4chan - the Internet hate machine

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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,051 18.2%

  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 363 6.3%

  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,396 41.4%

  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,122 19.4%

  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 252 4.4%

  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 599 10.4%
  • Total voters
    5,783
CEO of Autism said:
Feels like board activity in everywhere that isn't /v/ and /pol/ is wayyyy down compared to a couple of months ago.
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The million walls being put up before you can post seems like the obvious culprit. These walls weren't implemented because of the countless schizos inhabiting every board, either, but because one pedophile dog-fucking faggot discovered a way to make janny punishments even more worthless than before. So it wasn't even a matter of improving the site. It's janny stamping his feet and deciding if he can't have power then nobody gets to post!
 
CEO of Autism said:
Feels like board activity in everywhere that isn't /v/ and /pol/ is wayyyy down compared to a couple of months ago.
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Its very surreal to go on a board like /v/ and see a thread up for 1 and 1/2 to even 2 days but posting quality is still somehow abysmal. I’m talking common ESL mistakes, idiotic opinions or arguments, one word responses or people just spamming images to keep it from page 10. I don't believe it ever once occurred to the mods that these draconian practices and outright hatred for longstanding community would lead to the current hellhole people visit now.
 
BigBadBastich said:
Its very surreal to go on a board like /v/ and see a thread up for 1 and 1/2 to even 2 days but posting quality is still somehow abysmal. I’m talking common ESL mistakes, idiotic opinions or arguments, one word responses or people just spamming images to keep it from page 10. I don't believe it ever once occurred to the mods that these draconian practices and outright hatred for longstanding community would lead to the current hellhole people visit now.
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Most of /v/ is just gooners and zoomers at this point. Why else would they seethe that their fucking deltarune and uma threads are being deleted?
 
natehiggers321 said:
I just want a functional website that has active users and doesn't require a username/email/password, why is that too much to ask for?
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It's a side effect of what's been dubbed the supersite phenomenon. There are tens of millions of websites for people to visit but the internet user of today visits on average 6 websites. On top of that, more and more information is retreating to unsearchable platforms like discord. The days are over where you could look up some quest in an obscure MMO and find a website with a detailed description from an elf necromancer about how he solved the quest, the difficulty, and the rewards. On top of it all, the internet has seen more and more access from people who hold very different values as to what constitutes good discourse online, or simply don't see the value in holding good discourse online.
 
Chainsaw Juggler said:
It's a side effect of what's been dubbed the supersite phenomenon. There are tens of millions of websites for people to visit but the internet user of today visits on average 6 websites. On top of that, more and more information is retreating to unsearchable platforms like discord. The days are over where you could look up some quest in an obscure MMO and find a website with a detailed description from an elf necromancer about how he solved the quest, the difficulty, and the rewards. On top of it all, the internet has seen more and more access from people who hold very different values as to what constitutes good discourse online, or simply don't see the value in holding good discourse online.
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It sucks, the entire Internet is becoming a walled garden worse than AOL from the 90s. At least they had chat rooms which were a giant free for all. There's this https://soj.ooo/about that based race aware Koreans made. It's ok for what it is but I lost interest in it. I liked VOAT but then that died suddenly for no reason.
 
Chainsaw Juggler said:
It's a side effect of what's been dubbed the supersite phenomenon. There are tens of millions of websites for people to visit but the internet user of today visits on average 6 websites. On top of that, more and more information is retreating to unsearchable platforms like discord. The days are over where you could look up some quest in an obscure MMO and find a website with a detailed description from an elf necromancer about how he solved the quest, the difficulty, and the rewards. On top of it all, the internet has seen more and more access from people who hold very different values as to what constitutes good discourse online, or simply don't see the value in holding good discourse online.
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I’ve found it harder to search up information on old games, so this feels real to me. And that’s all that matters.
 
Chainsaw Juggler said:
It's a side effect of what's been dubbed the supersite phenomenon. There are tens of millions of websites for people to visit but the internet user of today visits on average 6 websites. On top of that, more and more information is retreating to unsearchable platforms like discord. The days are over where you could look up some quest in an obscure MMO and find a website with a detailed description from an elf necromancer about how he solved the quest, the difficulty, and the rewards. On top of it all, the internet has seen more and more access from people who hold very different values as to what constitutes good discourse online, or simply don't see the value in holding good discourse online.
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The internets not only being homogenized for easier access but also being fought over for complete control by a handful of megacorporations. Trying to find art or media that hasn’t been erased in the last decade is almost impossible, entire sites are just gone.
 
Maybe some of you will find this interesting but the lifespan of the average imageboard user is around 3-6 months (speaking from personal experience and others), please consider the implications of this and that staying more than 1 year and greater turns you into a greater and greater statistical anomaly.
 
SoyMustard said:
Maybe some of you will find this interesting but the lifespan of the average imageboard user is around 3-6 months (speaking from personal experience and others), please consider the implications of this and that staying more than 1 year and greater turns you into a greater and greater statistical anomaly.
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After 6 months you've seen the same threads repeat over and over and realize you only find interesting new shit once in a while.
 
Chainsaw Juggler said:
The days are over where you could look up some quest in an obscure MMO and find a website with a detailed description from an elf necromancer about how he solved the quest, the difficulty, and the rewards.
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You have wikis and Reddit to do that now. I had to use one yesterday to look up a quest I couldn't figure out in an old game.
AnOminous said:
Making it even worse, a lot of "official" game sites just point you to some shitty troon-filled Discord, too.
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Games and rom hacks are now hosted on discord servers. Discord is a black hole that's going to get shut down and leave an internet dark age.
 
Anyone here use /tv/ regularly? The last few years have been fucking awful and it somehow keeps getting worse. There's multiple spam threads that I've been seeing for years now. Like they've been using the exact same image with an almost identical OP post for 2-4 years straight. The normal poster to spammer / bunkerchan astroturfer ratio is getting dire. Other big boards like /v/ and /pol/ are also shit, but there's still the occasional big game release or political happening that draws some people back. TV and film have been so shit that the only threads with any passionate discussion are the one for 20+ year old shows. The site is doing its death rattle and no one cares. The owner doesn't care, the moderation doesn't care, and the users are either visiting out of habit or are actively malicious to the rest of the site. The only possible way to save it is to have someone who cares about the site buy it from Hiro and purge the entire staff.
 
> checking 4chan for the first time in months
> hahaha, NO

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At the one hand there seemed to come in fresh blood, with them talking about fortnite, using twitter slang and showing a lack of knowledge of older memes, but at the other hand it seems 4chan doesnt seem to get new users and just bleeds out.
 
Waffle Iron said:
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At the one hand there seemed to come in fresh blood, with them talking about fortnite, using twitter slang and showing a lack of knowledge of older memes, but at the other hand it seems 4chan doesnt seem to get new users and just bleeds out.
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I checked /a/ in March 2019, they were at 40k or so.
Now they're at around 22k.
/v/ was at 100k, now they're around 60k.
/co/ was at 24k, now around 10k.
 
SoyMustard said:
Maybe some of you will find this interesting but the lifespan of the average imageboard user is around 3-6 months (speaking from personal experience and others), please consider the implications of this and that staying more than 1 year and greater turns you into a greater and greater statistical anomaly.
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Huh, i assumed that, if you don't leave after the first hour or so you would at least post for a year or two before moving on to somewhere better moderated
 
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