Have you ever mentioned going on 4chan irl? I have a couple

>>35864994
I have. People don't know what this is and don't care because of that.
I have a friend who does and he is usually on /b/ though. He's cool about it.

A few people at work drag race as a hobby with project cars and talk about /o/ a lot. I mentioned I've heard of 4chan and browse /out/ sometimes and they just gave me "oh okay I don't care" looks.

I browse a lot of boards but I've only ever mentioned the niche boards like /out/, /diy/, etc. to people outside of 4chan. Nobody knows I browse autistic shit like /r9k/, /g/, /biz/, etc.

>>35864994
i try to hide and discourage people form it as much as possible, straight up denying i even come here and say, "its boring"

but 4chan is pretty popular, perhaps there is a super secret remote website on the internet thats all of /r9k/'s best quality's times 100. So valued by it's members that they go to the lengthiest costs to ensure its secrecy to keep the "normies" out.

>>35864994
I don't mind mentioning it because normies have never heard of it or think it's like reddit. The only people who know it post regularly or used to.

>>35864994
Keeping the original site design was the best decision for 4chan, it scares normies for some reason.

>>35865293
ever since the news reported on the "underground hacker message board" normies have associated this site with fear.

also, it makes it look old as duck, i know you're probably used to it but it scares the daylight out of normies with no technical knowledge.

I talk to my brother and friend about it regularly, and my gf browses /v/ every day.