. The evolution of 4chan was a mostly organic one thanks to him.
>>78373786
The Zam is the Internet's Gavrilo Princep.
>>78374059
They're honestly so good that five years from now we'll have serious adult cartoons. Screencap this.
>>78375871
You don't know MTL.
>>78375827
He cleaned up /cgl/, gotta give him that. That place was HORRIBLE back before he put his foot down on the drama shit.
>>78375054
Been browsing here since 2005.
Back then, the most standard response that you'd see, across boards, was something to the effect of "lol", "win", and so on. /b/ was always pretty shitty, but the internet as a whole was a much more niche place. While today we'd see a comment like that and call them a newfag, it was pretty standard procedure.
A lot of threads were just an image, gif, or edit that would be posted, followed by a few "lol"s and then maybe some reaction images of some people trying to mimic the OP. Serious discussion did have its place, but it was pretty rare.
Also the site was much, much, MUCH slower. To put it into perspective, I'm going to use this image. From '03-'06, /a/ had less than 1 million posts, in total, most of which were of the quality displayed. Marked for deletion (old) was the fate of most threads. You're going to see how crazy shit got with my next picture.
>>78376160
This is a pretty well-known picture, but look at the dates and post numbers. Shit really went off the rails after the Habbo raids, and many people might know '07 as the "newfag summer".
There was also definitely a "summer" for a while. It got particularly bad around then, because there weren't many "native" posters and a relative flood of newfags. I personally think of '08-'10 as the worst period of 4chan, with summer of '08 being the absolute low point. Things are actually a lot better now, relatively. Sure there's shitposting, but at least there's not a deluge of posts asking how to spoiler and unironically posting emoticons.
>>78375952
>Moot was generally great for the site
Not really towards the end of his reign. He was pretty sterile, if not mildly detrimental.
>>78374373
I don't know, anon, but that new Green Lantern cartoon looks interesting. I hope it lasts a long time since I really wish to see an animated adaptation of Sinestro's Corps and Blackest Night.
>>78374983
same, bruh
>>78374908
>last 3-5 years
It quadrupled in the last 6 months
>>78376160
>Chatspeak and meme memes memes
Granted, threads totally dedicated to memes weren't that uncommon either, and would probably be considered hardcore shitposting these days. But I feel there was usually a lot of original content that arose alongside it, and memes felt more like inside jokes for a specific community, as opposed to a desperate attempt at showing how hip you are with internet culture.
I also remember most posts that weren't copypasta or memes containing decent grammar and punctuation.
I dunno. A lot of it is probably rose-colored glasses at this point. I was also in my mid-teens, and probably was just more impressed and entertained by internet counter-culture.
>>78376160
That reminds me of how most of the serious/ongoing discussion that took place on /a/ in the early days took place on IRC. The streamlined release -> discussion format didn't really solidify until late 2004(?)
Same goes for /b/, kind of. /b/ was so slow in '03 that it was essentially used to host pictures that people were talking about on IRC.
I only came here in 2012but even in the short amount of time since then I've been here I think site quality has degraded on most every board I go to.
Or maybe it was always shit and I like retconning the past, who knows.
>>78376432
I arrived at around the same time and I definitely thing that quality has gone down massively
I think it has to do with how many oldfags began to hate Moot and left around 2013 and then in 2014 we lost a huge amount of oldfags to 4+4chan and those who left aren't replaced by quality poster but by redditors and tumblrfags who come here so they look edgy and cool
>>78376246
I used to browse 4chan and 7chan back in 2005~2008-ish. I stopped browsing after that and came back in 2013. It was a pretty big culture shock for me to acclimate to 4chan again after so many years. By the time the Habbo raids happened, I had already migrated to 7chan and I stayed there until I got bored with it. The internet as a whole was a lot more interesting back then... the only thing now is that there's a wiki for everything and I can find just about anything if I look hard enough. I do miss the old Web 1.0 internet -- I had only scratched the surface of what it had to offer and then it became mainstream and all the sites I frequented died and disappeared.
>>78376500
I hate to sound like a grumpy old man, but I really hate what social media has done to the landscape of the internet.
>>78376465
>Things declined because we lost quality posters to 7chan 2.0
I got the opposite impression from that event. If anything, the other site helped to migrate some of the especially persistent shitposters. Nothing of value was lost.
I'm also skeptical of how many made a clean migration, though. There's probably lots of crossover between the userbases still.
>>78376539
Same here. I miss when most websites, even if they were someone's shitty geocities website, still had a certain amount of literacy to them... I don't know if I was just ignorant for a lot of my life and it only became apparent as I got older, but it feels like the English language has been falling apart the last 15 or so years.
I don't remember seeing many spelling or grammatical errors in official and unofficial materials unless it was done by someone who didn't natively speak English. Hell, even closed captioning is rife with spelling errors and typos nowadays.
>>78376547
Its all anecdotal evidence but the quality of /v/ definitely went down in the 2 months or so after last September before I stopped visiting /v/, /pol/ quality was already declining but afterwards it went off the deep end and hasn't recovered. 4+4/co/ seems to be a bit less shitposty too but its only slightly better
4+4chan popularity has been declining rapidly recently and I would suspect that any oldfags who still enjoys chans are probably back here again though others were probably turned off from the whole experience and don't come back to imageboards
>>78376602
It just would surprise me for most "oldfags" to get so shocked and frazzled by the GG nonsense that they'd completely jump ship and mourn the death of 4chan.
Considering that 4chan has always made a point to fuck with "free speech", even if just for shits and giggles. In addition, the Scientology protests met with similar resistance from the moderation team.
I guess I could understand if it was mostly people that joined the site sometime after 2009? Maybe 2008? Still seemed like a naive way to react.
I do think that it's reasonable to assume that more and more older posters are becoming less active, but that likely has more to do with older posters becoming busier with other interests and life priorities.
>>78373786
Wasn't this a repose to some cartoon site shitting all over MLP before it even came out. Thus causing /co/ to watch it out of spite?
>>78376602
/pol/ is currently manning over voat.co . I should know because the amount of anti-mudslime posting there is a bit extravagant and professional to be bummed redditors.
Alright guys
What if
Adventure Time
But genderswapped?
hey guys i made this 4 years ago do you like it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ucarDDSC4Q
>>78378096
So basically Fionna and Cake?
>>78378189
nah they would be called fionna and jackie
why would you change jake to cake?
that's stupid
>>78376160
>Serious discussion did have its place, but it was pretty rare.
When did it become common?
>>78376598
so..........
/board?
/website?
Any answer for this cancer?
Internet culture declined because of aging. The young adults who pioneered in the late 90s/early 00s hit middle age and decided they wanted to be known for "serious" issues and not so much random meme shit. It's the reason why once great places like ANN, Cracked, and SomethingAwful turned into festering tumblrina shitholes.
>>78375640
>RECOGNIZING ALL
hahaha
>2015
hahaha i wasted my life
