/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I was there during the glory days of 2008-2012. We could freely post NSFW images. If you have a topic you want to discuss, you were encouraged to make a thread and make a presence.

Whenever Comiket or Reitaisai rolls around, lots of people posted links to content. We'd get as many links to games as we did soundtracks. Guys like Hong and Remilia regularly contributed to the community by posting download links to doujin scans and games.

Shitposting and meme-spouting was common, but back then it was generally understood that it was just mindless fun, and nobody took it seriously.

Nowadays, /jp/ has been taken over by fags that believe they're somehow entitled to an environment where serious discussion takes place. NSFW pics have been banned.

The general threads are a cancer: The front page is filled with them. A few fanboy faggots make a Kancolle/VNs/etc thread, and every post relating to their respective topic goes there. That means even if there's very little to talk about pertaining to a "general" thread's subject, even infrequent posts will allow them to remain bumped up in the front page because every relevant post gets put on their respective general thread.

Comiket/Retaisai threads have turned to shit. Download links for events are at an all-time low--They're mostly soundtracks, and too few games.

Shitposting is taken too seriously, and guys can't blow off a bit of steam here. While the frequency of shitposting has been reduced, when there's significant shitposting, they get put where they're needed the least: The Comiket/Reitaisai download threads. They get derailed into bitchfights between posters about whether people should be "thanking" each other--It seems /jp/ tries to make up for the lack of shitposting nowadays by re-allocating all the shitposts in the Comiket/Reitaisai threads, discouraging posters from uploading new content. The two aforementioned tripcoders have been driven out due to the fact that they were tripfags.

Way to go, dipshits.