How fucking young is this board?

[Anonymous No.11634943]

I use to actively participate in /fa/ when I was 15 or 16. I loved this place. Denim Dan, Casey, Sieg, all the others trips. This was a beautiful community.
That was 5 years ago, and u have just recently returned out of some nostalgic longing to return to my early high school days.
I began to browse, and immediately had to stop as I was beginning to boil with rage. Today I came back and forced myself to lurk through every thread; and I am just in a state of shock and disgust right now. First off; the average age on this board can't be more than 16. The way you guys talk, the things you talk about, the unironic extremist liberalism; this board is just tumblr now. It really is. And it makes me legitimately sad. Something I loved very dearly is now dead; and you killed it.

I am prepared for a storm of yapping teens telling me how I'm wrong and claiming to be older before before they have to get ready for bedtime; but are their any fags, old or new, here that agree with me?
It's definitely a lost cause at this point, there's no point even putting the effort into fixing it; but I just really want to know what the actual downfall of /fa/ was, was there some final killing blow?
After my thread this will be my last post here, so long old friend.

[Anonymous No.11634956]

I'm 19. Yeah, this board is pretty shitty but occasionally something good pops up. There have been a couple times when a lot of people were complaining and tried to think of ways to make /fa/ great again but nothing has really come out of it.

[Anonymous No.11634962]

I'm 23 but I only recently started coming to this board and I mainly just lurk hair threads and techwear threads

You're right though, this seems like a very catty board compared to a lot of the others that I browse

I'd imagine /cgl/ is worse but I never visit that place, I've heard too many horror stories and I'm not really into cosplay anyway

[Anonymous No.11634969]

You said that you used this board when you were 15-16 but you're mad that other underages use this board now?

[Anonymous No.11634972]

25 here, lurked and contributed to /fa/ when I was 20/21 was a cool place back then.
Absolute plebian underage b& started taking over though and I was forced to leave. I come back every now and then to see if /fa/ has gone back to it's old ways but it's always the same 16 year old cucks posting utter shit.

[Anonymous No.11634973]

4chan overall has gone to shit in the recent years, too many underage shits and normies taking over, too bad there really aren't any good alternatives, Cripplechan is just as shit but in a different way and all the other imageboards are slow and insignificant.

I think we may be witnessing the death of the imageboard format. I hope something will replace it.

[Heavy Metal Queen No.11634974]

>>11634943

who r u

[Anonymous No.11634977]

26. Been here awhile.
Dan was the only good trip, though Casey was good for a laugh. The only real difference between then and now is people actually had some fashionsense and wanted to help people.

[Anonymous No.11634981]

>>11634972
The shirt/suit combo is trash. Go back to /r/menswear or some shit

[Anonymous No.11634982]

>>11634943

Former trip on /fa/ here.

Left cause yeah once you are in your 20s and in a professional environment most of /fa/'s style choices are way too..college.

Unfortunately most of us have to take a normal 9 to 5 job not related to the fashion industry.

I'm surprised bateman still posts here cause he should be over this shit.


>posting when bored at work

[Anonymous No.11634985]

>>11634977
thanks dan

looking good dan

[Anonymous No.11634986]

>>11634943
>20-year-old thinks he's old

Funny post

[Anonymous No.11634998]

whenever i get sincerely recommended to go to tumblr on this board i cry inside

[Anonymous No.11635000]

18 here because I don't fuck with rules.

But yeah, guys here tend to be pretty shallow sometimes, and now I tend to avoid effay guys in real life as well. The thing is I just really love fashion, and trend-obsessed guys who look all the same and think everyone is ugly just piss me off (even though it's better than smelling bad and dressing like shit I guess). I know I sound like an edgy fuckboy here but I wish more people on here tried to fuck shit up with their style. Try it, you might look bad and wacky at first but once you gain experience you'll look awesome. Maybe it's because I like alternative fashions too and trends tend to be pretty minor in it compared to what we do here.

But I don't want to be an asshole (what's the point in criticizing if you don't try to make things better eh), so I just jump on advice threads and do what I can. Plus this board still has good people and content sometimes. I originally lurked here because /cgl/ was too slow, and then I just started really enjoying this board.

also I fucking love lunarcore.

[Anonymous No.11635001]

>crying over a 4chan board

are you a fucking NEET

[Anonymous No.11635023]

>>11635001
calling someone a Neet sounds like something a Neet would say

[Anonymous No.11635062]

i only found out about this board recently but everyone here is just an asshole, and judging by the WAYWT threads none of you actually know how to dress. i feel like the downside of an anonymous board is that you have no idea who is critiquing you, so yoh don't know if they actually know what they're talking about. also im 18

[Anonymous No.11635066]

>>11635000
You should post more

[Anonymous No.11635114]

I agree. I started lurking here at maybe 16-17 so like a year before casemods left. Now about to turn 21. I think the downfall was just due to the way culture has been heading. Memes are in the mainstream. White people talk like black twitter accounts to be half ironic but also to seem cool. Facebook is literally just white girls sharing memes from Twitter. And honestly 4chan is a form of social media. So as mainstream social media caught on to memes 4chan seemed less interesting and more equal to the mainstream so people were less likely to be shit heads here because they can just do it on facebook

[Anonymous No.11635120]

>>11635066

thanks, I try to post as much as I can already because I really want to make this board a better place. Kinda hard rn considering /pol/ idiots (especially as a femanon, since they're always sexist af, but it was already shitty to be a girl on this board before that so yeah)

I might even stop being anonymous, actually.

[Anonymous No.11635126]

>>11634943
There is no such a thing I hate more than a fashion baby, I want to punch them in the face so bad

[Anonymous No.11635208]

as someone who's in the same boat as you OP, (used to browse here years ago and have recently come back), I think you're putting way too much blame on the users and not the content. this board has always been retarded and shallow. even around 2011 you couldn't talk about anything other than gothninja without being shutdown and called dadcore. I'd argue you had to conform to even more ridiculous standards in order to not be made fun of.

i blame the actual issues for why this board is so slow and uninteresting on fashion in general. the same inspo pics from 6 years ago are still being posted now. designers have not innovated or done anything remotely interesting in the past 5 years. its just been rehashes of the same shit. the most hyped apparel now is kanye's derivative adidas line. Mainly because its kanye's derivative adidas line. There's no new cutting edge designers being discussed, mainly because there aren't any. A little bit less Raf and a little bit more Jerry Lorenzo is really the only difference I see in terms of discussion.

in summary /fa/ is shit now because fashion is shit now.

[Anonymous No.11635213]

>>11634943
damn who is he

[Anonymous No.11635226]

I took a break from /fa/ for two years and I came back and it's a trainwreck now. Every thread shows that atleast half of the posters here are teenagers.

[Anonymous No.11635271]

21. I literally just clicked on this board because i use to post here when it had people like sieg. slater and some other gay trips

but man i have to say /fa/ is shocking now days. i honestly think the most common age here is like 15/16

the decline happened around 2013 when people here started first cross posting onto sufu

glad i left this place its fcking horrible

[Anonymous No.11635282]

>tfw you will never return to the days of matt helders shit posting

[Anonymous No.11635328]

>>11634943
the finishing blow was kids on reddit getting interested in fashion and then coming here once they didnt like r/malefashionadvice anymore

[Anonymous No.11635394]

/fa/ has been a lost cause for years. Any old fag would know this.

[Anonymous No.11635449]

>>11634943
i think the death of the board was catalyzed by streetwear

[Anonymous No.11635598]

i just hang out in /thinspo/ and post on meme threads cuz its the only place i dont get accused of attentionwhoring as a femanon (inb4). i liked the concept of WAYWT threads but hardly anyone has good taste and gay guys just get all "REEEE GET OUT STACY REEE"

i come here because i really like fashion and i really enjoy the threads i do post in, but the teen angst is palpable.

[Anonymous No.11635633]

>>11634973
This so hard. Former /mu/tant here, that board has been dead and buried since 2013. Can't think of any other boards that have actually gotten better.

[Anonymous No.11635685]

>>11634943
Too much crossover with Facebook, Tumblr etc, it's just become another mainstream site and a casualty of a wider trend, mate.

Probably more of us with the same opinions but it's difficult to wade through the shit and have a meaningful discussion now and then.

[Anonymous No.11635688]

>>11634943
>After my thread this will be my last post here, so long old friend.
hahahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.11635725]

>>11634972
>h&m shirt with that suit

Clean white shirt would've been way better

[Anonymous No.11635788]

>>11634943
I personally like the W2C, Cop or Not, and some of the inspo threads. Most of the other stuff is stupid, but I still get to check out some cool clothes and brands that I don't know, and get to look at different styles like /out/, comfy, earthtone, and prep (for work).

Then again, I've only been here for like 8 months so I'm fairly new. It's still good to get ideas though.

[Anonymous No.11635819]

>>11634943
You're right. I'm 23, but you're right.

[Anonymous No.11635824]

You're right OP, the difference between the old days and nu-/fa/ is extreme, especially concerning the things you mentioned (such as extreme liberalism, you're spot-on in that regards). It feels like tumblr-lite these days.

[Anonymous No.11635848]

>>11634943
So when you were 15-16 you thought this board was awesome, but now it's shit and you hate it because other 15-16 year olds browse it?

4chan was always shit. The memes and trips may change, but overall its the same. It is just your nostalgic projections that put it on a pedestal. It sure is a good thing this will be you last post, because it was tumblr tier blog cancer.

[Anonymous No.11635850]

>>11635633
Hey, former /mu/tant here as well. I still visit sometimes, but not a hell of a lot anymore.

[Anonymous No.11635936]

"Mutt" occasionally drops some cool dumps now and then.
"Intern" Seems pretty knowledgeable and gives good advice when asked (I love you Intern)

Defiantly could use stricter mods. Lots of new threads belong in Cop or Not or Where to Cop Threads. Too damn many ultra specific cores. Core General Maybe?!?!?!? Face Rating belongs in /soc/. PLZ delete "Is blank Effay"/"What are fa (not clothing related thing)" threads.

Have seen some decent "Make /fa/ great again thread"'s over the past few months. Inspo Generals are only cancer 30-60% cancer.

Really feel like the general pool of knowledge on this board needs to be expanded. One of the Anons out there is working on a website to help that problem but haven't heard anything from him in a while.

[Anonymous No.11635956]

>>11634943
>I began to browse, and immediately had to stop as I was beginning to boil with rage

Get a life,, son.

[Anonymous No.11635989]

>>11635120
No that would make it worse

>>11634943
It's horrible, especially for people coming for actual help and advice, they just find 100 bait posts. However if you know what you want, or at least have an idea what you're looking for it can be good. For example I wanted to get into some earth tones for the fall, so I went and made a thread, got some advice and inspo. It was nice.

[Anonymous No.11635992]

>Unironic extremist liberalism
Are you a communist or something? Or literally pinochet?

[Anonymous No.11635997]

>>11634943
I started visiting this place about 3 years ago and it has only gotten better

[Anonymous No.11636147]

Anybody who says x board was better years ago is probably chatting shit in the majority of cases.
I've been here for awhile and the only thing that has really changed is the fashion.
Also if you are complaining about being underaged b& and coming back and seeing new underage b& and thinking they are retards then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY

[Anonymous No.11636161]

>>11635992
no this isn't a board for leftist faggots from le tumblr

[Anonymous No.11636165]

>>11635850
former /mu/. mediafire's death was the final nail in the coffin. I used to love music, but now it seems so futile because I can't afford to endlessly buy music and most links are so unsafe.

[Anonymous No.11636177]

I agree completely. I think for the first year or two you discover 4chan, it's all very interesting and new to you, but when you're here for more than 2 years, you start to notice that pretty much every thread is exactly the same as the thread posted yesterday and the discussions never change. I used to go on 4chan daily, but now I go on it around once a week.

[Anonymous No.11636194]

Im 21 and I have been browsing for about 5 years aswell, I think it just happens that tumblr is also a social network that uses images as it's base. As both expand so does the probability of them using both and finding inspo
to sum it up, its what most people look at.

and maybe there are just a lot of people who do post but they're in a stage that they don't know very much and want criticism

[Anonymous No.11636197]

>>11635062
hi Dave

[Anonymous No.11636213]

I've been here for 5/6 years and I agree but it's not /fa/ only. /Mu/ has become even worse, it feels like I'm the only one there who's not underage.

[Anonymous No.11636330]

>>11634973
You can blame the fappening and social media for this.

4chan used to have somewhat of a mysterious rep in the early 2000s due to the anonymous stuff and old /b/'s shenanigans.
However because at the time most people were just getting into using the internet as a mainstream social platform not too many took interest in this nonsense and it was skimmed over.
Then came facebook,YouTube, and other social media sites which boosted the use of the internet by people of various ages.
This coincided with the spread of meme culture which was heavily influenced by 4chan.
This lead to a new wave of users flocking here around the 2009-2012 ish period expecting dank memery while wanting to be apart of the community and experience.
(We also started getting some new boards around this time)
Anyway over the years social media became even more mainstream and intergrated into society,
So as an example, before when Anons did something like project chanology, it would only reach a few news stations and other places on the web before dying out without major consequences.
But because of social media there came a way for information to be spread even faster among the masses.
So when the fappening occured 4chan once again spiked in popularity and the event caused a new wave of users to come here (most of which were underage).
This however permanently damaged the quality of the most popular boards, because the kids who went on /b/ only saw it as a place for porn and gore
(it's debatable that it was always like this but in the years following the fappening it's gotten worse) the board's quality sharply decreased into what it is today, then after they got tired of /b/ we had them pour over mostly into /v/,the other nsfw boards, and some lesser boards like /fa/.

That's just my current understanding though, it doesn't account for other factors like Reddit and 9gag whose users most likely visit to shitpost.

[Anonymous No.11636366]

The killing blow was you getting older. You will feel it more and more as time goes on. (As a benefit to go along with the downside, you will also care less and less)

Personally I like seeing what people who are way younger than me come up with. It's cool, even though I can't wear anything they wear because I'm not young enough to pull it off.

I do agree that discussion, on nearly every board, has political or gender-war aspects to it that didn't quite exist before. Shut the fuck up about politics, everyone, please.

[Anonymous No.11636388]

>>11634943
>liberalism
>extremist in any way, shape, or form

[Anonymous No.11636492]

>>11634972
>calls others plebian
>post plebiest #menswear photo

[Anonymous No.11636531]

Be the change you want to see

[Anonymous No.11636553]

>>11636330
There was a time when reddit and 9gag had their own userbase (around 2012) Now its just crossposting

[Anonymous No.11636568]

>>11636165
You can still access a decent amount of music by streaming. Better than giving up on it! I may be a Spotify pleb, but I can at least afford to go to concerts pretty frequently.

[Anonymous No.11636575]

>>11636165
So if you think you're done listening, start creating.

[Anonymous No.11636615]

>>11636197
no clue who that is, im a girl

[Anonymous No.11636634]

been browsing this board since 2013, definitely a major decline. the site as a whole has clearly had a shitload of newcomers and i see reddit-tier posts every day without people even batting an eye whereas a few years ago they would get told to fuck off. /fa/ is definitely a tumblr teen's board now though. bye lads, i feel too old here at 22

[Anonymous No.11636678]

I'm 18
I recently just started browsing /fa/
but I never post anything. I'm kind of into fashion but not really, I dress very casual and comfy, but I thought why not lurk a bit. The thing that annoys me the most is people make threads about the dumbest shit.

Is this water bottle fa?
Is this dog fa?
Are my nuts fa?
Is crippling depression or relationships fa?

[Anonymous No.11636722]

>>11634969
/thread

[Anonymous No.11636739]

>>11634943
i'm 19
you are not even that much older than a teenager you dadcore faggot

[Anonymous No.11636745]

i mean that's what happens when u have half of /fa now coming from vomit-inducing streetwear reddit and whatever else they produce. it's shameful honestly

[Anonymous No.11636762]

Something killed /fa/ a while ago, and I think I may have been part of it. I was an edgy 15-16 year old that used to participate everyday here two or three years ago and try to spread liberal nonsense as I went, and idolizing fringe fashions.

Now I'm in college and much of it isn't practical anymore. God knows I looked like a fucking sperg walking around my high school in swag when everyone else was in hoodies, tees, and Buckle jeans.

Now days I mainly try to ensure that I don't look like a slob and leave a bad impression with the professors or girls. I have far more expendable income than before, but I spend far less of it on fashion and more and things like rent, travel, etc.

[Anonymous No.11636781]

>>11634943
>used to actively participate in /fa/ when he was 15 or 16
>returns to find that active participants 16

[Anonymous No.11636816]

>>11635120
while pointing out the sexism here, outside the context of proliferating feminism, is a legitimate concern, you shouldn't believe the notion of the /pol/ boogieman.

the true /pol/ users are just really facetious.

[Anonymous No.11636841]

Came here when i was 13 lads, i was super underage, but all i did was lurk. /fa/ was great then, learned alot more about designer shit.
That was 5 years ago. After casemods and ppl like pigfuck left this place turned into r8 and b8.
Only here for the occasional oldfag that pops up and talks about designer shit.

[Anonymous No.11636843]

>>11634943
Yep all true. I blame the fappening and increasing popularity of social media for all of overall 4chan going to shit. It's probably for the best. Just goes to show you too that fashion is always changing not just in terms of clothing but the society as well.

[Anonymous No.11637133]

>>11636781
This

[Anonymous No.11637239]

I'm 26, I hadn't browsed /fa/ for the past year and a half to two years, when trunks was still posting his autistic diaper pics and that fireman's jacket shit. I recently came back and it's weird how the current posters will get mad when someone gets made fun of in a cringe thread, which seem to be almost nonexistent nowadays. All this tumblresque anti bullying mentality seems alien in a 4chan board but that's the current generation I guess.

[Anonymous No.11637390]

>>11635633
hello another /mu/tant here.I still visit that board daily

[Anonymous No.11637403]

they don't even use the original waywt pic or even the Simpsons shirt thread anymore.

[Anonymous No.11637416]

>>11634943
im 17 and started lurking about a year ago

it really dose seem like no one is ever happy with an outfit on this board

mainly only lurk for inspo, the wywats are pretty bad, but a few good fits

[Anonymous No.11637441]

I am 19.
I come here to find anonymous solace from the loneliness, it is one of the best boards on 4chan because here is safe zone. I can't visit /b/ or (god forgive me) /pol/, I can't endure the atmosphere there.
/mu/ and /p/ are my other to-go boards.
You might have a reason, OP, but compared to other areas of 4chan /fa/ is paradise.

[Anonymous No.11637442]

>>11637239
Cringe threads are reddit tier

[Anonymous No.11637463]

Honestly have been just living though the warosu archives for the past 9 or 10 months after returning back here.
Came on alot 3 years ago when I was 17. Wasn't super crazy into designer shit as much as I am now, but the community was beautiful.

(Since you guys are all here- post your favorite designers.)

[Anonymous No.11637479]

>>11637239
its all the blacks who started pouring into this board

this board and /pol/ probably the highest percentage of blacks per capita on all of 4chan

[Anonymous No.11637485]

>>11635633
>>11635850
this >>11636165
but mega is a pretty good alternative
it's worked out, kinda
but really, I used to love /mu/ and /fa/, they were home boards in 2012. I left 4chan for a couple years and they went to shit.

/lit/ is the only board I consistently visit, it's probably deteriorated the least, and /his/ might have improved the board a bit

[Anonymous No.11637491]

[Anonymous No.11637503]

>>11634943
i don't like that kid's face

it's like I can tell he's going to be a bad person when he grows up, just based on that face

[Anonymous No.11637537]

wew lad. This site has a new boogie man every year.

First it was Facebook bros who heard of muh super sekrit club through the news because of /b/

Then it was tumblrites ruining the board by bringing their leftists culture because of /co/

Now its /s4s/ ruining the site by growning the " i like memes ironiclly crowd" and bringing black twitter shitters to the site.

[Anonymous No.11637546]

>>11635936
I'm sure that guy has given up now. Here was the link: http://www118.zippyshare.com/v/LE6XNxyQ/file.html
There have been a lot of board improvement threads in the past and they have not proven to be fruitful. What significant positive change have they brought on?

I agree with you that there are a lot of seperate threads that belong to their respective general. Maybe that's telling for the fact that a lot of people don't care. Who comes here to talk about the hobby?

Inspo threads are mostly imagedumps. I have seen 1 thread lately made by chillness where people talked about what inspired them. I don't know how much of that was serious, but it's still interesting to read and it gives an opportunity to discussion.

>Really feel like the general pool of knowledge on this board needs to be expanded.
How many people here read books, go to musea, talk to authorities or even go outside? I don't see it reflected all that much here. I do see that information is shared (FE: http://pastebin.com/PNfhXvzx)), but how many people even read that?

[Anonymous No.11637550]

>>11634943
trips were autists

board has way less shit posting than before

majority of threads always been dumb underaged questions

always been only a little actual fashion discussion

[Anonymous No.11637551]

I'm 30. Am I the oldest lurker here? I've only been browsing /fa/ for about 6 months but I've learned a lot. The last month has sort of dropped off though... Maybe it's just the same old stuff being posted/regurgitated.

[Anonymous No.11637557]

>>11637550
the shitposting has literally never been worse than it is right now

[Anonymous No.11637561]

>>11637551
this. Anons here dont realize that it gets like this every year. Everything gets discussed to death and theres always a kind of drought on original discussion and topics. If you've been here for a while you'd already know this.

[Anonymous No.11637566]

>>11637561
we should break the cycle

[Anonymous No.11637577]

the truth that nobody want to see is that 4chan dropped in quality because most of the people that made the website great have moved to tumblr. I don't feel like going on a 3-paragraph rant, but basically this website was built on teenage edgelords. Teenage edgelords created the OCs, wrote the greentexts, discovered the weird videos, spammed the memes, etc. The normies were just here to have a laugh and push the replies count up. When the normies started outnumbering the shitheads, we realized we could just take our business to this blue hell website with a closed follow system and do our thing within our own normie-free community. I jumped ship. Most people did. Even the new generation of edgelords grew up on tumblr (school shooting fetishists, vaporwave shitters, whatever-the-fuck-transkins-are, etc) Now what you're left with here are the normie lurkers, too lazy/scared/unimaginative to create any interesting content.

this is super-condensed and it still turned out longer than I thought, fuck.

[Anonymous No.11637588]

>>11637546

[Anonymous No.11637592]

>>11637588
>66
>77
>88
checked

[Anonymous No.11637598]

>>11637592

[Anonymous No.11637599]

>>11637598

[Anonymous No.11637606]

Bring back the Bart Simpson shirt 2k16

[Anonymous No.11637608]

>>11637503
I thought the same. He will be the smug kid who does no wrong in the eyes of his parents.

[Anonymous No.11637621]

I'm 23 and am just stopping by 4chan in general. I used to frequent here a lot 4-6 years ago. (Found 4chan when I was 15).

4chan is now nothing but 14-20 year olds and shills/bot posts. Def has driven me off the site over the years.

I wonder if I was as cancerous when I was their age. Probably.

[Anonymous No.11637632]

>>11637621
>I used to frequent here a lot 4-6 years ago. (Found 4chan when I was 15).
>4chan is now nothing but 14-20 year olds

Yes, you were as cancerous and yes, 4chan was a piece of shit when you were 15.

Same goes for me, I used to come here when I was around 14 and you know what? It was as shitty as it is today, except you couldn't realize it because you were too young and edgy.

[Anonymous No.11637640]

>>11637479
either this or self hating whites into black culture, you know the hypebeasts etc.

[Anonymous No.11637642]

>>11634943
>That was 5 years ago
Newfag. If you had lurked longer, you would have realized that /fa/ has always been shit.

[Anonymous No.11637643]

>>11637491
this picture is wrong and obviously written by some reddit-dressing nu male faggot. This board needs cleansing but not in the direction this guy suggested

[Anonymous No.11637644]

>>11634981
It's fine. Leave suits to the people who care about them.

[Anonymous No.11637647]

>>11637643
Nah. It's pretty on. You probably just triggered cause of all the truth bombs coming at ya.

[Anonymous No.11637653]

As someone who first came here back in 2011 I remember saving infographics like pic related for advice and learning things like basic color theory from this board. It may just be me turning 23 tomorrow, but the decline has been almost universal on this site. /mu/'s shifted so far away from the /mu/-core that I used to know that the only NMH threads you see are meme posts. I remember /r9k/ being >tfw no gf and nonstop depression and now there are daily threads about girlfriends. Even /pol/ somehow managed to decline from doom paul, to natsoc circle-jerk central where you could at least have a discussion about economics or religion, to nothing but KEKKEKKEK, Blacked, and TRUMP 2016 posting. I'm incredulous that i'm already feeling nostalgic about things I used to consider shit because the new shit is just that much shittier.

[Anonymous No.11637664]

>>11634943
I have been here since 2013, so I don't really have the whole picture, or as much vision of the whole thin as you have, but I can confirm the quality of the posts has gone to shit, I basically only review warosu at this time, the only good thing in today's /fa/ is thinspo threads
>Effay pet names
>W H O R E C O R E
>Techwear but ninjawear with lunarcore with goofshit, new style I came up with guys what do you think
>Either full nazi/pol/ or full liberal

Where are the budget - mid - expensive apparel threads? The designer generals? Shit, no one talks about Julius anymore in here, and he was (and still is) a big guy in fashion.
Most people enter here without even reading the sticky, and straight up ask us to make them a wardrobe or to adapt some animu character to decent clothing.
I am 19 years-old now, got here when I was 16, lurked my ass off and stayed fucking quiet until I learned more about fashion and could help out some other people.
Just fuck my board up.
The real question is not
>how can we fix this board?
The question is
>where can we discuss fashion now that isn't a cancerous shithole?

[Anonymous No.11637665]

>>11637644
I think he was right. The shirt should have been poplin/broadcloth. The one worn looks too casual to be worn with that jacket. Not only that, but it looks like there is a cardigan under the jacket taking the place of a vest.

On their own, all of the pieces are fine, but they clash as an outfit.
>casual cloth shirt
>cardigan
>busy pocket square
>navy blazer
>red nato strap watch

[Anonymous No.11637686]

>>11635000
>18
>giving any advice
>believes /pol/ boogeyman
You should post less

>>11634973
The problem is newfags like trips over here think they're too good to lurk. 4chan went to shit in 2011 and just sunk a little more since. OP has to be baiting acting like 5 years ago was some place to be.

everyone has always said '/board/ was always shit,' but that doesn't mean there aren't different grades of shit. /fa/ did use to have very good trips and knowledgable posters, and the board accommodated them and accepted their help. now it's just underage newfags who can't be assed to learn a little humility.

what else do you expect? there was a concerted effort to gentrify 4chan. you can't even fucking announce sage anymore. we were lucky enough that net 2.0 cancer was managed to be staved off so long in the first place.

wait for the imageboard renaissance when realtime imageboards properly make their appearance onto the scene.

[Anonymous No.11637697]

Every board has become shit because of the /pol/ influence everywhere

[Anonymous No.11637701]

>>11637697
>/pol/ has become shit because of /pol/ influence
wew lad, that's one hell of a tautology

[Anonymous No.11637715]

>rants about "liberalism"
>complains about immaturity

waaah waaah waaaaaaaaaaaah

[Anonymous No.11637745]

I find it funny that since the alt-right movement has taken hold of this site everything bad is levied against some liberal boogeyman

You mean a site that is demonstrably dominated by alt-right meme kids and nationalists is shitty because of liberals

Kek

The reason /fa/ sucks is because it's dominated by self-bettering insecure crossposters who want to be spoonfed just enough info so that they'll be perceived as having 'refined tastes' by their normie peers.

[Anonymous No.11637757]

>>11637745
To be fair, aren't you kinda doing the same thing? Levying everything bad onto, and placing culpability of the site's decline to, a fascist boogeyman?

[Anonymous No.11637772]

>>11637757
Uh...did you just not read the last sentence?

[Anonymous No.11637807]

>>11637772
No I read it, but I don't see how the "self-bettering insecure crossposters who want to be spoonfed just enough info so that they'll be perceived as having 'refined tastes' by their normie peers" are any different from the self-bettering insecure exclusive posters who want to be spoonfed just enough info so that they'll be perceived as having 'refined tastes' by their normie peers. The nonstop fascist stuff thats been cropping up is just the normal desire for people to syncretize their interests, in this case right-wing politics with fashion. Its the "alt-rights" desire to create a uniform to identify with and with which to signal their status to their peers. Ontologically, its no different than lunarcore or vaporwaves attempts to introduce, or find inspiration in, sci-fi / avant-garde music to fashion.

[Anonymous No.11637848]

Just like with every other image board there are tons of shit and the occasional interesting or serious discussion. It was like that five years ago and it didn't change.

[Anonymous No.11638119]

Generals ruined 4chan. It happened to /sp/, it happened to /mu/, and it happened here.

Reddit crossposting newcunts think they can waltz onto a board and simply find a "subreddit" (i.e. a general) which they can use as an all purpose chatroom, rather than scrolling through to browse through each thread.

These same people think every thread has to go to bump limit, where it can then be restarted. It has killed board culture.

[Anonymous No.11638132]

>>11635449
/thread

[Anonymous No.11638249]

>>11634943

none of the people you reference had any fashion sense whatsoever. if anything, the kids have made this place far better in terms of variety of aesthetics and fits. comfy / loose inspo, etc are all great.

go away, old person.

[Anonymous No.11638262]

>>11634943
> the unironic extremist liberalism;
What? I'm in my 30s and it seems like everyone under 25 these days is basically a neo-nazi. You must be confusing the adults for the kids and the kids for adults

[Anonymous No.11638282]

>>11634943
>it was okay for me to post here at 15

>but you guys, why can't you be my age? where's my workwear and business casual? why does everyone look like an extra from some 90s movie about a record store?

[Anonymous No.11638287]

>>11634981
t. r/streetwear

[Anonymous No.11638314]

YES I am so glad I'm not the only one. Used to lurk and post occasionally here years ago. 24 now and it's just sad to see how the board has declined. I don't feel like most of this is applicable to me anymore.

[Anonymous No.11638319]

>>11638262
go to any college. they're all Bernie supporting retards getting degrees in fine arts and social work.

[Anonymous No.11638336]

>>11638319
But I went to a college like that, and I don't see a problem with any of that. That's what college has always been like

Why are kids these days brainwashed by the far right? How did this happen?

[Anonymous No.11638966]

>>11637599
Thank you anon for posting that. Ive been looking through the archives for this and couldnt find it.

[Anonymous No.11638980]

i'm 22, been here for about 2 years. still an ugly autistic fuck with no sense of fashion.

[hoshi No.11639060]

>>11637686

Age doesn't stop someone from studying and learning things. Also even if my advice now isn't too good, I try to do my best and improve.

>>11636816

I don't believe /pol/ is the "boogieman". They're just kinda annoying, and definitely don't make things easier on this board. The worst thing on this board is jaded cynical people who aren't passionate about anything and can't have serious discussions.

As said in my previous post, I just really love fashion and I want to explore new, old, and present aesthetic in an interesting way with everyone else and help people how I can while I'm at it.

[Anonymous No.11639072]

>>11634943
>How fucking young is this board?

we established that last year

[Anonymous No.11639513]

>>11637546
The pastebin had been removed, senpai.
Do you have a backup?

[Anonymous No.11640676]

>sieg

kys

[Anonymous No.11641989]

>>11639513
It worked for me. Anyway, http://www73.zippyshare.com/v/1WJR8t1G/file.html
+
>>/fa/thread/S11629700#p11629999

>>11638966
Was it you? It was a fun thing to do.

[Anonymous No.11642032]

>>11634943
>unironically liking that faggot Sieg

you're mentally ill

[Anonymous No.11642154]

>>11634973
Yeah, this.

[Anonymous No.11642190]

>>11634943
Don't do this to your child

[Anonymous No.11642230]

>>11634943
im a newfag on this but but ive always thought that fashion is for the typical more outgoing people. i mean im a depressed introverted guy but even i feel like that so many people here got bullied in highschool and now try to go for some revange or idk feels so highschool

[Anonymous No.11642305]

>>11634943
>I use to actively participate in /fa/ when I was 15 or 16.
>the average age on this board can't be more than 16

>i used to be underage but now theres more underage people and its mainstream and not cool and not effay WAAAAHHHHH

are you dumb

[Anonymous No.11642351]

the board went to shit after people started thinking retarded outfits like pic related that nobody else but them thinks look good look good

i actually come here occasionally just to see if these people have gotten a grip on reality yet; but nope. i still come back every month or so. disappointment washes over me every time and i leave from cringing too hard.

[Anonymous No.11642365]

>>11642351

Nice fit

[Anonymous No.11643233]

>>11636161
>from le tumblr
jesus christ
thank god you're leaving this board

[Anonymous No.11643319]

>>11634943
I've just been here since 2013; since then there's been 1000 threads about how great /fa/ used to be. But what people describe is even more normie than the board is now, fulfilling an r/mfa role of basic fashion advice (see >>11637653 ).

Just look at >>11639072 and you'll see that the average poster is over 18. That's not any worse than other boards on the site. /fa/, as it stands, is a place for fashion related shitposting and banter. Jesus christ, nobody told you to lurk every thread. I haven't opened a /fa/ cigarettes thread in years. But there's always some good inspo threads in the catalogue, and during show weeks there's always a few discussion threads. I for one am happy that the age is younger than r/mfa, threads about chinos and wingtips and raws are far worse in my book than skate inspo or /fa/ cell phones. /fa/ is not the greatest place on the internet, but keep your expectations reasonable and its not a bad way to spend 10 minutes.

Also
>unironic extremist liberalism
is not an accurate way to describe most posters here

>>11637653
>no one talks about Julius anymore in here
thank god

>>11638249
>comfy / loose inspo, etc are all great.
this. /fa/ was pretty ahead of loosewave / lemaire / yohji trend fashion's on now

>>11638336
>Why are kids these days brainwashed by the far right?
It's just 4chan. The fashion crowd has and always will be left

>>11642351
>nobody else but them thinks look good
This fit is standard among late teens early twenties

[Anonymous No.11643464]

>>11641310
>>11636717
>>11641087
>>11640787
>>11634628
>>11637023
>>11622282
>>11637699
>>11642562
>>11636341
>>11627903
>>11641452
>>11633215
>>11640557

all perfectly decent threads

[Anonymous No.11643481]

>>11634943
I'm 83.

[Anonymous No.11643537]

>>11643464
>/fa/ cringe
>how does /fa/ feel about cowboy boots
scraping the bottom of the barrel desu

[Anonymous No.11643576]

>>11643537
those are fine threads to have on a fashion board. cowboy boots are more in the outsider fashion space that I wish /fa/ was more into

[Anonymous No.11643581]

>>11643576
I too wish /fa/ was less about Roshe runs, Rick Owens, and everything Kanye does and more about unique things.

[Anonymous No.11643601]

>>11643581
you got to make the change yourself anon

if you make a craig green inspo thread they will come

[Anonymous No.11643618]

>>11636388
he's conflating liberalism with the left wing because of the way the word "liberal" is used in american mainstream media

[Anonymous No.11643644]

>>11634943

Obvious fucking bait.

[Anonymous No.11643650]

>>11637664

Fuck full nazi pol or full liberal, how about full anarchism?

[Anonymous No.11643653]

>>11638319
>Reddit crossposting newcunts think they can waltz onto a board and simply find a "subreddit" (i.e. a general) which they can use as an all purpose chatroom, rather than scrolling through to browse through each thread.

Lol, youve been brainwashed by pol, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.11643658]

>>11643618

True.

[Anonymous No.11643668]

>>11634943
This board has too many liberal socialist faggots that dress trendy to relate to niggers. Or they dress like a NEET which is basically a white nigger with no job. Fuck extremist liberalism and TRUMP 2016.

[Anonymous No.11644625]

>>11643668
nice autism you got there friendo

[Anonymous No.11644728]

>>11634943
>the unironic extremist liberalism

>>>/pol/

Also

>is 21
>rages at 16yo

kys

>Casey, Sieg

Shittiest trips ever.

t. oldfag

[Anonymous No.11644822]

I dont think its inherently a problem but the world population in general is getting more interested in fashion. That coupled with streetwear created a new wave of fashion enthusiasts.
Specially in third world countries where high fashion was only for the rich are now becoming more accessible.

Source: I live in a third world country

[Anonymous No.11644852]

>>11635208
Not him, but to me fashion isn't shit today, but I feel like most /fa/m are more interrested into shitty black and white vans than into actual designer stuff.
Now about fashion, even though there are severeral fashion weeks and cool designer creations, it is merely discussed here, fa only talks about the same guys all the time

[Anonymous No.11644894]

the /soc/ threads (face rate) brought in the cancer. newfags don't stay on the board for 10 minutes before posting their vans and Walmart jeans in fit threads. plus whorecore devaluing a fashion board (and enabling attentionwhores to post)

this board is complete shit. if you don't post somewhere else by now, you're part of the cancer

[Anonymous No.11645138]

>>11637715
Found the shitter who can't think critically and understand complex systems. Fuck off and go back to making less than 40k/year.

[Elvis-Preslee No.11645959]

>>11634969
This.

I'm 27 and I do my monthly visit to this pathetic piece of shit. I hadn't checked up for about 6 months or so and this place is hilariously bad.

My favorite thread right now is the cop thread. I can't believe you kids actually wear that shit.

[Anonymous No.11646761]

>>11634943
21

I probs don't have many fits that'd pass on this board tho

[Anonymous No.11646800]

It's "generals" threads that made 4chan decline in quality
But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's significantly worse

Anons were complaining about the decrease of quality back then, and they will continue to do so in the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tYhBMLgdk

[Anonymous No.11647322]

24. I've only been here since I started caring about clothes, probably when I was 20.
Ive gone through a shit load of terrible clothes but /fa/ has probably helped me with the few essential clothes I wear like uniform.
Actually did a garage sale with my family and I have over 30 of the following pieces that fit or look like shit (given, some from high school) : dress shirts, tees, pants, jeans, sweatshirts, Hoodies, and more. It's embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.11647333]

>>11647322
And I mean 30 of each fucking item.

[Anonymous No.11647361]

>>11634956
All they did was reminisce about ninja core, personally i think Lunar Core has potential.

[Anonymous No.11647419]

>>11643668
Can't tell if this is bait.

[Anonymous No.11647437]

Some threads are good some don't, but yeah, definitively the shittiest board right now for me, before you almost never saw discussions that weren't actually about fashion or things related, with the rise of the retarded extreme right thanks to retarded trump you can't even make a shitty thread about freckles without the thread turning into a race based discussion full of edge lords. I really don't see a difference between this board and /r/malefashionadvice, honestly, everyone dresses like shit around here.

[Anonymous No.11647447]

I have been posting on and off (just started posting again today actually) since 2009 and /fa/ was always pretty shitty, problem is now the style is changed and instead of people suggesting the raws/cbd/ocb fit, autistic losers suggest some tryhard bullshit and as a result /fa/ is churning out fuccbois at a rate nobody had anticipated.

After like 3 months these fuccbois act like they're STYLE GODS, despite owning less than $1000 in fits and having no shoes that couldn't be purchased today at the mall. These guys shit up /fa/ with their loud and bad opinions. Not to mention they are ugly as well.

>"dude why would you buy nice clothing, you can buy LITERALLY the same thing on asos!"
t.fuccboi who discovered /fa/ 2 months ago

[Anonymous No.11647651]

>>11647361 If I saw this, I'd think that it was a homeless man and probably give him a dollar

[Anonymous No.11647862]

6 years ago fashion was more like a rare hobby, you know, collecting coins for example and teenagers were interested in Runescape and Counter Strike at that time. Now every teenager collects coins, it's trendy, it's cool, it's popular. Just look who camps outside Supreme, Palace stores, it's either kids/teenagers or resellers. 'Streetwear' brands and media made IT popular, now every kid at school wants Yeezys instead of Gameboy. You can't blame them though, it is how it is.

I never was into 4chan's /fa/ anyway, but it seems that you guys had great time here.

[Anonymous No.11648344]

>>11647862
I bet you felt super smart writing that

[Anonymous No.11648421]

I started browsing here when I was 17, I'd guess, currently 22. When I first started posting I just called a straight up nigger for posting athletic sneakers and such, Nazi inspo threads were common, and the most popular trip purchased clothing at Russian military surplus stores and had it tailored to his unique frame.

A lot has changed, but not neccesarily for the better. This is not a good board

[Anonymous No.11648426]

>>11647447
if that pic is u kys immediately