Politically speaking, when was the best time to be on /pol/?

>>133928448
when it was /news/

>>133928448

Am I unironically an oldfag now? Jesus Christ.

Also, the best time to discuss politics on 4chan was in 2008 when /r9k/ first got made. When moot made a shitload of new boards, including /pol/, is when it started to suck. /sci/, /lit/, and /pol/ were fucking mistakes.

>>133928448

eternal newfag here

>>133928830

What's scary is that it's incredibly easy to fix the problem of /pol/...but why would you want to "fix" /pol/ when it is the #1 source of ad revenue of all the boards?

Yes, even more than /b/. /pol/ actually moves faster than /b/ now.

>>133928448
Started browsing in early 2013, it's been 5 years already. What the fuck happened?

>>133928448
who has that pic with the anime chickwho gets progressively older in front of the different eras of 4chan
it goes from
>xd lol so randum DESUDESUESU spork lol!
kidmode
to
>baka famalamadingdong
jaded 20+ yr old

>>133928928
/b/ has been dead forever

>>133928448
/pol/ has always been shit and will continue to be shit, because it is inherently a board for fucking normie trash. It's only worse now because it's grown in popularity and drawn even more normalfags in.

>>133928957
Fuck, I meant 4 years. I need to stop posting, and go to bed.

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>>133929100
>tfw over a decade of 4chan

>>133928975
You should probably ask /a/ that

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Seven years ain't too shabby.

My political compass journey since coming to this God forsaken place.

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>>133929669

Posted the wrong image, THIS is how much my political compass has changed since coming to plebchan.

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Hey, can somebody remind me of the political test where it showed you where you stand on around 8 axis (not the 8values one), and if you're rightwing or leftwing. I know one of the was nature vs nurture, spirituality vs materialism and so on.

>>133928448
>08
Halo 3 was still relevant! And no, he would not have won.

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>>133928448

Where did time go?

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>>133929143
Fuck, I'm approaching my decade. Been through highschool last half, army and first half college. What 10 years can do to a person.

>>133928448
who /didntpostthreadsbecauseyouwereafraidofgettingdoxxedin2005/ here?

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>>133928975
I got ya, famalamadingdong.

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>>133928975

>>133929949
Images still could've have exifs back then, now only on /p/. Also been here for a decade, went from autistic sperg to lifting and gf to failing college. I wonder how many more years we will have this place

>>133930151
>>133930152

When was that fourth panel added?

Also nice almost same time post

>>133930151
>>133930152
8 years of my life in one jpg. Painful desu senpaitachi

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>>133930151
fuck i dont want to be that guy but I feel that too strong.
hold me anons ;-;

>>133929742
Similar, though I shoot way up-right depending on what kind of degeneracy is going on that day.

>I have reaction memes saved that are older than some people who post here

lmao

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2007 here
>sono kimoch when you will never ever be considered an oldfag
>sono kimoch when you always hate 2010+ babies but you can't pull weight on them because if you someone from 2005-2006 might appear

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>>133928448
4chan was a fucking blast during 2006 till 2008.

Really miss those days.

>>133928448
im japanesefag apparently

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>>133928448
>found out about 4chinz on encyclopedia dramatica back in '06
>underage as fuck shitposting on /b/
>eventually moved on to /k/ as I got older, /new/ every now and then
>mfw been here ever since

I hope you niggers who have been here for just as long aren't proud of it

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>>133932027
>started on /b/ in 2010
>move to /v/ when it became the fastest board and /b/2.0
>move to /pol/ in summer 2015 when it started to become the fastest board with Trump
>still here

I'm a cancerous FOTM'er now that I think about it.

>>133928448
>Politically speaking, when was the best time to be on /pol/?

Before all the stormniggers showed up due to Obama winning the election. Now the echo chamber is stronger than ever.

>>133928928
>/pol/ when it is the #1 source of ad revenue of all the boards?

Sauce?

>>133932386

Fastest board + Newest userbase that doesn't know about blocking ads = Easily the biggest ad revenue board on the site

2011 Cancer master race
>tfw found 4chan through funnyjunk

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>>133932548

>if you joined in 2007 you're a newfag

who makes this shit

>>133928448
i am cancer

>>133932671
Yeah you are.

>>133932639
Hi 2016

Actual 2003 originalfag here

The best time was on /a/ pre 2005.

Not joking.

Cancer here.

>>133931822
I remember when /b/ was good

>>133928448
Belive it or not 2015-2016 were the best time for /pol/ and to be on /pol/.

>>133932896
I remember actually learning things on /b/ before /pol/ came around.

I 100% serious when I say that /b/ should just be renamed to /b/ - Porn at this point, cause that's basically what it is.

Back when the gaybar was the gaybar. But /b/ has never been good.

>>133928928

/pol/ is where most /b/-tards moved to, combined with the fact that /r9k/ and /s4s/ only further splintered the people coming to /b/ for OC and shitposting. As a result, the OC /b/ has made over the past decade can be counted on one, maybe two hands if you reach.

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There used to be a time when Pepe didn't even exist on 4chan.

Those were the days...

Politically? It's always sucked. I came in late 2009 to /b/ and /k/ and it used to be pretty fun. All kinds of shenanigans were had and it progressively went downhill. /pol/ during the election was a pretty fun time really if you could get around the shilling. I wish I would have discovered this place sooner, I missed alot of the early raids and shit :(

Even though its pointless now I still follow rules 1 & 2.

>>133933756
>Even though its pointless now I still follow rules 1 & 2
Only literal edgelord kids don't.

>>133933016
this
I remember /b/ from 2005 when I was 11
don't forget you're here forever, you may find new boards, but you will always be stuck on 4chan.

>>133930151
>>133930152
what the fucking fuck, you posted the same image ONE second apart
what. the. fuck.

2012 cancer reporting in. I found 4chan through the ponyfag fandom of all places. Some faggot on a forum told me this place was where all the nasty shit on the internet came from. I lurked a bunch of different boards for awhile before I started really browsing /pol/ after the decline of /r9k/ in 2015.

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>>133933756
>always
>2009

You weren't even here for the aftermath of /b/ day calm the fuck down.

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>>133928448
I'm part of the cess-pool, what does that even represent? What was so significant about that year?
>gamergate?
I showed up about a month after that. Sargon of cuckkad mentioned 4 chan or something and I was curious.
>full 1488 now goys. Thanks for the truth

>>133928448
Came here in 2009 a friend told be about this place 2012 was probably the tipping point it has never been the same

>>133932317
>echo chamber
But people like you flood every thread so
it can't actually be an echo chamber.

Original /g/ is the best board to have ever existed.

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>>133931498
Can you post some?

>>133934499

The way 4chan works actually acts an an anti-chamber. Dissenting views are trolled and bumped to the top, resulting in the most detested and hateful views of society becoming mainstream here.

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>>133934327
GamerGoy and the ensuing chimpout that left /v/ a shell of its former self, /pol/ harbor and the cuckening and the fact that this all culminated in Moot resigning. 2014 was such a shit year. The only good thing that came out of it was the Tumblr raids.

>>133934710
I think it'd be more accurate to describe 4chan as a "cacophony chamber" of sorts, with everybody disagreeing about everything all the time with some patterns being able to be distinguished out...maybe.

>>133929143

I know this feel. I don't like this feel one bit.

>>133932027
very similar to me. Found 4chan off ED and was an edgy /b/tard for years before the vast majority of the users on this board were here.

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>>133934710
Yeah except a serious NatSoc thread dies, nigger hate threads die, but a thread that says
>ok pol remember that it's not ok to become anti black racist to defeat anti whites racist!!! That's like hitler!!!
>communism general
>Nords aren't white. Prove me wrong. pro tip, you can't
Get 300 replies and are on the front page all the time. Leftist, progressive, and subversive views get the spot light here and yet National Socialism and White Nationalism still manage to triumph.

Just goes to show that the truth will win when there is a fair fight of ideas.

>>133934842
Lmao. Didn't realize I arrived on the tail end of that. Thanks for the info anon.

>>133932548
Oh my goodness you are simply the worst.

06 fag here

>>133935110
I was the fucking shitshow to end all shitshows. I mostly heard about it through InternetAristocrat and ED. I actually thought 4chan was going to die at that point but this board made such a huge comeback in 2015.

>>133935261
Yeah I came here and saw all the radical shit. Made me laugh. Nigger and fat hate threads. It slowly grabbed hold of me. I kept coming back. 2015 was awesome. 2016 was like total war: Shill edition and right now is like that to some extent.

>>133928448
06, thanks for reminding me im old, fuck you op

>>133935025
Communism general is one of the threads that I can't get the filter to work for. /ptg/ filters.

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>>133935468
I honestly didn't realize how much I had been lied to until I spent 9 months here. Thanks for telling the truth /pol/lacks

>>133935640
Had to fix my flag

>>133932783
this

>>133935640
>>133935676
Kek. I noticed that and was wondering

>>133928448
oldfag here I started coming around 2006 from an exodus out of ogrish when the ogrish domain was sold and incorporated into liveleak and the forum there was purged of its controversial posters. most of us were unironically white nationalist shit posters even then

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>>133935203
>>133935539
>>133935718

Some oldfags are still here too.

You have won an ancient meme today.

Heard about 4chan in 2003 (was a SA lurker)
Started light lurking in 2005
Started posting in 2006
Never stopped
Only became more degenerate as time went on
2017 and I have lost control of my life.

>>133932027
>found this place from ED back in 06
Same here, except I went to /c/ first then /a/. Never bothered with /b/.

>>133928448
We really didn't talk about politics in the old days.

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>>133928928
>it's incredibly easy to fix the problem of /pol/.
Range Ban Australia. Nuff said.

>>133933319
I used to go on /b/ all the time as a teen now all I ever see for the fleeting moments I go over there is 'post your gf/wife/ex or 'snapchat thread'...maybe it was always shit and I just have nostalgia for the habbo hotel days.

>>133928448
I came to /pol/ after Sandy Hook, so I missed out on the 2012 election cycle. I would say the Dorner threads were the best time to be on /pol/.

>>133934113
It's fresh Crowdstrike edit OC, (((enjoy))) and then ask /jp/ for the superior original

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>>133933756
>Even though its pointless now I still follow rules 1 & 2.

You realize that's a Gaia/Somethingawful meme, right?

Literally still in the Gaia Online archives to this day.

Moot called out a tripfag cancer-merchant at a /b/con for unironically memeing it.

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Early 2000's pre duck roll was the most fun. 4chan blamed ebaums world for everything and the place had occasionally CP threads. This was bad obviously but it kept the normies away so fucking hard. Facebook didn't exist / hadn't normalised maymays yet.. encyplopedia dramatica didn't exist so you had to lurk moar to learn the memes and language and shit. It was a really nice place we had there for a while.

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fucking mfw I realized ED ruined 4chan and internet subculture by giving it to normies. Fuck

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>>133937265
Oh, is that what this thread is?

>>133928448
What is 4chan??

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>>133936827
You're a fucking retard.

Moot was a cuckhold asshat who tried like fucking crazy to monetize this shit hole. 'oh lol don't unironically rules 1 and 2 hue hue'

You're an actual retard. /B/con Jesus they were autistic. You're that kind of retard.

>>133928928
/b/ has been shit for an extremely long time. A decade or more.