/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I remember when /b/ was the /a/ of today with more porn

Let them keep thinking /b/ is 4chan and all will remain fine.

remember when it was 4chan.net? didnt think so

I remember the crusades(read: nerd slap fights) against 5chan.

>>578099

remember when 4chan was /l/?

>>578100
Remember what happened to /v/? How about /a/? How about /gif/, /r/, /s/ and /h/? Why the fuck do we even have /r9k/ and /hc/?

A Japan/general board would be fucking redundant on the good old 4chan.

>>578112
4chan grew up

and by grew up I mean turned 13

remember /g/?

>>578112
/hc/ was to try to get porn off of /b/ in order to try to save it (which failed) and /r9k/ is just 4chan's own little 7chan.

>>578115
I think you mean im-matured since 4chan was 18+

>>578118
The boards /gif/, /k/, /o/, /r/, /s/, /r9k/, /co/, /fa/, /fit/, /hc/, /mu/, /sp/, /tg/, /toy/, /tv/ and /x/ never belonged here.

>>578124
It just attracted idiots. Age has nothing to do with it.

>>578091

>>578137
What's wrong with /r/?

I've never been there.

>>578144
>>>/r/

No time like the present to rage.

>>578144
It's for porn only

>>578137
>GET YOU UN-VIRGINS

>>578168
The truth hurts, doesn't it?

>>578099

Yes, as a matter of fact I do remember those days.
I've been browsing this damn site since late 2003.

I remember when /v/ wasn't a bunch of casual faggots talking about GTA and Halo or calling anyone with actual knowledge "tourneyfags", remaining oblivious to any game remotely obscure or bashing JRPG's.

Fuck.

>>578176

>>578189

yeah but do you remember when there was no /v/?

/tg/, /toy/, and /co/ at the very least belong. I can understand /k/ too but those carfags are just fucking weird.

>>578196
Not Japanese culture in the slightest though.

>>578137
/tg/ and /gif/ can stay.

Although I pity those who think /gif/ can be relied on for more than just porn.

Seriously? Why fap to .gif porn when you have the INTERNET?

>>578217
/gif/ has ALWAYS been one of the worst boards here.

>>578206

lies. /tg/ gets lots of Touhou and /toy/ gets plenty of Japanese toys, though most of them could just go in /m/.

Anyone remember when it was a given you were a virgin on 4chan or an unvirgin who just got lucky with some drunk chick?

Remember when camwhores were a once in a blue moon occurrence?

I remember when you could post in /a/ and there were NO TROLLS. I made a reccomendation thread once and got 100+ serious replies. Those +100 replies got me into 100 great series. Since then I've only discovered Bible Black and Boku no Pico.

lol meta thread

>>578217
>Why fap to .gif porn when you have the INTERNET
This in a thread reminiscing the old days? lol irony

>>578228
Remember when 4chan didn't really care about getting laid and when it was JUST Cracky?

>>578240
Rabbit-chan > *

Oh, Rabbit Chan.

I still cry myself to sleep at night, knowing that I will never hold her in my arms.

>>578235
Trolls are fine, provided they put some thought into it.

It's the ones that post the same fucking thing and sagebomb that ruin it.

Remember when /b/ was actually random and funny?

>>578245
Cracky's the only *-chan that ever mattered.

It's sad that you think otherwise.

>>578257
How I miss the time when trolling was an art form...

Remember when /b/ wasn't in /jp/?

>>578269
Even prior to last summer on /v/ there were some AWESOME trolls. I mean, absolute masterpieces: Usually guys pretending to be girls who subtley alluded to their dislike of nerdy introverts.

There was some absolutely RAGE inducing kopipe that got something like 300+ replies even back then.

>>578273
Remember when /b/ WAS /jp/?

>>578240
I never liked cracky.

>>578237

Aw come on Paul, we've been playing for ages. Can't we take a break? The barbarian has lost so much intelligence he can barely remember to breathe and the wizard is too busy casting eagle's splendor on himself trying to get laid to even care about his knowledge checks

Dan Kim before Dan Kim!

>>578281
Yeah...
Savor /jp/ for what it is now, in a few months it'll be newfag summer and it's goodbye /jp/

Remember Allyson?

bah, /jp/ is already irreparably damaged from the mod-rampage.

let moot delete it already and then 4chan will officially be dead for us and we can move on...

How did everything go so wrong?

>>578450

ANONYMOUS IS LEGION, NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET.

POOLS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS, SCIENTOLOGY FOR THE LULZ

http://www.gotoquiz.com/how_4chan_are_you

The end is upon us.

>>578458
And not a moment too soon.

>>578457
Basically this

>>578450
It all started going to shit with the Habbo Raids.

>>578476
Bingo.

Maybe a few weeks before, something foul starting a'brewing.

>>578450
Memes and a flock of sheep repetition mentality killed 4chan. Which sort of means it was born dead but things got worse and worse.

>>578458

Oh my fucking god what is this shit?

Score: 88%

You are the true face of 4chan. You're the type of person who finds racist jokes and sick humor hilarious, raids CoS, makes personal army requests whenever you see someone you dislike on Youtube, gets off to 5-year-olds, and calls Gamestop at 3 AM to ask for Battletoads. You scare me... and yet, I love you.

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WRONG.

>>578485

Agreed. That was the explosion of 4chan being a self-contained SA-reject society to full blown overwhoring.

>>578497
And saddest thing is this is what /b/ actually believes.

Also, the fact that you were able to finish the test.

>>578497
lulz XD

>>578497
here

I redid the quiz picking all of the faggot answers such as I LIEK MUDKIPS, GTFO MY /b/ YOU WEEABOO FAGGOT, V FOR VENDETTA, I FAP TO THEM DAILY.

You are 92% 4chan material.


You are the true face of 4chan. You're the type of person who finds racist jokes and sick humor hilarious, raids CoS, makes personal army requests whenever you see someone you dislike on Youtube, gets off to 5-year-olds, and calls Gamestop at 3 AM to ask for Battletoads. You scare me... and yet, I love you.

>>578517
I got 93%, and I've been out of /b/ for years...

You are 78% 4chan material.


You're an average 4channer - far from being a newfag, with plenty of knowledge of our subculture and various memes, and the potential to be downright hilarious at times. Yet you've managed to keep a few shreds of your sanity, and aren't the out-of-hand Anonymous that makes it to those news reports. In other words, you are the best kind of 4channer.

>>578497

This entire idea of "/B/ IS ABOUT BEING INTERNET JERKS. NIGGERS LOL. OMG CP. LOOK AT HOW FAILINGLY OFFENSIVE I AM" destroyed the entire idea of /b/ and 4chan in general being whatever you make it to be. So instead of being the cool contained community site for sarcastic people who like anime it became the site where funny cat pictures came from and where people OUTRAGEOUS (i.e. overused, tired, unfunny) things.

/b/ was always a little bit stupid with image macros but the point was that it wasn't always about trying to be funny and that you could make a thread about anything and have full blown discussions. Of course now threads blow by like the speed of light and its all threads about people's boring lives and girlfriends and other trite shit like that.

>>578476
It started going to shit LONG before that

You are 100% 4chan material.


You are the true face of 4chan. You're the type of person who finds racist jokes and sick humor hilarious, raids CoS, makes personal army requests whenever you see someone you dislike on Youtube, gets off to 5-year-olds, and calls Gamestop at 3 AM to ask for Battletoads. You scare me... and yet, I love you.


This is weak shit. Where are the old /b/tard tests that were 3 or 4 pages long?

There is a:

1. Fashion board
2. Sports board

Seriously...wtf?

>>578534
In retrospect, yes.

But back then, it was a very steady slip and then the fall into absolute shit from raids.

>>578536
/b/ used to be a place where intellectuals acted like retards.

Then it became a place where retards acted like intellectuals.

Now it's just a place where retards act like retards.

This is everything wrong with /b/, 4chan, the internet and the world:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d5fxBtZ8YrU

This is also the future, gentlemen.

Read it and weep and weep and weep.

You are 78% 4chan material.


You're an average 4channer - far from being a newfag, with plenty of knowledge of our subculture and various memes, and the potential to be downright hilarious at times. Yet you've managed to keep a few shreds of your sanity, and aren't the out-of-hand Anonymous that makes it to those news reports. In other words, you are the best kind of 4channer.

KAWAII DESU NE~

>>578540
ED made it so everyone is "oldfag" material.

>>578555
Why'd you repost that? ;_;

>>578561
One cannot act like a retard. One can merely be a retard.

>>578555

The horror! The horror!

>>578555
N-no...

>>578281
>Remember when /b/ WAS /jp/?
In 6 months, /jp/ will be /b/ so yeah!

>>578607
If touhou keeps wrecking it, yea it will be like /b/ - Random/Touhou. Not sure which is worse.

>>578555

We can kill these people, right? Right?

>>578607
;__;

>>578623
I love how Touhou always becomes the scapegoat for the failure in the board. As if there isn't anything else making it worse off.

>>578623

4/10

>>578633
They're already dead.

I still can't phantom how 4chan came so big from being just a shitty little site.

>>578867

I can't opera it either.

>>578867
porn.

Thanks For Visiting!

Thanks for taking five minutes out of your life to take this quiz. If you're a non-user but still managed to score 40% or higher, we'd love for you to become one of us - but only after lurking and browsing ED for a while to make sure you really know who we are. If you scored below that, then GTFO. We don't take very well to your kind here.

"How 4chan are you?" was created by moot

>created by moot

>>578929
Little kids that think it's cleaver to imp.

>>578942
I'M THE PRESIDENT

>>578458
THE ULTIMATE TROLL

>>578929
>browsing ED

>>578458 85%
"You are the true face of 4chan. You're the type of person who finds racist jokes and sick humor hilarious, raids CoS, makes personal army requests whenever you see someone you dislike on Youtube, gets off to 5-year-olds, and calls Gamestop at 3 AM to ask for Battletoads. You scare me... and yet, I love you."

I haven't gone to /b/ in three years because it sucks so much. None of that is true, except that I do actually represent the true face of 4chan.

/jp/ is the last bastion of goodness here. I had some home for /r9k/ but that hope has been dashed by the reality that I just don't want to talk to today's /b/tards

I lost $5 to yowcow for this shit

>>579054
It was until touhou appeared.

>>579066

Fail more, /jp/ was here since day one

>>579066

ITT people who don't know the first thread after moot's sticky was touhou.

>>579066

Fail more, Touhou was here since the creation of /jp/

>>579066
I like Type Moon and Touhou as much as the next guy. There's a little bit too much of it but playing Melty Blood is really fun. It's not as overdone as /tg/ and the fat fuck 40k faggots

>>579066
Nothing wrong with touhou. It's the whole touhou vs 3D shit that could turn /jp/ into a giant trolling shitboard. In-fact, ti's just those few touhoufags who can't stand 3D. It's the exact same as /v/ console wars, and we all know how great of a board /v/ is.

>>579079
>>579080

People who can't connect the dots.

>>579080
better yet ... touhou is WHY we have /jp/ now.

>>578091
Remember when there was no /a/?
Didn't think so.
Sage for newfags who think they're oldfags.
in b4 newfag is what newfags say.

>>579148
it's true, there were still morons on 4chan back then. I remember you and yours

>>579148
/a/ was added a month after the opening of 4chan, that's a ridiculous thing to say.

>>578449
but where do we go, anon?

>>579202

Scattered back amongst the internet.
It's a small world.
We'll all meet again.
I don't know where or when.
But one sunny day....

>>579229

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when

>>579251
>>579229

;~;

>>579202
I heard hell serve nice meals

Posting from when /b/ went to shitfuck.

you can still see remnants of the old style of stupidity at >>>/vip/

I don't promise anything.

When the shit hits [insert adjective] 2000 we will meet up again at 吉野家 and get extra green onion.

>>579293

>>579054
>/jp/ is the last bastion of goodness here.

I sort of get that feeling as well. The subject matter is somewhat limited (not that I want this board to become Japan/Random), but the atmosphere here feels more like the other boards did a few years back. It's nice. Let's not ruin it by trolling, sagebombing, and running memes into the ground.

Is this allyson art

>>579324
stop posting shit you fucking retard

>>579332
Painful memories are good for catharsis.

i miss nightshift /a/

Hell, I can't remember the last time someone posted NO U.

>>579328
>trolling
Japanese/Korean/Chinese, 2D vs. 3D, Touhou vs. Type Moon, anything vs. anything, /a/ leaking into /jp/, etc.

>sagebombing
Happens occasionally.

>running memes into the ground
95% of all Touhou threads. The other 5% are imagedumps.

NEVER FORGET

I am sick and tired of the Gay Agenda creeping in from /b/, asking about "memes" and other things nobody cares about unless they are having unprotected anal sex with other men. Homosexuality, and God's curse of the AIDS it brings, is a choice because GOD HATES FAGS! You choose the new metrosexual /b/ lifestyle, you choose to let AIDS into your perverted body, and you have chosen God to hate you and make you gay!

>>579085
To be fair, about half the board hates the 40k guys.

They just can't match the volume of posts.

>>578876
Underage b& like this are to blame for everything. Stupid 17 year olds think they're human just because they're a few months away. Trash.

>>579361
Nobody's perfect. Just try your best, Anonymous!

>>579276
I hope you mean while/after it went to "shitfuck", because drawfags were pure faggotry

>>579361
>trolling
>Japanese/Korean/Chinese, 2D vs. 3D, Touhou vs. Type Moon, anything vs. anything, /a/ leaking into /jp/, etc.

Yeah, this needs to stay under control. The /a/ leak is the biggest issue, we're fucked if we can't hold back newfag summer 08.

>sagebombing
>Happens occasionally.

If its being used occasionally on a tamer board like this then its being used appropriately. A shithole like present day /b/ is what requires consistent ones.

>running memes into the ground
>95% of all Touhou threads. The other 5% are imagedumps.

Imagedumps typically done by Touhou. China's my waifu, I don't play EASY MODO, but seriously stop shitting it up for those of us who like Touhou, but don't spam out a billion threads about it.

>>579366
I regret donating.

I would rather die. ;_;

I am sick and tired of the Gay Agenda creeping in from /b/, asking about "memes" and other things nobody cares about unless they are having unprotected anal sex with other men. Homosexuality, and God's curse of the AIDS it brings, is a choice because GOD HATES FAGS! You choose the new metrosexual /b/ lifestyle, you choose to let AIDS into your perverted body, and you have chosen God to hate you and make you gay!

>>579391
There's no such thing as an appropriate sagebomb. You sage to make your posts discreet. It's a tool for politeness. It's not a "fuck you," and it's certainly not meant to be a thread killer.

4chan was born of the depravity which can only exist on the internet. There was never anywhere to go but up, and yet this place has continually surprised even the harshest skeptics and found ways to descend deeper and deeper into the depths of its own hell.

And yet, two years from now you'll whitewash the past and think about the time you spent on /jp/ when it "wasn't that bad yet" or some such.

>>579388
Fuck you. I like drawwhores. They sometimes take my requests.

Anyone remember Buki Buki?

>>579417
And that is why you fucking fail at life.

>>579414
Problem is that it did go up, and turned friendly. It went from the asshole of the internet to being the pussy.

>>579412
Unrelated imageflood with a sagebomb tends to dishearten well enough. Too bad /b/ doesn't have saging anymore.

>>579328

It wouldn't feel like home without trolling. The balance between content and trolling just can't get completely out of whack. Biggest problem I have with /jp/ right now is that it's a little too slow, and it's too Touhou dominated. It's not even that I have a problem with Touhou, but it's not right that there are times when every thread on the front page is Touhou. Without variety this place is fucked. Oh, and on that note, fuck the faggots that are always trying their hardest to drive out Morning Musume or whatever the fuck their personal pet peeve is. Fuck you, /jp/ isn't /shityoulike/, deal with it faggots.

>>579414
>And yet, two years from now you'll whitewash the past and think about the time you spent on /jp/ when it "wasn't that bad yet" or some such.

Heh, that's the silliest thing. No matter how bad it gets, it can only get worse from there, and yes, I now cherish moments that I believed to be shitty at the time. When this incarnation of /b/ first went to forced anonymous for an extended period of time, when Milhouse was the 1 millionth post on /a/, when the idea of "EPIC ANONYMOUS LEGION" began to take over: they all sucked, but I'd love to go back to those days now. So yes, two years from now, I know that I will remember this situation somewhat fondly.

ITT we become nostalgia fags about how 4chan used to be good.
PROTIP: 4chan was never good.

This is why. Just look at how this thread turned to shit

The worst part about 4chan isn't the idiots posting on it, it's telling everyone online they did.

I physically shudder every time some newbie goes off and sprouts the 'Good News' somewhere that has nothing remotely to do with this place. Somewhere that I go to get away. Not just some lone meme, either, but the FULL PACKAGE.

>>579435
Eh, I can deal with all the Touhou if it makes the board go any faster.

I agree with the Morning Musume thing though. They had they daily threads for a while without shitting up the rest of the board, kept their shit in one thread unless it reached autosage, etc. and then suddenly people started sagebombing because... I don't know, really.

I'm fine with all the Japanese related things but it starts being stupid related threads get sagebombed because some people don't care for that kind of thread.

>>579458

>PROTIP: 4chan was never good.

That might be true but it was never this bad or boring

>>579458
We all know that.

4chan was never meant to be good, but rather a gather of all the fail of society. Problem is, that fail became the fail of the Internet and the 'mainstreamers' came in.

>>579475
king of typos, do you have enough errors?

they=their
being stupid related threads = being stupid when related threads

>>579493
thanks for making a whole post just to clarify that, because your post was so important it would be a sin for me to miss an ounce of your intended message

Also, what the fuck is up with the ANON IS LEGION XD EPIC LULZ mentality starting to appear on /jp/?

Saging tripfags just because they're tripfags is just fucking stupid.

>>579513
sage is in the email field for a reason

Concepts of "good/bad" are irrelevant where 4chan, and especially where /b/ in particular, are concerned.

>>579519

Only idiotic tripfags get saged.

>>579451

ANONYMOUS IS LEGION is a result of faggot LUEsers and YTMND circlejerk retards discovering 4chan. That's when I started to remove /b/ from my idle browsing rotation.

>>579519
tripfags are aggrivating. Saging them has nothing to do with that annoying vomit you just typed

>>579475

Again, no problem with the Touhou, but it just shouldn't dominate the board. There's no need to make a hundred different fucking threads for it at any given time. The Morning Musume faggots are model citizens because they consolidate their shit in one thread. That would be my ideal /jp/, a front page with 10 completely different threads about completely different things. Instead of 4 Touhou, 1 Type-Moon power level fagfest, 1 VN elitist/Type Moon trolling thread, 2 "YOUTUBE MAKES ME RAGE" threads, 1 Heisig , and the Morning Musume thread filled with sailboats.

>>579519
Attention whoring.

>>579519
No, Anonymous, it is you who is fucking stupid.

>>579536
No, I think the concept of "bad" is very relevant to /b/.

I tripfag because tripfags always aggravated me, so now it's my default trolling stance.

What I hate is threads that have no pics besides the OP.
>Image Board.
>Image.
>Post a fucking image.

>>579555
Late night /jp/ is better, since people seem to stop caring about shitting up threads, and you get some actual discussion and threads going. Actually, late night /jp/ is just what late night /a/ used to be, which is a slower, but more productive pace with an occasional (usually) tasteful troll.

>>579439
>Problem is that it did go up, and turned friendly. It went from the asshole of the internet to being the pussy.
I like your theory.

>>579555
>That would be my ideal /jp/, a front page with 10 completely different threads about completely different things. Instead of 4 Touhou, 1 Type-Moon power level fagfest, 1 VN elitist/Type Moon trolling thread, 2 "YOUTUBE MAKES ME RAGE" threads, 1 Heisig , and the Morning Musume thread filled with sailboats.

Hey, that's not too bad, 6 unique out of 10. Better than say, 9 touhou, 1 Heisig or something.

As somewhat of a newbie to this site I'd say it all turned out for the better. We have gatherings like raids, lulz against CO$ and its never been more popular. Not only that but we have a wider range of visitors than a few months before. I usually don't come here but stay in Myspace or youtube, but now I feel like visiting more. Which is GOOD FOR YOU!

>>579690
No one's stupid enough to fall for that.

>>579690

You SIRS/MS are the CANCER that IS killing /everything4chon/ plz GTFO.

>>579704
Trolls like this help people like
>>579711
lern2lurkmoar by teaching humility.

So many memories...

I'm starting to believe this place is a bit of a cultural phenomenon... consider the popularity of this place online - while it retains it's sort of, edge of the world feel to it (like you've traveled as far as the tubes go), signs of it continuously pop up all over the place... IRL even

>>579742

I don't understand.

I discovered japanese imageboards long before I even knew what an imageboard was or even was called. Don't recall how, but I landed here in early 2004 and being an anime person I landed in /a/. I've never set foot in /b/, by the way.

I don't know guys, I still think 4chan is the best place to be. I go to gamefaqs, neogaf, animeondvd and so on forums yet I've come to hate them more than the new 4chan. Why? Because at places like those where I'm trying to get AWAY from here, the shitty ancient (occassionally recent) memes and direct linking/speaking of 4chan is so blatant and overabundent it freaking sucks.

4chan hasn't only drug itself down, it's taken down a good deal of the internet with it.

>>579938

That's a dude, huh?

>>579953
You bet. That's one of my older trap pictures saved from here ages ago. Figured I'd post something old-ish in a nostalgia thread.

>>579938
so then, the legions of newfags aren't just new here, but new to the net... god-damnit does this place come bookmarked on fucking aol or what

>>578540

How do I got 0%

>>580116
Good thing I'm already scarred for life by what /b/ has been allowed to become, and that quiz is just a festering sore. This is almost as bad as crunchyroll.

>>579982
Pretty much. As long as large, well known sites/forums such as those continue to draw on 4chan "lulz", even people new to the 'net will end up here.

>>580116
lol, you fail, i got 85%

I can't sleep.

>>580150
Taking the quiz is instant failure. Getting anything more than 0% is unforgivable.

>>579366

I came to 4chan after I heard about it on other forums.

For your enjoyment Lain before 4chan died and we created IIchan.net in its absence.

>>579366

I came to 2003/2004 after I heard about it on other forums.

For your enjoyment Lain offering to give Moot money before 4chan died and we created IIchan.net in its absence.

i always love how moot always pretends he's too cool for 4chan.

>>579366

I came to 4chan in 2003/2004 after I heard about it on other forums like Ecchi-Attack.

For your enjoyment Lain offering to give Moot money before 4chan died and we created IIchan.net in its absence.

>>578458
You are 100% 4chan material.

You are the true face of 4chan. You're the type of person who finds racist jokes and sick humor hilarious, raids CoS, makes personal army requests whenever you see someone you dislike on Youtube, gets off to 5-year-olds, and calls Gamestop at 3 AM to ask for Battletoads. You scare me... and yet, I love you.

Hmm, guess I've been here for 5 years then.

Early /k/ thrust vectoring thread.

All I want is the old /a/. I don't care about the other boards because I never visit them anyway (except for /d/).

49%. This quiz lacked "Fuck you" as a choice for every question.

>>580214
it's too bad /d/ sucks now

i still want to meet a 100% 4channer, just to see fow fucked in the head they are ...

>>578458
That quiz is retarded. I answered "fuck no that meme is stupid" the the mudkip question, then went back and changed it to "i liek mudkipz" and my score raised? In other words, real 4channer = "lol i liek mudkips lmao sparta longcat lol memes ^_^"

You are 78% 4chan material.

You're an average 4channer - far from being a newfag, with plenty of knowledge of our subculture and various memes, and the potential to be downright hilarious at times. Yet you've managed to keep a few shreds of your sanity, and aren't the out-of-hand Anonymous that makes it to those news reports. In other words, you are the best kind of 4channer.

>>580235

Hah! 78%, im better than you faggots.

>>580224
Well it has dickgirls.

>>580225
Yo.

>>578458
This... this has to be a troll. Moot would not do such things.

>>580214
>All I want is the old /a/.
Same here. New /a/ is clearly owned lock, stock and barrel by Bandai Entertainment and /jp/, while nice and has its moments, is just to slow.

Image is from /a/ 1 year ago. Note the post count back then. They've gone up 8 million in a year. It's no exaggeration that newfag summer never ended.

>>580267
4chan was most enjoyable for me around that time or a little earlier. 2005-2006 on /a/ was awesome. Finally had enough people to move along nicely but still had few enough that I could post something before I went to sleep and read replies in the morning. Plus we had some pretty awesome threads back then too. Remember when Utawarerumono was airing?

>>580267

All I want is old nightshift /a/... daytime was always pretty shitty, at least it was while I was there, but it wasn't /b/ shitty and it was fast and I liked the trolling. I can't go near /a/ nowadays without wanting to cry.

Funny how you made this thread on /jp/, "the board of newcomers." Judging from their post, most /jp/ers found 4chan a few months ago. Evidence of this is the fact that they no longer post on /a/.

I've been on /a/ for 3 years now; do you really think I would one day leave /a/ for a new board? What I mean by that is after you've been on /a/ for long enough time you'll become attached to it regardless if you like it or not. If /a/ was to become complete shit your maternal instincts would tell you to start saging more in a futile attempt to save the board. But I guess the average /jp/er doesn't have that bond nor do they have that maternal instinct.

Plus this board looks worse then /b/. You guys are true failures at life. I'm a Neet loser yet reading some of your threads make me facepalm. You guys have zero direction in your lifes. Your fandom is unhealthy. I might like Lucky Star or Gurren Lagann but I'll only talk about it for a few months before forgetting about it. You /jp/ers will be talking about touhou when you're 30. /jp/ers lack evolution.

I'm heading back to /a/.

touhou needs to stop.

i'm sick and tired of seeing one thread for every fucking character in the series, you can fit all of them in one or two fucking threads.
image dumping: why the fuck do you faggots do it? anyone who gave a fucking shit about touhou probably already saved them and that touhou board should have tons of shit for you to save if you do't already have it. images last longer on that board, post your shit there so everybody can save it.
and before you tell me "LOL IMG BORD UR SPOSED 2 PST IMGS LOL" no, being an image board doesn't mean every fucking post has to be a fucking image and the sole purpose of every thread is to flood it with the same fucking images you posted two days ago.

i used to be a huge touhoufag, but the fanbase has turned naruto-like and it makes me fucking rage every time i come here to see it filled with faggots posting the same touhou shit every single god damned time.

>>580294
Is this copypasta?

I post on both boards, but I'm b& from /a/ right now for playing ronery bingo.

>>580305
>>580294
Lol copypasta.

>>580294
>like Lucky Star or Gurren Lagann
>I'm heading back to /a/.
Go ahead. We don't want you're astroturfing here.

>>580305

The quantity of Touhou threads have greatly decreased since the creation of /jp/.

>>580294
Chii's Sweet Home is fucking awesome.

>>580305
QFT

/jp/ - Danbooru ripoff

>>580294

I agree to this pasta. A lot of Type Moon fags here on /jp/ have low levels compared to when it was posted in /a/. Too many ignorant faggots.

>>580305
also to the faggot who said "JP IS TOO SLOW, TOUHOU FLOODS MAEK BOARD MOVE FASTER"
it's filling the board with shit everybody has already seen dozens of times, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO FILTER THROUGH THAT SHIT EVERY TIME YOU BROWSE THROUGH PAGES ON /jp/?
i don't even care if banning touhou reduces /jp/ to one post per hour, if i wanted to see images i'd go on to danbooru or any other image archive site and search for them.

>>580287
Hey anon, good news!

It is nighttime right now!

Go on over to /a/. Trust me you won't regret it.

>>580312
LOL XDDDDDDD COPYPASTA

i just typed this myself you faggot.

What if I sold my soul to the devil to bring old /a/ back for the greater good?

>>580305

Gensokyo man and his ilk are the cancer that is killing touhou. No one gives a rat's ass what your ORIGINAL CHARACTER DON'T STEAL is. No one cares about who your OTP is. No one wants to read your retarded fanfiction that sounds like it was written by a retarded five year old with an obsession with lakes.

This image from last december seems appropriate.

/a/ was fun. Now its just nothing but Code Geass.

You are 63% 4chan material.

You're beginning to assimilate into 4chan culture, but there's still a lot for us to show you. Try becoming legally insane and then coming back - you'll fit in much better.

>>580324
They'd make a thread to honor you. Though it'll get saged by newfags who will miss their talk about Bleach and Naruto.

>>580321

OLD nightshift /a/. Can you read? I went there, and I fucking regretted it. Not only were there multiple threads of Code Geass faggotry, but there was some bullshit thread about voting for Lucky Star in some saimoe ripoff faggotry that made me purposely stub my toe to block out the pain in my brain. Fuck you and fuck contemporary /a/. I'm never going back.

>>580320
Agreed.

This was the last time I chuckled while browsing /a/.

>>580314
i don't come here as often as i wanted to because there were 6 touhou threads on every page the last time i visited.

although that doesn't fucking matter, there's still way too fucking many, and those annoying faggots that are all like LOL XD CAVED, name themselves after touhou characters, roleplay, and faggots who say character names with japanese honorifics need to be fucking banned.
stealing japanese memes that don't even make very much sense when translated to english is not even funny at all.
roleplaying is for faggots.
using japanese honorifics in an english sentence is just absolutely the stupidest fucking thing i have ever heard.

>>580267
dear god, i remember seeing that thread as it happened...

>>580286
yes. i'm kixor, and, well, yesy got a lot of hate during the UM days.

>>580330
Even though I really liked 4chan in 2005, it seems a lot of the "/b/ IS FOR US TO ACT LIKE RETARDS AND RACISTS, RULES 1 AND 2, LULZ" faggots who are only a hair better than the so-called newfags found the site then. I partially blame them and their stupid raids for the popularity we suffer today.

>>580340
Was that the "USER WAS AWESOME FOR THIS POST" thread?

>>580351

Everyone does. Mostly because, well, it fucking IS all their faults. Of course, if they actually HAD adhered to rules 1 and 2... fucking faggots can't even be consistent about their faggotry.

>>580335
Newcomer confirmed for /jp/. Naruto and Bleach threads are saged on contact.

Also, /a/ realizes that Code Geass sucks. 70% of the people who post in Geass threads realize the show is mediocre.

One question to the touhoufags of /jp/. Do you guys even watch animu? I'm beginning to think you touhou fags are a next generation breed of nerd that never played a real game before or watched a real animu hence the reason why you cream your panties over static "fan created" characters?

tl;dr I'm beginning to think your obsessive fandom is just another case of "we don't know any better."

I'm already expecting an immature/butthurt reply to this post so I'll just leave. Please disregard it.

>>580354
It's on 4chanarchive.org under the "lots of bans" thread. That site is pretty shitty itself, since the idea of being an oldfag is that you remember threads, and then those that weren't on 4chan for some reason (no, not having sex with their girlfriends), they could request screencaps, which disappeared after awhile. It promoted a bonding amongst people that had seen the thread, and the newfags weren't in that bond until they had shared in the experience of being there for the original incarnation of a legendary thread which they could later talk about. These sites that explain everything for newfags trivializes these feelings, and makes 4chan a place to just laugh about the contemporary, not the legendary.

>>580368Also, /a/ realizes that Code Geass sucks. 70% of the people who post in Geass threads realize the show is mediocre.
Clarification: We watch it because it's fucking hilarious in its attempts to be completely serious.

>Judging from their post, most /jp/ers found 4chan a few months ago. Evidence of this is the fact that they no longer post on /a/.
I came from /v/. Nice to meet you.

>>580375

Suzaku is second to Kira Yamato in /m/echa manliness.

Now that the 4chan user base has grown quite a bit larger, the bans are certainly coming easier nowadays. One censored nude image got me a permban from a, and one similar got me sixty days from m.

Too bad I caught on the trend too late. Baaaaaaaawww.

>>580385

Daicensor?

>>580368

Bullshit, faggot. Who do you think you're fooling? We've seen all the Bleach/Naruto threads. We've seen some of them go without sages. I don't give a shit one way or the other whether or not Code Geass sucks or people realize it sucks, it could be the greatest anime ever and that wouldn't change the fact that it's completely shitting up /a/. It's certainly not alone, though. /a/ is dead, get over it. You don't have to move on, maybe you like rolling around in your own filth, but you'll never convince anyone with half a brain that /a/ is any better than /v/ or /b/ or Gaia or any other horrible internet shithole. Because it's not. And that is unbearably sad.

Modern 4chan reminds me a lot of fanfiction.net in 2001.

>>580372
>4chan a place to just laugh about the contemporary, not the legendary.
You make an interesting point about the new/old-based hegemony inherent in 4chan, but remember that the people who accomplished the stuff of legends didn't necessarily set out to do so. Most of it was the same as now: bored as fuck people posting on a rather depraved imageboard which tends to exacerbate the core aspects of internet anonymity.

I'm that person from /a/'s who been "saging due to viral marketing" since december '06. I hate how people continue to say I'm trying to force a meme. Like I care about memes. Look what /a/ has become since then.

You will never NOT find threads related to:

Harooohuee
Gorran Loggin
Lucky Shit
Code Gayass

on the first page. Those guys had me figured all wrong. And now /a/ is owned by Bandai Entertainment. Good going...

>>580372
>4chan a place to just laugh about the contemporary, not the legendary.
You make an interesting point about the new/old-based hegemony inherent in 4chan, but remember that the people who accomplished the stuff of legends didn't necessarily set out to do so. Most of it was the same as now: bored as fuck people posting on a rather depraved imageboard which tends to exacerbate the core aspects of internet anonymity.

>>580395
There's a scary thought.

>>580388
No, just an old-fashioned black censor bar.

remember when 4chan was good?

I just visited /a/. I don't mind whatever else there was, because I just got a nice set of kurenai images, a few of which are nsfw. I should check on /a/ to see if they can gather the win of the fanart in a single thread more often.

>>580408

What a shame that /lolikon/ isn't around on 4chan.

>>580404
I actually think most people in /a/ get paid by Bandai for promoting their animu.

>>580405
>people who accomplished the stuff of legends didn't necessarily set out to do so
Very true, however the difference between then and now is in the meaning of the term "legendary". Since it was harder to archive, less things were actually deserving of the title, and it was an honor. Now, since archival sites are numerous, just about anything is declared "legendary" and "epic" when in reality it's mostly fail.

>>580408
You missed mootbitchesabouthoweveryonesucksand4chanisdead-mid2004.png

>>580393
What point in Naruto threads are saged on contact do you fail to realize? Also, Naruto is the anime equivalent of Halo. It has the ability to attract newcomers unlike other shows. An average rerun of Naruto will receive more ratings then every show in this season combined and multiplied by 4.

Also, everybody has to start off some where you elitist prick. My generation grew up with speed racer and DBZ, does that make me better than the next gen kids that grew up with Naruto. Jesus christ you're a dumbass.

1.Are you American?
2.What was your first animu?

>>580419
I don't even see the term "legendary" used anymore. Only "epic" is used these days.

>>580404
You are

1.) one paranoid son of a bitch
2.) the greatest hero we all ignored

I can't choose...

/b/ should be about lonely people passing time with other lonely people.

The whole LOL INVASIONS! HOW CAN WE MAKE FOX NEWS THIS TIME? is the complete opposite.

People came to 4chan because they were losers. Obviously settling around /b/ because it was the most general. Eventually we started going to /a/ more, because anime was an escape. When the /a/ - /jp/ split happened we ended up here.

So you see /jp/, we are the oldfags. Or at least /jp/ has the highest ratio of oldfags.

>>580425
Not the anon you're replying to:

I went on /a/ awhile back, during the day, and there were four threads with 50+ replies and no sages.

Sorry pal, but the evidence is against you.

>>580425

>1.Are you American?

Yes.

>2.What was your first animu?

Robotech.

PS: You are dumb as shit and need to learn reading comprehension. Anything you say that doesn't make no sense in the first place is completely unrelated to what you're replying to.

>>580395
You say this on /jp/. The first ever board to complain when a mod said no more roleplaying. /jp/ is filled with fanfiction, roleplaying, and every other gaia-ish subject. /jp/ actually thinks it's acceptable to roleplay on the Internets.

True story: During a year 2004 raid of gaia I read a post on gaia where a gaiafag was talking about how gay roleplaying and writing fanfiction is. tl;dr /jp/ is worst then gaia.

>>580427
Epic has become a catch-all adjective. The new "cool".

Anyway, was it a bug that banned people could browse the board but could not post? I had it for a few months until today. Snif. a was my chosen board too.

>>My generation grew up with speed racer and DBZ
Speed Racer - 1967
DragonballZ - 1989

>>my generation
>>grew up with

SYNTAX ERROR

>>580425
1. Not Aerican
2. Hey! Bumboo

>>580441

Why don't you go back to trolling Touhoufags? At least that has a basis in reality. Seriously, who are you aiming for with this shit? Anyone who spends any time on /jp/ at all knows that shit isn't happening. Are you trying to troll the guy who spends like 10 minutes a night on /jp/ and has no idea what horrors might be going on in his absence?

>>580440
Robotech sucks (in comparison to Gundam 0079). But I'll let you in on a little secret. 95% of all *American animu fandom originated from Toonami. What type of shows did Toonami air you ask? Shounen shit.

Before Toonami the sub world's population was probably 400 hundred at best.

>>580419
Hmm. I see your point about archival. However the use of the actual word "epic" did finally decline in usage. When I finally gave up on /b/ in early 2007 it was hard to have a thread actually ABOUT anything, because when you actually had ten or so constructive posts going and some form of topic or occurrence, half of the next fifty posts would be "EPIC WIN" and such. It was starting to spread to /v/ when I moved there for good but thankfully never caught hold and I assumed it died down a bit elsewhere too?

>>580444
Talking about the Toonami era airing of Speed racer dumbass.

Anybody who claims they were watching animu before toonami is lying out of their ass. Normally I don't comment about it, but I do secretly laugh at their post.

>>580456
Fuck you. The new Toonami may be nothing but shonen garbage, but early Toonami had some great shit. Sure, DBZ was always present, but it has Sailor Moon, Big O, Gundam, Outlaw Star, Tenchi, not mention amazing cartoons like Batman and Reboot.

>>580461
>Anybody who claims they were watching animu before toonami is lying out of their ass.

Then how did I watch Sailor Moon eeeeaarrlllyyy in the morning years before Toonami even existed?

>>580456

HELLO WHO ARE YOU ARGUING WITH NONE OF YOUR "POINTS" ARE THE LEAST BIT RELEVANT TO ANYTHING YOU'RE REPLYING TO

Jesus fucking christ. Are you like selectively illiterate or what?

Even thought the steady climb on newfags is inevitable, I think /b/'s scientology debates attracted more than 4chan could handle. No idea what to do about the excess touhou threads though.

>>580461
That's funny, because I watched it on The Moxy Show.

>>580440
Case and point. 95% of all American anime fandom originated from Toonami. Toonami had shows like DBZ, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Rurouni Kenshin. To say the Naruto generation is inferior to ours is a laughable attempt at making yourself seem hardcore. Unless you grew up with Evangelion or Kurenai you have no right to criticize the Narutards. Also, about your futile attempt with Robotech. Robotech wasn't popular. Only a thousand people watched it hence the reason why it received the boot so fast. So even if you were one of the few who watched it, keep in mind that 95% of all Americans didn't see it. Meaning we grew up with Toonami's shounen bullshit as well. /a/ is not a secret tree club. It's an imageboard. Stop taking the Internet so seriously.

Touhou was never even the problem.

Its consistent mindless image dumps that shit up /a/ and /jp/.

As some others have said 4chan is an imageboard, not an image archive.

>>580494
>Unless you grew up with Evangelion or Kurenai
>Unless you grew up with Kurenai
.

>>580461

Now your trolling is just too fucking obvious, faggot. And I remember when you were a tripfag with your "LOL LOOK AT THE RATINGS NO ONE WATCHED ROBOTECH YOU FAUX-HARDCORE POSER LOOOOOOL" shtick. Toonami was not the beginning of shitty dubs on American TV. I was watching heavily-edited Saiyan Saga episodes on network TV on Saturday mornings, waking up at like 6 AM everyday to watch Sailor Moon before going to school, not to mention Robotech/Voltron/Speed Racer before even that. Originally Toonami just took all that old shit we had seen before on network TV and threw it all together in a block. Of course DBZ really caught on and they started bringing over hits like Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop, but they didn't start shit. They just rode the wave at the right time. And what people started on has nothing at all to do with whether or not they're gigantic faggots that ruin /a/ or not. I'd like to think anyone of my era who cut their teeth on Robotech and Voltron isn't being a faggot in /a/ right now, but unfortunately they are. And there are surely a couple of 14 year olds who started with Naruto on /jp/, and no one knows it because they're not being massive fucking faggots.

>>580456
Well also consider that many of those people who grew up with Toonami were too young to know or care about looking for other material or care about its quality. Would you rather there still be 400 people who were interested in subs? I'm sure there'd still be something wrong with the world and you'd still have something to complain about.

>>580461
>Anybody who claims they were watching animu before toonami is lying out of their ass.
Your statement is not quite catch-all. My interest in Anime was residual from the time I spent in Saudi Arabia as a child (age 1-5). The only English kids shows on television were Barney, Samurai Pizza Cats and Dragon Ball. I was simply used to the animation style by the time I moved back to the States. That and when I was 7 or 8 I stumbled upon DBZ airing early Saturday mornings on WB. All pre-Toonami.

And I no longer give a flying shit about Anime. Just childhood memories.

>>580456
>>580461
Lots of us watched Speed Racer before we knew it was anime or saw Sailor Moon on TV before Toonami existed. I saved up money to buy overpriced anime VHS cassettes with a friend before Toonami.

>>580470

The first 2 seasons of Naruto can go toe to toe with any of Toonami's old shounen line up.

1.Yu Yu Hakusho's first 2 seasons was mediocre at best.
2.Rurouni Kenshin's first 26 episodes were filler (if I recall correctly).
3.DBZ's first season was badly paced even for DBZ's standards.

>>580516
If I recall correctly Sailor Moon first aired on Toonami. Then it started airing in the mornings.

>>580520
No, it was available syndicated in the US starting in 1995. Toonami did not begin airing it until 1998.

>>580520

You don't recall correctly. It aired on network TV (I think it was the old WB, 11 for me) at like 6 AM years before Toonami ever existed. Toonami's original block was like, Robotech, Voltron, Thundercats, DBZ, Sailor Moon? Something like that. Anyway, it was all shit that had already aired on network TV. Nothing new, not at the beginning anyway. The whole reason I remember being so hyped up for the original launch of Toonami was because it was bringing back the shit I loved from my even earlier childhood. I was so unbelievably stoked to get to see Robotech and Voltron and Thundercats again.

>>580520
Wikipedia disagrees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon_%28English_version%29#North_America

>Your statement is not quite catch-all. My interest in Anime was residual from the time I spent in Saudi Arabia as a child (age 1-5).

Stopped reading there. Your life was weird. You've become an extremly small exception. Congratulations. That still doesn't change the fact that 95% of all American animu fandom was born from toonami.

Also, the few people (note the word "few") who were watching subs back then were the true weeaboos.

1.The Internet was slow back then. So transporting a file would be almost impossible.
2.Some people cant even find subtitle software nowadays.
3.Some people who know about animu nowadays have a hard time finding animu (with hundreds of download sites available) yet people back in the early 90s magically managed to search for some animated Japanese cartoons (that they weren't even searching for in the first place because they didn't even know about because they never saw it on TV).

On the subject of Sailor Moon... who remembers this?

http://www.saveoursailors.org/

>>580546

Until someone proves that people were watching subs before the dub era, I'll just have to view that as a rumor.

>>580548
I do. I still wish we'd have gotten Sailor Stars officially in English.

I bought the VKLL VHSs when I was still in high school, but some stupid whore borrowed them and never gave them back.

>>580546

You gnorant motherfucker, subtitles back then had nothing to do with the internet. The real oldfags, like the types of people who were in college while I was a toddler watching Voltron, were copying fucking VHS tapes. And again, no one fucking said anything about subs back then. You are trying to refute things no one has said except in your disturbed mind, you motherfucking schizophrenic.

>>580508
Trying to hard to seem hardcore.

>>580567


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fansub

Early fansubs

Early or "traditional" fansubs were produced using analog video editing equipment. First, a copy of the original source material, called a raw was obtained. The most common raw source was a commercial laserdisc. However, a commercial VHS tape or even a homemade recording could be used as well, though that would entail a lower quality finished product. A translated script was then made to match the dialog of the raw video. The video script was then timed. Timing is the process of assigning a "start time" (Synch-Point) and "end time" for each line of subtitling; this determines how long a given subtitle would remain on the screen. Timing a script was usually done in conjunction with computer software designed specifically for that purpose. The person performing the timing would watch the source video and would assign the appearance, changing, and removal of the subtitle text using a computer. The two most popular programs used in this process were JACOsub (on the Commodore Amiga) and Substation Alpha (on MS Windows).

>>580508
>And I remember when you were a tripfag

Ah, good times.

>>580546
>Stopped reading there. Your life was weird.
A majority of the world would view both me and a pre-1995 anime fan (what you call a "true weeaboo") as simply "weird". Labeling or differentiating isn't necessary. "Weird" will suffice.

>You've become an extremly small exception. Congratulations.
Thanks. I also get your point, by the way. I just can't let an absolutist statement go if I can help it.

>>580533
Well, this thread is over but I'll end it on this. You're crazy if you think Robotech or any of those other shows had any effect on American animu fandom. Protip: The only 2 shows on that list that had any effect was DBZ and Sailor moon. Hence the reason why DBZ is still airing nowadays. Hmm, if Robotech is as influential as you claim it is, why didn't Toonami ever put it back on in the 2000 - 2008 era? DBZ became the most popular show on cable for the kids and teen demographic. Which basically means it was one of the most popular shows on TV. Naruto is this generation's equivalent of DBZ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ig5TNPiUl4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suUH0DCu3TA

Also, points for remembering my old tripfaggotry thread.

>>580648

>Hmm, if Robotech is as influential as you claim it is, why didn't Toonami ever put it back on in the 2000 - 2008 era?

Can you point out ONE FUCKING INSTANCE of ANYONE talking about the "influence" of Robotech in this thread? No? Gee, I wonder why that could be. You are arguing with yourself because no one else is saying any of the things you think you are refuting. Psychiatric help, seek it.

>>580701

>>580508
>Of course DBZ really caught on and they started bringing over hits like Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop, but they didn't start shit. They just rode the wave at the right time.

This guy said DBZ rode the wave of Robotech's success. I argue that DBZ *was the wave.

This thread went from:

1.Remember why 4chan was like /a/ and /jp/.
To:
2./b/ sucks.
To:
3./a/ sucks
To:
/jp/ sucks
To:
4.Narutards are not the cancer killing /a/. Our generation is no better than their generation.

>>580737

I said that, and your absolute lack of reading comprehension is astounding. Robotech was not the wave, anime was the wave. All of that shit, INCLUDING DBZ, had already been on network TV. Toonami didn't start anything, they simply got in at the right time and rode the wave. Until they started with Gundam Wing and so forth the biggest thing they did was change who did the DBZ dub. Even right in what you fucking quoted it specifies that DBZ is what really caught on, Jesus fucking Christ.

>>580701
Although I did say robotech a lot. My post wasn't really directed towards robotech. My post was about how shows like Robotech, Voltron, and Speed Racer didn't have what it takes to be successful. They might have got 6 or more thousand views at their time, but it's noting in comparison to DBZ. So for the last time, stop mentioning them as if they had an effect on anything. If you grew up in that era then good for you, but the vast majority did not grow up in that era. So If I say our generation is not that much better than the Narutard's generation *chances are, is that I'm talking about the DBZ generation seeing as their wasn't a generation before DBZ. Robotechs pathetic ratings != generation.

>>580783
>it's noting in comparison to Toonami's airing of DBZ
Fixed.

>>580783

I love how I can instantly recognize you without your trip just from your immense stupidity.

>>580804
It's a shame that we had to meet again in combat under these same circumstances.

Since we're nostalgic here, how did you feel when you went from browsing only to actually posting? I admit I was nervous but felt that after leeching for so long that I should finally contribute.

>>580809

I find it oddly pleasant. A tenuous link to old nightshift /a/, a reminder of how while everything changes some things remain the same...

>>580648
>You're crazy if you think Robotech or any of those other shows had any effect on American animu fandom. Protip: The only 2 shows on that list that had any effect was DBZ and Sailor moon.

um... me thinks you've forgotten the one anime more important than either of those two put together.

>>580783
Treize Khushrenada made me into an elitist and took me from being the classic math/science nerd to also having interests in sociology and politics. This has nothing to do with your discussion or your point, but your pic reminded me of Gundam Wing and such.

>>580825
I'd gotten over the "Bawww someone doesn't like me over the internet" thing while in other web communities ages ago so I just jumped right in.

>>580825
Well I went from browsing to posting to browsing again. The threads that use to be funny are all boring nowadays. I lurk for hours searching for something new. Contrary to popular belief, 4chan is not getting worse, 4chan is just getting old. Same thing goes for the video game industry.

Original content is the only thing that can save /a/, /v/, and /b/.

>>580848
>Original content is the only thing that can save /a/, /v/, and /b/.
But you know it's not going to happen, right? Not for you, anyway. Many of the people who are presently ON /b/ and such are new and thus the new experience is intriguing to them and they come back for more. It would take a few years for them to get where we are now, but along the way to becoming a new group of oldfags they will probably each spawn a hundred newfags each from people they know, etc. and the cancer will continue in those young minds.

>>580825

I wasn't nervous because I was Anonymous, and it wasn't the early days so it wasn't like there weren't a million stupid faggots already shitting everything up. I just waited until I actually had something to say.

>>580834
The pokemon games and cards were much more popular than the animu adaption. The Yugioh animu got better ratings then Pokemon at one point.

>>580855
It's a vicious cycle. If only moot could create a board for oldfags. If you were to put all of the oldfags on one board we could create endless amounts of original content.

All of the oldfags are to busy either a) facepalming at newcomers or b) educating newcomers to create original content.

>>580865
>at one point.
Yes. At one point. That point being several years into Pokemons reign. Also the first movie did $100 miillion at the box office and subsequent movies that made it to theatres did nicely as well. They all outsold the Yugioh movie.

>>580879
The Yugioh movie was shit though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzmP25upm-o

>>580829
Well so long nemesis. Perhaps we'll meet again sometime; hopefully with a different subject. Next time I wont hold back. I'm going to sleep....

No, you.

Well, this was a thread of nostalgia and greens acting like they're experenced.

>>581749
Just like old times.

DBZ may have been popular, but I don't think it lead people into anime in general. I remember the DBZ fanboys from when I was in school; I looked down on them for the idiots they were (just as they looked down on me for the ronery loser I was; not trying to claim superiority here). I'm even still in contact with a few of them; not one that I know of has any interest in anime now, and I can't imagine any of them on 4chan.
So it's not a problem, just as naruto isn't, *in itself*, a problem. The problem is fanboys who've seen nothing else coming here and fagging it up. I suspect this is part of a more general problem of "geek chic"; at the moment it's "cool" to be a bit geeky, and so people who aren't at all suited to "serious" anime will watch Naruto (because it's easy) and go "Oh hay I watch animu too, am I cool now?" Sadly I don't think there's much we can do except ride it out; within ten years the mainstream will have swung right away from geekiness again.