it's over

It's the Simpsons Paradox. You begin as counterculture, but unless you quit while you are ahead, you eventually become the establishment. 4chan should have left with moot.

>muh sekrit club

US election brought a ton of traffic in via /pol/, aka nu-/b/

stupid shit like gamergate, scientology protest and other stuff from late 00's where people were wearing gay fucks masks brought more traffic

during the election /pol/ cucks made facebook pages inviting people to log on to 4chan

>>62217015
majority of people go to the nsfw boards, mostly /b/ and /pol/. the rest of us are probably longtime users

>>62217230
Those niggers literally announced themselves in reddit and twitter.

>>62217084
>4chan should have left with moot.
and went to google where the real 'counterculture'? fucking nigger kike retard puppet. you're garbage.

>>62217099
gamergate and 2016 elections were the final nails in the coffin
after that point it's nonstop politics, 'culture' talk on all the popular boards

The mainstream news talking about 4chan probably didn't help

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>>62217015
I blame /pol/ and 4chan"apps" (i.e. phoneposters).
There's one "app" that has ~500 000 downloads.

>>62217341
God for I'd I'm able to check my (you)s while at work. Some of us actually have jobs.

>>62217230
>cancer doesn't even understand what /b/ is

we need to bring back snacks

>>62217370
Been here for 5 years. Maybe you're just a faggot with shitty world views?

>>62217363
>needs to keep track on (you)s while on work
You might be addicted, anon.

So when will I can be free from this shithole?

>>62217326
Can you repeat that in English cleetus?

>>62217381
fuck yes

>>62218118
You can leave any time bud

>>62218227
How about you check his twitter before you say that bud

>>62217385
if you've only been here for 5 years you dont understand what /b/ is

>>62218237
As if I can leave this shithole.

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>>62217015

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>>62217385
>5 years
>2012
newfags like that are now considered oldfags

>>62218297
>tfw missed old fag by 4 months

>>62218297
At least not reddit

>>62218297
Yeah dude your graph is totally accurate based on peer reviewed research

>>62217015
Supposedly last bastion of free speech. Until you get banned for calling out Jews.

>>62217015

I remember lurking /b/ on a CRT with 512ram and thinking it was the height of disenfranchised posting and even the robot board had a decent standard at first until >tfwnogf meme which normies got a hold of and ran with. That's my theory, FB groups started stealing memes around '09 when 4ch became next to useless.

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>>62218252
wtf

>>62218654
You get banned for anything, but rarely for calling out jews.

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>>62219025
Only safe on heavily anti-jewish boards (/g/, /pol/, /b/, etc). Try posting this on /p/ and see how long it lasts.
Hint: B&H is heavily hasidic jewish.

>>62219234
>Try posting this on /p/ and see how long it lasts.
So /p/ actually has janitors that take their jobs seriously and remove threads unrelated to the board's topic? The actions of a warehouse owned by a company that sells various items including photography equipment is not /p/ related, nor would discrimination at Amazon's warehouses /g/ related.

>>62219234
why is that part highlighted as if the person is trying to prove a point?

>>62217086
If you've ever clicked on pol in the last 2 years you would know how bad it's gotten.

>>62217015

i remember back when moot owned it it was like in the thousand range

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>>62218252
hmm

>>62217015
And this is only people that have the alexa toolbar installed too aka 72nd due to normies alone

>>62218586
Doesn't change anything, it's just the plain truth, if you only arrived in 2012 you really have no idea what it used to be like

>>62218291
/r/the_donald is absolutely despised by the rest of reddit though so we're still not quite at complete normalfag infiltration

>>62219639
>knowing what the rest of reddit thinks
Maybe you should go back there.

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>>62219391
>>62219443

>>62217341
>phone posters aren't just people who grew up and have to work and check on 4chan while at work

>>62219710#
Reddit is the 4th most popular site in the US, the 8th most popular site in the world, and covers a large amount of topics (a lot of smaller communities have actually stopped using forums and started using subreddits). It's pretty basically guaranteed that a large portion of 4chan users also visit Reddit, even if they just lurk.

www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com

>>62219619
You act like literally everyone on the internet didn't know what 4chan was when it was new. All the internet kids knew about it because normies didn't even use the internet.

>>62219874
>It's pretty basically guaranteed that a large portion of 4chan users also visit Reddit
Ans they should go back there.

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>>62219502
The election really fucked up /pol/ more than I ever imagined

>>62218297
Oh shit I'm Reddit tier

>>62219234
>>62219773
fuck off to your containment board
back in the early days you would be just another group fighting for space on /b/; I have no idea why anyone thought there could be any plus in giving pol its own board.

>>62218297
That's an old imaged edited through out the times. Trust me I been here for over 10 years now.

I don't get it. Did it get more popular or less?

it's still dwarfed by facebook, youtube/google and twitter though.

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>>62220420

>>62219502
he probably is from /pol/

>>62218328
Shut up, newfag. You don't deserve to speak.

I've been online since 4chan inception but always thought it was for anime and games. been a part of a lot of otherwise niche communities though. disappointed I missed early /g/ and /lit/ but otherwise could not care.

4chan is love, 4chan is life.

The more people here, the better.
For humanity as a whole, and for individuals as well.

>>62217015
most traffic gets concentrated to /pol/. The thread life time there is insane

it used to be in top 50. lurk more newfag

>>62217341
I've never understood why 'phoneposters' are any worse than regular posters. Like right now, I'm on my phone. What's the issue?

>>62217326
He meant that 4chan should have been shut down when moot left you fucking mong

>>62218297
When did the 4gb iphone come out? That's when I found this place

>>62221950
2008

>>62217084
>tfw get to become the establishment
We can finally burn this fucker down.

>>62221997
Forever a newfag :(

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>>62221912
I had a screencap of a clever message somebody wrote one time. I'll just try to paraphrase it as well as I recall it. Of course it isn't 100% applicable to every case but in general

-People use their phones in places where they won't have much time to engage in a thread, so they'll quickly skim through them if that
-Same with posting, it's harder/slower to type on a phone so the messages are likely less in depth/shorter and again due to time and surroundings, not as well thought out. Due to not reading through the thread, the messages will also be more disconnected from the larger conversation and threads become essentially a collection of tweets blurted out from buses and bathrooms around the globe
-People don't keep as many images indexed and categorized on their phones so the same pictures will circulate more and more
-It's even easier to evade bans on phones which encourages shitposting

There was something more but I don't remember right now

>>62218297
I came yesterday, what am I?

>>62218297
>tfw Reddit
>never even been to Reddit

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>>62219600
he looks dead inside

>>62221912
some people like to pretend that majority of 4chan posts are high quality discussion and posting on a phone requires less effort since everyone types smaller posts, therefore ruining the quality 4chan experience.

>>62217015
>Where did everything go so wrong?

Anoonemouse documentary on youtube, which talks a lot about /b/ and makes that shit seem cool. That shit has 4.2 million views. I suppose that's why you'll get someone posting a thread with an IP address saying "do what you will with it".

>>62221093
I'd rather you didn't exist, anon.

>>62220993
Nice blog, where can I subscribe?

Oh no, this site is too mainstream, and since I was first I dictate how it should be run, and there's too many "normies" here but I can't explain what they are so I better go full usenet.

Fuck off to one of the shittier chans.

is there anywhere that replaces 4chan now that it's full reddit? I don't know where to go

>>62222482
what's funny to me is how other chans think this one is too mainstream and commodified now, so all of them are like /pol/ on steroids. 420 is decent though

>>62222145
>>62222413
Ah, so it's an issue of post QUALITY...
...well now I'm going to have to check out one of the myriad "smartphone generals" to see what to get next, because I just ruined mine by spitting out my drink all over it in laughter..

I get the concept, but...

>>62218297
This pic holds up. Hard to believe how many people on this site probably weren't even around for Jessi Slaughter, let alone Habbo Hotel

>>62222596
majority of 4chan posters were born after habbo

>>62222567
yeah how about no, 420 sees the entire site try to autistically nitpick your post anytime you mention you did anything. Literally a bunch of circlejerking losers.

Anyway this idea is toxic because you'll be doing this every 3 years when some site gets too big and end up on some circlejerk IRC and banning everyone new that comes in. I've even seen them make entire websites that are just shitty oneliner quotes from their circlejerk channel where they think they're making you jealous because you're not part of the secret club, when you couldn't give half a fuck about them. This is where you're headed with this shit.

>>62222534
8ch** and voat are your options if you think this place is not edgy enough

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>>62222660
>8ch**
Basically like here, except with more /pol/tards and 8/pol/ bans everyone who disagrees with the mainstream opinions on the board so all the /pol/tards are 10 times worse due to spending all their time in an echo chamber of the worst /pol/ has to offer.

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>>62222596
>Jessi Slaughter
reeeeeeeee that shit was awful (pic related)

>>62222534
issue is that most other chans are dead as fuck.

>>62222648
>>62222567
this one seems to have potential, its too bad its not that active and the rules read like they were written by a bunch of hippies.

>>62222893
Never forget Gene C. Leonhardt, 53

>>62219502
/pol/ has been constantly raided since 2015. /pol/ oldguard fled to 8/pol/ long ago.

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>>62222389

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>>62223063
Mallory was the mistake actually

>>62218297
I'm from college freshman year 2005/6 so I just made the cut for oldfag. I guess it's true that I'm stuck here and will never leave.

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4chan has only one way to leave this planet.
4chan will abolish net neutrality and watch the whole internet burn to the ground.
Then, we can finally be free.

>>62223440
does net neutrality mean that only europeans are left, unless americans buy expensive packages to access the whole internet?

>>62220420
the talmud is a botnet

>>62220631
no matter how I feel about the long noses I don't try to derail threads on other boards
so again, fuck off

>>62217015
the internet has been condensing for a while now. seems like the majority of non porn traffic is funneled into kikebook, shitter, plebbit, jewtube, and 4chan.

there are online forums for niche interests but the only reason people put up with that slow assed traffic is because they have no real choice.

>>62223495
Europeans will range ban themselves from the internet for being white.

Dude it was over in newfag summer 2007 when I first joined.

I been here for over ten years and to be honest I don't see the site lasting another two years in this climate if /pol/ continues heading in the direction it's going.

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>>62223515
>europe
>white

>>62223505
New aesthetic?

>instance messengers
>irc
>no javascript
>web forums
>legacy unbotted processors

>>62223505
Does anyone have that one infographic that illustrates exactly this, people used to visit more websites but now there's mainly just a couple big ones left that everyone uses and the rest might as well not exist

>>62223519
>I don't see the site lasting another two years in this climate if /pol/ continues heading in the direction it's going.
what do you mean?

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>>62223557
This one?

>>62223572
Wow that didn't take long, thanks

>>62223591
I'll never forget that picture because it took my a few days of searching off and on to find it again before I saved it.

thats old. probably worse now.

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Only 19 days until 4chan is good again.

>>62223572
how the fuck is yahoo still so damn big?

>>62223557
>>62223571
>>62223572
one of the issues is monetization. a lot of advertisers with deep pockets dont want the bad publicity of affiliating with sites like this.

I want usenet discussions back.

>>62223651
>how the fuck is yahoo still so damn big?
pre-gmail legacy users

>>62222577
Oh so you just don't care that your posts suck ass, you're entitled to your opinion

>>62217329
It started with chanology newfriend.

>>62223661
you know where to go

>>62223651
yahoo has deals with a bunch of companies. its the default homepage.

>>62223606
It's September

>>62223117
>tacgnol stockings
not gonna lie, that's pretty badass

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>>62217015
>4chan will kill off Reddit with popularity
>mfw this is actually a reality

>>62217329
yeah no.

people like you have the reddit approach. the default subs being political as fuck isn't political if its stuff I agree with, it is just being normal. but the minute someone says something I disagree with, than it is getting all political all of a sudden.

>>62223604
It is, Reddit has become significantly more popular since then (went from ~100th place to 8th world wide and is now more popular than Yahoo in the US) and would likely be in the final picture, while it wasn't even in the notable mentions back then.

>>62223721
The enormous summer crowds keep winding down until it's officially fall.

>>62223750
reddit is shit though. they've made no improvements or innovations given ample opportunity and growth. now they're getting overrun.

>>62223750
that's because they had a free attitude to hosting whatever you want and you didn't need a verified account or anything to use the site. so it became essentially free forums for whatever. but these days since they ban a lot of stuff and are looking to monetize it will probably kill it off.

>>62223742
Won't happen, 4chan can't handle that many people.

>>62223767
>they've made no improvements or innovations
What are you expecting?

>>62223783
>but these days since they ban a lot of stuff
For a subreddit to get banned you basically have to not only be doing something that would get mods to crack down on you here, but also ignore the mods asking you nicely to stop first (if your subreddit doesn't exist for the sole purpose of breaking their rules).

>>62223841
>What are you expecting?
more reliability mostly

>>62223841
I'm really curious why they haven't banned the_donald yet, although they fucked with it in every way imaginable, even changing how the whole karma system works just to suppress them

>>62223841
yeah and you know how retarded that is ? removing /b/ from 4chan just because some doxxed would be retarded. even moot admitted deleting the original news board was a mistake.

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>>62218297
>I've been on this shithole for 6 years
I love you guys.

>>62217015
Its one of the few places on the internet now,were there is still true freedom of speech.Its an oasis in a desert of censorship.

>>62222222

>>62223063

Is moots chin growing another chin?

>>62218297
If you were here in 2003 and 18, you would be 35 now...

Phoneposter that mains /pol/ here. Glad to help in making this a better site.

>>62223997
Not even moot was 18 back then

>>62224048
So moot was breaking the law!

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>>62223907
>I'm really curious why they haven't banned the_donald yet, although they fucked with it in every way imaginable,
Supposedly the only reason they didn't delete that board over a year ago was that they didn't want it to seem like they were deleting it because of their political views.

>even changing how the whole karma system works just to suppress them
Because posters there were using auto upvote scripts. See pic related.

>>62223910
>removing /b/ from 4chan just because some doxxed would be retarded.
Except there's a massive difference due to the boards here being created and run by the site administration while on sites like Reddit and 8ch (which has also previously banned boards) the boards are created and run by the users.

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>>62224069
Why the fuck am I up there on the list? I don't even like Trump so much as I hated Hillary?

>>62218297
damn. it's truly amazing how "newfag" used to be one of the worst insults on here, gradually being taken over by "gb2reddit" and "dumb frogposters". calling someone a newfag these days is almost a compliment.

>>62224069
its no different. you ban users and threads and posts as necessary. board removal is never necessary.

>>62224136
Why should the global mods waste their time when the board mods either repeatedly break the rules or make boards that exist solely to break the rules?

>>62217015
While 4chan has been leaking out into the normal userbase forever, the US election and r/thedonald are pretty much at blame for this.

>>62224170
4chan could shrink again though.

I'm at the point I really don't care anymore, painful apathy is just the only way to survive because it won't get achy better

>>62220034
>t. /pol/lack
how about not browsing r/the_donald 24/7 and basing your opinion off of that? on reddit, everyone except newfags know that political and large subs suck ass, and that reddit really shines in the hobbyist subreddits

Captcha: Royal Calle

>>62224213
Politics in general is retarded conversation.

Go to any other mainstream politics forum which (claims to) doesn't censor discussion or foster an entire forum of a certain viewpoint.

Shitposting everywhere, bad information, biased opinions, generalizing a group, racism, counter racism, trolling, etc.

Doesnt matter where. The only difference is I can troll the mods and /pol/ by posting black porn stars fucking white porn stars.

>>62220249
the election fucked up the entire site

>>62224254
>The only difference is I can troll the mods and /pol/ by posting black porn stars fucking white porn stars.
You are actually the problem.

>>62218252
His twitter is completely what I'd expect. He's been running that radio show basically since he stopped being an admin. The show itself is a very mixed bag, but that's what you get when you focus on playing mostly new music every week. I still like it and I still like snacks. Even if he did fuck that literal beached whale.

>>62224254
>The only difference is I can troll the mods and /pol/ by posting black porn stars fucking white porn stars.
But they like that shit and even post it themselves on other boards, you're just doing them a favor lel.

>>62224254
>Politics in general is retarded conversation.
It didn't used to be. I remember being able to go to places where people didn't agree with me politically and still being able to actually converse with them several years ago. It seems today people are more concerned with pushing their views as the ultimate truth, even if they have to lie about it, than they are about finding whatever the truth may actually be.

>>62224309
>>62224322
I said "can", not "do". People have been BLACKEDposting (or equivalent) /pol/ for the lulz since it existed.

>>62224254

You are the cancer

>hurr, I’m 2smart4political discussion
>what are you, triggered, or something

>>62217381
Bringing back snacks wouldn't save 4chan, but increase shitposting the evil cuck admin is banning them

Raids killed this website. They brought mainstream notoriety which lead to everyone thinking this was le epic clubhouse with le epic meme's XD. The anonymous scientology pools closed bullshit really fucked everything up but now pol opening the portal for reddit to invade has finished it off

>>62224354
because the Bill Clinton administration actually agreed with republicans on a lot of issues. It wasn't until GWB years that the mainstream went full leftism or meet the guillotine ooga booga garbage. and it was just all downhill from there.

>>62224390
It's easy...we blame ebaums world...

>>62224399
>>62224354
There was a time when people didn't give a shit about politics and it was amazing.

>>62224417
they still don't give a shit about politics, they care about superficial identity politics on which they invest their egos

>>62224440
I hope you're ready for everything to be analyzed for secret hidden political agendas because this is the future

>>62218297
2003? it exists earlier. 2002 i remembered. Died multiple times and went online again.

>>62224472
I'd say it's already the present, but yeah that's only going to go worse and people like Soros help that.

>>62217084
Don't kid yourself. 4chan is still counterculture. In fact, it is more so than ever. The main reason isn't even that 4chan has changed dramatically, but that the mainstream has.

>>62217137
You forget /v/.

>what is others imageboards

>>62218297
I joined on july 7 2015
Found /k/ while researching the f35.

Calling me pure Reddit cancer is not accurate
I don't shit post
I don't comment on shit I know nothing about
And I usually just lurk

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>>62224513

>>62217015
Wasn't it in the top 10 at one point? Why are you crying about it now, you fuckwit?

>>62224734
>Wasn't it in the top 10 at one point?
If you're going to make a claim like this, at least make it believable.

>>62224647
This site won't become left if the mainstream became far right

>>62224784
Relatively speaking it very well could've been considering there were fewer people with access or need for an internet connection. 4chan was extraordinarily well known by 2007+ so there was probably significant migratory traffic from outside the SA and 4chan heads. I just don't think it was ever indexed or traffic was ever estimated.

>>62217015
>Where did everything go so wrong?
2016 Election and /pol/

>inb4 hurr le leftist detected
No, but you might as well be a middle aged woman who came thanks to frogs and Trump.

>>62224440
This. 4chan is a site that was literally founded to get away from politics -- a place where weebs could talk about their interests without the wider moralfagging world bothering us. /pol/ has brought the moralfags here. Their only interest is themselves, and they do nothing but cry when anybody isn't acting exactly how they please and try to gain power for themselves to change that. These anti-4channers have used 4chan's openness to set up shop here, and now they infest every board with their tantrums.
>"Discuss technology? What's that? I want to talk about how someone in the technology sector isn't doing what I want!"
>"Discuss video games? No no no! Don't you see that someone made a video game that wasn't for me personally? WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW! The games don't matter, what matters is that everyone should be trying to cater to me!"

It's nothing but identity politics. /pol/tards can't simply have a unique personal opinion on what they do and don't like, they think that anything they don't like shouldn't exist and then do nothing but scream about how that needs to change right now. That's authoritarian politics and it doesn't fucking belong on site devoted to the free and unfettered discussion of hobbies.

>>62224851
When moot added a ton of normalfag boards, normalfags felt right at home

>>62224320
>Even if he did fuck that literal beached whale.

uhh what?

>>62217326
Jesus fuck these redditors

>>62224729
>no plan to put up several inactive sports and political forums

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAa

>>62224908
It was purely anime at the time, even /g/ was guro

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>>62224908

>>62225014
How did he manage to pay the bills?
I would imagine it was enormous

>>62217015
Just wait it out eventually this place will die out and things will be niche and small again. We're just in the middle of the boom right now.

Give it time.

When all of the Nazi larpers fuck off and /pol/ dies there'll be less cross traffic.

imo the best times for 4chan were inbetween edgy group x hiding out here because anonymouse posting makes us invincible.

>>62225014
So people were always complaining about politics on 4chan

>>62224715

There's nothing wrong with that but I feel it's very strange how few people on 4chan remember what made 4chan 4chan 10 years ago.

It was much more infantile. Remember when 4chan had a near monopoly on memes? Raids and ddos and pedobear and lolcats and so on and so on.

is early 4chan archived?

>>62218297
>tfw you remember the first server crash
All I wanted was porn, and 4chan was down so I couldn't access the porn.

>>62220008
They knew about it because they spent a few minutes looking up memes on ED. Now they know everything.

>>62219600
>Dyed hair and painted nails
Snacks isn't a fucking sjw/tranny, is he?
As much fun as it was to complain about Snacks, I admired him as part of what 4chan was.

https://archive.is/zbLq
>5 Dec 2012 02:34:18 UTC
>Current Users: 108,922

https://archive.is/8c721
>31 Aug 2017 00:11:22 UTC
>Current Users: 210,420

It might be more well-known, but 4chan hasn't exploded in popularity. Also Alexa ranks aren't completely reliable.

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>>62223924
I just want to be able to enjoy /b/ again
I want synctube rooms with dateline again
when did it turn to facebook memes and porn only?

>>62218297
8 years of being with you cancerous fucks. How do i leave

>>62225014
>golgolmois
i don't your future and killing soon!

>>62217015
>Where did everything go so wrong?
/pol/ got their meme president in office and in so doing exploded like a dying star: scattering their remains across the psyche of humanity.

>>62217015
>hurr 1&2 only apply during raids
fuck all of you.

>>62222596
got me right in the nastalia
>>62222613
got me right in the feels.. pull the plug while the memories are still there

>>62218297
When did we start calling ourselves "Originalfags"? Fuck off with this newfag shit.

>>62223997
Kek, I joined when I was 11 and I lurked until I was 15 before posting. Which is why I can't find it in me to put down the site at 25. desu I'll probally keep checking back until it shuts down.

>>62217015
Nowhere. It's just that a lot of other popular sites have been merging, 4chan is still counterculture. But normies just have less normie sites they typically visit now, when compared to i.e. 5 years ago.

>>62219502
>how bad it's gotten
Speaking as someone who uses pol most after I got tired of the 10th grade faggotry on b years ago, to me its a good thing. Yes, it can be tiresome and I'm sure it's a lot more difficult to moderate than it used to be. Consider it really though: the gains you make have much more impact in the real world because of the numbers. One of the reasons I even use chans is to manually datamine (screenshot, copypastes, etc) and it's been much richer in the past few years than ever. It's definitely unwieldy on pol, b and probably here too though the hivemind is how the internet operates, so imho anyway this is generally for the good. I don't think many here will agree which is why I usually avoid g even though my business is infotech: the elitist LARPers, like pol's Nazis or b's 9gag XD - g is just too cynical and humorless for me usually but I always return for advice and inspiration. I'd say embrace the new traffic, especially here among the truly technically proficient. It could be made very productive and convert many to the ways of /g/entoo so to speak

>>62226821
BTW real talk: I remember the old g. Yeah, that's gone forever. Unlikely to be done but a new board for coding would fix that, old g reminded me of a compsci/maths board. It's def different now, more digestible but probably annoying to oldfags. Good luck to them

>>62226881
Original /g/ was the best, I miss all that /g/uro. Was the best place to find it. But computers are cool I guess.

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WE DID IT /POL/

WE MADE 4CHAN GREAT AGAIN

>>62222596
And to think I was a newfag when Jessi slaughter happened

>>62217137
>>62224666
And r9k

>>62223686
4chan was and will never be a haven for high quality discussion.

>>62227075
It's rare, glad this site is more entertaining than other anonymous sites out there.
t. not him

>>62227075
It's rare, but I'm happy I discovered this site because it's more entertaining than reddit users desu.
t. not him

>>62217015
Every time someone is banned from reddit or facebook or some google service, they end up here.
4chan is the purgatory and "hell" of the internet.
And it will only grow bigger as the corporations try to clean up the internet.

>>62225136
>When all of the Nazi larpers fuck off and /pol/ dies there'll be less cross traffic.
I feel like I've read this exact sentence 6 years ago.
I think you'll be waiting for a very long time.

>>62226881
A similar thing to what you describe still exists on 4chan

I can't name it directly for obvious reasons, but think a little and you'll find it

>>62217015
Operation Payback, Phoneposters, GamerGate, and the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.

Shit fucking sucks.

>>62226821
Fuck off.

I want the text-only boards back and for loli to be posted more frequently.

>>62217015
Migrate where?

I don't like any of the new chans and I don't want to fuck up the old guard.

Wat do?

>>62222577
Your posts are shit and you're not funny, dipshit.

Fucks like you are the reason quality is degrading - because you don't care, because "X was never good."

Fuck off and die already.

>>62217015
>2045
>only literally 4chan, facebook and google exists

>>62225329
Man I wish I was born earlier

>>62217099
>nu/b/
Why are you hear if you like the culture of Youtube and Tumblr?

>>62225329
The word meme didn't even exist in the public's vocabulary until those advice animals. What a mistake

>>62217084
Truly 4chan should've died with moot.

>>62227447
You forgot Operation Chanology

4chan was in it's heydey from 2006-2012.

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>>62217015

Let me tell you how I found 4chan in 2006.

I googled "the biggest forum"
It was fucking big 11 years ago.

>>62227591
In 2006 you'd get "Something Awful"

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>>62217015
Good. Just means more people to redpill.

>>62220034
THIS.

>>62224213
You're joking, right?

Even before r/the_donald we didn't like leddit.

For YEARS before the election we didn't like leddit.

Even now we don't like leddit.

And yes, "we". This sentiment has existed for years. Go the fuck back already. Enjoy your edited posts, shadowbans, and echo chambers.

I'd much rather have Gaiafags at this point than you fucks.

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>>62227580
Whoops, I did.

I also thought I posted this picture as well.

But yeah, Operation Chanology was the beginning of the end.

>>62227598
Not Ebaumworld?

>>62227598

It wasn't the top one, but it was among the first five I believe that I found. Otherwise I wouldn't have ended up here.

Also: you had to pay for a Something Awful account, I believe.

>>62227645
20 bux

>>62227645
Yes,

4chan started to take off in 2006 but that was mainly in /b/ and that's still pissing in an ocean of piss.

But now you got right wing nut jobs, trolls, and 14 year old edgelords from T_D jerking eachother off in /pol/

Things were way more chill before that piece of shit was created.

>>62226803
/thread

>>62224647
4chan has been a normie website since 2010.

>>62217363
Do your fucking job, you worthless shit.

>>62217015
>now

>>62218297
>mfw been here since 2005

>>62217015
you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

>>62227804
epin simbly epin! upboated xd

>>62227630
Didn't the fappening happen around the same time as gg? I bet the hacker known as 4-chan brought more phoneposters.

>>62227660
should /pol/ be deleted?

>>62227846
I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't think it affected anybody that much, save for /b/.

I imagine people have a tendency to visit /b/ and either never come back, turn into cancer, go to another board afterwards, or a combination of the three.

>>62227857
Every post that doesn't contain the word(s) "jew" "kike" or "nigger" should be banned automatically.

>>62224647
Just an anecdote but something like at least every tenth gen-Z I know browses 4chan and every fifth spews pepe memes

>>62227873
doesnt or does?

>>62227580
Chanology was fine since it wasn't self-centered. Having principles is good. It's when your only principle is your own self-advancement that things become an issue. Operation Payback would've been partial principle/partial self-interest, and when we got to Gaymergate is was 100%, "I am virgin manchild, hear me roar at the eevil wimmins."

Am I the only one who thinks most threads on the biggest boards feel like mere chatrooms/tweets? I mean I get people gotta meme but when almost every reply is identical in meaning or intent conversation goes nowhere, just a bunch of fags parroting the same thread after thread, with the occasional gold nugget in an ocean of shit.

>>62217084
fpbp

>>62219502
>he doesnt know about the eternal Harbor

>>62227610
>I'd much rather have Gaiafags at this point than you fucks.
i was a gaiafag in 2006
its how i found my true home
:')

>>62218297
>tfw oldfag
>tfw remember DESU-posting and dollanon
>tfw remember closing the pool
>tfw have been browsing for over ten years now
>tfw have weathered every storm (raids, 4chan, chanology, reddit encroachment, boxxy, ponies, etc)
>tfw this /r/the_donald /pol/posting is the shittiest 4chan has been since I've started
>tfw it doesn't seem to be getting better

>>62218297
>tfw had no internet access until 2009

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>>62227875
>every tenth gen-Z I know
why do you know so many gen-zs anon?

>>62217084
>4chan
>establishment

I wish. That would make the world a better place.
4chan would become horrendous, but that's a trade I'd welcome.

>>62227539
>2045
I doubt facebook will exist that long.
Sure, it's not the "next myspace" in that it hasn't imploded within a short period of time, but it will happen.

Google/Alphabet has a good chance to stay around, since its portfolio has massively grown since the 90s. Especially if they get their hands dirty with mobility.

4chan, I'm not sure. Largely depends on hiroyuki at this point.
I'd love for it to stay around. There is no other place quite like it on the web anymore.

>>62217099
this is a myth, traffic increased because of phonefags and the 4chan app possibly slightly with media coverage and the awakening of the normie to pleb phones, that's about it

>>62225859
most people who live in inner cities have ingested too much estrogen to be consider human anymore

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>>62229674
ORLY?

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>>62217015
it's over

pic unrelated

>>62223997
>being 18
I was here for 7 years by the time I was 18
Most of the userbase at the time was underage, same with moot
Its a miracle the servers didnt crash more than they did

>>62224792
>Implying the Jew's will ever let that happen

As long as 4chan remain a bastion of antisemitism on the web, it'll never become apart of the (((mainstream)))

4chan sucks

>>62228696
I am pretty hopeful the site will die out and only the original base or so will keep it alive
It's the only way I see this getting better

>>62229752
that's literally exactly what i'm talking about the same image spread over and over about "gamergate" and "the election" which have no actual tangible beginning dates and the correlation of phone IPs meaning new IPs (which they aren't they are majorly just the same users who run the site on a desktop now running the site on a phone because the 4chan app was made)

>>62229674
>the 4chan app

Wait, what have I missed?

>>62229823
There are tons of unofficial 4chan phone apps now

>>62229816
all those posters are just normies that got access to 4chan and took bait posts far more seriously than they should have
Even on /pol/, I doubt any oldfag is behind all this shitposting
It's just /nupol/ taking things too seriously

>>62229829
>unofficial
Does hiroyuki at least make money off them via licensing?
I'm going to guess "No."

>>62218297
I'm in Reddit tier but I never browse reddit.

>>62229845
hiro just pimps us out to the NSA/FBI

>>62229816
>"gamergate" and "the election" which have no actual tangible beginning dates
Events don't need to have beginning and end dates set in stone to be classified.

>correlation of phone IPs meaning new IPs (which they aren't they are majorly just the same users who run the site on a desktop now running the site on a phone because the 4chan app was made)
That picture shows desktop sessions about doubling as well.

>>62229823
4chan was not useable on iphones until 2015 (and just recently 2017 there has been an official iphone app created.) I suspect this has everything to do with the "normie influxes" 4chan has experienced which is now ramping up rapidly with an official sanctioned iphone app

http://www.mod-gadget.com/4chan-app-iphone-and-ipad-fortune/

http://www.mod-gadget.com/4chan-app-launches-app-store-iphone-ipad/

>>62218297

>2009
>i'm a newfag

Eh, I can deal with that.

>>62217505
>implying we're not all addicted

>>62218297
Looks like I fit in the "cancer" slot, although I have been here since 2012, when I first found out about 4chan. In my defense, I didn't have LAN or fast ethernet until in late 2007.

fml

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>>62227875
It feels like we are going go have huge problems with all this racial polarisation, especially in a time when the coming generation will face greater obstacles than most generations. They are probably never going to experience stable employment, lower life expectancy than their parents, lower marriage rates than any generation in American history. They'll also be the first generation where a white majority won't exist, and in some areas, they'll be minorities in their age range. And all this SJW crap will get worse. This will all just create the perfect environment for radical identity politics to flourish. I wouldn't be surprised if Gen Z gives us our own Hitler or Lenin.

>>62218297

>tfw newfag

I didn't even know this site existed until I read an article on a magazine about paranormal shit back in 2007/8 about anonymous and I thought "wow, these guys are cool". They named 4chan as their main site of operations. Went to check it out and was flooded by retarded rageface and troll comics. I don't even know why I kept browsing and why still am tbqh.

>>62217084
This or just remove the most popular boards that are catnip for newfags like /b/, /pol/ and r9k.

>>62230142

I came here because of the 2008(?) Fox News report, dare I confess - the hysteria and fear over this underground fraternity out there called 'Anonymous' made it so appealing to my young teen self that researching about it led me to ED articles, which in turn led me to this website.

>>62230255
Every time I get the opportunity I pitch my solution. If you post on /pol/ you get a /pol/ tag on your posts for 24 hours. Other users will have the opportunity to filter out /pol/ posts if they so wish. It walks the lines between banning /pol/ and its posters and allowing them to post and breed.

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Normies is flooding in thanks to fucking media.. We're doomed folks.

>>62226183
>double the current users
>hasn't exploded exploded in popularity

>>62230501
That is pretty standard for a lot of sites though.

>>62229816
You dumb fuck.

Were you not here for GamerGate?

Shit brought down quality on all boards.

The same is happening with the 2016 elections.

Your explanation also doesn't make any fucking sense since the number of phone sessions now outnumber the number of desktop sessions.

>>62229912
> 4chan was not useable on iphones until 2015
Really?

I actually used to browse back in 2013 on my iPhone 3G since I didn't have anything that was actually good.

This was for years. My computers were shit and I was underageb& so I didn't have money to buy things.

>>62223841
>Won't happen, 4chan can't handle that many people.
It can if Gook-moot bans non-browser phone-fags

And make ID tags site wide.

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>>62226997
Hey /pol/!

>>62227414
T. Lainshill

>>62218297
>tfw here since 2005

But to answer OP's question, it all went south the moment frames were removed.

>>62230345
That's a good idea, too bad chinkmoot is never going to do that.

>>62230345
Just because you are a liberal cuck nigger doesnt mean you have to scapegoat /pol/.

>>62232161
welcome to 4chan! just because you can't downvote here like in /r/the_donald doesn't excuse your language mister!

>>62229752
Really doesnt prove anything. I phone post 90% of the time because clover is all around better than using the browser.

>>62232171
>hur hur i am a low effort poster
>>>/r/politics

>>62231920
>And make ID tags site wide.
Take your starvation for an identity to another website.

>>62232193
what is that even? care to explain?

>>62232102
I miss the frames. They were more useful than what came next. Also it was a good casual filter.

>>62232215
What is what

How do we fix 4chan?

>>62232242
/r/politics, is that a subreddit or something? what did that have to do with the post?

>>62227978
the only thing all those women had to do was keep their dam hands off muh GAYMES. they could've had their first female president, I don't care. but when you fuck with muh gaymes, don't bitch about the consequences.

MAGA motherfucker

>>62232258
/r/politics is heavy liberal. people complain about the donald subreddit but reddit has blackballed them. Posts from there cannot show up on all. Meanwhile openly communist subreddits are always on the front page. They open advicate for violence against racists and other crazy shit. But yes reddit probably pushes conservatives to 4chan because they actively supress them. Yes i go on reddit a lot at work because its sfw and I am bored, i dont go on it on my phone or at home

>>62227978
> t. moralfag

>>62217126
>log on to 4chan
>log
>on

>>62232398
go back pls

>>62232441
Thanks for adding to the discussion, glad i took the time to elaborate

>>62232429
>no 4chan pass

get a job poorfag

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>>62232453
>not wanting to solve broken captchas and have your vpn blocked

>>62232472
remember lotus shock images on /b/? we all did some dumb shit back in the day

>>62232472
>>62232453
>they never got 4chan gold when it was on sale...

newfags?

>>62217015
i am proudly one of those newfags and the sole reason im here are sjws knew of this site since its creation and never even had the desire to lurk until last year

>>62232505
Back in 2008 or 09 when that meme started I actually got my residence hall banned from 4chan for posting a 4chan gold image. It must have been a very short ban because it was fine the next day but it was a very frightening 24 hours for me because that was back when I was constantly on the chan.

>>62232553
I got banned twice last week for posting on /v/. What an aweful board. Mods delete your posts and warn you and shit for no reason. Got global banned for 3 days for calling the mods out at being trash at their """"job""""

>>62218297
I wish I watched rozen maiden sooner, good anime.

>>62232596
Watch me get banned again for violating the jewish no complaining about 4chan global rule. Feels good getting banned for complaining about a service i fucking pay for with my 4chan pass.

>>62232596
at least you know you got banned, can you imagine posting on reddit for years just to realize you got shadow banned years ago because you hurt someones fee-fee's?

>>62230345
Unironically this, but instead of /pol/ use with a reddit one instead if it detects you've even visited reddit in the past 24 hours

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>>62232257
Banning everyone who joined from 2010-onwards

>>62232647
I just hate that feeling when you have to supress what you want to post for free of punishment. Got it right now but i have a lot of respect for /g/ mods. They don't go around swining ban hammers or purging posts thay get slightly off topic. Honestly i've never had issues with mods in my 9 years on the site, /v/ is just out of control.

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>>62232596
I´m pretty sure it was a neo-Mod who banned (You) m8

>>62232697
Everyone will just lie they joined in 2009 and earlier

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>>62232697
>joined
>4chan

>>62232647
>posting for years
>nobody responds
>nobody acknowledges
>keep posting anyway
>for years

what sad individual would actually do this shit? if nobody interacted with me on a website and my posts were just plummeting into a void why would I continue posting? I can't even wrap my head around what a person who behaves like that is like.

>>62232757
How about a test to prove you are an oldfag?
It will even include some anime-related questions

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>>62232746
I mean i was asking for it but they has been fucking with me all week. But they banned me for 3 days for "redpill me on videogames" when half the catalog are nonsense theads like that and deleted my "sauce?" reply to a thread

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>>62232779
started posting**
How about that?
u happy now?

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>>62232810
autism

>>62233235
Wow, why do you support this website?

>>62232845
It better be questions you can't google

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>>62218297
proud newfag

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>>62232185
>phoneposting is better than using an actual browser and an actual keyboard
Consider suicide.

>>62233527
I use a mouse and keyboard all day at work, i usually don't want to come home and do that even more. Typing on a phone isn't hard, doing it right now.

>>62232161
>triggered

>>62217015
I'll go through it step by step
>deletion of loli board
>spread of memes and knowledge of /b/ on the "normal" internet (anonymouse, leegin etc.)
>teens invade /b/, kill it
>/v/ gets way too popular and starts to look distinctively "teen", /b/ like
>gamergate invites more social media normies into 4chan
>/pol/ stops being a containment/dumping ground board and becomes a causeway for le reddit into 4chan
>phoneposters, macfags, phone threads, normie tech bullshit
>/pol/ leaking into every board, eroding what it was

4chan should be like ex where you need a special cookie to even see it. but that wouldn't play into hiro or moots plans to find some way to profit off this site

>>62234935
It was still tolerable before /pol/ started leaking fucking everywhere.