Everybody says 4chan is 'not what it used to be'. Seriously,

4chan was a lot better back in 2016-01-28!
4chan of 2016-01-29 sucks!

>>26109483
Well, that 50yr old neet thread was splendid

>>26109458
Same thing as old people saying "BACK IN MY DAYS".
The only major difference is that people were cringier back then

I came to 4chan back in 09 and it was pretty cash. Epic lulz were had but if you say that now you get called reddit even though it started here. The cradle of internet memes

>>26109521
09 isn't "back then" you penis

>>26109521
>back in '09

Your newfag is showing.

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>>26109557
>>26109582

it was 7 years ago. 4chan has existed longer since 2009 than it did before 2009

you guys are crazy, act like if you didnt come her e inf the first months it was created youre a newfag

>>26109593
Get mad newfag

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>>26109603
>uses a tripcode
>acts like he can talk down to anyone

>>26109632
>'09 kid
Get mad fag
You're the original cancer

>>26109557
>>26109582
Id say seven years is a lot, besides I never once said I was an oldfag, I just said it was better back then. Stupid newfags cant even read

>>26109593
Everyone who arrived after Chanology is an eternal newfag.
You are even more newfag than someone from like 2012, atleast the latter wasn't influenced by the Le Guy Fawkes SPARTA Longcat memery from /b/.

>>26109458
Yes, it was better. Pretty much the whole Internet was better.

old 4chan was edgy and cringey. new 4chan is more self-aware and discourages doxxing and unnecessary bullying.

It's just nostalgia. Ignore it.

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>>26109663
>calls people fag on the internet unironically

>>26109504
Yea it really made the normie wageslaves come out and prove just how mainstream r9k has become

>>26109593
>>26109765
This, those moralfaggots fucking ruined 4chan more than generals

>>26109458
It really wasn't that much better. They've been saying that from the beginning.

-circa 2005 fag

Jesus I've spent 11 years on this shitty website wasting my life away. Someone bring back the Nazis so they can put me in one of their camps were I belong.

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>>26109593
>4chan has existed longer since 2009 than it did before 2009

I want off this ride.

4chan as a whole was better.

It embodied the wild-west atmosphere of the internet back then. Like you were really on a new frontier, breaking new ground, not knowing what you might find or who you might meet.

That was of course before the internet became the thing everybody had in their pockets and everyone from greedy assholes like Zuckerberg to giant corporations were trying to monetize their piece of the pie and turn it into a cashcow and also before everything you did on the internet was being monitored and stored by those same corporations for advertising data as well as government agencies.

If you've been here long enough you've no doubt seen the rumors about the extent of moot's cooperation with law enforcement that has been said to go so far as agencies enjoy MOD like backdoor access to the website and a data cache for all threads posted that never 404.

Some raids were actually fun.Stop hating everything.

>>26109458
Pretty much it was edge galore on /b/.

Now /b/ has turned into a porn born and that /b/ edge has either turned into depressed /r9k/ robots or edgy /pol/tards.

>>26109458
It was good for me because that's when I actually came here strictly for the memes.

>>26109663
>Fish has zero personality so he resorts to using memes and calling people cancerous.

When I first visited /b/ in 2007, the humor was retarded internet banter. I left immediately.

Now it's just angsty underage normies being angry because their teacher marked their homework down as 'F'.

>>26109504
I there a cap of that thread or archive? I saw the first part of it, then left and didn't think about it.

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I started out on /b/ in 2009 and FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU was unironically popular. I was 15 and me and my friends would share memes at school that we found the previous night. I miss those friends.

Only meme I really miss from those days though is Foul Bachelor Frog.

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>>26110253
>Is there an archive?

>>26110350
stop being a nitpicking cunt, you know what I meant .

>>26109458
Yeah it was, people on this site were more chill back then and there was a lot more OC instead of just pepe and feel guy edited and reposted a million times. Back then the autists didn't rage about the trap threads because "it's gay bro" or REEE at the slightest thing they perceived to be normie like a child throwing a temper tantrum. On the bad side there was a shitload of spam than ran like a virus unchecked. I do miss old 4chan though.

>>26110407
How about you look for it then, on top of not being able to type you need to be spoonfed the most basic searches too?

>>26109458
Too many faggots, seriously there are too many people who care about emotional shit, and animal faggots. This site is pathetic, but at least some people aren't retarded.

>>26110485
I can type perfectly fine, retard. I though because you said it was a great thread you cap'd it, I thought I'd ask, but you didn't...fine who cares? No need to be an asshole about it.

I've been on 4chan since damn near the beggining.

It was nice.

The day it officially started going downhill, for me at least, was the when moot was forced to use captcha.

>>26109458
I remember when this garbage started showing up as "OC"

It was the beginning of the end.

Anonymous is what ruined 4chan, it brought all the leftists and shitskins.

>>26110042
This anon nails it. Basically the closer to the time of the site's first launch, the more authentic and innovative things were. Memes were better, more interesting and authentic conversation, some really, really great threads. I've been on and off 4chan for ten years and I'm not claiming that I'm an oldfag or wish we were back in the good old days. 4chan was always shit in some way, just a different kind now. Of course there were always newfags, kids, shitposting, but there was a more creative, trailblazing spirit. Wild West atmosphere is accurate. But of course, as with most online communities, the more public it gets and the more people know about it, come in and change things, the worse it feels for original users. The Anonymous movement and the explosion of social media and mobile tech meant more and more people had regular access to Internet culture and inevitably came here to shit it up (this is why we have /soc/, a containment board for new users bringing attention-whore culture with them). The original /r9k/ board tried to recapture the inspiring, imaginative spirit of 4chan with its algorithm to prevent repeat posts but it didn't stick. Loads of things contribute to a sense of decline but for me, the biggest noticeable difference was when I went cold turkey on 4chan for two years and came back here to see sadfrog and the feels guy being in every other thread and turning this board into a pity party. Nowadays of course, this has changed to Pepe and Wojak, REEEE, normies, misogyny, etc etc.

Back when I started we had different word filters and they changed the color of your text.
Fag= Candy Ass
Nigger= Roody Poo
Moot= Sigourney (and it changed it to "Sigourney" even in the middle of a word, like "smoothly" would become "sSigourneyhly")
Mods= The People's Chamions

It was weird.

>>26112691
>Back when I started we had different word filters and they changed the color of your text.
>Proceeds to list wordfilters that seem fairly recent

A master is out :^(

>>26109507
and now people are more boring and politically correct

nigger! haha. damn tht felt good. i love this websiyte.

Nope. The only thing that changed was the age of the posters, and now it's "reddit" instead of "GaiaOnline".

>>26112787
2011 was 5 years ago. That's half a decade.

>>26112691
That was only four or five years ago.

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No. 4chan gives shitty advice now-a-days. Previously, it gave great advice like pic related.

>>26109507
People were cringier back then? Explain.

What was your guys' first board that you really settled in when you came to 4chan?

Mine was /mu/. I actually have never browsed /b/ for longer than 10 minutes. Did I miss anything special?

>>26112962

By today's standards it's pretty cringe-inducing, but back in those days it was just GOOD OLD-FASHIONED 4CHAN FUN

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>>26109603
>>26109663
fish is gay

>>26113008

/b/ was fun but only when you're a retarded teen, haven't been on it in years but by the sounds of it it has gotten worse. It was mostly random edgy humor and shenanigans and for the most part was silly fun. You did have to sift through it all alot and there was a lot of stupid shit and porn as well.

>>26109458
it was earlier far more gay than today.

>>26109521
>Epic lulz
like i said

>>26113017
Memes evolve. It wouldn't be very interesting if everyone was making the same jokes from 10 years ago.

>>26113080

that's not what I meant at all

>>26113008
Just some epic GETS and the fappening, but you could see celebrity nudes on other sites if you really wanted to.

Also some damn good feels threads, but you can find those here on /r9k/.

I started out browsing /b/, and settled in with /r9k/ and /pol/. I checked out some other boards, but they aren't really my style. The filter boards are actually the best.

/a/ was, /b/ was still terrible.

>>26113112

>the fappening

how new r u

>>26112691
That's around the time I first started lurking, like 2011 or so
Hardly back in the day

>>26113111
I wasn't repeating your post, I was correcting you.

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>>26112933
>2011 was 5 years ago
what the fuck.
It can't have been that long.

>>26113008
Like everyone who came to 4chan pre-chanology, /b/ was the vanguard of the site. It was the spirit of 4chan, cultural epicenter of 4chan, had far and away the most traffic and was responsible for all the aspects 4chan itself was infamous for (raids, "hackers", the cutting edge of internet memes). Anybody who came to 4chan during that time came through /b/ and then found their way to other boards when they got tired to reposts, spammers, the general bankruptcy of intelligent conversation and the ever increasing number of unavoidable furry porn threads.

It had the kind of unrestrained exuberance and deluge of content that has perhaps only matched by /sp/ during the World Cup or /pol/ during the ZimZam trial.

It was cool back in the day when it wasn't mainstream. The content of boards like /b/ was still terrible but it was a whole new experience. Now that memes are an every day thing, it has lost a big part of it's appeal, also it's userbase gets steadily shittier.

>>26109458
I've been here basically since the beginning

better is relative
there are things I like more now and things that were better back then

a large part of the site's old spirit has been killed but that's just what happens when anything gets popular, it's probably still more true to that than any other site would be

even as much as you want to criticize it being worse today though you'd be hard pressed to find somewhere nearly as good anywhere

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>>26113250
>2010 was 60 years ago

>>26113112
>the fappening
>old chan
roody poo that was last year

>>26113142
>>26113283
He asked what he missed. Those were the only relevant things on /b/ I can recall. It's been shit forever. /b/ was never good.

I've been daily since 2004 and all I can say is, then , people who posted were all 'in the know' they knew the culture, the memes

s4s kinda brought some vibes back

it was more fun before the football thing

>>26112171
This is also accurate.

i remember that people actually shooped edits, they put real effort in posts sometimes,

this doesnt really happen anymore, 4chan is more of a regular text board now

>>26109458
/b/ didn't used to be an actual porn dump. It was more like /r9k/

2006/2007 were fucking amazing
Anyone that tells you "It's always been shit!!!" is talking out of their ass.

Things were much less serious back then, because your old aunt beth didn't have the internet in her pocket and that popular girl in school didn't know how to join an IRC channel. There's been a legit shift in mindset accross the internet that I would've never thought possible had you told me back then, and it isn't a good change. People are legit trying to force the idea that the internet is an extension of real life and should be taken seriously as such

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>>26113017
What does that have to do with old people. They were far less 'cringey' I mean they are old and wise and a different time doesn't mean it was a worse time maybe you are just a dumb spoiled cunt who takes the media 100% serious. Please go back to red dit. Please.

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I've been on this site for fucking 11 years now.
I'm fucking 22.
In my 11 years here, I've made maybe about ~50 posts.
No one just lurks and appreciates content nowadays. They just spout the first shitty thing that comes to mind. No one thinks about what they're saying now. No one puts effort into making up a good comeback, something funny, or something plainly thought evoking.
I feel so alone in the sea of newfags, honestly. I know 95% of you came here in '09 or '11 or something. Most of you know nothing of the culture that was kept here.
I know I sound like a jackass, but 4chan was the best place on the internet a while back. For the same reasons people thought it was a shithole. Unmoderated, honest content.
Now it's like tumblr 2.0 with more irony and self loathing.

This place honestly made me the man I am today.
And there's not a single negative thing about that.

>>26112171
> I went cold turkey on 4chan for two years and came back here to see sadfrog and the feels guy being in every other thread and turning this board into a pity party.
I did the same damn thing, I regret not sticking around and "soaking up" the old r9k atmosphere. It felt a lot more genuine

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>>26112171
>>26110042
you are right because internet was right. some people say "bring back my 1999" because back then it was wild west, everything was possible.
now, what internet has become is a nightmare, and so is here. but it is stil better than "outside"

>>26113809
>Smartphones killed the Internet.
Truth

>>26113008
when I got to /b/ there were alot of happenings and fun raids. I took part in a couple livejasmin and school email raids that made me laugh harder than any time in my life

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So what was the worst year for 4chan anyway? I'm a 2013 newfag so I wouldn't really know what the lowest point for 4chan was.

>>26114868
A couple years before that 4chan was remarkably better. Still shit yes yes but /b/ was actually a funny board.

>>26114868
>I wouldn't really know what the lowest point for 4chan was.
The entire year of 2015.

>>26114051

Facebook too.

Internet was so much better when you actually needed some competency to use. One thing I hate about now is how dumbed down technology seems to be getting, I hat the stupid interface on things like iphones and tablets.

>>26114868
Like 2007-2008 or so.

When normies just like you took over the internet and ruined it for everyone who was already here.

>>26114129
same me too senpai. Although I haven't been on there in a while.

My first IP camera happening took place and we saw some crazy shit with some guy livestreaming.

It was amazing

I've been here 6-7 years can't remember. It's just a blur. All I know is my life got worse and all I watch is anime and all I listen to is GG Allin now.

back in my day 4chan in a nutshell

>No sjw
>Normies avoided the place like plague
>Being on 4chan was not something the cool kids did
>Ugh meme hate didn't exist
>less boards, more diversity amongst Anons in them
>Less respect for anything
>posting any kind of real life information about yourself was a death sentence
>Mods didn't do their jobs as actual mods and allowed illegal content float around for a longer time and were more fun, less professional
>Things like autism didn't exist since it was like calling out a drop of water in a sea
>calling things edgy just because you want to root something out from being posted did not exist
>MOOT
>people couldn't care about one another at all, this was not a place where you came in looking for sympathy and pity, but to be a god awful bastard
>attention whores and namefags were properly driven away
>hate against women and normies was a site-wide thing
>You were critisized and punished more easily and relentlessly for things instead of people embracing them nowdays, for instance trannies pretending to be girls

Instead of the site handling and catering you it was about if you could handle the site.

>>26115085
This. More racism as well. Nowadays it's like omg you said nigger you must be racist and a cuckold.

it is because all the kids who started on 4chan back in the day when it was hot shit are getting old but still haven't left,

so the average age slowly rises while the kids get hooked on reddit or facebook instead

the nostalgia is coupled with 4chan objectively being better because everything was new and original and the internet in general was still naive and pristine

I started browsing in 2006, anyone from that year or after is a newfag.

Post 2010 is cancer.

>>26115112
when people judge you for saying nigger even on 4chan you know there is something really wrong with the world

>>26113920
>In my 11 years here, I've made maybe about ~50 posts.

Lurk more.

>>26114868
>So what was the worst year for 4chan anyway?

The year before /soc/ became a board.

Best experience was the Tom Green show trolling.

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>>26115179
>>26115112
>>26115085
>Getting baited that hard

Even Tumblr friendly boards like /co/ love calling people niggers.

>>26115253
I was banned for 3 days for calling that paki uber lady a shitskin last week.

>>26113399
It really makes me laugh when people look at s4s and say
>jesus christ what the fuck is going on here
Because it's the closest we've seen to classic 4chan in a long long time

>>26109458
It had less normies desu
Everything was more calm and less edgy