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/a/ moments that most people have forgotten

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/a/ moments that most people have forgotten
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MORNING RESCUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-_oLjmCGY
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That was gg right? I can't remember which series, if it was Code Geass or Madoka, or what.
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That was 5 years ago.... Where does the time go?

>>147326184
Madoka
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That weird detective show with a cute high school girl that aired right before K-ON!!.
What's its name?
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>>147325937
MORNING RESCUE
Good times.

Bit more recent but I miss the Miku Mondays
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MAWNIN LESCUE


Still one of /a/'s greatest moments.

She died for us
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>>147326238
Milky Holmes?
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Oh man ;_;

>>147326398
No, it's a j-drama.
We used to watch it while waiting for K-on!! episode to air.
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>>147325937
Get your /jp/ garbage memes out of here retard.
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>>147326238
Found it
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Sandaime_Akechi_Kogoro~_Kyou_mo_Meichi_ga_Korosareru~
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>>147326428
Oh god, dem feels back then feels so surreal...
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I miss gg meme subs. Too bad I don't watch Macross Triangle
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>>147326656
Has it already been 5 years
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>>147326893
Feels just like last year. Still the best KyoAni anime, ever.
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>>147325937

Bit hard forgetting this. But I didn't recall what show they did this on until reading it was Madoka in this thread.

To be fair I watched a lot of gg subs though.
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>>147327015
I meant Madoka, but K-on is good too.
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Over six old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNixp-wvWM
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>>147327127
Sure, that too also.
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>>147327174
2010 was arguably my best, favorite year. Full of fun.
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>>147326748
Finally, a chance to repost this.

After more than 6 years...

..Oh god, where has the time gone... ;_;
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>>147327242
It's too fast. ;_;
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>>147327221
Still best girl. She and MOANING LESCUE man are the only things related to meduka meguca I'm still fond of.
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>>147326748
MAMESHIBAAAAAAA

Ne shiteru?
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>>147326748
>gg got shit on so much they vanished
Hope you fuckers are proud of yourselves
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>>147327289
Found another old gem
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This thread makes me feel old. I'm not sure I like it.
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>>147327382
>he doesn't know
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The night the baka 3 went out of control. How many boards did we piss off?
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>>147327289
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDu-2h8ZDhI

And this.
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>>147327412
I guess I don't anon, what exactly do I not know?
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>>147326748
Came here to post this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foHmGtxCwPw
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>>147327426
>Anon doesn't know,
That Homura and me,
Do it in my van every Sunday.
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>that crime live action before every VVV episode
Fun times. Too bad in S2 it was that road trip program instead.
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>>147327226
This, it was also the height of shitposting and little to no mod supervision. I could get away with ANYTHING back then.
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>>147327411
>there's no longer any page 15 for Suzakuck to go to ;_;
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>>147327581
He'll always live on in the page 15 of my heart
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>>147327617
CAN'T
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>>147327226
2010 was actually too shit everyone including /a/ started to declare animu was dead, ABfag
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>>147327644
>Lanced Jack
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>>147327581
There will always be page 11.
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>>147327783
Oh fuck, its all coming back to me.
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>>147327644
>tfw manage to watch all E8 episodes

Now i get it, Yuki.
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>>147327783
>Taiga
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inb4 characters who'd look good doggy style
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>>147327854
Stop reminding me.
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>>147326398
Speaking of
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YotsubaC
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>>147327854
>>147327783
>>147327814
Make it stop
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>>147327861
It was glorious.
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Anyway, enough of feeling sorry for ourselves.

How about we discuss the best anime of the 00's?
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>>147327644
>greentext in 2009
I'm honestly surprised for some reason, I vaguely recall it only being a thing a few years after that
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>>147327854
>was such a newfag back then that I went through that entire summer without noticing
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>>147328043
The fuck are you talking about, green arrow implying implication maymay was already an old thing in 2009.
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At the rate Hiroshima is going even the 404 page will be a forgotten memory soon enough.
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>>147328160
literally who
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I'd her horns, VIRAL MARKETING, and Shana being hot who was my first waifu and I'm now 8 years older than her. 2006-2007 were best years. Never watched Code Geass but whatever year that was, the threads seemed fun with the one I remember being someone recognizing shopped dick from another picture.
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>>147328169
Oh shit

Was that the russian kid who tried to do the gaara sand coffin?
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>>147328043
because it hasn't been a fucking thing since 2003 or anything
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>>147327854
>>147327783
I remember Hox tripfagging and posting Franken Fran
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>>147328240
I thought he was American?
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Yotsuba C
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>>147328198
Everyone now recognizes that bulge.
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>>147328287
Why did people hate this guy so much?
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>>147328198
Also GIRUGAMESH
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>>147328240
Garaa's kid was American, the Russian one killed himself when Sasuke's brother (don't know his name) died.
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>>147328280
>boatlights

TRIGGERED
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>>147328272
>>147328134
I don't recall greentext until after like 5 years since I first came to 4chan. I dunno, maybe my memories are just mixed up.
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>>147328297
Hayate right? Hina's the best, fuck Athena
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No more snowman raping doujins for Christmas anymore
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tramp anon is probably happier than I am right now
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>>147325937
This is ironic shitposting right?
Right?
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>>147328325
His blatant hypocrisy and delusional posting maybe.

The post where he was typing that his keyboard breaking was hilarious, God bless that Komeiji.
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Wonder what ever happened to this guy
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fucking everyone forgot
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Man there were a whole lot more fansubbers back then before Crunchyroll/Horriblesubs/Commie
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>>147328518

How long has it fucking been?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzSJSMeUjY
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>>147328520
The only 28th I will never forget is September 28th.
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Grumpyjisan forever in the desert
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I miss moot sometimes.
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He was pretty vocal in the old buyfag threads
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I remember the Bromont threads. Now I can't think of Katawa Shoujo without all the shit it brought. That god damn general is still going.
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Hey guys remember me??
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>>147328325
Because moeshit
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>>147327644
>laughing elf man
Oh, how I miss thee.
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>>147329084
Nope
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>>147329280
I wonder how is he doing right now...
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>>147329280
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>>147329084
Fucking waifu beater.
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>>147329084
Not as much as this guy.
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>>147329362
>Gree-oval
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>>147329465

The person that made this image seems really upset.

Also possibly didn't understand the fundamental aspect of the phenomenon we call "aging" through which our perceptions and opinions are changed.
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>>147329629
Maybe he shouldn't post here before he was 18.
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>>147329715

I'm turning 26 in three months, and I've learned that people's opinions change over time throughout my years. How old you are is irrelevant, people change in ways you'll never expect them to.

All that image says to me is is that Komeiji is a human being, which is a rather silly point to attempt to convey. Might as well try to assert that water is wet and fire is hot.
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>>147329846
This.

I wonder what Komeiji ever said to made /a/ hate him so much.
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>>147325937
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yuXTW6-d2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpdXzNDdH8
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>>147330086
Various reasons. Being a tripfag, underage, manwhore. Other azusafags might be the ones who hate him the most if they still exist.
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>>147330139
Do you have the fairy one?
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>No one remembers No-Pan Night, probably the best night I've spent on /a/
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>>147329362
>no akibakko
It's shit.
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>>147330307

elaborate
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>>147330307
No one?
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Dolljoints.

I miss my delicious dolljoints.
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>>147330307
No bread was had that night.
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>>147330373
There was a Panty&Stocking clubbing event with DJs (e.g. the people who mixed the PSG ost) and performances and cosplayers dancing on stripper poles. It was live streamed and it was basically a night of /a/ clubbing out (at their computers) and having fun
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Watching Boku no Pico stream with /a/
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>>147330463
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>>147330373
>>147330472

Basically just imagine /a/ raving out to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlrmsnSr2k for several hours and having a good time
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I should have posted this when Bleach ended, but then again I'm not on /a/ all that much anymore
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>>147327174
>Not linking to this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqT0iFZifgw

It's like you don't even know how to induce madness.

>>147328240
Gaara kid burred his own head in sand and suffocated. The media also thought the show was Naruto Sand Ninjas if I recall.

Anyways there's this classic.
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>>147327423
this is really cancerous
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Love Erio!
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Mudo walked around the corner...
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>>147330307
I miss P&G
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>>147330542
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This really wasn't that long ago
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Better do your warm-up stretches, /a/!

It's time for the daily Panda Neko dance time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckJc2qazNkU
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>>147330798

These were good times.

Does anyone have the one in 800 years blood moon?
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Haven't seen one of these in a long time
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TEN YEARS
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I miss Saimoe and the butthut/shitstorms it caused every big match.
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>>147330747
S2 when
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>>147330997
D-Does this exist?
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>>147331056
When was Saimoe kill again, I remember Meguca participating a few times so the death must still be quite recent
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back when /a/ used to being about having fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbaM-URygs
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>>147331206
Saki killed it
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>>147331056
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old /a/ was objectively much better than how it is today
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>>147331317

Careful, the new kids will get mad at you.
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>>147331230
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48T5fZJpXmk
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>>147326184
>>147326203
It was in various series from that year. I remember I watched it in a episode of Mawaru Penguindrum.
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>>147331364
in the end they'll know Im right
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>>147331523

Ugh, that entire thing and everyone who hopped all over that were more or less gaiafags.

"Our epic dank headcanon, you guise!!! xD"

Kinda ruined Nichibros thread too.
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>>147331317
better in what way...?
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I think this is ending in like a month
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A recent one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WuDHoLF04
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>>147330307
Fuck yeah.
The thread was so fast it literally broke 4chan for some minutes.
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It was good
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>>147331637

I'll spoon feed you because you're too new to know otherwise.
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>>147325937
Since it's tied to muh suffering I will never forget it.
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>>147331572
>gaiafags
havent heard that term in a long time.
Yeah the threads could have been a lot better without it but it was fun in its own way.
the YuYu threads today are very chill though and I hang around there whenever I get the chance.

>>147331637
A lot more OC was made.
/a/ had more of an elitist culture, self moderation that is much stronger than today. It was pretty high up there with /jp/ if that helps.
There was also this feeling that I cant described that I felt whenever I lurked back then that was genuinely different and unique.
I believe its the way how anons were back then.
The newfriends actually lurked a lot before posting but I think thats a generalization, some still do I bet.
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>>147330798
nice PPD reference
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>>147330567
SAVAGE. What is this from?
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>>147331317
I do miss the good old days, /a/ has changed a lot since then.
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>>147331994

YuYu threads were always chill, I'm glad to hear it hasn't changed much. It was always a very specific niche for people that didn't mind discussing the show for the 100th time.

>The entire second half of what you wrote is more or less what I wrote in 2015 in an earlier post of mine.

Really makes you do the thinking emoji.
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>>147330971
2013 was probably our worst year ever
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>>147332156
wtf I hate the future now
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>>147332221
That's not 2009. Nothing will be worse than 2009.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YOTh5Tmtg
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>>147331317
better but never good
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>>147325937
Story behind this & Mameshiba ads?
I know this is either from Madoka or Ao no Exorcist fansub. I mean why the hell they didn't remove the commercial though?
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>>147332515
They thought they were really funny.

They were right
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>>147325937
is that nakai?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWLdBVw87s

>good times when even the CM was subbed
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>>147332515
People were already laughing at morning rescue from watching the episodes live.
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>>147330307
PSG was a fun time
That ending

The fucking album hype was unreal. PSG album threads would fill 700+ posts in 15-20 mintues and the shit wasn't even released yet
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>>147331712
Would this image be a instant thread filler anymore
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>>147332559
>>147332704
Oh, I see. Thanks.
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>>147331652
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posting two in one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16KpquGsIc
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Are moot's old /a/ mods still here or also gone along with him when Hiroyuki took over?
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>>147333002

The only mod that actually liked /a/ enough to come here often was modcat, and we all know what happened to him.
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>>147331856
too bad we long long crossed the point where telling people to lurk does any good
even the recent anti spoon feeding elitism has has almost no effect
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>>147331747
oh sweet you didn't upload the one that's spelled wrong.

i got to the point where i automatically assumed it's the wrong one so i almost started bitching you out
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>>147333084
>we all know what happened to him.
what happened anon?
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>>147326748
>I miss gg meme subs.
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>>147333002
Well, most of the people back then are either dead or long gone anyway.
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>>147333217
He's alive on twitter
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>>147333002
I think Kinomod is still around. Everybody else is long gone
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>>147330567
>It's like you don't even know how to induce madness.
I have actually listened to the full thing several times. It induces not madness, but a state of transience.
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>>147333384
this
goes for many 10h compilations
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>>147333084
>>147333316
Seriously, /a/ really need Mods & Janny from both west & east hemisphere.
Because when Mods & Janny from (maybe) Ameri-chan & Yurop asleep, Asian & Aussie shitposters are wake up.
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>>147333088

That's unfortunate.

It's just a sinking ship at this point, anon. Just enjoy the disaster because you can't fight the waters... the waters be too strong and our resolve too ineffective. ;_;

>>147333217

It was a pretty big incident.

He did his thing where he used the warning system to send a personal message to certain posters for fun, but when he did it on /adv/, some batshit insane femanon started crying about power abuse despite it just being a harmless warning with a private message included in it. He felt bad about it enough to resign. I specifically talked to him 1 on 1 to not resign over some stupid bitch throwing a hissy fit, but he felt that he would get his power taken away from him regardless (which I don't think would've happened at all).

Whoever that retarded femanon is, she's pretty much responsible for taking away the only active mod on /a/. Most of us tripfags that received messages from him in this manner never found it to be offensive in any way, but I guess that's just what happens when we welcome normalfags in and they just refuse to lurk before posting to assimilate.
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>>147332129
>since then
>post screencap from 2011
Lurk moar
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Do mods still ban spoonfeeding?

I have no problem with spoonfeeding as long as the source is not popular or barely mentioned on /a/ but fuck. I've seen threads where the title was put on the subject or filename and newfags/crossboarders still can't figure it out and still get spoonfed.

That's like asking sauce for Kuroinu on /h/.

Spoonfeeders are a bigger problem than saucefags.
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>>147328240
Nah he was murdered and the kids he was "playing with" just thought a stupid excuse and got away with it
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>>147333684
It depends. Source requests usually get deleted but I don't think the posters are banned.
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>>147333646
You want me to post something like this instead?
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>>147333720
at least warn them and shit those faggots aren't form here.
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>>147331994
>It was pretty high up there with /jp/ if that helps
/jp/ only splitted in 2008 though. The endless summer only started in 2009 so that ``up there'' period wasn't that long.
Even /jp/ lost their autism now, seriously what's with all those idolfaggotry and jav generals?
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>>147331028
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkVYHUMCCwc
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>>147333684
>>147333720
>Ask a question with an obvious answer
>Answer that question by himself in the next reply
I think sometimes they just samefagging just to make /a/ mad.
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>>147333930

We both know that's just wishful thinking at best, no matter how true we'd like that to be.
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>>147333567
personally i think /b/ deserves probably most of the blame.
They overused lurk more to the point that it's meaning shifted to simply memorizing any semi relevant past event.
then all you had to do was avoid conversations requiring any such knowledge and that spread to all boards thanks to /b/ bringing in more and more people
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>>147330139
Why are fat Indians better dancers and why do they have tighter choreography than Morning Musume or AKB0048?
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>>147330997
Literally bakatest
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>>147333930
>English title on the subject
>newfags can't figure it out
>/a/ makes of fun of that retard
>someone from reddit would still spoondfed
>fun ruined
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>>147330472
>it was basically a night of /a/ clubbing out (at their computers)
This sounds so sad
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>>147334152
Then I guess lots of anons become sad on the first Saturday of every month.
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>>147333758
Now this is better. I still wouldn't a literal junk though.
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Where the fuck cool oldfag go anyway? Are they become normalfag with happy family now?
I don't believe they went to infinity or mchan, though. Since /a/ in those sites are pretty much ded.
Also, I belive 'the exodus' just for /pol/lack, /b/tard, & /v/ermin.
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>>147334327
We're all still around, just less.
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>>147334327
I feel like some of them either killed themselves, stayed here, went to some obscure site, or just went to reddit
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>>147334327

I'm in contact with a lot of the people that used to be here, and it's really just the combination of reddit/gaia/normalfags taking over this board making it go dowin the toilet, and just us moving on with our lives.

We lurk every now and then but... we don't really post. Anime is still a hobby for the lot of us, of course.

At least, that's what I can tell from a sample size of around 200 people.
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MOTHERFUCKING CARLITO
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>>147334327
I don't know, but at this rate I'm going to successfully leave this time.
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>>147331256

Fucking saimoe

We should have that again

Why did it die?
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>>147334363
>>147334414
>>147334448
>We're all still around, just less.
>
We lurk every now and then but... we don't really post. Anime is still a hobby for the lot of us, of course.
Oh, ok. Kinda glad to hear that.

>>147334504
Don't. I think /r/anime isn't better at all.
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>>147334152
You had to be their. It was genuine fun for all.
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>>147334448
>he combination of reddit/gaia/normalfags taking over
To think 4chan was supposed to be the last bastion of the original internet spirit
>>147334633
Hey there anon, I wouldn't go to leddit regardless. Why would I leave /a/ for one of the major sources of /a/'s shittiness?
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>>147334327
it all returns to nothing
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>>147334524
Saki
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I miss when /a/ knew how to funpost. The moderation's been too strict for like 7-8 years by now.
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>>147332106
>Booze is cooler than candy, sissies
>I core apples with a big black hunting knife instead of a pairing knife
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>>147332799
Sadly the only thing that can guarantee replies at this point are american politics.

Thanks, certain board I won't mention.
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>>147334853
are people like you actual oldfags or are you just basing your posts on what >>147331856 posted
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>>147334925

I came here when Utawarerumono was airing although I have no way to make you believe me.
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>>147334327
>Try to leave 4chan
>Unconsciously comes back here every time
The "You're here forever" meme is real. At least for me
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>>147334470
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>>147334327
I was never cool but I've been here for 10 years.
I feel nothing but emptiness and darkness.
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>>147334327
/pol/acks are cancerous but those retards repel even more cancerous normalfags.

Just look at how many normalfags they trigger just by niggerposting.
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>>147335024
Do you like master's sperm?
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>>147328411
Accelerator and Wikispammer were the heroes we didn't deserve
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>>147335093
/pol/fags are normalfags. They fetishize normalfaggotry.
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>>147335093
>/pol/acks are cancerous but those retards repel even more cancerous normalfags.
yeah not true, they attract a lot of mainstream attention .
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>>147329409
apparently he is a transfer student in japan and grew a beard, there was a thread a week or so ago
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>>147335128
>/pol/fags are normalfags
That's what I also said.
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>>147335093
>/pol/
>not normalfags
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>>147335116

It's odd that you weren't enough of an intellectual to mention gorespammer.
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>>147332711
It's still one of the most downloaded albums on JPS.
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>>147335087
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>>147335210
I can't remember if I was here for that one, I only started posting on /a/ during the lanced jack and taiga fiasco.
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>>147334853
This.
/a/ used to self moderate, but a few whiners wanted more mod policing; and now they hand bans to any oldfags who still try and stifle newfaggotry, because it's "trolling", "off-topic" or "not a quality post".
It's also stifled creativity and original content, leading to generals and shitposting.

So to combat the generals and shitposting the same dumbfucks who created this whole situation, are now crying for even more moderation to stop it. Which will kill this board for good.
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>>147335223
Too close to home.
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>>147330971
Eku is still a shit on a weekly basis
Is Eku the reason why we don't have threads for r/a/dio anymore?
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>>147335358

He started off posting gore but then became associated with the "Bakemonigatari is for intellectuals" thing.

I wonder if you were truly around for it, considering how this was around 2009.
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>>147334925
Not him, but I agree and have been here since Shakugan no Shana first aired
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I miss accelerator spammer
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>>147335487
Perhaps you'll believe him if he posted "that" gif
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>>147335479
To a degree, yes. Once r/a/dio stopped becoming a community thing and started becoming it's own secular group things went downhill.
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>>147335443
>/a/ used to self moderat
then visible sage was removed
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There was a Gillette commercial at the end of an episode of Anohana, I think. I found it hilarious, but I'm not sure if people still remember.
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>>147335604
>>147335479
At least it wasn't a silent death without any reason like /jp/radio.
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>>147335604
>muh private club

I believe they still have some threads on meguca every weekend but it's slow as fuck since they only have like 30 users every time.
Such a shame, r/a/dio used to be really fun.
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>>147335615

Don't be stupid, we self moderated by being a bunch of elitist pricks. Visible sage did nothing but serve as a form of "downvoting" or "disliking" or whatever bullshit you kids like to do nowadays.
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>>147335764
visible sage was a way of showing disapproval without being childish about it,
its not a coincidence that the cuck shit really took off once sage was removed.
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I never thought seeing smochi post would give me a tinge of nostalgia. I still hate you.
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>>147333567
>modcat warned me that as long as I posted naughtys under a spoiler and announced it he wouldn't ban me
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>>147334470
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>>147335861
cuckposting didn't start until well after sage was dead. If anything the new way of downboating is (You) posting.
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>>147335861

Visible sage did abso-fucking-lutely nothing to discourage newfags or normalfags from posting whatever stupid shit they posted. More often than not, people used it in a childish way to basically "downvote" a thread for the sole purpose of conveying "wow stop talking about things I don't like."

The only "civil" way sage was actually used was when it was visible that the user didn't want his post to bump the thread because it wasn't on topic, and those were extremely rare to see.

You could perhaps argue that the old sage spam was an effective tool of moderation before moot added a post timer long before captchas were added, but thread spamming wasn't exclusively a sagebomb thing to begin with.

>>147335866

It's not healthy to harbor hatred like that, anon!

>>147335915

He banned me for three days for accidentally spoiling a show to him on MSN (and not on /a/).

You just don't see fun mods like that nowadays. ;_;
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Did the Rei trip died or is the trip usage banned?
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btw how old are the oldfags here?
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>>147336262
Still banned from what I've heard. Thankfully.
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>>147336304

Turning 26 in three months.
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>>147336304
23.
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>>147336304
I'll be 29 soon.
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>>147336304
24.

When did generals become a thing anyway?
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>>147326748
https://youtu.be/pbbLsN-JJEc
Thanks gg.
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>>147336182
>You just don't see fun mods like that nowadays. ;_;

I gave up on /a/ a couple years ago. We got spoiled by having mods that not only moderated but were also part of the community and participated. I don't even watch that much anymore. Part of the fun of watching was watching with /a/. I'm glad though I randomly decided to lurk one day and found out about Takagi-san.
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>>147336304
34
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>post yfw remembering /q/

Goddamn, I can't believe how it ruined this site. narutards crying Naruto, newfags crying about anime reactions, IRC falseflagging and Narutocolypse. I can't believe RapeApe and some fags from /q/ became mods and janitors
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>>147325937
that drink doesn't even exist anymore.
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>>147336304
36
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While I too miss the earlier days of /a/, at least /a/ hasn't gone completely shit like some of the other boards I used to enjoy here.
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>>147336589
I still watch anime, I just get most of my discussion off-site.
Modcat is still a cool guy. Don't understand how he likes love live that much though
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>>147336304
I'm a wizard next month.
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>>147325937
I actually bought some bottles. It resemled orange juice.
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>>147336662
>at least /a/ hasn't gone completely shit
Some might say that's because most of /a/ doesn't support spoonfeeding. Also there aren't that much crossboarders here.
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>>147336182
>The only "civil" way sage was actually used was when it was visible that the user didn't want his post to bump the thread because it wasn't on topic, and those were extremely rare to see
Or when the poster didn't want to bump the thread, especially in slow boards and before catalog was a thing.
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>>147336411
>>147336444
>>147336466
>>147336517
How old are you fucks when you discovered 4chan?

Holy shit I'm turning 30 this december and only been here for a year. I got hooked by anime only a few years ago, is it too late for me?
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>>147336662
Well, even a small win is a win I suppose. Elitism is still in effect on /a/, so its kept /a/ at least at tolerable levels.

Shitholes like /v/ and /tv/ are fucking abhorrent holy shit.
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>>147326748
[gg] best group.
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>>147336304
I'm 12 and what is this
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>>147336304
25.5 and still a NEET virgin
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>>147336771
It's actually only because the board always had a dedicated mod. That's how it managed to avoid becoming terrible during the great userbase influx. Now it just runs on its reputation.
>>147336822
12
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>>147336771
>Some might say that's because most of /a/ doesn't support spoonfeeding.
>most
old /a/ needs to enforced its culture again, we need an old fag MOD.
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>>147332423
Gachi is now a twitch meme
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>>147336923
>we need an old fag MOD.
Haha yeah right.
The oldfags of /a/ are either gone or post just once in a while at nostalgia threads like this one.
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>>147336466
>>147336636

Time sure flies, doesn't it?

I could've sworn I was posting in a confession thread just a year ago, but it was actually six years ago.

Huh...

>>147336589

I've been having cravings to visit /a/ every time a new New Game episode came out, but I just... didn't. Not sure what actively stopped me, perhaps I'm just too sad over the newfags running rampage like they own the place.

>>147336808

Ugh, catalog is one of the things I contribute to the downfall of this site.

The quintessential 4chan experience was gauging the popular discussion by looking at the front page and jumping into the popular discussion. The whole concept of the "front page" was THE 4chan dynamics at work, but the introduction of the catalog completely killed that and basically turned this place into an anime forum #2521.

>>147336822

Discovered 4chan when I was 16 back in 06, but I preferred to lurk because... well, the whole elitism thing actually worked back then. It discouraged me from posting while being an underage "cancer."

It's never too late for anime, friend.

>>147336842

In order to truly enjoy the /v/ experience, I feel like you have to just acknowledge /v/ for what it is. It's just /b/ with video games.
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>>147336654
Doesn't matter anymore since the lescue man died.
According to koda it tasted like shit anyway.
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>>147337004
>Every gachi vid onn youtube just gets FORSEN BOYS and gachigasm comments
Make it stop
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Life-like texture ;_;
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>>147328023
>there are people that like Keit-ai more than Ghost Slide
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>>147336304
28
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>>147337089

Gachi vids are dying of normalfag cancer and I can't handle it.
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I'm an oldfag, but I've always mostly been a lurker. I sometimes feel guilty for not contributing more. But at the same time, I don't really complain about /a/ changing because I'm not contributing much.
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>>147336822
15 in 2004
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>>147334327
Old habits die hard, but /a/ is just a flaming corpse of its former self. I barely come here anymore, but I was never one of the 'cool' oldfags anyway.

Doesn't help that original content in general has died across the entire site so you can't even have that to keep you here.
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>>147336304
I turned 28 two weeks ago.
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>>147337639
I'm so sorry.
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>>147334327
I lurk quite often but almost never post.
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>>147337709

Wow, you're still around?
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>>147337753
Exclusively anonymously except for the occasional stupid post like this.
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>>147337709
Yo while I know you're here thanks for v/a/lentines 2014. Shit was groovy as fuck.
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>>147337832
Ah, a proper use of tripcode, I approve.
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I really miss the Dog Days threads man.
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>>147336822
I don't remember when I started coming here regularly. I found this place because it was always listed as the source for gifs on ytmnd. But I know I was a regular by the time 2007 hit as I watched the big shows that year with /a/. So I was somewhere around 17-19.
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>>147336822
19. I'm >>147336466
You're going to be fine, take it easy and have fun.

>>147337041
>that thread the other day
>it was actually six years ago
Every time.
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I think S3 kinda kills it
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>>147337882
It's been over a decade and people still talk about shit like this
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>>147337885
BIG FAT CAT TAT > Itchy bitty shitty puppy
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>>147337041
There was a third party catalog site far before it was actually incorporated into 4chan though and I know a good amount of people used it too.
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>>147338074
The catalogs are great if you're only visiting the board for a specific thing. You can set up filters that automatically sticky the threads you want.
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'member manly anime reviews?
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>>147338074

I mean, myself included. It was a quick way to find threads but I now realize what it turned the site into. ;_;
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>>147337854
Glad you enjoyed it. It was some of the most fun I've had.

Please look forward to v/a/lentines 2017 and be disappointed because nothing is being made.
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>>147338179
The catalog isn't the problem, it's the "keep it to one thread" mentality that was imported from other boards and sites.
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>>147334327
I just generate less OC than I used to and make smaller, less thoughtful posts.

I think it's largely because my tastes have changed. I used to jump on every big popular seasonal show and participate in the threads nonstop, but I rarely watch those shows or browse their threads anymore and stick almost exclusively to seasonal SoL shows or other minor things that tends to be less popular and barely get a thread going every week. Those threads tend to generate less OC and discussion by nature so I contribute less as well.

Also the effort involved in putting thought and substance into a post seems wasted nowadays when so goddamn many people posting here are obnoxious, arrogant ESL idiots with barely a basic grasp of the english language. The last time I did bother to make a decent post it got met with something to the effect of "You're bad and wrong because I don't understand what words mean" in various degrees of broken, grammatically horrid english.

I could go on a tirade about why ESL posters who try way too hard to pretend they're not ESL ruin threads but that's a topic for another meta thread.
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Smoked Cheese, kill yourself you attentionwhore. You should have stayed permabanned so you can't just drop in to these types of threads and try to act amiable to people that don't know how retarded you were when you frequently posted.
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>>147338228

I've been fond of your work ever since you did that thing for San's birthday (Seto no Hanayome is my #1 show), and I've always been meaning to ask you... If you were interested in a group chat that kind of started as an /a/ chat back in 2009 but I guess it grew into something more, but it still has a decent amount of people from /a/ in it like Taiga and some other anons.

>>147338286

The catalog enables that behavior, though. That mentality wouldn't exist if the catalog didn't exist.
>>
Mordin fingers himself live
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>>147326748
Holy shit, Mameshiba. Those were some good times. I was a regular on /co/ when it was really popular. We had whole threads devoted to making /co/ characters into little beans. If anyone had any of those I'd be eternally grateful. I lost all of them in a hard-drive crash.
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>>147337947
>ytmnd
Now that is name i havent heard for long time
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>>147338347

Were my posts as retarded as your post?

>>147338431

What the...
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>>147338301
>be one of old posters in this thread
>be ESL
Y-you too.
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>>147336304
25
I started browsing here when I was 14.

/a/ is family.
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>>147338462
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>>147338494
>getting banned for posting like a drunk idiot

You set such a high standard for us all. Go back to circlejerking and playing League.
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>>147338456
Remember when /co/ was actually pretty chill board.
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>>147337947
Here are a bunch of 4chan things that were already ancient history when the ytmnd was made.
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>>147334152
r/a/dio during the christmas and new years is pretty great every year though
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>>147327221
Akinator still guesses her in 25 questions.
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>>147338667
Christmas was good last year. New Years was fucking shit because r/a/dio hosts like making drama for no reason.
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>>147338667
/a/ is the highlight of my Christmases now. Secret S/a/nta, r/a/dio, Toradora stream, I'm going to post this every day until Christmas, etc.
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>>147337067
>lescue man died.
Wait, what?
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>>147338402
Feel free to add me, not sure how often I'd participate though due to my introvertism. My contact stuff is probably on my youtube page or some shit.
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>>147338614
God I miss /co/. It used to be so great, before the Great Feminism Shitstorms. I miss the late-night Justice League International threads the most.
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>>147327994
And now that joke is repeated so often I facepalm.
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How many /a/nons have died since these moments?
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>>147338577

Man, that was one hell of a night. I actually started tipping over when I tilted my head just a bit.

Memories, mang.

>>147338614

Holy moly /co/ was one of the strangest boards because they used "HNNGH" to allude to arousal rather than finding something adorable.

Apparently it got ruined by normalfags and rampant femanons.

>>147338667

While I'm mostly indifferent about r/a/dio, when r/a/dio threads were getting banned the people that actively participated in them started saying stuff like "*EVERYONE* LIKES R/A/DIO HOW DARE YOU BAN IT" and the lot of us that didn't really give a damn about r/a/dio didn't care for it. It kind of gave the whole "up their own ass" impression where they think they're speaking for everyone, almost as if they didn't understand what would happen if all of /a/ were to post in a single thread at once, and then used the sample size of any given r/a/dio thread and assume every single poster on /a/ is accounted for.

With that said, I'm sure it was just a vocal minority that said all the dumb stuff and most of you are probably alright.

>>147338799

O-Oh okay.
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>>147338799
>text conversation
>introvertism

???
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>>147338862
Not him, but it took me like three years before I made my first post and even now I barely make like 5 posts on a good month.
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>>147338862
I'm not him, but you can be too shy to type.
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>>147339041
Sounds like a good thing given the quality of your posts. Try reducing it down to 0 posts again.
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>>147338512
It's not as though every person that isn't a native englis-speaker is the anti-christ, but there's a specific kind of ESL poster -I'm sure you know what I'm talking about- who has an extremely tenuous grasp of the language and very limited vocabulary constituted mostly by memes imported from whatever native-language aggregator websites they browse, /int/ and twitter. They're perpetually angry and confrontational but don't know how to articulate themselves, and so just post aggressive, meme-laden nonsense in response to anything they don't like and assume everyone else either has as little of an understanding of english as they do (and thus that they can pretend they're an authority on it) or else try to pretend that they're actually much more fluent than they are, to the point where defensively shitpost anything which stresses their minimal understanding of the language or challenges their misuse or lack of comprehension of basic word-choice.

I frankly don't know where the hell they all came from or what makes them so goddamn bad at posting, but holy shit. /a/'s played host to ESL users for years that weren't actively detrimental to the quality of the board, but this new breed is something else entirely. My strong suspicion is that they're South-east asian and south-pacific islanders that rode in on /vg/ generals for big mobage franchises like Love Live and im@s and just stayed here, or perhaps that they're just /int/ crossposters that like to use everything outside of their home board's language-specific general as a toilet.

At first it was only bad in Light Novel adaptation threads, where poorly understood chinese spoilers were spammed and parroted ad nauseum by these people, trying desperately to be an authority on a story they hadn't actually read, just so they could talk down to people trying to actually enjoy the series. Lately they've spread damn near everywhere and it's a goddamn problem.
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>>147339089
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>>147338734
They're attentionwhores and that's the reason they were chased off in the first place.
It boggles my mind that they get like 2 days a year where they're welcomed back here and they can't make it through without reminding everyone of why they were booted off in the first place.
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>>147339131
Angry meme-spouters with bad English skills are sometimes just children, not always foreigners.
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>>147338862

I've actually spoke to a bunch of anons that admitted to being too shy to even add someone on MSN in confession threads.

They just need to find themselves in a comfy environment, but being too shy to talk to someone through an online messenger is an actual thing that exists.

>>147339089

His post is fine. It's one of those images you used to see in Heroman threads and he didn't say anything particularly awful.

Maybe you should apply your own advice to your own self.

You know you've hit rock bottom when a former shitposting tripfag is telling you this.
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>>147339051
I remember being new and so damn scared to post because I wasn't familiar with the "culture". That's a thing of the past now, i've gotten to the point where I mostly just shitpost on other boards and come to /a/ for real discussion. Might just be the fact i'm not only completely comfortable here now, but i'm a more confident person overall.
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>>147337067
I have one here, bought when madoka ended

I drunk some and it tasted like any other sport drink with orange flavor
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>>147334327
i've been here since week 1, i don't post as often because I don't agree with a lot of the new trends in anime. moeshit was the original enemy, but low budget trash, fujoshit, and LN trash are far worse.
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>>147338862
I remember i spent lurking for years because i was afraid of anons.
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>so much time has passed
>time I will never get back
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>>147337639
>>147337668
I turn 34 in 112 days
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>>147338845
I'm afraid of dying before I finish translating this stupid manga. Everyone will think I dropped it ;_;
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>>147339497
The worst part is how I feel I have wasted the time.
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>>147339202
>former shitposting tripfag
>former

All you do is shitpost when you slap on your trip. Or one of the many others you use because you're an even worse failure than everyone else addicted to this site.

http://desuarchive.org/a/search/filename/1433365719009.png/
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I just think we need a new show to happen that everyone can get into. We haven't had a Geass-level show in too long. The most recent thing I can think of on that level was the leadup to Kill la Kill. Sure, there was a lot of "saving anime" shitposting, but it was fun and exciting.
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>>147339668
No, what we need is a complete overhaul of /a/ at the moment. That's never going to happen though.
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>>147339497
>>147339647
Don't worry, anons, eventually you'll hit the point that you realize you would have wasted your life one way or another and make peace with it.
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>>147339634
Thats why I stick to doujinshi
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>>147339668

What we need are better mods. Ones involved in the culture of the board.
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>>147339668
We explode every sunday with that RE zero shit. I assume it's probably the same degree of crazy fun popular shitposting, but I keep it at arm's length because the show itself is trash.
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>>147339665

Anon, it's not healthy to be so obsessed over a person on the internet.
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>>147339795
Yeah, I guess that's the closest show this season. I've just not bothered to watch it, so I'm missing out to a certain extent.
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>>147339665
>addicted to the site
>last post was this thread and the one before that was from march
If you don't like the tripfag, just filter it.
How dense are you?
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>>147336682
anime is cute, and good
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>>147339799
>click drop down arrow
>show images with filename

So difficult.
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>>147339668
We never will have a show like that. The board is too big and divided to truly "get everyone into something". The general mentality doesn't help either
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>>147339895

It's funny because every time someone finds a funny tripcode, they dare me to post on /a/ with it and see how long it takes before someone figures out it's me.

I must've left quite an impression on you.

How embarrassing!
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>>147339895
most people wouldn't even bother doing that you autistic fuck
just filter it
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>>147339668
I'm having fun with the new DR anime, but of course it's not anywhere near Geass levels of crazy. It's produced some nice OC though.
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>>147339988
yeah but its all we got left....
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>>147339988

Only for this thread, young man.

I will vanish into obscurity when this thread dies.

From whence I came, I shall return.
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>>147339668
>I just think we need a new show to happen that everyone can get into. We haven't had a Geass-level show in too long.
SOON.
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>>147339668
I had fun like I didn't have in a while with Valvrave. Lots of OC and insane theories, also gg.
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>>147339795
To me it seems like Re:Zero spills out way further than the content of the show warrants. It's not a show at the level that warrants a board wide reaction, but since an unignorable portion of the userbase are enjoying it it spills onto the board consciousness.

>>147339891
Anime is something that you're not old enough to watch. Fuck off back to tumblr and kill yourself on the way there.
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>>147331204
Hundred
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>>147340048
maybey I should become a tripfag in your stead
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>>147340177

I don't think you got what it takes.
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>>147339701
I realise that without some critical change earlier in my life that I was always on a hiding to nothing.

Still feels bad, man.
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>>147340094
>It's not a show at the level that warrants a board wide reaction
To be completely fair, the shows that elicite this kind of boardwide awareness rarely ever do deserve it.

Remember Aldnoah Zero? That show was hot trash and didn't even have any meme value but still took over the whole board every day it aired. Bursts of popularity like that are spontaneous and irrational, you just gotta ride the wave when they happen. If, like this season, it happens with a show that's well and truly bad, to the point of being difficult to sit through even with the /a/ threads contextualizing things and making them more entertaining, then it's just a pity. I personally just can't sit through RE Zero so I miss put on what fun and shitposting the threads must enjoy, but this isn't the first time this has happened, either.
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>>147340233
Speak English.
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>>147340177
the only trip I've used was one I only used one day out of the year.
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>>147340144
Picked up.
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>>147340155
Not a lot of Mai around nowadays.
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>>147340284
Don't worry, I was speaking English. You are merely unfamiliar with the phrase.
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>>147340073
Yeah I remember having fun with Valvrave as well.
gg delivered a lot of good stuff.

But there hasn't been any show that formed a collective since code geass, and I don't think there will ever be one again.

I remember following valvrave, steins;gate, tiger & bunny, panty & stocking, aldnoah and plenty more with /a/, but nothing stood out as much as geass.

I'm still having fun nonetheless.
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>>147340483
Kill la Kill was the closest thing only because it spanned the entire board.

That was like three years ago.
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>>147340284
This anon and his post right here serve as a great example of what >>147339131 was talking about.

The least you can do is google the phrase before embarrassing yourself next time.
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>>147340483
Guilty Crown was literally on par with Code Geass in terms of rampant shitposting, number of threads, theorycrafting, memes and edits. Also helps that it had two seasons to shit up the board with.

As garbage as Madoka is, that also had a huge impact on the boards, though not on the level of CG nor GC.
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>>147340536
KLK was the closest to Geass?
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Apparently I haven't.
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>>147340597
In recent times as a board collective.
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>>147336304
28 soon.
Getting so close of becoming a wizard.
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>>147339668
Now I actually think /a/'s problem is, and just hear me out on this, not too many newfags, but too few. Or rather, we haven't been integrating enough newfags into the board culture to keep things dynamic. A lot of what makes this board entertaining is the youth atmosphere. The snappy comebacks, the witty banter, the sophmoric humor. But the oldfags are now into their 30s, 40s even. While some have left the board altogether, others who have stuck around have seen so much of every goddamned thing that they have no capacity for joy left. I mean what the hell is with all this "Kill yourself", "I've been trying to" crap? I don't recall this place being so dour five years ago.

What KLK did was bring an infusion of young blood into /a/ that restored some of the jovial atmosphere of years past. But once the show ended, all the old curmudgeons here did was chase them off. At this rate, in a few years this place will start sounding like a geriatric forum.
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>>147340555
Woah dude, get your head out your ass. There's a big difference between the poorly constructed sentences, terrible grammar and horrid spelling of ESL posters and simply not knowing some obscure british idiom.
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>>147340675

There isn't a shortage of newfags on this board.

Every time I come here, I can spot tons of them.
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>>147340675
>more newfags
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>>147340675
People on /a/ are growing up together.

They're all cynical and jaded and don't want to deal with kids that don't have an ounce of creativity in their shitposts all day.
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>>147340675
I'm a newfag and you don't know what you're talking about.
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>>147340721
can you at least concede that there is at least a healthy amount of new blood to bring in?
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>>147340840

Questionable.
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>>147327221
>meguka sol never
crying_cat.gif
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>>147340675
I disagree 120%. All the rampant shitposting as it stands is due to newfags. Those '20 - 40 something oldfags' you mentioned are definitely not the ones shitting up the front page with 'baby's first anime' Re Zero or making the "X is cute, CUTE!" threads or other garbage. The 'new blood' in anime fandom are obnoxious brats who cling fast to jojo memes and fall in love with phrases like 'kawaii in the steeets, senpai in the sheets'.

KLK and the audience it brought with it were (and still are) cancer. The self-loathing and borderline nihilism you mentioned has always been present on /a/, ronery threads used to be a thing.
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>>147336682
in order to answer this question I would have to write out a series of longform posts on some wordpress install somewhere documenting exactly why the show works so well in terms of storyboarding, editing, shot blocking, and all the cinematographic tools of art -- on an episode-by-episode, scene-by-scene basis -- and I haven't scraped the time together for that yet, because it is a massive undertaking and I have a day job

the new show is far less focused in its presentation and i stopped watching after episode 3 completely lacked any sort of dramatic weight; it felt condescending and what I've heard of the following episodes hasn't convinced me that Sakurai has as strong a central vision and autism level for fine details as Kyougoku, but i dont want to go that deep into it on here itt

(i miss you guys too though <3 はーと)

ps i tried to post hug.gif and it was twelve megabytes and the gif limit here is 4 so please see my tweet's for the good post
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>>147328425
As long as AoG is here that trafition will never end.
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are fatefags oldfags?
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>>147340675
>more newfucks
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>>147340950

When you try to tell them about the good old days, they shitpost with stuff like ">implying this board used to be better" and it hurts me right in the feels.

>>147340992

Hello Kyle.
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>>147328278
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Is /a/ better under Moot or Hiroyuki?
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>>147340950
Now that you mention it, I showed JoJo to some normie friends of mine and they liked it instantly. Little did I know that they would suddenly start liking cancer JoJo pages in Facebook and would also spout obnoxious JoJo shit every now and then.

JoJofags are truly the worst
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>>147340675
n-no thanks.

I'd rather have /a/ die than more "who is your seasonal waifu", "what animes are not for kids?", or "x is the greatest, prove me wrong" type shitposts
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>>147341056
dont forget
>trying to fit in
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>>147341056
hello, i hope you are still posting without a name most of the time like you told me you would. also real names on the internet
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>>147341098
I think it's worse now, but I don't know if I would blame Hiro. Things have just gotten steadily worse all over 4chan, and was getting so before Hiro took over.
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>>147341024
The two things are completely unrelated
>>147341098
Hiroyuki is dumb and refuses to touch anything mostly. His constant "maybe the users should decide!" is never going to work and I wish he would realize that
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>>147331204
As a manga, kinda sorta

https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=41616

It has unexpectedly good characters.
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>>147336822
13 in 2008
I wanted somewhere to talk about anime in private
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>>147341168

I donned the trip for credibility for this thread only (being a virgin loser that's been here longer than most people on /a/).

I don't see you on Skype anymore.

>>147341154

Some of them even pretend to be oldfags and tell you that the board quality is objectively the same and the rest of us sit there going "oh god is he serious..."

There's nothing we can do, anon. The fight is already lost.
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>>147333251
Some of us are still here
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>>147340483
That's true. Although it's not just because anime nowadays doesn't deliver, it's the mindset that has changed as well. Posters no longer know how to have fun and are too focused on following the trends, be it on things you should praise or hate on. Even trolling had some sort of finesse before and most would put visible effort into their posts, while short posts would be taken as such and not reflected upon. Nowadays everything is an empty echo of whatever epic insults or words of praise are common and if you happen to write a longer post, everyone will think it's copy pasta from somewhere else because you're not expected to think with your own head before typing, just like you're not expected to have taste of your own and like different things. As a result most of us who were used to a different environment will pick up shows and enter threads with a predisposed bitterness, which in turn will not contribute to what could be a comfy time watching whatever we're watching. Many of us who were here for Geass are still around and watching things but we feel like it's a waste of time to participate because most posters are in fact retarded. We're just making it harder on ourselves because there are still a few people worth replying to. There might be less entertaining shows these days but half of the fun of those shows in the past was the creative atmosphere of the threads.

tl;dr report shitposts and post as you would 5 years ago.
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>>147339668

Don't worry, anon The Geass event is coming soon. And if it's R3, the whole board will shit itself.
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>>147336304
Turned 21 yesterday. Suddenly feeling an urge to leave this place ASAP
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>>147328278
I will forever be grateful he translated punpun.
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>>147341056
>>implying this board used to be better
Holy fuck this
The only response I ever see is "It was always this bad, YOU'RE the newfag if you think otherwise!"
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>>147340769
>Don't have an ounce of creativity in their shitposts all day.
This is exactly what killed the sense of community. I don't want to waste my time on making content for a bunch of shitposting kids who will never contribute to this board.
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>>147341056
>>147341341
To be fair, "X was never good" is a meme as old as time.
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>>147341391

Of course, but when they start arguing that the current /a/ is actually better in quality than the old /a/, then we got problems.

>>147341294

Let's be real anon, we both know you're not leaving.
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>>147336822
15 in 2006, though I first came to /a/ year later.
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>>147325937
More like /a/ moments most people weren't around to see. Morning Rescue was over 5 years ago. I highly doubt /a/, if not in fact most boards, retain even half of its population for that long.
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>>147341376
>I don't want to waste my time on making content for a bunch of shitposting kids who will never contribute to this board
This is what killed my motivation to continue making OC and edits
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>>147340950
Slightly unrelated but can I just say that this 'ironic anime lover' stuff has become far too annoying already?

You know what I'm talking about. 14 - 16 year olds saying 'anime sucks' but obviously anime fans. Cropped doujin/hentai profile pictures, youtube parodies, overuse/misappropriation of terms like 'lewd', 'waifu' or 'weeaboo', tumblrposting and jojo posing, all this sort of garbage.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, filthy frank is essentially their role model.
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>>147340950
Agreed, I can come off as a strong shit poster but the temperament of /a/ has just become vicious without any class.

Seasonal anime threads are fine, but what is grating me is that subject topic is the same damn thing, no one tries to create an interesting point of discussion to start things off, it requires extensive lurking of threads replaying the same turn of events.

Honestly I've found threads on /e/ more invigorating for discussion because people still have passion to follow up author's current releases, translated feedback, etc.

Can't remember the last time there was a backdrop focus on the location an anime was based off.
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>>147340675
The ones replying with "kill yourself" and linking to other boards and sites are newfags trying to fit in. An actual oldfag won't waste time with that shit because he knows he'd be here all day if he did.
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>>147341264
I don't trust skype as a platform and MSN died, so

I still use AIM though even though the last person I talked to on there was snacks 3 months ago. get on irc sometime

I'd rather have Hiroyuki than anybody else, honestly, because he understands the ethos of anonymous posting online while not trying to monetize or interfere with the natural flow of the boards.
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>>147341454
in all my years here ive never been to /e/, i thought it was just a porn dump porn like /h/
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>>147340950
4chan in general and /a/ especially used to be so much more creative. People seemed to actually tried to post interesting content sometimes.
It used to be nighttime /a/ was distinctly different from daytime /a/.
Much more personal posting from sad and alone f/a/gs.
I miss it.
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>>147329084
>>147329409

He's still active on VNDB as "veronin" and is very vocal about "learrning Japanese" and being better than EOPs.

That machine translating fuck makes people who really learned Japanese look bad.
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>10 years ago
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>>147341568

>It used to be nighttime /a/ was distinctly different from daytime /a/.

Wow, I actually forgot about that.

Damn... night time /a/ used to be so good.
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>>147341098
moot was a lot of things but at least he actually cared while he was the admin. With hiro it would be better to have no admin at all. At least the site wouldn't be down occasionally because he pressed the wrong button.
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I want to watch anime streams with /a/ again. Not live streams of new shows but stuff like Marks stream.
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>>147341568
this guy is still around, though he spends a lot of time playing super robot wars and mahjong
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>>147341614

Milhouse is not a meme, faggots.
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>>147341614
Jesus Christ, almost to the fucking day.

What the hell happened to my life?
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>>147341225
Thanks, the art looks cute.
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>>147341098
I think Hiro is kind of going in the right direction, he just needs to be more assertive and actually do stuff.
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>>147341454
>Seasonal anime threads are fine
A lot of them just become generals very quickly (see new game, for example) and there's just nothing to discuss. We get threads 24/7, just "hey, let's talk about X" and then the same posts repeat themselves. A lot of the questions etc there are answered with "look it in the archives". It feels weird trying to actually start talking there. Like I'm interrupting some private convo.
I find it much easier to start convos over twitter or shit like discord honestly.
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>>147341568
>There are newfags who tell you to go back to tumblr in Ouran Threads.
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>>147341783
>I find it much easier to start convos over twitter or shit like discord honestly.

I was with you until this steaming load of faggotry.
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>>147341783
twitter is cancer IMO
the character limit prevents any real conversation
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>>147341680
We don't even watch live streams anymore thanks to simulcasts. Killing fansubbing wasn't enough.
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>>147341860

Whether literal or not, I think the main point of that statement was to convey how circlejerky the general threads become.

I distinctly remember a K-ON general turning into an a/s/l thread back in the days.

The humanity...
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>>147341924
Where are you from? Vote in the poll!
Remember, haters gonna hate, filters gonna filter!
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>>147341966

GOD.

I HAD THAT SUCCESSFULLY REPRESSED IN MY MEMORIES UNTIL YOU SUMMONED IT AGAIN.
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>>147341568
That dude's still alive. He just cares more about anime fighting games and shitposting on twitter than posting on /a/, and with good reason.
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>>147341783
What's a discord?
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Another issue with /a/ is that there are no outlets for solidarity. Beyond generals, the board is a mess for consistent dialogues.
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>>147341098
The problems of over-moderation by mods and dwindling self-moderation by the board, occurred later under Moot, and have continued under Hiroyuki.
I think the pressure Moot was under from Gawker and it's allies, to stop Gamergate shit on /v/, created many of the moderation problems today.
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>>147340675

At this point I'm happy people keep saying "kill yourself" instead of "kys".

Someone should bring back the grammar nazis.
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>>147342033
What's his Twitter?
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>>147342039
>I think the pressure Moot was under from Gawker and it's allies, to stop Gamergate shit on /v/, created many of the moderation problems today.
laff
>>147342034
A good program
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>>147342038
In general I have learned that if you don't act like a faggot and ignore the ones who do the discussion flows naturally.
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>>147342042

>Someone should bring back the grammar nazis.

Amen.
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>>147342038

You don't understand the 4chan dynamic and you should leave this place.

Or at least that's what I would've told you had it been years ago.

I don't care, do what you want.
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>>147341222
>His constant "maybe the users should decide!" is never going to work and I wish he would realize that
He's right and authoritarians like you are the problem. Heavy moderation killed creativity and is the major reason why everything is shitposting and generals today.
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>>147342039
>I think the pressure Moot was under from Gawker and it's allies
riiiight
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>>147342175
>authoritarians like you
What.
My point is that the users cant decide anything and moots idea of fucking with the site first and seeing what happens later was a better idea than waiting for eternity for the "4chan userbase" to actually agree on very specific rules for their board.
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canv.as
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>>147340950
Those aren't newfags, they're cross boarder filth.
That's the real thing killing this board.
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>>147342195
But he was, and Jason Pargin of Cracked threatened an article a day about him personally unless Moot got the shit under control.
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>>147327617
He did nothing wrong
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>E7 threads before AO ruined everything
Never a better time.
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>>147342445
I rember reading that on their facebook
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>>147342161
That was the 4chan dynamic pre-2011, you should know that.
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>>147342445
>But he was
no he wasn't , he's always hated that chanology type crap.
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>>147342461

>Higher than the SUNDAYs

Fuck, I miss the E7 threads we had when it was airing.
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>Used to wish I could go back to 2006 and avoid ever coming here
>Now I wish I could go back and enjoy the old days on here

I swear to god I'd sell my left nut for an archive of this board from 06-09 just so I could trawl through it and relive the past.
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>>147342583
>I'd sell my left nut for an archive of this board from 06-09
Don't make promises you can't keep.
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>>147342583
so are you just nor aware of the 2008 to present archive?
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>>147342505

Only generals I could think of pre-2011 was... maybe Strike Witches? When did mods start banning generals, was it 2012? Because the banning of generals happened maybe a month after the general thread started appearing with the official "GENERAL" in their titles.

Anyways, the point is that the lack of solidarity that he's complaining about was what drove this place to begin with. That's why I felt like he never really belonged here.
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>>147342625
but those are the best kind
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>>147342653
sora no wo to had long running thread chains when it was airing, does that count?
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>>147342439
I want filters for anyone coming in from /v/ or /pol/. Nothing they contribute from /a/ has been valuable to discussion or contributes quality to a thread.

Not withstanding they use tumblr source of their 3D western shit. Like come the fuck on, warnings can be issued on the principal of poor quality + certain types of derailment posts.
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What were you posting on this day ten years ago?
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>>147342627
It was missing images, most of 08, and a fair chunk of 09 was spotty last I checked.
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>>147342729
Something embarrassing in all caps.
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>>147342729
Probably something about Code Geass
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>>147342748
are you talking about the desu one?
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>>147342700
Sora no woto threads were good so its okay
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>>147327226
The years have turned into a mush in my head and pretty much everything from 2010 onwards has morphed into this one giant ball of /a/, but it's hard to remember what was when and which incidents were before others and vice versa.
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>>147342653
Maybe you're misunderstanding. The solidarity BEFORE generals was things like projects /a/ worked on together, ronery threads and things like that.

The only solidarity NOWADAYS are the community people in generals make among themselves and insulate the threads from any outside influence. It's not enjoyable like this.
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bill gates should have made it harder to use a computer over time so that normals would stay the fuck away and the global net population would stay low and static
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>>147342653
K-on, strike witches, raildex
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>>147342788
its in eras for me
2007 to late 2011 is the 1st era
late 2011 to 2015 is the the 2nd era
2015-present is the 3rd era.
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>>147328378
maybe you're just that new
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>>147342819
I miss the ronery threads, i know it was offtopic but it was only one thread a night and under control.
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>>147336304
I started visiting /v/ in 2009, and /a/ in 2010. I'm 21 now.
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>>147327226
This is objectively wrong though.
/v/ went "blue /b/" in 09 and /a/ swung elitist in response.
I remember it well because I was primarily a /v/ poster.
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>>147342700

Ah, yes. That would count too, I suppose.

The thing about Sora no Woto threads was that unlike most generals, it wasn't just stupid circlejerking nonstop. It was circlejerking about SPECULAH and charts, which is infinitely better than circlejerking about literally nothing because you've exhausted everything there is to talk about like other general threads.

Sora no Woto was a general done right, even if I didn't really care for most of the speculations because some people started really stretching to grasp at things. It felt like the threads existed out of the necessity for discussion, not for the necessity of "trying to keep the general alive at all cost."

>>147342819

Ah, I see. I thought you were advocating for more general threads.

I agree, it's basically a sinking ship. Just enjoy what you can while facing doomsday. ;_;

>>147342849

Oh yeah.

Oh god, the raildex generals...
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>>147335479
I remember it was because the faggots on /foolz/ or whatever the place was back then decided that they didn't like r/a/dio for some insane reason and bothered moot until he banned them without really even checking the situation himself.

Iirc Nagi was a part of it, at least. Tripfag drama was fucking insane back in the day.
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>>147336304
2008

am now 21
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>>147342939
PKMN trainer tried those "How was your day" like two years ago and they got banned quickly.
The board(s) don't have that community feeling anymore and it fucking blows.
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>>147342893
>2011 to 2015
Quite a few things went to shit in this time
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>>147343023
like?
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>>147342939
>>147343017
ronery threads jut made me feel less depressed about being what i was , they were pretty therapeutic, then r9k happened and they became associated with bitterness.
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>>147328411
>>147335116
I was literally in the first Accelespam thread.

I complained about him not saging his posts.
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>>147343052
Not that guy but waiting time between posts and captcha made it almost impossible to post manga without some kind of add-on.
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>>147343017
>The board(s) don't have that community feeling anymore and it fucking blows.
I agree, but whatever.
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GAR
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>>147343186

I wonder how many people today know the meaning of this term.
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>>147343186
I'm still mad at that GAR contest.
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>>147342893
I break it up much the same way.
Pre-2007 I remember for being a newfag and for being very much like /b/, especially with regards to popular series, and with pockets of /jp/ surrounding niche titles and things that were only tangentially related.
2007-2011 is the time I remember most vividly for all the memes and OC and explosions of popular series that went on, as well as all the shit that shook the whole board like the various major spammers, tripfags an the like.

Things really calmed down somewhere around 2010 and into 2011 and we had this long period of stagnation, both in terms of what was airing and in terms of what was going on here. Recently, like within the past year, that seems to be changing and things have livened back up both in regards to what's airing and how the board reacts to it. I'm rather hopeful that we're heading into better times.
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>>147341451
Holy shit I know exactly what you mean. Fuck this entry level fandom.

I wish anime never became popular in the west.
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>>147343052
I mostly had /fit/ and /mu/ in mind because I used to care for
But mostly generals, e-drama and the gradual loss of community
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>>147342959

Two words, Cheesebro. SaiMoe and SaiGar.
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>>147342893
It's more like
>2006-09 - Old /a/
Lots of OC, feels like a loosely held together forum, community organizes shit to do together constantly, distinct sense of board culture. Plenty of trolling and autists are muxed in, but it's all more light-hearted, fun, and generally chill than today.
>2010-12 - Old /a/ dies
4chan starts to get TOO popular, anime starts to become increasingly mainstream as a hobby, /a/'s board culture becomes markedly less elitist and also starts to focus on concentrated discussion threads
>2013-2014 - Transitional /a/
'Ironically' liking anime becomes a thing in a big way, most of old /a/'s favourite series are old enough to fall to the way side, anime industry dives even further into moe and LN/VN adaptations and thus drags in even more autistic westerners than it used to. For some reason pretty much every board has OC and community-driven events/stuff die off hugely at this point.
>2015-2016 - New /a/
Current /a/. Pretty much all old boardculture is replaced, constant pseudo-generals are the norm, elitism is gone entirely except for in ironic shitposts and sakuga threads, ironic anime fandom is at an all time high, and /a/ is pretty much irrelevant for discussion of any big series compared to the combined mess that is tumblr/4chan/twitter/discord/MAL - whereas it used to be pretty much THE go to forum for it. Common slang has also near-completely changed on a boardwide scale.
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>>147343017
He's also dead now so lel
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>>147340675
Tipping Point Theory, aka Eternal September, is the accepted model for how communities die for a reason.

/a/ had, when moot was still here, over a million unique posters a month. It's not hurting for new people.
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>>147343322
How did that happen
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Current /jp/ is a lot more like old /a/
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>>147343322

W-Wait, Pokemon Trainer is dead?
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>>147342137
Overhyped garbage by people that didn't live through the OMK trying to "relive" what OMK was on /a/.

I'm sorry but the Molester Man threads just reeked of desperation from the get go.
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Generals are the single worst thing that can happen to a series. JoJo is a perfect example how a community that used to be great turned into a total shit and nowadays most of the people posting into those threads would be more at home in tumblr or /vg/, and probably came from there in the first place. There's no way to discuss JoJo on /a/ without the thread being overtaken by those retards and their
>don't forget the PASTEBIN
>lel gay priest am I right
>haha check out this comic I got from tumblr it's about johnny being fat and gay

When a thread becomes a general it gets isolated from the rest of the board and starts developing it's own """culture""" and getting filled with people who "only come to /a/ for our general man fuck the rest XD". Plus for a series that gets weekly content people often don't have anything to really talk about and everything devolves into that kind of inane shit.

>>147343376
I've been coming to /a/ way more rarely than before this year, but welcome back.
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>>147340094
I can't even browse Sankaku Complex without a page including 5 or so Re:Zero images. It's even killed my sexual drive. Fuck that show.
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>>147342653
Generals were banned and long term threads shunted to /anime/ since before k-on was airing for absolute certain.
So at least early 09
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>>147343376
I'm not that guy but I've seen someone say that before too. No idea if it's true though.

>>147343306
2010-12 for some reason were fucking markedly important for shaping the boards current sense of taste. I dunno how or why, but it feels like half the most popular series on here nowadays only started to gain traction or began back then - and they've influenced what's gotten popular ever since.
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>>147343421
Jojo threads hurt me on another level. The anime really ruined those threads beyond recognition.
>>147343429
Your fault for browsing sankaku to be honest
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>>147343392
I'm still sad I never got into OMK or even MM when they were running. I procrastinate like fuck and miss a ton of fun on /a/ because I see the threads and go "eh, I'll check that out later" and in the end I never do. It always fucking happens.
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>>147336822
2 years before the /jp/ split? I was looking for soundtracks when I was brought here. All went south from there. I mostly lurk though.
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>>147343464
I genuinely believe that reviving the text boards would be one of the best things that could happen for this website right now, right after banning /pol/ and somehow getting oldfag mod staff who care about board culture.
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>>147343519
>The anime really ruined those threads beyond recognition
This, even though you'll get called a hipster for saying this now. It's even worse because we managed to get the general developement in control between part 1 and 2, but after part 2 ended the same shit happened again and all was lost.
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>>147343421

I lurk the front page maybe three times a week and that's about it... I've posted maybe 2 times this month prior to this thread. I'm too busy suffering in med school now.

I'm just donning this trip for nostalgia, I'm taking it off after this thread dies. ;_;

>>147343480

Oh god do I message him and ask him?
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>>147343421
Fucking this. Generals forms a culture that's only significant to that General itself and they should be purged for this exact reason.
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>>147343421
>There's no way to discuss JoJo on /a/ without the thread being overtaken
Fucking this
One that really hurt me the most was a guy making a thread about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qM2vHahcqQ that could have had some interesting discussion about Araki as an artist, designer and writer
Instead the swarm came and turned it into a general, it really pissed me off
Whenever they're confronted you're only met with "Well why are you here then?"
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>>147343421
That happened with the Tokyo Ghoul threads after the anime aired as well. Then the cancerous posters jumped into a different bandwagon and all that's left is the leftovers of their passage, some retarded shitposters spouting senseless 'memes'. They drove away everyone who cared about the manga at all, including scanlators.
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>>147341924
Would an /ag/ fix /a/?
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>>147343616
Generals aren't going to be dealt with because the current policy for /a/ seems to be "don't rock the boat". No mod wants to start a crusade against any problem they might see on the board because they know it's going to lead to a lot of shitposting in retaliation.
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>>147343464
Yeah, I distinctly remember there being constant two-way pushing between series that tried to out-stay their welcome and mods trying to keep them from clinging to the board. I think Strike Witches was the earliest general that managed to maintain an obnoxiously constant presence on the board.

Shit really took off with Madoka, though. The season after where we had a big shitstorm over generals and there was a sticky up for a while. I remember that distinctly. We had a great period through 2011-2012 where the mods were really strict about generals following that debacle, but then they seemed to relax it again and all of the generals that had been chased off came right fucking back.

The Madoka movie was quite possibly the worst thing that could have happened to that franchise on /a/, because it gave the generalfaggots who had been chased off, the generalfaggots so incredibly awful that they had motivated the anti-general shitstorm in the first place, an excuse to come back. The current madoka threads we still have to this fucking day are the same goddamn posters from that time, circlejerking their tripcodes ad nauseum over a now long-dead series that no longer has any need for near-constant threads.

Same shit happened to monmusu more recently. Got chased off when it stopped being periodical threads about a shitty harem manga and started to become a furry refugee camp full of fanfiction and "original characters" and then came right fucking back when they got an anime, except their "anime" threads were nothing but the same circlejerk that's remained constantly since it finished airing.

The worst part of these faggots is that they don't give a shit about the anime or manga they're creating the thread under. It's just an excuse, an incredibly flimsy excuse, to post about some niche fetish or circlejerk identities while little to no actual content of the threads is actually /a/ related.
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>>147343726

Take a look at Katawa Shoujo generals on /vg/ as a reference.
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>>147343567
Those three things plus banning generals site-wide besides on /tg/, /mu/, and /co/ would fix up this website in like a year, tops.

Unfortunately it'd require a lotta dedicated anons starting up community initiatives to revive fun stuff like r/a/dio and OC generation though, and there's just no way to cause that to happen on the staff's part.
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>>147343567
Ironically you're replying to an old /new/sman

But I'll give you /pol/ is no /new/. /pol/ was essentially ruined by the influx of posters caused by the Zimmerman trial its original culture washed away.
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>>147336822
>How old are you fucks when you discovered 4chan?

I don't remember, but I was 20 in 2006. I started browsing /a/ around then I think.
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>>147343760
truthfully I was almost sucked into that a while back
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>>147343421

Holy fucking shit, this.
Have you seen what the generals have done to /int/ for example? Pages and pages filled of "/mc/ - my country general" and one or two threads about /pol/shit. What is the fucking point of the board then.
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>>147343787

>Being 30 on 4chan

So have you achieved true wizardry yet?
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>>147343726
No because the threads on it would still cause posters to adopt the habits and mannerisms of them when posting over here.

They'd need to ban generals completely to have any real effect.
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In a few years this will be regarded as the high point for today's newfags.
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Generals exist because people who were new to 4chan didn't get it so they tried to revert to other communities where there are constant threads that people discuss things in. It isn't unique to /a/, just look at pretty much every popular board, or board with lots of newfags and the majority of the threads will now be generals. I remember I accidentally clicked on /soc/ and that board is almost entirely generals.

There is nothing to be done, nothing can be done. It was entertaining for all the OC, and the OC attracts the newfaggots. It can't be helped.
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>>147343421
I can't even be bothered to finish cleaning covers and artwork anymore even for my own sake because of how bad JoJo on /a/ has gotten
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>>147343421
>you're old enough to remember when JoJo fans were almost universally regarded as goodposters
Time flies.
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>>147343726
In my opinion, no. Generals should be discouraged, not given their own little cave to thrive in.

/vg/ is one of the most cancerous cesspools I've seen since /jp/. I thought that kind of faggotry didn't exist on 4chan, but it's as if generals are populated by a completely different breed of user.
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>>147343771
I miss /new/ so fucking much.

And agreed. /pol/ was always kind of annoying but in recent years it's taken an activist slant that causes it's posters to feel like their shitposts and opinions actually fucking matter, so now they are more fervent about them than ever before and leak their shit all over every board.

It's an utter failure as a containment board.
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>>147343567
Removing /pol/ would do more harm than good. The users are already on this site and wouldn't just vanish. It was the same thing with /b/ back in the day before that board became irrelevant. I used to lurk /x/ before they became a complete echochamber and /b/ raided us regularly. Some people wanted /b/ to be removed but it would have done more harm than good as well. It's like the old saying goes: if you remove the toilet you'll have to shit in the living room.
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>>147343899
>waiting for SO and SBR translations
longest years of my life
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>>147343686
I dropped Shingeki no Kyojin years ago, but last I heard their generals are literally like some fucking mini tumblrs.
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>>147343421
Boy you right
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>>147343726
/ag/ is the final flag that /a/ has actually died. It won't fix anything.
The de facto killing of the board by splitting into separate communities is only codified de jure by literally splitting the board. That's it. There's no coming back. The board itself is a container now for communities, no longer a community unto itself.
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There is one anon here who blatantly makes flame war threads for JoJo and Fate/stay night and both fanbase still fall for it. That thread is so fucking hilarious holy shit.
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>>147343727
I don't think any mod has the power to do that even if they wanted to.

Notice how we get practically no capcode posts anymore? Something tells me they're kept on such a tight leash that the sort of proactive solutions we relied on in the past are no longer possible.

This is the tragic catch-22 of modern 4chan. If you try to shitpost something alien off of your board to protect board culture, you'll just get banned for it and nothing will get done because the mods and janitors seem to only enforce the rules of the site exactly as written and pay no heed to board culture or participating in the resolution of problems themselves. If you do nothing, nothing gets done because the current mods seem to have no interest in contributing anything to identifying or addressing board issues. Self-moderation of the type and to the degree which has always been applied copiously to the board is dead, and moderation killed it. Killed it, but then has done nothing to fill the void left by it. This is why we have shit like 24/7 shingeki no koyjin generals where they literally share tumblrs and discuss tumblr bloggers and western tumblr artists instead of talking about the manga.
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>>147343929
>It was the same thing with /b/ back in the day before that board became irrelevant.
/b/ ddos itself for weeks back when it was on its own server,
all that happened was a couple days of shitposting and then they eventually dispersed.
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>>147343984

Remember the wait for subs for the final episodes of Hyouge Mono?
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>>147343771
I don't particularly care what happens inside /pol/ its what they do outside of it thats become the problem.
Its gotten to the point where they are organizing raids against /sci/.
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>>147343836
I don't go and have never gone to /int/ but holy shit does that sound counter-productive to the meaning of its creation. It's like a goddamn parable.
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>>147344009
I think it's partially because of past incidents. Remember the old siz shitstorms with faked chatlogs? And how moot banned talking to mods on IRC afterwards? It's too easy to get people riled up over a fake mod post, so why try?
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>>147343929
See I disagree with you on this because /pol/ is unique compared to other boards people have called for the removal of before. It's posters already use reddit, facebook, stormfront, cripplechan, voat, discord, and etc. as well as many other political forums and just use /pol/ as a way to talk about the same fucking shit on here as they do there - they're /pol/iticians first, 4channers second.

If you banned them and clamped down on the resulting shitposts the most fanatic cunts would just fuck off to /r/the_donald or wherever else would take them and the rest of the less fervent ones would just keep peacefully using the other boards as normal.

It's not about kicking them off the site, it's about shutting down their homebase on here. The entire board is practically a rightwinger general and it functions just the same as any other one - remove it and their sense of community will die, and so too will their shitposting.
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>>147343771
>>147343926
Funnily enough they seriously think they are the closest to "old /b/" nowadays. That board is filled with newfags who have no idea about anything and just want a "name" to attach to themselves so that they can feel like they are a part of something "big".
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>>147343601
Ask what? There would be no response
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>>147344144
If history has proven anything it;s that no matter how blatantly the mods fuck up in trying to do good, or how angry the board gets with them, things always pass from memory and return to normal.

Remember nipplemod? People laugh at that now. The mods are as good as forgiven for their fuckup and it's made no lasting impact on the board. As stupid as that shit was, at least they were goddamn trying for a change. Since then it's been like we no longer have mods at all and there's just some automated bot that silently handles reports or something.
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>>147343747
I know I personally shitposted in a great deal of mod threads that k-on threads qualified as those 'long term discussions' that were already banned and needed to be removed.

The demarcation point for 'long term' given was when rolling threads existed outside of the season something was airing. I thought that was perfectly reasonable. You could have something like Sora No Woto (or Madoka which made SNW look like practice) burning through hundreds of threads while it was airing then it was time to stop and move the dedicated posters over to the text boards.

Too bad this policy is deader than Elvis.

>>147344090
Don't forget anonymous, /pol/ was created largely due to complaints of /new/ refugees posting on other boards (particularly /k/). Deleting a board several orders of magnitude larger than old /new/ will only produce the same problem on steroids.
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>>147344267
>Don't forget anonymous, /pol/ was created largely due to complaints of /new/ refugees posting on other boards (particularly /k/).
they are doing that already, so like whats the point even?
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How were the threads about /a/'s condition and how to make it better? Did we got any type of answer?
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>>147344144

I apologize for everything.

When I donned this trip and befriend people like Taiga, we had a single goal that united us despite all the shitposting: we would try to be class clowns and make people laugh. That was the old spirit of /a/ that started disappearing, something we were clinging to dearly.

Not everyone appreciated our attempts at being class clowns, which were heavily rooted in ironic elements. But at least some people got the joke and laughed along, and that kind of kept us going. I had an alternative goal alongside the class clown thing which kept me going as well, but seeing anons find joy in stupid shit we said rekindled the old feelings we got from the past.

And then the third wave tripfags came. They saw what we were doing and misinterpreted the entire thing. They saw it as a means to get "e-fame" and "reputation" on an anonymous image board and older tripfags like myself and Taiga are responsible for their creation.

I'm so sorry. ;_;

>>147344246

C'mon don't say that...
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>>147344179
The problem is that /pol/ has a victim mentality and they think of themselves as some bringers of truth and redpills (ironically being probably the most "tell me what to think" -people on the entire site) so if you removed the board you would definitely cause them to raid other boards and "inform" us how 4chan has been compromised.
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>>147344179
Agreed.

Also, I think this is an interesting read: http://yotsubasociety.org/eternal_summer/
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>>147344308
>delete this, delete that, this is cancer, etc etc
It's not gonna get us anywhere, just people saying what they want and people agreeing and disagreeing over and over.
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>>147344346
Its cause it used to be a joke but then they started attracting people who thought they were sincere.
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>>147344267
>Too bad this policy is deader than Elvis.
It died with the text boards, really.

"Where do we put them" has become an issue in dealing with every general that arises on /a/ because for some reason "anywhere but here" isn't a valid answer or something. Genertalfaggots always whine that "if we didn't do it here, we would have nowhere on 4chan to circlejerk and discuss our favourite tripfags" as though that's an issue or anyone should care about it. It's gotten to the point wherein order to cling to "legitimacy," threads for seasonal series do their best to try and generate a "fandom" (fuck, I hate that word) just so that they're more difficult to get rid of and have a better chance at forming a general after their show finishes airing. And it's been fucking working, too.
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>>147337709
I've always stalked you.
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>>147344179
I think the way moot was able to shit on and ruin /pol/ for two weeks straight without them managing to successfully retaliate against other boards proved they're incapable of actually tuining the site.

It was like you said, the actually fervent ones fucked off to other sites temporarily and the more sane ones just posted as normal.

I think you'd have to wait until the election is over though. Once Trump loses the board will naturally quiet down hugely after a few weeks as people grow bored of political discussion like they do after every election cycle, and it'll be ripe for the harvest.
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>>147344440
RIP Shiitchan.
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>>147344308
Of course not, that /qa/shit was just full of crossboarders from the meta board coming over to try and play leader with /a/. Any time an /a/ thread is crosslinked to another board you can be certain it will be full of garbage like that.

The only consensus was "down with generals" but that's been the consensus since goddamn 2008 and nothing can be done about it as long as mods continue to protect generals and sit on their ass about the issue.
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>>147344440
I remember moot saying he has an idea how to deal with generals in the 2013 panel. Then when he quit the site he basically said "Yeah I have no idea how to do it". He realized the userbase actively wants generals and he can't do anything about that.
>>147344442
same
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test
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>>147344530
Did it work?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNixp-wvWM

Why can't we go back?
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>>147344530
Welcome to the secret raid board
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>>147344513
I miss when Moot's identity was a secret and he could do what he thought best without having to worry about community backlash or his reputation.

2006-era moot would have banned generals and left a sticky up for a month calling the complainers fags
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Umineko was a thing. People roleplayed with /rs/ links and posted Kinzo shoops. Also,
>meanwhile, at Witch Hunt
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>>147339668
We need a Reich. Let's form the newfag deportation force.
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>>147344622

Oh god the seacats...
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>>147344513
>He realized the userbase actively wants generals and he can't do anything about that.
That's more of a sitewide issue.
/a/ collectively does not want generals, and has a culture incompatible with them. The generals that linger on our board are always a minority of users, a minority that's permitted to have a disproportionate amount of influence on the board because they're safe within their permanent reserved point on the catalog, protected by mods and unmolested by the board's actual culture. Most of our current generals either see 20 unique IPs in 12 hours or are safe spaces for crossboarders that like 1 series but don't want to deal with /a/ culture -a literal /vg/ for anime that's metastasized to our front page. Every general on our board falls into one of these two categories and they are brought up in every single meta thread as public enemy #1 because /a/ does not want them, and because self-moderation is useless against them so long as the mods protect them from self-moderation.

Some boards let themselves be completely overrun by generals and became general boards, like /int/ If they want that, power to them, let them be shit. But as long as the board's culture and generals are incompatible, generals can fuck right the hell off.
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>>147344642
Did you ever get buff anyway? I remember you working out or something like that. I also totally didn't masturbate to the mental image.
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This is the most comfy and enjoyable meta thread I've been in in months.

I wish I didn't find it so close to the end.
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>>147344513
Well moot a good start is not firing the one or two mods that gave a fucking shit about stopping them.
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>>147344622
Umineko roleplay threads were dumb and bad. The fun and speculation were great
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>>147343726
A lot of people who advocate for creation of /ag/ hold naive belief that what would happen is that current /a/ generals would migrate to /ag/ and we would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, that's not what would happen. Before /vg/ was made, there were less than ten real generals on /v/ that could really be called generals. Same thing would happen with /ag/. People would start creating dozens and dozens of new generals on /ag/.

/a/ thrives on seasonal anime discussion, and creating /ag/ would guarantee that at least the top ten most popular anime of every season would get its own general there, diverting users and traffic from /a/. So it would be much harder to discuss seasonal anime here, since there would be less people willing to discuss it. And if you did try to discuss an anime that is unfortunate enough to have its own general on /ag/, you'd get faggots telling you to fuck off back to /ag/. And you probably wouldn't be able to enjoy discussing that anime on /ag/ either, since the general itself would be garbage like 99% of the generals on this site are.

/ag/ would literally kill /a/.
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>>147344700

Wha?

I mean I'm able to do 3 sets of 20 pushups now because of the high intensity interval training thing I did for a while.

I stick with light cardio like yoga though.
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Remember, if enough decent anons continue working to improve their imageboard anything is impossible
goodnight /a/
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>>147344763

>anything is impossible
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>>147344737
I stalked you for like several months when you started posting because I assumed you were someone switching trips for whatever reason then you started posting way too much to stalk.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOMMQmYwd4I
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>>147334327
I stopped tripping 11 years ago when FORCED_ANON was first turned on within /b/. If I couldn't be a personality on /b/ why bother being notable on boards with 12 posters on them?

True Story.
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So basically, the best bet on how to fix /a/ is to:
>ban generals
>revive text boards
>get mods more active in the boards they moderate

Anything else?
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>>147344763
I only lurk, though.
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>>147344813
Who did you think it was?
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>>147344737
Then maybe we should ban generals? Is that possible?
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I remember when /ghost/ was a comfy place where we all gathered to when the site went down and had some of the most chill time and enjoyable discussions. Posters from all threads came to the single ghost-thread and all had a good time.

Then enough new people found the place and decided that we should just spam and shitpost as much as we can and everyone who doesn't like it is a nerd XD. I suspect the new irc/foolz/tripfags had something to do with it.
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>>147344812
Hey man it's late
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>>147344737
>Before /vg/ was made, there were less than ten real generals on /v/ that could really be called generals. Same thing would happen with /ag/.
I meant to add "Now you have over a hundred different generals on /vg/." in between these two sentences.
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>>147344737
yeah this is also why i think a manga board wouldn't work
you'd just get people telling you to go one or the other board for a manga with an anime adaptation.
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>>147344835
Crack down on the leakage of board cultures into boards they don't belong in
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>>147344737
/ag/ would just be on paper confirmation that /a/ is already no longer a board but a series of chatrooms.
It wouldn't kill anything that's already dead enough for /ag/ to be a thing.
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>>147344835
Ban Re:Zero.

Think about it, without their generals (in plural mind you) the entire fucking board would be cluttered with that goddamn fucking show.
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>>147344846
I dont think I had anyone specific in mind. I just thought he was an active (or active-until-recently) tripfag who decided to take on a new identity.
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>>147344835
Don't forget: stealth ban anyone coming here via a link from discord or popular webIRC clients
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>>147344847

It was.

Our mods did actively ban them for a while.
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>>147344835
Any tumblr/leddit link or reference is an insta ban.
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>>147344912
like?
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>>147344752
It was probably something I read at one point and it just stuck into my memory for some reason.
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>>147344911
>the entire fucking board would be cluttered with that goddamn fucking show.
This is a historically precedented board phenomena and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it aside from the fact that this time around, you dislike the show that it's happening with.
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>>147344937
Even filenames like tumblr gifs?
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>>147344927
How do we get better mods
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>>147344763
You had one fucking job Gyro.
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>>147344423
>/pol/ - Poe's Law
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>>147344940
Fuck if I remember. Doesn't matter because a lot of that period is gone due to archive failure.
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>>147344957

Remember when K-ON ep 1 aired?
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>>147344982
We can't. The current batch don't give a fuck about board culture and hiroyuki wants to let the /qa/ community decide on rules without actively participating on any boards to see their real issues.
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>>147344835
Allow fun again. Maybe one of the biggest single thing I feel is missing from /a/ nowadays is just pure silly fun. Unfortunately that kind of fun is often what moot called "tertiary" and it requires a tighter community that knows how much off topic is just right without it going out of control.
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>>147344898
Manga threads have been on life support since before the /jp/ split.

Something had to get pretty damn popular to have chapter threads on /a/ even back then.
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>>147344911
>the entire fucking board would be cluttered with that goddamn fucking show.
I've never seen whats wrong with that
thats always been the case with popular airing shows on /a/ in the past .
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>>147345071
the only way I'd support a manga board is if /a/ still remained anime and manga
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>>147344978
Those especially. Tumblr gifs are fucking atrocious and everyone who looks at one and thinks "yup, this looks good, I'll save it" is either blind or a lost cause.
You can always recognize a tumblr gif because they are
>under 1MB
>jittery and pointless with as few frames as possible
>oversaturated to hell and back
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>>147345071
>tfw you've seen the rise and fall of most of your favourite manga getting active chapter-dump threads

I miss reading that shit on here and getting to react in real-time with everyone
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>>147345071
I miss Daily Yotsuba Chapter.
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>>147345037
That's in no small part due to the fact that he's a businessman that probably doesn't have the time to actually sit down and browse 4chan or actively participate in its culture. He sees the meta board as basically a feedback forum where he can see whatever he needs to see about the management of the website concentrated in 1 place. It probably doesn't even matter to him that isn't the reality of it, so long as the website continues to turn a profit
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>>147345120
What the fuck is with the filters tumblr put on everything?
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>>147345177
Insane filesize limit
Thread posts: 650
Thread images: 169


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