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I respectfully disagree. "Forum Culture" with its notable identities whose status is an incentive to uphold their posting quality is magnitudes more desirable than "social media culture" where ironic memers don't have any connection to the board they put up on apart from what dopamine they'll extract within the from of (You)s with the porn video least effort.

Probably as a result of again within the day even people on forums or another site with usernames had been nonetheless kind of nameless. Almost no one was associating their real identification with their web activity. Now that that's altering I believe many 4chan users felt better pressure to keep away from the change and demand hardcore anonymity. It's form of just like how "lol" fell out of use for a while. It's more accepted again immediately but there was a period in our historical past the place you'd be known as a normalfag for using "lol" and it is as a result of the rise of cellphones made it a commonly used thing. Now that most phones use auto correction your average particular person is not utilizing many accronyms anymore I always discovered it a bit sad, but it surely seems 4chan does like to vary itself just to be completely different from the mainstream. I guess in some methods it is a superb thing and some ways it is not

That just really isn't true. There have been definitely obnoxious personalities who had been hated due to their faggotry, nevertheless it wasn't like they had been hated as a result of they used a reputation, it was as a result of they used a reputation and acted like complete shitheads. Obviously 4chan isn't one particular person, but in early 4chan there was a distinct lack of general consensus, like there's immediately, that 'namefagging' was reprehensible in principle.

And I might even argue that it wasn't till around 2011/2012 that the constant drumbeat of pressured anonymity really took hold of 4chan and absolutely solidified censure against namefags. Up till that time many boards nonetheless had a reasonably lively community of namefags, many of whom were tolerated, accepted and even seen favorably by a considerable part of the board (pondering of /mu/, /x/, /a/, /r9k/, /v/ and /sp/ round that time in particular).

Times change. But one factor is pretty clear, they weren't very self-important back then in any respect. That is what I think people miss about it. Not because of the content or anything it's just that "roll with the punches" perspective and the way laid back it really was, as in comparison with right this moment where every single submit is scanned and judged for a way nicely it fits pre-defined patterns whether or not for good or unhealthy. I don't even use reddit however I can't assist however notice that 4chan's self analytic and judgemental attitudes nowadays seem fairly similar to the environment I might anticipate to kind around voting programs like karma. Given the two, I feel it's pretty obvious why previous 4chan was the spine of internet humor in its day. Things can't develop very well in inflexible self analytic communities.

Tripfag and tripcode consumer were various things back then. We hated tripfags just as much again then as we do now. Most individuals used names or journeys. This can be a truth. What is not a truth is most of them were tripfags. Most of them had been regular average those who came from boards to here and put names or journeys on ultimately. A small minority of them had been the attention-whoring cunts out to make a reputation for themselves. Trip-cracking was a regular enjoyable thread we had that cracked peoples trips, which made tripfags especially mad when it occurred. They finally began transitioning over to safe tripcodes, which is the place the banner "secure tripcodes are for jerks" got here from. Also, Forced Anon on /b/ was the start of the end of this websites actual group and transition to the shitty meme content site that it is at this time. Equally the everlasting elimination of snacks, the one ballsy enough to tell moot to get fucked along with his silly rules. snacks banned weebs, consideration whores, gaiafags, raid fags and so on. Without him at the helm and the nameless hivemind raid faggots from FYAD, the whole site dropped forty IQ points in half a year. Fuck you menchi, weeb cunt. Fuck you as well moot for listening to him. Anonymous Discussion is not even used on Japanese boards, both the major ones have forced IDs globally. (nicely, one uses three IP octets last I checked, which is extra like /int/ flag tier identification)

I believe it was simply another FGSFDS to be honest. Everyone knew who moot was that wasn't a dumb newfag /b/tard. He went to conventions for fucking years before that video was posted round. He was pretty much simply trolling them for fun, like most of us did. It was at all times enjoyable ruining their raids upfront and seeing them get so rectally ravaged.

Here's an side of the anonymity dialogue present users of 4chan do not know of (save for /bant/ because most users are either too outdated or too new to be anonymity activists): For any group or individual, identity is very important, just by the truth that people are people and not a hivemind. Forums and other pseudonym-sure communication types very obviously provide a manner to maintain id. But anonymous boards are not an reverse to this, relatively a different method to identification. On imageboards, id manifests in the type of memes, inside jokes and unspoken standards and rules. As a type of group id, when someone posts anonymously on 4chan they don't seem to be abandoning their id but fairly adopting the identification of Anonymous and a 4chan person. On a forum you might have member-since dates, perks, submit counters and so on. On an imageboard you've got filename timestamps, typing styles, tripcodes and memes. They're all constructs built to help people acknowledge neighborhood members and inform them aside from newbies. Remarkable is that the anonboard specific constructs are largely born out of intuition with no software program being purposefully written to fill the necessity. Imageboard id develops fully naturally. Also observe that if a meme's objective is to let individuals who understand it recognize one another purely on natural instinct it follows that when a meme goes 'mainstream' the unique group associated with it ought to no longer worth the meme, but must also don't have any logical reason as to why. This is strictly what happens, and the one logical purpose most can give is that mainstream memes are shit as a result of they're mainstream and due to this fact shit. And finally: Identity creates reminiscence. When folks can recognize one another, they know each other's levels of funding, knowledge and experience in given dialogue topics. They also can kind ideas of who to and to not trust or listen to. They will know folks's motives and ideologies. And all of it will serve discussion, if you've got been on any board right here that is missing in id in either or both board- or individual phrases you will understand how totally unproductive they're. The same threads are repeated each day by the identical people without nobody realizing they've argued about the identical factor collectively for years. No one is assumed to grasp the basics of something, so discusssion by no means rises above that level of sophistication. Now I'm not saying that forum-fashion identity was better in any manner, it carries it's problems too. I'm saying that identification (be it group identification or idividual identity) is necessary for a base line of dialogue and that at present most of 4chan has none. The final word purple pill about id on imageboards is that identification is content material and content material is identification.

There is a purpose for that. In the early days Moot was mainly one other consumer, a tripfag with particular honors, again then 4chan was small and hadn't really solidified it's id, I wouldn't rely that period. But then, as you can in all probability see from among the later screenshots, he was nonetheless a relatively energetic member. Even after the location grew too massive for him to tripfag (on account of his mere presence derailing threads), he nonetheless tried to speak and focus on issues with the userbase using events, and tried to be as clear as potential when it came to things like moderation, board points, and so forth. During this very approximate period, from, say, 2007-2011, Moot was generally nicely beloved. If you wish to pin specific dates to this very vaguely outlined period, I suggest Project Chanology as the start, when 4chan exploded into mass-media the first time and it's userbase quickly grew, and Moot deleting /r9k/ in January 2011 as the tip, because "he didn't like the community". Through the years after that, Moot grew more distant in the direction of 4chan, partly at the least as a result of real life taking up more and more of his time, and he started to enforce extra ailing-advised and aggressive insurance policies with no or extremely little transparency. For most users he was eroding the good-will he had constructed up through the years, and that continued until he finally bought the location and moved on. Hiro/Mootwo is not good, and i truthfully do not trust him to not have ulterior motives, however for the time he is been in charge (which, let's face it, must be like herding tens of millions of cats) he is accomplished a greater job than Moot did towards the tip. Where late Moot would have drawn a tough line and enforced it at the price of the community and site as a whole, Hiro is extra compromising and prepared to see eye-to-eye. A very good current example is /v/ and NeoGAF, should you go to /v/ Hiro has put up a sticky stating they're making a temporary exception relating to politics, as a result of NeoGAF is so intently tied to videogames.

I may type of perceive that if his actions had been targeted at specific bother-children, like /b/ and /pol/. He did try and shoo away Gamergate when that occurred, but his later actions as an entire seem scattershot at finest. /r9k/ as I mentioned, the crackdown on furries and bronies, and so on.

Control characters stem from a time when it was unthinkable that any but the American language could be used for computing and ANSI was the one character set accessible. Nowadays the most important obstacle to inter-regional communication has been solved with unicode (and if you'd like unicode defined, Computerphile did a video with Tom Scott a long time in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4). The factor most people don't perceive, nevertheless, is that the OS and font still has to have unicode help and coverage respectively to properly display unicode character, so the rationale why you are sometimes seeing characters which do not look right or seem as unprinted characters (not unprintable, however as rectangular cursor-like blocks) is most likely as a result of your font doesn't support those characters. If a language has a distinct writing path (as many do), it is typically useful to use control characters to have it format properly, but it surely depends entirely on the place the textual content is dealt with, however as the above outlines, it's not related to having it show the precise characters themselves. The only actual downside is that unicode is ever-increasing and no font has but achieved 100% coverage, however that is another level - for normal communication on the internet, the font known as dejavu and its variants (serif, sans serif and monospaced) is more than sufficient.

I really do surprise about that, because I remember going to the guro boards on Ayashii in the later 90s and later Amezou and Nameless World earlier than I discovered SA and RH (which would later lead me to 4chan), and I do not remember that there have been nameless posters, as such - except for one which board the name of which escapes me however which I vaguely remember which enforced nameless (like fashionable-day /b/), the remainder had people utilizing names all the time (though I doubt tripcodes were used then, they could've come later as a technique to verify id (earlier than they turned possible to bruteforce in a matter of a few days for a 8-character tripcode or weeks for a 12 character tripcode).. Mind you, I'm going off recollections that might get a drivers license and drink in most states, so I is likely to be mis-remembering stuff.

The porn is not the issue. Gays aren't the problem both. Both are threads of EXPRESSION, which is crucial for /b/ to dwell. The issue is twofold: 1) Pro-Censorship groups who suppose they need to complain about thread content material they personally disapprove of. They got here from social media publicity they usually think as a result of 9gag and Redshit and Facebook customise their content material and experience, that 4chan should too. FUCK them and if you are one in all them FUCK YOU. It is a COLLECTIVE, not your personal web page. 2) More just lately, the cancer destroying this site is the all of the planted /pol/ subhumans and Russian/Macedonia shills now we have here. All the braindead retards posting from scripted answer keys about how Trump is a superb chief and the "mad liberals". It's these assholes who have stagnated /b/ in the last yr and a half.

The facility of the internet, Lmao, most people are mindless drones. The government,corporations, and anarchists all know this. They use social media, and the Internet in Nepal to shape the way you think and reply to issues. Don't ever suppose they aren't trying to use this site. Hence the very things you complain about ruining your tremendous secret club. Lurk around and make the affiliation with the threads being posted and what is going on outdoors your mother's basement, as a result of it is actual and it is going on. You're all topic to cognitive biases. I've been right here for like 10 years, b was at all times a flood of shit. Every now and again we stumble across an incredible gem of lolz or impression. You remember those however overlook all the shit threads since the beginning.That's how it's now, that's how it is always been. You set a thousand monkeys in front of typewriters most of what you get is bananas, traps, and literal shit. Every once in a while you get Shakespeare. In order for you good content, create it.

It was slower and as such some precise discussions could develop. Nowadays there are too many excessive volume threads like generic porn dumps flushing away these threads which want a bit of little bit of time. As such the only thing that remained were heated meta discussions (filled with generic troll posts) about trump, circumcision and gunlaws which never lead to something as a result of no one is interested in the actual content.

a pair things killed /b/: 1. the general international flip into political correctness. now you can't call someone fat. You cannot crack jokes at anyone's expense. Even comedians have to watch out what they say. 2. Over publicity. Victims of our personal success. Raids, etc - but ultimately, the 2 remaining nails within the coffin, were the general public rise of Anonymous, and the fappening. It simply drew all of the kiddies to this place and they felt the need to radicalize in the only way they understand how (by shiposting and acting like edgelords). 3. The generation of creatives that had something to do or say right here, grew up. This is akin to the passing of the age of the guitar gods. Kids today put no effort into any craft, so they may not be any Jimmy Page's. On this world, no extra children toiling wiith MS paint to make the not possible potential, because there are just no better instruments. These days, with filters and apps, everything is straightforward. Kids are lazy and complacent. No effort of sacrifice has been made. Even porn. When I used to be a kid, scoring porn was an enormous achievement. Today, porn is all over the place. And in its abundance, it has turn into passe and has to be basterdized. So kids publish the creamy log threads all the time, and all that bullshit. Its a flood of crap that dilutes any possibility of something of advantage taking place right here. I nonetheless lurk. But its not the same. Won't ever be the identical. Just just like the internet won't ever be the identical as it was late 90's early aughts. Sorry youngsters, you would possibly suppose you are rocking this shit like gods, however the reality is you're enjoying within the sawdust, ashes and ruins of what was once the tip of the spear. To be this outdated, feels good. I saw it begin, lived by one of the best elements. Now I just need to witness the debasement of it as the kids toss round in crap. Sucks to be them.

This is stupid. You couldn't name someone a nigger in 2006, either. But /b/ still did it. The second point has some legitimacy to it, but /b/ was useless long before the fappening happened. 4chan never really obtained important enough news media exposure to attract people it. What introduced these newfags was folks posting shit like lolcats and mudkipz on Facebook and 4chan getting this repute of "where every funny factor on the web is made." /b/ was by no means any form of golden technology of creative sorts, both. /b/tards were dumbfucks. What they had that this generation does not is computer systems. The rise of the smartphone has utterly killed any curiosity in lurking on an imageboard doing dumb shit for hours on finish. People do not "go on the internet" anymore as a basic activity. They get the factor they need instantly and then go do one thing else. Not gonna call you a faggot or anything as a result of that whole "I'm cooler than the remainder of you" attitude was one of the newfag issues that ruined this shithole. I'm not any higher than you. But you are still a faggot for being improper.

You would arrive and had no thought what to anticipate. Granted, there was nonetheless plenty of shitposts however organic content material each good, unhealthy and horrid was way more prevalent. For in all probability the last 6 or so years the location is only a collection of generic posts. IG/FB threads, pics you shouldnt share, varied smooth core porn genres, gay or entice threads, ylyl threads, rekt threads you cant see on the frequent net, obvious bait political threads, god tier threads, etc etc. You might be by no means surprised by anything anymore and all the pieces is very predictable. I nonetheless lurk because once in a while one thing genuine occurs however it has change into far and few between. I feel since this site obtained well-liked within the late 00's it has turn into more generic. There are a number of different websites like it which might be more interesting however nothing compares to 4c's traffic. Also, raiding has basically been criminalized and discouraged. Within the early days, this site was littered with cp. It was mainly the spider man to any shitpost threads. Its omission from the location is certainly one of the one positive modifications we've seen. Tldr, the positioning has develop into normalized and really predictable. 4chan was at all times shit but not less than you never knew what to expect and you at all times got here back for more.

really, you do not seem to have excellent reading comprehension expertise so I will indulge you slightly longer. My point about political correctness, is that because of the overarching social stigma of claiming something even remotely offensive, has created a brand new sort of offender, in addition to a slew of SJW's - all of which its result's expressed on these boards (and elsewhere on the net). Before, no person cared if you probably did a raid. And few individuals cared if in 2006 (which is already fairly late for net standards) you known as someone a nigger (relying on where and to who you stated it). Definitely, nobody obtained fired for cracking a joke - which in the present day is totally the norm. So something, raids, revenge porn, creeps, and so forth., are nearly forbidden. The world is just too uptight - for a real /b/ to exist. Combined with..... my second level you did not get. Before, /b/ was not so in the general public view. Yes, it started to infuse itself with "outsiders" earlier than 2012, but that's the reason I mentioned the two final nails in the coffin. I by no means said that that's when it began to deteriorate. Those have been simply the ultimate blows to this imageboard. There isn't any claim /b/ was the gold commonplace of anything, besides a world with out restrict to do and say no matter - and a certain sort of pc consumer, loved that sort of setting. And now and again, one thing awesome and fun would happen. Not awesome in the new "I simply need to be validated and want consideration" that you reside in - awesome within the "I just noticed somebody stroll on the moon for the primary time", that my technology had. Its like watching two rocket boosters land at the same time - I used to be giddy with joy when i saw it - as a result of to my generation, that shit is like magic. I perceive you don't know that since you weren't on IRC servers, you never raided FTP sites (or fserves) for early mp3's, and also you do not know what kind of language, tone or mood existed again then - but to us who did go through it, that is all crap

You retards mistook the rise in politics for an increase in racism since you can't see the obvious truth that racism is primarily brought on by nigger proximity. And the nigger word wasn't fucking "ironic", I dont even know how you can even get the idea that this hive of unhinged degenerates was preventing le ebil racism by sayin the nigger phrase and making it look dumb. Like posting people getting their faces cut off and different unspeakable shit went together with pretending that nigger-ghettos are stunning gardens of Eden solely being kept down by the white mans greed to protect some fucking politicians faux feelings, give me a fucking break. This nihilistic hellhole is racist as a result of it annoys the worst folks and since RACISM IS FUCKING TRUE. Race issues, races aren't the fucking identical, the feminist race grifter shit is the dumbest ideology ever to exist, and being around niggers fucking sucks.

4chan was principally a spot for ideas that weren't acceptable within the mainstream. Needless to say 4chan existed throughout the bush era. When it was socially acceptable to talk about nuking the center east, 4chan can be a place to oppose that. Now that it's socially acceptable for gay people to exist, 4chan grows to hate gays, principally trannies nowadays. It's a combination of echo chamber, 4chan not being a monolith of identification and opinion, folks coming and leaving, and free speech.

The word nigger obtained thrown at everybody, additionally /pol/ was more about Nazis and wasn’t about being a primary "i hate niggers" center aged racist, additionally not in any respect about worshipping Trump or various proper wing media stars like Tucker, for instance I never saw a Rush Limbaugh thread there ever. /b/ was extra ironic/absurd, it’s really gone down the shitter since Trump got elected and a bunch of political beneath-15s and over-30s flocked here, additionally simply the truth that meme tradition unfold to different places like Facebook and Twitter, and that memes (or no less than the idea of memes) even began being taught in school, additionally that moot left, can’t blame boring MAGA scum for all the pieces

4chan was racist in a lifeless child joke kind of means, yeah. till we realized our racist jokes made this place a protected haven for official racist rubbish. that is the catch with dark humor and irony. they had been so good at being Trojan horses. A racist shithead can fish for fellow travelers by saying a racist joke, and if it does not fly, then they fall again on insisting it was only a joke. So we killed dark edgy humor. We did what they feared. What they didn't assume we'd do. We burned the fucking forest down. Don't worry, it will come back again. Wholesomeness and kindness are never honest for greater than a year or two.

his Anon is correct and folks appear pissed about it. I got here simply earlier than Obama received elected and everybody was known as slurs again then. We have been infiltrated by a low IQ population sooner or later. "Any community that will get its laughs by pretending to be idiots will ultimately be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly consider that they’re in good company." - René Descartes

properly. I'd say overall no. Earlier on it was populated by edgelord teens who would make racist jokes however have been pretty large about racial equality/egalatarinism typically and in thier grownup lives would are likely to lean pretty left socially relating to racial equality and justice. But then the proper SJW crowd began invading 4chan, reddit, different places which led to a hard over correction which led to an anti sjw crowd to begin to type right here that began out with the identical principally libertarian liberal group who noticed sjw tradition as being about minority superiority and fairness over equality. But then that segment of the group began to get pushed out for the tougher conservative anti sjw crowd. Then when trump won it emboldened the groups situated around the conservative sjw crowd but not neccessarily inside it to talk up and be on 4chan more. So the unironic racists/fascists/alt proper/far proper/fundamentalist crowd began exhibiting up increasingly. So the rates of overt racism kinda skyrocketed. Neo nazi ideas, race realism ideas, racial purity ideas, anti minority ideas. all that sort of stuff started changing into extra common options right here.

you are filled with shit. Early 4chan was actually all pedos and loli anime. All of it. The ADTRW refugees individuals like kirtaner. The flood of individuals to 4chan started round 05-06, when the moderation at SA acquired horrific and heavy handed, and it began driving individuals out in droves. Four chan went from pretty much straight pedos to comedy posting almost instantly, althought there were frequent LS posting outbreaks and fixed JB threads up. The dam really broke absolutely although around 08-10. Sites like SA have been complete carebear garbage by then and everybody left, this plus the media hysteria and smart phones led to a big influx of shit posters and normies. But yeah, "you were there" in 06 and 07.

My understanding was no it wasn't always racist. I believe everybody showed up being... as neutral as a human might be given his life experiences. Everyone had their dose of indoctrination. But then people spoke about what they really thought. Some anons have been more brilliant then others, some japanese anons had been actually good at posting tid bits of knowledge. The way it is today is simply probably the most sincere outcome folks might probably have. If 4chan is racist then reality is racist.

I'm with you, however, unfortunately, it will not go to the "glory days". We need moderation help to do this, and the mods are faggots. Hiro also desires to make this site worthwhile, so obviously he desires extra users, not less customers. Unless you convice Hiro to ban cancer, ban newfags, ban HTTP referrers from Reddit, Tumblr, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook and make frequent CSS hacks, 4chan will not go to "the glory days".

Here's one, it isn't an excellent one Overall though, in 2005 there have been so many more folks willing to be a neighborhood and to play games together and make OC Before 2006 it was many issues, 2005 they had been making a number of "memes" before memes have been the cancer that they're recognized by now. It was just a extra productive community, after Habbo in 06 the customers began actually hating the site and it died really quickly that 12 months. It was such a robust neighborhood back then. Lots of people assume Habbo was the first raid nevertheless it was actually in 2005 when /b/ raided the "emo" "cutting yourselves" discussion board. That was hilarious however most people don't remember it.

Ugh, the best way folks talked again then is so obnoxious. Makes me appreciate the current 4chan extra because while we nonetheless have a number of meme spam, at the very least it isn't each. fucking. publish. like it was again then with everyone talking like a thirteen yr old scene kid with their "oh noes" and "mah harbl." I've talked to the one who discovered that the password was proper there within the source code. It's humorous that he is one of many few individuals there that is not screeching like a monkey. Ironically he's one of the crucial politically right people I do know, which simply goes to indicate you that the "outdated guard" isn't remotely what individuals imagined it to be. It's individuals who have matured and adopted the so-known as "tumblr mentality" that everyone seems to hate. Yes, the folks you complain about are the same those who were posting on 4chan all these years ago. And you have the gall to assert that "solely newfags would suppose this way or that method."

There are still threads the place persons are prepared to have fun and make OC. They're just harder to seek out as a result of today it is more about being edgy and attempting to be superior to different users, and sjw vs /pol/ wars than about having fun and making OC and remix tradition. Today I can only bear to debate some anime in this site and in any other case only put up or lurk within the specialised sluggish boards like /ck/ and /ic/, that are for probably the most part unaffected by the retarded tradition wars of the bigger boards. for different stuff I am going to smaller imageboard websites, not 8ch which is cancer, however specialised around a sure show, style or no matter, they're fairly sluggish but at least the few responses you get, oftentimes days apart, tend to be good.

Today's memes are mean-spirited and smug in comparison with 4chan's older, extra self-relativizing (and really funny!) catchphrases. Literally and tbhfam are actually simply there to get on other people's nerves. Based is a gamergate factor. Cringe and edgy are actually from r/cringe. This and kek are overused by brainless retards who have nothing to contribute to the thread (it's actually like an upvote). Toxic is literally a tumblr meme. Ugh was to mock the man I responded too. It would not shock me that these memes are favored by as we speak's era, because it defines who they are: a bunch of pretentious, pseudo-mental, holier-than-thou smartphone addicts. I do know because I'm literally a meme specialist tbhqhwy famalam.

I still remember it as fun and dynamic as late as 2010. Problem I feel is that raids (which, yes, have always been banned) do rather a lot to build and maintain site solidarity, and because the moderation of them has tightened, the place doesn't have that shared expertise to unify it anymore. GG could have develop into something, but instead /pol/ and /r9k/ took it over, turned the entire thing right into a most cancers, and made us seem like fools to the rest of the web. Sad, ain't it?

I believe that you must let your longing for an idealized version of an internet site as it was over a decade in the past now go. You are not going to enhance 4chan in any respect. You're better off beginning your own imageboard (which is able to fail 99% of the time) and telling your folks about it if you wish to have a fun shut knit group, or alternatively use /s4s/ like you already do. The web is going to maintain changing whether you like it or not and you will never recapture what it used to be like. Also, I have never seen people on right here get this labored up over reddit in a long time.

4chan and chans are completed. It's stale. The subsequent "4chan" goes to rise from the ashes organically in a radically completely different format. Who expected a shitty weaboo knock-off of a Japanese anime and porn "imageboard" to take off but it did. It'll most likely be rather more nameless and is likely going to spawn somewhere odd like inside a pedo network on TOR. You cannot force a movement. If the sentiment is there, it will happen.

The thing I miss most about the old web is the carefree nature of it. Even on sites the place it's a must to register, nobody sees your face, nobody knows your name, so putting out one thing that is somewhat simple or foolish or childish or has vivid colors is okay, and even fun. The web is a spot the place you don't have to entrance or pretend to look cool, you'll be able to just be yourself and check out your personal humor. Even when you make a dumb joke it'll 404 quickly and you'll try again. I can not assist however suppose that individuals are holding back nowadays.

I really feel you. I miss the wonder of it. My 12 yr old mind on here was fucking amazed every time a new kind of thread was made, a new advice canine, or some new shitty newgrounds animation. I had my uncle's hand-me-down laptop computer and was too stupid to make anything myself, so I'd sit and surprise who these geniuses are that know the way to "edit photos" and "use flash". And like you stated, it was carefree and anonymous. People made funny web movies just for the sake of being funny, not so they might inform their YouTube subscribers that the algorithm sucked and they have been being "robbed" of their revenue. I'm really simply venting again and don't have an excellent route to go together with this, however god damn I miss when the internet was the wild facet of the world, where in the event you had been a pc-savvy adolescent faggot, you possibly can discover a way to avoid wasting boobs to a flash drive and show your mates. Glad I grew up doing that tbh. I'm glad I did that instead of buying and selling kiks and having unlimited porn on my iPhone at age 12. Not that it is not okay, and it ain't the kiddo's faults. I'm simply glad i enjoyed the silly simple times of interwebs

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For /b/ particularly: Less porn, extra ylyl threads, and much more actually random stuff. Even thinking again to round 2014, I had a lot more enjoyable in /b/ than I do now. I began a cult with some folks I met on here about praising Ultralord from Jimmy Neutron, acquired around 40 followers on Twitter and Reddit and wrote a brief Ultrabible with a few those guys earlier than it died out a yr or two later. I watched just a few livestreams of youngsters contemplating suicide earlier than pussying out. Whilst soon as 2015, I remember some dude on /b/ saying that he would gentle firecrackers at a terrorist assault memorial in France, and seeing articles about it on-line the subsequent day. All I have gotten from /b/ previously couple years has been the occasional funny greentext and numerous loli/furry shit that I didn't need to see in the first place. Modern /b/ isn't horrible however it's positively gone downhill. Hopefully it will fix itself and return to the old ways but I'm kind of doubting it, sadly.