>it's been a literal decade since 4chan was good, according to most so called "oldfags"
>they're still here
Why?
>>399382
[spoiler]it was never good[/spoiler]
>>399382
"still here" is nebulous
it's more of an ambient background activity than it is the primary focus of life
>Why?
>>399412
That pic is a typical shitty oldfag pic. Funny cats and that firing lazors-thing.
So extremely unfunny.
>>399493
Shut the fuck up newfag. At least we had a sense of community back then, instead of this constant shitpostfest we have to deal with now.
>>399495
>this guy actually likes lolcats
>>399505
>not liking lolcats back in the day
Sounds like someone is trying too hard lulz
>>399382
Nothing is as good as everything when I was 15. 4chan isn't good anymore, but it's still the best for what I'm looking for.
>>399382
4chan was never good to begin with
>>399382
I doubt if there's a single person that thought 4chan stopped being good 10 years ago is still posting. you are being silly.
>>399493
I'm not an oldfag but even I fucking hate people who think the way you do, even though by the time I got here the site was already full of your mentality.
The kind of mentality that causes people to create 10000x10000 vector art representations of shitty MSPaint drawings because it's le epic meme, and blow it up into posters to hang on their walls.
From what I can tell, old 4chan had fun and just used content when people thought it would be funny at the time. They didn't give a shit what you (11 years later) were going to think about it.
While modern 4chan users act like "humor critics" who seem to think we're here to fucking make history or something, or that the point of 4chan is to entertain you and bring you content rather than just for people to hang out together online.
>>399597
>make history
Ni, we're expected to make "memes." We're intended to be the proving grounds and the development team.
Nothing is good because everyone thinks they're going to be the next big hit, as opposed to things funny in that moment.
>>399604
You just did it again. That's exactly the mentality I'm talking about.
Where the hell do people get these ideas? We're not here to make memes. We're here to discuss hobbies.
Jokes and humor naturally follow but that's not the point of 4chan. People thinking 4chan is a meme factory or some shit is exactly the reason its so stale.
Because 4chan is still better than reddit.
I'm only nominally still here
I only come here to see what the degenerate youth are up to
>>399493
I'll take them over shitty "ironic" forced memes any day
I was here during the twilight of the le epic lazors and lolcats and all that shit.
It was all pretty lame, I even thought so during the time. I much prefer the current 4chan culture, its much more self-aware and reflective. Get mad all you want about irony but it's much better than blind childishness.
>>399493
>>399654
>>399654
>I much prefer the current 4chan culture, its much more self-aware and reflective.
It strikes me as just the self-consciousness and insecurity of teenagers.
>>399660
Back in the day the dominant culture was that of insecure, childish grown men who liked to attack and put down those who disagreed with them in order to synthesise at least some sort of power and self-worth. The days of raids and gore threads were lame as fuck.
>>399661
Doesn't really sound like you were here back in the day. Maybe 2011.
>>399662
I've been here since about 2008
>>399664
Why so scornful of the past 4chan then? It was much less vitriolic than it is now. Or are you some kind of hugboxer who couldn't handle the heat?
>>399661
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1qi9gz7UU
>>399664
>ive been here since after the year were 4chan was considered to be dying annd be flooded by newfags
>>399795
So the year 4chan was created.
>>399597
Damn, you seem upset.
All I said was that this pic >>399412
is extremely unfunny. A really good example from the unfunny oldfag era.
Lolcat - not funny. Only enjoyed by middle aged female office workers
Firing my lazor - might be funny if you're 12 years old.
Another shitty (now dead of course) oldfag meme is cockmongler.
>>400079
Memes are in-jokes, dude.
You had to be there to appreciate them.
>>400079
tell us more about how the old memes trigger you.
>>400079
>unfunny
>not funny
>might be funny
do you honestly think this post isn't just proving my point that people like you think you're humor critics?
>>400082
Let me tell you about new memes that trigger me: everything from /s4s/
The style is very similiar to the oldfag memes. Empty and unfunny pictures that gets spammed into meme-status. It's all about forcing it. They're a bunch of try-hards.
>>400086
Good. I hope our jokes become more lame so faggots like you will get the fuck out.
If you want a humor aggregator website then go to funnyjunk or something. This isn't the point of 4chan.
>>400086
I respect your obviously experienced opinion but I strongly and emphatically disagree.
I honestly don't think 4chan would have survived as long as it has without the memes.
>>400084
Let's just all pretend that lolcats are so funney! lol Epic wiiiin XD
Fuck off.
things were better back when i was 14
>Why?
There's still no better alternative.
>>400092
What's your fucking point?
They had fun posting it, that's all that matters. Again, if you want a humor aggregator go to a humor aggregator website. This is not why people come to 4chan.
How many more time are you going to let this go over your head?
>>400090
what you said makes no sense
>>399493
This is actually completely true.
4chan from 2003 - 2006 had more in common with reddit than modern 4chan does.
There'll be butthurt 'oldfags' who deny this, but the site was actually fucking worse in the 'good old' days.
Thank god things changed.
>>400105
People pretended that it was funny in order to fit in. Go to /s4s/ and you'll see the same mentality in action.
>>400114
>I define my enjoyment of a site by strict consideration of its "quality" rather than how much fun I have while there.
>>400117
It was funny to the userbase back then.
If you really think fucking lolcats was nothing but bandwagoning then I seriously have to question if you were even on the internet at all back in those days.
>>400124
Never once did I imply that you mongoloid.
Also
>caring about a site's quality is a bad thing
Can you please stop posting? Anyone who's actually browsed this shithole for more than a few months knows better than to get this angry over a few people disagreeing with them. For someone who seems so obsessed with the old, 'fun' 4chan that you weren't even a fucking part of, you seem to be having remarkably little fun yourself.
>>400108
What doesn't make sense to you? It wouldn't be here without the memes being so popular. That's why people come here, not to discuss random hobbies as was intended. That part is secondary to the memes.
>>400114
Yeah, they get really defensive about this. Lolcats, dear god. I'm happy that era is over now.
Also, looking back, early /r9k/ had a strong reddit-vibe. A gentlemens /b/ where every reply has to be original! Reeks of reddit.
>>400139
>A gentlemens /b/ where every reply has to be original! Reeks of reddit.
They do that to prevent the same shit from getting regurgitated 24/7.
Way back when /b/'s sense of originality was actually something to speak about. Now it's "let me spam this barely funny shit until I'm banned".
>>400135
>you seem to be having remarkably little fun yourself
From 2 posts on a board filled with meta threads you've come to this conclusion?
I guess that's to be expected from someone who got internet last year and decided that lolcats were never funny.
>>400139
>Lolcats, dear god. I'm happy that era is over now.
Everyone who talks like this sounds like an edgy teenager who's only using 4chan because they think it's "cool" and doesn't actually come here to discuss any particular hobby at all so they can only justify their existence on 4chan by "meme quality".
>>400144
Neither of them, but you shouldn't be so eager to write someone off just because they didn't find the cat era amusing.
>>400148
It has nothing to do with their opinion.
It has everything to do with the fact that they are associating that opinion with 4chan being bad or good (which is what this thread is about).
My point is 4chan is good when you're having fun on it and bad when you're not.
So talking about how funny you think a 10yr old meme was by todays standards is irrelevant and indicative of the cancerous mentality that "4chan is for the memes because I don't have any real hobbies to discuss there lol" that so many people seem to have today.
>>400144
Keep trying to fit in, lolcat-boy.
I don't know why they think we were obsessed with cats when it was just a funny aside to whatever else we were talking about at the time.
>>400079
>>Lolcat - not funny
>Firing my lazor - might be funny if you're 12 years old.
Congrats anon! It's almost as if the older and original 'memes' were in actual fact inside-jokes, rather then being big giant forced demons they are today like those retarded frogposters. Oh, wait, they fucking were. Of fucking course you don't find lol cats funny or fun to post, because you weren't here when 4chan fucking started it. You seem to have completely missed core points why people miss old 4chan.
Memes aren't meant to be giant big demons, nor are they meant to be fucking funny. They were fucking inside-jokes that were funny or just fun to make and post for the people that were there. Everyone else just fucking saw them, made a mistake about them and then ruined the fun and enjoyment of them, like what happens to all inside-jokes. That anon is fucking right, you people are fucking annoying as hell, and it'd be nice if you could all an hero. You rate 4chan by its 'memes worth' and then rate your fucking 'memes' on their 'humour' worth and completely miss the point of everything and shit up the site. Lurk moar
>>400213
Dude, you seem upset, you wrote the word "fucking" 9 times in your post. I can imagine you right now, shaking with rage because someone on 4chan doesn't like lolcats.
You're pathetic.
>>400245
What a /v/edditor like reply. Hint, I'm fucking australian you turbo nigger
>>399936
Oh fuck you cunt.
4chan was born and became alive during 2003 and 2004. You're nothing but part of a huge group of gate crashers that came to a house party, wrecked the place, claimed it was shit before you arrived, then spent the next few years blaming everyone else for the mess you made.
>>400117
>People pretended that it was funny in order to fit in.
It was funny AT THE TIME.
4chan used to be about THE MOMENT because threads died and stayed dead instead of being thrown back up again every few fucking hours.
Get off my lawn already.
>>400245
>judging a post by the number of fucking expletives as opposed to the fucking content
I remember in the old days there was just a lot less teenage insecurity around.
>>400248
Burgers seem to equate what they call "cuss words" with anger.
Never understood this mindset. They think "bud" and "mate" are interchangeable. I've never seen someone throw the word "bud" at someone as though it were a death threat but I've sure as fuck been involved in arguments both on the giving and receiving end where "mate" was short for "you're fucking dead, cunt".
For people so obsessed with tone they sure as shit don't seem to understand it.
>>400262
>"mate" was short for "you're fucking dead, cunt".
sounds about right!
>>400260
I remember when people used to post things out of the blue to break up monotony and it didn't result in a slew of spergs buzzing about angrily with memes to defend their pseudo-general thread hivemind because someone said something different.
>>400263
We don't actually drink Fosters.
It's more popular in the UK, due to marketing.
>>400268
When was the last time you saw a Fosters domestically? I haven't seen it for years.
>>400248
The lolcat ate my baby! Crikey!
>>400269
>When was the last time you saw a Fosters domestically?
Last time was in 2002 during a trip to Melbourne.
>>400271
The white boy shot up my school! Like, whatever!
>>400256
4chan itself is part of the huge gate crashing of Arpanet, which is part of the huge gate crashing of technology, which is part of the huge gate crashing of humanity, which is part of the huge gate crashing of life, which is part of the huge gate crashing of existence, which is part of the huge gate crashing. Who fucking cares about the past? Do you think your knowledge of internet history will ever help you with anything?
>>400280
No need to justify you getting here in 2011 mate, not everyone can be part of something
>>400283
Prove to me that you didn't pop into existence a second ago and that your memories of the past are real.
>>400280
>Who fucking cares about the past?
People who were there
>>400287
I'd like to see them prove they were there. Did they take a selfie in front of their monitor with a piece of paper that shows the date?
>>400283
Prove 4chan is older than 2004. Find evidence that references 4chan in 2003, that isn't a single freefloating image you could have made yourself.
>>400291
You don't.
It might nag at you a little though.
>>400292
I think you being a 2011fag is nagging at you.
>>400294
What does something nagging at me have to do with you?
>>400288
You can tell by the fucking posting styles, word choices and the like. Just like you can telling someone is from reddit, facebook or uses exclusively /b/ /v/ or /pol/. But of course, I wouldn't expect a newfag to know how to tell the difference between posting styles and probably misuses samefag as well
>>400305
I don't think you can tell. I think human beings are snowflakes and even if there are stats you can use to put people into categories and lump them together, you can't possibly use that information for any single individual and you're only right if you get lucky.
But I'll bite. When did you think I joined 4chan. The answer may surprise you. All your base are belong to use. aaaiiiiiirrrrr, centipedes in my vagina, party vanpersand, image of a USB cord with hidden child pornography in it, loli haet pizza, lol u tk him 2da bar|?, EFG and Weaver are the same person, /r9k/ used to call themselves "Gentlemen", you the man now dog, 4chan's IRC channel used to be on pyoko, 4chan's URL DNS thingie used to be through Godaddy and the website went down as a result, ringadingadingadoo I'm a super girl, Caramel Dansen came from Walk This Way.
I'll give you a hint. I joined in 2016.
>>400316
It's actually possible. This is the whole idea behind machine learning. I could analyze your text to find out whether you're male or female. Omegle uses this technology to detect obscene behavior.
It's all about large amounts of data and algorithms to detect certain patterns.
>>400326
I look forward to reading your white paper. "Discovering Structure in High-Dimensional Data Through Correlation Explanation Of Whether Or Not OP Is From Reddit." I bet you'll get another Nobel.
>>400316
You can tell, people pick up certain quirks when they live in certain places, have certain ideals and use fucking places. When you know what those quirks are, it's not too hard to pick up where someone is from and their age, etc. Likewise, you can also tell when someone is pretending. You should be able to tell from my posts, that I'm straight up an Australian, and its pretty easy to tell when a non-Australian is trying to be a Australian. When you know what those quirks are, naturally you can play pretend, but the majority of your users don't bother with that shit.
A good example is that anons normally will end up arguing in more aggressive and direct manners, while redditors are normally passive aggressive and will also generally try to reach for middle ground.
>>400344
I'd like some clarification on your final point.
>anons normally will end up arguing in more aggressive and direct manners, while redditors are normally passive aggressive and will also generally try to reach for middle ground.
Do you mean to say that Anons resort to telling people to go back to reddit?
>>400350
No, you idiot. The point was pretty fucking clear
>>400359
For you.
