>2003-2009
>4chan is mostly left-wing (except /news/) albeit with racist jokes; being a christfag got you shitposted to death; "Internet is srs business" was meant as sarcasm; raided Hal turner's show
>2009-2016
>4chan is now mostly conservative, paranoid, and ultra-serious about Jewish conspiracies, Illuminati, NWO, feminism, race mixing, etc. Being an atheist gets you shitposted to death. Posts pastoral 30-paragraph essays about how the Gates of Babylon will open when the Lizard Jews align the Blue Diamond with the Shekel Talisman, said without a hint of humor. Would more than likely help Hal Turner "red pill the cuck sheeple" nowadays
What went right/wrong?
People grew the fuck up.
I was a leftist as a teenager. Once I moved out of mommy's house, got an education, and actually experienced life my views shifted hard to the right. I expect this is what happened for most people here.
It's called not being 16 anymore
I like lefty economic policy but hate dindus and support the wall desu.
>>27920392
Yeah cause Nazism is not at all popular among edgy teens.
Do you guys think the same exact people are using 4chan who used it years ago?
>>27920339
/pol/ trolls ghost hovever.
People taking this shithole too seriously.
>>27920370
Don't fucking kid yourself. The average person here is a fucking high schooler. There are very very few left here, even from even 6 years ago. BTW what are you doing on r9k, normalfaggot? Your post is not in the spirit of Elliot Rodger.
>>27920339
That's because leftists are destroying the world, they are ruining places of higher education, they are advocating for the mass influx of 'refugees' who will never assimilate and will eventually destroy our culture and they are trying to make it impossible for anyone to better themselves and increase their own standing in life by pushing for massively increased taxes
>>27920399
>I like lefty economic policy
Educate yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxvy9XyUtg
>>27920339
>2003-2009
>Mostly George W. Bush
>2009-2016
>Barack Obama
It's just contrarian people being contrarian. There are other factors, yes, but on the whole that's what I'd put it down to. And shouting the loudest doesn't mean the right wingers are necessarily a majority.
>>27920370
>moved out of mommy's house
And you think you're representative?
>>27920339
Moot turning the website into normalfag city and the opposite of facebook instead of letting things go naturally
>people grew up
>yfw the people who actually grew up have already left this place
Chans are contrarian by nature. It's not that the culture has ascended, but that the extreme political shift on 4chan is a direct response to the current times.
>>27920370
>>27920392
>>331253906
>being a Republican
>growing up
KEK
The great stormfront invasion of 2012
What happened was, /pol/ was created, /b/ filled up /pol/ with le epic memes and people from stormfront came and took it seriously and flipped this site around and turned it into the shithole you see today. It's full of people who thought they were in good company here.
Moot got rid of some of that element when he turned off the capcha on /pol/ and into the 8 steps of cuckholding, but that wasn't enough.
>>27920339
fuck man Idk, all the cool folks who loved raiding and bullshiting left for greener pastures.
Had a trope in highschool who browsed 4chan back in 2003-2007, we called it quits then and moved on to greener pastures.
Websites I moved to polycount, one dude moved to neogaf, and a bunch of others moved to the darknet.
I came back last year and I was fucking horrified,
>no raids or lolcows
>actual racism, not fooling around with (ie, happy negro, charging my lazor, )
>people bitching about not having sex
>people complaining about social justice warriors
>shitty teeny bops
>conspiracy theorists
>bible threads
This place has gone to shit.
My best guess is that the south or midwest got highspeed internet, and ruined everything.
>>27920451
>wanting to lick shekelsteins ass
>>27920485
My hometown was under two miles of ice 10,000 years ago
Explain that faggot
>>27920491
Well fuck, that sucks.
That's what happens when you self troll.
Dammit man, even moot has peaced the fuck outta this place. Too many racists pricks, is there a way to troll the stormfags out? That /pol/ stunt didn't work
>>27920339
>>2003-2009
>>4chan is mostly left-wing (except /news/)
>/news/
Uhhhhh
>>27920370
>be edgy contrarian loner teenager
>surrounded by leftists
>read nietzsche and use right wing politics as an identity and means of feeling above everyone else
>grow up
>realize i have a conscience
i'd argue it's the opposite. 4chan is just full of 16 year olds. back in the day it was edgy to be a leftist and now it's vice versa
>>27920516
>muh good guys/bad guys worldview
>muh bad guys don't go into government, only good guys
I'd argue that the jewish/worldwide conspiracy threads were always here, as were the anti-black threads. it was just a smaller community, so it was expressed differently.
Hal Turner was always an idiot, even if his views align with modern /pol/.
>>27920370
>experienced life
>most people here
wew, I say wew lad
>>27920585
>maybe if I shill for shekelstein really hard he'll give me that .50 cent raise!
>>27920696
why don't you quit? you have direct access to your own labor, if it's so valuable why don't you keep it for yourself?
what's that? You ain't shit unless some capitalist gives you access to his capital? Making your labor more productive and therefore increasing your standard of living?
Maybe you should thank a capitalist for giving you any opportunity at all, because apparently without him your life would be even more shit
>>27920768
Just because the current economic system is capitalism doesn't make it right. Ideally workers would be able to decide how to use the capital produced by the firm collectively. We're a ways off from making that happen but that doesn't mean we should just sit back and accept the status quo.
>>27920553
It...melted.
You might need some remedial classes if you didn't know that, anon.
>>27920873
Actually you can do that now, tard'
Nobody is stopping you'
Its called a co-op
they aren't very big because dumb commies are actually lazy morons that don't want to under-consume and sacrifice to build wealth (they just want to be paid every two weeks and watch football)
>>27920909
yeah but why
if it melted 10,000 years ago from rising temperatures, what's to say that humans did it
>>27920922
I know what a co-op is shit head. They can't compete for shit becuase our entire economic system is built around capitalism and is hostile to them. We would have to transition ever private company to be worked owned but it's not possible becuase capitalists have all the power and workers especially in America are nothing but good goy.
>>27920983
they can't compete because basically commies are lazy and stupid
>>27921011
Ebin meme dude xD
>>27920339
>2003-2009: Republican president
>2009-2016: Democratic president
People are just being contrarian. If Trump or Cruz win the 2016 election then 4chan will go right back to being liberal
>>27920339
>it's another how 4chan was thread
I was you faggots would just kill yourselves
>>27920983
But I would further ask, why do business fail.
Sports Chalet is closing down all 40 of its stores in California. Why?
If they have some "power" why don't they just use it to not close down.
Capitalists don't have power, they just provide a good or service and try to please you.
It's government that has the power (literally, they have guns, etc). They have the right to use violence.
You need to chain government with a constitution, keep it as small as possible, and de-centralize the power among the people.
Then the ebil capitalist has to bribe you.
>>27920339
4chan has always been contrarian
>mfw being traditional, family oriented, patriotic, moral, non degenerate, and religious is now contrarian in our society
>>27920404
>Do you guys think the same exact people are using 4chan who used it years ago?
I honestly due believe most of this website is longtime users
>>27921158
what is the story behind this image and teh creepy asian guy who is in the next picture? never put it together.
>>27920339
2003-2009: OP was in elementary school, repeated a few grades
2009-2011: OP sucked his first few cocks, realized he is a leftist. Rapidly becomes the self - declared edgiest kid in middle school
2011-2015: OP enjoys the finer things in life, like posting his already acne - ridden "face of atheism" on r/atheism, and donating his parents' money to whatever doomed campaign left-wing retards are masturbating furiously to at any given moment.
2015-2016: OP learns about 4chan, and spends his days bitching about le good old days when 4chan was for enlightened liberals like himself
>>27921039
And Tumblr will become a right wing stormclub?
>>27921191
shh.... we aren't going to talk about this
'
it could shut down the site forever
>>27921230
No, but the left will largely lose interest in identity politics and turn on its, probably trying to preserve the liberal politics of Democrat America while /pol/ will become radicalized communism or anarchism.
>>27921293
/pol/ will never go communist. They'll go back to hardcover libertarian
Like everybody who switches from liberal to conservative, they grew up.
>>27921158
there are a few boards where there's only new users and a few longtime ones
>in particular b, pol and r9k
Its SJWs fault. Tons of young people (myself included) have been pushed to the right by the increasing anti-white racism and anti-male sexism in the left.
>>27921330
This, I actually just filled out my voter registration form tonight, Republican all the way.
>>27921242
what? she zoe quinn and mootles gonna call hiroshima and nuke the place?
>>27921334
>b
No /b/ is long dead. It's just a porn board now, it's old users have left
>>27921320
/pol/ was never libertarian, their only ideology is a guy who'll wreck shit. Trump not only wants to wreck shit but is a human meme, hence they love him. Hell even if you look back at the Ron Paul era, why did /pol/ like him? They liked his crazy shit, like ending the Fed and returning to the gold standard, the stuff like small government and a strict interpretation of Constitutional rights they didn't much care about.
>>27921396
>>27921334
Sorry m8 I misread you. I see what you meant now
>>27921409
I dunno m8 they seem pretty firmly constitutional to me. Make any slightly negative comment about the second ammendment and they'll wreck your shit
>>27921438
>Make any slightly negative comment about the second ammendment and they'll wreck your shit
That's because anti-guns are retarded as fuck.
>>27921451
I agree. Just saying /pol/ is pretty constitutional. I don't think that's just a temporary phase for the board
/pol/ is the only good board now. r9k's popularity is tapering off and /b/ has been dead in content for years.
I'm a centrist but pretty contrarian desu.
>>27921438
Go ask them about Apple v. FBI. Which, recall, Apple fought on First Amendment grounds (the government was trying to compel them to produce code (which, legally, is speech) that they disapproved of - a backdoored version of iOS) Or tell them that the Fifth Amendment should protect someone from being compelled to surrender passwords. Or that surveillance programs are unacceptable on Fourth Amendment grounds.
They'll pile on to you just as much as if you were a gun-grabber.
