What was /a/ like 10 years ago?

better place

Was Code Geass the thing that ruined /a/?

I've been on 4chan since 2006 and I feel like that was when it changed.

>>159554959
Why?

>>159555135
Super Smash Bros ruined /v/
WC 2014 ruined /sp/
TDKR ruined /tv/
___________ ruined /a/

>>159555138
No Keit-ai spam.

>>159555365
hi janny-kun

>>159555135
Infinite Stratos.

>>159554928
Less exhausted.

More innocence and enthusiasm.Most people actually came here to enjoy their time.

>>159555135
>I feel like /a/ changed when I started browsing it
Really meaningful observation there.

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Better.

>>159555135
I don't think /a/ has been ruined yet actually. Every year this board gets a little younger, a little hornier, a little more gullible, but the self-moderation has kept this place from going completely to shit. If you think it's bad now, this is not even close to the worst /a/ could get.

Fewer normalfags. That's it.

Shit.

t./jp/sie

>>159555571
fuck off /v/spawn

>>159555135
/a/ is still kinda okay, if you ignore the majority of the constant generals, reposts, and crossboarder meme bait. Some people hate 2009, but I think it was the best year on /a/. Things didn't really start going downhill until after 2013, even as late as this time last year things were better and felt less newfaggy.

trump ruined /pol/
gaia ruined /a/
/asp/ ruined /sp/
porn ruined /b/
/k/, /int/, /mu/, /tv/ were always shit
/v/ ruined everything
creepypastas ruined /x/
/pol/ ruined /po/
/a/ ruined /jp/

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>tfw no anime will ever take over the board like CG and TTGL ever again
I cry every night.

>>159555487
/a/ hasn't really had a huge decline. Sure, there are issues, but then there always have been. We used to have different flavors of shit, like Accelspammer, and constant "if your waifu is posted do [x]" threads.

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>>159554928
I only know what it was like 9 years ago.
Fuck all these general threads and spoonfeeders

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>>159555365

>>159555714
>porn ruined /b/
Wrong, 3DPD porn ruined /b/. Also /tv/ is one of the last boards that is still somewhat enjoyable to browse if you know the right threads.

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>>159554928
/a/ was always ruined since the beginning.
>also here since '06

>>159554928
Way more porn and blog posting. It was actually a lot of fun though.

>>159555135
Generals ruined /a/. No longer are there multiple threads when something exciting happens. It's hard to gauge what's popular and what's not if every day there is damn general of a show up.

We used to as a board talk about mangas as they were scanlated and there would be threads for each part and then the board would switch to whatever was subbed.

I miss that dynamic shifting but there is no way we would ever recapture that naturally.

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>>159555720
There was Re:Zero, but it died down after episode 18. Shame, if whitefox kept in pivotal world building, development and the LN ending of vol 9, the shitstorm would still be seen today

>>159555735
I honestly dread the day that /a/ really truly goes to shit, as a result of some kind of GamerGate-tier scandal. Even typing that made me shudder.

>>159555365
Stop posting that because it's already a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139

>>159555816
If you make threads for some event from an airing show people will tell you to keep it in their stupid fucking general because it's "bad manners". Fucking faggots.

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>>159554959

>>159555764
>he watchs tv

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>>159555365
June 11, 2011.

A date that will live on in infamy.

>>159555896
>/b/

>>159555816
You still get your epic board flooding every now and then, wait till Reddit:Zero gets a S2.

>>159555915
tv is having a golden age right now while anime is going down the shtters..maybe westcucks are right

>>159555816
It's hard not to have generals when if there are 2 or, god forbid, 3 threads of something, people start shitting them up.

>>159555135
/a/ is still livable.
Since there are some artist I really like who only post their work on blog and tumblr (fucking why, there are so many other normal sites), I have to visit that shithole from time to time. And I don't even understand half of the shit there. But it's absolutely cancerous. /a/ is not the same as it used to be 10 years ago but were also not the same. The good old days when I had no idea what sage does.

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>>159555923
Same shit.
We are all in the same boat here.

>>159555915
I don't, I just post in /tv/ threads. I haven't watched a new live action anything since 2013.

>you hated moot
>you called moot a faggot
>moot is gone forever

>>159555714
swarmfront ruined /pol/, trump was the result

>>159555971
moot ;_;

>>159555971
Wow, /a/ really was always shit. I don't know whether I should feel glad that it isn't actually always getting shittier, or sad that it was always as bad as it is.

>>159555994
>he watched live action

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>>159556009
>>159556024
;_;

>>159556052
T. the samefag from 2008

>>159554928
wiki/image spam scipr
A LOT

>>159556081
>you thought those shitty motivational memes were the funniest shit ever

How did my sense of humor warp so much over the past 10 years?

>>159556060
Yeah, I did. I wouldn't have gotten into anime if I hadn't liked Star Wars as a kid.

>>159555971
I unironically miss moot. He did many things wrong but I believe he had good intentions for the most part
The highlight of each month used to be moot coming in here to fuck with us. I looked forward to seeing what crazy thing he would do next

>>159555953
>normalfags keep watching tv
>having a golden age right now
>right now

>>159556107
Nah, I'm a newfag.

chanology ruined 4chan in general

Remember when Nardo threads gets spam to death by wikiposters?

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Only oldfags will remember this bitch.

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>>159556139

>>159556138
blogging your shit
lurk for 2 years before posting

>>159555896
The coolest part about that screencap is that it's "dated" older than 4chan yet retards keep reposting it.

>>159555135
As long as I don't see Wojaks and Pepe's in the OP or any other corpse meme like those two then I think /a/ is still pretty good.

>>159556155
TV shows are objectively the best they've been in decades. Shame the same can't be said about anime.

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>>159554928
Old /a/: weirdos
New /a/: losers

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>>159556205

>>159555138
People had actual fun. They were less scared of being criticized, we were taking it easier, and there wasn't the same constant cynics there is now. People are afraid of reddit, of /v/, of /pol/ now, which are real problems admittedly. /a/ did the right thing in growing up, but we lost something.

>>159555920
It was later than that that it became a forced meme though, you idiot.

>>159556193
it did but even 2008-2010 was roughly okay

There has been a precipitous drop in quality after that failed canv.as project and you could tell 4chan was trying to become monetized.

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>>159556009
But why did he leave us?

>>159556288
Taiga was literally one of the worst tripfags.
Sometimes I kinda miss my old trip but it was time to retire it after 7 years.

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>>159555764
>Also /tv/ is one of the last boards that is still somewhat enjoyable
What the fuck. /tv/ is literally one of the WORST boards on this entire site.
>all that capeshit
>all that 3D pedo posting
>politically charged everything
/tv/ is the worst board on this website, and it should be nuked.

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>>159556352
He didn't leave us.
We failed him.
We are his children, yet, we failed him.

>>159556155
Does that make Japanese people normalfags if they watch anime or tv?

>>159556201
Remember when there weren't any shonen jump generals on /a/?

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>>159556352

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>>159556009
>tfw he once replied to one of my posts on old /r9k/ when he was first trying to decide whether to delete it or not
>never saved it

>>159556348
>it did but even 2008-2010 was roughly okay
if you ignore everyone trying to be an ebin joker wannabe triptroll, spambots all over the place and every discussion being a turn based greentext battle then yeah it was okay.
I hate current 4chan but those years were pretty bad. I guess if you wanted to have fun they were a fun kind of bad while now it's a boring kind of bad.

>>159555207
>WC 2014 ruined /sp/
Euros 2012.
People actually forget or ignore that 2012-2013 was the real dark age of tight moderation, most tripfags stopped after people from other boards constantly despised them, cp was a real problem, the outlelz constantly shitting up the place in response to the moderation, the board got popular but we didn't get enough "creators" to supply all the new content users, game threads became too fast and the spiky nature of /sp/ number of posts was exaggerated.

WC 2014 things were already stabilzed, and I dare to say that from 2015 or so things are improving compared to the previous years.

>>159555207
Gamergate was definitely the final nail in the coffin for /v/. Scooby dox was the death of /fit/. Post-2012 has been rough times.

>>159555714
>/asp/ ruined /sp/
Other way around, /sp/ convinced Hirohito to send wrestling to /asp/.

I remember Moot made my thread a sticky for a short while, when I posted a Code Geass thread saying it's the last "Jibuuun Woo", he even placed an autoplay youtube song on it.

Moot ;_;7

>>159556416
>what are torrents?
>what is stream?

'tard note: did you know japanese people piracy anime as well?

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>>159556483
I once bragged to him that I I've never been banned.

He told me I've been banned 60-70 times (I forget the number)

I didn't save it either.

>>159555778
It really has been 10 years since then. Damn. These illegal moves, I hate it.

>>159556630
>Japanese people piracy anime
Fucking hypocritical phone posters.

>>159556288
Is taiga still alive?

>>159554959
Not really.

>>159556690
>/a/ will never be this fun again
>/a/ will forever be shonen generals and /e/ image dumps

TAKE

ME

BACK

>>159555135
newfag summer happened during 2007, so maybe gurren lagann

>>159556392
Who are you, fag?

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>>159556707
I'm more concerned about Sheldon.

>>159556739
BACK TO BETTER DAYS

>>159554928
I wonder if this guy from the picture is still here and is able to rate his opponent's dedication.

>>159556775
middle was best

prove me wrong

>>159556789
Original 4chan was best. Stupid fun beats annoying ironic fun.

>>159556775
I like using "desu" and "senpai", I'll continue doing it even if they remove the world filters.

>>159556774
I wonder if a lot of anons in old screencaps are still around.
>>159556775
Proof that Pepe and Wojak killed most blue board's with how easy they are to exploit.

That was 7 years ago?

Christ

This October or next I'll have lurked for as long as I was in primary school k-12. What a fucking nightmare.

>>159556837
Naruto ended 2 years ago

>>159556751
I hope I remember correctly... Haven't used it for 2+ years

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>>159556758
I wonder if Drew has learned how to open bottles yet?

>>159556873
time flies fast

So to 2008 and below oldfags, why are you still here?

>>159556908

Lost control of my life.

>>159555821
That was only a few people trying to force one.

>>159556908
In hopes this board and others get better. /v/ will always be a lost cause though, gave up on that board in 2013.

>>159556908

I'm here forever. and i don't even watch anime that much anymore

>>159556908
Where the fuck else would we go?

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>>159556707
she hangs around on discord
dunno if she still posts here though
>>159556908
4chan has been a friend for almost half of my life. I cannot abandon a friend.

>>159556908
I enjoy arguing about anime/manga and reading about the latest shows in a non-commercialized manner.

>>159556789
No. That was fucking terrible. All IRCfags need to die in a fire.

>>159556908
>>159556937

>>159556908
I grew up on 4chan and don't see myself leaving. The first thing I do when I turn my pc on for the last decade+ is open 4chan.

>>159556969
>discord
How do people 'do' discord. Isn't it just another skype/TS how are people networking through this thing?

>>159556957

As helpful as the catalogs have been, I do find it harder to discover more shows unlike when you had to continuously scroll through the pages.

>>159555915
I am rewatching X-files right now but i dont really watch anything modern

>>159556908
I returned after 7 years

>>159556908
Neet, autism, hate registration and censored posts(aside from the rules), hate identities and their self placed importance's.

4chs the only place there is unless you want to talk to yourself and 1-2 others on other deadchans

>>159557027
It's the new form of IRC where epik maymays and "4channers" and the rest of the normies gather.

>>159554928
it was shit but with much less politically correct bullshit and a lot more oc and the mods would fuck around sometimes and it was fun

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>>159556775
They updated it

>>159556908
I enjoy anonymity in the internet
and sexy 2d girls

>>159556590
Zyzz dying really fucked /fit/ up too.

>>159557027
basically it all started with an old msn tripfag chatroom that eventually moved to skype and now to discord, basically all the members move to the better program
it has had its splits and dramas but a lot of these people have been around for like 8 years together

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Be honest. When did you all start browsing 4chan?

I remember my first threads were when /b/ was "trolling" these guys.

>>159556908
Because 80% of my anime watching pleasure comes from watching "with" /a/

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>>159557072
We're not there yet. We're not there yet. We're not there yet.

>>159557129

Since 2007, came from desuchan

>>159557129
More than 10 years ago. When I was in highschool.

>>159555714
I think /b/ went to shit when they really started to fucking hammer the no invasion thing

Self-moderation is a nice concept and everything, but there are too many fags going on crusades against what they don't like for the sake of "protecting the board", making meta shitposts a million times worse than whatever they complain about.

It's like the board's immune system lost control and started a war against FUN.

>>159557072
They ruined it by including twitter screencaps instead of 4chan.

>>159557129

Spring 2007, right after V-Tech kicked in.

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>>159557072
/pol/ killed this fucking. Not because of Trump posting but because of all the normalfags they imported.

>>159556009
I remember the day when Moot and Hiro were in a Niconico stream and they visit 4chan

also
I remember I posted asking hiro buy 4chan, then things happened

>>159556969
good to see she hasn't changed much. Was fun seeing her reaction to any Saimoe thread too.

>>159557162
It's easier than ever before to ignore those fucks with recursive post hiding.

>>159557085
If anything it brought the board together. It's weird as fuck to think I used to sit in all of those blogtv/tinychat group chat things with him in it. The whole culture of the board is dead as fuck now, it's like a different website. I think the fad of "ironic depression" on the internet killed the feel threads which were pretty much just late night ronery threads with people who lift. It pisses me off to even visit the board.

>>159557162
No. No. This is a million times better than the alternative. Look in /mu/ to see what could happen to us.

>>159557162
There's fun and there's garbage.

The influx of normalfasg without understanding the rules and the understanding of /a/ forced it to have jan's work overtime without hotpockets.

>>159557166
4chan just isn't the same meme powerhouse it used to be, now it's all about Twitter memes
And I hate that fact

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>>159554928
>most people who browse /a/ now were toddlers old 10 years ago

>>159557129
regular by early 2006.

>>159557162
Self-moderation works mostly, but it's true there are some shits who've decided to moderate beyond what is needed. Like that "gook" fucktard.

>>159557129
>Be honest.
Alright, I'm a newfag.
My first time here was 3 years ago to discuss about MonMusu

>>159557162

Also weird moderation against things that have been around forever, like E-Hentai threads that have been regular since very early 2010.

>>159557129
My brother left /b/ open on his laptop and I came to /b/ for porn and I've been here ever since. That was a year after he graduated because the laptop was a graduation present which makes it 2005.

>>159557129
first visit late 2006, started lurking from 2007, finally posting from 2011 or so.

>>159556252
>go outside of /a/
>see dumb frogs and social media shit
>cry
The bar is no low nowadays.

>>159557129
late 2005
a forum i used to go to got raided and some retard namedropped /b/, i tried raiding back with no effect, stayed and became a total retard
>>159557199
let's be real, every few years a board attracts a shitton of outsiders for whatever reason and "ruins" the site a little more, this time it was /pol/ but other boards like /v/ and /b/ did the same shit before in like 5 years people will be blaming some other board for another outsider invasion

>>159557129
I started checking in occasionally around TTGL time, and started coming here daily during whichever season was the one with Color Wars and Occult Academy.

>>159555764
>porn
>ruining /b/
>ever
Nice meme.

>>159557129
2012.

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>>159557129
2012 or so, but I knew about 4chan way long ago since 2008, just didn't really care about it

been browsing daily ever since 2012 then, 5 years go by so fast

>>159556262
So tell us about your objectively good shows then.

>>159556908
I am the cancer from gaiaonline, you will never ever ever ever be rid of me for shitting up that one thread /b/ shit up.

>>159557362

Occult Academy aired 7 years ago. Don't have shows that fun very often.

>>159557199
>>159557357
/v/ never imported so many newfriends. /pol/ is simply the new /b/, the reason people come on 4chan for. It's an awful thing for the rest of the site, but what can we do?

>>159556908
I honestly don't know but I miss when the entire planet didn't know this site existed and it wasn't so flooded with people and garbage.

>>159556964
Sad reading this, there is no place for us except for this one. I can't even enjoy playing 100% oranje juice with other weebs because they are not weeb enough

>>159557129
last year but I know a lot about anime

I'm helping this board more than some of these oldfags with only 50 animes watched

>>159554928
I'm depressed that I'm capable of answering that question.

>>159557398
Fargo, Better Call Saul, The Americans, American Crime Story, Mr. Robot, Louie, The Crown, etc.

Some of the greatest TV shows in the past few decades and they're happening now.. aka a golden age.

>>159557429
So, before it existed? Yes, everything was better back then.

>>159556483
I've got moot to reply to me at least 7-8 times.
It wasn't even that rare for him to reply, anon.

>>159557432

Even ANN somehow fucked itself up trying to emulate Buzzfeed by posting articles on the most inconsequential shit.

>>159557417
It'd be great if /pol/ was just deleted.

We're lucky here that not too many /pol/tards seem to be interested in anime or manga, compared to what they've done to /v/, for example.

>>159557470
Shut up man it was special to me.

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Do you see yourself browsing /a/ past age 50?

Do 50+ year olds browse /a/ now?

What JoJo part do 50 year olds prefer?

>>159557129
Around 2008. I was just curious because I read some people mentioning it and I was too young and retarded, so I decided to check it out by myself.

>>159557162
>Self-moderation is a nice concept and everything
What people don't understand is that this won't work anymore within like 2 years. It doesn't work on any of the popular boards like /v/, /pol/, /tv/. If you tell some retard to read the rules they are actively breaking they say shit like
>actually reading the rules
>x website is for discussion 4chan is for shitposting
Spoonfeeding needs to be public banned.

>>159557162
>not wanting self-moderation autism in full blast like 2010 to early 2012
>not wanting another pent up accelspammer

>>159557470

Moot responded to me one time about New York City, and banned me another time for saying I blocked ads. Good times.

>>159557483
>season 3 fucking never

just slit my god damn throat, senpai

>>159557129
My first trip post is from 2008 but I lurked at least a year and posted as anon for one more. Then after 7 years with a trip I went back to anon.

How to find /a/:
Kanji captcha
Ban generals
Add flags and IDs

>>159557535
you're forgetting to bring back visible sage

>>159557468
no it was fine before it became mainstream and anonymous legion autistic bullshit

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>>159557284
Twitter memes? Never heard of those.
Then again who the fuck uses social media?

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>>159557535
>Add flags and IDs
Please no. We already saw how awful /a/ looked with flags this year.

>>159557552
fuck off, people used that as a downvote

>>159557535
>add flags

But then no one would actually address any of my points.

>>159557535
>kanji capcha
Do we still have a pasta/screenshot for this?

>>159557573
Literally no one used it as a downvote, that was just a forced meme. Visible sage was an easy way to spot the newfags/normalfags on /a/.

>>159557535
>Kanji captcha
Kana captcha.
>ban generals
Or at least heavily moderate them. Go look at how fucking awful DBS, HxH, or any big 3 general is compared to the rest of the board. They are like /v/ threads on the wrong board.
>Add flags and IDs
Stupid idea, if anything IDs but even then it just leads to shitposting.

>>159557569
This. Canadians and aussies shitposting everywhere and uncomfortably lare amount of south americans.

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>>159557506

That was the year when I started to see anime regularly

>>159557535
Flags add nothing but shit, but threadly IDs would at least get rid of the whole "samefag" "no I'm not" tedium.

>>159557129
Since 2007.

It was /u/ and I was posting in the Blue Drop thread. Back then /u/ was as militant as it is today, but since there were few yuri materials they were mostly confined in their own board.

>tfw no one even remember Blue Drop today

>>159557491
It's also because, to put it bluntly, /v/ is an extremely gullible and childish board. No other board, except maybe /tv/, seem to have been as colonized by /pol/ as /v/ was.
It helps that we have proper moderation, proper self-moderation, and enough people knowing about the medium to tell /pol/ to fuck off. /v/, on the other hand, lost so many old users to /vr/, and all is left are young users. I bet there is a huge difference in the % of american users here and there, and that plays a part too.

And yeah, I'd love to see /pol/ deleted, but the moderation required after would be too much effort for Hiro.

>>159555714
>gaia ruined /a/
This is not 2008 kiddo

>>159557625

It had a submarine, right?

>>159557578
>a fucking leaf or a poo
Just move countries.

>>159556311
Afraid of reddit!?

>>159557535
>How to find /a/:
hey I found it!

>>159557535
>flags
>ids
>>>/out/

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>>159557129
2006. Friend had a picture of Maka from the Soul Eater manga in his MSN picture, asked where he got it from and showed me 4chan and told me to never mention this site in real life and I still keep to that this very day. Being a secret club fag might seem sad but it helps.

MSN was fucking gold

>>159557417
Isn't /pol/ even more popular than /b/ now?

>>159557491
95+% of the boards will be flooded by /pol/ threads if you do that. It's the furry board of 4chan if you know what I mean.

As long as we don't get a huge influx of retards due to a scandal and continue to self moderate we'll be fine

>>159555207
anime ruined /a/
/a/ ruined anime

It's like pottery

>>159557653
Afraid of reddit. Oh they steal my oc, oh we can't use the same jokes, oh we can't like the same things as them.

>>159557569
>>159557607
>Canadians and aussies
No, I actually ran wrote a script, and the most flags were Brazilians. Goddamn literal monkeys ruining /a/.

>>159557462
I have never heard of any of those.

>>159556885
Oh shit

Wow, old 4chan was so fucking reddit, thank God it changed

>>159556908
Why not? It is only place i still enjoy coming here even after 13 years here.

I cant say samething about that one finnish imageboard

>>159557535
Flags are terrible. I am all in for a /spa/ board so I could talk about anime in a "lighter" way, but /a/ with flags would be terrible.

>>159557711
you're missing out

/a/utists would love Mr. Robot especially

>>159557703
I saw WAY too many canadians shitposting. I didn't even see many australians.
But I did see one qt vatican poster

>>159557703
Hues should be banned.

>>159557718
Fucking this.

>omg kawaii :3
>LOL WINRAR
>EPIC WIN DUDE
>this thread is so win

People actually think this shit isn't cancer?

>>159557535
>Ban generals
Why not make /ag/? It works wonder to allow actual discussion of games and keep memespouting /pol/tards away from game discussions.
>Add flags and IDs
IDs is useful, but Flags is just /pol/ bait. We don't need more of them anywhere outside /pol/.
>Kanji captcha
Now this is just retarded. Not even actual Japanese can be guaranteed to solve this.

>>159555135
>Was Code Geass the thing that ruined /a/?

It was definitely Raki Suta that did it.

>>159557703
>>159557728
Canadians were mostly a /vint/ problem.

>>159557607
The lack of flags makes it easier for aussies and leafs to shit post.

>>159557746
Innocent days of the internet. I miss my youth.

>>159557748
>Why not make /ag/
Never recommend this shit again.

>>159557129
2011

/b/

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>>159556908

>>159557748

>/ag/

God no

>>159557646
What mattered was that it had unapologetic lesbians in an era where everything was bait (see: Higurashi).

>>159557726
>muh hackers
>/a/utists liking it
Mr. Robot is extremely western, I don't see how well it would be received.

And for the most part, I don't agree that Anime is going down the shitter. It's just getting more and more into what anime is over time.

>>159557746

It was 10 years ago. iPhone was barely a thing, apps definitely weren't.

>>159557642
>/v/ is an extremely gullible

You're right. Every time I've gone there I've been amazed at how they will fall for the most obvious trolls imaginable.

>>159557671
>95+% of the boards will be flooded by /pol/ threads if you do that.

I'm not convinced about that. Maybe briefly, but I think they would pretty quickly just move on to whatever the hot new hangout is.

>>159557748
Because we don't need it? we have few generals, there is space for everyone, and /ag/ would simply be a culture for general mentality. We have constant new content, we can live with the kemono friends general and whatever else we have.

The problem with /v/ was that it was too fast, which is something we don't have.

>>159557746
it is, but it wasn't at the time
just like whatever was amusing 5 years ago is cancer today and whatever is amusing now will be cancer in a few years from now
just a cycle, you see anything enough times and it starts to get old

>>159557746
It only became cringe when other sites started stealing it. Same thing with meme faces/"memes" in general.

>>159557443
>last year
>animes
posts like this make me physically sick

Ok. Apart from canadians, aussies, brazilians and indians, is there anyone against flags?

>>159557129
Summer 2004 if i remember right. I dont remember how i found this site and dont know why i stayed here

>>159557820
There is literally 0 benefit from /a/ gaining flags. Stop being stupid.

>>159557820
Literally everyone with a brain would be against flags because they provide absolutely nothing other than a scapegoat for shitposting.

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>>159557721
friendly reminder

>>159557820
As a mexican I'm against flags.

>>159557811
You know what's a better idea? /ags/ - shounen anime general. So shounenfags can fuck off to a containment board.

>>159557820
Yes. They add absolutely nothing. Fuck off.

>>159557820
Me, because I have a rare flag.

>>159557861
fucking leafs

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>>159555365
Already a thing.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825

>>159557820
I'm all for it. Mostly just to watch the worried fags squirm.

What a bunch of faggots

>>159557865
how about their generals get moderated heavier and they don't get their own board to turn into /r/anime2.0?

>>159557861
Truly, /spa/ made me understand why leafs are so hated.

The janitors destroyed the Monster Musume generals we had 2-3 months ago, they even moved to /c/
Why can't we do the same with the shounenshit?

4chan got progressively worse, especially when things like party hard and gorespammer stopped happening.

>>159557820
April Fools showed exactly why /a/ shouldn't have flags. What's the point of any discussions/shitposting when you can just label someone a burger, a leaf, a poo in the loo, etc.? It's just going to devolve into a pseudo /pol/.

>>159557491
>It'd be great if /pol/ was just deleted.
That would be like saying that it would be great if no one has septic tank in their house. The shits would be everywhere, even on the streets.

>>159557810
Oh yeah probably not over a long period of time but I'm afraid they'll eventually decide to settle in one board and shit it up so hard that no form of moderation will stop them.

>>159557820
Anyone with rare flags. Using a flag is pretty much being forced into a tripcode.

>>159557861
This is why I don't want flags, all that /int/ shitposting is already bad enough on /sp/ and on /a/ it would be even worse because it would attract people from all over the site.

I don't understand how can someone want flags.

>>159557443
give a link to your MAL profile

>>159557915
>dedicated mod that hates shounen for each shounenshit general
>helps reduce the leak to other threads
A man can dream

>>159557921
>Why can't we do the same with the shounenshit?
I agree with you. These dump Shonen jump theads along with the Naruto/Bleach/One Piece generals need to fucking go and stay go.

>>159557817
Exactly. We cringe at that shit because we know it doesn't belong to them.

>>159557940
Too bad the shit is already everywhere. Containment boards don't work when they are popular.

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Banning this will save /a/.

>>159557959
>I don't understand how can someone want flags.
They like chaos.

>>159557921
They removed it because one of the janitors despised MonMusu, we have no janitors that hate shounen

>>159554928
mobileposters ruined /a/.

>>159557921
We need to do the same with all generals.

>>159555714
The only good board is /po/

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>>159557961

>>159557820
stop trying to control everything

>>159557993
Anime.

>>159557999
mobileposter user agents need a 5 minute minimum post timeout

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>>159557998
>no janitor hates shounen
>the demographic that breeds the shittiest posters

>>159557671
>>159557810
>95+% of the boards will be flooded by /pol/ threads if you do that. It's the furry board of 4chan if you know what I mean.
More of the below
>I'm not convinced about that. Maybe briefly, but I think they would pretty quickly just move on to whatever the hot new hangout is.
With around ~13 years of experience on 4chan across various boards. This is what will happen. It can go smoother or rougher depending on the amount of janitors/mods available for the initial first few days. If anything there will be some sustained ddos for few days before this is fixed. The /pol/tards will either disperse or move to their "new" hideout, aka stormfront/reddit.

>>159557999
>2010
>moot said mobile posters accounted for 40% of traffic
>2017
>/a/ is dead
What's the percentage now?

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>>159557999
just

>>159557491
Dont you remember when /news/ got deleted? Same thing will happen if you go delete /pol/

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Which one are you, /a/?

>>159557921
Monster girl general existed because people wanted to talk about Monster girls. If the general moves, they'll move with it.
Shounen shit, at least partially, exists because it's so easy to bait people with it. They'll continue fishing for replies even if you tell them to move.

>>159557999
they ruined the whole damn site
phoneposters should be gassed

>>159557820
It would just add a new layer of shitposting without bringing anything positive.
Maybe a Japan flag to spot fags who, as a way to support their point, claim to be in Japan but actually aren't

>>159558060
It has to be over 60% now, especially for /pol/

>>159555821
Come on, that was nowhere ear the level of TTGL or CG.

>>159557998
>janitors despised MonMusu
What the actual fuck. I don't think "Mods hate this particular series" qualify as a ground for deletion.

>>159558073
newfag and proud

>>159558067
I still don't know what gamergate is, but I doubt it caused that much traffic.

>>159558040
>user agents
User agents can be spoofed trivially. But mobile networks are usually distinct, and therefor mobile networks themselves can be rangebanned.

>>159557921
>people on /a/ are not allowed to discuss their favorite anime/manga because someone in the moderation team doesn't like it
>2017

>>159557921
Yeah I don't know why they're here. Their shit taste and shitposting is atrocious.

>>159557999
I don't even know how people can enjoy posting from a phone. But I guess when you're just typing nigger memes it doesn't matter all that much.

>>159558073
Every time I remember the desu spam, I still cringe.

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>>159558073
>you will live to see /a/ get flooded by the Keit-ai generation

>>159558073
newfag
I missed chode gayass and gurren "not so good" lagann

>>159558073
reddit.

>>159558104
It's not that easy, especially with AT&T and Verizon doing DSL. You could end up banning entire cities from posting.

>>159556908

Because this place is still the best place for Anime discussion on the internet. 05 anon here, old as fuck and still going strong.

>>159558095
>I still don't know what gamergate is
How the fuck is this possible? Even if you weren't on any 4chan board you should have still known it was happening. That shit wasn't even long ago.

>>159557562
I use twitter to follow my favorite manga and hentai artists

>>159558073
What's the difference between knowing about 4chan, and posting on 4chan?

>>159558113
Creating a general that breeds no discussion =/= discussing your favorite anime/manga.

>>159558073
>cancer isn't the worst thing on this site now

Appropriate.

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honestly, mods are not going to get rid of generals anytime soon, so you might as well take action into your own hands.

>>159558073
delete this

>>159558073
2008. To think it was something I used to be ashamed of.

>>159558089
You should've frequented the MM generals last year, I know that even without any new content they would make a thread but it's the same with some shounens.
The janitors would delete the thread with less than 20-30 replies and even deleted it when a new chapter was released, they make their chapter dumps on /c/ now

>>159558073
/g/ needs to be purged and start anew. I feel like I'm the only one who reports tech support threads and the /pol/-tier threads.

I miss /spa/. It was nice to have a board to be more relaxed on when talking about anime.

>>159558056
>The /pol/tards will either disperse or move to their "new" hideout, aka stormfront/reddit.
They didn't particularly do that when moot deleted /n/ and /new/ granted they were way less popular boards.
Also it just takes a bunch of very autistic shitposters to shit up the boards big time as some sort of vendetta. If a single person can delete every thread on /vp/ with a script, daily then imagine what a bunch of organized autistic /pol/tards can do with the site.

>>159558135
I just don't, I only stay on /a/. Also I don't play videogames if that is at all relevant.

>>159558155
You should at least go into the threads to delete people frogposting or posting 3dpd shit. Hiding it just lets them fester and get bigger like every other cancer.

>>159558135
I also have no idea. Seen some of that shit on twitter but never cared enough to look further.

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>>159558073
Will we all become Jeff Goldblums in 2022 or something?

>>159558148
>people discussing an anime and manga posting images of said series and discussing the characters in said series = discussion
because you are not interested in said discussion does not mean they have no right to it, you fucking cuck

>>159558073
Originalfag or maybe First year of Oldfag.

>>159558186
I gave up on that a long time ago. I honestly hate looking at them in the catalog so I have no other choice.

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>>159558073
Newfag.

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>>159558117

Even worse when you want a Rozen Maiden thread, and those newfags just want to desu spam

>>159557253
>ronery threads

Oh man I forgot about those..../a/ used to be a magical place.

Same with 4 am threads on /v/

>>159558199
>cuck

Permabanning anyone who uses this word would also help.

>>159558218
Why does /a/ love /v/ so much?

>>159557535
>add flags and IDs
Go to reddit if you want IDs.

>>159558181
New can ban wave can do that. Its not that hard these days. IP + browser fingerprinting.

Only the really technologically minded and the non-lazy will bypass that, aka less than 1% of the shitters.

>>159557562
>who the fuck uses social media
Artists who matter. People moved from Pixiv en masse to Twitter after Pixiv changed their TOS to one that basically says "we own your arts".

>>159558173
my friend, everyday on /g/ is a normalfag day
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>>159558104
Most people are too lazy and/or retarded to spoof their user agent--especially on mobile. If you make the barrier to entry high enough, people won't bother to climb it.

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>>159557861
>cherrypicked post
>not even posting screen caps of canadians shit posting but screen caps of people saying its canadians


lmao ok

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>>159558230
I still don't understand why Hiro took off the wordfilter for this one.

>>159558231
>love
Loved. Now most of us gave up on that place and we do our best to pretend it doesn't exist.

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>>159558231
It used to be a tsun thing. I think /a/ just plain hates /v/ now.

>>159558182
>>159558188
There is no way you were on /a/ and didn't notice all of the spillover.

>>159558230
I love that the sjw's and liberal cancer invaded this site

>>159558199
>shitty discussions and constant rule breaking
>enabling bad quality posters that constantly break the rules
>hurr they have the right to it

>>159558272
I dunno, I guess I was just oblivious to it all. I definitely was here through it though.

>>159558168
Oh.. that's why I haven't seen a Monmusu thread in weeks

>>159558073
>tfw oldfag and unemployed

>>159557562
Many artists stopped using pixiv et al and moved to obscure blogs and twitter. Following all of them on twitter is much better than checking 200 websites. Also, Twitters user recommendations can be quite good, I discovered a few new artists that way.

>>159554928

Less suicidal.

>>159558267
>>159558268
Why did we stop loving /v/?

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>>159558231
Huh? /v/ is only good when /a/ goes there to discuss the new Jap game like Nier or Persona.

>>159558263
The flags are down, don't raise yours up again, you fucking leaf.

>>159555207

IRC

>>159558272
Just because you read the word several times doesn't mean you actually know what it's about.

>>159558258
Which is why tech/loli/g needs to make a come back. That or /g/ becomes a place to post and discuss guro along with technology. Anything to keep the normalfag /pol/acks away.

>>159558272
I spend enough time here to get used to random influx of newfags. That's also one of the reasons why I went from refreshing frontpage to catalog filters.

>>159558231
It's the other way round: /a/ has existed as a separate entity, with /v/ flooding it constantly, due to the fact that a certain portion of /v/ watches anime. But anyone who actually appreciates anime as a medium simply does not engage in video games and its discourse.

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>>159558231
I much like the /a/ - /sp/ dynamic a lot better. Especially during the World Cup.

>>159558275
You are exactly the kind of /pol/tard we don't need on /a/.

>>159558322
This post reminded me that people misusing weeb or waifu should be banned. Weeb or cuck should be word filtered at least.

>>159558369
>>159558364
>>159558322
>>159558268
>>159558267
Which board would /a/ fuck?

>>159558243
Not really keen on the process but isn't ban dodging really easy if you're phone posting? At least I've seen phone posters brag about it, and most of the normalfag outsiders from /pol/ should be also phone posters.
I still believe it's a bad idea, I've seen the backlash from lesser boards being deleted temporarily and it's not pretty.

>>159558263
>/spa/
>leafs hijack a thread and start bitching about each other
>fucking leafs hating on leafs
I didn't save a screencap but there was a thread hating on Canadians and boy was it fucking stupid.

>>159558389
/jp/, they're our better half after all

>>159558378
And you're exactly the type of SJW that needs to fuck off back to /r/anime

>>159558321
/v/ loves /pol/, e-celebs, wojaks, meme frogs etc