Remember when that board used to be the cultural epicenter of 4chan?

Now it's all pre-pubescent 13 year old kids who post porn and call each other "faggots" all day

>>35250193
>Remember when that board used to be the cultural epicenter of 4chan?
I wish it was again honestly

I hate this new politically charged 4chan with angry people and shit

>>35250254
>Now

Schlipschloppshoobydoobop

>>35250254
It always was. 2/3 of them just moved on to other boards.

>>35250254
Isn't that what the rest of 4chan do anyway?

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tfw it will never be 2006 and rushing home from school and sometimes skipping it to play vidya and browse /b/ while thinking your edgy.

I know people say nostalgia is a meme and those times wern't all that great but nothing beat the summer school holidays and just waking up, browsing the Internet with the curtains shut to block out the hot summers day sunlight.

fuck, I just realised how sad that sounds.

still good times tho.

>>35250193
not really, by the time I came here regularly it was a cringey project chanology containment board

>pre-captcha /b/ is dead and gone and you will NEVER EVER get it back

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>4chan will never host a unique counter culture ever again
>All jokes are immediately leaked to Reddit where it makes it rounds

>Tfw you're reduced to spamming in edgy twitch TV chat rooms.

The chat rooms are where it's at now Bois gogogo

>>35250766
Pre-Captcha 4chan was 50% spam in the end.

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>>35250866
Forgot to post the image. That's what it looked like.

>>35250299
>/b/ in 2008
Habbo raids, lazor, a certain amount of OC
>/b/ in 2017
trumpshit, cCucckposting

which board will be next to be the cultural center after /pol/?

It still probably is most people I've heard just move on to different boards. I used to only post on /b/, then I moved to /lit/, and eventually here. It's like a stepping stone

>>35250254

When I showed up to /b/ as a 13 year old kid 11 years ago it was like that.

>>35250967
Amazing that you go to /lit/ without understanding what 'cultural epicenter' means

>>35250193
Yeah, it was /b/, then /r9k/ for a while, then /pol/.

See, the people who actually do shit tend to attract people who don't and are pretty shitty, so then these people migrate to another board. That fits similar interests.

/b/ (random, lulz) -> /r9k/ (slow /b/ at the time, grew into loner-haven and got red-pilled on feminists and SJWs) -> /pol/ (more aggressive against SJWs while maintaining a lesser female board presence - ultimately red-pilling us on the joo's and how feminists are just jooish tools).

>>35250967

I feel like if you don't go through the /b/ integration route then you're weird.

>>35250994
that might explain why he ended up here

>>35250911
>anontalk
mother of christ I remember when moot made his correspondence emails with Kimmo public here

they were fucking hilarious

>>35251014
What's the next cultural epicenter senpai

>>35251046
It'd be great if it was something unexpected. Like /po/. Imagine 4chan's counter culture being expressed through papercraft

>>35250994
I do. My point was that you probably thought /b/ was representative of 4chan since it's what you started out on. Most posters are new rather than seasoned guessing from /b/ traffic numbers so /b/ would still be your epicenter it's just you don't go there anymore so you fail to see it that way.

>>35251046
/po/

Soon we will be leading an army of paper swans to conquer the whole world.

>>35251085
Holy shit I didn't even read your post before I submitted.
>>35251117

>>35251014
It's strange looking back at /b/ before /r9k/ and /pol/ existed. It's like looking at some internet legend when a great omniscient deity decided to split themselves into three lesser gods. The shitty part of /b/ that relentlessly posted porn and talked about drugs has stayed in /b/, the more original discussion moved to /r9k/ before it got co-opted by misanthropists who think women are simultaneously the ultimate goal and the enemy of all men, and /pol/ accomodated the stormfags and small amount of legitimate political discourse.

/pol/ is an interesting one to look at, given that it was born during Obama's time in office and as such has a predominant right wing sentiment owing to 4chan's counter-culture. I remember when Bush was still in office and this place was what I can only describe as irreverent left. I'm curious about whether the status quo will swing back that way now Trump is in.

>>35251085
It has to be somewhere they have their own unique culture thing going on. Like it's not gonna be /tv/ because its too reddit

I am thinking /fit/ tbqh

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>>35251137
great minds think alike my brother

>>35251162

It will swing back. As soon as Trump becomes "muh establishment"

>>35251183
Hopefully /fit/. That could be fun

>>35251093
>>35251162
See this was half my point. I'm no ancient fag or anything but even eight years ago /b/ was much more similar to what it is now than this guy is implying. His opinion probably just got skewed when he started going to /r9k/ and /pol/

>>35251162
The mainstream culture is still left wing though. So it will be interesting to see who /pol/ sides with, the mainstream establishment rebellion, or the ruling underdog.

Although by the looks of things, all /pol/ is going to be is
>drumpf btfo

>shut up shill

>u mad honey you know only rural and suburban retards voted for trump

>kys faggot

Literally 90% of the posts there seem to just be repetitive shilling, calling anyone who disagrees with you a shill, b8ing or calling any stupid post b8.

>>35251183
I'd almost anticipate /v/, because of how vitriolic and untrustworthy of their own board topic they are.

They're fuelled by a compulsion to hate video games, and if there's a video game they like, they're compelled to hate anybody who likes a different game. There's scarcely a video game community out there as spiteful and divided as /v/.

>>35251093
/b/ was the representative of 4chan you absolute retard. 4chan was DEFINED by what /b/ did. What was popular on /b/ was proliferated not throughout just 4chan, but the entire internet to a certain degree. Essentially everything that came out of 4chan up through maybe 2011 was either spawned or popularized on /b/.

There isn't a "oh, well I browsed /a/ in 2008 so chanology and habbo hotel raids and FOX news reports don't matter and /a/ really defined 4chan" argument to be made. You either misunderstood what 'cultural epicenter' means, maybe because english isn't your first language, or you're retarded or both.

>>35251219
People already go there just for the humor and shit I can see it happening

>>35251279
and /b/ isn't the 'cultural epicenter' anymore because its a containment board and nothing substantial leaks out whereas /pol/ has been indisputably, for better or worse, has had the most active & far reaching influence of any 4chan board since at least 2014.

>>35251291
It would make a positive change from all the Trump support and praise kek shit all over the boards now for sure

>>35251276
Yeah but it has to have a wide reaching audience that normies can enjoy/cringe at

/b/ did stuff that affected pop culture and stuff and /r9k/ got popular bc of elliot whatshisname and the whole gamergate culture and /pol/ bc of trump

/fit/ could reach a wider, normie (who want to be edgy) audience

i've also been seeing a lot of stuff from /ck/ on tumblr recently so.....

>>35251340

4chan culture is contrarian so whatever becomes mainstream is immediately disliked. as soon as trump is normalized /pol/ will turn on him and a new board will reign as the counter culture epicenter of the internet

>>35251324
>/pol/ has been indisputably, for better or worse
Definitely worse. /b/ raids on other boards were frustrating but ultimately amounted to longcat posts and DESUDESU spam. /pol/ just spreads stormfaggotry wherever it turns up, which is literally anywhere now.

>>35251351
>Yeah but it has to have a wide reaching audience that normies can enjoy/cringe at
Well, it was /b/'s hot memes that brought everyone in, so I guess [s4s] is the prime candidate if we go by that metric.

>i've also been seeing a lot of stuff from /ck/ on tumblr recently so.....
oh jesus christ no /ck/ has already gone half to shit, I'm fucking sick of mcchicken threads

>>35251403
That's /pol/'s trick, Trump will never become normalized.

>>35251403
Another reason it might be /fit/. With all the non-binary gender and feminism stuff becoming more mainstream maybe there could be a reaction with a sort of ironic masculinity

>>35251279
You just have tunnel vision because of the election and you're own likely /pol/ browsing. Was r9k the epicenter when Mercer shot up his school? Who was the epicenter when all those celeb nudes got leaked? Also you act like every board is obsessed with /pol/ shit more than anything else. I see /tv/ memes just as often as I do /pol/

>>35251445
/pol/ doesn't have a trick. Tricks imply subtlety, of which /pol/ has literally none. The only thing that can happen is that appreciation of him becomes an ironic meme, like the opposite of "thanks obama".

Never say never, especially when we've only ever seen /pol/ during a time when the president was a librul.

>>35251447
The non-binary and feminism thing has actually gone down a lot since like 2012-14 era. So I feel like that's not a good support for your theory.

>>35251558
>You just have tunnel vision because of the election and you're own likely /pol/ browsing
You'd be wrong then. I don't browse /pol/, but you don't need to browse the board to see the unparalleled influence that /pol/ wields on 4chan. It is undeniably the most active board at proliferating content. It has long taken the mantle that /b/ used to hold when Chanology was a thing.

>Was r9k the epicenter when Mercer shot up his school?
Of course it was. If you browsed r9k or any board at the time you'd see how r9k jargon was spreading well beyond the board that brought a huge influx of new users and made it for a time was the most popular board on /r/4chan and thus beyond. The popularity of 'pepe' was spearheaded by what was happening on r9k. "Feels", which are now a common lingo across all of 4chan was popularized on r9k.

I believe you're either new or dense.

/b/ sucks

/pol/ /r9k/ /v/ /tv/ are the only places i lurk now

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>>35250299

Original pranksters post.

>>35251724
each of those are quintessential /b/ weaning boards

the majority of people who migrate away from /b/ will do so to one of those

>>35250793
Linkage? Pls k thnx bb

>>35251207

Have you ever been there? All "but muh 4chan counter culture/anti-establishment" is mocked and met with "but anon, WE are the establishment now"

>>35251802
Literally no different to /b/ thinking it could control the world during project chanology. You're acting like /pol/ saying something makes it true.

>>35250193
don't kid yourselves, /b/ was never good, just slightly less bad.

>>35251855
I feel like /pol/ now is going to go the same way as chanology. Its already beginning to spread out in the real world, soon you could see protests or whatever organised by /pol/ posters and then all the cringe will follow

>>35251802

I agree with >>35251855 /pol/ may have had some influence on people finding Trump and acceptable candidate but at the end of the day their just roleplaying. I remember when they thought that the pee dossier thing was their doing.

>>35251674
Feels didn't start on /r9k/ and neither did pepe. Go to any other board like /a/ or /tv/. Sure they say cuk but they aren't as buzzing with /pol/ influence as you think they are. Also fuck off back redditor

>>35251855

The difference here is chanology was a vocal minority of edgy teens on a power trip that ended up splitting off anyway. /pol/ is an entirely different monster, with visible real world influence if you pay close enough attention.

>>35251956
>visible real world influence
Nah, they've just inspired some edgy teens to spam their shitty content everywhere

>>35250574
It's okay anon, iktf

I spent two notable summers, one on this board and one on b. I did the drawfag threads too, it was a lot of fun. Worry free, staying up until 5am and sleeping until 3pm. I'd give anything to experience that summer one more time.

>>35251912
Yeah. /pol/ picture themselves as pre-jail Edward Norton from American History X, but at best they're Ethan Suplee from American History X and at worst they're a bunch of kids who think saying nigger makes them look like they don't give a shit about anything and it's not a phase, mom.

>>35251956
>The difference here is chanology was a vocal minority of edgy teens on a power trip that ended up splitting off anyway. /pol/ is an entirely different monster
That's exactly what /pol/ is, though.

>with visible real world influence if you pay close enough attention
The greatest extent of their real world influence is getting Hillary to decry Pepe as a neo-nazi mascot, and that was just their equivalent of /b/'s "Hackers on steroids".

>>35251979

Keep on believing that my friend. The world is not so black and white.

>>35252035
Theres been a lot of news articles popping up recently about /pol/ too though, more news coverage than /b/ or 4chan in general ever had at one time before

>>35252041

You really think they're the reason Trump is our president? They made it a funny meme for lost young men to embrace but other than that, literally N A H

>>35251928
Can you read? I said they were popularized by /r9k/ not started.

>they aren't as buzzing with /pol/ influence as you think they are
You must not be browsing the same /tv/ as I am because there is almost always a /pol/ thread on the catalog. Literally dozens get made on /tv/ every day. That one picture of "/tv/ - alt-right pussies crying about everything" that gets posted in each one has HUNDREDS of reposts

I think that you believe I'm 'championing' /pol/ or something, like im enamored with it when I'm simply acknowledging the reality that /pol/ is to 4chan today what /b/ was to 4chan in 2008. Look, prove me wrong. Name ONE single board that wields more influence on the rest of 4chan & the internet at large today as /pol/. I'd love to hear you try.

>>35252085
>more news coverage than /b/ or 4chan in general ever had at one time before
Your newfag is showing.

Unfortunately.
Sometimes I hop on there from time to time but it's literally just bad porn threads and nothing else.

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>>35252102
Unfortunately Ive been on this site since around 2007, believe me /pol/ is starting to get more attention

>>35252100
Additionally you seem to have this stupid idea in your head that if every board isn't a carbon copy of /pol/ then somehow /pol/ isn't currently the cultural epicenter of 4chan when you yourself admit thats its influence has spread to practically every board. As with /b/ in 2008, not every board had to be exactly like /b/ for it to still be the most active & influential board on 4chan. You may resent it, but denying it is just plugging your ears.

>>35252125
It's occasionally refreshing to see that
>dubs names my new piece
threads have endured, but all it really means is that stoners have stayed the same since the year dot.

>>35252139
We go back as far as each other, and I genuinely feel like /pol/ has been receiving no more attention than /b/ or 4chan as a whole ever got. I'd be willing to change my tune if I saw enough contemporary articles drawing attention to /pol/ though.

>>35251928
>/tv/
>not buzzing with /pol/ influence

for fucks sake man. the 80 million GET that just happened TODAY was in a Trump thread. Could you BE more delusional?

>>35252191
>dubs names my new piece
I forgot what it was like when 420ch didn't have enough traffic to divert those threads.
I used to think I'd stop browsing 4chan by 2012 because "that's 5 years from now, no way I'll browse this site for 5 years"
10 years later I'm still stuck.

And the horrifying thought just crossed my mind that I'll be here for another 20 if the site doesnt collapse.
Like a mental gulag.

>>35252099

They are absolutely not the only reason he won, but they definitely played a part and to claim otherwise is downright foolish.

Don't narrow everything down to just the election though and start looking for other signs. Look at the broader picture.

>>35252191
>>35252139

I'd say it's close to equal, with /pol/ getting a bit more attention. Remember, they tried to pin the entire alt-right on /pol/, which tied a lot of satellite groups to the board and passed the spotlight on it for slightly longer than /b/ had it.

4chan as a whole though, I'd say still has more publicity than just /pol/.

>>35252234
This guy is correct. /pol/ is all over /tv/

>>35251912
You mean like the HWNDU trolling /pol/ did?

Literally had people saying "mods are faggots" and drawing pepes. One guy literally posted a picture of his "pepe 2024" sign on pol before showing up with his girlfriend to troll the liberals.

And that's only a small sample of the crap pol pulled during that "art project"

>>35252295
>Bunch of people show up to chant religiously
>/pol/tards show up to mess with them
>IT'S ANONYMOUS ALL OVER AGAIN
>CHANOLOGY STRIKES AGAIN
>IT'S A NEW UPRISING
Those were basement dwellers fucking with zealots. That is the core of 4chan. If that's new to you I suggest you fuck off.

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>>35252295
Nah HWNDU was a small drop in the ocean

>>35252316
that's exactly what he's saying you fucking clown

>>35252260
>Look at the broader picture.
Please enlighten me soothsayer

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Pretty sure Pepe is just a psyop or mass-mindcontrol experiment anyway.

There are definite shifts in this memery where the more professional 'artists' create these various waves, you could see it with the 'tfw too intelligent' posts and then the 'apu' pepes.

I seriously doubt that force memeing could have that much effect if only one or two people were behind it.

Various CIA, NSA projects in the past have focused on 'disruption' of groups and communities which seemed to pose a potential risk. Pepe was used to disrupt r9k by flooding it with normies.

At least we got some nice art out it.

>>35252447
Pretty dumb opinion since r9k before it was 'disrupted' was more harmless than it was afterwards

>>35252447
you're underestimating the power and buzz you feel when you create a nice piece of OC and people respond to it

also underestimating the scope of people that use the site, shock/horror: there are artists on 4chan!

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>That awkward moment the U.N sponsored a academic paper on /pol/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03452v1.pdf

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>>35252636
Thank you

I was looking for this paper the other day. I seem to remember someone did a research paper on /fit/ once too

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>>35252679
>Perhaps the least rare Pepe.
is this real holy shit

>>35252692
Yes, Unfortunately
Why do you think pepe became a hate symbol?

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>>35252692
Oh its real kek

>>35252692
that's where that meme about rare ones comes from anon.

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>>35252771
>Thread B shows a casual call for genocide with an image of a woman's cleavage

>>35250193
/b/ is the pepe of boards. The "normals" are widely aware of it, they dare one another to go there for the cheapest of thrills. /b/ is the gatekeeper, surface level 4chan.