Remember when 4chan's Holla Forums did raids and pranks and shit? God damn do I miss those days.
Now 90% of the threads on 4/b/ are porn-based, and about 60% of those threads are furries, faggotry or traps/sissies. The rest are pics of cute girls from social network sites, like 4/b/ became a fucking clique of awkward horny middle school boys during lunch period.
What went wrong? Was it GamerGate? Was it Hiroshima Nagasaki taking over as leader?
Adrian Wright
i remember when M00t-sama told a 15yo girl to show tits and she didnt so he permabanned her
he used to be so fun
Adrian Campbell
Garbage in, garbage out
Ryder Gonzalez
So edgy. Why do you want Holla Forums to be about destruction and trolling? Why not about love?
TBH, I never liked what you want, so I'm glad that time is over. More sissy threads please and get rid of that faggot Travis or who is that retard I don't even know what's the point of it because it's forced meme.
Angel Thompson
Better get those kids a glass of caveman
Matthew Bailey
Just want to add that "raids and pranks" is what kids do. So Holla Forums grew it from that. It's stupid.
Andrew Wood
There is that, but my main point is how a majority of threads on 4/b/ is just porn. Hardly a thread about any kind of discussion or silly, yet not autistic banter.
Yes, pranks may be edgy and kidlike, but whoever doesn't want a little childish fun every now and again has no idea what the hell they're doing with themselves.
Ian Flores
Then I suggest you check other threads, less cancer community
Kevin Lopez
I mean boards
Caleb Carter
love sucks
Henry Roberts
moot cracked down on raids years before gamergate. And if you stayed on 4chan long enough to see what Hiroshima Nagasaki did, you need to get the fuck out of here. Anyone who stayed after GG was banned is the cancer that ruined Holla Forums.
moot and the mods cracking down on raids was definitely a major factor though. When I got banned for posting in a prank call thread, that's when I knew there was no turning back, the site was irredeemably shit. I mean it was shit for several years before that, but I still convinced myself to have hope.
Jace Nguyen
4chan got too popular among teens who grew up to be the society killing cancer that is the current 18-24 year old demo.
Day of the rope is probably still another decade away but these traitors will be the first to hang!
David Edwards
The chans generally have become life support for sick and alienated children. The humour is gone, replaced by angst and spite; the fun replaced by peurile politics and masturbation as a way of life. As a very old fag who drops into 8ch nearly every day in the hope of finding something worth contributing to, you carpet bagging sickos have nothing in common with me or the others who made english language ibs a thing. Most of you come looking for ready made entertainment, to farm (you)s for the endorphine spike they produce or to find an anonymous soulmate obsessed with penis. The oldfags simply grew out of being a childish retard, don't find Holla Forums funny anymore and have wives to fuck, so, hey: Holla Forums is a waste of life unless you don't have one to waste. Post on, master race. Post on. Your future is the same as your past, but smaller still.
Jacob Richardson
what exactly am i looking at here?
Kevin Fisher
chan is kill
Nathaniel Myers
This isn't a very recent development. pic related, circa 12/20/14.
Nicholas Parker
Left side = how you ought to be eating.
Right side = how you're probably eating now, and that's why you're less healthy.
Camden Lopez
It was very, very concentrated subversion to destroy the culture of 4chan from within. I could go on about this for hours, but TL;DR a bunch of faggots (possibly alphabet soup, but that may be crackpot conspiracy bullshit, more likely a bunch of bored trolls) flooded the board with shitty content day after day in order to drive down the overall content, drive away decent discussion, and enlist newfags to unknowingly contribute to even more of the shittiness. This was, like, a several year long campaign. Eventually it worked.
I will never not be mad about the whole chain of events that lead to 4chan's downfall.
Evan Richardson
In a non conspiratorial sense, I always likened it to the public park around where I live: It used to be a nice place to throw back a couple beers and shoot the shit with the bros. you could talk all night about anything under the sun and have a good time doing it. It was a common meeting place for all sorts of people as long as they were willing to talk and could handle some bantz. Then some idiots brought some kids along.
We tolerated them for a while, they sometimes said some funny shit. But then they brought more, and more, and even more. Not long after it became infested with stupid little shits wanting to hang out with the big boys. Everything they do or say is stupid and the few laughs you can get among them isn't worth being surrounded by dipshits
That park is a shadow of what it once was. Now it's a meeting place for kids who come there to do stupid shit with their stupid friends. Some of the old bros still stop by there and are treated with a kind of admiration, but every time they do they leave not long after wondering why they even bothered.
There's so many people who I used to share many good times with that I never see anymore. And it's all because of these stupid fucking kids.
Benjamin Martin
This honestly, and it's getting really fucking old. I'm not an oldfag, but I'm not very new, but I can sure as fuck see why this shithole has devolved the way it has all we have are newfags constantly pointing fingers to who is the newfag. The only thing that ever interested me about 4chan was the occasional thrill of an edgy shitpost or raid, and the humor that seemed to change and spit out new memes that spread like wildfire across the internet. And by the time the "normies" got ahold of the maymay there were new jokes already brewing. That shit feels mostly dead now. Now 4chan has hit a rut, it's in a pool of shit and it doesn't even want to leave, and this place is only marginally better since the community is smaller so there's less snowball effect turning the board into complete cancer.
Ryder Green
God, that pic reminded me of how claustrophobic 4/b/ is. No room for a decent thread. It's like you're being actually smothered by roll and social media threads. I swear, some reddit subs look better than that.
The normie must die.
Henry Lewis
Its weird because I'm a super newfag, just started browsing image boards right before the gook took over 4Chan. Kinda feels bad that I missed so many good times but 8 Holla Forums is a blast, And if I never experienced any of that I can't really miss it.
Carson Rivera
Nothing, it was always bad
Austin Morales
Some anons said it reminded them of Holla Forums circa '07. I didn't go there much back then, so I wouldn't know. I do know 8/b/ was definitely a blast in it's earlier days.
Fuck off. You're in every thread and you just repeat phrases to make yourself seem wise.
Leo Cruz
I am wise, are you?
Leo Sanchez
I made a new one, super fresh
Luke King
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Ethan Myers
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Colton Cook
I was about 12 years old when I first stumbled upon 4chan after oddly being redirected to the homepage. Probably from some affiliate site like dramatica. I used Holla Forums briefly but didn't browse frequently until I was about 13. I obviously like many other young teens was attracted towards Holla Forums and was able to play many games like Dark Souls in their prime.
I have used many boards and I will say that I last enjoyed 4chan for what is is back in 2014. That is when my favorite board /fit/ truly became cancer with generals populated with tripfags.
Newfags today will never know what it was like, that feeling of giddiness when m00t responds to you for the first or maybe even second time, even though he had better things to do but you were whining about why u got banned or what not.
Henry Brown
I looked. It's all fap and traps.
Colton Clark
wew. this fag talks like hes an oldfag.
what if I played half life in it's prime? you ever played half life, cuck?
Matthew Morris
I played quake, hl is for faggots
Jayden Brown
quake 1?
Zachary Brown
shitty bait
Isaac Wright
The degeneration of Man, little buddy
Have you had a class of caveman?
Brandon Lopez
I feel ur pain bro . Sad to see 4 chan like this ! :(
Hunter James
Why the fuck do you even care? It's 4chan for christ sakes.
Dominic Richardson
4chan died quite a lot when they began shutting down all the raid threads most raids were just plain shit but a few did turn out to be lulz
several aspects went to shit a while after mook took over fag mods deleted legit interesting or funny stuff but left all the faggit/trap/pony threads ? ,,,,, :>[ mook's only innovations was more ads and begging for money i just removed 4chan from all my bookmarks a few days ago TBH, have not visited in quite a while and don't plan to any more
by the way Holla Forums mods: please start deleting gay / tranny / pony stuff from Holla Forums. they have their own boards for that shit
Mason Johnson
er, delete threads you don't like? i hope not. i agree we'd be better off with fewer trapcocks, but that's the bitch in freepeaches: all comers welcome. now fuck off or better still, delete yourself.
Wyatt Stewart
The fact that you tolerated 4chan after Gamergate was banned and there was a large exodus to here means you're a fucking faggot and not the type of person we want here. We came here to get away from you. The fact that you want things banned on Holla Forums is one example of this. Holla Forums was best because the rules were "ZOMG NONE!!1!" Of course every now and then you'd get a lulzy ban because that rule applied to mods as well, and they could ban whenever, but they didn't exercise this power just to power trip, it was largely done to be funny.
If you don't like something on Holla Forums, ignore it. One of the biggest things that hurt Holla Forums was actually the captcha. Now this might seem counter intuitive, but before the captcha, Holla Forums was filled to the brim with spam, a lot of it trying to give you viruses, and it was better that way. Kept the riff raff out. Anyone who wasn't a moron was able to sort through the ocean of piss and find the few pearls of wisdom or comedy. The captcha helped immensely with the spam, but this only removed a barrier of entry that let retards in to ruin the site.
Removing noko was also terrible. Maybe the biggest thing. Noko should definitely be brought back.
Jace Edwards
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Anthony Ortiz
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Cameron Green
KEK
Levi Bennett
lulzsec happened and then the fbi stepped in
Parker Thomas
Because nothing is truth, and everything is permitted. Trolling is an art, don't kill it.
Dominic Morris
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Jace Nguyen
Everyone and their dog knew about 4chan around the time of that Scientology bullshit. (maybe before, like 2007) Eternal September, OP. Look it up.
Holla Forums was never about love >>>/reddit/
Cameron White
reminder that paleolithic 'men' didn't live until they were 80 years old, they frequently died much earlier
protein takes away your body's ability to repair itself high protein diet = early death
Anthony Miller
they didnt have antibiotics and the medical technology we have today. Blood transfusions, heart/liver/kidney transplants and the like
Jordan King
An alternative hypothesis: Holla Forums was always shit
Quality content is always few and far in-between, but it's there. Check the dates on all the ebin threads/events you've saved if you want to see proof. Unless you consider mudkips and text-macros some kind of fine art then there is not really a big difference between now and then. You either selectively forget the boring times or your standards have just changed.
There are some things like raids and CP which Moot cracked down on, but would it really have mattered? You had "legal CP" leaking through here for a long while, but people just complained. It didn't add anything to the site, just some drama over if it should be allowed or not. Otherwise it is just the same boring porn like you would complain about seeing now. And people have the ability to do raids on Holla Forums too, but they don't because the spirit of the times have changed. It's not interesting anymore. Trolling stupid little kids on club penguin and making nigger swastikas in habbo hotel is just not as fun as remembered. That's why no one bothers even when given the opportunity. You squandered all this freedom because it was never that great to begin with.
4chan is still shit and I wouldn't go back (no webms with sound), but a lot of this is just nostalgia goggles I think. Like with videogames or movies, some things just don't age well, and that probably includes Holla Forums. It was always just something to do when the internet was a much more vacant place.
Wyatt Wood
anons attack treesnetwork reddit raid time
Jason Jenkins
anons attack treesnetwork reddit raid time join the lawls if your not a pedonewfag
Ayden Roberts
That is the recent past, present, and future of 4chan. Get used to it, but anyone who brings that shit here needs to be beaten.
Owen Adams
Holla Forums was always shit user, Holla Forums was shit even what it was called FYAD on something awful