Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Last night, I went to lurk on /mu/ on the “4channel” version of their imageboard site, and I was greeted with the bottom image banner of ads wanting to late young sexy trans woman near you”.

Mind you, this was done on a board to discuss music and music-related news.

You should really use adblock so you don't give the gook money

 

[Space Police]

Last night, I went to lurk on /mu/ on the “4channel” version of their imageboard site, and I was greeted with the bottom image banner of ads wanting to late young sexy trans woman near you”.

4channel isn't a thing anymore. The tranny porn ads have to be a psyop to drive out anyone who's not a tranny or a tranny chaser; it's too on-the-nose.

 

[John Badman]

I thought I would post on 4chan for the first time in a year long break. 15 fucking minute wait and I have to disable my VPN while taking off private browsing.

4chan is dead.

 

[Hatter]

I thought I would post on 4chan for the first time in a year long break. 15 fucking minute wait and I have to disable my VPN while taking off private browsing.

4chan is dead.

At least you didn't have to verify yourself using email. Bot spam on some boards like /biz/ has gotten so bad that they had to introduce pseudo-accounts.

 

[John Badman]

At least you didn't have to verify yourself using email. Bot spam on some boards like /biz/ has gotten so bad that they had to introduce pseudo-accounts.

If I wanted to skip the wait that’s what they asked. To give up more of my data and deanonymize myself. Sad stuff mane.

 

[Space Police]

At least you didn't have to verify yourself using email. Bot spam on some boards like /biz/ has gotten so bad that they had to introduce pseudo-accounts.

No, they're just making it easier for bots and spammers. They're the only ones who have the time to wait or the knowledge to get around the captcha.

 

[David Nosenberg]

Going on 4chan these days is surreal. So many boards are totally unusable because of all the bots, spammers, and shills.

 

[Hatter]

Despite what many ADHDfags may claim, "slow" altchans that are not designed for fast-paced and short discussions are arguably better alternatives for more niche topics such as technology, philosophy, art, retro gaming, traditional gaming, music, literature, and obscure subcultures.

 

[CEO of Autism]

"slow" altchans that are not designed for fast-paced and short discussions are arguably better alternatives

The problem with altchans is that often they have worse moderation than 4chan (even if it seems impossible), with more unwritten and arcane rules than you can grasp. Every time I've tried posting on some I always end up disheartened because it's clear they created their sites not to offer a higher quality alternative to 4chan, but because they want to be the censorious faggots in power doing the punishing.

 

[Spirit of Fire]

The problem with altchans is that often they have worse moderation than 4chan (even if it seems impossible), with more unwritten and arcane rules than you can grasp. Every time I've tried posting on some I always end up disheartened because it's clear they created their sites not to offer a higher quality alternative to 4chan, but because they want to be the censorious faggots in power doing the punishing.

Pretty much. This is the main reason why altchans never took off. Even if you get a sizable chunk of 4chan's former userbase, you won't keep it for very long if the jannies go on random powertrips and are even worse than the original place. The small clique that is actually allowed to post on the boards will eventually fuck off "cause I have a life" when no one is asking them to quit their dayjob and just post more often than maybe once every 6+ months.

With no real opportunity for new anons to replace them. Just more demoralization ops screeching about how imageboards are a totally unsalvageable format because of spambot boogeymen when "remove and ban posts by IP" is an easily accessible moderation feature that can stop spammers within a few seconds. Its just like you said, corrupt moderation that needs an kick up the ass and be replaced by anons who actually give a damn.

 

[mentally retarded user]

What is the point of the 15 minute captcha when the proxy botter guys are still going to get around it with the same old tricks.
And post jannydox while they are at it too.

 

[Talibama]

not 100% if 4ch is doing it or cloudflare but I was able to get on with the shitlisted device
with a different UA (Firefox focus).
not sure if it’s crude UA blacklisting or canvas fingerprinting, occurred to me belatedly that upgrading iOS would have changed the user agent string to 18_1_1 as well but sold it before I could try it.

(I doubt I’m ever getting back in the business of hosting any kind of public website but incorporating user agent + known ip ranges in a ban was far more effective than just blindly range banning by IP alone, if a range ban meant 100 other people couldn’t get on. I had stupid trolls who hadn’t updated their android phone or internet explorer in 10 years though. Should have pulled a Zuckerberg and exploited their devices.)

What is the point of the 15 minute captcha when the proxy botter guys are still going to get around it with the same old tricks.
And post jannydox while they are at it too.

Faaaaaaaaaat

 

[Space Police]

The first funny post I've seen on the 'cuck in a long time:

Muttposting is always gemmy!

 

[Talibama]

it’s canvas fingerprinting.



I’m not going to let that slow me down from spreading rumors that Brian Thompson was killed so he wouldn’t share about a 9000% increase in covid vax turbo cancers that very morning.

kiwifarms saved me from having negro penises warp my fragile little mind. I now know that BBC and jungle fever are a meme. Women simply have Hybristophilia

 

[Eternal Spirit of Light]

There is no reason to use 4chan anymore.​

/a/ - Most posts are about anime which is just softcore pornography. This isn't exactly a fault of the board but of the anime industry itself, which is 90% trash. Though for some reason the users (who claim to be "oldfags") are very defensive about their favorite Chinese cartoon. Average user summed up well by:

Remember, /a/ is a le oldfag board, and if you don't respect it, you're a redditor!
What about the softcore pornography, chuddie? Part of the site culture, I would know since I browsed /a/ since 2019! I'm an oldfag!

/b/ - Mostly pornography, not worth opening if you're not a degenerate.
/g/ - Pointless discussion about meaningless hardware and software differences. Sometimes useful if jewgle doesn't answer your tech question. Most users are very autistic.
/gif/ - mostly porn, with the occasional rekt thread.
/k/ - glownigger central.
/t/ - Decently useful. Still, a lot of porn.
/v/, /vg/, /vm/, /vmg/, /vrg/ and /vr/ - filled with gachaniggers and other various degenerates. If you point out their degeneracy they will either call you a tranny or a jew, which is quite ironic considering that trannies are the biggest porn addicts, and jews, well... Most games discussed are not very good, and if you try to start a thread about an actually good game you will not have a good time, as told by:

Spoiler: Testimony of CEO of Autism

I made a Halo thread on /vr/ detailing stuff I like from the game and compelling haters to give it a try. Another anon complained about me being some boogeyman of his and the thread got deleted. Then some other anon later remade the thread in low effort mode, "what do you guys think of X?", and that was allowed to stay up. I chimped out at the trannitor in that thread and got banned for 'flamewar'. They profess that they care for quality discussions (as they laughably tell you in some ban messages) but actions tell another picture, you will get punished for actually trying to bring quality and thoughfulness to the board. So from now on, every thread of mine will be as low effort and terse as possible, because that's what they want.

While I'm writing this, /v/ is meanwhile being spammed by nigger porn again.

/w/ and /wg/ - Mostly fine, still, some porn. (Personally, most of the wallpapers are boring trash).
/i/ and /ic/ - can't really comment on the user experience as I've only been on /ic/ twice, but at a glance all you see is degeneracy.
/r9k/ - Full of pathetic faggots wallowing in their own misery, only worth visiting if you either fit the description of the average poster or want some good laughs.
/qa/ -

/adv/ - surprisingly useful, received some good advice there.
/bant/ - gay and retarded.
/biz/ - spammed by cryptonigger shills and bitcoin retards. Not useful for any monetary advice.
/ck/ - while I personally can't speak to the board quality, some users in this thread have claimed that it is retarded.
/fa/ - normienigger central.
/fit/ - constantly spammed by posts which consist of {[Lust provoking picture] [Retarded question]}. Some decent fitness advice, though, if you're willing to filter the trash.
/int/ - gay.
/lit/ - a lot of off-topic posts which don't get deleted. A lot of pseudointellectuals.
/mlp/ - no description needed.
/mu/ - Constant K-Pop threads which flood the board. What's even the point of going here? To get music recommendation? No. You come here to get validation from strangers.
/pol/ - The board has been steadily going downhill for years now. Most threads are pointless, talking about the same shit over and over again, generals are retarded echo chambers (/chug/ being a very good example). If someone disagrees with you you're likely to be called a jew, if you're a "memeflag" you're a jew because jews have to hide their geolocation and can't just use a VPN or something. If you went there in hopes of having any meaningful political discussion, you would be very disappointed.
/sci/ - it's fine, I suppose. Still, very autistic.
/soc/ - degenerate faggots and lonely losers.
(I omitted mentioning pornography boards because there is nothing interesting about them, just degenerates.)

Why would anyone (intelligent) go on the website to post anything if their experience will surely be negative?

Going on 4chan these days is surreal. So many boards are totally unusable because of all the bots, spammers, and shills.

What really puzzles me is why so many people are obsessed with being an "oldfag". There comes no prestige, no status with being an oldfag. If any actual oldfags are still on the website today then they're just retarded. Anyone over 100iq should have been able to see the decline of the website after the gook acquired it and would have left for greener pastures (New Zealand).

4channel isn't a thing anymore

Why? I remember it existing ~2 years ago but now it just redirects to the original website. Did gook remove it?

The tranny porn ads

Is gook perhaps a tranny chaser?

I wish someone gave altchans another go

If anyone did it would not result in anything substantial or good. This is a problem inherent to imageboards. I'll do some research as to why it is and will return to answer the question.

 

[A Bit Concerning]

/r9k/ - Full of pathetic faggots wallowing in their own misery, only worth visiting if you either fit the description of the average poster or want some good laughs.

I don’t know if this still happens because I haven’t browsed r9k in years, but you forgot the people who go on there and post some fake ‘le greentext’ about gay sex or some other nonsense so they can screenshot it and post it on Reddit. It’s basically just content farming on an anonymous website.

 

[Space Police]

Why? I remember it existing ~2 years ago but now it just redirects to the original website. Did gook remove it?

It was removed because the site is dying and they realized advertisers would be more amenable to a site that doesn't hide its porn boards but is united in one than a site that's split into two and has boards filled with softcore porn anyway.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

You should really use adblock so you don't give the gook money

Even before AI PDF honeypot ads, the ads by actual 4chan users were equally retarded. Bunch of cryptos called PEPEGUY or whatever. That one troon 'musician' etc.

 

[local arkansas man]

/gif/ - mostly porn, with the occasional rekt thread.

Real /wsg/ers stay winning.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Why would anyone (intelligent) go on the website to post anything if their experience will surely be negative?

Because as the last bastion of t.gsg and being the only place I can sperg about Mountain Blade and Anbennar /vst/ (my beloved) prevails.
But yeah otherwise very little reason to waste time waiting 15 fucking minutes between posts because I don't like being cookiepozzed, the jannies may realize this was a mistake when the numbers don't stop going down but I wouldn't put it past them and their arrogance to double down yet further.