How has /x/ changed over the years?
And has it been for the better?
It became shittier
No
Sage
>>17733932
/bread
It's a cancerous pile of shit and a containment board for autists.
It should just be purged from this site.
>>17734007
Way to hate yourself anon, that's bad.
GODDAMN FREAKING STOREFRONTS
>>17734007
Most boards are containment boards for one group or another. Can't avoid that dilemma on an open anonymous website.
Sometimes I wonder what the internet would be like if it went in the opposite direction regarding anonymity, and everyone had to use their real names. Would it still be a trolley and passive aggressive shithole?
We went through every conceivable craze, from real good spooky OC copypasta to tulpas to skinwalkers to sigils to black eyed children to flat earthers to the current cesspool of shit.
I started browsing 4chan in what, 2006? 2007? I barely come to /x/ now. Cheers.
It used to be way better before creepy pasta became so well known. Now my grandparents know about slenderman and kids on deviant art draw weird sexual fanart. It was great when it was more about actual paranormal shit. All of us working together to investigate stuff we would find .
Then it went through a period where every thread was about religion and magic. That's when I abandoned ship.
Now it looks like its just purely 15 year olds posting absolute shit and half the threads are about flat earth.
>>17734082
This.
Too many underage reddit autists
>>17734007
you younglings dont know how it was in the time before time when obamuh was running for president the first time and nobody had 5g phones
you cant say its worse now. you dont know what worse is. /b/ is tame compared to what it was. i can scroll throw 3 entire post before i vomit now days
and likewise /x/ has changed. less twilight shit and more skin walker shit
haven't been here for more than a few years but
my personal golden age of /x/:
>creepypasta, good oc, etc
>conspiracy theories threads
>ancient alien threads
>mysterious artifacts thread
>unsolved crimes threads
>cryptozoology threads everywhere, maximum boners
>exploring creepy places threads
>alium abduction threads and stories
>creepy shit that happened in your childhood threads
>some demonology, astral travel, etc threads but not many
now:
>sigils
>tarot
>gangstalking
>dreams and muh meaning of life/death
>???
literally went to shit. pure diarrhea
>>17734046
If you know buisiness you know that it would.
Sockpuppets abounding too.
Just like this thread.
Just like God.
Who is the Whole of all holy assholes?
>>17734119
this
>>17734119
>sigils, tarot and theognosis are bad
The occult and divination generals are this shithole's saving grace. Nobody here was EVER a good creepypasta writer.
Went from genuine creepypasta to muh astral niggers and some other magic shit that I don't even bother to look at
Someone make a new x without the autism
>>17734183
there's some autism, but the only issue with the magick threads and astral plane threads are misinformation about them. They aren't inherently down syndrome-tastic
>>17734142
they don't even know that sigils mean signature and that their technique has a different name thanks to a lot of people taking in New age stuff without questioning it. tarot is just a card game and has no power. Aaaaaah
>>17734203
>tarot
>card game
k.
>>17733927
I don't know but /b/ use to be legendary! Now its so bad its a joke!
>>17734097
Exhibit A
>>17734183
>wahhhh no one makes good fake story threads anymore to spoop me
Kill yourself.
>>17734206
it is. Then people learned how to make shekels off of it
Yes, i'm tripping. Yell, scream, cry, whatever.
But to me, when I first got to /x/ almost 10 years ago, it was awesome. I was that weird kid who only read ghost stories, thought Paradise Lost was actually an awesome book when made to read it, I grew up on X-files, Ahh Real Monsters, and shitty B horror movies. And I was never told by my family to stop "imagining stuff". So I came here and felt right at home.
Ghost stuff? Spooky camping stories? Magic? New ideas? The Occult? Literal threads dedicated to shows I fucking grew up on, and streamers coming to show movies I loved as a kid as well? /x/ had it all.
/x/ got me into the occult. It was great! No Ragrats. But somewhere along the line we went wrong. Maybe I contributed to it. Probably did. I won't deny it.
But in my 9ish-10 years here I've seen a lot of cool, and a lot of shitty shit. At about year...7. The shitty shit became the majority. And I partially blame Reddit for this. And partially tripfags (myself included.) and just the world in general. It ha sall culminated in /x/ going from being full of cool, creative dudes and dudettes, to copy-paste fags, people with egos (I have one. Laying it all out here.) who think they command respect...for copy-pasting the same shit, or doing halfassed jobs at writing/drawing/readings/giving "wisdom". And of course you have the fact that 4chan as a whole is now populated by more, and more SJW faggots. Mix all this and we have /x/ now. A place full of people who are literally trying to escape reality, trying to be living fucking memes, or summerfags...but year round.
The entire internet is like this now. At least the entire "topweb" is. And it sucks. I came here 10ish years ago as a kid (too young to be here, but most of you fuckers still are too young to be here.) looking for a place to feed my spoop addiction and meet cool people. I found it. Then watched it all slowly turn into what it is today.
Dunno guys. I just don't know.
You changed, not /x/
I'm an admitted newfag, been a /b/tard for years but recently started visiting /x/ for some paranormal shits and giggles. It's been a few months.
I have no idea what it used to be like, only that the oldfags complain a hell of a lot about the newfags, and I can completely agree with 99% of their reasoning.
Sometimes you get the odd decent thread but it seems to me so fucking rare. There's way too much bullshit to wade through;
Is magic real? No of course it fucking isn't.
How can I summon a such and such? You can't, they don't exist.
Green text thread. Full of shit tier pastas.
And then of course the conspiracy bullshit. Flat Earth trolls fuck off please.
I yearn for actual paranormal stuff, though I realise it's all bullshit it has the potential for great entertainment, like an amazing sci-fi or horror flick. But it's all shallow shit we've all seen a hundred times before. Alien stories that bring nothing new to the table. Theories about this or that, things we've all given our opinions on time and time again.
Where's the OC, where's the intelligent debate instead of the fucking "Earth is flat." "Fuck off cancer fag."
Basically, /x/ becomes more like /b/ every day that passes... and I can only think it's because of all the kiddies who now think coming on 4chan makes them an edgy fucker.
I wish I'd been here in the golden days. I envy you oldfags. And I salute you.
>>17734225
This, truth be told. I am a newfag (5 years), but before 2012, the internet in general was a better place IMO, not just 4chan.
I shared with anons here on /x/ with wisdom, humor, insight, stories, scares, fears, hopes, you know, the stuff that made the community feel like family. And while I am a newfag, I found the change revolting and I fought back against it. WELL LOOK ME NOW, FAGGOTS, I'M THE KING OF CANCER! THE SHITTIEST SHITPOSTER THERE IS! FAGGOT SUPREME! THE FATHER OF LIES!
Sure, I still provide some humor and insight, but it isn't the same anymore. We are living inside the rotting carcass of a dead god. Rip in peaces, pham, rip in peaces, dear /x/
>>17734119
/thread, get this fag a beer.
>>17734338
Weren't you the guy samefagging in the thread about nogs and telepathy? You're cancer too fagboy.
>>17734119
>>conspiracy theories threads
>>ancient alien threads
>>mysterious artifacts thread
>>unsolved crimes threads
>>cryptozoology threads everywhere, maximum boners
>>exploring creepy places threads
Truly the best of our modest board.
>>17734343
I told you guys that I am the king of cancer right there in the post. That's how I cope. By being a bigger faggot than OPs.
>>17734119
>>tarot
>>gangstalking
>>dreams and muh meaning of life/death
This is all without a doubt the worst part of the board for me. These are some of *the most* boring threads on the fucking planet, and along with the astrology nonsense are the shittiest parts of /x/. No, people can't read your fucking palms or whatever over the internet, or tell you your future, or anything like that. It isn't interesting, it isn't enlightening, its just boring "spiritual" nonsense that belongs on Facebook.
Pre-grifter /x/ was much better than it is now.
There should be an insta-ban filter for the word "tulpa".
>>17734359
I used to read the tarot to my friends for fun. It allowed me to show them how much they suck without hurting their feelings too much
>the cards say so, not me
I once made a girl cry for telling her all of her flaws, shortcomings, and issues that way
>>17734359
>paranormal threads are the worst part of the paranormal board
You're an idiot.
Could /b/ worse
>>17734664
When the shit hit the fan, /b/ took the fall for all of us.
Now it's like nursery for future psychopats.
>>17734046
just look at reddit
I was a regular here 5 years ago and it changed my life. I discovered some of the freakiest music, odd Youtube vids, ambient and terrifying video games, etc...now I come on here once every couple months and it's total shit.
It's not like it was always 100% new fresh content, Now it's mostly fucking idiots posting about being "third-eyed psychonauts" or sharing 10 year old creepypasta that they've never seen before because they ARE fucking ten years old.
:(
>>17735946
>now I come on here once every couple months and it's total shit.
Me too, and it's amazing how it keeps surpassing itself. Just when I think it can't possibly get any worse /x/ finds a new level of crapitude.
>>17735167
/r/nosleep is better than this shithole
>>17735946
>terrifying video games
There haven't been any of those in years. Don't get mad at /x/ because game devs have lost their touch.
>>17736724
Windows 10 is pretty terrifying though if you think about it.
It's now a cesspool of loonies and faggots shilling their lazy youtube ARGS. Burn it all down.
>>17735946
>>17734338
>>17734334
>>17734225
All the good things described in this thread and i feel at home with the mysteries the alien and cryptid discussions Strange experiences Hell i even enjoy reading some of this new age hippy Bs.
i dont care for...
>flat earth
>tulpa
>muh religeon is better than yurs
>wuts this sigil mean?
far as /b/ goes went from the lulziest place on earth to all porn, traps and loli b/c apparently >/gif/ wasn't gewd enuff
it used to be /b/ with ghosts
now i think it's /pol/ without politics.
It used to be a lot slower, and with a lot more OC. Around 2007/8 this was a basically forgotten corner of 4chan and it was easy to post a creepy story, go to bed, and come back the next afternoon to read the replies to it. Almost all the stock creepy images that get reposted over and over were made in those two or three years.
At one point (2009?) /b/ went down, and this was where they migrated until it came back up. Some people kept visiting, but they didn't "get" it. From there, it was all downhill.
Those who are trying to paint the /x/ of yesteryears as some sort of utopia of original creepypastas and quality threads are clearly newfags, or oldfags with nostalgia goggles on. It got pretty shit back in the day too. It feels like there's more shitposting to deal with now than back then, but at least we have janitors/moderators who actually give a fuck about this board, sometimes, and will get rid of the worst offenders.
The problem with this board is the tendency to hop on bandwagons or take an idea that's original and fresh, then run it into the ground until everyone but the hardcore fans are sick of it. See: Tulpas, Skinwalkers/Goatmen, BEKs, etc.
>>17734349
>hey /x/ has cancer
>know what it needs?
>MORE cancer!
Fucking kill yourself. This attitude is what got us here in the first place.
>>17734359
i like the occasional thread, and i do tarot readings, but they recycle the same post/ers over and over
>>17734053
Amen.
/thread
You know, about five years ago I was banned for complaining about how shit /x/ was at the time. It's the only thing I've ever been banned for.
That was five years ago. And since then, the only thing scary about /x/ has been how fucking bad it is.
Ups and downs but what >>17734119 said.
>>17734119
Just to point out Neo-/x/ in all its filth:
>conspiracy theories threads
Not paranormal
>mysterious artifacts thread
Probably not paranormal
>unsolved crimes threads
Not paranormal
>exploring creepy places threads
Not paranormal
>creepy shit that happened in your childhood threads
Not paranormal
It is this mindset that led /x/ to everything you described.
If /x/ was "/x/ - Spooky", this would've been avoided; it's intentions were already well described as being for that purpose on creation, but the fact it is called "/x/ - Paranormal" means that the only topics up for discussion are roleplaying and conspiracies.
meta-threads are cancer
>>17738125
Shouldn't you be in the deep ocean thread complaining about how it's not "paranormal"?
>>17734349
>I told you guys that I am the king of cancer right there in the post. That's how I cope. By being a bigger faggot than OPs.
>>17738132
>the bored dude
classic
Ya'll a bunch of faggots and I mean it
>>17733927
It had WAY less fucking retarded roleplay threads back in the day. Also, less of calling everyone a shill, there were actually quite many skeptics around, way more than now.
Pretty much everyone stopped wanting to RP and believe in shit. Everyone wants it to be 100% real with proof or you are full of shit RPer. Old /x/ it didnt matter RP or not people played along for the creeps. Now days /x/ is in the Realism era. It's sad to see a place based on fiction get so real.
Nexalist
Spring and Summer of 2011 was fun when we were obsessed with UVB-76. One of us even got into a magazine about it.
>>17733927
Worse.
The sad thing is, despite all the trolls and skeptics one would expect a board like this to attract, the community denigrates itself with it's autistic colloquialisms like "ayy lmao" and calling every troll and skeptic a "shill."
Divination threads get bumped to the top, while anything remotely paranormal languishes.
Sure, there is far too many roleplayers, lonely teenagers who think they're vampires, and the huge membership who find glitches in every poorly made CGI youtube video "spoopy," there are also people who come looking for answers, and to share interesting information pertinent to the board's theme.
They've become the rarity of this community, and there's really no one to blame but the community itself.
>>17733927
>How has /x/ changed over the years?
More people have found it, meaning more kids have found it = increase in shitposters.
It was no better back in 2012. The content is the same now, it just gets buried in shit.
We've done everything, debunked everything, and scoured the net. The amount of spoops available is now limited, that's why it's not as good. Back then people believed in skinwalkers and goatmen.
When you first find /x/ it's all new. You find things like "ted the caver", creepypastas, conspiracies, crazy youtube mysteries etc and it all blows your mind. It's great. You'll spend months watching/reading shit that ypu never knew existed.
After a year or so you realise it's all RP and shit gets boring. You stop reading greentexts, or looking at shopped UFO's.
In the long run.. /x/ will make you skeptical of all things paranormal purely because of the amount of bullshit on here.
It used to be a fun board with discussion of spooks, conspiracies, and plenty of OC creepypasta. Nowadays it has far less of those things, and a ton of idiots who think magic or divination is real.
You know why old /x/ seems good to you and yet you hate what it has become? Demographics. This website has a demographic makeup that mostly consists of individuals below its stated required age. Considering this, that is why advertising on 4chan results in so few conversions, and why moot sold this operation for a handful of shekels.
We arrive here at some point in our lives and just hang out like everyone else. Except most people just move on and leave places like this eventually. Those of us who stay slowly watch the place change as a new wave of the key demographic washes in on the cultural shores leaving its water mark. This happens over and over until we can barely recognize the landscape anymore. We all age and yet the demographic never changes because it is not a closed system dying a slow entropic death.
There was never a golden age. You were just young enough to enjoy it all once.
>>17738306
>2010-2012
>The numbers, Mason!
Yeah, no, that was shit just like every other era.
>>17734349
>>17738132
>MISA AMANE
>howtokill/x/
>the bored dude
>Father of Lies
They are all just avatars of the deathless god of shitposting, one arrives every era. He Who Waits Behind the Keyboard is merciless, there will always be one of his around.
Nothing new under the sun.
>>17738394
how old are you? did you wash out of life, or just keep coming back out of habit or boredom?
>>17738370
This has been my experience as well. I remember all of those skinwalker threads.
phase 1: people came here for spooky shit. Creepypastas. Horror movie streams. Creepy art. Creepy urban exploration shit. Generally reasonably intelligent and/or people who were in the mood for horror and fiction. People producing original, creative content.
phase 2: the /b/ years. Avatarfags. Avatarfag Generals. Is this big black dick paranormal? How does I summon succubus much spoop so wow.
Phase 3: Whatever the fuck it is now. Conspiracy theories everywhere. /pol/. People either being retards, or "only pretending" to role play as retards. I.Q.'s in the trash.
>>17733927
Eat nothing but brussel sprouts for a week, take a shit, and eat it. Then eat nothing but broccoli for a week, take a shit, and eat it. Then tell us which one is better.
>>17738394
>They are all just avatars of the deathless god of shitposting, one arrives every era. He Who Waits Behind the Keyboard is merciless, there will always be one of his around.
Thanks for thinking so highly of me. But no, the Avatar of the 2015-2016 season is The Fairy Queen. The way she triggers people is surreal. I, on the other hand, have a benevolent plan for my shitposts. I want to become the most hated being on /x/ because of it, and I'm doing a pretty good job
>>17733927
Most of the people here are Roleplayers, losers who want to fuck succubi, bored people who want spooky stories, or people who genuinely believe that if they post enough an epic wizard will astrally-project himself to their house and give them awesome magic powers.
But it's always been like this, so who am I to judge?
>>17738415
>old, successful
Habit.
>>17738480
>The Fairy Queen
Maya's latest name. She finds solace in triggering the youth, maybe it is because she is getting older and is becoming less relevant.
>>17738480
You have to beat Hans, Xeno and Mizar to become this most hated being on /x/. I suggest you start avatar fagging, shitting up Worlds.com (and building a shitty cult therein) and triggering the schizos of /x/ so hard they think every shill and shitpost is you samefagging.
You are still small time, but I admire your moxie.
No, we've got tons of kids searching for "creepy" pictures and "creepy" youtube videos
>>17738554
And we pop up on google its bullshit how do we stop this?
/x/ started out as a photography board, but was quickly recast as the paranormal board due to the popularity of a .rar file containing several stories that were unnerving or creepy called 'Glitches in Real Life' or something like that(It's been over a decade, give me a break). It would be stenographed into an image and shared on /b/. The board was directly created as a result of this,and for the first few years stayed true to its roots. Being filled with mostly creepypasta, images, and various other types of unnerving media. Posts would last months before a 404 and it was truly a golden age for those who seek that permeating sense of dread.
Slowly around 2007-2008 the board became more popular, and the board culture was now less focused on stories, and began slowly to focus more on memes, and self referential in jokes. This was mostly blamed on invading /b/tards, and many images of the time can be found that reflect this. Somewhere around 2009 the grifter was introduced, and the shitposting and cancer never really stopped after that.
ARGs became popular, with the rise of the 905 project on /b/ and many attempts were made on /x/. It wasn't all bad, though, quality creepy content like Yume Nikki and Saya No Uta could still be found with the help of the /rs/ board and would be linked here every now and then.
After that tripfags started to show up, attention whoring egotistical basket cases like Eris, The Doctor, and other ilk. Their shitposting knew no limits, and truly creepy content was so rare here, searching for it through the garbage wasn't feasible. Any of the old users left here, at this time left for other image boards, I know I did.
So now we have where the board is today, in the nadir of the shitposting age. The board is populated by RP faggots, muh-skinwalkers, schizophrenics like Hans, easily debunkable hoaxes, and the like. Where the only thing creepy about this board is how it is a hollow shell of itself.
Also Mr. Z can suck my fucking dick.
>>17738354
Divination is paranormal.
>we used to have made-up stories about Area 51 and played-out monsters like skinwalkers
>we took it seriously and it was SO AWESOME
>magic and divination are also made-up stories
>we're taking it seriously and that's SO LAME
Make up your fucking minds, you hypocrites.
It stopped being about genuine creepy shit to DUDE SKINWALKERS LMAO, religion, and legitimate schizophrenias
/x/ never recovered from the /b/ raids and some of the /b/tards never left
>>17738560
I came to /x/ to be kept awake at night out of fear. I didn't come here to watch a bunch of faggots act like they can predict the future sitting online with a Loli thread on another tab.
>>17737355
This is probably the best description /thread
Its the reason I switched in 09-10. I like my spoopies. Now its shit. Like every other board here. (Especially pol)
>>17738557
>Eris
Who in their right mind avatarfags with Eris from vgcats? Honestly.
Before avatarfags/tripfags you had a namefags though like Andy, john and Phil. They left though before ERIS ever showed up, john went on to finish his book and become an editor, Phil and Andy went to night-/k/. Andy started a business and got a DUI, haven't seen him since.
I sometimes see Phil on /k/ and /tg/.
>Mr. Z
>multiple Frater queers
>The Listener
There used to be far less role-players and fictional scary story creepypasta trash and a lot more nutbags and weirdos legitimately into the paranormal here when I first started lurking many years ago.
>>17738530
>You are still small time, but I admire your moxie.
Small time? There isn't a person here that doesn't have an opinion on me and people go to ridicolous lengths just to tell me they hate me. Quite a first week
>>17738585
I forgot about Phil the sweaty pedo. Surprised he is still around.
>>17738602
Yes, small time. The people you seek to be like had cast a far greater shadow by the time they reached their apical point. You may too one day, oh but dear Icarus you do not know the price you might pay.
Let the woe of Mizar be a cautionary tale.
>>17738633
I'm doing what's right. I'm gonna make /x/ hate ne so much that when I say jump, everyone will jump in the opposite way. That way, I'll make it great again.
Yes, a blatant copy of Lelouch's plan, but hey
>>17738602
Sorry bro, you have got nothing on Hans. I have never heard of you, and have no opinion on you. You aren`t as infamous as you imply. Sorry.
>>17738633
Hi bagman how are you doing?
I'm not new to 4chan but I'm kind of new to /x/.
I'm an oldfag and I don't care if the youth is retarded.
This place allows me to speak with genuine paranoids, crazy nihilistic ego monster like father and self righteous assholes.
And of course the weird shit like the fairy.
Shit's fine by me, there's a couple of people that I actually respect , like you.
But complainig about the state of affairs is below us, we should go out there and shitpost to our heart contents.
There's a shitload of mysteries, weird shit, delayed tech, psy ops, lost places, lost media, hidden experiments, cryptids, serial killers, paranormal transhumanist, cult members, deep sea spooks, mind control, classified info, unexplainable events, and big titty bitches for us to enjoy.
Quit your senile mopping and go spook the kids.
there were a shit ton of ARGs in 2010
>>17737375
This post is the most accurate. I'd like to add, people migrated because some of them started spamming the board claiming it was "the new /b/", since /b/ at the time was the only board that was down. /x/ never recovered from that,
I remember that some of the hoaxes and ARG attempts were pretty well done. There was enough effort that even if they were bullshit I was caught up in the story and wanted to see what would happen next. I wanted to investigate for myself.
Things I miss about the old /x/:
>spooky videos from Latin American and European tube sites
>having to work really hard to find info about weird websites
>the old chanarchive with tons of old threads dating way back
>weirdo vhs stills
>>17738394
This guy gets it.
