Is 4chan showing signs of dying?

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Is 4chan showing signs of dying? Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:03:01 2008 No.1271762 [Reply] [Original]

All veteran members of the council of the four leafs assemble within this thread. We shall discuss the past, present, and future of 4chan. First topic:

Are oldfags, mods, and janitors getting tired of 4chan?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:03:30 2008 No.1271765 8/10

>>	Anonymous of Russian Federation Mon Sep 8 17:03:47 2008 No.1271767 I, for one, am not.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:04:33 2008 No.1271770 >>1271767 Is that really you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:05:09 2008 No.1271773 This thread is useless and you should feel useless.

>>	Anonymous of Russian Federation Mon Sep 8 17:05:09 2008 No.1271774 >>1271767 Yeah sure.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:05:58 2008 No.1271779 I don't know. You should ask Anonymous. If he doesn't answer, you can ask Anonymous instead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:06:02 2008 No.1271781 Like Reimu, it's already dead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:06:42 2008 No.1271786 Reported for not /jp/ related.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:07:15 2008 No.1271788 File: 71 KB, 726x612, 1220893635319.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll just leave this here

>>	Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. Mon Sep 8 17:07:21 2008 No.1271789 File: 97 KB, 400x350, 1220893641303.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:09:08 2008 No.1271797 File: 64 KB, 774x600, 1220893748827.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:09:25 2008 No.1271799 File: 67 KB, 689x551, 1220893765014.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:09:33 2008 No.1271801 No, 4chan is not something I could become bored with since it is the method of anonymous discussion with soft touch moderation that I like. I have been around since about 500k on /b/. Also sage.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:10:18 2008 No.1271803 File: 335 KB, 496x687, 1220893818754.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:10:40 2008 No.1271805 File: 42 KB, 425x487, 1220893840421.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:10:58 2008 No.1271808 File: 102 KB, 600x750, 1220893858340.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:11:09 2008 No.1271809 File: 14 KB, 339x305, 1220893869330.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1271781

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:12:46 2008 No.1271817 File: 326 KB, 800x557, 1220893966172.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:13:13 2008 No.1271823 File: 131 KB, 390x925, 1220893993461.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:13:24 2008 No.1271824 >>1271801 i could be considered in the same boat as you although, /b/ pisses the hell out of me these days

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:14:36 2008 No.1271828 File: 245 KB, 500x694, 1220894076697.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:14:55 2008 No.1271829 File: 39 KB, 400x414, 1220894095951.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:14:59 2008 No.1271830 File: 168 KB, 450x689, 1220894099438.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	E-mouse !LNaFATMuso Mon Sep 8 17:15:16 2008 No.1271831 Yes, just the same way as humanity dies every time one generation passes into the next. Sheesh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:15:28 2008 No.1271833 >>1271824 >/b/ pisses off most everyone who went to other boards

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:15:46 2008 No.1271835

The ratio of oldfags to newfags is decreasing. Oldfags are reading less and posting less every day. And this decrease has nothing to do with the increase of newfags. Oldfags are just getting tired of the chan culture in general.

/jp/ was nothing more than a temporary stimulus board to keep the oldfags from leaving. But even /jp/ wont be enough to save 4chan.

Note: When I say 4chan dying. I'm not talking about 4chan getting shutdown. Obviously that will never happen. I'm talking about 4chan becoming something completely different from its originally state. Because moot is getting tired of 4chan he's going to sell it to Rupert Murdoch. Rupert is going to sell it to google. And google is going to turn 4chan into a family photo website where you exchange pictures of your family and friends. "4friends -- 4family -- 4chan!"

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:16:10 2008 No.1271838 File: 90 KB, 580x528, 1220894170760.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] :3

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:18:05 2008 No.1271847 File: 162 KB, 501x700, 1220894285259.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:18:36 2008 No.1271848 File: 97 KB, 580x500, 1220894316094.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:20:20 2008 No.1271856 >"4friends -- 4family -- 4chan!" First time I see this pasta. This one is actually funny.

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Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:20:58 2008 No.1271862
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>>1271835
But then again, 4chan's legacy will not be completely forgotten, even when other spin-off imageboard sites won't be able to reach the same level of popularity as 4chan has hone.

Anonymous of Colombia !pkzejWGkfw Mon Sep 8 17:21:11 2008 No.1271865

I don't think so, at least in the outer boards. I'm guessing most anonymous gave up on /b/ ages ago, which I hope explains the current status over there.

I guess that time will come eventually, just getting tired of doing the same everyday, and most people will move towards better things. But for now, instead of focusing on times long gone, we should just try to enjoy how things are, and not whine about the boards.
Any of them.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:21:32 2008 No.1271869 File: 73 KB, 430x610, 1220894492872.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:22:18 2008 No.1271875 >>1271856 Similar to the old nazi banner. Does that one still show?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:22:51 2008 No.1271877 4chan dies the day touhou gets an anime

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:23:01 2008 No.1271878

Good luck with that, >>1271762.

The mass people (normalfags, women,camwhores, narutards, etc) are going to find it/have found it(4chan) and proceed to shit and/or menstruate all over it until it drowns in a sea of bloody diarrhea. At this point everybody else shows up and continuously gangbangs the shit covered corpse for as long as it stays online. I'm pretty sure this is a law of internet sociology or something.

The real issue is with the English-speaking internet in general. It's been compromised. Best to burn everything and start over.

Most people that come here today doesn't share our lifestyle.

What this all really means, though, is that you, >>1271762 , should just stick with today's special.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:23:28 2008 No.1271879

Old fag here. Yeah, most of us are just... gone.
Foone, Quote, unnes, Bat Guano, swg, and quite a few others just... are gone.
Foone doesn't have time to sit around in /r/. Quote is too busy with i-am-boss, unnes is off drinking, Bat Guano no longer is hanging around in /ck/, swg just is fapping all day to his massive collection of anonymous gathered doujins. Lots of the fags of #/a/ are still in /a/.. being fags. But they are just worthless without direction.
Back before grey day, before grin man, before every other post was "fucking newfags"...
I miss the days that weren't centered around trying to prove you were tough shit on 4chan. Where anonymity meant something.
... Basically Europeans ruined 4chan. I think it was russia with their shitty spam bots in /a/ and /c/. I wish Europe would just stop trying to prove something like... "Americans are fat, Europe is awesome".
/jp/ seems fine though. The people here are mostly not trying to prove they are european. Just a few fags thinking stating they are from europe makes their posts worth something.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:24:59 2008 No.1271884 >>1271877 Best death ever.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:25:05 2008 No.1271890 File: 214 KB, 1024x768, 1220894705185.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:25:14 2008 No.1271891 Moot needs to do something dramatic to rejuvenate 4chan. There should be chan Holidays. For example, a b& holiday where the mods randomly ban people. Or a textboard holiday where moot disables image replies.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:25:18 2008 No.1271892 4chan was never good. The newfags of today are the oldfags of tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous of Russian Federation Mon Sep 8 17:25:28 2008 No.1271893 >>1271879 Haha, yeah, blame Europeans.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:25:50 2008 No.1271895 File: 35 KB, 332x386, 1220894750115.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:27:38 2008 No.1271901 >>1271879 >Where anonymity meant something. Hard to take that even remotely seriously from someone who just spouted off about tripfaggotry and irc faggotry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:27:42 2008 No.1271902 >>1271891 Removing tripcodes would cause havoc for a few days then cure everything.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:30:02 2008 No.1271916 File: 403 KB, 1200x1600, 1220895002271.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:30:53 2008 No.1271919

>>1271902
>Removing tripcodes would cause havoc for a few days then cure everything.
Nope, would make no difference apart from an interesting diversion. Anonymous to tripfag ratio is crushingly in favor of anonymous. As such enabling forced_anon on all boards permanently would make no difference.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:31:08 2008 No.1271920 File: 106 KB, 729x516, 1220895068839.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:31:11 2008 No.1271921 >>1271892 >4chan was never good. The newfags of today are the oldfags of tomorrow. I'm not talking about newfags, cancer, or the lack-of-original content. I'm just talking about oldfags getting tired of 4chan in general (regardless of 4chan's quality).

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:32:18 2008 No.1271924

>>1271879
The underlying issue here is that a disproportionate amount of european users graduate to tripfaggotry and trolling. Like, Norwaty for instance has given us some of the worst posters, ever. Still, the fringe boards tend to last a while longer, but as with everything the years pass, you lose interest and move on. It's what keeps our culture dynamic, and in a way, caused the death of the old 4chan we knew and loved. Time marches on.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:32:23 2008 No.1271925 File: 179 KB, 1000x539, 1220895143478.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous of Colombia !pkzejWGkfw Mon Sep 8 17:32:41 2008 No.1271928 >>1271919 latest stats were around 90% anonymous posts. But I'll admit it, it would be fun for the first few hours. Seeing anonymous reacting to board events is amusing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 17:32:41 2008 No.1271929 So just out of curiosity I went to /b/ and didn't see one post use "you're" or "your" correctly.

>>	Namelеss Fairy Mon Sep 8 17:32:44 2008 No.1271930 File: 102 KB, 500x600, 1220895164558.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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