DNC shill campaigns were in overdrive on /pol/ back in 2016, especially after an anon at Hillary's speech denouncing the "alt-right" yelled "PEPE!" at the request of another anon on /pol/.
Arguing on /v/ is funny, therefore /v/ is more alive than ever.
Not really. It's just a bunch of people trying to troll each other with arguments they don't actually believe, using their annoying buzzwords like "slop" "snoy" and "tendies" I find it aggravating to read and you are genuinely low IQ if you like it.
Maybe you are just growing old, and realized after all of the years you wasted on imageboards that it's just a place where nothing productive gets done? And that 4chan was always just a place where people argued with each other over random things that don't matter?
/fit/ goes here, godspeed
inb4 8chan /v/ gets a bump in PPH again, only for the crusty pedophiles that run the place to look at them in disgust and divert them to /vb/ and kill off any momentum that dead board could ever get
As I've said before, the mods run the site now. moot at least had a hand in how moderation was done. That's gone out the window ever since he sold it to Hiro.
There really isn't one. /fringe/ back in the 8chan days was pretty interesting, but it's dead now.
Listening to the voices in your head in a quiet room I imagine
Big criticisms and memes about media go downstream and hit pretty hard. Crabbing is now a word people in finance actually use. It's not a big cultural mover like it used to be and most of the boards are on life support (bellwether generals and weekly culture threads are dying left and right), but it is where reddit goes to say what they really think and it filters back in after a while.
This problem is worse on slower boards like /an/ where there are "personalities" that are even worse than namefags., exemplified in the "Paleoschizo Phenomenon." These personalities, like Paleoschizo, don't tripfag or namefag but because they have a specific axe to grind or post about specific topics, there are leeches that follow them around and throw shit at them to provoke them into sperging. This has a down-wind effect where people who have similar thoughts on a subject get called this person, even if they aren't. It's incredibly annoying, unfunny, and honestly quite Reddit.
I remember a similar thing happening on /ck/ where any time anything vaguely mentioning America was brought up (even to the extent of mentioning fucking cheese without even bringing up the US), this one dedicated autist would begin shitting up the thread with rants about amerimutts and random political infographics.
Arguably all the "meme warfare" performed by /pol/ during the 2016 presidential election. Anything else pales in comparison. 4chan hasn't had any cultural impact since then.
It doesn't help that the quality and creativity of the anons themselves is absolutely in the toilet. Just look at the overall post quality on almost any board.
