ITT: Post boards that you used to frequent that are now dead to you.
/tv/ was my go to board for several years between 2008-2014. Then in 2014 the Reddit memes started to kick into overdrive. The GoT threads which had started out fine in S1 had become massive magnets to outsiders. And then capeshit arrived and with it the Marvel shills who killed the board properly. Now only a rotting carcass remains of what once was. There is no wit or humor anymore. No insightful posts or actual conversation. The big Hollywood releases completely suffocate the board killing diversity of discussion.
/m/. Got significantly shittier after G-Reco/A.Z/Valvrave to the point that it was a tiny /v/ in terms of shitflinging.
/co/
Death by generals
>>566372
/b/ 2007-2008. Didn't take me long to get bored of the constant reposts.
/v/ 2008-2014, but still quit pre-GG. It reached a point where it got genuinely worse than even fucking steam forums. Nobody knew anything about games anymore and every single thread would be nothing but constant shitflinging.
Nowadays I mostly frequent /int/ and /tg/, but I'm fed up with them too. Nothing but shitty generals and in /int/'s case, rampant shitposting as well. /trv/ is still fairly ok but it's slow as molasses and doesn't make a good homeboard.
I feel like I've reached a point where I'd love to quit 4chan altogether but there's just nowhere else to go.
>>566375
/m/ is great, but only whenever there isn't a mainline Gundam airing.
>>566378
/v/ died for me around Tortanic when I realized the board had been hijacked by corporate interestst to create shitflinging campaigns. The board is nothing but shills making threads shitting on games other shills are shilling. It becomes pretty transparent once you browse the board long enough.
For instance the Overwatch defense force that will keep making threads about how hard Battleborn has flopped despite nobody giving a shit. Or Witcher shills keep making threads about their GOTY awards. Or Nintendo shills keep making threads about how great Treehouse is for playing games.That board has become so big that corporate interest has ruined all legitimacy it once had. And that's not to mention the high ratio of underaged posters and mobile posters.
I'm in the phase of desistance.
>>566435
Bumping a thread with discussion due to the flooding happening right now. asdas
Death to furfags
/trash/ was a mistake
/int/ is the only board - save the customary stay on /b/ - that I've left and never looked back.
I hope /qa/ isn't getting added to it now...
>>566669
Sacrifices have to be made, anon. Purging ponyfucks is a difficult task. Look on the bright side....
>>566724
We are the epic legion /b/rother.
We cannot be forgotten, except us!
well lets just say theres like 300 game of thrones threads on the first page on /tv/. i literally visit maybe twice a week now and its all game of thrones super heroes and more game of thrones. if i gave half a shit about the internet id email the guy who owns this shit until he got new mods. youd think hed get some of his chinese friends to be mods instead of all the beta memeing white dude mods there are now ruining this site because they are literally redit users as well as 4chan
>>566372
/q/. It was always full of idiots, but whatever use it might have once had really went down the drain when it filled with false-flagging shitposters, retarded children masquerading as oldfags, and a janitor who spent basically all his time shitting on any user who didn't fall over themselves trying to suck mod dick and generally trying to make the board completely unusable.
It took a hacking effort by some colossal autistic fuckwit to reveal that /qa/'s full-time shitposting prince was actually a janitor, and not only that, one recruited out of /qa/ because he made a pithy comment shitting on the users. Then, shortly after he was fired, moot blew up the whole board. All in all it had a worse record than even /film/, becaue at least that fucking travesty was over within the day.
>>566791
The admin made a global announcement on all boards for the sixth season of Game of Thrones, he's not about to tell anyone to start deleting the threads.
>>566795
i said /qa/ when i meant /q/, somebody shoot me
Why is /a/ the only popular board that has successfully managed to withstand a normalfag takeover? I swear it's like time stands still on /a/ while rest of 4chan is burning.
>>566816
Probably because normalfags aren't into anime in the first place.
One thing I don't get though is how there seems to be barely any generals on /a/
>>566822
There are plenty of generals on /a/, they just don't call themselves generals.
Although, there was an implicit ban on generals a few years ago as well which helped keep them on the low.
>>566435
I love how 7/10 is viewed as average now when rating people or games.
>>566902
Such high standards these days.
>>566376
>Death by generals/tumblr/casuals/capeshitfags/crossboarders
ftfy
>>566816
/a/ is completely unrecognizeable compared to even a couple years ago, not to mention its prime many years ago. The difference in post quality and general intelligence between there & /m/ is downright sad.
And its filled with actual, self admitted pedos. Ive seen the posts
>>566415
Sadly, despite all this I cant stop browsing that shitty board
Ive become so accustomed to being marketed to that I keep coming back for more
/co/. I simply lost interest in Western cartoons. That's all.
>>566372
GoT threads were so comfy at the very beginning
What the fuck happened
>>566951
>comfy
People like you happened.
>>566969
ah yes autistic witchhunting and hostility over inconsequential bullshit
that's the nu-/tv/ I know and love
>>566372
All except /sp/
/a/ - absolute shit now, it's basically glorified porn board at this point with endless waifu and general circlejerking
/v/ - no comment
/tv/ - complete abomination with GoT, Capeshit and forced memes
/mu/ - full of poptimists and Pitchfork cucks, some generals used to be decent but they are awful now
>>566982
>nu
>picture related
Continue to prove me right.
>>566816
Because it got flooded with different kind of cancer
I am convinced that board is filled with the most genuinely autistic people
how do we make 4chan great again
>>566988
mention reddit next
it definitely makes you look cool and is reminiscent of when people just hung out and talked about the show with occasional branposting rather than incessant meta crying
here's another passe meme for you to whine about
/mu/ got killed by memerap and postironic shitposting
/int/ is more or less facebook now
never been to /tv/ much but the way it looks now makes me cry
/mu/ is tumblr-tier memes, memerap, poptimism and waifuthreads now.
I've moved to /co/, at least they have some discussion.
Both of the boards i still use are shit.
/o/ is basically /v/ with cars, writ small. No one knows shit about cars, it's all just autistic benchracing over cars no one will be able to own.
/tg/ still has glimmers of what it used to be, but it's dying from so many generals and blatant elf shitposting
/v/. That place is 90% reddit. /v/ is 4chan in name only.
/b/. Before, it was fun. Like, 08. Now it's just porn.
>>566449
>Almost nobody reads the sticky or checks the catalog
>Is x /fa/?
>x general!
>x wave/core aka categorization
>How do I tie my shoelaces?
>Where 2 buy x? aka I don't know what reverse image search is
>Should I buy this? aka I can't decide for myself
>Inspiration is a coca cola can
>Same old reposted shit
/fa/ is a mixture of /r9k/ and /soc/, with a little extra spicy cross posting from /mu/.
>>566933
gee whizz son, where did they all come from? I mean, there wasn't a single pedo on 4chan even a couple years ago and now the board's filled with them!
>>566435
There are so many things wrong with this image...
>>567082
You mean the outcome?
/vp/ was fantastic pre-XY. Good competitive discussion, the board was relatively slow.
XY brought power creep to a new level and Smogon had to ban a lot of shit compared to previous gens. Because the flood of newfags didn't understand how Smogon worked, shitposting and anti-Smogon sentiment happened without abandon every time a new suspect popped up. /cpg/ no longer exists (on /vp/ at least).
You can't mention Smogon anymore without the thread blowing up. You can't even mention competitive pokemon as a whole because faggots hate it so much, like battling NPCs is fun. It's a fucking travesty.
>>566951
>You will never go back to the golden days where S1 had just ended and you were reading the books with rest of /tv/ shitting bricks in unison
So many good threads were had. People then actually discussed the story and characters in way that didn't devolve into one-sentence post from anon's iPhone.
>>566372
Old /mlp/ had a good balance of show discussion, oc, and humour.
Current /mlp/ is clogged with writefag generals
/mlp/
When /mlp/ was made the show was still decent and you could actually make threads and talk about it without getting totally derailed. Most of the threads that weren't about the show were actually entertaining and not obnoxious. After the scruffening and the diminishing quality of the show, the board started to go downhill. Now it's just shitty generals and full of newfags who are in so much denial about the show getting worse that they try to shit on people who liked the show when it started.
>>567133
Was writing before you posted, but basically this
ITT: We realise every board sucks
>open /tv/
>literally first 7 threads are about game of thrones
Fuck this board, I'd even rather have abatap than this cancer.
/r9k/
Basically tumblrreddit started squatting there and never left. And NuChan just enables them by constantly biting their bait or replying to their threads.
Also not to mention all the 5/10 women who would regularly dredge the board for beta orbiters to stroke/inflate their egos.
>/v/ still isn't the same since GoyimGate
>/pol/ is being eaten alive by redditors who come there to shitpost because of muh trump
This is awful. Now /asp/ is going to hell because a tripcuck.
>>567149
I don't think GG was the death knell for /v/ - it was cancer before then. /v/ has gotten even worse this year because of the same newfag redditors that are going to /pol/
>>567138
>Most of the threads that weren't about the show were actually entertaining and not obnoxious.
I sorta miss when we used to fuck with the rest of the fandom. Remember that one convention ran by the hippy chick who scammed everyone? Remember when we played detective with it? Fun times.
>>567174
Oh fuck, I forgot about that. Remember the Bronycon stream threads? And the Ghost threads when the board started? Good shit.
>>567155
This, really. GG was a symptom, not the cause.
>>566795
I remember that janny getting outed, it wasn't a hack. Someone noticed that a person was posting an image without any comment added which was impossible unless you are a 4chan staff
member and then searched the archives for that poster's ID.
/lit/
I thought it was halfway decent back then, now I realised it's shit by nature.
People interrested in books would actually be reading instead of meme posting after having red a the wikipedia page about something.
>>567181
>ghost threads
Classic.
I remember that one time we found an anti brony alliance forum being ran by some dumb teenagers. We colonised it and used it as a space to store pony porn.
Remember the shitstorm surrounding alicorn twi? Board went into total fucking meltdown.
>>567225
The drama over that went on for fucking months. I remember seeing this post count graph from /mlp/ sometime and in early 2013 it just skyrockets up like crazy. The funny thing is I'd been posting in threads since season 1 that twilicorn was going to happen but people called me a conspricay nut and when I actually did I laughed my ass off watching all that shit go down. In retrospect, though, people were right to get mad about it. That should have been how the last episode of the show ended, not before another three seasons happened.
>>567194
That was either someone else or predated the hack; this is when Australian moot broke into the servers and posted a bunch of random shit.
>>567194
Anyone can blankpost. There's a metric fuckton of invisible characters.
>>567388
No, moderation is at an all time low compared to when moot wasn't planning on selling the website. When you intentionally enter a general to report rule-breaking posts and you end up exhausting your reports you can then see nothing gets deleted.
>>567282
Well, Hasjew's gotta make money and sell toys.
What I miss most is the tree house. I stopped watching it after that got nuked. Call me autistic, but I liked that tree library a lot.
Remember when the design first got leaked?
>N-n-n-no it's a fake! It's a chink bootleg!
Classic.
/int/
from country discussion to whiteness, memes, stale replies, and generals
>>566415
>when I realized the board had been hijacked by corporate interests
>shills
please
fuck
off
you
cancerous
piece
of
shit
newfag
>>566435
>>566449
>>567039
The key problem here is that fashion is inherently shallow and only attracts pathetic normalfags. It's fucking hilarious everyone some retard from a normalfag board complains about the state of his board. It's like they have absolutely no fucking self awareness, like someone who have been living in a toilet for the past half decade only just now saying how shit it is.
>>567388
>but at least the moderation is increasing
As long as mods allow off topic generals to exist on /a/, any attempt at moderation is meaningless.
>>566802
Same shit
>>566372
/int/
Don't get me wrong, it was always shit, but now whenever I go back there I don't even know what I'm looking at, there's so much more spam too.
>>567933
>like someone who have been living in a toilet for the past half decade only just now saying how shit it is.
i've been saying everything is shit for years but i'm still floating in this toilet, send help
>>567924
Like 80% of that fucking board is generals now, seriously, I get that it's fun to circlejerk with a small community speaking your own language but why don't you just fucking go to your own country's shitty flag-carrier imageboard? Everyone has one of those now.
>>567931
He's right though. People don't realize how much paid posters and outside interests control the discourse on the popular boards.
Blizzard shills definitely post on /v/. You'll see them making a hundred threads about Overwatch, and jumping on anyone criticizing the game, reuse the same arguments in every thread, making a hundred threads about how much of failure Battleborne is for no reason. They were even defending Blizzard shutting down the Nostralrius WoW server, no one who genuinely likes gaming would do this. Who do you think makes all these threads defending Denuvo/DRM almost every day?
Part of the reason 4chan has gotten worse is because such a large portion of the content is engineered like that, so there's less room for an original culture to sprawl on its own, it's all either steered, or stunted by shills and interlopers.
When you realize how much content on 4chan is controlled by political or corporate interests, you become disillusioned with the site (and the world since what happens on 4chan is just a microcosm of how society itself gets controlled and steered like that). It's probably even worse on social media and sites like rebbit.
>>567954
This is the tragedy of Internet as whole. It started out as something dictated by the user. It was the user that made content and it was the user that spoke. This lead to an immense amount of content being created and a golden age of digital creativity. Soon enough the giant corporations invested tremendous amount of money to take control of this open system and thereby control the word of mouth. Control the content that is created. There is no reason why corporations wouldn't do this considering how they operate outside of the digital world. What you read on message boards, top spots at Reddit and so on are most likely there because of an agenda.
Call it paranoia. I used to call people who said that paranoid aswell. Then I started to see it. Slowly but surely. The Internet had been reduced to ad fronts for corporations. 4chan isn't the worst when it comes to this. There are worse sites. But 4chan is also very potent because it's anonymous and anyone can disguise themselves as just one amongst many.
/v/ has been hit the worst because it's a popular board and videogames are a massive industry. Part of the reason some people wanted to split /v/ was to lessen the amount of traffic and thereby make shilling less appealing. I can promise you right now that a huge chunk of childish shitposting and flaming is due to corporate interests wrecking havoc on the board.
/b/ in 2007, although it had died in 06. I still don't understand how it's the fastest board on 4chan when 80% of it is porn. Wouldn't any self-respecting anon just get his fap material from boards like /hc/ and /s/? I've always assumed /b/ has stayed popular only because the vast majority of its population are non-4channers who heard the site was cool and edgy but never bothered to check the other boards.
/x/ in 2008. Chanologyfags decided to invade it for lulz and call it /bx/. Completely destroyed the board. I check every few months if it had turned back into its old self, but stopped after a few years. Maybe it's better now, but I've completely lost interest in it.
/r9k/ was wonderful for the first few months. Like a more verbose, old /b/, with lots of good discussion. The best part was everyone trying to post old memes first. Then the roneryfags congregated there with their greentext stories and it because pretty much what its second incarnation is today.
/mu/ in 2009, mostly because I lost interest, not because it suddenly turned to shit. I assume they still love Pitchfork, fellate themselves over shit like Animal Collective and Sunn O))), and meme about Dragonforce being the hardest metal, and there'd be nothing wrong with that.
/jp/ was great before around 2011, now it's merely comfy. The other boards where I post regularly nowadays are /a/ and /tg/. The weeb discussion boards in general have stayed pretty good over the years. Threads on /a/ complaining that the board has suddenly turned to shit )a yearly event every summer from about 2007) show that the population still care about the quality of the board.
[s4s] is the most fun new board, a bit like old /b/. /his/, on the other hand, is the new board that disappointed me the most. Same old rehashed /int/ and /pol/ memes, with an addition of religion/philosophy trolling. I tried to like it, but it's just sad that you can still have a better historical discussion on /tg/, with more knowledgeable posters.
>>567933
>fashion is inherently shallow and only attracts pathetic normalfags
Why so?
/v/ got too big and too toxic. It used to be fun in like 2008-2010. I'd say around 2011 is when it started getting really bad. All that GG stuff in 2014 is when it became irredeemably bad. It's just shitflinging and nonsense. It's even worse because their shit spills over to the rest of the internet and online games so you can't really avoid it.
/tv/ has always been pretty bad, but it's nothing but circlejerking now.
/a/ is better than a lot of boards but the discussion there is lacking from what it used to be.
/mu/ has been nothing but memes for years now.
/int/ is just memes and generals.
4chan is being eaten alive. Pretty much only the unpopular boards are still worth a shit.
>>567954
Have you ever heard the term "fanboy"? Because that's what happens. /v/ got filled with all sorts of GameFAQs and NeoFAG trash from the web and they brought their retarded fanboyism with them.
Viraling does happen, but it's copypasted shit like Deliverance and its authentic castles or Borderlands. No company hires enough shills to flood half of every discussion on any given topic. These are only a few easily ignored individuals.
Meanwhile what you anti-shill fags do is make every single fucking game impossible to discuss because you jump into every thread and accuse the OP and everyone posting in it of astroturfing. The only thing you can talk about without you people killing the thread is literalwhos and their twitter posts. You're worse than the shills you hate so much.
/int/: Absorbed entirely by /pol/, gone from joking racism to full on stormfront shit. It's also 90% generals and "banter" which is just fill-in-the-blank shitposting that only morons can get behind
/lit/: Way too much shitposting, people insult classic novels just to get their rocks off, and pseuds think if they insult Faulkner it magically grants them taste. Also absorbed by /pol/
I still go to /mu/ but if it keeps getting worse I might have to leave. The shitposting is skyrocketing and serious threads now are getting derailed. Obvious political bait is not only being left up but is hitting bump limit. If it doesn't get some janitors it'll be unsalvageable.
>>567896
I really miss the treehouse too, anon.
[spoiler]rip bees ;_;[/spoiler]
>>568395
Godammit, I always forget /qa/ doesn't have spoilers
>>567139
Pretty much.
>no mention of /sp/ so far
Noice
Can we all agree that 4chan in general began dropping in quality once the normalfags started pouring in?
/int/ same reasons as already mentioned by the other posters. It's sad.
>>568051
>Meanwhile what you anti-shill fags do is make every single fucking game impossible
I don't do this personally, I just ignore it but it's still obvious. No one would defend DRM before these fucks came around. You just can't explain all these Denuvo threads otherwise.
Also what you don't see is that some of the people calling people "shills" are probably themselves shills who are trying to bring down competing companies/games. That's what that other guy meant when he said:
>The board is nothing but shills making threads shitting on games other shills are shilling.
>>568561
Not the same guy, but I think you're being a little too cynical here. How do you know the difference between a shill and a fanboy for sure? How do you know for sure there's actually all these shills all of a sudden and you're not looking at the similar threads in a different light since the shill meme spread everywhere. I'm not saying there aren't shill threads, I'm just saying I couldn't possibly know how many there are. I think there are some more obvious examples like Deliverance or the Warcraft movie, but people calling out "shills" is ruining the board just as much as genuine shills are by this point. /v/ has been going downhill rapidly for about 5 years now and it's for lots of reasons but mainly that the board is full of newfag retards
>>568395
Whatever happened to the fandom anyway?
It seemed like it was going to take over the whole world around 2011-2013. I remember there was new original content being pumped out almost as fast as the Touhou fanbase. But then it sort of petered off. Did everyone just drop out after Season 3? Probably for the best though. Must've been fucking annoying if you weren't into ponies.
>we've had three whole seasons since alicorn twi
Christ.
>>568051
This. Say you like something or offer a controversial opinion and people will go "SHILL"
Thing is, you can't prove you definitely aren't a shill, so they'll ignore your opinion no matter what points you use to back it up.
>>568601
>Must've been fucking annoying if you weren't into ponies.
That was sort of the point, though. People genuinely enjoyed it but it was also a good way to make people mad, which is why it spread from /co/ to /b/ in early 2011 and eventually to the internet at large. I think there were probably many reasons it petered out, mainly that the whole thing eventually became less novel: less novel to watch and be part of, less novel to make people mad with (helped along by the fact people all of a sudden realized rule 19 was a thing around this time), and the fanmade stuff became less novel too. Once you'd seen so many fanmade animations, songs, artworks, or dumb clips with ponies referencing something else it became less fun. At that point, the show needed to survive on its own merits, much like Touhou did, but at that point in time the show's quality was beginning to go downhill. I think people gradually started to drop off after the end of season 3. I stuck around until the end of season 5 myself, but had stopped using the board about a year before then. I wonder what's going to happen to the board when it finishes - I wonder if people will move on or try to cling to it until the bitter end.
>>568561
>You just can't explain all these Denuvo threads otherwise.
It's just shitposting. They get a trillion effortless (You)s every time they do it, of course they'll keep posting those threads again and again.
A big problem with /v/ is that the retards there just can't ignore even the most blatant bait.
>>568594
>the board is full of newfag retards
I'm not surprised. Video games are for children and the internet is full of them. They flock over from reddit because their comment system is not very kid-friendly. Users aged 23 and older make up only about 20% of 4chan.
>>568657
>Video games are for children
Fuck you, man.
>>568641
>It's just shitposting. They get a trillion effortless (You)s every time they do it, of course they'll keep posting those threads again and again.
I wish I were this naive. Shills and people from other sites have an easy job here since even the userbase will defend them by saying it's "just trolling, just shitposting". Until you realize that the "shitposting" becomes the norm.
is there anyone here who left /g/ for good? where did you go? I can't take that shithole anymore but all the alternatives seem just as shit
>/diy/ has tinkerers and other informative /g/ migrants but is overall focused on areas of technology I have little experience, interest, or current ability to pursue further
>/vr/ has some /g/ migrants from the old retro threads that were fun and full of actual discussion but their new threads are autistic, restrictive and overly gaming-focused (obviously)
>8ch /tech/ has more informative topics than /g/ but has an overall cluttered site design, is dead as shit and many of the /g/ migrants are cancerous FSF ideologues who tend to shit up discussions just as much as /g/ consumertards, not to mention 8ch's natural appeal to slacktivist whiners from all around the internet
>every other imageboard is dead
>Reddit will get you informed discussion due to niche subs and increased likelihood of meeting older, more passionate posters but is still riddled with cringy shit pun chains, cancerous "reddiquette" and other forms of conversation-disrupting karmawhoring, non-linear discussion format, frequent witch hunts, and everything you post is attached to an immediately searchable username, opening up potential for being fucked by brigaders and other autistics or being "held accountable" for casual posts, browsing the wrong sub or under-developed/fallacious opinions on a topic you no longer hold
>less-populated or more niche forums can get you even more informed discussion, better content, and less obnoxious hipster types since they have all been sucked up by Reddit and mainstream social media, but they tend to become actual circlejerks of users with high post counts who suck each other off regularly as well as the website's moderation team, not to mention the memes are even staler than Reddit
>>568840
Welcome to the 4chan dilemma - the place is utter shit, but there's just nowhere else to go.
>>566372
Daily reminder /sp/, Facebook immigrants, and /v/ killed /tv/.
Baneposting was literally the tipping point of immigrants due to /sp/.
>>567989
>>567954
Jesus christ you hit the nail on the head. This is the exact reason I had to be institutionalized and be removed from all electronic devices for a year, a few years back.
I'm fine now but I've learned that the digital age was a fleeting dream, now its just another tool for the powerful to enslave the ignorant and weak.
The patterns are there and its sad that others haven't seen it.
/r9k/
I went there for the novelty but after a while I realized that 99% of discussion was simply regurgitating memes. Nobody is telling the truth, they're just repeating ad nauseam the same concept because they think it's fun to do so. This applies to all boards but there it's particularly bad
>>569129
>This is the exact reason I had to be institutionalized and be removed from all electronic devices for a year, a few years back.
>>568799
The people who say shills don't exist despite mounting proof are most likely posting with an agenda.
Ok, let's try and be a bit more positive. Which boards are actually good?
/out/ is still pretty nice, even if more and more generals are popping up and knifefags are everywhere.
/diy/ is cool if you like seeing people make stuff.
/trv/ is good too if you can handle not becoming depressed while hearing about someone's amazing holiday.
I guess what all of these have in common is that there's always new user-made content.
>>569250
I like /co/ because there are always story times. Those threads are fun. People talking about the things they like. People having discussion. People sharing pain and joy.
I like /mu/ because of the share threads. You can al.
>>566372
/b/ back in 2011 after I got out of that newfag phase.
I stopped going to /v/ after ME3 dropped, hell I still remember going through that hacked russian demo to look for dialogue and posting that to the thread. In some way, having taken part in that and finding the information that people then used to criticize ME3, I'd like to think I played some small role in Bioware shitting the bed image-wise for that game.
/sp/ for sure is the next board I stop going to. It's nothing but generals now and those are just horrid shitholes where people force memes and circlejerk and samefag a bunch of wannabe losers. I literally only go there for gamethreads now and even then, that's a chore.
>>567097
No, XY brought the youtube kiddies who are underage, uninformed of the 4chan culture, and were shitposting-centric amongst other things. Pre-XY, Post-Mods /vp/ was fantastic. Hopefully SuMo doesn't attract the same kind of shitters that XY did because I'd like to think that what we have now is alright.
>>569207
Deep depression. Saw the futility of trying to educate others like this thread.
I'm no conspirator or anything, but I saw at the beginning of 2011/12 a radical shift here, also probably 2010 more of a world shift too in terms of how the internet was changing as a whole (from smaller servers to a larger aggregate of "cloud" servers owned by an elite few companies), data mining, forum sliding, etc.
People don't know how easy it is to shift public opinion on the internet anymore.
Along with smartphones, people are easily swayed by opinions which have hidden agendas.
I needed to remove myself, and still do, from electronic things because its just a smack in the face whenever I use it. Right now, Google is sucking all my data (or trying, since I have preventative measures now) through ReCaptcha and cookies.
I want the old internet back. Back before all this explosion in data storage and processing power enabled corporations now to data mine, to have others obfuscate real opinions with agendas, before "social media", when shit was simple and people were just exploring and inventing things out of curiosity, not greed or power or money.
The internet was a mistake.
>>566372
I used to go to /b/ like a lot of people back in 2008 but since around 2013 the board is almost nothing but porn and many of the people there arent aware that boards exist for that. (maybe that's for the better)
the board became a porn dump when moot stopped periodically fucking with the board.
RIP in peace /tg/, I will always remember you.
>>569485
You're right about everything. And I understand your depression. The Internet golden age is over. Real life moved in and with it the massive corporations and interest groups who are hell-bent on controlling information. Not only information they spread to influence people, but also the information they collect to become efficient puppet masters. It's all engineered for the purpose of influencing us to make our actions according to their will.
It's not a conspiracy. It's common sense. If you're on the Internet and blindly accept the information fed to you and the information you give up, you're a damn fool. No person should prioritize the Internet over their actual lives, because the Internet has become a lesser more morally bankrupt version of reality. The freedom once found online is dead. The Internet became too influential to be ignored by the powerful.
>>569250
Don't know /diy/ but I agree on /out/ and /trv/. /his/ is also relatively good, it has a lot of interesting discussion and you actually learn something.
>>569502
Damn, anon. That word cloud says it all.
>>569882
I heard /his/ was just /pol/-lite, or at least /int/-lite. I guess I should check it out myself rather than just asking for opinions from others though.
>>566372
>boo hoo capeshit
Sounds like /tv/ is better off without you.
>>570190
/his/ is fine. You get /pol/tards, but generally of slightly higher caliber than regular /pol/, and most people generally know something.
[spoiler]/rel/ when, keep /his/ history[/spoiler]
>>566372
/a/. First /a/ went to shit then anime went to shit
>>570278
Lurk more and archive hunt.
>>568530
That goes for every site nowadays.
Small chans and communities are the future now.
/asp/ was my "home" board with martial arts .airsoft, hema, and parkour
then hiro released the floodgates of pro wrestling from asp and it has since consumed the board
>>570357
Small chans and communities are universally either dead or otherwise occupied by a small friend circle so tightly knit that nobody can wedge their way in.
>>570480
>Anon's surely being too dramatic, it can't be that bad
>it actually fucking is
My deepest sympathies
>>570480
>>570553
That's a real shame.
>>570190
When I checked out /his/ right after it was created it felt more like a /lit/-/int/ hybrid.
/co/ (The cartoon side at least)
/co/ has gotten really winey. Generals allowed in all sorts of faggots who want /co/ to be a hugbox and scream bait at any opinion they don't like. I don't even know why I still go there for cartoon discussion.
/co/
Generals, furfags, drawfag circlejerk, terrible moderation
>>570553
Goddamn that's terrible
I regret what's happened to /tv/, there's still some fun threads on that board but overall it's become a jaded, newfag-infested shithole and good content is hard to find.
/co/ is another board that I think has gone to shit. A combination of extremely biased janitors and a lack of content has led to a rather stagnant board culture. More than most other big boards, /co/ seems to live in an endless loop of repeating the exact same threads over and over and over, to the extent that deviating from the repetition is seen as unacceptable. Janitors will actually delete on topic threads if they're not "scheduled" or posted at the right time. There's very little left of /co/ that I remember circa 2009-2012.
>>567954
>>567989
I didn't even realize this was going on because the only major board I've frequented for the last 5 years is /a/, which seems immune to this kind of commercial spam. Instead we just have the normal variety of spam made by good old fashioned autists. Well except for Fakku shills, but they're banned on sight.
>>571344
/a/ is mostly insulated from this because most the industry's revenue is in Japan. and the medium isn't as popular. Also /a/ doesn't have as much social influence and outreach as other boards, they're more insular like Japan.
If anime becomes more globalized than it is, you will get the same problem we have on boards like /pol/, /b/, /v/, /r9k/, /tv/, etc. More social engineering, political shitflinging and advertising.
