Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[last whitey in Toronto]

I mean I loved /tv/. Introduced me to amazing films and discussion was always amazing. Only board I would look at everyday. /Pol/ was a shitshow but you would find a diamond in that shitshow if you looked hard enough. Lots of amazing commentary you could stumble across (especially about the fake work environments created in society that basically function as adult day care centers). Some other boards were fine and some were shit.

 

[Dr Cruel]

How long under people realise that 4chan was basically a containment zone?
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This is bad, isn't it.

 

[Johnny Ringo]

I browse 4chan mostly for /srwg/ on /m/ and /opg/ on /a/. but I can live without these if it means less culture warriors, bbcfags, /vg/schizos, /u/trannies, ritualposters, jannies and all of those other faggots ruining the fun.

A life without any of that isn't a life worth living.
As a good neighbor and newly minted multicultural hotspot you should be overjoyed that you now have us to spread such esteemed exports so you don't have to go without.

While we're at it, did any of you also notice a sudden increase in "aggression" on 4chan during the past year?

Absolutely. People posting like they've got a stick lodged firmly in their ass for seemingly no reason. I don't know, maybe it's just seeing constant negativity and flame wars being encouraged by the retarded jannies that it sets people into thinking they need to act like psychopathic faggots to be contrarian or some shit.

 

[Toothp!ck]

If 4chan is deleted where will the anons migrate to? I'm guessing twitter but it would be funny if they went elsewhere like Facebook or bluesky. Or maybe kiwifafms

 

[Breadbassket]

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They lock the tribal sectarian threads behind a login! CMON

African /pol/ should be publicly accessible.

 

[cutefluffwon]

I'm curious why moot chose FreeBaSeD, does anyone know the history?

 

[Eddie Gluskin]

While we're at it, did any of you also notice a sudden increase in "aggression" on 4chan during the past year? What I mean is that if you tried to effortpost on, say, a hobby board (like /g/ or /o/) there would always be 1 or 2 people who would enter the thread and act all pissed off, saying everyone's retarded and acting like you had killed their newborn child or something. Everyone always seemed irritable/on edge compared to even just a few years back.

It wasn't just typical "lol kys fag" shit, it almost felt weirdly personal. Artificial also to an extent. Forgive me if I sound schizo, I don't know how to put the feeling into words. Maybe I'm just retarded

It got particularly bad on the website around April last year. There was alot of really weird moralfagging.

 

[Coolio55]

Hbomberguy had a general?

It was great. He'd interact with the fans and he had a live "Alt-right pipeline" meter that would fill and waver and he'd crack all sorts of offensive jokes when it got to the top.

 

[Squatty Potty]

4chan truly died for me in 2019 when I was banned on /v/ for calling a new Overwatch character a nigger. The hack by the soyteen is a fitting, albeit probably temporary, death for the site.

 

[harbringer883]

If 4chan is deleted where will the anons migrate to? I'm guessing twitter but it would be funny if they went elsewhere like Facebook or bluesky. Or maybe kiwifafms

Probably to xitter or here

 

[Land of Noz]

Jamais Said:

Long ago, 4chan, for all its problems, was a haven for actual discussion. Each board had their own little subcultures, their own memes, their own rivalries, and so on. None of that is the case now. The current people running the site do so with the specific intent of preventing discussions from happening of any kind - particularly politics, but pretty much anything that winds up going in a direction the mods don't like will quickly be banished to the shadow realm. It all is allowed to go one way, and it is designed to be part of the endless falsification of public opinion.

As is the case witrh all the most egregious shit this decade, your self-declared betters bargained everything good about the site away ages ago. Everything that used to hallmark the site has been either systemically dismantled or abandoned. The site tries to get you to dox yourself in an effort to bypass a post timer, like Something Awful was something to fucking emulate. The jannies are even bigger power-tripping fuckfaces than they ever were in our time, and considering the caliber of some of the winners that existed in Moot's time that was kind of impressive.

I mean I get it, but sometimes 4chan is still my preferred outlet for anonymous posting. Again, regarding the timer, you don't have to submit your email to bypass it. Once the 900 seconds counts down and it lets you post, then you can post like normal with just solving the captcha like it's been forever. You only have to wait for the countdown again if your IP address changes. Again I'm not a huge fan but something has to be done to cut down on spam.

Either way, I don't know any other anonymous forums left, at least none with a comparable amount of traffic/users as 4chan. Even here, you need an email address to create an account. Sure you can make a throwaway email, but that is time consuming. Same thing with Reddit, which is orders of magnitude worse than 4chan in terms of thought control, starting last year you need an email to make a username now.

I have faith that 4chan can be reformed and fixed and brought back to something approximating it's former glory. Perhaps Moot could by it back from Hiroyuki Nishimura

 

[Jobama]

That is true but it does have a big shilling issue.

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They should start posting steam chart threads there.

 

[Lovely Kin]

If 4chan is deleted where will the anons migrate to? I'm guessing twitter but it would be funny if they went elsewhere like Facebook or bluesky. Or maybe kiwifafms

Here, twitter, groomcords, or they kill themselves

 

[lightbringga]

If 4chan is deleted where will the anons migrate to? I'm guessing twitter but it would be funny if they went elsewhere like Facebook or bluesky. Or maybe kiwifafms

I think every time there's a mass exodus of users from a site many of that activity just goes to discord instead of a small chan or forum

 

[cactus]

Cope and sneed. They're annoying but it's a natural consequence of something awesome happening.

Cope with what? I'm not reading these posts that are basically saying nothing.

 

[Greate Pier]

While we're at it, did any of you also notice a sudden increase in "aggression" on 4chan during the past year? What I mean is that if you tried to effortpost on, say, a hobby board (like /g/ or /o/) there would always be 1 or 2 people who would enter the thread and act all pissed off, saying everyone's retarded and acting like you had killed their newborn child or something. Everyone always seemed irritable/on edge compared to even just a few years back.

It wasn't just typical "lol kys fag" shit, it almost felt weirdly personal. Artificial also to an extent. Forgive me if I sound schizo, I don't know how to put the feeling into words. Maybe I'm just retarded

Noticed that on /p/ for sure.
Gearfag thread would be sent to the moon, while actual photography thread would sit unbumped for months.

 

[The GOUT-HATERS Handbook]

I use /a/ and /tg/ which have very different issues. /a/ is they just don't care and allow generals and shit posts to be up 24/7 and will only take action when they are forced to so /a/ is just slowly dying because no one interacts across threads or are terrified of anything they like getting popular because then they won't have a useable thread.

I never got why storytimes and daily chapters were allowed but things like r/a/dio threads were banned outside of holidays. /a/ jannies aren't the worst, but they are their own type of cancer.

 

[harbringer883]

4chan truly died for me in 2019 when I was banned on /v/ for calling a new Overwatch character a nigger. The hack by the soyteen is a fitting, albeit probably temporary, death for the site.

for me it died in 2017 when I was banned from /tg/ because I said primaris looked shit and the good little goy jannies took offence to that

 

[NicotineEnjoyer]

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They lock the tribal sectarian threads behind a login! CMON

bomboclaaat

 

[blackface enthusiast]

I mean I loved /tv/. Introduced me to amazing films and discussion was always amazing. Only board I would look at everyday. /Pol/ was a shitshow but you would find a diamond in that shitshow if you looked hard enough. Lots of amazing commentary you could stumble across (especially about the fake work environments created in society that basically function as adult day care centers). Some other boards were fine and some were shit.

/tv/ feels a lot like old /b/ with its humor whenever it's not bait or culture war threads. Sopranosposting, BB/BCS threads are usually very fun and a mix of people posting memes but also offering genuine critical analysis of the subject matter. And usually someone will slip a memeable line into their essay (sometimes unintentionally) and someone jumps on that and the thread is all fun and games again.

If this really is the end, I'm gonna miss it. sigh...