What was /v/ like 10 years ago?

More console wars less sjw/politics

Nigger.

>>381750967

Oh forgot no e-celeb or social media shit either. It was mainly hating on kotaku or laughing at that gta thompson guy

less strict, less off topic posts, virtually no ecelebs, less low-effort posts.
people were able to talk freely and express themselves without being called nigger reddit users etc. people could use emotes :).

>>381751069
Wrong. The only emote that was even tolerated was ;_;

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No politics, no twitter screencaps, no e-celeb crap. Still plenty of console war fuckery but it was still a much better time.

>>381751164
Ummm sweetie, we also used :3c

>>381751164
bullshit I remember :O and :/
you must not have been here long enough

It wasn't a obvious /pol/ vassal board.

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it was actually enjoyable

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Pretty much the same, except less e-celebs and more roleplaying.

I remember TF2 threads, no gaems, rampant tripcode users like Empress and that guy who always posted with a name and had the hookup on JAVs and other lewd shit, and not much else.

Also a bunch of Ricky Bobby pictures.

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>I discovered this piece of shit site over a decade ago and have been posting here regularly ever since
>I've "left" 4chan maybe 3 times now and always come crawling back after a few months
>I've been here for so long that I still remember when you had to manually enter noko into the email field to stay in a thread you just posted in
>Most of my good memories involve this site, which has done nothing but ruin me both sexually and mentally and taken away so much of my free time that could have been spent doing literally anything else

Where does the fucking time go

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>>381751519

>more roleplaying

What? So that wasn't just a /trash/ thing!?

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There were 1000% more tripfags present and all of them circlejerked with each other endlessly in every thread.

Anime everywhere

The /v/ hates videogames was just a meme. Most people here were enthusiasts and really only shat on extremely popular games like CoD or Halo. Now /v/ just shits on everything.

>>381751069
You forgot the rage comics, and calling people niggers or faggot was pretty standard.

>>381751164
>implying we didn't add a '7' as a salute.

>>381751069
>>381751164
>>381751215
>>381751349
-_-;

>>381751548

nogaems wasn't 10 years ago, it was ps3sux but that got filtered, so nogaems came after.

>>381751609
Shit like Epic Fail Guy were rampant a decade ago, so yeah, it's always been shit.

>>381751186
This.

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>>381751678
>tripfag
>donkey kong

explain

>>381751698
>nogaems wasn't 10 years ago, It's still ongoing
FIX'D

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a different time, but not all that unrecognizable

>>381751771
You'd know if you were there.

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I still miss japantiem

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>>381751164

>>381751698
It's hard to remember since I started lurking /v/ around Japan time and most of my memories are of that. I lurked for 2 or 3 years before actually making a post and remember the thread got archived because it became a censored porn dump.

I remember what boards were new and being added as well as which were deleted FUCKING /hc/ and /rs/ and the amount of fucking Pokemon threads that were running wild as well as generals before their own boards.

>>381750924
>tfw been on /v/ for 12 years

the same i guess.

More or less the same but the memes were just more innocent and not soaked in 20 layers of irony and bitterness

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Help, I can't leave this place.
I need help.

>>381751771
There was heavy evidence he was a faggot.

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>>381751602
>I've been here for so long that I still remember when you had to manually enter noko into the email field to stay in a thread you just posted in

Me too, anon

>>381751831
what was the name of that red-head anime girl from some vn? man that tripfag was annoying

>>381751771
>Frogposters

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remember when /b/ was the cancer killing 4chan and not /pol/
i wonder what the next cancerous board will be

>>381751610
>Lanced Jack
Saged, hidden, reported, called the cops.

>>381751831
>Konata
>Quentin
>Sengoku

I do not miss them.

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fuck off cucks, this board is ours now

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>>381751969
Namimi/Namomo?

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>>381751964
I actually miss noko and moot

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>2011+1+1+1+1+1+1
>trying to write posts like you did in 2011
>implying that's even possible
>realizing you don't remember it well enough to bring it back
>realize everyone posts differently now, but change is too subtle to really notice what's different
>if you don't know how people typed in 2010, you don't know SHIT about videogames

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>>381751997

/lgbt/ is already a containment board

>>381751997
>/co/
If only it was /b/.

People were seeping with rage.

>>381752057
that looks like her, but I could've sworn she had her hair up or something

>>381751997
It'll forever remain /pol/.

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>>381751834
I was 13 during 2007, can you blame me?

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>>381750967
and an infection of old fag /b/ memes.

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>>381751942
I can't fucking BELIEVE I get to post this without it being off-topic again.

>>381751997
>i wonder what the next cancerous board will be
/v/ unless /s4s/ has a dramatic increase of users going from 4 to 8

>>381752061
>>381751964
For the first 3 years I was using this site I had to constantly keep using Ctrl+F and search for the replies posts were referring to and had no knowledge of how to use noko and had to find the thread again EVERY TIME.

Fuck, I remember when my F5 key broke from constant use

>>381752137
There were like 4 different avatarfags from Seacats. The Golden Witch was another one, I think and some guy avatarfagging as Battler.

if you go to /flash/ you can feel how this place used to be, what has gradually disappeared over time

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Miss me yet?

>>381751997
>/f/ is still the same

Holy shit

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>he doesn't know what this image means

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>>381752219
>have this saved, never ever posted it

>>381750924
Less /pol/, more tripfags, and slightly higher overall fun levels.
Saying 'lol' used to be acceptable, too.

>>381751964
I was a sophomore in highschool when I first came to this god forsaken place in 04. I am a year away from finishing my master's 13 years later and still here... life is a joke.

>>381750967
Console war shit wasn't as bad back then.

>>381752325
It drives me nuts that lol turned into kek

>>381752308
Please don't post it.

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>>381752250
Oh shit I found her.
God waifufags are such cancer. They've always been low quality postin' scum.

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>>381752084
Back then people actually wanted to discuss video games/whatever the board topic was, even if it was negative, and people were willing to actually have fun with their posts.

Nowadays every post is post-post-ironic shilling and shitposting and everyone is trying to derail the thread into another post-post-ironic shitposting thread about politics or dickgirls or the same shitty recycled memes that no one actually likes, and if anyone has fun then they must be from reddit trying to screencap the thread so you can repost it on r/4chan and facebook to get upvotes and attract more underaged normalfags to this site.

>>381752219
holy fuck I can't count how many times i wrote noko in the name field

>>381752353
It kind of was but people were mostly arguing platforms, not companies.

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>>381752259

Was there Akagi shitposting ten years ago?

>>381750924
unironically worse, it was entirely console wars and trip fags

I miss CCC pictures. I should draw one up.
What the fuck happened to those R.O.B threads?

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>>381752389
hmm

did old /v/ constantly bitch and complain about /news/ like pussies?

>>381752361
I'm just grateful that the zoz/zozzle didn't catch up

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>2007
>/v/ eagerly anticipates GTA4
>will argue nonstop about whether is plays better on the 360 or the PS3
>/v/ non-ironically believes motion controls will change gaming forever and the Wii will be the best console that generation
>Twilight Princess is the best Zelda game ever made
>/v/ is mostly spam from Kimmo Alm and other porn sites because there is no captcha
>IT'S OVER _____ IS FINISHED
>PROVE ME WRONG
>/v/ just discovers Christian Weston Chandler and trolls him with fanart
>the term idort is coined
>the biggest meme is making images like this

>>381752457
we did but then it got deleted

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>>381751602
>>I've been here for so long that I still remember when you had to manually enter noko into the email field to stay in a thread you just posted in

I still don't get how we functioned without the current thread monitoring stuff. It seems too convenient now.

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>>381750924
useless console wars everywhere

>>381750924

it doesnt matter what /v/ was like 10 years ago. its dead. There was a time not very long ago when we told "LOL" threads to fuck off. When /v/ was a tourist attraction where all boards came to shitpost relentlessly during e3. When everyone wasnt constantly being called /pol/ (because lets be honest /pol/ leaked hard during trumps campaign trail). when that stupid fucking atrocity of gamergate and infintychan wasnt a thing.

Today I saw a fucking Life is Strange thread up with civil discussion of the game and encouragement of other players to try it. unheard of on this board. I could go into why its a shit point and click nothing walking simulator game, but most of you wouldnt understand it seems. this board is actually done. it resembles nothing of what it was even a few years ago.

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>>381750924
No /pol/ or sjw crap, just dank memes

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does anyone remember that tripfag that exclusively used images from Cromartie High School? I think it was around 2011-2012ish and I remember whenever he posted anywhere people would flood him with penis edits of his imageset.
I miss bullying shitty tripfags and derailing shit threads with dubs

>>381752457
considering /new/ wasn't cancer and stayed on their board, nah
/new/ and old /pol/ were pretty decent boards

Does 4chan still have winter ball? Do we still go with /x/

>>381752408
it was a bunch of namefags trying to get attention with teenage jokes and reddit-tier humor. Stop thinking it was a golden age because you were 12.

>>381752547
>winter ball

This sounds fucking cancerous. What is it?

>>381750924
>picture of person holding nothing named "man holding ps3 games"

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>>381752535
>>381752516
So old /v/ was left-leaning and no one complained, but now that people have right-leaning beliefs suddenly it's a problem?

>>>381751164
Cringe

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>It's still considered spam

I miss the non-captchca days but hated the spam. I loved the captcha comics, though. I've been saving some to make more.

Piccolo dick everywhere.

>>381752580
Every year /sp/ cuckolds us and takes /a/ to the winter ball instead of us.

>>381752595
>I don't get how /pol/ is the new furfaggotry
I bet you're part of the reason why its hated

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>>381752408
>internet humor is a screenshot posted to reddit of a twitter post that was screencapped and posted to tumblr with 2 witty reblog comments
>all humor is ghetto humor, everyone is either actually lit senpai, or ironically lit while netflix and chillin' with their bae

I think smartphones being the cheap go-to luxury item for the wal-mart demo is among the worst things to happen to the internet

I wanna go back

>>381752618
>tfw remember my college days staying up until 4am when this thread would show up EVERY SINGLE DAY on the dot just to be spammed with furry porn

those were the days

>>381751602
>>I've "left" 4chan maybe 3 times now and always come crawling back after a few months
You mean it went down and came back up again, lol. Fucking shitty servers and getting ddosed. Then the FBI came and a whole bunch of fags got V&.

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>>381752595
correct my fellow alt knight

>>381752595
No, it's just that /pol/ posting became more aggressive.

An itch is no problem. Chicken pox is something else entirely.

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>>381752561
I was 18 and it was indeed /v/'s golden age

>>381752656
yes my felllow pede, lets this sanctuary of free speech from these ctr cucks

>>381750924
It was epic! XD

>>381752534
You mean Toady? He's still here but posting anonymously. He's pretty chill now, actually. He posted with his old trip last month and was instantly met with people shopping dicks on his pictures.

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>>381752595
You're a newfag from /pol/, aren't you?

>>381752689
>>381752680
>>381752645
So why aren't left-leaning posts ridiculed like right-leaning posts?

>>381752656
>R*ddit
>r*ddit
its reddit anon

>>381752656
I don't browser plebbit, now will i ever. Saged and reported you faggot

>>381752421
A poster who went by the name Akagi kept on making threads about how childish "moralfag" characters are like Kenshiro or Kamen Rider. All of his posts were accompanied with a different picture of Akagi each time so he was basically an avatarfag too

>>381752480
Fuck, I forgot about that shit.
Good riddance.

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It was the same, but different.
But still the same.

>>381752717
Jesus christ, get the fuck out of here

>>381752509
I accidentally started a thread with prove me wrong and got a 3 day ban. I forgot all about 3 day bans.

"This is [x] say something nice!" and "Did you buy so-and-so's game?" is some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen, and I've really been far even as decided to look more like. Go figure.

>>381752761
>can't even answer my question
dumb faggot

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>>381752595
Don't listen to the neogaf revisionists. /V/ was never left leaning.

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>>381752618
I liked those threads that didn't turn into furry dumps

>>381752760
forced mem

>>381752457
/new/ kept getting deleted by moot here and there for becoming too /stormfront/ so there never really was a chance to complain about it

It was alright most of the time desu, at least it had a sense of humor making OC all the time and didn't act like it had a stick up its ass 24/7 like nu-/pol/

Less politics on both sides, games were less politicized back then in general so there was no reason for anyone to kick up a fuss about shoehorned diversity etc.

Memes that today would be considered plebbit tier, stuff like motivationals (e.g. courage wolf).

More tripfags: 666sephiroth666, Winged Samurai etc.

More openly weeby but in a less obnoxiously dichotomous way ("if you like japanese games you have to make constant threads about how shit western ones are" like today).

>>381752767
*****I forgot all about "prove me wrong"

ffs.

>>381752717
because they arent the majority
the best thing about old chan was that you had diversity in peoples opinions
now its >60% conservative memers

>>381752603
o_O

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bruh

I didn't visit /v/ 10 years ago, but 7 years ago it was furry as fuck and had literally no moderation. People posted CP and sometimes it stayed up for over an hour before the thread died on its own.

>>381751868
rip /l/

>>381752717
>decent nostalgia reminiscing thread
>the newfag from /pol/ddit has to show up and start screaming and crying about liberals
you can't even let a single decent thread go, can you?
kill yourself, please. we're having fun

>>381752693
When's the last time /v/ had music playing on the front page? The last I remember were the Tribes victory and Green Hill Zone on fucking BLAST

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>2007
>say "nigger"
>no one cares

>2017
>say "nigger"
>everyone tells me to go back to /pol/, possible 3 day ban as well

How do we blame /pol/ for this one?

>>381752838
>10 years ago

>>381752837
\\__\\//\\//__\\_o]-<( '-' ^)

it's a kirby with a buster sword. I made it up.

>>381752858
>>381752834
>>381752793
So basically right-leaning beliefs = NO NO NO RACIST NO NO NO and left-leaning beliefs are considered okay?

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>>381752865

>>381752595
>So old /v/ was left-leaning and no one complained
leftists liked freespeech in 2007 and now they don't
/v/s political views can always be summed up as "ill support the side that isn't currently trying to censor muh vidya"

>>381752535
>/new/ and old /pol/ were pretty decent boards

It wasn't "/new/" back then newfag, it was /n/, /n/ - news replaced /n/ - transportation back in 06 or 07 (I forget which). It was much like it is today but with a smaller userbase and less memes. There used to be a guy who collated black crime into single, huge threads and linked to it with a "nig.gr" domain name URL shortener.

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Somehow, the console wars were even worse.
Why don't people realize that brand loyalty is cancerous? Why can't people embrace the way of the idort and love vidya for being vidya, rather than for being on the console of their choice?

>>381752865

I got banned for saying nigger 6 years ago

>>381752921
I wasn't joking though. I hated niggers back in 2007 too.

>>381752838
Is that that /fit/ guy that got a whole comic made about him

>>381752865
It's mostly because of the context. Whenever /pol/ says nigger it's followed by statistic pictures with no sources and some shit about being pure and cultured.

Before it was just shit like Giga nigga

>>381750924
and here comes the historical revisionism. -_-

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>>381752618
I remember this thread being fucking everywhere for ages. I never actually ever entered them though. Now whenever its brought up I see people mention furries and shit.
what actually happened in the "wat up gameboi" threads?

>>381752954
Nah I actually got a 3 day ban for saying "fuck off, nigger"

>>381752865
i think you mean
>2007, say nigger
>2017, say nigger, accuse devs of being cultural marxists, and call for the extermination of darkies

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>>381750924
It wasn't great.

>>381752838
I liked Zyzz as whenever I emailed him he was a legitimately nice, helpful guy but I can't stand the misc influence on /fit/.

Yeah, we get it, you're ironically pretending to fratboys. But it's not funny anymore. You've been doing it for 10 years you faggots.

>>381752865
>>2017
>say "nigger"
>everyone tells me to go back to /pol/, possible 3 day ban as well
I'll take things that never happened for 200, Alex.

>>381752918
i dont give a shit about your beliefs i just hate what ever is the majority opinion
When you have a majority group you get that cringe shit like
>WE R LEGION

>>381752717
>>381752918
But that's wrong you retard. Nobody likes tumblr either, you just don't notice when people shitpost at those faggots because it doesn't trigger your persecution complex.

>>381753000
happened to me 2 hours ago

>>381752970
I did too and I'm black.

>>381752865
We don't, we blame the redditard applefag hipster moderators that Hiroyuki keeps around for some fucking reason. They're also the reason we had those SRS feminazis worming their way into power around here. I've been here since fucking 2004, and it's never been this bad. There's a fuckin reason why Chris ran away from 4chan.

>>381752865
The difference between me calling someone a stupid nigger for posting that they like a game and some dumb /pol/ack screaming about white genocide and dumping endless infographics about blacks' IQ.

Nigger, like faggot, was just a funny edgy thing to call people back then.

>>381752865
>2007
>Someone says "nigger"
>No one cares

>2017
>Someone says "nigger"
>Thread is derailed into people talking about how much they hate niggers and how Jews are the reason they're a virgin and how anyone who doesn't want to talk about killing niggers is from reddit and then people come in ironically talking about how much they love black cocks and how white boys were literally made to become sissy sluts for black cock and at this point anyone with half a brain has already left the thread 200 posts ago

>>381753018
>>381753008
>>381752972
>>381752946
>>381752926
>>381752921
>>381752858
>>381752834
>>381752793
>>381752776
>>381752761
Why can't people on /v/ have right-wing ideals instead of left-wing ideals?

>>381752926
>leftists liked freespeech in 2007 and now they don't
Neo-leftists don't, I'd still call myself a liberal and I'd defend this site to the death.

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>Discover Encyclopedia Dramatica before discovering 4chan at age 14
>Learn about all those epic memes and lulzcows and all that stupid shit
>Finally start posting on /b/
>epic times were had xD

It was only enjoyable if you were 12-15 years old.
Seriously, there is nothing to reminiscence about, it was only different kinds of shit.
You have nostalgia googles for this fucking shithole.

Anyone who says they've been posting since 10 years ago is a liar, we're all newfags from reddit and/or /pol/. All the oldfags have become blue-pilled and regret their actions on this toxic website and they all have sexy fursonas to cope with their mistakes.

>>381752921
>i spoke to old /b/ users
whenever someone says this you know their post is garbage

Console war memes were actually funnier because they were accompanied by less vitriol. E.g. the running joke that the PS3's only game was Talladega Nights.

These days console war stuff doesn't have that edge of self-parody to it. You really do have moviebob-tier fanboys ranting and raving and making threads to accommodate their various mental illnesses.

less white male turboautists getting triggered by women and minorities

less /pol/reddit memers

>>381752865
you dont need to "blame" them at all. it was clearly their fucking fault. its retarded how quickly /pol/ leaked during the last presidential campaign. fuck, there is sometimes 2 - 3 threads on /sci/ still about how to prove blacks are genetically inferior and a ton of other racially motivated shitposting that just wasnt there before. its actually incredibly annoying to see an innocent, low traffic board like that get infected with just pointless threads.

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>>381752717
Because r/socialism is currently in their "make 4chan hate the right wing" phase. Then they move onto "fill the vacuum".

>>381753051
>>381753048
>>381753032
>can't even say nigger anymore without triggering the GAF squad

fuck this board is dead

>>381753053
Why are you still shitting up this thread, you mad little /pol/dditor?

>>381751997
/pol/ is a board of peace

>>381753053
10 years ago, people were afraid of others finding out they were newfags. Why don't you share the same fear?

>>381753084
WAHHHH WHITE PEOPLE TRIGGER ME WAHHHH

>>381753019
>ban evading
Post it, you got nothing to lose.

>>381753053
why can't you talk about fucking video games

>>381752451
R.O.B. left to a different chan.

>>381750924
people lurked before posting

Well, the concept of not feeding the trolls was a thing, and people saged blatant bait threads.
On a good, day, in theory, at least.
Do newfags these days even know how to sage?

>>381753053
again retard read my post >>381753008

>>381752921
Again. This simply isn't true. 06 and 07 /n/ was just as racist as contemporary /pol/ is.

The reason /pol/'s userbase has grown is simply due to external factors: US race relations, social life, culture and the economy getting progressively worse.

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>>381752865
Easy. Be from pleddit, tumblr, or neogaf and pretend you didn't just show up this year. Revise history of the board to fit your narrative.

They're trying to so hard, it's blatant.

WAHHHHHH /pol/ WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2017 /v/ in a nutshell

>>381753053
You could if you were capable of shutting the fuck up about them for five goddamn minutes.

>>381753072
11 years and counting m8.

>>381752703
:'(

>>381753094
>(lol this is so funny for some reason)
this always makes me mad for some reason

>>381753154
>Do newfags these days even know how to sage?
I ask this question everyday.
Instead they just fucking feed the OP with replies and complain. I be they don't know how to report either.

>>381753198
>>381753160
>>381753148
>>381753126
>>381753109
I'm sorry I'm not a cookie cutter liberal like you.

Hey /v/!
Remember when we were allowed to show genuine enthusiasm by using exclamation marks?

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>>381753081
It was a more innocent time.

>>381751602
How old are you Anon?

>>381753154
>Do newfags these days even know how to sage?
No, a look at the rate of saging should show that.

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jesus fucking christ, this thread just went to complete shit
did it just get linked in some fucking /pol/ discord or something

>>381753237
cookie cutter right-wing

>>381753272
WAHHHHH /pol/ WAHHHHHH

>>381753238
FUCK OFF!

>>381753237
im a conservative anon
i even voted for trump
but dumbasses like you sometimes make me regret my decision

Console wars were more tongue-in-cheek and fun, there wasn't a constant witch hunt for the ENEMY console fanboys and the memes were better
Games like Halo and WoW were far less tolerated, the only time you'd see people not bitching about Halo was when people were playing Custom Edition
Smash tourneyfags were openly mocked rather than worshipped like they are now
Japan Time dominated the entire board
Lots of trip/namefags, some good, some bad
More of a lighthearted, relaxed tone in general
More original content in general, rather than constantly taking memes from other boards
/n/ kept to themselves and didn't shitpost and derail threads like /pol/ does now

>>381753272
Turboautist. Report and ignore would be best.

>>381753317
>m a conservative
FUCK OFF BACK TO /pol/

>>381753238
Only gays use em now.

>>381753238
You still can, retard.

reeeeeeee pls delet pol it hurts my feefees

>>381753272
>le /pol/ boogyman
(you)

>>381752656
My brother has severe autism. So seveere that he doesn't play with his toys, he just stares at them and imagines that he plays with them, at least that's what i think, he's 16 and hasn't ever said a word. Some days he gets so caught up in his imagination that he forgets to go to the bathroom, prompting my tired mother to clean him up all while he stares at his toys. but despite how bad he is, this comment still takes the top place for the most autistic thing i have ever witnessed.

>>381753154
People actually saging would cause average thread quality to fucking skyrocket.
Imagine a world where /pol/shit, console wars, and e-celebs didn't constantly get bumped.

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delete /POL/ reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>381753238
Frowned upon until the 2016 election. Sad!

>>381752918
No, this site always had people from all over the political spectrum, even when /new/ turned /pol/ you had monarchists, unironically ancaps and so on.

Never any love for mainstream conservatism like the Republican Party though (unless you count people like Ron Paul), that's a pretty recent trend which I guess is thanks to the recent T_D immigration.

>>381753048
They certainly were funny edgy words to say back then, I mean the last time I said the N-word online was 5 years ago. But our community has matured since then so I see no reason to continue such an outdated tradition.

>>381753084
How to spot a projecting newfaggot, ladies and gentlemen.

>>381753272
>not your safe space

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>>381753317
Same. This whole kekistan pepe be makes me feel like a fool for voting.

>>381752656
Why is there always an autistic faggot like you who wants to point out things so obvious it simply makes you look like a newfag

reminder that /v/ supported hillary

>>381753337
People here tell you to fuck off to reddit if you use them though!

>>381753414
>/v/
>supporting anybody
This isn't a political board, anon.

>>381753203
And where's your sexy fursona?

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Been on here for 11 years

It's a fucking shitty timesink, a ersatz social interaction simulator. I'm 30 now and although I have a decent job the only people I relate to are online friends, out of my two best friends, one moved abroad long ago and the other is a perennial NEET. It's impossible to meet new friends at my age too.

The only thing I'll give 4chan credit for is I genuinely like those of you I've stayed in contact with throughout the years and I'm grateful I got the chance to fuck a few mentally ill femanons from /r9k/, /b/ and /soc/ who were into fetishes so depraved they don't bear mentioning here. Seriously, if you're here for the long haul then try to at least meet a few girls off of here (/vg/ generals, /soc/, /r9k/ contactfagging etc).

It makes it somewhat worth it.

>>381753441
You'd think that, but there were a lot of Hillary fans on this board.

>>381753410
pokemon fans were always autistic

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>>381753154
I was under the impression that it just didn't work anymore.

Also how can you expect a newfag to know how to sage when they never knew how to triforce

>>381753410
>>381753360
>>381753240
What happened? Why are we so cynical now?

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>>381753094
This this this. Shilling is off the fucking charts since they can't have us censored here. Free flow of information pisses leftists right the fuck off.

They're trying so hard to revise 4chans history.

>>381753237
VIDEO GAMES

>>381753480
Reply to this post if you're a butthurt /qa/dditor

/n/ was deleted at least once, just because it was so toxic. /pol/ is no different and is actively hurting 4chan as a whole.

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>>381753459
>but there were a lot of Hillary fans on this board.
This delusion is massive

>>381750924
just like it is now
shit

>>381753480
I too enjoy facebook quality images.

>>381753459
no there werent
but there is a lot of wannabe contrarians on this board who said they support hillary to trigger /pol/

daily reminder that politics are not vidya
daily reminder that sage goes in the options field
daily reminder to do your part and not reply to bait

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>>381753483
Gamergate, basically.

>>381753441
Trying to vehemently deny that videogames and politics are related to each other is definitely something a GamerGater would do. Sorry honey, but your precious video games are in another castle.

It was like reddit but with old 4chan memes, so basically reddit five years ago and 9gag 5ver

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Ignore the arguing upset newfags and post old /v/ images.

>>381753528
Moot killed /pol/, and nothing bad came of it.
Why the fuck did it get brought back, anyways?

>>381753584
Nah, gg didn't even come into play. We were cynical assholes well before that hit.

cant this fucking site die already

>>381753448
This.

This website is the reason I'm not a virgin. Not even joking. The girls here do exist and they really are as crazy as you'd imagine they are.

>>381753528
Back to discord, shill.

>>381753483
having fun got linked to being from reddit and anything reddit is cringe. boring.

>>381752812
>Memes that today would be considered plebbit tier, stuff like motivationals (e.g. courage wolf).
Isn't that mostly because reddit (and the rest of the internet) adopted those memes without understanding them, and they're now merely a shadow of what they used to be?

>>381753528
When did /pol/ start getting worse and worse? Around the GG shit? Remember all those cringeworthy posts?
>/pol/ has always been an uncle to it's nephew /v/
>Vivian from that OC game in general

I liked the idea of having bullshit sites get called out but all of it went to far and threads were shit for months.

>>381753653
this. its run its course and now it just hurts to watch
its like a sick dog, put it out of its misery

>>381753652
before gg we didnt have the autist-right shitting up everything

>>381753697
>>381753542
>>381753454
>>381753410
>>381753360
these FUUUUUUUUUUUUU comics are cringe as fuck

>>381753634
>tfw numerous computer failures
I would if I could, anon, but I don't have any of that shit anymore.

>>381751867
>this image is relevant to my interests
Damn I haven't heard that phrase in a long ass time.

>>381753693
>>381753653
i wish there was somewhere to go that wasnt normies

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>>381753593
Constantly. Nu/v/ needs to fuck off back to plebbit, Tumblr, and neogaf.

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>>381753634

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is it safe to say /pol/tards are also phonephags

>>381753675
Basically. To word it in 2017, normies ruined everything

>>381753675
>Isn't that mostly because reddit (and the rest of the internet) adopted those memes without understanding them, and they're now merely a shadow of what they used to be?

Completely.

When they were exclusive to 4chan I didn't care at all. But they've been completely run into the ground now.

>>381753684
/pol/ dislikes GG.

GG = People like Sargon and ShoeonHead, who aren't really right-wing at all. They're just liberals who dislike aspects of feminism.

>>381753654
It honestly defies belief how fucked up they are.

>>381753593

>>381753730
you got me, nice bait

>>381753742
>normies
But anon, you are the normalfag.

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>>381753693
>>381753653
Shut the fuck up.
If it dies, then I have nowhere else to go, this is the only internet community that I can tolerate and enjoy.

>>381753697
It still hurts

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I only ever got into /v/ in 2011 after giving up on /a/. Still 2007 doesn't feel that long ago for me...
I wonder if this is what getting old feels like...

>>381753803
nah, i'm a genuine oldfag

now i'm actually old irl and still a failure and still not a normie

>>381753831
>enjoy
You still enjoy this place?

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>>381753483
As time went on, more and more people started using the internet.
And many of those people were normalfags.
And with the popularity of the smartphone, there came the most foul of beasts, the disgusting phoneposter.

It was like old Reddit.
That's why people here are so fond of it.

>>381753862
congratulations

>>381753859
I can remember hating 2009 /v/ because of shitposters like Epic Skull Guy and Donkey Kong.

Was it ever confirmed whether or not Walter Joseph Kovacs was actually a girl?

>>381753782
That would be cancer like you that we are witnessing currently. Fuck off back to whatever antiGG shithole you came from to bitch about gamers calling out bullshit.

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No girlfriends no reddit no political bullshit no twitter screenshots no youtube channel shilling.
But best of all no FROGPOSTING

>>381753593
this

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>>381753875
Might be a stretch, but I manage.
You can always leave, don't take me with you.

>>381752051
What? Are you having a stroke?

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>>381753949

>>381753634
>implying

I didn't start saving images until a few years ago when I bought my own PC.

>>381753881
I fucking loved this image so much. There's another one too.

Also. Any real oldfags remember:

>ENJOY YOUR ICE CREAM CAKE, KID

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>>381753528
Completely agree. /pol/ was a mistake. It was supposed to be a contamination board but all it did was bring complete degenerates into 4chan as a whole.

I think Toddposting is a bright ray of OC chemo that /v/ desperately needs. It has grown on me over time.

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>>381751602
>I've been here for so long that I still remember when you had to manually enter noko into the email field to stay in a thread you just posted in

HOLY FUCK I REMEMBER NOW

>>381752061
I miss him too. I like /aco/ but it's an-hero's only real contribution. what the fuck is the point of shit like /trash/ and /bant/?

>>381753892
>that pic

http://www.cameronsworld.net/

>>381754058
>/g/uro

Wait, was that real??
My first experience with 4chan was seeing guro 11 or 12 years ago and getting sick to my stomach and coming back again after finding a decent board. When I looked for it I couldn't find it again, though.

>>381754058
I disagree. I've been here for 11 years and /n/ was just as racist back in 07 and leaked into /a/ and /v/ and /g/ occasionally even.

You're just willfully ignorant of broader trends. Race-baiting and racial conflict in the United States has just become orders of magnitude worse over the past 10 years.

Seriously. Who knew grievance-mongering Asian Americans were even a thing back in 05 beyond a couple of """academics"""

>>381754104
>/bant/
/pol/ literally couldn't handle the /b/antz and had a tantrum.

>>381754089
i enjoy it too but i feel like its being overused. 4chan needs more OC something dirty phoneposters cant do

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>>381753919
I've never gotten into all the namefag and proxyfag gossip stuff. If you give them attention they'll keep shitposting thinking they're famous on 4chan or that anyone gives two shits about them.

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>>381753994
>tfw still in the early days phase and enjoying this place

>>381752717
>>381753053

Do you fucking SEE any left-leaning posts here, you shit-kicking triggered fucking babby? Go whine on facebook about politics.

VIDEO GAMES.
I
D
E
O

G
A
M
E
S
.

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>/a/ allowed ronery threads
>Mentioning 3DPD is now verboten
What happened?

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>>381754089
It does harken back to a more RPing time of /v/.

>>381753684
GG and Fappening brought a lot of cancer, Fappening especially brought the normalfags and they just kept pouring in.

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>>381754185
>tfw after leaving 4chan for a whole year I can enjoy it again
I missed this place, really.

>>381754089
The toddposting grew on me too. At first I hated it with a passion.

>>381754094
>angled blue
Didn't he fuck his little sister or something

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>>381754178
Slightly, yeah, I can see that. I agree that we definitely need more OC overall.
>>381754207
I really do miss threads like that.

We need mods like the mods on /a/
they are stiff as fuck but they enforce the rules

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>>381753875
>>381753994
[s4s] reminds me of the old days in a twisted way
I cherish the board.

>>381753994
I mean, the site's lost it's luster for me, but I can't see myself ever going anywhere else besides here.

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remember making fun of emos

>>381754167
What are you even talking about? /Pol/ got nuked because moot couldn't handle being called out as a literal cuck to that one Gawker chick.

>>381754207
>Ace Attorney Online was basically just a client for old-fashioned Pheonix Wright posting
now I understand why I loved it so much

>>381754197
Remember forever alone threads?
Or those threads about the Deep Sea game that never existed?

>you now remember toadytheBRo

>>381754219
Hm, I hadn't connected the dots, but that adds up. Didn't see constant bitching about /pol/ boogeyman until after that point.

>>381754439
>BR
HUHEUHEUHEUEHUEEHUHEHEUEUHEUEHUEUHUEE

>>381754434
I'll never forget Pressure.

>>381754467
I remember this girl in a few other comics. Or am I not thinking straight? The one who spots an anon playing pokemon.

>>381754348
>>381754207
>>381753859
These roleplay threads are cringey. I bet a woman made them

>>381754058
>contamination board
I think you mean "containment board", but you're right either way.

>>381754104
/trash/ is great. It's what /aco/ should've been.

>>381753824
You're right I like Raiden a lot better as a naive twink

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I miss these comics. Not really /v/, though.

>>381750924
>no e-celebs
>no sjw
>no social media

It was still mostly consolewars and shitposting along with a small handful of Steam communities. The 4chan Partyvan ran a very successful set of servers for years and years, but they're probably long gone by now.

>>381754439
Posts anonymously now, I believe.

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>>381754348
Though they're few and far between, we still had some until a few years back.

>>381754541
>cringey

The internet in general has gotten worse.

There actually used to be decent registration forums, alongside BBS like 4chan, to discuss video games 10-15 years ago. I recall the Elder Scrolls forum in the Morrowind era as being fantastic for example.

These days /v/ and 4chan are shit, but the registration forums are also shit.

>>381754541
That was the norm back then. IF this shithole still exists in the future you'll look back and find your old posts cringe too.