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No. 111771

Let's talk about the incoming death of 4chan, the place we all grew up with

No. 111772

4chan is kill and fullchan is kill too.

No. 111775

I don't even keep up with it anymore. Last I heard m00t sold it to that jap dude.

What's causing it's death?

No. 111776

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No. 111777

It's dying?I haven't used it for a few years.

Interestingly enough I never used CGL (like many posters on here) but mostly boards like /b/, /vg/, and /a/. I later found stamina rose and then migrated to lolcow when it was shut down.

No. 111778

>>111776
damn, how the mighty have fallen.

No. 111779

>>111776

Wow. That's pretty hilarious.

They should delete boards like /pol/ and /r9k/, then after a week of complete chaos delete the entire site. The milk would be rediculous. Other boards going to shit as they're invaded by deleted board refugees, reddit political subreddits going bat shit, shitty political youtubers going bat shit.

No. 111781

>>111776
They have a shitload of useless boards.
Just off the top of my head:
/wsr/, /trv/ (nobody posts there, it's slow af), /c/ (it's basically /a/ anyway), /r/ (pointless with all the saucefags getting spoonfed on literally every porn board), /s/, /t/, /w/ (why not just merge it with /wg/?), /i/, /s4s/, /po/ and a bunch of others. Half of those boards should really be one board. Why does /cgl/ have to be for both cosplay and lolita but all that useless cancer gets its own board? I get /mlp/, /b/ and /r9k/ but there's 10 different boards related to arts and crafts when there should only be 1 since they're all slow af. Why are there 90000 different sex boards?
And they even created more useless boards for some reason like /aco/ or whatever it's called.

No. 111782

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No. 111785

The only board I visit anymore is /lit/ but it's becoming a meme cesspit, so I guess I'll be done with it totally soon enough. Still, it's sad to see the site that helped make me a little more self aware self destruct.

No. 111790

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>>111783

Holy shit, I've been visiting 4chan less and less and only browse /vg/ and /a/ but looks like shit's hitting the fan.

>tfw you will witness the fall of 4chan

No. 111791

>>111776
Source on this? What board was it posted?

No. 111792


No. 111801

>>111785
It's been a meme cesspit just like every other board on 4chan since the tens.

No. 111806

>>111801
Funnily enough, it was made in 2010. So, it was probably shit from the start, I guess. I've had some great discussions and gotten good recs from there, but it's really turned into /pol-lit/. Marx/Schopenhauer/Nietzsche fanboys. Philosophy and literary fiction ONLY. I can appreciate all of that, but it's not the only shit I like to read. Oh, and Infinite Jest is the biggest meme I've ever fucking read.

No. 111811


No. 111814

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>>111781
>/trv/ is the only slow board I've been on and know of

No. 111829

>>111814
>only slow board
Where did I say that? I even said all the art boards are just as slow.
Maybe you should save the noose for yourself, or invest in better glasses.

Anyway, /trv/ is shit.

No. 111849

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Damn, I'll be sad to see it go, even though I haven't been there in a few years. First Totse (anyone even remember that place?) and now 4chan.

Aside from lolcow and 8chan, is there even anywhere else to go that's decent?

No. 111851

boards.4chan.org/qa/thread/742164

An anon thinks that deleting cgl will fix 4ch. They've DEFINITELY have never been to an actual cancer board if they think cgl is bad.

No. 111854

>>111851
prolly a robot who's butthurt he can't get a cosplay gf

No. 111859

>>111849
plus4chan used to be good but that was at least five years ago, and it was also an incredibly slow site.

No. 111908

Incoming nostalgia! I am sad it's dying, although like most of you above anons, I haven't been on there in a long time. RIP, the most famous imageboard ever.

No. 111913

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>>111908
why the fuck do we think it's dying because of one post?!

Like really, a whole thread on something that's not even happening. 4chan has such a massive audience it's not just going to disappear retards

No. 111917

>>111851
Anon, he's probably part of the cancer and just wants to destroy the last half-decent boards so the whole website is completely given up to the shitposting.

No. 111920

>>111913
Anon if it's not economically viable then it may be closed. Regardless of how many users it's got.

It's either that or the site will only sunk lower and lower in order to be maintained. You read hiroshima's post. It's either more ads or shittier servers. Because I don't think enough 4chan passes will be sold out of simple pity.

No. 111931

>>111920
It's neither. Moot said the site was financially set for a few more years before they'd need to try to raise some money, that servers were all fine at this point.

Hiro's got a habit of screwing over forums he's in charge of for money, and this "either we do 4chan Gold but real, or I'll add invasive ads" for an issue that doesn't even seem to be real is just part of it.

That's what'll end up killing the site, that he'll just keep on trying to make more money from it until it ends up like SA, and irrelevant.

No. 111944

>Giving the most prominent BBS in the western world to a chinaman

You dun goofed moot.

No. 111947

>>111931
Ooooh…. Well, that explains a lot.

Seems it's going to be a slow, agonizing death then.

>>111944
I personally believe moot did this in purpose as a way of sending the site to hell without having to close or screw it directly himself. No way he didn't know what hiro would do.

No. 111957

>>111859
the new(ish) koba layout makes it unreadable and i hate it.

No. 111975

>>111931
>Hiro's got a habit of screwing over forums he's in charge of for money, and this "either we do 4chan Gold but real, or I'll add invasive ads" for an issue that doesn't even seem to be real is just part of it.

/thread
He used the same tactics on 2ch and now people are again falling for it hook, line and sinker, not that I feel bad for those idiots.

No. 111976

>>111829
>Where did I say that?
>nobody posts there, it's slow af
Only an idiot who doesn't know that there are tons of boards just and slow and even slower would single out a board specifically. besides, if anything the slow boards are the better parts of 4chan. Your post is garbage and you should feel bad.

>Maybe you should save the noose for yourself

Nah. You deserve it.

No. 111989

>>111976
not that anon but looks like somebody's favorite board got insulted
don't take it personal, kid

No. 111990

B-but if 4chan dies, where will all the funnies come from?

No. 111993

>>111976
Lmao calm down autismo

No. 112242

>>111989
>>111993
>says dumb shit
>gets called out
>ur mad ecks dee dee

I don't even go on /trv/. I don't need to in order to know how retarded you sound. Oh well, at least you're not defending it. That's some semblance of self awareness.

No. 112277

Anybody else feeling like they're growing out of 4chan? Considering the older generations are getting swapped out with underage b&s and generation z, I don't feel like it really belongs to oldfags anymore. I hate the new shitposters, I don't like the majority of new memes, and I don't even care that Japfag is mismanaging the site.
If 4chan went down tomorrow I can comfortably say I wouldn't give a fuck since the only thing I care about are the unabated opinions and discussion. And hell, there are alternative sources everywhere for that these days. Literally everything else I have sources for.

No. 112294

>>112277
Same. I used to love 4chan, but now that I am 26, it has just lost all its charm to me. I don't even miss it. Haven't visited it since staminarose was a thing.

No. 112324

>>112277
Kind of. I used to use rely on it to download music/books/manga/etc but /rs/ has been gone for a while and with accounts on other sites I've managed to have no trouble finding stuff online I want to download.

The problem is that I really like having /a/ to discuss anime and manga with other people and if that dies there's no other online community like it.

No. 112327

>>112324
I'm kind of baffled as to why so many posters on lolcow love /a/ so much. Whenever I visit that board I see nothing but teenagers jerking to FOTM anime girls on the catalog.

No. 112335

>>112324
>The problem is that I really like having /a/ to discuss anime and manga with other people and if that dies there's no other online community like it.
This. The rest I can take or leave, but I really don't want to lose the one place I can enjoy talking about anime.
>>112327
The issue is that anime communities in general are fucking awful, they're full of kids with terrible, indiscriminate taste. /a/ is pretty good at self moderation and is very intolerant of newfags. There's plenty of waifufagging, but most people there have already discussed the best anime to death and can now indulge in seasonal shit and fapping. Either way, it's a big, fast moving board so there are also plenty of legit threads with proper discussion too.

No. 112337

>>112277
not even really an oldfag but it seems to me that 'unabated opinions and discussion' have been giving into a general hivemind mentality. which, imo, means the general appeal of 4chan has been dying swiftly over the last few years.

anonymity is fun and all but if i wanted to hear the same rehashed opinions and bad jokes all the time i'd just make a tumblr

No. 112340

>>112335
>/a/ is pretty good at self moderation
lmao

No. 112345

>>112327
>why so many posters on lolcow love /a/ so much
Lesbians, anon.

No. 112357

Anyone know of a good site to discuss anime? Reddit is normie cancer and MyAnimeList is 13 year old faggotry.

No. 112358

>>112357
Likewise fashion and makeup

No. 112400

>>112357
Honestly, the whole "Reddit is normie cancer" shit is just a meme.

Find a small niche subreddit for whatever you're looking for, and it'll be filled with the sorts of people who look for niche communities on it.

Any huge internet community will be fucking shit and full of mostly teenagers being teenagers.

>>112337
Political movements and self righteous teenagers are what's killing the community of the site in my opinion. Of course, they've always been there, but somewhat prosecuted. Moot hated Chanology and GG, and he deleted /r9k/ twice because it was just the shitty self diagnosing oppression olympics part of Tumblr but with more dicks, but ever since the new admin came in, he's just ignored all of that shit, and focused on trying to make as much cash from the site as he can, as quickly as he can, same as he did with 2ch, by lying and scamming.

Honestly though, the site mostly sucks at this point, short of a few smaller boards, there's not really much to lose anymore unless you like people forcing politics or robot shit in every thread.

No. 112405

>>112327
>I see nothing but teenagers
I actually like that most people on /a/ are in their early to mid twenties because it makes me feel less awkward to discuss a hobby that's normally associated with teenagers or seen as weird for people my age. There's also a decent number of anons that translate manga or news from different languages and the buyfag threads are really resourceful when it comes to merchandise and where to get the best deals. To me it just feels like a more relaxing (or dare I even say mature) place than any other anime communities where there'd be more teenagers and elitists just trying to show off or make a point.

No. 112412

>>112405
My thoughts exactly, anon. /a/ has the best western Anime and Manga discussion on the web and I have yet to been proved otherwise. Sure the ecchi and moe shit threads are gonna be full of shit but for all other discussion it's pretty top tier if you're an older, more seasoned weeb.

No. 112424

>>112242
u mad bro?

No. 112425

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/tv/ is the best board

No. 112478

>>112425
I don't think I've ever seen a good discussion on that board, ignoring all the CP and cuck porn spam, it seems to be nearly entirely shit memes and even worse capeshit memes.

No. 112479

>>112405
>teenagers
>early to mid twenties
Are you stupid?

No. 112480

>>112412
>all other discussion it's pretty top tier if you're an older, more seasoned weeb.
You can't be serious

No. 112483

I discovered 4chan around 2010 during my weeb phase. I miss some of the antics that used to happen on /b/, like when they kept knocking over that news stand thingie and it was broadcasted live. Nowadays I only really visit /fa/, /adv/ and ocasionally /mu/ which aren't great. I'm struggling to find a new "home" on the internet. Lolcow is alright, but the petty bitching kinda gets to me, not saying I don't participate sometimes but I feel like it's kind of toxic for the mind. 8chan kind of freaks me out and I haven't been able to find a good board that isn't slow.

No. 112487

>>112483
Mah nigga
Same here, i tried leddit but it's just teeming with neckbeards and sjws
So far I've been enjoying the long hair community, they're mostly old or middle aged ladies that talk about hair and soapmaking and stuff like that with a healthy sprinkling of metalheads. It's nice and comfy but a bit slow and monotonous. They also dress like the elderly hippies they are (which is to say, horribly) and cosplay Celts and Tolkien characters.

I wish there was a better, more exciting alternative but eh

No. 112501

>>112487
I also go on lhc. Your post about them is spot on but they are too sweet so I can't bring myself to bash on them too bad because most of them are just old geeks.

No. 112539

>>112480
If you know of a place with better discussion, I would genuinely like to hear it.

No. 112543

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>>111783
>the 4chan Gold Account meme became real

No. 112768

I heard Milo Yiannoupolis, that gay guy from GG is offering to buy 4chan with the help of a wealthy donor.

And so is Martin "Raised Drug Prices Exponentially" Shkreli wants to get in on some of that too.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3572882/milo-yiannopoulos-buying-4chan-alt-right-superstar-plans-to-make-offer-that-could-save-image-sharing-board-from-closing-down/

No. 112781

I know 4chan's been near the red before but there were some images posted of japanese comments saying that Hiro pulled a similar stunt when he still owned 2channel, with VIP account/board options.

No. 112812

So Chinese moot is:

Less honest than moot.
Less dedicated to the userbase than moot.
Significantly uglier than moot.

No. 112893

>>112768
minecraft man was gonna do it but he had a meltdown about free speech and decided not to.

No. 112943

>>112539
>I'm going to eat rabbit shit because it's better than cat shit!
That's how retarded you sound.

No. 112954

>>111849
8chan also seems to be dying a slow death. I don't go often, but it's the impression I get.

No. 112955

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>>112812
>Significantly uglier than moot.
I m-miss moot so much ;-;

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No. 112966

>>112943
It's not like eating shit, it's like going to a restaurant where some of the menu is great, some is alright, some is shit, and if you didn't go there you'd starve. Sure, it would be better if it was 100% to my taste, but it's not hard to avoid the shitty parts. Just like it's not hard to avoid bad threads for the sake of discussing something I thoroughly enjoy talking about.

No. 112981

>>112781
Didn't he get his ass sued off over his website back in Japan by some company that now owns the old domain?

No. 113004

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>bans "bad subs" in order to be more PC
>nsfw subs slowly being filtered out of r/all
>distancing itself from imgur
>new "temproary" default subs that will only be default for a limited time/occasion

Tell me that doesn't scream of "advertiser's playground". Can't wait till Apple pays for r/apple to be a default subreddit every time a product launches.
Reddit's the one that's dead.
And there's nowhere to jump ship. I just want cat pictures and a news forum that isn't /pol/…

No. 113007

>>112812
>>112955
>>112956
White boys detected. Hiroyuki is way cuter than moot because he's azn.

No. 113009

>>113007
Found the fag that created the Asian guys thread.

No. 113148

>>112966
lmao, what sort of threads there do you deem as good?

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Latest rumor is CTR purchased it.

I guess that's why 4chan feels like a Hillary propaganda outlet these days.

No. 113365

>>111849
check out overchan and find the chan amongst its lists that best fits you.

No. 113393

>>111849
krautchan and 2ch.hk /int/ are iight.

No. 113401

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>>111850
Don't talk shit about Stirner..

No. 113408

>>113148
I love how no answer to this anon was ever given

No. 113457

>>113393
>krautchan

No, Bernd. No.

No. 113631

>>113393
>>113457
didn't krautchan become kill and migrate to a board on 8ch?

No. 113635

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I went on 4chan yesterday while the boards here were being slow and I literally got cancer.

This place works out great for me so far. I just found out about it a few weeks ago from Reddit. I agree with whoever said earlier that Reddit is full of "normies."

While this place is awesome I do wish it was more active mine-to-minute. But that's probably just because I have too much time on my hands lol. If it was more active here, then it'd get shitty like 4chan eventually. Right? So idk, it seems like we are in that perfect "sweet spot" here.

I wonder how much moot made off 4chan? I read somewhere it was a couple million, which tbh seems a little low to me. What is he up to now? I guess I'm saying if anyone has any moot gossip, I'm interested.

No. 113644

>>113635
Sage for OT, but you should start tripfagging.

No. 113648

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>>113644
Only if I am pushed to it by someone else trying to sully good ol' tricky dick's good name. Cuz dats me.

Don't mess with da dick, you get the balls.

No. 113687

>>113648
Holy fuck are you faggot bump every single thread on /b/ with those stupid pics and those blogposts? >>113644 And for fuck's sake, no, the last thing this board needs are fucking tripfags.

No. 113688

>>113648
copying the person who uses pictures of vladimir putin for everything

No. 113691

>>113644
No tripfags in this board, for the love of the Almighty

No. 114155

Are tripcodes enabled? Testing

No. 114416

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No. 114487

>>113635
moot works at google now

No. 114497

>>114416

Does this mean that everyone who has bought a pass needs to change their credit card numbers now?

No. 114507

>>114416

That 2ch thread is priceless. If someone still keeps using that shithole after all these warnings they'll have it coming as Hiroyuki will only screw the site more. Of course 4chan userbase is extremely autistic in the other hand. Hiroyuki has for sure found a great business niche in America…

>>114497
If you have, I wouldn't trust that snake in your place.

No. 114536

>>114497
I wouldn't worry about it. If fraudulent charges appear you just tell the company and they cancel your card and wipe off the charges.

> wipes tear from eye

If I were you I'd be 10x more concerned that I used a credit card tied to my real name and address to buy a unique identifying number I use for all my shitposts on a board notorious for trolling, racism, misogyny, alt-right, etc. What happens when the inevitable hack/leak/dump of the 4chan user database occurs and you are forever attributed to 4chan? You could have used a gift card or bitcoin.

No. 114582

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>>114536
Im so fucked, why did I buy a 4chan pass

No. 114585

>>114582

I'm sorry anon. How much did you spend?

No. 114589

>>111771
>the place we all grew up in
No. I've never frequented 4chan I've recently been visiting /sci/ though.

Why is it considered dying? Can i guess why? Newfags or some half assesed reason i would think it would get enough traffic to be supported financially but I'm doubting random anonymous users give a fuck about donations on a site like 4chan where the literal purpose is anonymity for the sake of shitposting without consequence. I don't "get" 4chan as a site it seems to be permeated with weabs which adds to it being off putting and cringy. I mostly lurk anyway so I couldn't care less if it just disappeared tomorrow, it's pretty hard to take a site that archives shitposting on a regular basis seriously.

No. 114592

>>114582
I did too, fuck me.

No. 114596

>>114582
>>114592

what compelled you guys to actually by a pass?

No. 114631

>>114497
no, because the payment is handled by a third party

No. 114639

>>114596
I'm primarily a mobile poster and hate doing captchas.

No. 114643

>>114589
>no.
>where the literal purpose is anonymity for the sake of shitposting without consequence.
>why is it considered dying?
>4chan as a site it seems to be permeated with weabs which adds to it being off putting and cringy.
>weabs
please stop posting and get the fuck out

No. 114663

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>>114416
>>Hiro fakes not knowig English well and makes dumb posts on purpose when people make legitimate questions so he can deail the thread, just like he used to on 2ch
So do people on 2ch post in English or what?

No. 114664

>>114663
They mean he did the second part on 2ch.

He pretty clearly does understand English though, no-one buys a forum in a language they don't understand, or at the very least they don't personally admin it, they'd have a spokesperson who was fluent in the language.

Plus, from memory he got an education at an English speaking college.

No. 114671

>>114664
So he pretend to not speak japanese well there or something? How does he derail 2ch threads? I still don't get it.

No. 114674

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No. 114675

>>114671
No idea about his Japanese over there, I don't speak it, but yeah, from what I've heard he does his best to derail threads. He responds to off topic posts like "Hi Hiro!" or "What are you having for dinner/How's your day?" way more than the actual related posts, which takes the conversation off topic and causes people to just shitpost the thread to death.

No. 114691

>>114671
Gives stupid, short replies to detailed posts. Ignores questions that would expose him and says it's because it's "off-topic", but will happily respond to unrelated questions like "What's your favorite TV show?".
He does this on 4chan, too.

No. 114692

>>114589
Holy shit, get out lmao. How are you going to be this much of a condescending newfag over what's commonly known as the most popular/well-known chan board? We're basically a fucking transplant of all the dramamongers from 4chan's /cgl/.

No. 115257

I didn't realize Jim Watkins - the American guy that overthrew Hiroyuki to take over 2channel - is also the owner of 8chan.

No. 117238

>>115257
yeah, iirc josh was being a sperg about him during that drama

No. 117309

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>>115257
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