Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Heavy Rainfall2]

I don't think anyone posted this, so I wanted to give a brief history of /pw/ (Pro Wrestling), formerly known as /asp/ (Alternative Sports and Wrestling). As the rest of 4chan went to shit, /asp/ was usually still pretty funny. Most of the user base was older fans of the attitude era so the board was mainly shitting on modern wrestling. They even had a few of their own lolcows, probably the biggest one was WolfpacnWoTV, a Twitter/YouTube guy obsessed with defending the pro wrestler Kevin Nash. /asp/ made up a rumor that Nash was raped in the summer of 1992 that caught so much traction Nash himself talked about it.

In 2019 a wrestling company called AEW formed, becoming the second largest wrestling company in America. A lot of AEW fans were super obnoxious and there was a lot to laugh at about AEW (hiring trannies, doing some dumb virtue signaling stuff, bad wrestling, ect) and on /asp/ it was mostly fine, although the board did take a dip in quality. In 2021 gookmoot split up /asp/ into /pw/ and /xs/ (Extreme sports) due to the latter group bitching about all the wrestling threads. I don't know exactly why it happened, but /pw/ just took the worst parts of /asp/ and amplified them.

Ever since /pw/ the board is 90% WWE/AEW hate threads (referred to as consolewar threads) obviously samefagged to oblivion. Even before the ip count removal and spam filter it was blatant. Threads not about those are usually slid off or consolewar talk is injected into them. There's about 3 schizos who do so and try to blame various Twitter users, probably because they themselves are from Twitter. I've been using 4chan less and less over the years, and used to check /asp/pw/ nearly every day. The board is a microcosm of image boards in general in the modern day, as all it takes is shit mods and a few dedicated autists to completely ruin a board.

 

[mrs thickness]

I think KF is fine.

Who knows how long that'll last. It already often feels like panning for gold with how many of the threads on this site get constantly shat up by self-diagnosed autists with post counts in the tens of thousands like a twitter addict, especially if it's featured where everyone wants to be the first to receive the Posted It Again Award for recycling the same Sam Hyde joke or copypasta template they've been using for like ten years. Literal Facebook-tier boomers and discourse happening in A&N.

 

[Anakin Soywalker]

Anyone know what's up with the guy who posts some variation of "my dad fucks me in my sleep" on only the interesting and relevant threads?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Who knows how long that'll last. It already often feels like panning for gold with how many of the threads on this site get constantly shat up by self-diagnosed autists with post counts in the tens of thousands like a twitter addict, especially if it's featured where everyone wants to be the first to receive the Posted It Again Award for recycling the same Sam Hyde joke or copypasta template they've been using for like ten years. Literal Facebook-tier boomers and discourse happening in A&N.

The meat of the content, the lolcow threads, will be fine unless the moderation goes full retard like they do in Beauty Parlor/Trump thread(before that got locked down). Don't expect shitpost or political threads here to be of quality.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

I hope losing 2/3 of site traffic, being spammed with tranny porn ad banners and taking until 2024 to do basic shit 8chan did a decade ago like allow MP4 files was worth it to Hiroshima and all the regressive millenials still actively using the site, time's marched on and turned it into the Bronx in 1975.

4chan is literally an internet ghetto now. Thank you tranny jannies. You made it go the same way as SomethingAwful did in the 10's but maybe they like it that way since you'll get B& if you call them goons.

 

[Grog]

Who knows how long that'll last. It already often feels like panning for gold with how many of the threads on this site get constantly shat up by self-diagnosed autists with post counts in the tens of thousands like a twitter addict, especially if it's featured where everyone wants to be the first to receive the Posted It Again Award for recycling the same Sam Hyde joke or copypasta template they've been using for like ten years. Literal Facebook-tier boomers and discourse happening in A&N.

For me the worst are threads that have more fanfic than actual happenings, unfortunately due to react farmers.

 

[John Badman]

Present day 4chan isn't really any different from reddit other than you can say "nigger" on some boards and not catch a ban.

keyword being “some”, I caught a ban for racism outside of /b/ last year for calling janny a nigger in /pol/. Mods powertrip and follow your IP to send their munchkin niggermonkey Jannies after you before they going back to ERP in IRC. The average 4cuck Janny is too stupid to use IRC and stays in the dedicated grooming discord.

 

[Eternal Spirit of Light]

I really want to know your thoughts on /co/, /tg/, and /jp/ since those are the usual boards that I lurk

I've never visited them because they do not pertain to my interests.

Not necessarily on topic but this relates for 4chan:
The lack of anything good on webforums and imageboards has essentially fixed any distraction for me. I can no longer get distracted by 4chan because there is nothing to be distracted by, nothing interesting. This also applies to this website too, there's barely anything worth reading here. So, thank you tranny jannies everywhere for curing my internet addiction. But also fuck you and kill yourself nigger.

 

[Peguin Sandwich]

keyword being “some”, I caught a ban for racism outside of /b/ last year for calling janny a nigger in /pol/.

That rule is such horseshit by today's standards and in my experience it's most apparent in blatant advertisement threads on /v/ when it's enforced. Same can be said for most if not all of the rules the tranny jannies get decide on a whim what is/isn't worth enforcing that particular day. Toss a racial slur at a shill while calling out their blatant lies and false info and you're netted with a ban for racism. Crazy how astroturfed that board is with the amount of CCP shills given all the gacha threads there, among other things. Even shitposters/spammers have a habit of abusing reports when they're called out. Whether it's the staff's ineptitude or that they just don't care, funny how it's always the worst dregs of society who're the most sensitive, yet protected class on 4chan.

Also, some interesting history on why /vr/ threads autosage after 2 weeks:

 

[CEO of Autism]

Are there any differences between the 4chan moderation team and the ResetEra one nowadays?



What's the point of stiffling speech to such extent? Why can't I challenge certain narratives (in this case, pertaining 5th gen video games)? Is it extremely dangerous to our democracy to affirm that Mario 64 wasn't the first 3D platformer? What are we actually allowed to discuss beyond reproducing wikipedia factoids like a bot? Why can't we have an opinion on things? Why is everything remotely controversial so bad that it needs instant and harsh suppression, even when said views don't involve any political matters?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Someone really needs to give an 8chan like alternative another go. The biggest hurdle would be handling CP spam and other bad actors, but if they can do that and keep their own ego/retardation in check and capture even a fraction of the thunder 8chan prime had, it would put cuckchan out of business. You have no idea how many anons there are out there that crave something like this, but can't stand the modern state of 4chan or the webring.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Are there any differences between the 4chan moderation team and the ResetEra one nowadays?

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What's the point of stiffling speech to such extent? Why can't I challenge certain narratives (in this case, pertaining 5th gen video games)? Is it extremely dangerous to our democracy to affirm that Mario 64 wasn't the first 3D platformer? What are we actually allowed to discuss beyond reproducing wikipedia factoids like a bot? Why can't we have an opinion on things? Why is everything remotely controversial so bad that it needs instant and harsh suppression, even when said views don't involve any political matters?

I don't know who is the janny for vr but they are the biggest faggot of all the jannies. Anything that isn't crt shader shit results in a 3 day off topic ban

 

[just Reading a post]

I don't know who is the janny for vr but they are the biggest faggot of all the jannies. Anything that isn't crt shader shit results in a 3 day off topic ban

For some unknown fucking reason, the jannys on /vr/ just lost their fucking minds after newer generations of consoles were considered retro. It used to be a chill board to talk about some good retro stuff. But now it is an endless juggle session of "is this retro enough that the jannys wont pitch a fit about it". They cannot handle that retro does not just mean 90s video games consoles anymore. They get really mad at you when suggest that the PS2 is now retro. They will still mald in 15-20 years when the PS3 is also considered retro.
If they want to split stuff up they could have a HD era retro and the classic era. But there would be endless sperging about that because the PS2 had a few games that ran at 1080i.

 

[Enig]

For some unknown fucking reason, the jannys on /vr/ just lost their fucking minds after newer generations of consoles were considered retro. It used to be a chill board to talk about some good retro stuff. But now it is an endless juggle session of "is this retro enough that the jannys wont pitch a fit about it". They cannot handle that retro does not just mean 90s video games consoles anymore. They get really mad at you when suggest that the PS2 is now retro. They will still mald in 15-20 years when the PS3 is also considered retro.
If they want to split stuff up they could have a HD era retro and the classic era. But there would be endless sperging about that because the PS2 had a few games that ran at 1080i.

My favorite was the violently seething guy that kept trying to get everyone to not recognize the GBA as old when it was 20 years old and using an ARM arch from 1995, which is made funnier by the fact anons there spent years doing mental gymnastics about why the Dreamcast wasn't the same gen as PS2 and they have the handheld shilling general for modern emulator handheld ads with next to no talk of actual retro ones.

 

[NickDigger]

The fact is the board was already going to shit prior to 6th gen being "retro", all it's done is allow an additional flood of retards to low-effort-post about shit they know fuck all about outside of what some worthless eceleb says. That, and their endless, reddity forced memes.

 

[Hatter]

Someone really needs to give an 8chan like alternative another go. The biggest hurdle would be handling CP spam and other bad actors, but if they can do that and keep their own ego/retardation in check and capture even a fraction of the thunder 8chan prime had, it would put cuckchan out of business. You have no idea how many anons there are out there that crave something like this, but can't stand the modern state of 4chan or the webring.

Something really big, bad, and most importantly GAY would have to happen for people to abandon 4chan and move to altchans in large numbers.
8chan only got big because Moot was being a cuck and people liked the board creation system, the Sharty only grew due to a mix of moderator abuse and the deletion of /qa, and some smaller examples like sturdychan after EPI pedotroons and other flavors of degenerates were exiled from /trash/.

 

[Flame War Vet]

Someone really needs to give an 8chan like alternative another go. The biggest hurdle would be handling CP spam and other bad actors, but if they can do that and keep their own ego/retardation in check and capture even a fraction of the thunder 8chan prime had, it would put cuckchan out of business. You have no idea how many anons there are out there that crave something like this, but can't stand the modern state of 4chan or the webring.

There's already an alternative to 4chan. It's called soyjak party.

 

[AnOminous]

Are there any differences between the 4chan moderation team and the ResetEra one nowadays?

RetardEra jannies are actually part of the community they're moderating. Shitty members of a shitty community but they don't actively hate their own website and its users (or at least not all of them).

 

[Hanged Man]

Are there any differences between the 4chan moderation team and the ResetEra one nowadays?

Resetera mods have a clear agenda as they want to maintain an echo chamber. 4chan mods will ban you for anything because they only care about getting their ban hammer count up. They don't care about global rules, nor do they care about the artificial rules they've made for certain boards, they will just simply ban you.

 

[CEO of Autism]

4chan mods will ban you for anything because they only care about getting their ban hammer count up

I understand, they gotta keep those ban numbers high so they can multiply their generous base salary.