What was /v/ like in 2004?
I guarantee no one still browsing 4chan start before 2007
well memes were acceptable it seems...until they went mainstream.
lots of really stupid juvenile shit no one took seriously
>>318131406
https://youtu.be/Ar4WzQ7KHak
Simpler
super gay
Everyone called each other a fag instead of a c uck. Now we are all fags. Perhaps one day we will become c ucks. Gay ones.
>>318131406
There's a screenshot of /v/ when the DS first came out. It had a lot of namefagging iirc
smilies were acceptable, unironically
>>318131406
A lot better.
>>318131406
it was shit
at least 4chan is consistent
Anyone that says it was shit and still is shit was clearly never around back then.
>Less shitposting
>Internet was still somewhat formal
>No anonymous so less newfags coming here after hearing about "epik 4chan trollz and culture xD"
I can continue but whatever
>>318132287
you're a kek desu senpai
>>318131406
Different, but so was the rest of the internet
4chan as a whole was already going through problems and died at least once by this point, so it wasn't pretty rainbows
4chan as a whole was ok with board cross posting for the most part, so LotR gifs were posted on /a/ just as freely as they were posted on /v/ and no one really gave a damn. Place was slower in general, threads on /v/ would last 2 days regularly, and /f/ was a lot more popular back then, seeping to front pages on every board with whatever new There She Is song Nanaca Crash would be reposted with high scores regularly
Banhammer was a threat on every board. Any notion of trolling was immediately met with a ban, and it wasn't a restrictive thing because the internet back then wasn't focused on being dicks, it was just the norm to not bait every post. Calling anything shit was immediately banned - people made witty remarks or congratulated others for being witty, so if anyone criticized they had to be a little smarter or lukewarm about it
Western stuff was a lot less the norm - Black Isle's death marked the end of the PC rpg era for that time and everyone was busy enjoying Final Fantasy and every other console release - Jap games in general was pretty much 90% of the board
Pic related, modified date was 2003, Azu Da and Waha was everywhere back then
>>318131406
Tons of tripfags
>>318132349
That part where the guy says a palmpilot is better than a DS sums up v/ for all of time.
Before we get into people talking about how there was more tripfaggotry or whatever at the time, just remember that pic related was /b/ back in the days and make an estimate on how the rest of this place operated back then
I stumbled onto 4chan in 2006 looking for wallpapers, oh what a mistake that was.
Now I can't use any other forums out of disgust for the average user who are usually just bunch of sensitive chucklefucks looking for recognition with their totally unique avatar and signature and 23,000 posts.
>>318131751
2006 here.
>>318131751
I started browsing in 2006 and never even posted until 2012
>>318134402
that guy sounds like a self righteous asshole
I was a /b/tard from 2006 to 2009 until I started lurking /v/
>>318133678
I wasnt even here back then but i want to go back, it sounds great,
90% of the posts written back then would cause internal bleeding due to excessive cringe if posted these days.
What year was Japan Time? That's when I started lurking.
>>318135020
True but that was because everyone was a legit nerd - social graces weren't refined but you knew the heart was in the right place. Nowadays any inkling of positive notion for any game is met with 5 posts about how shit it is, another 10 about sjw relations, and the rest of the posts calling you a shill
>>318135051
06? 07? I know I was still in highschool back then. I skipped school the day after brawl came out since I got it at a midnight launch then played all night and a bit into the morning to finish SSE all in one go
Those were better times. Growing up sucks.
>>318135321
>*curls into a ball*
You'd be called a redditor for writing that today.
>>318131837
that word is cancer
kek and big guy weren't things
so much better
>>318135503
not even. You'll be called a 9gagger with a steel rebar lodged in your brain
as cringey as some of that shit is, i'd rather have it than the constant kuck spamming and other assorted nonsense we get these days
>>318131751
2006 here. I was young and didn't appreciate what we had until it was gone.
It was less micromemey (a sorta In-joke that only people who frequent a single board would get, rarely seen outside of the board itself), Less links in threads and way more pictures. You saw a lot more "Raid threads" back then too. I mean, that's pretty much how Chris-chan and the PN became a thing.
The early days died with the whole "newfags cant triforce" era and /v/ also went through a shift about the time when people started calling eachother viral marketers and hype train threads were big. "waifu" as well.
It's not necessarily worse than what it used to be but it definitely is different.
>>318131751
05 here
>sup anon wanna play HL2 with my sister
>>318135785
big guy and kek is dying
Right now all the cool kids are doing pepe
/v/ is fucking dogshit these days. People are only interested in getting their fleeting moments of superiority from intense contrarianism and le epic counter culture.
>>318135321
trolling is easy to avoid, be rational down to earth and respond impartially to truth. people that are compelled to troll usually do so because perceived pomposity begets antagonism
you all get so caught up in the intentions of posters or attach yourselves emotionally to your opinions and shit that it results in ceaseless shitflinging
just drop the ego and don't be retarded
>>318135942
CWC was a mistake, l'll never stop thinking that.
>>318136010
NOSTALGIA ALL DAY.
>>318136075
Says the guy going in PC threads posting the epic golden face. You are part of the problem.
>>318136010
>Used to think that monitor was le ebin for the weenus back in the day
>It was probably 1024x768 stretched out
>>318135942
>It's already been 8 years since CWC's discovery
>>318135942
You just reminded me of all those pizza bomb and if you hate them post their number threads they used to have on /b/
I just recall this huge shift from raids and general fuckery against unknowing people to the whole "not your personal army" phase.
>>318131751
late 2006 here
I need to leave
Back in '08 or '09 someone made a timeline of /v/ starting with 'user was banned' when someone started trying to be cheeky, and ending with how every post after the first was just shitstorming
That picture has to exist somewhere
Is it true that you guys used rage comics?
>>318131406
First found this place around 2005. But i didnt actually start posting / frequenting until maybe 2007 or 2008 when the Brawl hype was happening and also when i realized i had no real ambition in life other than being a decent pianist / artist. I also found that i enjoyed disliking things that other people liked for the sake of making people angry. Thus my lust for shitposting had been born
>>318131837
Yep i remember all this. I was actually one of the few anti-memers who would call "OVER 9000" faggots out to which i was called a normalfag. Times sure did change.
>>318132098
oh shit
ooooh shit
apology for poor english
when were you when /l/ dies?
i was sat at home eating smegma butter when /soc/ ring
‘/l/ is kill’
‘no’
![Troll-face[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/3Hth44G.png "Troll-face[1].png")
>>318136378
>Now edgy TP kids ruined all the love there was for Toon Link
oldfags will remember this
>>318131751
Late 2005 here. Fuck you newfag.
>>318136128
CWC drama helped make Encyclopedia Dramatica what it became. It's prime is well over but it created the meme culture on the internet. It distilled hours of lurking on 4chan into the good bits and served as a major springboard for what would become the current state of internet society.
>>318136104
I miss lime green steam and the old "be-loop" message sound
>>318131406
Here is a perfectly relevant image for your picture and question.
>>318131751
April 2006 here.
Waiting for my 10 year channiversary.
I started browsing in late 2008/2009.
I miss it sometimes but I'm sure that if I was unknowingly warped to the glory days I'd still just look around and declare it to be shit.
>>318136674
>marked for deletion (old)
How long has it been since I've seen a thread with that?
>>318136638
And now it is just an excuse to talk about off topic shit and SJW in the name of a dead "board culture". We made a mistake. A huge one.
>>318136580
>>318136735
They still use this shit on 9gag.
STILL.
It's been more than 8 years at this point. Just let it die, damnit.
>>318136580
I still have the origin comic for it
>>318136865
>he actually owns a phony playshitstation
shitposting...
shitposting never changes...
>>318136987
Am I being baited?Yes I am
>>318131751
>tfw turning 29 next year
>tfw almost half my life has been spent on this board
>tfw I can't leave
At least I have a job, my own place and a girlfriend
>>318132098
>Raptor Jesus! Did you die for the sins of WT-Snacks?
>I came not to help you, but to warn you of the upcomming catastrophe that is soon to befall on your creation...
something something hindsight
Hey guys remember me?
>>318131751
wwwwww
>>318137039
Baited how? That's the 2008 comic made by Whynne that started it.
That faggot tried to copyright it after it got big.
>>318136575
>>318136824
>>318136987
I like you guys.
lemme dig some stuff from the vaults.
2006 here. A lot of things have changed, but it's still the same in many ways. We disliked conservatives/aggresive christians, we dislike SJWs now. There was always a contrarian actitude. People in the site were nicer than they're today, but there was still elitism in many boards.
I rarely browsed /v/ though, I lurked /b/ back in the day, for the most part. But from what I vaguely remember, /v/ hated GameFAQS back in the day. I don't even know why, but GameFaqs was pretty much the equivalent of modern-day NeoGAF back in 2006. That site was really frowned upon.
Uh, I remember that /v/ was all over Persona 3 FES when it came out too. Many people were hyped about it.
>>318137040
she's ugly and you get paid peanuts faglord
>>318137104
>>318137039
>>318136987
Never forget
>>318137027
![meh.ro4551-439x800[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/uaP0j12.jpg "meh.ro4551-439x800[1].jpg")
>>318137104
You sure?
>>318137183
LOOKMario is a nigger.
>>318137282
The one he posted is the original, you can still find it on Whynne's deviant art
http://whynne.deviantart.com/art/Comic-Trolls-98357844
That's the original.
>>318137282
Pretty sure this one predates the other by a significant time period, but it's all kind of fuzzy at this point.
>>318137192
>projecting this hard
Thats just sad, anon
>>318131751
'05, eat a dick.
>fail
>EPIC FAIL
Some things died because they needed to.
This just reminds me of a simpler time. I don't expect any of you to have it but does anyone have that greentext story of that anon who told his ex to kill herself every day through emails for like 5 years?
>>318137476
>>318137374
No, I'm pretty sure it was coolface before it was trollface but whatever, I'm too old to really give a shit anymore.
>>318137519
Some things died because they were killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yThfdrdFL8
>>318137608
Hold on, let me find it.
>>318137609
The one Whynne made was originally just called Troll, 4chan just called it "Coolface" for a year until everyone stared calling it Trollface.
>>318137608
This?
>>318137519
Those phrases probably bother you mostly because they were overused. That happens all the time.
>>318137609
You were just given the fucking link to the original you moron. Find any picture of that face posted before that date. That's the original, that deviant art link is the origin. Whynne fucking copyrighted it, it's his and it comes from that comic.
>>318137027
>>318137278
We shall shitpost as our forefathers did before us.
>>318137809
Wow marketer much?
>>318137643
cancer
>>318137773
A few years ago and I'd be even remotely as fired up about this as you are. I still remember it differently, but that's just how it is.
>>318137768
Yes, thanks based anon. and jesus, is this really only 2012? fuck, feels like a lifetime ago.
War, War never changes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVys7jcCJDs
2006-7 here. It was around winter, so w/e.
>>318137197
It's a shame he didn't succeed.
>>318137027
>Pretendo 69
it was good if you continued to play warcraft 3 until 2007 instead of WoW
>>318137768
>>318137980
>War, War never changes.
Literally the most cancerous quote ever.
Good. Now it's a shitshow run by halo- and gaiafags, the very people /v/ made fun of once.
>>318131406
Full of newfags
>>318137879
>I still remember it differently
That's ok, that's what happens when you're retarded.
Don't worry, it gets easier with age.
>>318138040
Island Defense was my jam.
>>318138062
Sounds like you speak from experience.
>>318137768
You got any Rick Mcdick stashed away in that folder of your anon?
>>318138049
4 u.
>>318136821
I saw one on /d/ a few years ago.
They're also still on /f/ I think.
>>318137768
That guy is an asshole but I applaud him for his persistence.
>>318137027
>Sony Trolls
Wow "troll" was actually a buzzword in 1997? Well i guess i wouldnt know. The only thing i can remember using my internet for at that time is getting Linkin Park music off Napster and being overly entertained by Dragonball Z animated GIFs
>>318137768
It's shit like this that makes me wonder.
I have a few folders of random shit I pulled from 4chan. They're hardly categorized and a lot of it would probably not be considered high quality by anyone.
Clearly other people have better collections, and I'm sure if I really wanted to, I could look around online to do any reminiscing. Should I bother keeping all of my shit? I'm seeing Last Modified dates of 07 at earliest, but nothing I haven't seen reposted multiple times over the years.
>>318138269
It's a made-up story, so there is that.
>>318138304
For example
6/20/2007 1:23 PM
>>318138304
Keep it. Toss it on Google drive or something if space bothers you. Always interesting to have old snippets of the past.
>>318138370
Impressive. How'd you come to that conclusion? Surely fooled everyone else on the Internet.
>>318138304
there's nothing anyone has ever said here that compelled me to screencap and archive it
just delete that garbage
>>318138370
Oh.
>>318136821
I think I actually saw that earlier this year but I don't remember on what board.
I actually miss the elitism. Sure it sucked for any newfags but it was sort of a ritual. Back then you could lurk for months before making your first post and it was so obvious when you were new that you were usually called out on it too, which made the boards a lot more homogeneous.
Now the focus has shifted from trying to please the core group of people coming here to trying to piss them off as much as possible under the guise of trolling.
>>318138403
>7chan
That is my go to place when things get too shitty here, thats where I spent pretty much the entirety of GG and the whole 5 guys thing. The only problem is 4chan has spoiled me and 7chan is so fucking slow./ss/ best board
>>318138054
Hey, if you miss the old days some of the archive sites go back a pretty long ways.
/v/ can't stay stagnant and unlike most boards, /v/ is shat on by a lot of marketing groups and NEETS who would rather talk about games than play them.I am just glad people are here
>>318137058
nokosage master race
>>318136420
We invented them
>>318138403
I actually do remember posting on 7chan's /vg/ when 4chan went down for about a month one time. Not that it really made much difference because it only had like 3 posts per day.
>>318138472
>>318137027
>>318138463
I don't know, I'm going through a few things right now and I audibly laughed through some of this. I also got really sad because I saved this gif eight and a half fucking years ago.
Back then, I was so convinced that I was close to the light at the end of a tunnel, but I can't help but feel I got turned around at some point and I'm falling backwards.
Not sure what to do about that, but something's got to give eventually, I figure.
>>318137809
>We shall shitpost as our forefathers did before us.
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
>I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
>I.10.4 (exterior of the House of Menander); 8304: Satura was here on September 3rd
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1820: Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!
Literally every kind of shitposting has existed since the Romans AT LEAST
>>318138838
*cringe*
>mfw Airman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opADNvgeZYY
>>318138880
That picture has to be fake.
Slower in general so threads for more niche topics lived longer with more post. Green texting wasn't the default way to tell an anecdote so we got a lot more (relatively) well written though out post. The board was more Japanese oriented. Tripfags were pretty common. Honestly I think the worst two times for v were right before the /vp/ split, which was a site wide problem, and prior to /vg/
>>318138054
What episode of simpsons is this
>>318138880
Oh god that's amazing.
>>318138880
Well damnit.
>>318135942
>waifu
It's weird how the original posters on 4chan were con-going weebs, but still mocked people like waifufags and fig collectors
>>318138880
I seriously hope this is real.
>>318136674
goddamn it's been a long time since I heard someone call it 'Puppy Times'
I followed this shit religiously ongamefaqsback in the day
in hindsight it was basically /v/ lite
>>318131751
'O4. We're all still here dude, you can't ever leave.
It always sucked.
>>318138048
literally all i could think of reading this
>>318138838
wow. This thread is giving me some crazy nostalgia.
>>318138924
fuck you dude. Things were funnier then. We weren't running around calling eachother keklords and viral marketers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssgm5rUpgUs
/old/ should be a board.
>>318138414
I think I'll dump it all in an archive file and do just that. Not like I'm using the space for anything else.
This has been a good thread, I thought I should tell you all that you're alright before this shit gets deleted. Even though I'll inevitably end up calling one of you if not all of you a faggot at some point.
>>318139374
'Twere old a board, 'twod be immediently filled with ironic newfags. But it's a nice thought.
>>318136735
That was invented by Reddit and has no ties to 4chan at all.
>>318138880
That is a terrible selection of Roman shitposts. There are much better ones.
>>318139374
>We weren't running around calling eachother keklords and viral marketers.
This is how I remember it. You posted shit you thought was funny and people laughed, or did their best to one-up you. Shit like that doesn't happen anymore at all.
He said it best. Trolling is a art.
>>318139498
Not like it hasn't happened both ways several times in the past few years. This thread has done me some good. Good to know I haven't completely lost my mind just yet.
>>318139536
Provide source.
>>318139536
>That is a terrible selection of Roman shitposts. There are much better ones.
Post them thenI love reading them
I just posting went back to being genuine instead of ironic and self-aware
ironic shitposting has seriously destroyed everything
One more before I call it a night, saved 9/3/2007
Looking back, I'm not sure why I couldn't get this to work. I know 4chan blocked this at some point. I guess I didn't get in early enough.
Good to see some of you around, and I hope you all are doing well.
>>318139826
Ironic humour was always a huge part of 4chan.
>>318139230
Gamefaqs had LUE, so that was basically the same thing.
>>318139862
who /unwittinglydownloadedanembeddedrarofcp/ here
>>318136265
I wish I knew why this happened. The last time I remember an organized event was when /v/ (and /b/ helped too at times) fucked with a couple Gamespot character polls in 2009. I'm guessing it's because new people who wanted to be alpha males showed up and refused to participate in anything because that'd be following the pack and not very alpha.
>>318140182
Just think, someone out there probably still has embedded cp sitting on their hard drives from shit they downloaded almost a decade ago.
>>318138472
God I love ancient shitposting
>>318139629
one day someone will do a documentary on 4chan and they will entirely miss the point.
I was a refugee from a forum called TOTSE. Sites have their moments in the sun, they make their impact and then they get the fuck out to make room for new sites and a new generation of shitposters.
>huff raid
Shitposting is a art
http://ergofabulous.org/luther/
>>318140207
I always wondered if some government/agent 800 bullshit was going on (the gov has done more for less) and the "/b/ isn't your personal army" thing started to keep people from causing generic mischief.
>>318131751
I started in 2006/7. I really got tired of bullshit going on in regular web forums, so I came here after hearing about it.
Lurking was really jarring, because others would call each other faggots.
>>318140207
That and I think alot of the older anons on here were alot more adept with certain things and rather than just admit they couldn't triforce newfriends would just use the "not your personal army" excuse
You fucking kek
not much better senpai desu
>>318140298
SWIM was also on TOTSE
nice to see you again PickWick
>>318140207
You could ask anyone from back then for their input, and at this point I'd say the answer would be a little bit of all of it.
If you asked me, I'd mostly agree with what you said. Though >>318140412 sounds not only fun to believe, but eerily plausible.
>>318140440
so....nothing has changed?
>tfw only here last year
>it already feel like forever
It must be hard on you oldfags huh?
>>318140635
It was more playful, unlike the pure shitposting of today. Also had less people, so it was less chaotic.
The key difference was that if you disagreed with someone on a regular web forum, or you weren't in their circle of friends, they would do everything in their power to fuck you up. I just got tired of that.
>>318139994
>tfw here since 2007
>never thought 90% of the memes were funny and rightly called memelords out daily
>actually cringed at the comic memes
>always avoided /b/ like a good little boy
>mostly browsed /a/ over all
>called Evangelion out for being overrated before it was a common thing to do
>was a hipster contrarian within a hipster contrarian community
Yet somehow i was still a faggot though. just like all of you. Thanks for the good times my friends.
>>318140917
Funny, because that's what happens here no matter what. Said it years ago, they found out about this website and have sat here ever since. Good communities make easy targets.
I like to think that somewhere right now, people are discovering what 4chan was to us. Give it a few months and I'm sure we'll fuck that all up, too.
>>318136586
Source on enlarged pick
>>318140635
Keyword was lurking. Doesn't happen anymore, newfags just spam posts constantly instead of trying to read the atmosphere.
I remember when I first found /v/ back in 2007, I didn't post at all for the longest time. I skimmed lots of threads because there were lots of genuinely interesting conversations and it wasn't until much later that I started being active in them.
>>318141186
It's Toon Link
>>318140207
back in those days 4chan hadn't really come into it's own and YTMND and somethingawful were big players in the social internet scene.
I remember a habbo hotel raid image/propaganda/organizing of the classic "nigra" drawn and specifications regarding which color necktie the user would wear to signify from which website on the internet they were from.
Project chanology was pretty crazy too. Thats surprisingly when the anti-raid sentiments in 4chan began to appear as well...
>>318140962
Faggots to the end my brother.
>>318141242
thanks, I'll check sankaku later
There are still elder gods that lurk in the shadows from back then. I've only been here since 2006, but I remember /v/ talking actually talking about vidya with plenty of shit posting, weeaboos were a common sight and somewhat welcome, a lot of annoying avatar tripfags and maybe one or two decent tripfags that dumped vidya stuff and porn (I miss DFC dude). Mainly people speaking their minds without the worries of needing to have a certain mindset to be accepted.
>there will never be another Japan Time on /v/ ever again
The only time I actively wanted to come to /v/ for a positive reason.
>>318141427
Japan time brought in hundreds of retards and turned the board to shit for hours every night.
>>318131751
2005 here, suck a dick
>>318139629
>Windows XP
>>318141347
Jesus this, people forget how bad tripfags were for so many years. Neo-/v/ is much better in this regard. I am lucky to see one a day post.
>>318131406
pre weeaboo age
>>318141508
>brought in
They were always there. Waiting.
>>318141219
I don't think I posted for like over a year when I first found 4chan because I was worried about saying something stupid
Now everyone is retarded on purpose from day 1, eager to jump on the next dank new meme and shit on every game because they took the whole internet hate machine shit seriously.
i came here in 06. this september it will have been 10 whole years. Fuck
>>318141261
>Thats surprisingly when the anti-raid sentiments in 4chan began to appear as well...
Could have been an effort to preserve the site's community. Whether they meant anything in the end or not, raids like this brought even more attention to 4chan.
>>318141347
>Mainly people speaking their minds without the worries of needing to have a certain mindset to be accepted.
As much as 4chan paraded "lurk moar" and "rules 1 & 2", so long as you weren't trying to trivialize or otherwise halt discussion on a subject, or asking some legitimate stupid question, you'd be fine here. That isn't the case anymore.
>>318140298
I came here from Gamefaqs after I found out about 4chan from my weeb cousin
Not having usernames and circlejerking over post counts and karma was refreshing even in 2005/6
>>318141219
I did the same as well. Only started posting months after I got here, and even then I'd barely make a ripple. Just really light posting.
>>318131751
2005, actually.
![latest[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jgDTdoS.jpg "latest[2].jpg")
>>318137773
Whynne even told us his inspiration.
>>318141347
>DFC dude
I remember that guy, loved his loli dumps. Also what is up with neo-/v/'s hatred of loli? It used to be loved back then, but now everyone here hates it.
>>318137282
How to spot a newf*g
>>318142842
Could be something along the lines of what was suggested by >>318140412 honestly. Kind of crazy if you ask me, but it's late at night and I'm overthinking a lot of things.
>>318131837
We still meme
We just shit on popular ones
>>318140207
>fucked with a couple Gamespot character polls in 2009
>2009
Jesus christ it feels like yesterday.
The sheer amount of salt Launchpad caused was amazing. The only things I can think of that have caused that much salt are Bayo 2 being WiiU exclusive and Play Asia spamming smug anime girls on twitter.
>implying /v/ existed before 2005
>>318131751
my weeb friend introduced me to 4chan in 2004 but I didn't start browsing until 2007
it's my biggest regret in life
>>318142958
its just contrarianism and demographic shift, dont bust out the tinfoil hats yet
>>318143207
But it did
You'd be wrong if you said /a/, /m/, or /co/ existed since the beginning of the site.
Man I miss /co/ and /tg/ being not shit. Not that /v/ is all that great but at least it's not the lifeless husk of it's former self those two turned into.
>>318143282
Thank you for being a voice of reason against my fatigued brain. I can go to sleep safe tonight.Unless you're one of them, luring me into a false sense of security.
>>318143134
Was it that poll where Master Chief lost to the Bubble Bobble characters? That was great. This and EA winning the Golden Poo twice were the last things fun to do with /v/ for me.
>>318131751
2005 reporting
4chan was a spam pit until captcha. Also, no catalog so reloading front page was a thing.
>>318143443
I still reload the front page. Old habits die fucking hard, if at all.
>>318143443
I still reload the front page
fuck the catalog
>tfw no more Lanced Jack or Donkey Kong
>>318143428
That was one of them, they had three polls back to back for Main Characters, Villains, and then Sidekicks
I forget who we backed in the first two but for Sidekicks we were behind Launchpad, with Einstein as a backup. The assblasting when characters like Tails started dropping was hilarious.
>>318131837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16KpquGsIc
>>318143539
>missing LJ
>ever
>>318131751
Back then, emojis and reaction faces were actually encouraged here.
Also, we had a loli board and no captcha system until accelspam became a thing.
>>318143539
>Donkey Kong
That's the only tripfag from back then I remember that wasn't a massive shitposter.
>>318143608
Don't forget that /g/ used to be for guro
>>318143642
>roleplaying faggot
>not a shitposter
Try again.
>>318131751
I first browsed about 05-07, then quit and tried to be a normie, then realized it would never happen around 2013. dunno if it counts.
>>318131751
06/07. first found out about 4chan through a slightly older friend in high school. i visited all the time and told my friends about all the super hilarious shit here. then as i grew up i realized all of the old shit that made me laugh was just posted by other 15-year olds so the humor clicked. looking back i cringe at how fucking retarded this website's humor was. now i personally think it's better overall, but /b/ is and was the worst board on the site; it just happened to be the most popular.
>>318143539
fuck lanced jack
also fuck frozenvoid on /g/
Remember amy rose? That guy was a loser even for our standards
>>318143336
Nope, I remember because it was added the year after ttyd came out.
>>318143539
Fuck LJ. That's the last tripfag that I'd ever want to see back.
>>318143737
>looking back i cringe
Don't know how you could do this, honestly. If you had a good time, you had a good time, and nothing should change that.
Don't let anything take away the good in your life. For all we know, it's all we'll ever have.
>>318143443
I still refresh the front page. It'll always be the fastest way for me to keep up to date on vidya news.
>>318143867
because i have and accept the concept of shame lol, if i can't look back and dislike my older self then it means i'm not growing positively
>>318143920
This. The catalog doesn't show replies so you can't tell at a glance if a thread devolved into shitposting before wasting your time reading it.
>>318143539
lanced jack was just a copy of a bunch of tripfags who did the same exact thing before him
I don't see why he got all the reputation
>>318143539
I don't think a single tripfag is left from when I started browsing /v/
>>318144057
I reserve shame for something worse than laughing at immature jokes on the Internet, but that's just me.
When you put it that way, though, what you say makes more sense, but I still think you're being too hard on yourself.
But what's important is that you feel that you're making progress, and that you are willing to admit that you were once wrong. That's definitely a good thing.
>>318131751
2005 here.
The absolute earliest memories I have are of Rozen Maiden Traumend, as well as the longcat donation drive.
>>318144156
He was so good at it that his trip is permabanned (it's an easy way to self-ban yourself)
>>318144250
The only guy that's still kinda around is Reliable Ecchi Deliverer, and even he appeared relatively recently.
>>318144308
The Halloween desu filter was a real nostalgia trip. Rozen Maiden comeback when?
if this isn't still funny get the fuck off /v/
>>318138296
He probably means in the literal sense, a dungeon troll/neckbeard
>>318144546
Wasn't there a new season fairly recently? Might've been a reboot. Even /a/ didn't talk about it much though so I assume it was either shit or they toned down the desu too much.
If you need a dose of DESS go watch Symphogear or something
Oakland is still around, and I still talk toChicken every now and then but he's more of a namefag.I miss Water and Broagunk.
>>318144692
Oh jesus I have a whole folder of those edits on my other computer, I'll have to copy those over before they're lost for ever. It's still comedy gold.
>>318144156
>tfw no one will remember the first big shitposting tripfag on /v/
Just a happy kid that was addicted to UT , metroid , zelda ,quake , etc.i miss that fragmystik ut99 server
>>318144798
Wasn't it that fag Toxicjester or something like that? 07 so I didn't get to see the first few years.
>>318144776
I still remember this shit. God damnit, so stupid, but I just can't forget it.
>>318131406
>2004
I was 16, I didn't even know 4chan existed. Went to /b/ at 2007.
>>318131406
Good.
![1365503856257[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/6ijt6Jb.png "1365503856257[1].png")
>>318138269
Classic case of 4chan faggots thinking they matter. Not only is it a made up story, but when someone ignores you, it usually just means they ignore you, not "LOL AM I GETTING UNDER UR SKIN, U MAD?"
i'm from 2007 and i'm pretty sure 96% of people here didn't browse 4chan in 2004
the people that browsed then are either gone or they killed themselves
>>318136128
>>318136264
>yfw Chris went from a bigoted homophobe to a trap using her special snowflake status to woo a woman.
Also, I remember a time where Rickrolling was funny and mislabeled reaction images derailed a thread instantly.
>>318136420
>there are actually people here young enough to have never experienced the rage comic trend as it was first blooming
4chan started rage comics. Rage threads were fucking hilarious because they were always 4 panels, almost never used words, and always ended with the same punchline: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-
The formula was genius. Most people just used MS paint to draw the setup of each scenario so anybody could make a funny comic so long as it was relatable in some way.
I remember the day the "Okay" face came about. The guy who first posted it introduced it to /b/ and everyone thought it was fucking retarded, myself included, because it didn't seem to make sense. The detail in his face was really weird compared to the other rage comic faces (at the time just variations of the original rage face), and we didn't understand how it was supposed to work as the punchline. Eventually it made sense given enough examples and it just sorta caught on on its own. That was when people started making lots of difference faces, and this went on for probably a year or so before it finally happened.
Reddit saw we were having fun with this epic set of memes and decided to make a subreddit for it. Eventually it blew up as they kept making these fucking stencils of celebrities and trying to force them into comics that were getting insanely long and not even ending with an appropriate punchline, straying further and further away from the formula with every new post. Then the rest of the internet caught wind of it and it was all history from there. Now rage faces are just a relic of a time long since tarnished in memory.
2011 was an awful year.
>>318144732
That Chicken isn't the same one. He even admitted in a thread that he just took the name.
Old Chicken was a metalfag who moved to Ireland. I miss him.
