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>>3067439
Exactly this.

Old 4chan (2006 and before) felt like some cool secret place, we were all assumed to be kinda screwed up by being here, it didn't matter if you were a normie or a NEET shutin, we were all anons regardless.

2007-2008 started the distinction between gaiafags/summerfags and oldfags, and the website started becoming more mainstream

By now it's a shadow of its former self, a mainstream site pretending to be edgy. The NEET vs normie thing is very recent, probably a result of that. In the old days you could find anons in law enforcement, garbage collectors, corporate offices, having anons hidden in the real world was seen as something cool, not negative. The site didn't take itself so seriously either.

If you ask me, it was the Chanology bullshit that ruined this site. Gaia too.

But mostly Chanology. A flood of underage kids taking the memes here too seriously and thinking using a script or recording a video with deformed speech made them hackers. It was too cringeworthy to see, I had to leave the site for good until 2014.