Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Yeah but he's systematically blocked anything like phoneposting, entire countries, virtually every VPN with any commercial presence, etc. to the point you almost have to use an actual real IP address connected to you somehow.

Sure, everyone knows 4chan is a honeypot, but for a lot of people who, say, avoid social media, Discord, and like garbage, 4chan is still accessible, and it's not unreasonable for a man to consider himself to be drifting into insanity if he decides he can't even post mostly anonymously about some interest on 4chan. After a certain point, people can reflect on their behaviour and deem only using anonymous imageboards that allow Tor while writing each post differently to avoid style analysis and other things is just too damn suffocating. It can be exhausting.

 

[AnOminous]

Sure, everyone knows 4chan is a honeypot, but for a lot of people who, say, avoid social media, Discord, and like garbage, 4chan is still accessible, and it's not unreasonable for a man to consider himself to be drifting into insanity if he decides he can't even post mostly anonymously about some interest on 4chan.

It's not worth turning off my normal shit just to use a nearly dead imageboard. It was already dying when moot left, and gookmoot has finished the process.

 

[psychopharmacologist]

My New Year's resolution was to finally quit 4chan and after just over a month of not accessing it, I can confidently say I am fucking done with it. Reading the recent posts in this thread about how awful it still it has emboldened my resolve to stay off it.

I just can't fucking take it anymore. The schitzo/autist spamming boards with whatever they are currently obsessed with, the BBC spam, the bots, the coomposting, the trannys, the neverending ragebait. It's all fucking brainrot.

Many years ago I saw a post on /v/ of all places that summarizes pretty concisely how fucking poisonous 4chan is to the human mind and I have always remembered it. Thanks to an archive, I managed to find said post.



For whatever reason only recently has this to really sank into me. Maybe it's knowing that I'm only going to older and that I wasted too much of my fucking youth on that shithole of a website.

 

[Monuklear]

My New Year's resolution was to finally quit 4chan and after just over a month of not accessing it, I can confidently say I am fucking done with it. Reading the recent posts in this thread about how awful it still it has emboldened my resolve to stay off it.

I just can't fucking take it anymore. The schitzo/autist spamming boards with whatever they are currently obsessed with, the BBC spam, the bots, the coomposting, the trannys, the neverending ragebait. It's all fucking brainrot.

Many years ago I saw a post on /v/ of all places that summarizes pretty concisely how fucking poisonous 4chan is to the human mind and I have always remembered it. Thanks to an archive, I managed to find said post.

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For whatever reason only recently has this to really sank into me. Maybe it's knowing that I'm only going to older and that I wasted too much of my fucking youth on that shithole of a website.

Sounds like a skill issue.

In all seriousness now, I don't mean to diss you or anyone else in this thread who might feel that way, but whenever I see people complaining about the internet asshole (inc. that screencap), all I can see is someone who just burned out by browsing the same threads on the same boards on the same website for 6+ hours a day for years.

I've been going on 4chan for well over a decade by this point and outside of certain periods (which coincide with the personal low-points of my life), I've never used it obsessively. Check in on it once every couple of days or so, look for threads about things I've recently played or watched, have some fun flaming someone for something that ultimately doesn't matter, move on. I think that's how the site should be used. The people who grow seriously disillusioned with it are those who attempt to use it as ersatz social interaction or a community or whatever; that's not really how an anonymous board can or should be approached.
You need to take it easy.

RE: That screencap. I always disliked that second sentence, about how you can "find everything here more quickly and efficiently anywhere else". That's just not true. 4chan is a unique place, there's nothing quite like it out there. Yes, you can technically "talk about video games" on Reddit or Twitter or (god help you) Discord, but 4chan is by far the largest non-algorithmized bulletin board in the world. There's not quite another place like /v/, or /f/, or /int/, or /a/, or any number of other boards. It's great.

 

[Samir Al Hajeed]

The big boards are shitholes, but there's still value on the more niche ones, especially if you stick to generals. /sci/sfg/ for example is the only place on the internet I've found where you can talk about rockets without it overflowing "i fucking love science" type soy, it doesn't really get wojak spam, it gets OC, and live reactions during launches are really fun. It did have it's fair share of drama with the schizo who hated anime and would reply to literally every single posed containing it, and then switched tactics to trying to ruin the thread by spamming anime and then accusing everybody else of being himself. But that's part of the appeal of 4chan I guess.

 

[Syntaxion]

Yes, you can technically "talk about video games" on Reddit or Twitter or (god help you) Discord,

4chan doesn't talk about videogames neither.

Make a thread about some old game? it's just spam about how the players are trannies. If it's a new game, then you get spam about how the game's awful/leftist/censored and shills spamming the same game over and over. If it's a niche game, you're getting porn spam. Actual, fruitful discussion doesn't happen on 4chan, let alone on popular topics like videogames.

Might aswel argue you can't find the political discussion anywhere else. Like yeah, sure, if you're looking for bots and schizos spamming buzzwords and your post getting ignored or, at best, mocked.

Only the smaller, slower boards have some semblance of actual interaction, like @Samir Al Hajeed says.

 

[56 others]

Maybe banning phone posters is hiroshimoot's long con to save 4chan? We hate phone posters don't we?

Problem is the culture that made 4chan fun wasn't because people used computers

 

[Monuklear]

4chan doesn't talk about videogames neither.

Make a thread about some old game? it's just spam about how the players are trannies. If it's a new game, then you get spam about how the game's awful/leftist/censored and shills spamming the same game over and over. If it's a niche game, you're getting porn spam. Actual, fruitful discussion doesn't happen on 4chan, let alone on popular topics like videogames.

Works on my machine.

Like, seriously. I'll never understand this perpetual kvetching you see in meta threads or /q/ and /qa/, especially in regards to /v/. Trolls aren't nearly as common as you make them out to be, and they are usually easy to filter/ignore. Just don't enter obvious bait threads, it's that easy.

 

[Cheetahman]

As fantastic as total phoneposter genocide would be, the luckypuppy/luckypapa hijack shit seems to be gone already.

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

I'm just waiting for the BBC posters to be clamped down on. Funnily enough, a while back when the spam was really thick, the BBC spam stopped for a day or so when Israel was getting bombed. Really makes you think.

 

[ForgedBlades]

It's still humorous on occasion.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Works on my machine.

Like, seriously. I'll never understand this perpetual kvetching you see in meta threads or /q/ and /qa/, especially in regards to /v/. Trolls aren't nearly as common as you make them out to be, and they are usually easy to filter/ignore. Just don't enter obvious bait threads, it's that easy.

This, just get a filter bro. Most trolls can easily be ignored by avoiding obvious bait threads.

 

[ABE LINN COHN]

Works on my machine.

Like, seriously. I'll never understand this perpetual kvetching you see in meta threads or /q/ and /qa/, especially in regards to /v/. Trolls aren't nearly as common as you make them out to be, and they are usually easy to filter/ignore. Just don't enter obvious bait threads, it's that easy.

This, just get a filter bro. Most trolls can easily be ignored by avoiding obvious bait threads.

Problem is b8 threads, coomer threads, shill threads, etc. get more traffic, thus get constantly bumped, and thus end up killing slower, quality threads. Sure I personally could ignore poor quality threads but if I'm in a slower thread I'll see it die right before my eyes as it's pushed to page 10.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Problem is b8 threads, coomer threads, shill threads, etc. get more traffic, thus get constantly bumped, and thus end up killing slower, quality threads. Sure I personally could ignore poor quality threads but if I'm in a slower thread I'll see it die right before my eyes as it's pushed to page 10.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyo16gYMvTM

 

[Skint]

Problem is b8 threads, coomer threads, shill threads, etc. get more traffic, thus get constantly bumped, and thus end up killing slower, quality threads. Sure I personally could ignore poor quality threads but if I'm in a slower thread I'll see it die right before my eyes as it's pushed to page 10.

That's literally a (You) problem. Sort by creation date, scroll through the entire catalogue, pick out threads that meet your fancy and engage in them, occasionally refreshing to see if anything good got created. Sifting through shit, low effort threads has always been a part of the experience, even in the good old days.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

In other news, I checked the domain WHOIS lookup for the main site's URL again, and the domain was renewed in late January. It's now set to expire in 2024. So at least one more year of sneeding.

 

[Samuel Hyde]

In other news, I checked the domain WHOIS lookup for the main site's URL again, and the domain was renewed in late January. It's now set to expire in 2024. So at least one more year of sneeding.

I never seriously thought they would forget to renew. It would be funny for sure if it did happen. But the alphabet soup agencies see 4chan as too much of an asset to let it die like that.

 

[Enig]

I'm just waiting for the BBC posters to be clamped down on. Funnily enough, a while back when the spam was really thick, the BBC spam stopped for a day or so when Israel was getting bombed. Really makes you think.

The spam is nowhere near where it was when Buck Breaking released, as soon as that started spreading every BBC spam thread was memed to oblivion leading to a week or two of no cuck spamming anywhere

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

/v/ just updated their Favorite Video Games Of All Time list

 

[Monuklear]

Good to see the Deus Ex, ICO and Dwarf Fortress cargo cults still going strong.