When people talk about missing the old /b/, what the fuck are

>>729368844
Slightly different set of the same 40 threads. Less normalfag porn, less porn in general, really, and the porn was a bit more out there, more hentai threads, gore threads. Also there was a bunch of /s4s/ style bullshit.

>>729369211
>more hentai
>more gore
this is why you think /b/ was better before? kek

>>729368844
Less porn that belongs on other boards, more flavor of the month type shit happening.

The biggest difference it was an anonymous imageboard that nerds found once, generally from other forums and shit they went on. Now its the notorious hacker hangout 4chan and everything that entails.

>>729369378
I started in 2010. That's what it was like back then. 3 or 4 hentai threads in a day, one or two gore threads.

>>729368844
it was only "better" back then because it felt original and unique. Now it's just a place where shitty edgy teenagers like you congregate.

>>729369634
you missed my point

Things have changed, but mostly the same adolescent fuckery and infighting it has always been. People who come here for community need to be reminded that it is an open anonymous board. Come here to see the gutter of human existence! This is where the shit piles up. We all have our day to day lives but we come here to break free. This is where the mid, emotions, and desires get to run free.

Let it be what it will be, just be a part of it in your own way.

>>729368844
You're a faggot now and you would have been a faggot back then

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>>There weren't so many useless threads.
>>Different group of people who weren't 12 year olds who think RANDOM is funny
>>The jokes made often had too much thought put into them.
>>It was completely unknown and there probly was only a few10s of thousands of people on it
>>Admins were interactive and part of the community
>>None of this porn, rate, fkm, or the other piles of shit threats this board has.
>>YTMND

In the end it was a group of bitter and hateful smart or funny people (sometimes both) that were complete dicks, but still had a sense of right and wrong and would be generally cool with each other because we were all fairly like minded, It was fun and great, not it just pisses me off and I continue to come here out of habit.

>>729369795
It was better back then because there were actual conversations and dialogue, not just shitpost like this entire thread

>>729370002
Then do just that. See, you are expecting to get rather than give. There are too many people like you now, so that era is gone.

>>729370002
You probably haven't held a real conversation in your life. Go climb up a tree and fuck yourself with a squirrels penis faggot boi

Whoever claims to know exactly who compromised /b/ back in 'the good old days' is obviously full of shit. An image board is novel when it first appears, and it remains novel until more and more people pile in to be part of the 'cool thing' -- newfags. Eventually the people who were interested in things like raids, gamergate, and forcing memes on other boards all left, not wanting to share space with newfags who were only here to shitpost. Shortly after moot sold the site to the japanese, who now use it to collect date to sell to 3rd parties, an insane amount of social engineering began to occur on 4chan as a result of /pol/ getting big again. Cuck threads are spammed now multiple times on a daily basis using a botnet that operates on a timetable, looking at it you can establish when the next thread will be posted and what it'll say. Things aren't much better on /pol/. These are the things that caused the cancer to become terminal.

>>729369634

>implying the old /b/ was still alive in 2010

the old /b/ was more creative, you saw more oc and less meanlingsless shit like kys. when somebody told you to kys he would not just type three letters, but something like "seek a fire to die in"

no big differences though, but in sum it was was less of a shithole because it wasn't 80% undergage edgy fags.

>>729370306
I truly hope everyone that visits /pol/ more than once a month die horrible deaths. I'd post that image of you guys getting BTFO but I'd have to google for it.

You know the one anyway.

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Also, running jokes. There was nothing funnier than inside long running jokes. EFG, That damn cat ect....That shit just cant work now because there are too many people and most of which are too stupid to get something so they try to fuck it up for everyone.

In the end back in the day were all concidered the gutter of society, but we had a group there. A lot of the old chan was those really smart and crazy guys who would ruin your life for kicking a cat. Hackers and Aspis that were on Hannibal Lecture level smart with a heavy splash of dark humor.

>>729370502
>you guys
That's another thing that killed /b/. Newfags think that there's some kind of board politic or seekrit klub.

>>729370502
You'd better start believing in /pol/, miss turner...you're in it.

>>729369795
> 28.

>>729370563
We aren't allowed to refer to a collective group of people that browse a board these days?

Or are you trying to say there isn't a group of people that regularly browse /pol/?

>>729370778
Don't you think trying to refer to the 'collective group' on an anonymous image board is a bit like drawing ripples in the water and pretending they mean things?

>>729370778
The funniest part is that anyone could believe that the shitfest that is /pol/ could ever act coherently as a 'group'.

>>729370872
are you calling me fat?

>>729368844
c'mon man, get your motherboard out the way when you paint your shells, dont get paint all over that shit...

>>729369896
Definitely would have been a fag back then, but that's exactly why I would have fit in.

>>729368844
Flav of the month threads, TONS of tits and stamps people doing random stuff, and for the pedis thefe were always CP/teen jailbait threads up sometimes for days I remember one time some 12 year old did a time stamp, that part I'm glad is gone though was pretty fucked up

Been here since 2006 and it's always been shit, always will be shit. I really can't figure out why I've wasted almost 11 years here. And there's ALWAYS been porn. Shut the fuck up.

I am an ancient fag. I came to 4chan between the first and second deaths. I was here for longcat and towercat. I was here for /l/.

AMA

>>729368844
In old /b/ we had IDs and you could type nigger into every capcha and it worked for anything, instead of now having to click 40 gd street signs.

>>729370872
No?
The boards users have had nicknames for at least as long as I've been here. And anonymity doesn't meant much when it's easy to spot a /pol/ack or whatever the fuck you call yourselves these days because you can't keep your shit to the containment board.

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>>729370982
The motherboard came out unscathed, but a fine mist of the white paint got on the back (inside) of the screen cover. It still works fine, but I wish I had done a more careful job.

>>729371083
Were you a brony too faggot? Does mattress in the pool mean anything?

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>>729371161
Does anyone know how the captcha system even works? It seems to be RNG in terms of how many/what kind you get. Sometimes a really old thread with lots of images will have no captcha but a brand new one will make me click on 100s of doors with numbers on them.

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>>729371083
These are lies. Towercat was never a thing. It was Tacgnol and Longcat. There was also cieling cat. Towercat is most likely you attempting to force a meme.

>>729371161
Nigger that shit is only a few years old

>>729371424
tower cat was just long cat but the size of buildings. I dont think it was a real meme though.

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>>729368844
People used to make things.
Like memes because they were funny, not because they were memes.

We latched on to stupid shit, and repeated and modified it to death until some new shit replaced it.

There was always something new to see, not nearly the same thing every day.

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>>729371268
He wasnt there. He googled a old Meme'and tried to make one of his own.

>>729368844
Much less porn
Much more OC

>>729371219
So not only can you create a group identity out of thin air, you can then assign people to this identity in your own mind based on whatever traits you see fit, whether actually present in the person or not.
Except that no one has an identity here, you can't even be sure that I'm the same person who was talking to you previously, you can only assume. It's not hard to see how the whole thing ends up being incongruous to reality. Essentially, you're drawing patterns wherever you want to see them, clapping your hands together and saying, "I found the guys from /pol/!" To everyone else, you just look retarded.

>>729371494
the tubmlrs filled with funny posts from 4chan are evidence of this, they are all ancient. Very little OC exists today.

First there was /b/.

Then it basically turned into /soc/.

Then /soc/ was made into an actual board.

/b/ never quite returned. It's a porn board now.

>>729368844
It was more fun because it was less obvious, if that makes any sense. it was an underground community that was basically cryptic to anyone not in the know. Also a lot less porn, posters were generally smarter, super left leaning politically, and it felt more punk. Now it's a meme factory used by Pepsi cola or whatever

>>729371161
Oh yeah and we could sage back then and my friend heaven was the shit.

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>>729371569
Stop you are going to put him in a liberal coma.

>>729371243
Yesyes, spray paint tends to be that way... try sealing it with something next time? Polyurethane? Or get a clear shell (if possible) and paint the INSIDE of it various spray paint colors, should come out bomb

>>729371569
Step 1: Stop trying to hard to fit in, as you've stated 500 times, its anonymous.

Step 2: Fuck off back to /pol/.

>>729371268
Alas no, old /b/ had an ongoing war on furfags so the thought of the show was repulsive at best.

>>729371424
>>729371492

This was 10k GET on /b/.

Used to be funny shit and real conversations
If you were an ass people would shun you off the board, but since there are so many asses now its impossible to get rid of them.
reddit giving us more fame definitely was the nail in the coffin, though I couldnt care less about reddit today. Its just the new generation of retards who arent funny and steal content all the time.

It was a different atmosphere. There were good threads and almost always something of interest to dive into. The few porn threads that were there were good, and if someone posted a teen there were no faggots screaming MODS, even if it was pointed out to be a legal model. There were less faggots in general actually.

Everything is so moral, mainstream, and repetitive now. It is all garbage. I just visit occasionally in the hopes to catch a glimmer of the old atmosphere or something entertaining.

>>729368844
I can speak for all and clearly not for these pretentious tryhard faggots. But when authentic oldfags say they are longing for the old /b/ it basically means they are longing for the randomness in every thread made by the OPs.
This board was so random back then that almost everything on the first page is fresh content by OPs posting about stuff related to their lives etc. This board was unpredictable back then, to simply put.

>>729371691
That's the sound that a boy makes when he's firmly wedged into intellectual checkmate.

>>729369895
You described why I come on here perfectly.

As a military member who is PC'd to death each and every day at work, I come here to vent and let lose. This side of me really isn't me, it just feels so fucking amazing to say something politically incorrect after a day of being ruled by the PC class, even if I don't totally agree with what I'm saying or even mean it.

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>>729371243
Why the fuck would you even post this online. What the fuck is wrong with you? How are you this fucking bad, The picture I'm posting is the 3rd one I ever did. There is no fucking reason yours should look so fucking bad. Don't even disrespect gamers by posting this shit fest of a project.

>>729371799
If you aren't from /pol/ I don't really care.
If you are from /pol/, I'm right which is always nice, and you get the realization that you've spent 15 minutes lying to an anonymous guy on the internet.

I only see a win/win. Or at least win/semi win.

>>729371083
Where has the "real" 4chan moved to now a days? Is the double 4chan the answer?

It's full of faggot-loving homo normies now who think it's wrong to torment the idiots That are dumb enough to post their faces on this retarded website.

What really is different from the ancient days is the amount of people. In recent years the creative people truly have left and /b/ is now mostly just shitposting. However back in the early days threads would last days, so there was a much easier time frame to create content.

Not to mention there were actual mods that participated and turned the entirely of /b/ into a late 90s Angelfire page.

The original Something Awful forum members who were stifled by the rules came here as a mecca of no fucks given. Nothing was banned except CP and you could tell - even though back then CP was a multiple-times per day occurrence who's threads could last for hours and hundreds of posts.

>>729371761
does that atmosphere exist on any other place? Or is it gone forever?

I was so young when the original chan existed, stuff like that was over my head and I was in late high school. sad I missed it.

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>>729371898
That is the real you dumbass. Stop trying to make yourself feel better. You are a fucking scumbag who gets off on being a douche, don't pretend you aren't.

>>729372116
Even if I wanted to create OC there is no motivation. Everyone is critical as fuck here. It used to be pure joy from the simplest things.

>>729372113
Maybe its just me, but I never wanted to raid innocent people. People who deserved it deserved it, but fucking with people because they are weak or ugly does nothing for me.

It was over the instant that moot decided to actively censor 4chan. Things were going downhill for a long time, but during gamergate, moot told janitors to wipe all traces of it since it led in part back to him. As soon as people started noticing that 4chan was actively censoring itself for the first time, a large majority of the oldfags took off. It was less than a year later that moot realized that what remained was just a melting pot of shit and he sold it as soon as he was able for as much as he could get. Moot tried, before he left, to create another /b/ -- he tried to make a new 'random' board that not many people knew about and hoped it would produce fresh, interesting content like old /b/ did. /s4s/ was okay at first, but eventually it became a containment board for shitposters and autists from the other major boards, /b/, /a/ and the like. Now it's almost exclusively autism.

/b/, however... /b/ has become something much worse. Half of anything you see on the front page at any given time is posted by a botnet, and the rest of what is posted by actual people is the bottom-of-the-barrel crap that the newfags feed on.

been here since 2008 or so. this place was always shit. i think there are more underagefags here now. either that or its just that ive become older

btw, before the captcha this place was often so full of spam that it was almost unusable

>>729372040
Your next post will be 'I was only pretending to be retarded'.

>>729372289
Because you'd be exactly the kind of person that would let the idiots on this site ruin your life

>>729372289
True, the talk show raids like Tom Green's were funny, but then got too out of hand. The Habbo raids were the highlight but lacked substance.

Back when /b/ wasn't total shit we used to hunt down people who abused cats, dox'd them, and had them arrested. But now, as you said, it's shitposting so there is no motivation to do more than lurk. Hell this is the first time I've posted in about three years simply because the threads aren't worth participating in.

>>729371957
First one I did. Like I said, I wish I'd been more careful.
I chose this picture because I didn't want to post anything personal and the rest of my phone pics are.

>>729369923
>>Admins were interactive and part of the community
Honestly, this is probably the most significant chunk.

>>729372341
To me gamergate was 4chans darkest hour. It was dumb and embarassing. I come to 4chan in general daily, but rarely post or lurk anymore.

>>729372419
bullshit. I've been here way too long and know to not involve my personal life in any way what so ever.
I'm talking about raids on people who were deformed and just normal people otherwise who didnt deserve the kind of attention they got from here.

>>729369634
Way less trap threads too

>>729372409
>Call out /pol/ack
>/pol/ack says "You cant prove it!" in way too many words
>tell /pol/ack to fuck off

All in all its been a pretty productive thread actually. I can't see why I'd do such a thing.

>>729370563
Bitch please.
Raids back and forth used to be a thing.
I remember watching /x/ get raided with trains. Good times.

Also, fuck Gaia.

>>729372370
Clearly this guy has been here sense 2015 and thinks hes old. You are full of shit boy, did you think none of us were still here and you can just make shit up?

>>729372830
the fuck are you talking about

>>729372677
Gamergate was important. Addressing collusion between video game publishers and journalists is still a pretty big thing for /v/, too, which was what gamergate was all about. Because of gamergate, pretty much every major games journalism website updated their code of conduct to prevent their journalists from writing good reviews on the basis of receiving an excellent blowjob from the game's developer. The dark part was when it came out that moot was friends with a lot of those people and they began deleting swathes of the front page over and over to keep people from figuring out what was going on.

>>729372341
What even was gamergate? I thought it had to do with "keeping women out of gaming," which barely even seems like an issue. Or is this the whole Sarkeezian (sp?) thing? Idk I never really paid close attention to it.

>>729372746
You should probably kill yourself -- it's obvious you were never in /i/.

>suddenly thread is GamerGate
What fucking time portal did I wake up into? What is this shit? I thought we were done with that shit.

Old /b/ used to have these
>be me 17
>sister 13
>used to sneak into her room and slide her panties to the side
>fap
>did this for a few weeks
>one night she woke up
>oh shit oh shit oh shit
>caughtredhanded.jpg
>ask what I was doing
>confess and cry
>don't cry big brother
>why not, I know you'll tell Mom
>no I won't
>can I see your ding ding
>never saw one in real life, except for dad's
>show her my rock hard 10"
>my that's large brother
>thank you sister
>can I touch it
>sure sister
>flicks the head of my peepee, exploring
>hey sister can I see your toot
>sure brother, slides panties to the side showing her vag
>can I taste you
>uh sure, I haven't bathed though and she's musty
>cock is now weeping
>horniness maximum
>here foot steps in Hall
>mom opens the door
>get on the floor
>everybody do the dinosaur

>>729372990
>hasn't been to /z/
Step up, sen3.14

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>>729372990
I don't believe he was there either. But the train raiding did happen. Many times infact.

>>729372962
The wiki article has been rewritten by SJWs. Essentially it came out that Zoe Quinn, creator of the 'game' Depression Quest, had fucked no less than five different guys in the games journalism industry in order to get them to give her 'game' a positive review. The thing that tipped people off was both the fact that Depression Quest got amazing reviews despite not even really being a game, and Zoe's boyfriend got pissed at being cucked five times simultaneously and wrote a blog post with a shitload of verified info. What followed was a milk-loaded lulzcow as people crawled the web confirming her relations with these five guys. A month or two later all of the gaming journalism websites published the same article simultaneously, and you can still find many copies of it. The article was 'gamers are dead' -- a hitpiece on their own audience meant to convince anyone that gaming wasn't worth investing in. A little more digging revealed the Gamejournopros list, a mailing list that games journalism websites were using to collude with each other and make sure they all fell in lockstep with the same narrative. When that list was made public, the directors of RockPaperShotgun, Kotaku, PCGamer and others were needled for conducting yellow journalism and for colluding with each other, and all of them updated their privacy policies. It was shortly after that the backlash from their published articles were felt as they realized that they had attacked their own audience, their one source of money. A lot of the opposite side trumped it up hard and tried to make it about misogyny or keeping women out of gaming, but it was really all about keeping game journalists from colluding with each other and with game developers to sell you a pile of crap that they dress up as a golden goose egg.

>>729372934
/v/ is the worst board on the site.
Just discuss games, why delve into anything else. No one does ti anymore. There are no screenshots or tips, its all criticism and speculation.

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>>729373572
>i hate /v/

>>729373688
Its terrible for discussion. I'm glad the board was split because /vg/ and /vr/ are 100x better.

>>729372340
>For instance, Katawa Shoujo could never be produced today
Stinging truth, also i doubt most folks here even know of it.

Throw in that once upon a time /b/ was the melting pot for other boards, the place boards came to meet and discuss tangentally related topics. because /a/ can't talk about comics, but /co/ has a new anime inspired comic, where did they go? here. /b/ was the place cross board users met and everyone was cross board, now we not only have politics but the idea that /b/ is a place that should be visited exclusively.

also the days of badmouthing other boards as a self depreciating joke died too. ON an anonymous image-board allegiance isn't meant to exist

>>729372962
If you want to know, read this:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate

The Wikipedia article has been ideologically compromised beyond salvaging. This is the only place where the story is actually recorded.

>>729372746
i think you mean /b2/ anon, there is no /x/, only /b2/ while the old residents of /b2/ fled to /tg/

>>729374168
>/b2/
During Puddi, they fled to /soc/. Also good times.

>>729373122
>>everybody do the dinosaur
-10 points for botching "walk the dinosaur" your failure is recorded in the annals of history forever.

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>>729368844

it was more of a community

I remember visiting every Wed for some epic Lost threads