i have been thinking all day long… why is it that websites like 4chan, tumblr, and reddit can come up with a meme that will catch on and spread, yet here at Holla Forums we don't seem to create any content that spreads even among ourselves.
even worse is that though i am a creative person who does lots of OC, I can't think of anything that would catch on, and i am afraid if i tried to create something it would be 'forced'.
the only thing i have seen actually catch on and spread here at Holla Forums is "meme magic", which seems to have influenced, and been influenced by the trump fans on most english speaking imageboards.
let us dedicate this thread to deep thought and discussion as to what Holla Forums culture truly is, why we are here, and what we are doing and should do.
Mason Watson
I'm just here for casual shitposting
OC that up OP
Adam Johnson
do you not enjoy imageboard culture?
almost every imageboard has it's own unique style except Holla Forums which seems to be a clone of 4chan, despite the users here claiming that 4chan is awful
Benjamin Hall
is Holla Forums declining? Haven't been here for about a year and there seems to be less PPH, and less people.
Jaxson Rogers
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Josiah Brown
Could be for either 8ch doesn't have a fully independent culture Or because all the pedos and pop left because of the Holocaust after our god hotwheels
Adrian Fisher
Pol and v create shit all the time. If you're talking about shit tier Holla Forums content, the kids, who are the biggest demographic of Holla Forums, stayed on bullchan because they don't care about free speach, they just want to be able to brag about how edgy they are by using 4chan
Robert Hill
bring me up to speed on what happened in the last year, I've missed this place a lot.
Austin Wood
because this board is Holla Forums only in name now. the spirit is gone, thanks to a clueless tripfagging mod who has an agenda to turn this board into a safespace for 9gag-tier faggotry with old, dead meme-spouting, all in the name of attracting normies and boosting userbase/traffic/ad revenue
wew, mod has long since b& anyone with oc creative potential
also, you don't create oc wanting it to "catch on" because what you think should become a world-class meme is probably just meh to most anons. sorry to burst your bubble, now go back to your circlejerk shitposting
Juan Fisher
See this is a good example of what OP is talking about. Even goons have a culture that they share.
Landon Thomas
kek
Thomas Hill
Well in a nutshell basically what happened is when 8ch got popular /hebe/ and /doll/ were critis
Alexander Nguyen
Woops sorry mistake, click sent by accident… What I meant to say is that hotwheels sold 8ch and moved to the Philippines and the new owners bombed the shit out of the pedos board thus making Masterchan and librechan
Jose Perry
we use nigrin a lot, so technically yes.
William Sullivan
I'll do it quick. And this place does have its own culture, niggas are just negative as fuck.Here's a brief history. site
So that's where we're at. The site as a whole is working. Pedos aren't allowed and hotwheels is dead. We can build this platform and grow from here. But some users are angry (hence all the meta arguing). And some have left for librechan, masterchan and the like.
It's still a good platform. And the site as a whole can grow a bunch. Holla Forums can too. It was just too much across a long period.
Holla Forums is still good here.
Jackson Sullivan
Fucking seriously? Hotwheels really doesn't own this site anymore?
Andrew Peterson
Gave it to Jim b4 he died.
Rip Freddit Breddit
Joshua Miller
You made that sound very confusing. After How wheels captcha caused the infinity next migration to fail, and Josh & HW giving up on it. Jim offered to save the project by having 2ch engineers look at it if Josh would let Jim use it under GPL instead of agpl. Both are open source, Josh wouldn't allow it, so Jim told him to fuck off.
Then Code Monkey fixed the current software, now we're where were at today.
James Reyes
Holy fuck, did hotwheels actually die? Someone, pls source
Isaiah Collins
Wait…. Hotwheels is dead…. Now this is news
Brayden Wright
Just checked his Twitter is still on, and his wikipedia or profile doesn't say anything about death
Jeremiah Gray
Making memes for the sake of making memes is pointless.
Interaction between anons will spawn memes over time. There are less anons here so memes are less likely to appear, let alone being propagated.
Having fun on the boards, sharing bits of the internet and life, questioning things, interacting with other anons; those are the things that enrich the board and help memes come to life.
TL;DR: have fun and the memes will follow
Bentley Phillips
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David Morgan
New meme
Sip
Julian Wilson
forced/10
Jason Bennett
Yeah my bad I phrased that all poorly.I was trying to be through.
Juan Flores
Meme magic Le Bains. bull the Duck With open gates Gamergate Yandere sim there's more
Juan Hernandez
Baph was 8ch culture
Blake Rivera
that's biggest load of horseshit I've ever read on this website.
James Moore
This is the only way to do it. Memes grow organically. It's why forcing a meme never works. It's like telling the same joke over and over when no one laughed the first time it was told and hoping it will catch on.
Brody Bailey
vlad is 8ch meem
Juan Howard
b-but I heard someone say something about a dysnomia! sure its true!
I'm dysnomia
Leo Carter
vlad, baskin robbin, and cat's cradle are the 3 shiftiest forced memes on the earth.
Jordan Reyes
don't forget kennedi suck em on that list
Jordan Walker
I was thinking this but I'm not sure. I'd guess that it was it started by /bane/, but it might've been half/tv/…
But that started on hafchan.
It's certainly not true that we don't have our memes, but probably not any big ones..
Jeremiah Cruz
masterchan started in 2014
Camden Barnes
It's still better then 8gag..
Wyatt Davis
If you're Dysnomia, then make me a mod right now.
Dominic Robinson
I think "We Loved Your Post" and "King of Holla Forums" for the first forced memes to pop-up back in 2014.
Ayden Richardson
WLYP was the first image on Holla Forums
Jeremiah Turner
I'm sure there are more minor memes on small bards too.
Caleb Bell
I forgot about the Green House thing. It was funny but stupid.
Evan Ward
Holla Forums has plenty of OC just not on the Holla Forums board…..now fuck off nigger
Angel Walker
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Aiden Harris
kind of the entire point of imageboarxs
Isaac Peterson
for why?
Leo Green
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Alexander Hughes
What about lord Fagottini?
Michael Williams
Nope, the pedos, intl and other such goons ruined Holla Forums by running out all the good posters via spamming so much. Dysomnia has tried to curtail the autism of the pedos but it's only gotten worse as time has gone on and he has run out of ideas. So now this place is infested with bulls who think they are in good company (tripfags) and spend all day long circle jerking.
It was ruined by autists who think freedom = spam and scantily clad little girls.