4chan

>>36384565
Heard about it on reddit when I was like 12. Learned that there are a few other people just as fucked as I am.
Here in 10 years? I don't see why not.

I found 4chan like most normal people do nowadays.
Heard about 4chan for years as 'the worst place on the internet'. I never believed it because I thought it was alright. This was around 5 years ago. I stayed on /x/ because I legitimately enjoyed paranormal stories. I started browsing /pol/ during the Furgeson riots in 2014 but stayed long after the riots were over. I branched out to the other popular boards until I found /r9k/. I stayed here because I could relate to the depressing posts at the time. That was early 2015. Now 2 years later, I'm a complete fucking normie. Believe it or not , 4chan was right about alot of things. Societal norms, race, religion, politics. I don't consider it a waste of time because I like posting on here. I think I'll still be around in 10 years if someone doesn't kill me or if the website isn't shut down by then.

>>36384565
Shit ton of funny greentexts made me glad I wasn't the only one with fucked up stories. One I have is when my mom, brother and I went to Hawaii when I was in seventh grade. He straight up shat on the wall of our room. Not the restroom wall. The wall next to the beds. He said he didn't make it and he had no control. He is 5 years older than me so this happened when he was in highschool. Also, I have a Bunch of other friends who told me about the website

>>36384806
>Heard about it on reddit when I was like 12
How long ago was that?

>>36384565
Saw one of my facebook friends I met on Runescape post about how /b/ was dead and I was curious about what it was, so I googled it.

Taught me that some of the autistic shit I do isn't as bad as I think it is because some people do a lot more retarded things.

Yes.

Hopefully not. Maybe.

>>36384565
found this place through Newgrounds. I liked all the funny shit on /b/ and it was way more entertaining than the ng BBS or most other forums. When I was 14 I came across /mu/ and kept collecting music for four years. It became compulsive at 18 and I was listening to like three albums a day plus looping whatever song was catching my attention for hours at a time. I became a lot less social during that period but it was also rife with self discovery and eventually I balanced out my life. To some degree of course it was a waste of time, I've read through a lot of shitty or pointless threads. But a good 4chan post hits the spot.

I will probably still visit in ten years.

Saw it a couple of times on different sites (parody wikis and manga forums) so decided to give it a try.

I've basically learned most of what I know from here. Including english. 4chan is my life style since I'm 13 years old. Sure there's been negative consequences, such as porn addiction, wrong opinions and general isolation, but being the kind of person I am I'd be much more lonely if 4chan didn't exist.

If I'm not here in 10 years I'll be in another similar website, though I already feel a little too old for this shit.

>>36384889
>Now 2 years later, I'm a complete fucking normie.
How so?

a guy i played wow with would send me funny images on aim and told me about 4chan when i asked
>2007 was 10 years ago

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>>36385166
I was still in high school and was a total robot. I was a basement dweller who played vidya 24/7 and had poor hygiene. I wore the same clothes everyday and was treated like a school shooter. Nowadays in college, I'm 100% more social, got /fit/, have had multiple girlfriends and dress like a normal person.
>tfw I know I'm still a robot deep down

>>36384565
What enticed you to post this image?

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I heard about it through internet rumors and shit in the web forums I went to around 04/05. I visited in 05/06 but didn't really start coming often until 2007.

Sure, sure, the signal/noise ratio is pretty bad here but occasionally there's some gems. And I feel more comfortable here because almost every place else on the web wants you to have a persistent identity. Nowadays they like it if its tied to contact info and a real name too. Here if you say something stupid you can close the tab and its gone forever.

In a strict sense, yes, it's all been a waste. But if I hadn't wasted it here, I would have wasted it somewhere else. It's not as if I'd have magically been a productive, accomplished memeber of normie society if I'd never come here.

In 2027 I'll be 40 and I'll probably still be posting here, if the place is still around. Both because of the massive hole in my life and because that'll open up some nice shitposting opportunities.

imgur, three years ago, thought the greetext stories people would post there were funny and I wanted to see the magic for myself. I was starting to really hate the whole internet points shit and saw it at as a fake, attention whoring passive aggressive battle for who could win the approval of everyone by being the most innocent pc blah blah i've learned alot and the website has shaped my personal philosophy deeply and I enjoy the anarchic nature of the website. Dont use any other website. Use it evreyday. I've somehow not fallen entirely for the nazi shit. I will definietly be here for ten years

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>>36384565
>>36385367
>tfw black and my peepee isnt this big

>>36385400
>stacy will still fuck you because she thinks its cool to fuck black guys

It was around 2007 (I was 17) on FunnyJunk actually. People would post screencaps there and I thought it warranted a visit. /b/ was my first board and it actually scared me away the first time. I went on a couple weeks later and have been using ever since. I think it sort of changed my life. Most board seems to have one thing in common. They want some kind of truth. That pursuit of truth has rubbed off on me.

>>36385421
If stacy fucked me I wouldnt be here

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>>36384565
i discovered 4chan from chanology in it's early stages. i used to exclusively browse /a/ but now i browse /v/, /r9k/ and /pol/. this site has changed my life by waking me up about the horrors of women, jews, and the establishment in general. then again, it also made me into a sad sack nihilist that considers suicide daily, but it's worth the shitposts. i probably won't be here in 10 years either because i killed myself or reddit ruined this place and i migrated to hotwheelschan.

>>36385453
What is the black equivalent of Stacey? Is she ghetto, or refined to the point of snobbery?

>>36385538
she is refined to the point of snobbery and takes pride in her "congolese roots". ghetto negresses seem alright for a quick pump and dump and maybe a companion since they won't backstab you and will just fuck tyrone in the end.

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>>36385311
Why are you asking? Did it make you react in a particuIar way?

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a friend of mine told me about the habbo hotel raid so i started browsing /b/ in the summer of 2006. i guess if anything it taught me how to keep a thick skin and showed me the power of anonymous posting, how amazing dubs and other repeating digits, and how hilarious a simple picture attached to a thought or an opinion can be. i've received endless hours of entertainment here and i plan to shtipost for the rest of my life.

>>36384565
>How did you discover this website and did it change your life?
An Argentinian faggot that I hated in a facebook group about anime linked 4chinz, back in 2010
Yes

btw I still hate you Faust Panzer, also known as Azneye

>What did all of these hours spent browsing it taught you?
It made my english better and also I learned about the jewish problem

>Was it all a waste of time?
Probably, but very enjoyable

>Do you think you'll still be here in 10 years?
We are here forever

>>36384565
>How did you discover this website and did it change your life?
I can't remember how I found 4chan.
It's changed my life tons.
/sci/ inspired my career path
My personal beliefs are basically a /lit/ meme
I pretty much only use free software because of /g/
/fit/ got me in shape (still yet to make it)
There are tons of other small things too, for example /r9k/ taught me how to cure my phimosis.
In general I'm more contrarian and sceptical than I would have been. I have high standards for most things. I don't really enjoy most "normie" entertainment mediums (TV, movies, modern videogames, popular music, etc).
What did all of these hours spent browsing it taught you?
Arguing, dissemination, programming, a fair amount of maths, and lots of other small skills. Was it all a waste of time?
No. I don't really think anything is a waste of time though.
Do you think you'll still be here in 10 years?
I doubt it. I get sick of boards and find new ones, but I'm running out.

>>36385769
>My personal beliefs are basically a /lit/ meme
What are they?

>>36384565
Summer of 2010
When I started spending almost all of my time on the internet. Heard about the edgy memesters on the 4chan, who also liked anime.

>>36385600
why can't we have something like this, only with Asian men and black women?

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>>36385769
>used this website for god knows how long
>still can't format posts well
fuck me
>>36385782
I agree with most of Stirner's philosophy. I'm an egoist and I don't believe in spooks like morality, religion, the state, etc (yes I know this is edgy). I'm apathetic to the suffering of people who aren't immediatly present in my life.

My lack of empathy probably also comes somewhat from 4chan.

>>36385681
you're literally a summerfag lol

>>36385844
lmao i think u know the answer

>>36385880
>Stirner

Ah yes, the guy who calls everything a 'spook' and insists the only thing that matters is oneself, failing to realise that his entire concept of self - the ego - is itself a 'spook'.

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>>36385967
Define what a spook is and explain why the ego is a spook
If you can't do it then perhaps it's time to actually read stirner

>>36384565

I've been in this hole since 2006. I was interested in the Habbo hotel raids, so I went on /b/. After project chanology, it kinds went to shit. Around 2011 the general negativity on 4chan was getting me down so I tried out reddit. I couldn't stand the sanitized talk and the constant circle jerking. UPVOAT UPVOAT.

In 2013 I came to /pol/. It was fun for a while, but it seems to have devolved into paranoid schizophrenics who think everyone is a kike nigger muslim shill. It's just a bunch of white supremacists and Nazis now, the libertarian branch is pretty much dead. So now I'm here. I hate all of you, but not as much as I hate myself. So I tolerate you.

>>36384941
a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away

>>36385880
Why is morality so bad and your ego so important? Would you let me murder your mother if it gave me a thrill? If not, how would you justify that? It just seems so silly to me, sorry.

Found it in 2010 after reading some shit about anonymous on wikipedia. They were in the news at the time. I came to /b/ and laughed at all the weird shit I saw like every newfag. Eventually I moved on to other boards. I went to /pol/ /v/ /g/ /mlp/ /int/ and most recently (over a year and a half ago) /r9k/.
It's changed me a lot I think. I'm more cynical and less opinionated. I take things less seriously. I think being exposed to every opinion and every king of person under the sun will do that to you. I think being here has taught me other perspectives and that other people have wildly different experiences. I don't think any of it has been a waste. I've enjoyed every minute. I live all of you. I'll be here until they unplug the servers.

>>36385160
too old for this shit, nigga i see people in thier forties post on here sometimes, but I get whaat you mean. It can get repetitve and overstimulating. Its good to take breaks for alittle bit

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When I was a freshman living in the dorms in 2004.

I remember a lot of shit no one cares about anymore. Chanology, Desu, Nyoro~n, Cockmongler/Grinman, Longcat, the camwhore who fucked Moot silly at an anime convention(pic related). I don't blame it for my loser-dom. Too many other factors, you know?

I'm hoping this site isn't a thing anymore in 10 years.

>>36385880

The thing is Max Stirner isn't as radical as people make him out to be. What he said is true when taken at literal face value. Abstract ideas do not actually exist, as in they don't exist how you and I do. They are fictions we have all adopted. January doesn't exist, it's something we have decided to call a certain segment of the Earth's rotations around the sun. Even though that rotation is never the same, as our solar system itself is orbiting the galaxy which it itself it always in movement. January is not real. It is a spook.

Why people cannot understand something so simple is beyond me. Our primitive human minds are constantly confusing abstractions for real tangible things that exist. Stirner basically stated a truism.

>>36386165
y-you should record the ancient stories of moots past for future 4channer generations to know of the rich internet past of this special website.

>>36385880
If you actually read Stirner you'd understand that spooks, intangible ideas that influence people's lives and decisions despite being social constructs, are not inherently bad since you can use spooks to your advantage to further your own self interest.

>>36385995
The ego is a spook because it's nothing more than an idea and a societal construct and you are letting this idea control your life and your decisions i.e. you're spooking yourself.

>>36386088
>Why is morality so bad and your ego so important?
It isn't bad, I just don't care. My ego isn't important in some kind of general objective sense. It's important to me/itself.
>Would you let me murder your mother if it gave me a thrill? If not, how would you justify that?
No. I don't particularly like my mother but her death would be annoying as I'd have to attend a funeral and other family members who I do like and interact with would be upset.
>It just seems so silly to me, sorry
I'm not trying to convert you or anything. I understand that the average person is too empathetic to become an egoist. I only know one other person who's an egoist and he can be pretty annoying to hang out with.
>>36386229
Stirner didn't argue against abstract ideas. He was against fixed ideas.

>>36384565
>How did you discover this website and did it change your life?
I heard people say how disgusting and vile /b/ was all the time in 2004, so I knew about 4chan but didn't really start browsing in earnest until 2008.

Anonymity is really a liberating thing. Previously I was used to having to uphold a reputation and consider others comments in the context of their online persona.

Now however there are so many normies on the Internet, so many hot opinions flying around with zero accountability so it's impossible to give a shit about anyone anyway.

>What did all of these hours spent browsing it taught you?
Nothing.

>Was it all a waste of time?
yes

>Do you think you'll still be here in 10 years?
probably

>>36385923
lol i wonder if the habbo hotel is what started the meme because i know that raid drew a lot of newfags to the site that summer.

can anyone confirm or deny this? >>36386165
how about you, oldfag?

>>36386268
You would think it would all be carefully and methodically recorded on a wiki like Chris Chan's life. 4plebs and lurkmore don't really cut it desu

>>36386347

It was definitely a big factor. The Habbo era was also when the media started paying attention to 4chan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

>>36386229

Stirner's whole point is that people are ruled by spooks such as religion and the state. Egoism is a rejection of these spooks, and an acceptance of the individual as the supreme source of authority. Stirner didn't even believe in property, although it is a useful fiction.

Stirner rejects abstraction, that's the whole point of egoism. What the hell is a "fixed idea."

>>36386088
>Why is morality so bad and your ego so important?
Egoists can't understand that just because morality is subjective it doesn't mean they can do whatever they want without repercussion.
>Would you let me murder your mother if it gave me a thrill?
An egoist would argue that since his mother is his property if he cannot protect his property then you have all the right to do what you want with it because might is right.
>It just seems so silly to me
That's because it's become a philosophy that edgy teens and pseudo-intellectuals will read about on Wikipedia and think they're intellectually superior because they can finally justify their self-centered lifestyles.

>>36386375
If somebody doesn't write out who's going to?

>>36386272
>spooks are a spook argument
I didn't say spooks were "bad" (nice spook :^)), I said I don't believe in them.
A spook doesn't have to be a social construct, it's just a fixed idea you put above your self interest. Notice that nowhere do I say one _ought_ to be afraid of spooks, I just don't believe in them myself.
>The ego is a spook because it's nothing more than an idea and a societal construct and you are letting this idea control your life and your decisions i.e. you're spooking yourself.
How am I a social construct?
How does not believing in something control my life? It's not like I go around trying to avoid being morally good or something. I'm not constantly struggling to avoid becoming religious. I'm not protesting violently against the state. I don't constantly check a long list of spooks to avoid accidentally spooking myself.

>>36386454
Not him but I've never read stirner. What book should I start with?

>>36386458

You haven't argued against Striner's point of might makes right. If I come to your mother's house and overwhelm you with force and kill her, what did your "rights" do for you? Nothing. Because rights only mean something when you can defend them. I'm sure if the ancient Romans had told the barbarian hordes that they were violating the NAP they would have simply turned away and gone home. Stirner states a truism: you only have the rights that you can defend. This is true at a real observable level.

>>36386517

The Ego and its Own. He only wrote a couple of books. But it's all he needed. While Stirner likes to say things that are obviously going to shock his readers, he makes solid arguments and presents them in interesting ways.

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>>36386458
>Egoists can't understand that just because morality is subjective it doesn't mean they can do whatever they want without repercussion.
Nigga what
I understand that. Being an egoist just means you don't believe there is some objective idea like morality above yourself. If I did want to kill someone for example (I don't particularly), I would understand that there are social repurcussions (jail in this case).
>An egoist would argue that since his mother is his property if he cannot protect his property then you have all the right to do what you want with it because might is right.
Yes. It's basically an argument of semantics though. Instead of just saying that "right" is meaningless Stirner repurposes it to mean what you are able to do. I personally think it's pretty dumb.
>>36386458
>That's because it's become a philosophy that edgy teens and pseudo-intellectuals will read about on Wikipedia and think they're intellectually superior because they can finally justify their self-centered lifestyles
:^)

>>36386530
>If I come to your mother's house and overwhelm you with force and kill her
This is what I meant by saying might is right.
>you only have the rights that you can defend
I literally stated that "if he cannot protect his property" then he has no more say over it. I don't see why you think I'm disagreeing with you here anon.

>>36386125
A lot of people are older than me but there's a huge percentage of 4chan that is under 16. It's so clear just from the way they type and the things they say. It's not that it lacks adults, it's flooded with kids.

>>36386454
I think you quoted the wrong person.
Religion and the State aren't spooks because they're abstract ideas. Stirner would have no problems with lots of abstract ideas. For example mathematical ones like a "circle", a "set", a "field", etc.

Religion and the state are spooks because there is no reason to believe in them. They're fixed ideas in that people are raised to believe them and put them before themselves.

>>36384565
>How did you discover this website
in late 2009 I purchased mw2 and in the comments of some yt tutorial someone referenced /v/.
>did it change your life?
I don't feel like it has, but I know that it has.
>What did all of these hours spent browsing it taught you?
when I first found 4chan, I was a complete normie (first board was /v/) so pretty much everything I know about this site and what it has to offer.
>Was it all a waste of time?
definitely; I wish I could go back.
>Do you think you'll still be here in 10 years?
I hope not.

Lol fake dix

epic blackpost wite boys btfooooooooo xDDDDDD

>>36386627

I'm autistic. Sorry anon.

>>36384565
It hasn't really changed my life, but I hit rock bottom and want to see others suffering like me.

>>36386762

I honestly don't know Stirner's position on mathematical platonism. We don't have to be math realists to see the value in subjects like geometry. The problem is, from a rational perspective, what is the difference between an abstraction like the state and a useful abstraction like geometry? Why accept one and reject the other?

>>36384565
why is this nigas torso so small?

Made me a racist, sexist, socially awkward and bigoted loser with no friends since I began browsing it at a time where your beliefs are easily influenced

Thanks 4chan

>>36387456
It probably would have happened anyway.

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>>36387384
I don't either desu. I don't worship stirner or anything, I just agree with his views on egoism. His work is pretty dense imo and often less relevent to the world today.

>he problem is, from a rational perspective, what is the difference between an abstraction like the state and a useful abstraction like geometry? Why accept one and reject the other?
It's an interesting question. I think the answer is that we don't put all abstract concepts before our self-interest. Stirner doesn't deny the concept of the state, but that the state represents a moral imperative. Thus he would be fine with geometry, but reject an idea like "geometry ought to be valued more than one's own wants".
>>36387406
It's not. he's just lean enough that his hips are distinct from his torso.

>>36387622

I don't disagree with you necessarily, but once you accept abstractions as real it becomes difficult to just shake them off as "spooks." If a valid philosophical argument can be made for the existence of the state, then it should be accepted. But Striner rejects the importance of abstract objects such as the state prima face, not because they are not well supported. So for him it's not a matter of whether the state is good or not, the argues that the state impedes him and that's why it's bad.

I had never really thought about the problem of abstract objects like mathematics when related to Striner's conception of spooks. It actually poses a problem. I have to think this out.

>>36387692
I don't really understand what the issue is. I think you might be misinterpreting him.

He argues against "sacrificing oneself for the state" if you will, not the actual existence of the state.
It's not about the existence of abstract ideas, but whether we devote ourselves to them.

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>>36384565
Reddit is unironically better than 4chan.

4chan: started browsing when I was like 14, 7 years ago. Started on /b/ and watched it turn from a mostly stalling engine on a retard train with a good bit of actual entertainment value to dead on the retard tracks and beyond saving, started browsing this complete shitshow of a board concurrently with /b/. Mostly these two and porn boards but I also occasionally visited /toy/ and /biz/ for light reading or whatever.

4chan made me realize I was racist, happy about that. Made me hate women, not as happy about that one. I partially blame this site for turning me into a depressed asshole for the better part of 3 years, until I finally decided enough was enough, but this place takes its toll on you and I always come back.

Started browsing Reddit only a few months ago, genuinely interesting content but the site is mostly left leaning and if you say anything even slightly negative about a race or gender group, they reject you immediately and hard for it, which I hate. I keep to niche communities and just lurk r/all and the popular boards because they're actually pretty cool. I started browsing to wean myself off of this festering tumor of a community and yet still here I am back amongst you faggots.

Yes it was a huge waste of time. I do look back fondly on the comfy nights in solitude with some music, soda/coffee, light vidya, and this site, but goddamn this site has done more harm than good and you guys are the worst community ever. Fortunately I was aroused by traps at 12 so I can't even blame that on you guys.

Will I still be here in 10 years? Jesus I hope not but probably. If this shithole isn't nuked before then. I really hope it is.

If I met any of you in the street and you revealed you browse this board I might seriously consider fucking you up bad. I hate all of you goddamn miserable fucks more than anything else in the world. You deserve all of your suffering. Just let me go, you goddamn miserable cunts.

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>>36387263
>triggered cuck
Imao

>>36387906
has that dong been digitally enlarged?

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I learned GNU/Linux is more superior than Windows

I learned the NSA/CIA are always watching us on the webs

I learned Asian woman are ugly as fuck without their make-up and only dates whites for money

I learned Anime is a huge loser/pedo/creep enabler for outcasts

I learned that depression is not a meme

I learned that woman are evil and unfair

I learned that Black people are actually nice and chill if you was his/her friend (or homie)

I learned that Asian people are not as smart as the internet claimed them to be

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>>36384565
I didn't know this place existed but when I found it I felt at fucking home. I found it during the DmC shitstorm in January 2013 while I was looking for information about the game and lurking online discussions. Then I ended up on /v/ and later moved to other boards.

Things this place has done for me
>made me more aware of the things I do that might not be socially acceptable
>made me grow a pair of balls
>improved my english
>taught me tons of shit and useful skills
>works as a social outlet for an isolated person like me where I can have discussions with people of the same power level This was amazing as I never had discussed video games with anyone before
>is the reason I'm economically independent
>Source of knowledge
I wish less kids and normalfags would post here but otherwise I really like it.

>>36387967
>digitally

Probably not, but most niggers in porn wear big fake dicks over their average/below average sized ones.

Makes me wonder why the fuck they don't just get actual big dicked niggers to do the nigger porn like they do with white dudes to do the white porn. I mean some of em are real but I don't trust any of them after seeing that one picture of the fake dick falling off of the real one

>>36384565
>one chance at life
>born with a small dick that will never make a woman instantly drop to her knees and salivate when she sees it

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>>36387967
No.

or2809oiewlk

>>36384565
I heard about it a few times when I was 14-15. First in 9gag, then on some amime forums I used to visit when I got sick of 9gag, they were complaining about it, then I got sick of anime forums and found Molester Man and some translations of old 2ch threads, the culture was amusing and 4chan seemed the closest thing.

I have learned a lot of interesting things on 4chan, but I've also wasted the best years of my life in this cesspool.

I don't think I'll ever leave 4chan, but I really hope I can leave /r9k/ again (again) soon. I hate this board.

>>36384565
>How did you discover this website and did it change your life?
Been here since 2008. I wouldn't say it has changed my life because I only come here in bouts with months inbetween where I don't visit.
"What did all of these hours spent browsing it taught you?
It has made me more jaded and cynical. I will also never underestimate the stupidity of the common man when given anonimity. But I will never overestimate his ill-intentions. Most people here are just trolls for the sake of it and harmless deep down.
>Was it all a waste of time?
It was a waste of time, but on a cosmic scale so is everything else.
>Do you think you'll still be here in 10 years?
If this shithole is still around by then I might visit rarely when I'm sure not to be disturbed, if only out of curiosity. At the age of 25 though I already feel I've outgrown this place. I don't feel at home now with so many obvious underagers running around. Reddit may be cancer but I have faith the average user there is over 18.

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>>36384565
/b/ raided the forum for a kid's physics game that I was a regular on back in like... 08? 09?
Lurked for about a week after that before deciding "this is stupid I'm going back to runescape >:(((", Eventually came a couple years ago because I'm so fucking bored with everything, Prettymuch every forum I regulared after incredibots was 4chan-lite anyway so may aswell waste my time on the real thing instead of getting the same shit watered down and reposted.

I started coming here half a year ago for tranny stuff, and couldn't deal with the reddit hug boxing anymore.

>>36388428
Cont. because I'm retarded.
Coming back here didn't really change everything because I was already jaded from this site's runoff poisoning every other forum I liked.
I wouldn't consider it a waste of time since I have nothing better to do than whore for attention on a cambodian trap making forum, The real waste of time is my shitty wagecuck job wherein I pile up money that I never spend on myself because of other obligations.
Assuming I don't stream myself LARPING as a piniata with the help of a noose or get arrested because our god emporer makes jerking off to cartoon animals illegal I'll definitely be here in 10 years, Don't have anywhere else to go that would take me now. all the nicer forums have a "no edgelords" policy.

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4chan made me aware that I'm not special. I still see you guys as my comrades. /r9k/ is dead though but I'm not old enough for wizchan. Maybe I'll leave if this place becomes even more rotten.

>>36388034
interesting, can you show an image of such a cocksleeve?

>>36388822
I've seen them sold online, you can glue them over your real cock and they have a moveable skin and everything, they go for like 200+

Been coming to 4chan since 2011.

I will probably still be here in 10 years.

It didn't change me that much it just made me more cynical and negative about everything but I was like that to begin with.

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I found it by googling Elonaplus

>>36384565
Over a decade ago on gamefaqs.

I'm still a retarded fuckup.

>>36384565
My ex, who is mentally ill, told me about this website.
This website referred me to the red pill, which I am glad I took.
No one knows if 4chan will exist in ten years.

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>>36384565
This site has turbo charged my interracial fetish. I was fapping to it for like a year before this site but then when I started coming here and noticed how much interracial gets discussed and posted I started watching it probably 10 times more.

>>36389800
>I found it by googling Elonaplus
i still play elona

Found out about it just as it started, around 2003-2004, on an old fighting game message board. I checked it out for awhile but found it boring & ignored it for nearly a year. Eventually came back for the porn; /h/ was my "main" board & was the tripfag "Shippuken".

Definitely remember;
- A slow /b/ & /v/. One first major discussions I had on here was on /b/ about rape; lasted a few days.
- /l/ was still around.
- You could only post one pic per thread (the OP pic). So, pages on the porn boards would be flooded with single pic threads with no/little replies.
- The creation of /t/. The first torrent I ever created & uploaded was an Azasuke Wind collection.
- Mexi-moot
- The text-only boards. Barely used them, except to beg for a western cartoon/comic board (which we eventually got).
- The first time it got shut down cause PayPal closed the donation account, thinking 4chan was a porn site.
- Parsed links. It got bad enough that a lot of Japanese domain sites would block any hotlinking from 4chan
- The "rival" site 5chan, who's main promise was that it had a furry board. But, it's set-up was complete trash & it eventually became a members-only image board for some hentai pay site.
- The 4chan IRC chat room, when you could actually hold a convo there & wasn't idle city.

I spoke directly to moot via AIM once or twice; all he did was tell me to upgrade my fucking browser.

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>>36390389
the way it's meant to be played

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Don't even remember how I found it, but the first thing I ever saw on 4chan was Puddi.

Things were simpler then, and /b/ in particular was a little more lively. Raids were more common. 4chan was more underground and less diluted with faggots from genpop.

I stuck with the site for 2 reasons:
1. Anonimity, and the truthfulness it allows in expression
2. Population. There were enough anons on 4chan to always keep the shitposts coming 24/7

Browsing this site has taught me to scan quickly and almost mindlessly through oceans of chaotic shit to find what interests me, ignoring huge blocks of copypasta or bullshit without even really seeing it.

It's taught me that typing something out and posting is only very rarely worth the effort. It's taught me not to give a shit about anything on the internet.
It was a waste of time the same way porn and gaming is.

I probably will pop in from time to time till I'm geriatric as fuck. 4chan is like a zeitgeist meter for me, I look for trends.

I heard of /b/ during the fappening and then i went on to vist /pol/. My innocent normie mind was so shocked to see so many people being unabashedly racist, so i turned 360 degrees and noped the fucked out. But then my curiosity got hold of me and now i vist 4chan regularly.

>>36391011
>now i vist 4chan regularly
Which boards?

>>36391022
>/r9k/
>/v/
>/b/
>sometimes /pol/, /sci/ and /his/

>>36384565
Darktrap talking about Linetrap and 4chan on her old blog. google 4chan. 8 years later I'm still here. I'm a fucking human tragedy

>>36390406
>Shippuken
holy shit I remember you holy fuck

Started playing a browser game called eRepublic a few years ago, and there was a pretty large user population from /v/ so I just kinda got into it and found it interesting. In 10 years I'll probably still be here assuming it's still around

>>36391132
Stop playin'; no you don't.

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>>36391071
>he hasn't outgrown/b/ yet
As expected of some fappening fag.

>tfw you will never lick up creamy nigger cum from your gf's pussy

>>36384565
I browsed Bnet back in the day and was a young shitposter on The Flood. Always heard how awful /b/ was. Decided to eventually check it out, stayed for the porn but eventually branched out. The one thing 4chan taught me was that no matter how dumb I feel, there's plenty of retards out there and I should no longer be surprised by how ignorant and stupid people can be.

>>36384565

>I was in middle school and had this one edgy friend who claimed to be part of Anonymous
>Would brag about it being in it to people and everybody thought he was some kind of cool renegade
>Told me the "secret website" 4chan
>I browsed it, saw some gross shit, and just left
>eventually was drawn back in for the lolz
>enjoyed reading greentext stories

been trapped ever since

big ups to deviant art for turning me onto this degenerate website. i wanna kill myself :)

>>36384565

Used to play Halo 3 with a German QT named Veronica.

She introduced me to /b/ in like 2008, and I gradually tried different boards.

i heard about /b/ through the boxy phenom in early 2009 but didnt browse regularly everyday until jan of 2010, browsing and shitposting on this site has been mostly a waste of time but its better than every other community so far.

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>>36384565

I discovered this place--- and by extension r9k- around 28 years old.

By then, I had already lived a full life. It didn't do a whole lot for me except unite me with other people so we could talk about our feels.
>tfw no gf
>tfw bullied social outcast
>tfw slightly misandric

4chan taught me to be more skeptical of everything I read, and to cross reference multiple sources to verify.

It also taught me that you never get the complete story from people. They omit, embellish, and deceive. Some alot more than others, but it's there.

Was it a waste of time? Mostly, yes. But it DID strengthen my critical thinking somewhat.

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>>36384565
I found this place after watching the news story about "anonymous" doing shit for the "lulz". /b/ used to be interesting then turned into just a porn dump, /a/ is okay, brows /m/, /pol/, /r9k/ and /x/ pretty often. /r9k/ turned into the forever alone virgin beta autism support board, but it's still pretty entertaining.

>How did you discover this website
Friend told me in late 2004

>Did it change your life?
In a way, yes, because it gave me something to do, whereas otherwise there would have been nothing. Also, I'm grateful to that friend because it put me ahead of culture for a long time. Otherwise, I probably would have just now been finding "memes" on Facebook, and thinking that a funny new internet culture is developing.

But did it change my attitude about things? My personality? No... at least, there was never a moment where I felt changed, or had a revelation. I had found Maddox years before, which introduced me to extreme cynicism. And then I gave up religion after reading some comments online about "Passion of the Christ". And I was on Something Awful before 4chan, so I guess I was eased into it.

Oh, I guess one thing- It was probably 4chan that opened my eyes to WWII. That was pretty shocking. (I was already a conspiracy theorist, but it took a while before I really came around to that...)

>What did all of these hours spent browsing it [teach] you? Was it all a waste of time?
Mostly I'm just grateful for the best entertainment on the 'net, and for feeling a sense of comradery among losers. I probably also owe a lot of my personal development to here, and my sanity, since I'm ugly and don't have a life. People put down this place a lot, but really it's probably their own life they're most dissatisfied with.

>Do you think you'll still be here in 10 years?
I don't know... I think if someone has a life, they wouldn't come here so often. And I always hope to get a life. But maybe it's just a universal urge to see what's cooking in society at large. And among this crowd in particular? I don't know... losers, kids, outcasts, crazies, or just really tough people. I've always been interested more in the alternative, non-normie media. At least robots generally like rain, quiet, and reading.

>>36386488
Encyclopedia Dramatica is actually one of the best 4chin wikis.

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I forgot, but it amazes me that I've probably spent nearly 1/4 of my expected lifespan here.

I don't regret it, this place is the only place I genuinely laugh and enjoy myself, or wallow in misery with the same fags. I doubt I'll stop coming here unless it dies

>>36385286
>teach me your ways fampai

>>36384941
within the last month or so i'd say.
lost count of the days

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>>36384565
>that one on the left

bump

ty35q4tw1

I started using 4chan back in 2008, when I was 15 or 16.

Like a lot of kids, I thought I'd stumbled across some sort of dark and secretive hacker collective. I suppose the raids back then were more numerous and exciting than today, but I've long since stopped caring.

Can't say 4chan has really had a huge impact on my development. I've gotten some good travel ideas from /trv/ and learned to not take criticism and debate seriously, but that's about it. Probably the biggest reward has been a total ambivalence towards internet trolls. I never take people spewing off garbage seriously any more.

I was part of an anime forum in the early and mid 2000's. I remember people always talking about it and finally came over late 2005/early 2006. I went to /b/ of course. The biggest memes at the time that I can remember were desu, epic fail guy, nyoro~n, longcat, pool's closed due to AIDS. I remember when Pepe was an innocent little frog who just liked to pee with his pants down like a toddler because it felt good man. GETs were the shit and didn't involve Patrick Bateman.

It all feels like a waste of time for sure. But the internet was fun back then and the memes and boards were better here in general. I mostly just come here out of habit now and probably will for another 10 years.

>>36394278

Was that the buy a dog thing with the exploding vans. Thats how I found out about it.

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One of the incredible things about this site is that it teaches you evaluate anything that is is ever said to you or around you. You need to set up filters and roundly ignore most everything that doesn't make it through.

99.999999999999999% of this place is bullshit and stupidity, most people are liars, stupid, or stupid liars with no grasp of how to speak, discuss, or argue.

Nobody ever says anything genuine, everyone is out to get you, or convert you, or convince you to believe lies.

Its become really evident since moot abandoned this site, to the point its believable that this place was purchased as a front to spread bullshit.

Also fuck fascists, corporotacracy and the right who are ruining the world, especially America as this last elecion cycle has proven.

Came here in 2004 from YTMND.
Someone posted that some content was stolen from here.

I mostly lurked /b/ for a start then spread out to other boards.
Longest I went without 4chan was about 1.5 years.

You always come back

>>36398870
>YTMND
same, in 2006, saw YTMND that was screencaps from a 4chan thread, people in the comments were complaining that it ripped off 4chan so I decided to check it out.
I visited /b/ and opened some threads that looked funny. When I went back to them later they all 404'd I decided the place was too fast for me. I found myself on 7chan eventually and rode the anti-4chan bandwagon, even though everything we posted came from 4chan, really cringe in retrospect, for a few years before coming back to 4chan in 2008. The amount of time I spent being against 4chan and accepting it was pathetically short compared to time I've been here since.

If you want to re-trace all the steps, I got on YTMND because I was a fan of this local cult radio show that happened in late 2004 purely out of circumstance. There was no one there to fill in one of the time slots for a talk radio station so two engineers or whatever got on and winged it. Some of us loved the off kilter nature of the show and a forum was made, the admin was a kid who was notorious on YTMND for hacking some other kid's e-mail because he used the same password on a forum he was modding or something. The radio show wasn't around long before they moved to an official time slot in another city's station. I eventually found my way to YTMND because of the admins constant references to it. I must've stayed there for over a year because I didn't visit 4chan until mid 2006.

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I got introduced to it by my operator when doing my military service in 2006. Only really started browsing in 2007.

>>36393082
I just lurk there.

Anyone else posted their email the first time they posted?

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I want to feel the cum in my teeth. Does anyone know what it feels like to grind it to little droplets in your mouth?

i found out from asking at gamespot forums. for some reason we couldn't say the website. i pm someone about it.

>>36399633
me lol

7t92qpjo

i think i found out about 4chan from some fox news report back in 2009
it was advertised as this dark place, so i decided to find out what it really was
oh boy, do i miss 2009/2010 4chan

My friend showed me /b/ when I was 16. I used to browse at night sometimes. On and off through college and high school I would browse /b/ occasionally or /hc/. Then I came back last year to /pol/ around election times because I found the memes too good. I browse every day now. I'm 24. No end in sight.

>>36398870
>You always come back
Yup, can confirm.

>>36384565
I was 16 and I heard about the celebrity leaks, decided to take a look at the site, felt I had a lot in common with the posters, so I stayed and never looked back

desu, alot of what I saw scared me a bit at first, but after a few years here, I'm a more racist, sexist version of myself that's also seen the disgusting and vile side of humanity. However, I feel enlightened because of it, I'm almost upset that I ahve the views I do.

Most probably was a waste of time, I could have condensed it into half an hour every 2 days rather than hours at a time, but then again, my life is a waste of time

I hope I'm happy in 10 years, and if I am, I probably won't come here anymore

thanks to all the anons out there that make me feel like maybe I'm not so different afterall.

>>36384565
Found it because of SA back in '05. It's changed my life for the better, mostly. I've met a lot of cool people off of here but I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that this site isn't for me anymore. Most specifically, this board isn't for me. Which is unfortunate since I've been here since the beginning.
This site, as a whole, has taught me to be more confident and outgoing. That as a man, I'm not owed shit in life, I have to take everything I want. So now I'm living my life in a way I never thought possible, with freedoms I never thought possible.
>No gf tho

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>>36400866
I share some of your views, except I'm more optimistic.
People might roll their eyes at this, but I've learned a lot about people via 4chan, and how they all have their "dark" side. And yes I know people here are not representative and I'm not even antisocial.
Seeing peoples inner thought trains has just given me lots of insecurity. And one can lurk for some time each day and still get things done.
More websites are just not as entertaining in the long run. The only thing that's important is to observe oneself that one doesn't go online as a learned reflex to the feel of boredom and/or unease. It's a psychological trap, goes for smoking just as it goes for instagram or checking emails. Observe where your triggers come from and structure it.

PS, as a German reader of 18th century lit, it really hurts how people simplify Stirners ideas or just reduce him to the spook concept. But I'm sure this will never change.

>>36399633
No but i spent hours looking for a "sign up" button to create an account

>>36398482
>One of the incredible things about this site is that it teaches you evaluate anything that is is ever said to you or around you. You need to set up filters and roundly ignore most everything that doesn't make it through. 99.999999999999999% of this place is bullshit and stupidity, most people are liars, stupid, or stupid liars with no grasp of how to speak, discuss, or argue. Nobody ever says anything genuine, everyone is out to get you, or convert you, or convince you to believe lies. Its become really evident since moot abandoned this site, to the point its believable that this place was purchased as a front to spread bullshit. Also fuck fascists, corporotacracy and the right who are ruining the world, especially America as this last elecion cycle has proven.
And...?

Even when moot was here, it was the same

>>36384565
Why do the ugliest women do this blacked shit?

>>36401259
I'd say I go in waves of optimism, days where I feel I can change the world, and days where I feel I should kill myself. I'm well aware this isn't healthy, and is tumblr-esque, but still, that's me.

I think 4chan and it's autism and pursuit-of-truth-above-anything-else has taught me to cut through bullshit, however it's also showed me how much bullshit there really is, and how tied to emotions people are. I've almost accepted that such a large part of humanity is shit, that I think the only way I can be happy is to reject general social norms like using social media and acting certain ways and saying certain things at social gatherings.

I don't want to have to say certain things all the time to keep people happy

I don't want to have to fake who I am to fit in with other fake friends

I don't want to work 9-5 at a job to support a woman I'm not truly in love with

I just hope I can find a gal who shares similar views, and is happy to crack open a beer and watch the world end with me, I hope you find peace in your life desu, and all other anons out there.

>>36401827
Pissing in an ocean of piss blah blah blah.

Its just seemed more strident, pointed, and programmed over the last few years, this election cycle in particular