/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Time really flies by.

>>10357099

As you get older, more and more so...

Imagining that in another 5 years I could be looking up this thread too and it's quite funny but weird

Still, no regrets.

>>10357093
>I found a post I made on /jp/ in March 2008.
Can I see? Maybe I replied in that thread between playing Utawarerumono

>>10357109

This thread fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/S296485

It's not interesting, and quite embarrassing now because in 2008 I was a total faggot (you don't have to tell me), but there you go.

I did actually study Japanese in the end by the way, but dropped out after a year. Naturally.

I want to go back to those times when life was a cozy blanket of rewatching Rozen Maiden, playing doujin games and halfheartedly dreaming about the future whilst not actually caring about it at all

How pathetic, for an old timer to get nostalgic...

I like reading the archive. But I do it mostly to find more fun material to look up around. I have probably more than 100 /jp/ threads on the archive bookmarked on my browser. My favorite period is 2009 though. Everything felt much more comfortable at that time.

>>10357129
>I have probably more than 100 /jp/ threads on the archive bookmarked on my browser.

Impressive.

This must be what they call archive otaku.

>>10357134
Fung things are fun, anon! It's still in my plans to get a whole month and read every single reply and thread recorded on the archive about /jp/.

Fuck off, hat eater.

"i'll be back tomorrow ten times as strong!!!"
Where is Suwako I miss him

>>10357134

It's interesting how easy it is to recognize posts I made a long time ago, even when I didn't use my tripcode.

>>10357149

i quit!

the well ran dry, i'm outta jokes!

>>10357147

>hat eater

I'm curious to know what this means but your aggressive tone suggests you won't be interested in telling me...

Anyway, if anyone else has similar stories please share! Internet history is omoshiroi...

>>10357160
damn. you suck btw

>>10357167
how did you discovered 4chan and /jp/?

I shall be reading this very post several years from now in the archive.
And so shall you!

I shall put the word flamingo in my post so I can easily search it later.

Wonder what I will be doing in several years.
Probably still here on /jp/ and 4chan.
Wonder what the future will be like. Wonder what the next Touhou game will be like. Wonder if I will finally get around to doing all those things I want to do and write. Wonder if I will be fluent in Japanese by then, as I am currently learning now yet far from fluent.
As future me looks back at this post, I wonder what he will think. I wonder what he will think about my past wonders, and how I looked toward the future and newest Touhous with wonder, interest, and optimism.
For the record and future me, I am currently eating shin ramyun with frozen vegetable in a dark and messy apartment. I am a little drunk from wine. Think I'll go watch a movie now.

Well, to future me, I say:
"Hi!"
-From past me

>>10357160
No!! I believe you! You can come up with more jokes!

>>10357180
What if people start saying "flamingo" in almost every post because of that?

>>10357193
Good question, flamingo.

>>10357160

Here's a final gif for you then.

Goodnight sweet prince.

>>10357186
some other suwacko posts touhou jokes but i don't do those, so thats as good as you're gonna get!

you'll know all about it if i come up w/ more good material, keep a eye out!!!

>>10357193
flaming- wait! no we shouldn't

>>10357199
holy HECK if i ever make a comeback....

thanks mister!
suwacko out!!!

>>10357175

>4chan

My friend at the time always sent me funny pictures hosted on 4chan. Noticed the URL, decided to check out 4chan.org one rainy day. Expected it to be just another image hosting site like photobucket. Early 2006 kinda time. Didn't really understand the site until about a year later. Creating threads was extremely intimidating.

>/jp/

New board, seemed fun, checked it out, tried Touhou, got hooked. I was from /v/. Definitely not a true oldfag.

I'm not obsessed, but I used to look at my old trip posts a couple times.

Also, I see people talking about me or things related to me, and I was never there to respond to them ;_;

>>10357201
Ok! I will! Do you have a tweeter? I bet you say a lot of funny stuff!

>>10357193

ｗｗｗｗ

>>10357214
What was your tripcode?

>>10357193
>>10357197
That wouldn't be very nice, but I doubt people would do that or if it would catch on.

I don't think I have ever seen someone talk about or use the word "flamingo" on /jp/ before. So I should be somewhat ok.
If anything, I would find this very thread.
I think it's interesting to write a post for future me though, as I certainly expect my future self to at least still search through the archive.

I love Suigintou.

I should write exactly how I feel today so I can look back in a couple of years time, but I'm just tired and there's nothing interesting going on...

Oh well. What a nostalgic thread.

Kinda surprised the response to this thread wasn't a total backlash... thanks for listening...

If anyone else is feeling nostalgic, please share!

>>10357175
I was actually just trying to remember when I first started using /jp/ at the least it may have been winter of 2010 somewhere in January or maybe even as low as December 2009 which was my 2nd year of high school. I clearly remember knowing about 4chan before that but I never came to 4chan at all. I only use /jp/ and /ck/ because I am obsessed with looking at pictures of tasty food as well as talking about it. When I'm not feeling too lazy I'll try to find some my earliest posts in threads that I recognize from very far back.

Well, thanks for making me waste more time, OP. I just found a post of mine from March 2008. It only took browsing 10 pages of search for my're Touhou. I don't remember much from the thread and back then I was reading more than posting, but it's me, I'm sure.

>>10357193
>Old posts first

First page. Not many people talk about flamingos on /jp/.

I came to /jp/ on summer 2011... /a/ was just unbearable. Katawa shoujo put the board in a really bad situation and it only got worse with summer cups and crossboard roleplay... Not to mention that I had left /v/ in 2010 for almost the same reasons, they go on and on about reddit and trolls and greentext and ugh... At least /jp/ knows how to treat those newfags properly... The board is really slow and I hate that but I love talking about anime when a brave anon decided to make a thread about it. Looking back at those times, /jp/ really looked like a brave new world. I got pretty used to it. It also helps that I already knew a lot of people that I met through /v/ steam profile exchange threads as well as people on irc and a trao i met on /b/ of all places who browsed /jp/ so I got in the know of all the things I needed to know. You guys complain alot about shitposting but this is probably the best board in 4chan. Though I guess /q/ killed the shitposting before I got a chance to witness it?

>>10357256
I meant "a trap* I met on /b/"

>>10357239
Most of my nostalgia feelings are related to the hundreds of chances I've had throughout the years to get more into otaku culture and I threw all of them in the trash can. ;_; Such as knowing about iDOLM@STER and Touhou since like, 2007 or 2008. And I didn't give a shit about them. Now I feel so bad because I've missed all of these wonderful chances and I wasn't able to witness so many things... I wish I could go back in time. Now I'm doing my hardest to learn japanese and immerse myself into the world of entertainment that I have refused for so long.

>>10357147

Wait, hat eater... mercury... Suigintou... gotcha

Slow and steady wins the race!

>>10357284
>Such as knowing about iDOLM@STER and Touhou since like, 2007 or 2008. And I didn't give a shit about them. Now I feel so bad because I've missed all of these wonderful chances and I wasn't able to witness so many things
same here

>>10357222
!FUX4cHAN.6

>>10357372
I dont remember you

You know what? I'm just gonna make a post here with a random term just so I can go back to this thread for reference.

alsestmxs

>>10357421
This is getting stupid. Just get a tripcode if you want to look for your own posts.

http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/S4133#p4292

>Think of the long term consequences of separating Touhou from /a/, eventually the whole history of the two boards will be different, from memes to vocabulary.

lol

>>10357438
I don't know if I wanna become what I've always hated. I mean there are a few trip users I don't mind but me having my name in an anonymous place. I don't know about that, I'll think about it.

>>10357372
What made you drop your trip? You've been posting here since day one.

2009 was the best year, it was like a little family. it really was like a aim chat with like 10 or 20 members. I wish /jp/ never changed from being like that.

>>10357484
Maybe he forgot the password.

>>10357491
It could be 2009 again if we just had a janitor that wasn't retarded and new tripusers that aren't /v/ rejects

>>10357491

Agreed

2009 /jp/ was very cozy, so many nights wrapped up in a big blanket reading threads till 6am...

>>10357129
Mine was at the end of 2008.
Playing dumb grindan mmo with /jp/, insulting IN players that play on easy modo while the only game that I can 1cc is PCB, talking shit about overrated games and having retarded servants killer discussion. Remember Shiki killing jap bird? Those were the good old days..

>>10357522
Well I was here in 2010 end of 2009 at least but I remember so many cozy nights on /jp/ too. It was a very comforting place, much less so now.

>>10357175
>4chan

Someone mentioned it on Newgrounds. Checked it out. Got hooked. Mostly browsed /v/. Barely posted, felt intimidated

>/jp/
Found it through /a/ in 2010. Checked it out. Got hooked. Started posting earlier as I adapted to new boards faster.

I'm currently now browsing /int/ and /jp/.

Don't browse this board too often so I have no nostalgia attatched to it.

>>10357649
I'm doing the exact same thing right now.

>>10357664
There's not much history surrounding /jp/ anyway.

The most historic boards are probably /a/ and /v/.

>>10357671
I'd say that for a board so new there's a lot to talk about /jp/.

>>10357671
/jp/ has a shit ton of history, more so than /a/ or /v/. since it was such a small board you notice the little changes all the time, the really horrible and the good. /jp/ has the most history on 4chan.

>>10357735
No it really doesn't.

>>10357704
Hey a lot happens in a few years even if it doesn't seem like a long time.

>>10357735
i cant think of any other board on 4chan anymore where the atmosphere changes every few months

this post-/q/ neo/jp/ is taking forever to be over with though

cant you find a better way to spend your time m8

I still keep subconsciously typing out the first letters of the archive's address out of habit and end up spending quite a bit idly reading stuff without even noticing what I'm doing.

It's annoying.

>>10357765
hey dude why did you remove all ur posts from the archive that wasnt nice

>>10357744
You don't know shit. From the /b/ raids and spam like doctor worm/legend of galactic heros/dawsons creek in the beginning, from sion spam to the white ren army, to the quality post/thread guy to puddy puddy, to our great meido the one and onlu leaving us and opening the borders to hell.. , to the insane zunbar coming back from the army, shitposting with his army of steam friends, thus creating the biggest darkness /jp/ ever saw with brainwashing. then the shitposter who was trying too defeat the new janitor who was finally trying too restore /jp/. then when he left things got worse but then the janitor we have now defeated the rest of zunbars army once and for all.

>>10357780
Oh and sudo pig spam , who was a part of zunbars steam army.

>>10357129
In the year 2009, /jp/ was in the midst of a golden age. United under the intraboard government of the Japan/General, all /jp/ prospered and enjoyed an improved quality of life made possible by advances in technology, commerce, human rights, and the arts. /jp/ had truly inherited the internet. But those same advances also carried a curse, for the engines of war from the Japan/General era possessed power unequalled in the Otaku Culture of today.

>>10357780
Shut up sudo.

>>10357792
Not that retard.
I'm just an old /jp/er from the past who remembers /jp/ history..

>>10357735
>>10357780
Get a load of this retard.

>>10357780
Who care dude.
I take the old /jp/ with bawson compare to the current /jp/.
I rather we have the good and the bad together.
Now we have nothing.

>>10357800
suigin, whatever
who can tell the difference

>>10357792
>implying its sudo

>>10357813
Together we can make a better board though.

>>10357813
Get your nostalgia goggles off. Every time period in /jp/ has its pros.

>>10357824
Not 2010-2011
we can never let that happen again.
zunbar might try to take us over gain with his hordes of steam friends.

>>10357824
/jp/ has never been this stale since the board inception. When was the last time you saw something that was new and refreshing or actually funny and witty?

>>10357832
Usually when something funny or witty shows up, it gets bombarded with shitposting or tryhard elitists. What kind of replies would Japanese Bird gather these days if it was never posted in 2008~2012?

I hate it when a board goes self aware shit yet does not do anything about it other than crying about the "good ol' days".

>>10357832
Well yeah, all of you drove most posters out with the meta whining, so the only ones remaining are the posters autistic enough to filter all the shit out.

This could've been a nice thread but no, you guys just had to turn it into another "/jp/ sucks" borefest.

>>10357839
Except I wasnt the one crying about /jp/ in /q/ about the big bad bullies and needing someone to protect them constantly 24/7.

>>10357842
Let's get it back to being nice.

Link your favorite /jp/ threads, ideally with a short explanation of why you liked that thread so much.

>>10357842
We can still make it a good /jp/ thread. For example, we could share our favorite thread from 2008 ~ 2010. http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/4380138

>>10357844
>>10357839
But we do need fucking protection, unless you want 2010 again, if your bored just leave this is not a place for "funny or witt"

>>10357847
>>10357848
The hivemind!

>>10357852
It can't be helped, anon!

>>10357847
Also, why limit it to 2010? That doesn't make sense.

Archives are what ruined /jp/. Any semblance of originality that /jp/ may have had was destroyed by people reposting threads dozens of times. Eventually you end up with shit like flanfly threads that are entirely nothing but reposted replies.

>>10357854
Hmm, because I consider 2011~2012 to be a different period of /jp/. But it's ok to have 2011~2012 thread too. I've had good threads at those periods. http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/S9683195
This was a very succesful thread I've had in 2012 for example.

I wish they had archives of /a/ in 2004-2006, I can hardly even remember what animes I was watching then.

http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/S4199937
What a fitting thread this is.

>>10357861
Mai Hime

>>10357861
Rozen Maiden
Nanoha
Kamichu

>>10357858
Flanfly threads today just look like Danbooru comments, and everybody puts in new unfunny shit to spam everyday masquerading as "autism".

>>10357860
You should be the last person saying that...

We need to keep our hopes up!

>>10357872
>>10357873
It's so long ago it feels like another lifetime.

>>10357888
How old are you

I used to read the archive frequently back when I actually posted more than once every couple days.

>>10357897
Wizard.

I only use it to confirm things I don't remember clearly, which is a lot. I don't even remember what was happening a few months ago, time has blurred together for the past several years.

I stalk tripfags on /g/s archives.

I mark down every reply I've ever gotten and look at them later because I'm lonely. I realized I don't get many replies.

>>10357959
Hey...

I like to think there's someone on the internet that's obsessed with me, I usually post with a trip but I'm not known at all except in a few places.

The idea of someone obsessing over me seems really cute, I'd like to meet them. I guess I'll never know. Sometimes I wonder if some of the internet friends I have knew about me before I first met them.

>>10357976
>I usually post with a trip
Why?

>>10357971
I will cherish this for years to come.

>>10357980
I like being able to find posts I made, and I like attention.

i was here before the split, it was awkward back then when asking for sources on manga and image sets from VN's. most would turn you away to /h/. but it was just for image dumping, as it still is today.

but i guess it was more awful back then, the split had good intentions in mind. i guess it was for the better. at least the idol and doll guys are still here.

>>10357988
Why not use twitter instead of 4chan?

>>10357995
That's a retarded comparison.

>>10357988
Who doesn't like a little attention now and then?

>>10357780
this would make for an awesome vn

>>10358002
Not really. If attention is what you're after twitter is the best place.

I see I'm not the only archive otaku on /jp/.
Here's one of my favorite threads from 2010. The second reply gets me every time.
I scraped it myself with ChanThreadWatch back then, so if anyone wants to see a specific full-sized image, just tell me.

http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/4820457

>>10358136
Can someone post the cirno vs hydralisk one?
I dont know what keyword I should search it for.

>>10358136
Or I could just upload the whole thread, duh.
anon filesDOTcom/file/a9cb963d31578f2971a4be9e3ba32edb
Hopefully that link won't get me autobanned or something.

>>10357093
Check the old /cgl/ and /u/ for my old Trip. Noncosplayer.

It's very unnerving when you find yourself agreeing with a long post from 5 years ago only to realize it's you without a tripcode.

Can't keep living in the past though.

>>10358326
I fucking hate tripfags. Please die.

While I post less than five times a year myself, I know I will always have fond memories of the /jp/ from times past. Pic related.

I've found the archives pretty useful, especially if there are things that I've forgotten. I suppose when I'm bored, I also like to do a bit of hopping around on them to see what turns up.

>>10358414
drawing teacher guy!
>>10357093
whenever I post something that I feel I might want to search for in the future I always post it with a name.
Makes searching the archives all that much easier.

When I browse the archive I always am reminded that I am truly a slayer of threads, because all the time the very last post in the thread is mine. It's very lonely.

I'm also reminded of all the posters who aren't posting anymore.

>>10358442
I know how you feel, I generally kill off every thread I post in.

these memories...

they will never fade

>>10358442
>>10358448
This will be like Highlander for threadkilling, no?

>>10358414
>>10358437
I'm not the creator of that (sadly), but he definitely has a place in my memories for his awesomeness.

>>10358461
We can split up the work for now.

When it develops to the point where every thread was killed by one or the other, that's when we'll have to start moving in on each other.

>>10358474
You cant expect me to believe that little boys or girls play eroge like Fate Stay Night?
Geez parents nowadays.

>>10357158
It truly is.

Sometimes I read a post, laugh and wish I could brofist that Anon and then I realize that Anon is me.

>>10358136
that was a really cute thread
i miss it

apparently, I'm the first one to say "It's funny, because Arc is black".

Feels great being apart of /jp/

This is now a SuiginTou thread.

apparently, I'm the first one to say "It's funny, because Arc is black".

Feels great being apart of /jp/

hey, post your bookmarks for lazy... busy people like me

I was just thinking about making a thread like this a few days ago. Sometimes I enjoy looking through the archives and checking when did tripfags who had a high post count or posted here since the very early days stopped posting, or just stalking active ones.