Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Pointless Debater]

You're not stuck there forever because you're literally a Redditor and always will be. Those formative years on reddit while your mind was young and malleable permanently shape how you view and interact with online communities. By the unfortunate circumstance of you finding Reddit first and growing up with it, you cannot have the same relationship with 4chan as someone who started with it, and have no real place commenting on something like this.

I love the gatekeeping of how you're tainted forever by your first experience. Am I forever going to be tainted by my interactions on the MyNintendo forums posting idiotic shit forever mold my mind permanently in 2003 where I could never appreciate 4chan circa 2008?

All experiences are formative and all people change over time, even if people tend to become more set in their ways as they age.

One could just as easily make the argument that the username nature and structure of reddit became boring/unappealing and as an imageboard the anonymity was refreshing therefore the other poster became interested with and engaged with 4chan because of their prior experience for reddit.

I don't love reddit either so this isn't some massive defense of that site, but one of the things common on 4chan was to refer to paragraphs like this as "reddit spacing", because the idea that anyone posted with proper spacing between paragraphs for legibility was a concept invented in 2005 by reddit and didn't exist prior on any web forum before that. I found that obnoxious, and I've been on the internet since the nineties.

 

[wmaf1488]

Altchan Activity since the hack

above is an interesting table with the PPD for the different altchans. seems like only soyjak party and 8chan.se are getting decent traffic. but still FAR BELOW what 4chan had. which begs the question where everyone went?

also i'm sad to see that there's STILL no good replacement for boards like /g/, /fit/, /biz/, /tv/ and so on. just /pol/shit and /v/ which i'm both not opposed to but it's just not my interest

 

[Rave3n]

I love the gatekeeping of how you're tainted forever by your first experience. Am I forever going to be tainted by my interactions on the MyNintendo forums posting idiotic shit forever mold my mind permanently in 2003 where I could never appreciate 4chan circa 2008?

All experiences are formative and all people change over time, even if people tend to become more set in their ways as they age.

One could just as easily make the argument that the username nature and structure of reddit became boring/unappealing and as an imageboard the anonymity was refreshing therefore the other poster became interested with and engaged with 4chan because of their prior experience for reddit.

I don't love reddit either so this isn't some massive defense of that site, but one of the things common on 4chan was to refer to paragraphs like this as "reddit spacing", because the idea that anyone posted with proper spacing between paragraphs for legibility was a concept invented in 2005 by reddit and didn't exist prior on any web forum before that. I found that obnoxious, and I've been on the internet since the nineties.

For me it was BlackVault and ATS which shaped my internet formative years
Then around 2014 the shadowbans started happening

 

[killerqueen]

I heard that there was a leaked email saying 4chan is supposed to be back up this Sunday. Is that true?

 

[plastic Consumer]

you can just sort of brush or touch on things that people will immediately begin hinting they don't want to approach. i mean like on a visceral level you can see their aversion to a subject or just a line of questioning, or an unusual mood merely askew in some way they don't like.

I can sort of get what you mean, at this point people will obviously be put off by you saying "hey, how come a quarter of the people here can't speak english?" even though it shouldn't be, thats 1488 level offensive now. But even non-political stuff gets put off, like "why do we need a 2fa app for this? We never needed this before" or "why do we need phone numbers to sign up for emails now". I've mentioned medications cost more and emergency room visits cost more if you have health insurance and explained "yeah it costs more to buy this drug with health insurance than just paying out of pocket" and you don't really get any sort of reaction, they just don't react and find a way to subconsciously pass the subject on without really thinking why. If you ever get someone abrasive they might say things along the lines of "it works for me", "I never had that problem", etc. I mean the government basically admitted they see mobile phones as personal GPS tracking devices and information recording instruments strapped to every citizen and even conducted a test where they pinged almost every citizen's phone and connected the coordinates to a person. They went over the sort of data tracking they do in a declassified document here:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23844477-odni-declassified-report-on-cai-january2022/

Its weird. Its basically official that the government gets around privacy laws by using corporations and third parties to collect data for them and the amount of data they collect is "everything". They're usually too retarded to do much with it but this sorta shit is stuff you couldn't talk about on /pol/ near the end of 4chan's life, you would just get seemingly shadowbanned and overtaken by BBC porn with 0 responses

 

[𒀭Δημιουργός χάος]

So sick of these fucking tranny freaks defiling my beloved childhood games. They trooned out the motherfucking character creation in Oblivion.. and raped the soul out of the UI. I am fucking livid.

 

[cutefluffwon]

also i'm sad to see that there's STILL no good replacement for boards like /g/, /fit/, /biz/, /tv/ and so on. just /pol/shit and /v/ which i'm both not opposed to but it's just not my interest

They do exist, but I'm not sharing because I don't want you niggers to ruin it.

 

[Scuttlefuck]

I've been looking at the PPH of other alt chains rising but it's only enough to account for a few hundred or maybe a couple thousand spergs
Including Kiwi, we have maybe 8 thousand spergs and organic posters max spread out over a week of posting in all the altchans
This implies to me that the missing 220,000 users from the chans were all bots or paid engagement farmers

There were threads that would pop up on /x/ for about a day that pretty much proved most IPs were shills. Even the fucking dead Internet theory threads were pozzed though. I wish I still had the images.

 

[Lovely Kin]

I heard that 4chan is supposed to be back up this Sunday. Is that true?

Lol no

 

[Harvey Danger]

I miss 4chan...

I miss 9chan. (before the CSAM attacks started)

 

[ringtones]

I just come here to brag about how cool I am

 

[NiggerNiggerNigger]

Funny how one of Blackbeards flags resembled Skull and Bones...
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There's not a lot of evidence or accounts of the skull and bones being used by pirates uniformly. A lot of that is Hollywood. Most used a plain black flag, or a plain red flag when attacking. Over time their black flag became their meme, it was a dread shitpost.

Same with the Hakenkreuz Swastika, Ppl in oldentimes didnt give a fuck about brand recognition and just copy pasted shit from somewhere else.

I think people that wanted authority/power co-opted and cultivated meanings for symbols that were coming from (representative of) the people in order to solidify their own will, holdings, and positions.
>"Follow me! I'm flying YOUR banner, see!?"
Most symbols were representative of clans or families (heraldry) these were their personal memes, to an outsider seeking control of a foreign people they would recognize that co-opting these symbols could allow them to counterfeit their legitimacy in the leading class.
Which brings us to current times, do the people leading all of this shit today seem genuine, or are they the counterfeiters?

 

[do ut des]

I can sort of get what you mean, at this point people will obviously be put off by you saying "hey, how come a quarter of the people here can't speak english?" even though it shouldn't be, thats 1488 level offensive now. But even non-political stuff gets put off, like "why do we need a 2fa app for this? We never needed this before" or "why do we need phone numbers to sign up for emails now". I've mentioned medications cost more and emergency room visits cost more if you have health insurance and explained "yeah it costs more to buy this drug with health insurance than just paying out of pocket" and you don't really get any sort of reaction, they just don't react and find a way to subconsciously pass the subject on without really thinking why. If you ever get someone abrasive they might say things along the lines of "it works for me", "I never had that problem", etc. I mean the government basically admitted they see mobile phones as personal GPS tracking devices and information recording instruments strapped to every citizen and even conducted a test where they pinged almost every citizen's phone and connected the coordinates to a person. They went over the sort of data tracking they do in a declassified document here:

Honestly, idk why you would ever discuss something like that with your coworkers? They arent your friends, they arent there so that you can have discussions with them, any reasonable person just keeps a somewhat friendly relationship with their coworkers by basically always just smalltalking and/or talking about uncontroversial, positive topics (my wife got pregnant, i did this on the weekend, this week the workload is super chill,...) The reason your coworkers tell you "works for me" and dont engage is bc they obviously just want to have a somewhat friendly relationsship with you, so that the work enviroment isnt toxic. Simply dont argue with coworkers about stuff.

 

[dick brain]

I honestly can't think of a single show I've ever seen that I can't find flaws with. There is no Japanese Fight Club.

Fight Club was written by a gay man as an allegory for grappling with one's own repressed homosexuality.

 

[Asukaismywaifu]

They do exist, but I'm not sharing because I don't want you niggers to ruin it.

You’re a lying nigger this is the classic false gatekeeping trolling method.

 

[Rave3n]

Follow me! I'm flying YOUR banner, see!?

So much this.
Not gonna name the most recent example to avoid derailing thread into another Slavic red vs blue slapfight

 

[𒀭Δημιουργός χάος]

Fight Club was written by a gay man as an allegory for grappling with one's own repressed homosexuality.

The difference is, if it's mentioned, everyone automatically thinks about the flick and not the book.

 

[cutefluffwon]

You’re a lying nigger this is the classic false gatekeeping trolling method.

And you're a scheming kike this is the classic rage bait to get me to share the site.

 

[Asukaismywaifu]

And you're a scheming kike this is the classic rage bait to get me to share the site.

No one cares about your alt Chan with two people using it.

 

[cutefluffwon]

No one cares about your alt Chan with two people using it.

You clearly do because you're desperate trying to get me to share it, and it's actually 3 people.