Since we are allowed 1 thread per board to talk about meta topics

>>95127715
got any more board-tans?anon

>>95127715
I've been on 4chan since '06 and /co/ since '07. They were better times mostly since we were hoping that the movie universes would be good. As in we thought that we wouldn't get the same generic movie every year. We did however flip the fuck out when Nick Fury appeared at the end of Iron Man. We weren't hostile to everyone with assumptions that they were casual moviefags. We had a lot more story time threads.

I'm still here because I'm nearly 27 and still a loser who lives at home.

>>95127715
Much better. Things were slower and less moderated. /co/ is love wasn't just a meme.

You could post suggestive images of underage characters without the banhammer immediately crashing down on your skull.

Two key elements: First, /co/ is love. Think of it as a reaction to the angry nerd rage parts of the internet. Being edgy by being nice.

Second. Pre gamergate, pre SJW controlling the narrative, the press, and the industry.

>>95127715
We actually got shit done
Said shit wasn't autistic and actually fun

I remember back when we called people /co/mrades, and when Trollfaces were used unironically all the time... But it wasn't all good. I remember there was a lot of love for the first Transformer movies, which made me want to leave /co/ for the first time and drop my trip.

And now, 10 years later, I'm still here...

>>95127715
>What was /co/ like back in the day?
Why do I suddenly feel extremely old?
Is this what it feels like when your child asks you what it was like in your day?

>>95127960
>hostile to casual moviefags
I don't think there's hostility towards moviefags...? We discussion of cape netflix stuff and movies is a given; it's another thing that most of them suck shit.

>a lot more story time threads
did cartoons kill this board?

>>95127974
Well 4chan as a whole has a lot more traffic now, so cancer is to be expected due large number of anons. But I think we're still less toxic and more accepting than other boards.

>>95128016
b-but anon! you can still do that

>>95128084
Like what?

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>>95127715
>/co/
>wears a fedora and a longcoat

Pre moviefaggotry, mostly pre Avengers that's when the real /tv/ explosion happened, was a good era. Just much more comic content here in general. Now comics fight a two front war for board space against live action and cartoons

>>95128341
>Who is the Spirit
>>>/a/

>>95128341
>Doesn't know who The Spirit is.

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>>95128366
>Mahvel vs DC used to just be friendly banter
>Now with the films and the TV shows it's an all out war
Sometimes, I miss the early days

>>95128192
Out of curiosity, what made you drop your trip in the end? I always wonder if the tripfags of yesteryear just went anon or left altogether, we used to have a litany of them

>>95128265
>did cartoons kill this board?
I think they've managed to drown out some of the comics discussion alright, alongside live action. The invention of generals (which was primarily ignited by Avatar) certainly didn't help, since the majority of them are cartoon-based

Comics are unfortunately more niche and less accessible anyway, so it was bound to happen. Luckily storytimes, Win-Os and Shelf threads help maintain some form of presence for the medium here

>>95128265
>I don't think there's hostility towards moviefags...?

Judging by >>95128341 there clearly isn't as much hostility as there should be.

>>95128379
>>95128383
Sounds like an edgelord.

One of my favorite memories of the old days was Von Doom.
He was a guy that took over his college radio for an hour a few times a week and play /co/ related music. We all streamed it and chatted in the thread.

>>95128427
Well, there's always been hostility toward tripfags, even in the olden days. But the reason I dropped my trip is because I made a big deal out of "leaving /co/" in that Transformers movie thread and I did leav for a few months, so when I came back I didn't really feel like reusing my trip. I wasn't as much of a circlejerker as othere tripfags such as Boco and Movie Theater Lad, though.

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>>95127715
slower
friendlier
no constant political shitflinging
more comfy in general

most of this goes for every board

>>95128341
The Spirit is cool fuck you.

>>95128574
Sounds like a good enough reason to me, props

>Movie Theater Lad
Fuck, what was that crazy story he posted about himself? Used to circulate in screencap threads

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>>95128434
Lurk moar

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>>95127937
I have this.

>>95128443
Sounds comfy as heck.

>>95128427
>Luckily storytimes, Win-Os

I'm honestly very grateful for those. You guys got me into Hellboy and some quality DC comics I never knew existed. Now I'm a DC-fag and I love it.

>>95128587
Sometimes you just have to look yourself in the mirror and ask "Where did it all go so wrong?"

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>>95128434
No thats The Shadow.

>>95128265
/co/nservatory

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>>95128720
>LARPing board
How exactly does one LARP on the internet?

>>95127715
>Was it drastically different?
It was slower and because there was less moderation, there was more discussion. Less shitposting and fewer consolewars as well, as a lot of that came from /tv/fags and /v/.
>Better/worse?
Definitely better.
>If you could bring back something what would it be?
30 second image cooldowns. Kicking post cooldowns up to 60 seconds like most other boards for non-pass anons really killed storytimes. Also, less mods/moderation in general.
>If you've actually been browsing this board since 2006... why haven't you left?
Where else is there to go for comic book discussion online? Every other comic book forum is an over-moderated den of shit and shills. Sad as it is, /co/ is the only place you can go for honest opinions.

>>95128720

t. 2016 election newfag

/co/ was shit but it became shittier when it became a magnet to
>tumblr due to Homestuck discussion
>/tv/ shitposters due to MCU/DCEU discussion and company wars
>/pol/ due to SJWs getting into comics and some posters from /pol/ can't tell if an issue is outdated or irrelevant so they act as if /co/ legitimately supports that stuff

>>95128783

>honest opinions

and how many of these "honest opinions" are people just saying shit for (you)s and not really being honest about their opinion?

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>>95128192

>>95128787
>MCUnts love shit and ruining boards
I believe you.

It was mainly comics, nerd rage and cringy backpatting about being "the best board".
There was a lot less cartoon threads and thus also less tumblr shit.

>>95128616
I still say that story was made up. He said he went to summer camp and got assfucked in a row by every other boy there when he was around 11.

I wonder what happened to that guy.

>>95128852
Except most of /co/ are against that kind of stuff and call out those who think "punching Nazis" is a solution

>95128750
You see this post everyone? This used to be non-existent across any thread in the catalog. Now shit like this is a staple post in just about every thread. You wanna know how it was different? More storytimes and none of this.

>>95128720
How long have you been here?

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>>95128783
>Sad as it is, /co/ is the only place you can go for honest opinions.

That is true. As much shit there is, /co/ still has its moments. I like like you guys.

>>95128680
Second half of 2014 was the beginning of nu-internet.

Nobody has your back these days. It's up to the individual to improve himself.

>>95128882
/co/ likes Nazis?

>>95128927
That post was from an industry thread

>>95128882
Just the fact that those threads can go to 200+ posts of "arguments" show that a subset of /co/mblr do support them.

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>>95128852
>Also why do you think the place is called /co/mblr?
I'm guessing it's because /r/the_donald newfags like yourself actually get told to fuck off?

>>95128937
No, they just believe in freedom in speech and that those who get punched or assaulted aren't necessarily Nazis to begin with. Some were just Trump voters, others were just white
They did nothing wrong

>>95128927
See >>95128789
this place is getting fucked thrice

>>95128852
b-but I'm neither white nor 30+ years old...

>>95128973
>/co/ is white trash like me
Hi /pol/. We're talking about the days when you remained in your board.

>>95128940
>I was the one that suggested Rogue's hair stripe.
If that remains my only contribution to the world I will still be content.

>>95128870
>more comics
>less cartoons
How the fuck?

>>95129031
No generals.

>>95129039
He was talking about comic discussion

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>>95128852
>shitpost PUNCH NAZI threads
I've only seen that thread once and 90% of it was some /pol/edditor spamming porn and gore because he got butthurt after someone made fun of Trump. Shit was hilarious.

>>95129010
Nobody here actually looks at the content it's supposed to discuss when you can just recycle the same garbage Rick and Morty and Christina Miller threads instead.

>>95129010
Sounds like /v/ and /tv/

>>95129010
Going by https://catalog.neet.tv/stats.html /co/ traffic is just fine. Having /pol/ or /v/ traffic would make quality discussion almost impossible.

>>95129064
Do you only go to co once every ten yearsor something?
I see no other explanation.

>>95128767
for some reason /pol/tards think LARP and RP can be used interchangibly

>>95128852
>Also why do you think the place is called /co/mblr?
Because Tumblr runs rampant here

>>95129039
>oh look some /sveg/ autist ran off from their containment thread

I mean that /co/ can give you their opinion on movies and comics and often they turn out to be right. I've read Sandman because of /co/ and it was nice. /co/ said that the Wonder Woman movie was 'alright' and it WAS alright. They also said that homestuck is fucking shit and /hsg/ was BANNED from /co/.

>>95129096
>/pol/ that high
Hiroshimoot needs to bite the bullet and just get rid of that board. It'll shit things up for a while but that'll eventually clear.

>>95129111
/pol/ has motivation.

>>95129130
It'll just seep in everywhere else

>>95129130
If /pol/ goes /tv/ needs to go too.

>>95129130
Pol was created because the deletion of new shat up all the other boards with no end in sight for ages you fucking newfag.

>>95129072
Look I don't need to prove anything to you. I could post a pic of my hand or something but we both know this is fairly varied board. We even have femanons here.

>>95129162
for round 4 and 5. 1, 2, 3, and 6 it was /pol/

moot just gave in too early with that.
Hell, that wasn't even the first time a board deletion shit up the rest of the site, my memory is a little fuzzy but I'm pretty sure it wasn't even the first /pol/ like board we had.
Everything else was fine after time had passed, so too would have this.

>>95129178
8/co is just /a/ and porn with some /co/

I've been on 4chan since about 2009, guess I'm a newfag, but lurked for a few years and started using /co/ about 2012/2013. I guess naturally I'm not going to be as jaded and cynical as other anons here:

I loved /co/ then - and still love it now.I don't know if it was a substantially slower board five years ago, but it very much felt like it.

Nice thing about /co/ is that everyone is plain honest about their opinions, indeed, it's what 4chan as a whole is all about. Into some preschool cartoon shit? No shame, just make a thread and somehow several dozen posters flock to it.

If you want to blast a writer for self-inserting themselves into a cartoon relationship, that stuff flies well too. I cherish that kind of freedom.

>>95129227
senpai, we're talking about /pol/ in a /co/ meta thread. Like it or not, /pol/ dominates everything. Not just on 4chan, but in society at the moment. Everything is politicised and all it takes is one post thats could be taken slightly political to get a response that draws in more people and spirals into a 300 post discussion of shit.

>>95128723
How many anons are even still aware of the OC /co/ still makes on a regular basis or even care for that matter?

Back during the early years there were AUs a-plenty (very few were saved to the /co/nservatory before we lost the old plus4chan /coc/ board archives), then jokes that become characters, then weird but amazing mix and match characters, and then some attempts to make actual comics (/co/ comics festival in 2011).
The remnants of that attempt actually did become comics (Pulp, Lovely Ladybug).

>>95129252
I'M NOT !

Hey you know what? Maybe YOU'RE the whitebread piece of shit dad who gets off to young adults posting pics of their hands or whatever. You bait them and then you save them for later 'use'. Nice fucking try you weirdo.

>>95129227
>gave in too early
We still see the effects of it you utter retard. Pol spreading outside of their own board started with it.

>>95129354
We have the channel-tan threads now

>>95129473
I honestly don't know much about that. I know about the main three but it seems to have exploded in every direction from there.
Very hard to keep track of.

>>95129404
Ignore them OP, he's trolling you.

>>95129354
Pulp is still going which is great.

>>95129540
They're having trouble keeping their site up though.

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>>95127715
Mainly I remember there weren't so many people actively trying to piss other people off. Just in general more people seemed informed or willing to learn about shit. Like there were always people that were just starting out but they didn't act like they knew everything and they didn't make comments that suggested that getting caught was beneath them. I find that shit very annoying now. Drawthreads weren't primarily people trying to get waifu commissions drawn and getting bent out of shape or whiny when they weren't delivered in a timely manner or the artist decided to make some joke out of misspelling or poor wording of the request. THERE IS A TON OF FUCKING ENTITLED I see in /co/ these days.

I remember this from around when Watchmen came out.

Most of my modern collection is made up of /co/'s recommendations and all the threads about the comics at the time.

Bendis's Daredevil. Immortal Iron Fist. Moon Knight. Annihilation. Ultimates 1 and 2. Utlimate Spider-Man and XMen. Deadpool and Cable. Y: The Last Man. DMZ. Cerebus. The Nam. GI Joe. Justice League International. Slott's She Hulk. X Factor. New XMen. JLA. JSA. Empowered. Hellboy. Transmetropolitian. Blue Beetle. 52. Lucifer. House of Mystery. Hitman. Queen and Country. Conan. Flight. Paul Dini's Batman. Invinicible. New Avengers. And even House of M.

I miss and love you, old /co/

New /co/ seems to hate everything and it's hard to blame them, but at least old /co/ still enjoyed discussing the bad ones, sometimes making the bad ones hard to miss (Ultimatum, Civil War, etc).

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>>95129015
/pol/ wasn't even around when /co/ was launched you fucking newshit.
>>>/tumblr/
>>>/reddit/

>>95129130
>I've only been on 4chan for a year
Stop talking out of your ass newfag, /int/ is cancer personified because of /news/ deletion. Once upon a time, you could get real, good advice on /adv/ but that's gone the way of the dodo because of the original /r9k/'s deletion.
Nuking a board doesn't just make the posters who homeboard it go away, nobody just lurks/posts on once board.

>lots of deleted posts
This didn't happen in the 2000s.

>>95129227
>everything else was fine after time had passed
/n/ is one of the least trafficked boards because of the insane amount of shiposting /n/ewsfags carried out after /n/-news was nuked
/x/ is a shithole as well because of it
7 years later and /int/ is still shitpost central because of /new/'s deletion
7 years later and /adv/ is still shit because of /r9k/'s first deletion.

/co/ is love
people calling each other /co/mrades
endless tasteful cheesecake
drawfags galore
cartoon rivalries
Livestreams. I remember watching Cats Don't Dance with y'all it remains my favorite animated movie to date.

good times all around

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>>95129848
oh, and i forgot to mention that /co/'s creation is what made me stop being a lurker on 4chan.

Before /co/ i only came to 4chan to DL porn and lurked /m/ from time to time for the Warhammer 40k threads.

Also, i miss the Promotions threads. Anyone have the /co/ specific ones?

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>>95130151
>all those CRT monitors

>>95127715
Everyone has way more of a stick up their ass these days, especially the mods. Way too much uptight moralfag shit. Everybody needs to loosen up and stop being so damn serious. Can't have a thread about any cartoon female under the fictional age of 18 without an anon making lewd comments a bunch of pearl clenching tumblr tears and the mods cracking down like a drawing of Penny Gadget is the first step towards a Chuck E. Cheese themed brothel. Shit did not used to be even remotely like this and this uptight nonsense needs to stop. Anons can't even joke around about taboo subjects anymore. Motherfucking /co/mblr is real.

I see this is autosaging. /co/s mods are really something else. You know mods, this iron fist shit has not worked out for colleagues of yours in the past. The natives might get restless if you don't chill a bit. We all just want /co/ to be a fun place, not a safe space.

>>95131212
Letter of the law. He said we could have a thread, he didn't say anything about it being possible to bump that thread.

>>95131295
he didn't even say that we could have a thread.

He said that /v/ could have one thread that day a year ago that he would read and then respond to.

>>95131295
Whatever works I guess.

>>95131006

>t-tumblr
>not even mentioning /pol/

it's the same shit and we're getting fucked from all sides

>>95131377
/pol/ is part of the takes everything seriously permanently offended crowd, yes. Two sides of the same coin.

>>95128808
I'm not going to deny that there's as ton of faggots, shills and LARPers shitposting for (you)s here, but at least I can call them faggots, shills and shitposters here without getting banned by a butthurt mod on a power trip for hurting someone's too-sensitive feefees.