4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Foolish Samurai Warrior]

Out of curiosity, is there any data on whether or not the new captchas are affecting 4chan's traffic? I haven't noticed a difference, myself.

They haven't.

https://dev.4stats.io/

 

[Strawb3rry]

I always felt like /tg/ was in a downward spiral thanks to the terrible mod team there. Glad to know I wasn't alone.

 

[ChiliChumper]

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I always felt like /tg/ was in a downward spiral thanks to the terrible mod team there. Glad to know I wasn't alone.

Lmao was literally just talking about this on /tg/ with some of the remaining sensible folk there and brought this up.

It's fucking sad how unsuable that board has become because of all the bots, retards, grogs, and the mods who are actively conditioning the board into an edgier version of Reddit where if you dont tow the party line in being the biggest faggot possible, you get your posts deleted.

The only board I have seen take a bigger nosedive is /sp/. Which is sad, because that used to be one of the last big holdouts for board culture and general silliness.

2016 really fucked that website, and I feel 2020 + The Leakening pissed on its rotted corpse.

 

[Waffle Iron]

They haven't.

https://dev.4stats.io/

interesting /b/ kept a steady 3k while most other boards lost about 10%. also seems most people kept coming after the hack, and the 10% bled out over the course of a year.

 

[Strawb3rry]

Lmao was literally just talking about this on /tg/ with some of the remaining sensible folk there and brought this up.

It's fucking sad how unsuable that board has become because of all the bots, retards, grogs, and the mods who are actively conditioning the board into an edgier version of Reddit where if you dont tow the party line in being the biggest faggot possible, you get your posts deleted.

The only board I have seen take a bigger nosedive is /sp/. Which is sad, because that used to be one of the last big holdouts for board culture and general silliness.

2016 really fucked that website, and I feel 2020 + The Leakening pissed on its rotted corpse.

Splitting /qst/ into its own board was a huge mistake. It caused the most creative users to leave /tg/ and left trolls and trannies behind to inherit the board.

It doesn't help that traditional games are not a hobby that gets a constant stream of new media to discuss they way /v/ or /tv/ does. They were reliant on users to tell stories and make up little games to keep the board interesting. Arguing about 3.5e vs 5e or Warhammer vs Age of Sigmar for the 10,000th time gets old.

 

[harbringer883]

Lmao was literally just talking about this on /tg/ with some of the remaining sensible folk there and brought this up.

It's fucking sad how unsuable that board has become because of all the bots, retards, grogs, and the mods who are actively conditioning the board into an edgier version of Reddit where if you dont tow the party line in being the biggest faggot possible, you get your posts deleted.

The only board I have seen take a bigger nosedive is /sp/. Which is sad, because that used to be one of the last big holdouts for board culture and general silliness.

2016 really fucked that website, and I feel 2020 + The Leakening pissed on its rotted corpse.

/tg/ is now just shill threads, spam and reddit brigades from places like saltierthankrait and sigmarxism. I literally got a 3 day ban for calling someone who kept spamming his shitty minis in a thread retarded, and most of the warhammer threads have now been hijacked into kulture war slop anyway.

interesting /b/ kept a steady 3k while most other boards lost about 10%. also seems most people kept coming after the hack, and the 10% bled out over the course of a year.

It appears that most of the gooner boards have been steadily coming back to be fair.

 

[deleuzeon]

Just tried to make an honest-to-God post over in /lit/. 300 second wait time, okay. 4-step IQ test capcha, okay. Upload failed for no given reason... okay. Another 4-step IQ test capcha, okay. "This IP has been rangebanned." Amazing stuff.

How anyone still uses the site is beyond me.

 

[CEO of Autism]

Just tried to make an honest-to-God post over in /lit/. 300 second wait time, okay. 4-step IQ test capcha, okay. Upload failed for no given reason... okay. Another 4-step IQ test capcha, okay. "This IP has been rangebanned." Amazing stuff.

How anyone still uses the site is beyond me.

"Upload failed" means they have that image hash blacklisted. I've seen it happen often with images downloaded from KF, amusingly. Changing the hash is enough to bypass it. "This IP has been rangebanned" is a fake message for new cookie sessions to prevent "spam" (it doesn't) that goes away after a day or two.

 

[Hector Hamsteak]

Literally no reason to use 4chan anymore.

I disagree, 4chan still shines when there is an event where anons can all watch and shitpost in a thread together, whether that's a speedrun marathon, a sporting event, or a major happening, the old 4chan flares to life for a while.

 

[ChiliChumper]

They were reliant on users to tell stories and make up little games to keep the board interesting.

The saddest part is the rise of faggot ass hustle culture and the monetization of hobbies have devastated whatever oral tradition remained among /tg/ space.

30 seconds on TTRPG Youtube and youll be bombarded with insufferable culture vultures who shamelessly screenshot and narrate over 4chan /tg/ stories and use it as a revenue stream. Particularly easy via 4chan because it's anonymous, because they know well that similar behavior on a site like Reddit would blow up within a week because someone would go "Hey this cocksucker is shamelessly using my post for content."

We get the exact same shit here on KF with Kiwitubers, yet somehow the TTRPG content farms are even more blatant.

Go try and make a thread on /tg/ right now asking about people to share their stories. Within 4-5 posts you will get hit with some flavor of "Fuck off content farmer."

This has basically resulted in whatever decent people were left on the board becoming unbelievably weary and insular, if not outright hostile. Because now not only do we have to suffer retards, bots, and grognards, theres the perpetual distrust that any lighthearted discussion or storytelling is some normie faggot milking you for content and your story is going to become a Youtube Short someone else is profiting off of. And not even doing a funny voice or animation to be transformative or creative. No just straight up reading posts while they stand in front of a bookshelf with nerdy knicknacks behind them.

I understand that that aspect of the issue isn't exclusively 4chans fault, and a complaint of 2020s society in general, but holy shit it's bad.

4chans always been stolen from and passed around. Ive been seeing the Sir Bearington story for over 15 years now. But something about it lining someone elses pockets has bred some real fucking hostility in a hobby that relies on oral tradition.

 

[Foundinglaunderer]

The saddest part is the rise of faggot ass hustle culture and the monetization of hobbies have devastated whatever oral tradition remained among /tg/ space.

30 seconds on TTRPG Youtube and youll be bombarded with insufferable culture vultures who shamelessly screenshot and narrate over 4chan /tg/ stories and use it as a revenue stream. Particularly easy via 4chan because it's anonymous, because they know well that similar behavior on a site like Reddit would blow up within a week because someone would go "Hey this cocksucker is shamelessly using my post for content."

We get the exact same shit here on KF with Kiwitubers, yet somehow the TTRPG content farms are even more blatant.

Go try and make a thread on /tg/ right now asking about people to share their stories. Within 4-5 posts you will get hit with some flavor of "Fuck off content farmer."

This has basically resulted in whatever decent people were left on the board becoming unbelievably weary and insular, if not outright hostile. Because now not only do we have to suffer retards, bots, and grognards, theres the perpetual distrust that any lighthearted discussion or storytelling is some normie faggot milking you for content and your story is going to become a Youtube Short someone else is profiting off of. And not even doing a funny voice or animation to be transformative or creative. No just straight up reading posts while they stand in front of a bookshelf with nerdy knicknacks behind them.

I understand that that aspect of the issue isn't exclusively 4chans fault, and a complaint of 2020s society in general, but holy shit it's bad.

4chans always been stolen from and passed around. Ive been seeing the Sir Bearington story for over 15 years now. But something about it lining someone elses pockets has bred some real fucking hostility in a hobby that relies on oral tradition.

4chan , has become a spectacle. Turkeytom , internethistorian.. list goes on and on and on people make performative content about greentext for fucking retarded teens on a site long dead

 

[RealtreeByGod]

Like 70% of the discourse on 4chan these days is brown people accusing other brown people of being brown.

I'm going to modify and walk back this statement a bit. It's not brown people accusing other brown people of being brown, it's ESL thirdies accusing other ESL thirdies of being ESL thirdies. Probably the majority of brown people accused of being brown aren't actually brown, but they're being accused by someone who's not on top of the status totem pole.

The biggest impact India has had on the internet or at least my corner of the internet, is not them ruining search engines, social media, free browser games, and content algorithms. It's them completely mindbreaking anyone with an inferiority complex about their status in life, ESPECIALLY Europeans. People just make shit up now and project it onto imaginary Indians as a desperate attempt to make them feel better about themselves and separate themselves from the unwashed thirdie masses. It doesn't matter how inconsequential and ridiculous and bizarre it is if some anon is doing it or believes it and another poster disagrees with it, then that anon is an Indian and all Indians think or do the same thing. It's pervasive on every single board and it's completely ruined all discourse. I saw a thread where an anon posted a video that included his hand in a dark room with low yellow lighting that made his skin appear tan, a poster immediately jumps in to call him an Indian, so the anon gets pissed and posts pictures of him from the head down where he clearly has a pale pasty white farmer's tan and then even posts his blue eyes, and the anon walks back to calling him a Mexican or an H1B brahmin because his room in the background was dirty and there were American-style 20A outlets on the wall instead of 15 and then accuses anyone who calls him a retard of samefagging. I saw another thread where a guy accuses everyone of being niggers in a thread because they like chicken wings and another anon accuse a guy of being Indian because he used the term "flats" instead of "wingettes". The captcha is another great example, everyone HATED the new captcha until someone filtered in the idea that it filters brown people who weren't smart enough to solve it, now anytime someone complains about it being annoying and clunky, midwits flock in to brag about how they're based and white and intelligent because they can count blocks and stars.

It didn't used to be like this even 5 years ago and definitely was like this 15. No one has fun discussions anymore, no one makes original content, there's silly bonds and brief friendships formed by two anonymous people in a single thread over something stupid anymore, it's all just baseless shitflinging at each other.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

4chan , has become a spectacle. Turkeytom , internethistorian.. list goes on and on and on people make performative content about greentext for fucking retarded teens on a site long dead

this, 4chan is basically a tranny-controlled Banana Republic with retarded teenagers trying too hard to be funny, anyone who was posting in the 2010s have mostly left, and anyone who posted in the 2000s almost certainly does not post anymore, you could probably have more entertainment value reading the schizo vietnamese 13 year olds posting on the Sharty then most of the boards on 4chan, dont even get me started on /vg/

 

[Weldors]

The biggest impact India has had on the internet or at least my corner of the internet, is not them ruining search engines, social media, free browser games, and content algorithms. It's them completely mindbreaking anyone with an inferiority complex about their status in life, ESPECIALLY Europeans. People just make shit up now and project it onto imaginary Indians as a desperate attempt to make them feel better about themselves and separate themselves from the unwashed thirdie masses. It doesn't matter how inconsequential and ridiculous and bizarre it is if some anon is doing it or believes it and another poster disagrees with it, then that anon is an Indian and all Indians think or do the same thing. It's pervasive on every single board and it's completely ruined all discourse.

I've seen a lot of this on /vp/, where there's an anon called Chappyfag who checks to see if the OP images of various threads are Eeveelutions, and if they are, he posts corresponding Eeveelution art by an artist called Chappy, followed by spamming a lot more fanart by various artists, like so:

As you can tell by the OP's comment, the point of the thread isn't supposed to be about posting Espeon images, but discussing the Battle Facilities in Pokemon Emerald, but Chappyfag still insists on turning it into an Espeon thread anyway. So what does this have to do with anons calling other anons Indian? Well, if anyone points out that Chappyfag's posts are off-topic, another anon starts to spam posts like this:

Trying too hard to act like "I don't think the point of this thread is to post Espeon images" is actually a Jeet agenda in disguise.

Also, you're not reading those dates wrong, this thread has been up for more than a month and despite all the off-topic spam, the jannies think only the Jeet spam is worth deleting.

 

[whore loving dragon]

The biggest impact India has had on the internet or at least my corner of the internet, is not them ruining search engines, social media, free browser games, and content algorithms. It's them completely mindbreaking anyone with an inferiority complex about their status in life, ESPECIALLY Europeans. People just make shit up now and project it onto imaginary Indians as a desperate attempt to make them feel better about themselves and separate themselves from the unwashed thirdie masses.

Turd worlders (especially Indians) absolutely *are* everywhere online nowadays and they absolutely do ruin routine everyday discussions on the Internet. You can't escape from this anywhere. The effect on 4chan has been extremely noticeable: about a third of everything I see on 4chan nowadays looks like it was written by an ESL retard who can't parse together a coherent sentence. And even if they could manage English, their thoughts are more worthless than garbage. A markov chain is more intelligent than the average turd world poster.

If you dispute this, it's because you're either too young to remember what things were like before, or because you are a turd worlder yourself, so it feels like business as usual for you.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

Go try and make a thread on /tg/ right now asking about people to share their stories. Within 4-5 posts you will get hit with some flavor of "Fuck off content farmer."

For a long time a lot of threads on /pol/ seemed to be farming for chatbot training material, e.g., the daily repeated ones about "inner monologue" and visualizing apples. They turned almost everybody against actual discussion. (Success!)

Each board has a similar story.

 

[Chainsaw Juggler]

For a long time a lot of threads on /pol/ seemed to be farming for chatbot training material, e.g., the daily repeated ones about "inner monologue" and visualizing apples. They turned almost everybody against actual discussion. (Success!)

Each board has a similar story.

Modern /pol/ really shows how fragile the infrastructure of an anonymous image board can be. It's basically been raided by bad actors for years whose end goal was to make the board unreadable, and they've succeeded. I'm fairly certain there's so few genuine interactions on the board anymore to the point that it's just board saboteurs talking to each other now.

 

[Coolio55]

Modern /pol/ really shows how fragile the infrastructure of an anonymous image board can be. It's basically been raided by bad actors for years whose end goal was to make the board unreadable, and they've succeeded. I'm fairly certain there's so few genuine interactions on the board anymore to the point that it's just board saboteurs talking to each other now.

Man, if only there was some sort of IP count or IP ID so that you could tell who's sliding.
Oh well.

 

[RealtreeByGod]

Turd worlders (especially Indians) absolutely *are* everywhere online nowadays and they absolutely do ruin routine everyday discussions on the Internet. You can't escape from this anywhere. The effect on 4chan has been extremely noticeable: about a third of everything I see on 4chan nowadays looks like it was written by an ESL retard who can't parse together a coherent sentence. And even if they could manage English, their thoughts are more worthless than garbage. A markov chain is more intelligent than the average turd world poster.

If you dispute this, it's because you're either too young to remember what things were like before, or because you are a turd worlder yourself, so it feels like business as usual for you.

I'm not disputing it's not mostly ESLs now, but I think its mostly butthurt belt Youreapeeins and different flavors of spics and they're the ones derailing every thread by going "SAR DO NOT REDEEM" any time someone might post a typo or say something they disagree with because they have to establish themselves higher up the subhuman pecking order. Even the Sharty leaks said there weren't a whole lot of Indians and the ones that exist are probably mostly 50 centers posting on places like /pol/ and /k/ and going >SIRS WHAT IS THE SOURCE in /gif/ threads. I don't think Dikshit Poodam from Uttar Pradesh is the one who's ruined fun quality discussion on the special-interest blue boards.

 

[gagabobo1997]

>Moot was in a car alone with Epstein