/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>16595153
me on the right with the dress, the wicked smile and the blond hair.

Go jaypee go. Happy Birthday.

Me in the trashcan.

>>16595153
Kancolle belongs to the trashcan too

>>16595199
Your opinion belongs to the trash too.

>>16595212

I can't take you seriously if you post that trash character though.

>>16595153
I love you anyway jaypee.

>>16595153
Put Kancolle and onaholes in the trash too.

Why would you add the Grand Jew to that pic as if anybody missed him you faggot? He deserves to be forgotten.

>>16595295

Rude! What have onas ever done to you?

>>16595153
There's no figurines or dolls

>>16595300
What does talking about jacking off with sex toys have to do with /jp/? It's like having a dildos and vibrator thread and discussing the merits of those little japanese egg shaped ones over the big microphone ones.

>>16595316

Have you ever been to akiba? Onas are very otaku culture.

>>16595316
I don't get it either but those threads have been on /jp/ since the board's beginning practically, that's why I put them in the image.

>>16595153
Wheres djt?

Why aren't you people on /qa/ right now?

>>16595387
Not relevant enough to the board. A few months ago it was on /a/.

>>16595387
Destroyed and with all people posting in it gassed like the kikes they are.

>>16595390
Because mods get triggered and ban me whenever I tell /po/tard toads to fuck off

>>16595390
/qa/ is fucking shit

>>16595407
>>16595420
No, really, check it right now, it's a bit ``different'' than usual.

>>16595387
>Wheres djt?

Fuck off you filthy migrant. You lot detest being on this board almost as much as we detest you being on it.

Jesus, been here for such a short length of time and you feel entitled to be even considered noteworthy.

Time to celebrate with some dancing

>>16595325
Yet you didn't put kigurumi or hoop dog

>>16595462
Like I said, I forget about stuff sometimes. I thought about hoop dog, but I didn't find a way to work him into the image.

>>16595433
It is sort of missing an anki reference though.
Why haven't you done your reps yet?

>>16595423

>>16595153
Oh no. I forgot to celebrate /x/'s birthday.

Oh well. Happy birthday, /jp/!

....

happy birthday jay pee

Reminder: there is a gigantic party on /qa/ and everybody is invited!

>>16595920
no fuck off stay on your board

Happy Birthday /jp/ It's hard to believe that I've been on here for 9 years already. Where did my youth go?
RIP Ken-sama ;_;

From a containment board to the other, happy birthday /jp/

t.horse board

>>16595153
Can you believe it'll only be another year until it's 10 years old? Time sure does fly by quickly. Maybe a little too quickly...

Why isn't Homuposting allowed anymore?

>>16595153
At least Yaju-senpai made it

>>16595947
I don't normally browse that shithole, but if looked at it for a few seconds, you'd notice it got invaded by /jp/sies.

>>16596104
And so the days turn to weeks, months, years

happy birthday big jay

prog

Happy birthday!

!!!

Thank you /jp/ for existing.

If it wasn't for you, I probably would've killed myself by now.

Stay around a bit longer, /jp/. I don't want to see you die yet.

Happy Birthday! Lots of boards celebrate their birthday today, and strangely enough not all on the same year. Importantly, /f/ is included.

R.I.P /jp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g247CEZ9p70

Happy birthday!

thank you for being my friend /jp/

otanjoubi omedetougozaimasu jp san

I'm glad someone keeps track of these things

Happy birthday /jp/, let's make the next year a big great one

Thank you /jp/. Congratulation.

Does anyone have that one /jp/ meetup image with all the lolis?

Happy birthday jaypee!

>>16596643
Same. In 2011/2012 I had given up on life. I was just waiting for the right moment to die but you girls were there to carry the load. I'm convinced /jp/ is the reason I'm still alive.

>>16597879
Yeah. /jp/ has kept me on life support long enough to finally start doing things.

Sadly I will need to abandon this crutch but with 4chan's steady degeneration into normiedom and shitposting I might not mind so much

Happy birthday jaypee, we all love you. Thank you for being here for us, and thanks to all the anons who helped along the way. Heres to another year on the jay!

>>16597435

There have been a couple, haven't there?

>>16598037
Cheers!

>>16598043
Me on the left. I'm Sanae.

>>16598043
Yes, that's the one I was thinking of anyway. Thank you. Was it from 2012?

>>16598043
Yes, that's the one I was thinking of anyway. Thank you.

I STILL havent killed myself. I want to more than ever but eh. also i lost interest in most otaku stuff and my life is shitter than ever. I revisit here every once in a while.

here's a memory.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eyUVVcgc8

I don't like you /jp/. You used to be clever and witty. You used to make OC.

Now most threads on the catalog are just chatrooms and safe spaces for crossboarders. I would rather have Kuroko spam back than seeing this.

Die die die. I can't stand seeing you as a walking corpse.

>>16598065
>>16595390

>>16598065

/jp/ was never clever or witty. Take off those nostalgia goggles, mate.

>>16598065
/jp/ has fared way better than most all boards, the main problem is not lack of OC it is moderation enforcing oddities. OC still happens, but due to times with actual content drought and times with content we apparently cannot talk about on the jay it has died down. Factor in that you may just not like the new OC, for example I still don't much like or even understand the weird Marisa things. It's way more likely that you and others have changed more over the years than /jp/ has and don't want to admit it, after all we are responsible for what goes on here not the other way around. Though the new moderation and generals don't count, I think.

>>16598065
I miss captchaless, sage-visible era.
I really really do.

sasuga /jp/

>>16598065
Oh no, /jp/ sure is dead without constant spam from /fit/, /sp/, and /prog/! Post the "post the sicp one" one, my dudester!

>>16598106
Most of the wacky Marisa images come from Futaba, not OC from here.

Here's something I made though

>>16598204
Kill me. Just murder me right now.

>>16598230
epin

>>16598065
Why don't you leave /jp/ already? I just came back today after 4 years, just to confirm leaving was the right choice. And it was. Well unless you haven't learned japanese yet, then you deserve to be here.

>>16598106
>/jp/ has fared way better than most all boards
"slightly healthier than a tumor" is not a good prognosis.
it may still be called /jp/ - otaku culture, but I seriously doubt there's any pre-split poster anymore. Right now the majority of the population was still in middle school when we (or at least I) were posting about that hole in the sukumizu.

The spinoffs died and to be honest futaba is pretty shitty too, but that's no reason to browse a websight where タラコ is the fucking admin.
Imo the whole imageboard paradigm is dead. Just replace it with something new. For me it was streaming on an obscure japanese websight.

>>16598204
Generals and "previous edition" linking needs to go. Actually, with how vocal we are about it how are they still here?

>>16598273
Ask the janny who shapes the board to his liking

>>16598287

100% gonna get banned for this but here's a bad jp memory i look back at and laugh.

i'm sorry jp.

>>16598106
Here is some OC I saved today. Not sure how old it is. Not even sure it's actually from /jp/ but I bet it is.
Sure it's not anything amazing, it's some secondary bullshit, probably drawn by a terrible artist, like that faggot who put his ugly as shit fairies in the good wiki. But I thought it was cute, even if it's not an epic tier meme drawn by Dan Kim or something.

Doesn't change the fact that /jp/ should die, because that's clearly the work of a minority.

>>16598270
>Imo the whole imageboard paradigm is dead
Nobody wants to accept this.

>>16598145
>sage-visible era
u mena nokosage?
>>16598352
niggy posting, F uck your c ock and NSJ were truly great maymay.

>>16598373
It's not dead, it just needs to adapt and learn from this site's mistakes

>>16598373
I know, but you have to realise that
/jp/ as a comunity is dead.

十代　ドヤ顔で悟った/jp/
二十代　恥に忘れた/jp/
三十代　身の丈知った/jp/
そのどれもが全部　同じ/jp/

まぁ、本当に同じなのかしらないですけど

Happy birthday, /jp/.

>>16598273
Because if they put it to an up/down vote the people in the generals outnumber the people who care about /jp/ spirit by a lot. The mods aren't going to kick 1,000 people off the site when they're the ones who "actually discuss things" as opposed to a bunch of people who spend a bunch of time trying to reinvent /b/ (二次元裏, but it's not like they care) and complaining about the mods. Honestly, /jp/ should probably just be split into /jp/ and /jpg/ and the moderation relaxed on /jp/ (no, not to spinoff or warosu tier) because unless someone decapitates the 4chan decision-making whoevers nothing will change.

See you next year.

十代　ドヤ顔で悟った/jp/
二十代　恥に忘れた/jp/
三十代　身の丈知った/jp/
そのどれもが全部　同じ/jp/~

Happy birthday, /jp/.

まぁ、本当に同じなのかしらないですけど

>>16598273
Because if they put it to an up/down vote the people in the generals outnumber the people who care about /jp/ spirit by a lot. The mods aren't going to kick 1,000 people off the site when they're the ones who "actually discuss things" as opposed to a bunch of people who spend a bunch of time trying to reinvent /b/ (二次元裏, but it's not like they care) and complaining about the mods. /jp/ should probably just be split into /jp/ and /jpg/ and the moderation relaxed on /jp/ (no, not to spinoff or warosu tier) because unless someone decapitates the 4chan decision-making system nothing will change.

See you next year.

十代　ドヤ顔で悟った/jp/
二十代　恥を忘れた/jp/
三十代　身の丈知った/jp/
そのどれもが全部　同じ/jp/~

Happy birthday, /jp/.

まぁ、本当に同じなのかしらないですけど

>>16598273
Because if they put it to an up/down vote the people in the generals outnumber the people who care about /jp/ spirit by a lot. The mods aren't going to kick 1,000 people off the site when they're the ones who "actually discuss things" as opposed to a bunch of people who spend a bunch of time trying to reinvent /b/ (二次元裏, but it's not like they care) and complaining about the mods. /jp/ should probably just be split into /jp/ and /jpg/ and the moderation relaxed on /jp/ (no, not to spinoff or warosu tier) because unless someone decapitates the 4chan decision-making system nothing will change.

See you next year.

>>16598373
The internet as a whole is somewhat collapsing, so /jp/ or 4chan or imageboards or even textboards aren't the only website types that are slowly descending unto bottom barrel tiers of quality.
>>16598401
>/jp/ should probably just be split into /jp/ and /jpg/
Half of the threads that would go to /jpg/ should've been moved to other boards eons ago.

Just let it all fade away already, it's over.

>>16598384
Internet is too mainstream and interconnected to the real world for it to retain its charm.

>>16598429
Third time is the charm.

>>16598417
I'll be here no matter what happens, forever probably. It's a curse and a blessing. I still love /jp/ even during its bad times, and I still love all the /jp/ anons who have been here with me for so long.

>>16598447
You can't give up just like that, there are still people from the old internet who are still keeping the spirit alive.
They might be just small and scattered communities but they are still there.

You gotta fight for what is right.
No matter how big and powerful someone gets, he will never own your spirit and free will.

>>16598448
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again, until the conversation is an embarrassing stack of dead backlinks.

>>16598453
I've thought about giving up before but seeing everyone around always makes me want to stick around a little longer.

>>16598429
ポエムガイジｗ

Don't lose yourself to pessimism and cynicism, /jp/.

>>16598534
Too late.

>>16598528
It's mildly adapted lyrics from Slow Motion.

They can't all be winners.

>>16598534
I have nowhere else to go. This not me being cynical, it is me refusing to become complacent.

Here's to another year trapped in this hell with you fine ladies. Cheers!

>>16598429
/jp/は十代過ぎてないけど

>>16598429
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>>16595212
nice comback fag

YOUR SOUL
IS MINE

~

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>>16595390
> Question and Answer

I don't have any questions and I don't feel like answering any.

>>16598934
But you just answered that person's question.

Is it just me or has the janitor been more lax lately, that doesn't solve the generals issue though.

>>16598949
stop

>>16598966
I think janny's starting to give up. It's like 2011 all over again.

>>16598966
>>16598977
it's same except you don't get banned.
this is soft power.

>>16598966
Strange, I feel it too. Nothing seems to have changed though.

>>16598977
>it's like 2011 all over again
What do you mean

>>16598989
Maybe I got the years wrong: my memory is not so good. But I remember some time ago, the old janny on /jp/ left and a new one took its place. I meant that this feels like around that time before the old janitor left and it felt like he had given up on us.

>>16598966
They've been lax on everything that doesn't take place in a general or insult generals in some way.

>>16598977
They were never doing anything to give up on. You're the one that gave up shitposting.

I don't get why you w-bros think a good /jp/ is one filled to the brim with off topic shite. Posting niggy and fat cats all day isn't "2D" random and spamming pics of shitty anime isn't /jp/, it's just /a/. Most of that "gold old days" freedom was just spamming the same dumb flanfly tier daily dose template threads.

>>16599020
On some of the other 4chan boards they will sometimes relax the rules on special occasions.

At least we'll always be able to do this once a year.

I want to die.

kuso thread.

>>16599222
YOU'RE KUSO

>>16599233

Kiss my ass, unko nerd.

>>16595153
you forgot sudo
and sparky
and tokike
and niggy
and f uck your c ock guy

>>16599325
Those are in the trashcan, they're just further down the trashcan than the newer trash sticking on top.

>>16595316
This.
Sex toys have no place on this board. I'm baffled that jaypees have allowed it to continue for so long. Onaholes are not, and never have been, otaku culture. And No, just because they are sold Akiba doesn't make them otaku, either.

>>16600714
>And No, just because they are sold Akiba doesn't make them otaku, either.

Wait, so I can't make kebab threads either?

Bring back the neet threads

>>16599325

you're forgetting a couple.

>>16598270
>I seriously doubt there's any pre-split poster anymore
ノ

>>16598966
It's been a whole month with this porn still up. >>16429307
That's pretty lax indeed.

I still miss wtH-kun as HELL

>>16600749
>Wait, so I can't make kebab threads either?
Kebab are an exception.

Happy birthday /jp/

>>16598065
It's a give and take, and you likely grew out of what you enjoyed about the site. The loss of visible sage and generals hurt board culture. I do not cry about the loss of tripfag worship.

Meta threads ultimately do nothing other than talk in circles.

Unban Currybutt!

Never forget.

What even happened to Uncle Mugen? Did he finally get raided for smuggling onions?

>>16598270
>>16598065
Sounds like your home is not Gensokyo, but >>>/qa/

/jp/ is the place to be.
Only here I feel so free.
A board where I can just be me, drink tea, and post so happily.

Nowhere else, this ability
To talk with those across the sea
And let them know with all my glee..

That Mokou is the shittiest Touhou
>Worst design
>Worst boss theme
>Worst fanbase
>Worst gimmick
>Worst hair accessory
>Worst hair color
>Worst pants
>Worst danmaku
>Worst boss from the worst game
>Worst Touhou

>>16601633
i know this picture am i a old fag now?

Happy Birthday /jp/

Personally, I'm not fan of /qa/ /jp/, I hope it dies

>>16601646
According to the latest news he's got cancer
>>16601657
I'm no filthy crossboarder

>>16602235
Smelly lunar NEETs need to leave

>>16602310
That Hecka is literally me.

>>16602310
I'm pretty sure /qa/ just got raided by /ota/ and it got pinned on /jp/. Just wait for the storm to calm.

>>16602536
Thanks, that was my suspicion.

It seems very out of /jp/sy character to raid anyway. Even early [s4s] was very /jp/sylike, but this felt a little too forced and alien.

I don't think I hate /jp/ derivatives, but I can never get into them because they feel very contrived and forced in much the same way.

It's a bit like emigrating from one's homeland, living abroad, and then returning home to find the cultural values one has so desperately held onto have long disappeared.

>>16602490
Hecka is all of us from time to time.

>>16602633
>I can never get into them because they feel very contrived and forced in much the same way.
I can relate, I'm consuming some /jp/ approved media for the first time now and I feel 'tryhard' for thinking that I enjoy it and that I'm just enjoying it because I was told that its good. Therefore I'm reluctant to find people to discuss it with.

>>16602654

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I was speaking about /jp/ derivatives feeling forced, much like the ongoing raid

as for /jp/ approved media, that's like anything on 4chan. Boards are kind of like boxes that we seat faceless anons inside to talk to each other, but more often than not the some individuals have scribbled drawings everywhere on the inside, and we call this "board culture", and some perceive them to be overreaching unspoken rules. I think the topic, tone and quality of the conversation inside the box, as defined by the box, is really what contributes to board culture, but we get slipped up on thinking about the whole box as one monolithic collective of these static scribblings, rather than as a place of dynamic discussion

I hope for the future that /jp/ remains Otaku Culture, and does not become a board of generals, or even a Touhou flavoured /e/ or /c/, no matter how much I would enjoy it

>>16602654
Like a sort of conscious enjoyment? You can't be happy when you're aware that you're happy, is this what you mean? Like there is some sort of standard of enjoyment that you feel like you're supposed to reach, and in being aware of this standard you hinder enjoyment.

>>16600990
I seriously don't
He insulted my favorite touhou

>>16602765
I'm bad at explaining this, sorry. I do enjoy the story as I'm reading or watching it, I'm not consciously thinking 'I should be enjoying this, so I will enjoy it even though I really think its bad'. My problem is when I think about what could happen next, or when I go to message my friend who has already read or watched it, about something I found funny or a prediction about what will happen next, I feel as though I'm trying hard to fit in. Partially because /jp/ will have discussed whatever it is a thousand times already and praised or critisised each part, I feel like my opinions on certain parts will never be original and that I'm just parroting what someone else said before me, whether I have read their views on it or not. Partially because I'm consuming the media so long after everyone else, I feel as though another /jp/sie looking at what I'm doing would consider my actions tokenism and that I'm just doing it to fit in, rather than doing it because I want to. I sound very insecure; I guess I have alot of respect for /jp/ users.

>>16602716
Oh, sorry. Yeah I get what you mean, how they are a mimic of something that finished a while ago and trying to bring it back doesn't have the original spirit if it continues for too long?

>>16602884
>trying to bring it back doesn't have the original spirit if it continues for too long?
Continuing for too long being defined by not having the original spirit.
You can't say that ``thing is A if it becomes A'' that's stupid.

>>16600833
Oh right how could I forget Uncle Mugen, Josh, Trevor, AoC, lenfried's ichiban boyfriend, Liberty-kun, Arc, /jp/ Kinectimal Control, wtH-kun, White Ren, Jones, disability-kun, zun!bar, BOOF, /jp/ Quality Control, milk, bumwad, azatsu, based XD fairy and all my ghost-posting bros on the dub like sonic spammer and sonic streamer (rip).

Someday the dream will end, but it is not this day.

The Ken-sama ghost in the background made me giggle

>>16604568
I miss Helen.

>>16598556
I really suggest looking harder, there is one spinoff which isn't about gay anime erping or warosu being retarded

>>16598065
This.

Nine years? It's been such a long time. I wonder who is here, and who is in gensokyo.

https://s.4cdn.org/media/flash/longcat_song.swf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl4vSEvJUAc
But, what if that star is not to come?

Happy birthday, /jp/!

>>16608249
I wish I had someone making that offer for me. It sounds nice. You'd be wanted, appreciated and loved for. You'd have a purpose and meaning. And someone to be with.

One day, I hope all /jp/sies will live together, farming rice and living humbly in one house in Gensokyo

>>16598430
Nearly the entire web is collapsing, that is right. But the web is only one part of the internet. Remember that MUDs, IRC, usenet, telnet BBS, and more exist. They're parts of the internet that aren't part of the web. Most of those places are in quantity decline, but their quality decline is either nonexistent or much slower than that of the web. So always remember, that if you want some sort of new paradigm that isn't an imageboard or textboard refresh, you can try bringing your modern culture to a part of the old internet. Of course, if you use someone else's server, you should lurk. But you can always make your own servers, channels, newsgroups, and the like.
I'm thinking of making an imageboard newsgroup. Not sure whether it would be talk.imageboard.*, soc.imageboard.*, or an alt.* one. Probably alt.* since I can't imagine talking to the cabal about imageboard newsgroups. Usenet has a pretty good system for categorisation: stuff like talk.imageboard.4chan can exist alongside stuff like talk.imageboard.futaba, talk.imageboard.misc, and other things. The big difference though, is that usenet is pseudonymous rather than anonymous. It'd essentially be like everyone having a name, albeit not having a trip. Everyone could potentially use the same name though, leading to a more anonymous environment.
Some parts of the web are incredibly difficult to use now, actually. Gikopoi comes to mind: it uses proprietary Adobe technology. Tenhou suffers the same problem.
May as well link another /jp/prog/ song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHk42kDwesM

Heres to another 9 years /jp/. I hope you had a nice birthday.

>>16602246
No just a fag anon.

>>16608312
That house should be big.

>>16608312
Wonder how that would work out.

>>16595153
Happy Birthday, /jp/!

Am proud of you.

>>16608499
lotta gay sex prob

>>16608499
>>16608567
Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YndR3KC8hfA

>>16595212
nene is actually the worst

This board sucks. It's all generals, or 2hu posts that have no right being their own thread. "Look at this 2hu butt!" or "*sound effect" are not thread worthy.

In fact the generals are the only good points this board has.

>>16598065
>most threads are just chatrooms
what

>>16608923

/jp/ was originally a containment board, what are you expecting?

>>16608968
Good point.

>>16608965
I think he means how the /a/ generals use their threads to talk about whatever they feel like instead of the thread topic. The same problem with those old neet threads.

>>16608923
This is a discussion board, not a shitposting board. There are places like /s4s/ if you need to spam pointless stuff.
2hu posts can't really be helped. /vg/ stole too many topics, so there's nothing else to post.
Generals can't be avoided either. It's a combination of "condense your threads" and the fact that people would spam so much that having a single thread was the only way you could discuss anything. A third problem is this is a board for intended niche things without boards. It's not even the generals that are the problem, it's the way /v/, /vg/, and /a/ act, and the inability to let go of their club house when there's no important discussion to be had.

>>16609017
>The same problem with those old neet threads.
There was no problem with those old neet threads. They gave /jp/ a lot of personality and a really comfy and friendly atmosphere. I really miss them.

>>16609040
They were /r9k/ whining "muh life is so shit and I want to die" bullshit where people thought NEET meant hikkikomori, autistic, or shy, asocial loser instead of just some lazyass who refused to go to school or work and only existed to circlejerk and talk about shit completely unrelated to the purpose of the board..

>>16609040
>muh social reject hugbox

>>16609060
Yeah, they were like /r9k/, except much better since the userbase of /jp/ is more mature and intelligent.
>>16609065
It's a fact that this board is a magnet for social rejects.

>>16609065
Where do you think you are?

>>16609068
speak for yourself.

>>16609078
Being otaku or a NEET has nothing to do with being a shy friendless loner.

I will fucking destroy anime.

RIP NIPS

>>16609017
The /jp/ generals usually discuss their actual topic (it's amazing that some 4chan boards don't even manage to do that). They're just structurally poor for any discussion that doesn't fit into the main current of the thread. A board full of generals is pretty shit for creativity, content discovery, and even breadth of discussion on a single topic.

The only thing that actually makes me a bit reserves about actually wanting /jpg/ is the fact that /jp/ might promptly go to what amounts to lol random shit.

>>16609115
If there was a /jp/ general, there would be NO reason for /jp/ to exist. What would be left besides /c/ threads?

/s4s/ is already basically 2d random, but people still pull that /jp/ - My Friends Are Here shtick and would rather try to make this into it than post in a board where they can do all the stuff they want. In the end "2D random" just means "I want to post /a/ in /jp/ because I hate /a/" anyway.

If anything Hiro should finish the job and delete /jp/ and let all the faggots move on to the boards they belong on.

>>16609093
There is a correlation and it is apparent on /jp/.

>>16609145
Discussion of /jp/-related material outside general threads. Dumb memes relating to /jp/-related material. /c/-tier threads. Creativity, maybe. Off-topic shitposting.

>>16609168
>/jp/-related material
Which is 90% touhou, and touhou discussion has apparently been exhausted and replaced by /e/-tier threads.

>>16609040
/jp/ wasnt a "friendly" board outside of using sage politely.

NEET threads were awful blogposting. People have done some incredible history on them and the massive amounts of tripfags. The fact that people actually miss them and wax poetic about them is baffling.

Like anything else you grew up and grew out of it. [s4s] is more or less the designated "post whatever shit you want" board now. Sitting around and posting "translate this weebs" and getting invaded by other boards gets old for lots of people

>>16609168
>Discussion of /jp/-related material outside general threads.
Like literally, unironically what? None of you are going to want to talk about kigurumi outfits, idols, dolls, vocaloids, or specific light novels outside of their threads. Nothing it preventing you from making a thread about a /jp/-related material right now.

Can you do it without making another meta thread or belching out some tired template daily dose repost from 2012?

>>16609180
There are plenty of non-dump Touhou threads. Manga threads come up every time a new chapter is up. There are gameplay and score threads but people dont play enough to make constant threads so they basically become generals. There hasnt been a new touhou game in a while but there are still threads about next game speculation. And they just had the annual popularity polls which were talked about.

Hell there still is shitposting, look at the threads about the fortune teller that keep popping up. It's just a different kind from sudo pleasure of being cummed inside and other shit

It's a slow board with limited topics.

Took a break from xtreme shitposting in early 2013 and decided to pop in again today. Looks like I picked a good day.

>>16598043
Me in the first row, second from the right.

>>16609199
>Nothing it preventing you from making a thread about a /jp/-related material right now.

Every thread that isn't Touhou-related gets responses like "go back to your containment thread" or "not Otaku Culture". It's quite ironic that people whine about moderation or general threads but at the same time eagerly call mods and redirecting everyone to the generals every time they see a thread about a subject they personally don't like or care.

>>16609487
Someone should make a list of topics that are accepted by everyone and that they would actually want to see outside of a containment thread, excluding touhou.

>>16609199
>Nothing it preventing you from making a thread about a /jp/-related material right now.
I can't upload pictures.

You can't post any images right now, so the generals are trapped at the bottom of the board. Is /jp/ good now?

>>16609524
This thread is still in first

>>16609524
/jp/ is good again
here's hoping hiromoot doesn't have enough money to bring back imageposting

>>16609527
we literally couldn't make new threads.

>>16609528
good

>>16609529
This.

Hopefully /jp/ wouldn't get as bad as ghost.

>>16609524
The generals are literally /jp/s only good point. Rest is pure cancer.

>>16609537
begone and staygone

>>16609542
No u. You're destroying this board with your garbage.

In you guys opinion, is there a way I could make a "why is anime so shit" thread and have it be about the anime fans and otaku side of it rather than being an /a/ topic? I really don't get why people like shit like kemono friends and that dragon maid lesbian trash. I wonder if otaku are more accepting of low quality nowadays because there's nothing else or if the market veered towards that.

I wonder what happened to sci fi and fantasy nerdy otaku to make them get replaced by pervy otaku who only care about cute things and tits.

>>16609524
Is that why I was getting 'upload failed'?

>>16609199
>None of you are going to want to talk about kigurumi outfits, idols, dolls, vocaloids, or specific light novels outside of their threads. Nothing it preventing you from making a thread about a /jp/-related material right now.
Most of the discussion I've had of idols has been outside actual idol general threads. There are a few light novels I would discuss if people wanted to talk about it. I can't post in Vocaloid general because I'm an amateur of Vocaloid. Making my own thread for these would be depressing because - in all likelihood - they'd promptly be buried under general threads. Yes, I could suck it up and do it, but browsing an imageboard should be something people do as their whims dictate, not like some sort of chore they do in the dim hope of a possible reward.

Loosely speaking: in order to sustain independent threads for something, there need to be enough bored people with common interests idling on the front page to see it and jump on it. /jp/, for reasons having to do with generals and other reasons both, doesn't have this pool of free users anymore. There's all sorts of pressure on the board to be a certain way and meta is one of the only things I can imagine being capable of actually resisting it - doing things the "correct way", just making threads for things you like and hoping that will regenerate the pool of users through nothing but genuine interest in stuff is a losing fight and more importantly it's one that has already ground me to dust.

>>16609561
No, you're getting that because God hates you.

>>16609560
Light otaku are more likely to consume media which doesn't have a complex storyline. I enjoy series which has a more complex storyline nowadays because its rarer. I still think there is merit to loosely storylined series though, I just dont really know how to put it into words. Maybe what I mean is that the story doesnt matter but the values or ideas that it expresses by just existing are enough, like Chobits.

>>16609560
You have to disguise it it as a /jp/ thread.

For example, you could ask why Kemono Friends has managed to roll over Nicovideo and Japanese Twitter like a large memetic wrecking ball, or what it is about fill-in-the-blank thousand-girl series that causes modern otaku in particular to flock to them (see also: Touhou, Kantai Collection).

>>16609566
>doesn't have this pool of free users anymore. They don't have it to begin with. Only a handful of people are interested in a given topic and would never be able to sustain it. In all likelyhood if generals didn't exists, instead of a million touhou threads, there'd be a million threads, one for each individual member of akb, since that's the thread with the most users.

>>16609585
I've never said that we should break up or ban the generals - they're passable at what they do, and if people want to collect in a thread to discuss a thing they like there's no compelling reason that they shouldn't be allowed to do so. I've mostly been the one asking for a separate board in this thread. Though while I'm at it I suppose I might as well be asking for adminship or a million dollars.

AKB General in particular is an example where breaking it up would be a complete disaster because the people who post in AKB General don't culturally mesh with a lot of the rest of /jp/.

>>16609566
>doesn't have this pool of free users anymore. They don't have it to begin with. Only a handful of people are interested in a given topic and would never be able to sustain it.

In all likelyhood if generals didn't exists, instead of a million touhou threads, there'd be a million threads, one for each individual member of akb, since that's the thread with the most users.

>>16609617
So then what do you want exactly? For people to personally talk to you about what you want to talk about?

>>16609620
I've never said that we should break up or ban the generals - they're passable at what they do, and if people want to collect in a thread to discuss a thing they like there's no compelling reason that they shouldn't be allowed to do so. I've mostly been the one asking for a separate board in this thread. Though while I'm at it I suppose I might as well be asking for adminship or a million dollars.

AKB General in particular is an example where breaking it up would be a complete disaster because the people who post in AKB General don't culturally mesh with a lot of the rest of /jp/.

>>16595153
moot is so cute

>>16609631
I want people to personally make threads for things they want to talk about, some of which I may also be interested in talking about.

If I'm the only one here who feels that there are great pressures acting to make it difficult to make successful non-general non-template threads in /jp/ but wants to see them anyway then it would just all be about me. I just don't think I am.

>>16609652
Who?

>>16609560

"Stop liking what I don't like" threads are always garbage.

>>16609654
But what is it they would make threads about? I mean you already said it's okay to make generals. What is there to be had outside of them? Any topic popular enough to have threads about more than once in a blue moon is basically a general and anything less probably barely has enough people to bump it off page 10 every couple of days. There's very little active content to talk about, as in something that would become popular, discussed, and then disappear. Lots of stuff is in Japanese and lots of /jp/ seems to want to refuse to learn it. A lot of it is already being talked about in /vg/ too.

>>16609667
"Stop liking what I don't like" threads are sometimes nice when OP's not being a complete shitter and nobody is outright trolling, because they give people a place to talk about things they don't like. If nobody makes a thread declaring that X is shit you'll never have an opportunity to explain to people - including bystanders - why X is great and you should like X too. Nobody likes a circlejerk.

>>16609670
>But what is it they would make threads about?
Anything Japanese that's not an anime or manga? It's not like there's nothing to talk about. Just because there is a general thread for a topic doesn't mean you can't make a thread about some specific aspect of that topic, either. There is a lot of difference between threads that are up all the time and threads that are up once every six months.

>Lots of stuff is in Japanese and lots of /jp/ seems to want to refuse to learn it.
/jp/ has basically bullied itself into not admitting that it's currently in the process of learning Japanese. It's not something you can talk about anymore, both because of the ingrained culture of /jp/, and because the janitor seems to be deleting any discussion of how knowing / not-knowing Japanese might affect your enjoyment of a thing.

It wasn't always like this.

>>16609487
>Every thread that isn't Touhou-related gets responses like "go back to your containment thread" or "not Otaku Culture".
No they don't

>>16609487
>Every thread that isn't Touhou-related gets responses like "go back to your containment thread" or "not Otaku Culture".
There's cases where this has led to generals. People getting pissy because they see a topic they don't like even though it fits on /jp/, then the people either a) make a general to contain it so they can discuss the topic tantrum-free, or b) moved to another board they fit less on but are tolerated on.

Result is both generals on /jp/ and lack of content for /jp/ because the people who want to talk about stuff moved to other boards.

>>16609690
>Anything Japanese that's not an anime or manga?
Oh you're one of those people that think "Japanese" before it makes it /jp/ relevant. Japanese streets, Japanese tea, Japanese food, and all that shit.

>>16609732
>Oh you're one of those people that think "Japanese"
I didn't make the rules. In fact I thought our rules were a crock of shit. But it says "diverse niche Japanese interests" with an explicit inclusion of tea right there in the rules, and the threads have been around for years. But even if you got rid of the random Japanese threads it's not like there is a shortage of actual media.

>>16609740
If anything /jp/ should have a /wap/ board so people who care about Japan instead of Japanese media can go there.

Something, something,

These are the last traces of those dreamlike days...

>>16610028
what's the obsession with that dumb phrase anyway?

I miss /prog/

>>16610034
It makes it easy to avoid collecting your own thoughts.

The one thing that never changed across the ages and iterations of jaypee, including the spin offs, is pointless meta threads like this.

9 years of repeating the same in the meta threads: the guy that misses some kind of spam or brand or shitposting, the autistic pretentious asshats that after 9 years can never get what the hell /jp/ -"otaku culture"-not-to-be confused-with-"japan general"-but-for-some-reason-tea-is-okay even is, the weeb that feels above everyone else because he migrated to the jap web but for some reason always shows up on the meta thread, the guy that wants to make yet another spin off board/site to show the man how it's done, the same guys chanting the death of imageboard culture while theorizing what the hell it is, a shitposter with his own brand of old school memes, the depressive that thinks that every one killed themselves except him and finally every one posts touhou.

>>16609560
>>16609584
I happen to be an expert on this topic.
Maidragon is shit because kyoani is shit, but it's the animey the doujinshi artist crowd decided to stealth market. Just like that shitty blue haired maid from rezoro last season, another craptastic animey (but what did you expect from an animey including time leap). And because it has massive support from those yellow monkey it's popular.
Now as to why it's shit, well Kyoani's staff is well known to turn anything into shit, the sakuga being their only saving grace.

As for kemono friends, there isn't any good anime this season except for gabriel dropout, so around third episode people came to discuss it on 2ch, so a few otaku genuinely got interested in it.
The fact that it has so little content for a 30 min anime, the first episode being rushed and unfinished, and the fact that a KIDS anime airs at latenight anime time is what got most real otaku's interest, like wtf is this.

They don't seem to have that much in common, but they do. Why you ask? because of ファッションオタク fashion otaku. Not otaku of fancy clothes, but people who put on otaku airs for the sake of fashion ie. "look at ME I'm soooo otaku xD". They have those in japan as well.

Why they latched on kemono friends is obvious: it all begun when niconico did a 一挙放送. And niconico being FILLED with shitty fashion otaku (truotaku go to some obscure site, or don't stream at fucking all, all the old streamers died anyway) Also none of them watched more than one episode. If you ask them or talk kemonofriend with them it's obvious. They basically just say "hurr you're [x] friend xDDD" and repost memepictures on twitter so they can be a part of the gang.

As for maidragon, it's popular so they latch onto it, just like with flies and shit.




Unfortunately such post belong in /a/ where they will be ignored because everybody is too busy talking about narto.

/jp/ sucks because the moderation deletes good threads on the basis that it doest belongs here/it belongs elsewhere.
If it's an anime it's /a/, if it's a light novel it's /a/ because there's an anime adaptation, if it's a seiyuu discussion it's /a/ if it's a doujinshi it's /a/ or /h/ if it's a doujin game it's /v/ or /h/ if it's a game it's /v/ if it's a novel game it goes on /v/ or /lit/ if it's doujin music it's /mu/ , figures go on /a/, nobody buys dolls and we're left with kigurumi and idols.

I can't talk about http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1045513.html because
1) it's in jap and nobody speaks it
2) it's a game so it goes in /v/
3) it involves 野水伊織 so it goes in /a/

I know ソシャゲ probably should go on /v/ or /a/ but have some umapyoi anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxe79gNWTmA the only good thing that ever came from cygames.

/jp/ is a board to discuss otaku culture
/jp/ is a comunity ◎