Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Coolio55]

you mean a scapegoat

Look, he's a big Ian Stocker fan. Shut up.

 

[local arkansas man]

A Thread showing the hairstyle's of a 4cuck user and its just as bad as you think (Moses ahh cut).
https://boards.4chan.org/fa/thread/18098946 (Archive).

 

[Gondolindrim]

You uh, ever notice how many zios suddenly appear on 4chan anytime something Israel related is in the news?

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

A Thread showing the hairstyle's of a 4cuck user and its just as bad as you think (Moses ahh cut).
https://boards.4chan.org/fa/thread/18098946 (Archive).
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Seriously though, who cares? People are actually using the board for its intended purpose? And not for racebait or coombait? How dare they!

 

[I Do Not Post]

A Thread showing the hairstyle's of a 4cuck user and its just as bad as you think (Moses ahh cut).
https://boards.4chan.org/fa/thread/18098946 (Archive).
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last picture literally looks like ellen page

 

[Archeops]

The Peridot spammer (aka the Perispammer) is back to demolishing /aco/'s catalog again after taking a day off, he's up to 50 threads as of this writing. I'm honestly not surprised it's gotten to this point, /aco/'s mods are barely operating at this hour and the Perispammer has confirmed in some of his autistic tirades that he uses VPNs to bypass IP bans.

I miss the spammers of old who would do so just for shits and giggles, these newer autists who spam due to the slightest hint of disrespect to whatever they're hyper-fixated on pale in comparison.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Big Twitter accounts and redditors are using screenshots of still active /a/ threads for engagement bait now. It has never been more over.

 

[AWizard]

Is there anything that tracks or has tracked 4chan population, board by board perhaps, over the years?

I get into arguments with random anons who claim that 4chan has been increasing in population but there's no way to prove or disprove it.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Is there anything that tracks or has tracked 4chan population, board by board perhaps, over the years?

I get into arguments with random anons who claim that 4chan has been increasing in population but there's no way to prove or disprove it.

4stats exists but it only tracks posts per minute. You can't tell how many people posted in a thread because they removed the IP counter (Not that it was 100% accurate either way thanks to router resets and airplane mode), but you can safely assume that hiding it is not a sign of growth.

 

[AWizard]

Hmmmface indeed. /b/ has to be almost entirely automated or filled with bots or paid shills or something because that board has been unusable for a long time and yet there's a ton of posts there everyday. Almost every other board has similar posting rates to /g/. Like I assumed /pol/ has been keeping 4chan propped up for nearly a decade now, /v/ and /vg/ follow close-by. There's large gaps in the data, understandably, like the early 00s but then there's a big chunk missing between the start of the 10s to middle of it for some of the boards, even ones that started before the end of the 00s.

Since this is just daily posts as opposed to a unique ip count, we can't exactly say for sure the population is shrinking but most boards looked at individually are either stable and low or dropping in the number of posts.

I've tried to put the most popular/significant boards up, it'll only let you select 8. A bit busy but see what you can draw from it.

 

[Toolbox]

4stats exists but it only tracks posts per minute. You can't tell how many people posted in a thread because they removed the IP counter (Not that it was 100% accurate either way thanks to router resets and airplane mode), but you can safely assume that hiding it is not a sign of growth.

4chan's population seems unusually small in the modern day, with a certain loud minority making things artificially seem more active, but post counts per hour per thread even in 'active' boards are tiny for how many people know about the chans. And then you've got practically dead boards like /out/, which, despite their general subject matter don't seem to attract that many users. You could generally count the number of posts the board gets somedays on two hands, and maybe your toes too on others. You could chalk some of the endeadening up to them restricting VPN posting to near 0, and some of it up to the capchas but that still leaves a lot of people who would be using the site. A lot of 4chan's population has outgrown it, and continual forever septembers have scared off others. The boards that get post counts semi-comparable to other social medias are similarly geared towards the lowest common denominator.

 

[local arkansas man]

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Seriously though, who cares? People are actually using the board for its intended purpose? And not for racebait or coombait? How dare they!

I just though his hair was funny, chill out nigga.

 

[Colon capital V]

/aco/ is currently getting spammed by the Perispammer, the retarded Europoor's up to 36 threads as of this writing.

And all because the mod's won't let him have a 24/7 Peridot thread on /co/...

Keyed as fuck, fuck 4troons, praise perispammer for wiping coomer gooners' threads there.

 

[Mullet Man]

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Hmmmface indeed. /b/ has to be almost entirely automated or filled with bots or paid shills or something because that board has been unusable for a long time and yet there's a ton of posts there everyday. Almost every other board has similar posting rates to /g/. Like I assumed /pol/ has been keeping 4chan propped up for nearly a decade now, /v/ and /vg/ follow close-by. There's large gaps in the data, understandably, like the early 00s but then there's a big chunk missing between the start of the 10s to middle of it for some of the boards, even ones that started before the end of the 00s.

Since this is just daily posts as opposed to a unique ip count, we can't exactly say for sure the population is shrinking but most boards looked at individually are either stable and low or dropping in the number of posts.

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I've tried to put the most popular/significant boards up, it'll only let you select 8. A bit busy but see what you can draw from it.

The site's popularity is definitely at a gradual decline.

The first date on the chart (April 6, 2021) shows 1122756 posts on that day, while the last date (April 27, 2024) shows 797027 posts on that day.

 

[local arkansas man]

The site's popularity is definitely at a gradual decline.
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The first date on the chart (April 6, 2021) shows 1122756 posts on that day, while the last date (April 27, 2024) shows 797027 posts on that day.

A 1/3 decrease in 3 years is absolutely brutal, I imagine that by 2026 it will be about 40000-30000ish. You would also have consider how many posts are made by actual people and not bots or shills. That would bring it down a couple thousand. But it's no surprise, Hiro turned the site into a shithole and at this point theres nothing he nor the mods can do to prevent 4chan's fate, It's too late now.

 

[Punished Magician]

The site's popularity is definitely at a gradual decline.
View attachment 5955144
The first date on the chart (April 6, 2021) shows 1122756 posts on that day, while the last date (April 27, 2024) shows 797027 posts on that day.

It should also be taken into consideration that 2021 was 1 year into the lockdown, and with all the extra time spent indoors, even a slightly lesser amount of users would be making more posts than they would today now that things are back to normal. This site doesn't seem to go back before April 2021, but if it did, you'd see a massive spike in activity in Spring 2020 that didn't go back down for a while. If you were to compare the current activity to ≈January 2020, it would paint a more telling picture of actual changes in userbase.

 

[MarMar049]

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Hmmmface indeed. /b/ has to be almost entirely automated or filled with bots or paid shills or something because that board has been unusable for a long time and yet there's a ton of posts there everyday. Almost every other board has similar posting rates to /g/. Like I assumed /pol/ has been keeping 4chan propped up for nearly a decade now, /v/ and /vg/ follow close-by. There's large gaps in the data, understandably, like the early 00s but then there's a big chunk missing between the start of the 10s to middle of it for some of the boards, even ones that started before the end of the 00s.

Since this is just daily posts as opposed to a unique ip count, we can't exactly say for sure the population is shrinking but most boards looked at individually are either stable and low or dropping in the number of posts.

View attachment 5947633
I've tried to put the most popular/significant boards up, it'll only let you select 8. A bit busy but see what you can draw from it.

I wonder if someone /here/ will make a graph that tries to document bot posting like zestyjesus?

 

[Catgirl Fornicator]

4chan's population seems unusually small in the modern day, with a certain loud minority making things artificially seem more active, but post counts per hour per thread even in 'active' boards are tiny for how many people know about the chans. And then you've got practically dead boards like /out/, which, despite their general subject matter don't seem to attract that many users. You could generally count the number of posts the board gets somedays on two hands, and maybe your toes too on others. You could chalk some of the endeadening up to them restricting VPN posting to near 0, and some of it up to the capchas but that still leaves a lot of people who would be using the site. A lot of 4chan's population has outgrown it, and continual forever septembers have scared off others. The boards that get post counts semi-comparable to other social medias are similarly geared towards the lowest common denominator.

Or you know, they could oust the fucking retards banning people 24/7 + spamming faggot propaganda and livestream their executions for their crimes against humanity.

They do it for free and did nothing but render the imageboard format unusable.

 

[Enig]

Or you know, they could oust the fucking retards banning people 24/7 + spamming faggot propaganda and livestream their executions for their crimes against humanity.

They do it for free and did nothing but render the imageboard format unusable.

That requires hiro to actually pay attention to anything instead of leaving it all to a guy that calls himself Rapeape, and that ain't happening so enjoy a historically powerful website falling apart under the weight of coomers and schizoids because those make up the staff too.

 

[AnOminous]

The site's popularity is definitely at a gradual decline.
View attachment 5955144
The first date on the chart (April 6, 2021) shows 1122756 posts on that day, while the last date (April 27, 2024) shows 797027 posts on that day.

It's probably even worse than that when you consider how much of that these days is AI, old-fashioned bots, cuck spammers, Discord trannies and other non-human-generated content.