/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9709128]

We have to go back...

[Anonymous No.9709130]

[Anonymous No.9709135]

[Anonymous No.9709138]

[Anonymous No.9709154]

Looks cozy.

[Anonymous No.9709171]

this is such a weird room. i swear to god every few years i see it posted with another picture i havent seen before...

[Anonymous No.9709196]

>>9709171
It’s earliest known posting was on a Neogaf gaming setups thread in 2005

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/what-is-the-origin-of-the-basement-iwata-shrine-gcn-image.1034587/

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/pictures-of-my-gaming-setup.77540/

[Anonymous No.9709271]

>>9709128
go back? This is my setup right now
not really but I do have a picture of reggie on the wall so that counts for something, right

[Anonymous No.9709272]

>>9709196
Thanks for explaining. I too was like >>9709171, in fact this thread has the most pics of it that I've ever seen posted before.

[Anonymous No.9709286]

>>9709128
>>9709171
>>9709196
It looks like a Ninja Turtles hideout.

[Anonymous No.9709747]

>>9709196
For years I've had these photos in a folder on my computer named "Nintendo Rape Dungeon".

It's nice to get some context.

[Anonymous No.9709772]

>>9709128
These pictures remind me of a house that my cousin's filthy rich dad had, which we often stayed at when we were kids. It had an attic which was accessed through a secret entrance hidden behind a curtain that revealed a spiral staircase going upwards. The ceiling was really low, but it was MAX comfy, with no windows to let the light of the sun in. My cousin had two small CRT TVs there, to which he had an SNES, N64 and GameCube hooked up, and we would spend all day and night playing all kinds of games spanning all those consoles, with nary a care in the world or any sense of time, since again, we had no way of telling time without windows (this was before cell phones, mind you). Some of my fondest memories were spent inside that attic.

[Anonymous No.9709824]

>>9709128
>>9709196
Reminds me of that ogre living in some Polish couple's basement, although that was much later. I wonder if that was actual OC or also reposted from somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.9709829]

>>9709271

Me too! Also this next to my PS5.

[Anonymous No.9709836]

>>9709271
>a picture of reggie on the wall
but why?

[Anonymous No.9709942]

>>9709772
>this was before cell phones, mind you
Never heard of clocks before?

[Anonymous No.9709952]

>>9709824
Please elaborate

[Anonymous No.9709984]

>>9709952
He's a big guy.

[Anonymous No.9709989]

>>9709196
Man the internet was so much better back in the day. The posts, even the shitposts were funnier and much more clever. Even the flamewars were funnier, becuase most of it was just nerds and kids finding clever ways to insult each other, rather than actually giving a shit about it.

I miss the days before the internet became full of normies and shitty social media companies.

[Anonymous No.9709990]

>purple controller with silver gimped GC
>no mario or zelda game

Nah we need to stay right here.

[Anonymous No.9710054]

>>9709984
Goddam not seen this before. Laughed so hard I think it caused a hernia

[Anonymous No.9710087]

>>9709135
>Glad box for additional back support
SOUL

[Anonymous No.9710202]

>>9709196
>Nbot nativity scene
holy kek

[Anonymous No.9710220]

Does anyone here have the image of someone playing Silent Hill in a really creepy, dusky attic?

[Anonymous No.9710245]

>>9709984
i never thought i'd see someone as depraved as the guy living with a family of sex dolls.

but here we are.

[Anonymous No.9710248]

>>9710220

[Anonymous No.9710264]

>>9710248
the sniper rifle and ammo readily available makes me think that this was some sort of camping spot/sniper nest for some hitman/assassin.

[Anonymous No.9710274]

>>9710220
>>9710248

[Anonymous No.9710294]

>>9709984
I hate to be "that guy" but I honestly believe he was wearing a costume prop for (You)s

[Anonymous No.9710297]

>>9710274

[Anonymous No.9710298]

>>9710294
Very plausible but life's more fun when you believe.

[Anonymous No.9710302]

>>9710297

[Anonymous No.9710341]

>>9709128
Rare rulez, fuck you

[Anonymous No.9710576]

>>9709989
> Man the internet was so much better back in the day
100% this. I graduated hs in 2005 and remember all my friends telling me I just had to join this website called thefacebook.com with my new college email. I remember thinking it was pretty cool at first. Two years later and my campus was completely addicted. My roommates used to kill our internet bandwidth bc they had Facebook open 24/7, refreshing it every minute. I miss the internet being a sort of Wild West that you could hop onto to find something cool or go deep into the obscure, then just close your laptop and get back to the real world. I try to do that now, but the tech has merged so intrusively with everyday life, it’s maddening. And most everyone I meet is addicted to their devices and trying to make it as an influencer in some capacity. Anyhow, OP picrel is when the separation was healthy.

[Anonymous No.9710696]

>>9709942
Obviously, but again, the whole point was to lose track of time. We loved spending all day playing video games in a pitch dark room, only coming down when we got hungry or had to go to the bathroom, and finding out it was already dark outside. It got cold as fuck up there, too, so we had a ton of blankets to cover up with.

[Anonymous No.9710723]

>>9710274
I wonder why they decided to remove the weapons for that image

[Anonymous No.9710731]

>>9710576
Lol

[Anonymous No.9710827]

>>9709196
Back when posting on GAF was okay and not a gaming industry laughing stock

[Anonymous No.9710928]

>>9709836
remember that free mousepad thing on /v/ like 11 years ago? It was the same company and similar discount. I was in college, the canvas print was heavily discounted, and it was a good joke.

[Anonymous No.9710961]

>>9710576
FB was so useless. I had it a few years after you, when I was in HS, and I deleted after a few years because it had no purpose. Everyone just wanted you there to inflate their friend counts.

The funniest thing to me about 20+ years on the internet is that I was totally wrong. I thought, when I was a kid, that eventually you'd see more mature and intelligent behavior online, and it would just take until X year that the net would be more reasonable. What I've found instead is that any web space of any decently large size is just inundated with idiots who are either underage, immature, or both, and who cannot help but feed trolls, get baited, flame (and respond to flames), and make bad-faith, zero effort arguments and shitposts. I spent two years or so on gamefaqs, and in hindsight everything that people say about social media was exactly right for describing that shit forum. I think the only takeaway has been that any site that's bigger than X users isn't worth using. Not really sure what X is, but the bigger boards on 4ch (and anymore even this board) seems to be too high. It doesn't help when the "attention economy" is clearly optimized around max response, and shitposts and bait are clearly demonstrated to be the most effective at getting replies (we joke about it, but (you)'s really do make the internet world go round).

Also, I think there should be some kind of internet training to teach users how to not be retarded. That probably won't help much though.

>>9710248
>>9710274
>>9710297
>>9710302

the little toy piano is a nice touch

[Anonymous No.9710964]

>>9710248
>tiny piano for mad world
>small radio for chumba wumba
sony chads we never stop winning!

[Anonymous No.9710970]

>>9710961
Dumb esl poster

[Anonymous No.9710982]

^^9710970
yes, thank you for proving my point. A soggy roo for you too, young lady

[Anonymous No.9711015]

>>9709196
You have ruined the mystery and I will not be clicking that link. You are lucky that my short term memory will make me forget this fact in a week or two or we would have become lifelong enemies.

[Anonymous No.9711019]

>>9710982
>didn't even deny it
Relax brown boy

[Anonymous No.9711159]

>>9710928
>>9710928
You and I are probably the only ones that remember the free mouse pads, and even that was still nu-/v/ era

[Anonymous No.9711182]

>>9710961
Social reject detected
Social media is used for buying and selling locally, since Craig's list is dead and normies don't sell on eBay. Its used for hobbyist to meet up and discuss their hobbies. It's used to keep in touch with family and friends. It's used to find local events. And more importantly, it's where news networks share their articles, identical to an RSS feed.

Also, you're considerably less employable without a Facebook, since employers view that as a sign of mental instability. ("Huh, this applicant isn't on Facebook. Everyone is on Facebook. They must have done something REALLY bad to be banned off the platform!")

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184658/Is-joining-Facebook-sign-youre-psychopath-Some-employers-psychologists-say-suspicious.html

[Anonymous No.9711195]

>>9709128
who's "Raye" ?

[Anonymous No.9711214]

>>9710248
Is that a pile of mouse shit in front of that right speaker?

[Anonymous No.9711246]

>>9710294
Yeah, the anon noticing the fingernail looks painted was definitely onto something.
Whatever the case, it's still funny as hell.

[Anonymous No.9711308]

>>9709128
People laugh at this setup but I genuinely used to game with something really similar. My friend had a partially open crawl space underneath his house. Most of it was filled with dirt, but near the entrance they removed some of it to use as storage. He had a tube TV and a gamecube down there. My most vivid memory is how cold it was down there while we would play StarFox Assault multiplayer and sit on bags of mulch.

[Anonymous No.9711581]

[Anonymous No.9711615]

>>9711159
I remember. I remember doing it more than once, too. The second time I got the classic Gaben discount image as a mousepad.

[Anonymous No.9711638]

>>9709984
> guy posts photo holding case with his foot
> quite obvious it's a foot
> OMG HIS FINGERS ARE TOES
you people here are truly the dumbest of dumb fucks imaginable.

[Anonymous No.9711687]

>>9709128

Yes

[Anonymous No.9711701]

>>9711581
>Picture of Abe
>Rare sux
Based

[Anonymous No.9711704]

>>9711581
>>9711701
Change the wall text to Have Sex! and we're golden.

[Anonymous No.9711784]

>>9711704
>>9711701

[Anonymous No.9711793]

>>9711784
10/10 fuken saved

[Anonymous No.9711848]

>>9709128
>We have to go back
Indeed you do

[Anonymous No.9712454]

>>9710245
Please sauce

[Anonymous No.9712465]

>>9710294
>>9710298
>>9711246
Well done if pretending to be that autistic for (you)s. Very obvious rubber hand.

Maybe initially to mask a body image issue or to literally troll but it is a fun rabbit hole to explore the reasons andd increasingly wild answers. My guess is a drunk demi-hobo was at work there

[Anonymous No.9712469]

>>9710970
Wut u mean (you)?

[Anonymous No.9712475]

>>9711308
I recently moved home unfortunately or I would have posted my gaming den. It was wicked and filthy in all the right/wrong ways too

[Anonymous No.9712845]

Literally this comfy.

[Anonymous No.9713954]

>>9712454
it was in a battlestation thread a long time ago.

i used to have the screencap of the thread on my old PC but a hard drive failure killed it.

[Anonymous No.9714061]

>>9709772
Closest I had was a CRT under the stairs area in my bedroom with a blanket draped over the opening. Had my N64 hooked up in there. I would prefer that honestly.

[Anonymous No.9714085]

>>9712845
He's got his own washing machine. That's how you know he's got it made.

[Anonymous No.9714097]

>>9709128
>We have to go back...
>>>

yes! We have to go to the bunker!

[Anonymous No.9714850]

>>9711159
>>9711615
you ever wonder why we're still here? I do sometimes. Whatever, I know the rules.

[Anonymous No.9714851]

>>9709130
the cheap ass banquet meal sells the entire thing. Those are like the cheapest possible microwaveable meal you can buy at a store. you’d be better off with maruchan ramen if you had a stove and a pan.

[Anonymous No.9714860]

>>9714850
There's nowhere else to go. No matter how bad 4chan gets, the rest of the Internet is still worse.

[Anonymous No.9714882]

>>9714860
I'll go somewhere else someday, really only so much you can put up with I think

[Anonymous No.9717010]

If you still live at home, why not post your room instead of your dungeon-like basement?

[Anonymous No.9717016]

>>9714085
No way there's plumbing in that room, it's just a table now

[Anonymous No.9717024]

>>9714860
You can just leave the internet. I've been away from the internet for most of this winter, it was fine. It's only at first that you feel the itch. But then I came back out of curiosity and the itch is back again.

[Anonymous No.9717047]

>>9717024
I feel like everything offline would happen too slowly and inefficiently for me if I departed from the Internet for too long. I'd get a lot more media played and viewed, but that's ultimately just trading one screen for others. Leave me with books and I'd just miss refined searching, instant answers, and wiki rabbit holes. I try to walk outside for a bit whenever I can, but it's either freezing or scorching out there for all but about four weeks out of the year, so I don't stick to that like I should. I don't even think about the net if I'm engrossed in a game or show but if I'm just sitting around or getting something done, I start thinking of questions or conversations I want to entertain online and get finnicky. I've realized I never get bored anymore, even from just sitting in a room by myself, even with the itch in the background. I was bored all the time when I was a kid without Internet.

[Anonymous No.9717065]

>>9709989
You've been on the internet since before Eternal September? You'd basically have to be a literal Boomer...

[Anonymous No.9717087]

>>9717047
Let me tell you, as someone who committed a boo boo and got locked up for a little bit (no, neither Bubba nor Carlitos got to my tender virgin bussy) some years ago: I got a shitton of reading done, but like you said, I often ended up with a lot of questions that I was left wanting to follow up with. There were some encyclopedias, but they were either old and too concise, or EXTREMELY old but really detailed in what they had. The only other way I could pursue information was to ask the family to send books on the subject. So yeah, I definitely missed the internet for that purpose. Eeeeeeeeeevery once in a while I'd think about what you fags here on 4chin were saying about this or that (new games and fads, current events, etc.), though having been here for as long as I have, I had a pretty good idea, and I was pretty much spot on once I got out. In any case, it was more not being able to look things up in the moment that I missed, much more than arguing with faggots on a Mongolian puppet show forum.

[Anonymous No.9717107]

>>9717087
Sorry that happened to you, but glad you made it out intact. Yeah, I'm sure actually minimizing how much time I spend here would be better for me. I'm sick of the little voice in my head that very accurately outlines how the consensus on here would respond to every little thing I see when I hear anything that would come up a lot here. It's like I truly can't leave, because that's always buzzing around whenever I'm not.

[Anonymous No.9717108]

>>9709989
Most people on gaming forums didn't give a single shit about politics in their discussions, it was all about gameplay.
Women getting involved and social media ruined everything. Can't even escape to forums because they're all alternate flavors of resetera now, minus a few other ones.
>t. member of a forum where the new users are random twitter refugees (formerly tumblr refugees), and the old male users became females, just about every single one of them

[Anonymous No.9717114]

>>9714860
Don’t people make threads sometimes about fun or interesting old 1.0 websites that still exist? Seems like a fun way to spend time.

[Anonymous No.9717120]

>>9717114
I do enjoy those. What hurts is seeing ancient 4chan screencaps. It was almost innocent back then, but it all feels so cringe now. If we actually went back in time, I don't know if we'd find the site enjoyable anymore, even freed from all the terrible things modernity has done to it, because our minds have experienced and evolved past those green moments where "I LIEK CHOCOLATE MILK" was peak comedy.

[Anonymous No.9717129]

>>9717114
As long as it's a static site, if it's a site with a forum, you're just asking for retards to start flooding it.
I still miss when channel4 bbs had a comfy community and then some random teenager shitposted on it.

[Anonymous No.9717135]

>>9717120
>ancient 4chan
>innocent
lol, lmao even.

[Anonymous No.9717232]

>>9717135
He said "almost". What I think he means is, while /b/tards and such were edgy and would post porn and gore and make memes out of racist shit, much of it was just because of the sheer novelty of being able to do so. None of that would fly in any forum, much like it doesn't fly with normalfags in social media today. It was, in a way, thrilling and maybe even liberating, and the way people posted reflected that, as if new ground was being broken. You never knew what you would encounter next time you got on, so people would reply with ironic exuberance things like ZOMG TEH REI or EPIC WIN. All of that is gone now. Best we got is saying based to things we like and kek to things we find funny, but nothing really breaks new ground anymore.

[Anonymous No.9717245]

>>9717232
The entire concept of “cringe” is weird, because it wasn’t really a thing in the early 2000s, at least “online.” so there was a lot more expression back then. I know as people get older they tend to not be so outwardly emotional but the tone of the internet really did shift in a weird way where being excited or happy or passionate (not about politic bullshit) became cringe. it’s hard to draw a line though because it’s hard to separate people being overly excited and happy over stuff from things like mindless consoomer s o i jak personas that just want the next thing. Someone smarter than me could probably explain it better.

[Anonymous No.9717284]

>>9717245
Heh, I was reminded of this yesterday. Back in the day I used to chat with this girl that was like 4 years older than me on MSN Messenger (met her in a OoT message board circa 1999 that abruptly closed down), and we used to RP a lot. Nothing sexual, just innocent shit where we had OC characters that would interact and get into battles and shit. We used a lot of XD's and YAYs and *teleports behind you* and such. Nerdy as fuck, of course, and if the chat logs existed everyone would think they're cringe, but I do look back on it fondly. I actually found her on FB last night after not having talked to her in like 20 years and we chatted for a good while. It was pretty interesting, since now we're both grown-ass adults and so while we reminisced a lot on those days and got to talk about video games and such, we were both much more measured in our speech. No way in hell was either of us going to devolve back into OMG XD.

[Anonymous No.9717369]

>>9710961
Sorry for the late response but rereading this thread and anon deserves a reasonable reply. People whine about the decline of 4chan and the internet a lot. My take is that 1. The net has become significantly more accessible in the last 2 decades to much younger (<10 year old) age groups who are sometimes quite well read, at least in popular culture, but still immature as a result. 2) parenting children, at least here, has totally gone down the shitter. This has been an intergenerational thing with poorly parented adults totally unequipped to raise their own, actively hindered by laws falsely promoting psychological means of behaviour control as somehow better than traditional methods, against all neuroscientific evidence, and reinforced by laws specifically designed to infantilise youth. Eg by divesting individuals from responsibility for negligent behaviour and keeping them in a broken schooling system long after they should have become adults in their own right.
Apologies for the /pol like post. What you and other anons are talking about is the tip of the iceberg but I also see as a cunning plan perpetrated on society

[Anonymous No.9717391]

>>9717284
I enjoyed your story, the thing that’s interesting though is all that old internet speak we use ironically now is a chicken or the egg scenario in some ways. it reminds me a bit of l337 speak or whatever it was called. do we not use any of this stuff because we grew up? Or is it entirely or partially because there is a narrative now about it being negative? Just interesting to think about. Here is something to think about, people make fun of the old XD face. but then people use stuff like the laughing emoji. Functionally is there a difference? I think everything we think and do is made up half of the time and it’s all bullshit.

[Anonymous No.9717412]

>>9717284
>we used to RP a lot
>a lot of XD's and YAYs and *teleports behind you*
>OMG XD
Fuck, anon. Did not expect these feels. I miss those days.

[Anonymous No.9717561]

>>9717391
I think it's because we see it as lame shit that you did when you were a stupid teenager, and you feel it's more mature to be proper now. Honestly, I still think about 1337$|03@|< and at times I want to do it again, because even if it's a bit annoying, it's also kind of funny just to have something that's uniquely "yours" in a sense, isn't it? One thing I never expected with the mass use of the internet would be how homogenized groups and users would end up being, once everybody went to the same 10 websites and all (and even if you don't, enough others do). Personally I'm about ready to make my own site(s) and get a webring started/join a webring. Who needs all this mass-market crap, am I right? (though of course that comment relates a lot to that "death of authenticity" thing I mentioned above about how hipsters were born out of people trying to hard to flex their e-peens within fan groups and such).

Oh, and one thing I thought of what that, if you're not on a computer (which most internet users are not these days), then typing leetspeek is more difficult, I think.

[Anonymous No.9717598]

>>9717245
I think it's just the sudden awareness that EVERYBODY is online. You used to see this as a place where you'd just "b urself" but to a very small personal audience, and nobody knew who you really were or what website you were even on. Now you're dealing with a world with >1 billion users and almost every one of them knows how to 1) screencap, photograph, or record things (audio and/or video) and 2) post them to the internet for millions to see. And whether it's cancellation or just plain old harassment, social media and smartphones are a remarkable set of tools for ruining people's lives. Also, we now have the ability to learn everything about people, skeletons buried for decades ready to go on parade. That the old and the new are so easily accessible, and that anything can randomly become a life-ruining factor, has combined to basically make everybody afraid of doing almost anything. To reference many shy nerd's awkwardness, the whole world has become entirely too self-aware, and that's why I think you've seen this change in behavior.

[Anonymous No.9717630]

>>9717598
Paradoxically, however, you are also EXPECTED to put your whole life online for all to see, or at least to maintain some kind of social media presence. It's to the point that people actually wonder about you if you hardly use Facebook or whatever, and apparently this extends to potential employers as well. People expect to see you post mundane shit about what you're doing or where you've been. If you don't, there might be something off about you. It's almost a catch-22. Don't use social media or hardly at all? You might be anti-social or hiding something. Use social media? Everything you post can potentially be used against you should the social tides turn this or that way. It's fucking insane.

[Anonymous No.9717680]

>>9717630
Where do you get this idea that you have to have a social media or else people think you're weird? I have never heard that before, except maybe from girls on dating apps, which at least makes sense when your bad end is getting raped and murdered.

[Anonymous No.9717867]

>>9717630
I just wonder where attitudes like this will bring us. Are we going to seriously live in a world where 50 year old boomers or 70 year olds are still constantly plugged into social media decade from now updating people or competing with eachother like 20 year olds? Just seems like a ridiculous future. I always imagine as people age they want to live their own life’s without the distractions of other people or their issues.

[Anonymous No.9718305]

>>9717680
Nta but I am fresh off a game app with exactly the same "must b online or nobody will hire you bcos ur a sociopath" argument. If that were my situation then I would consider another employer or even career. I work in a highly public position and choose to have a minimal online footprint and my employer is highly respectful of this. Privacy isn't something that is easily regained once lost.
>>9717867 >>9717369
I think these are mostly about trends of interest, and most humans feel comfortable and belong with like minded others but then grow bored and move on. Going back generates some feelings of aversion. I have a strong interest in the mechanisms of aversion because I feel they drive a lot of behaviours

[Anonymous No.9718308]

>>9717867
>>9717369
Sorry was replying to this

[Anonymous No.9718319]

>>>9717561 >>9718305
Sorry was replying to this as well

[Anonymous No.9718520]

>>9717065
Oh, I'm not quite that old, though some older cousins have told me about what it was like at that time.

I do think that there was a second, very similar event where the vibe of the internet changed again that happened in the early 2010s. It wasn't really any one thing, and it took a few years, but I'd say that the 'old' net was in full force in 2010 and essentially gone by 2015. The ascent of normies on social media, the rise of reddit, the death of forums, g4m3rg4t3 and the rise of the new culture war, the content collapse of google and youtube by clickbait and SEO, it all added up to the internet becoming mostly shit. A lot worse than when I first knew it in the 90s and 00s.

[Anonymous No.9718607]

>>9718520
I'd argue the last year where the "old net" was in full force was 2008. Like you said, it took a while for its "spirit" to diminish, but by 2009 you could already see things changing somewhat. I agree, though, that in 2015 we had pretty much entered the current shit paradigm in full force, and it's gotten worse since then. I'm >>9717087, and one of the things that struck me when I got out was how prevalent clickbait had gotten. I was no stranger to it, I had already seen its steady rise, but by the time I was out, shit was EVERYWHERE. Seeing big news organizations that are supposed to be "respectable" be in on it, to say nothing of every Youtube thumbnail being some bearded dude or SO NERDY chick (always with thick-rimmed glasses, of course) literally making the s0i0bi reaction faces with both the video title and thumbnail text begging you to click (This is CRAZY! You won't believe what I made! This guy is UNHINGED etc)... and it works. It works pretty fucking well. It's like they've completely figured human psychology out by now, and have also figured out how to fully exploit it and manipulate you to the fullest extent to "increase engagement". And I think there's already a lot of negative social consequences as a result of all the shit we've talked about ITT. Only way I can see things changing for the better is if somehow some kind of regulation was enacted or some shit in some effort to try to curb net addiction and exploitation of addictive behavior and psychological manipulation by algorithms and such, but that's a whooooooole other can of worms, so maybe not.

[Anonymous No.9719272]

>>9717867
the internet is aging with its users, people are ashamed of their youthful shenanigans at present but eventually we'll enter the later adulthood not giving a fuck stage, which should be like a renaissance for internet culture I think. It'll probably become a cycle if the internet isn't replaced in the coming century or so.

[Anonymous No.9719450]

>>9718607
The internet was ruined the exact moment that businessmen became aware of it. The Dot Com Bubble has been a disaster for netizens everywhere.

[Anonymous No.9719548]

>>9718520
They pretty much announced it. Remember all the articles about “web 2.0
“? That was all about centralizing control of the internet.

[Anonymous No.9719595]

>>9717245
It's just newspeak for out-of-fashion. People have been doing this since the beggining of time when they look back at their past selves. People in the future will look at us with the same look of disaproval no matter what we do.

[Anonymous No.9719620]

>>9717245
It's just newspeak for out-of-fashion.

[Anonymous No.9719894]

>>9717284
Fuck man that takes me back. I really miss those days too.

>>9717561
>>9717245

Yeah, this whole idea about cringe or scrutinizing everyone's actions online is fucking bullshit and I hate it. the "b urself" days really were better. 1337 was kinda dumb, but it was fun and cool to have something lol to do like that. especially since it was unique and different. And it wasn't shitty or edgy, it was just weird.

While I think that the corporitization is part of the problem, I don't know if it's even really the main thing. The problem is really the people. For one, millennials became stodgy adults and zoomers are inherently more group-minded and self-conscious. But really, it's just that when something is in the early adopter phase, the people will be smarter, more creative, and higher quality in general. Normies kinda suck.

Also, the saturation really kills it. Now that 'real life' is largely on the internet, people take it really seriously, like adults needing to make curated linkedin profiles and zoomers giving a shit about their social image on instragram or tiktok. Whereas in the past, people made it a place where you could go to get away from all of that.

[Anonymous No.9720816]

Bump for good discussion which I'll only be able to join after work. Pic not related.

[Anonymous No.9720836]

Unfortunately over time I’ve come to the conclusion that some of you were actually right and that “normies” really always were the real problem. Normal people infiltrating and then taking over the internet just meant that in the same way that people who shitty to eachother in real life judging one another, the same would happen online as well. people have always argued and shitposted, but normal people bring their eternal highschool mentality with them everywhere they go which is has a worse effect on things. One of the weird things I noticed was how many work places have cliques and little groups and gossip. you think that stuff end but it never really does, it’s just human nature. so like I said before all of that nonsense mentality got dragged into the internet.

[Anonymous No.9720847]

>>9720836
I’m tired so I guess the point I was getting at is, all of that new negativity, criticism, and everything else the normies brought with them really probably did extinguish a lot of the creative energy that had existed before hand on the internet. In a sense it’s kind of like a kid that really enjoys drawing for the sake of drawing and showing a few friends, and then their parent tells them their drawings suck or are stupid, so they stop doing it as much. sometimes that pure creative energy is fragile and can get disturbed when the environment changes. But when it’s in the right environment I disturbed it can flourish which I think is why I think before social media and phones came out the internet seemed like an endless sea of creative potential and independent projects. Sorry for the typos very tired

[Anonymous No.9720854]

>>9718607
In my head because of your described situation I really want you to be Gypsy Crusader but my brain imaging things aside you have a lot really good points. I think the thing that is massively different is well. We are living in an inclining tech age. Its been accelerating pretty good since the 1950s but now where at the point with ultra PCs in everyones pocket for 100ish dollar entry fee to get a phone that blew my childhood PC out of the water without even trying.

AI is going to increase the rate of tech growth exponentially. That weird little world we grew up in is a figment of a shadow. I started browsing 4chan in 2007. I stuck around till around 2018 but I became preoccupied with other things and the quality dropped for a while imo. Especially on /b/ which has just got worse and worse. I used to browse /v/ a lot. Whatever the case is I really miss the days we used to flip out about furries we thought they were so bad. Then MLP kids, now you got guys that think they are girls. Whats next? Lord only knows.

[Anonymous No.9721050]

>>9719450
This. Most definitely.
>>9718607
To me what you are describing is the net going mainstream. Surely you remember banner ads, search bar malware, punch the monkey, you are the millionth visitor and that kind of shallow stuff that only caught the extremely naive boomers and kiddies? You noted this base cunning slowly phasing into the clickbait reaction shot metadata mining popup hell you describe. And this only mirrors the commercial broadcast media, because it is that vein of thinking that has followed the normies that have deserted the broadcast media in droves. The suits behind it don't aim for the sharp or visionary early adopter minds, rather the lowest common denominator, herd mentality consumer types. Guess who is coming over for tea at an image chat near you? Maybe it is time to move on or perhaps just stay sharp because here's my grim prediction: it's a matter of time before even the most underground sites become, like the rave scene of the 90s, a heavily regulated and policed honeypot for every commercial interest and vehicle for social policing. Perhaps it already is, given the way net traffic is tracked and recorded by governments and private interests alike these days. So is it time to move on? It will take more than just vpns and onion routing to escape their clutches. Maybe a whole new medium is needed, but if that succeds it will only be so long before the cycle repeats. Remember it happened to newspapers, then radio even before tv

[Anonymous No.9721175]

>>9709128
>Being content with living like a prisoner
Whoever posted this has something wrong with them.

[Anonymous No.9721181]

>>9721175
read the thread you dumbshit fuck

[Anonymous No.9721206]

>>9717120
>>9717284
I was going through the old 2000s /v/ archive recently and it didnt feel cringe to me at all, I wish there was a place where I could still post like that. I also miss using xDD, :"DD, :3 and shit like that instead of shitty emojis when I chat with people

[Anonymous No.9721298]

genny

[Anonymous No.9721335]

>>9721298
Looks quite focussed. May I enquire as to the cart?

[Anonymous No.9721352]

>>9721335
I took the photo a long time ago, but IIRC it was Phantasy Star IV, the tv was a Durabrand BHD1304D from 2006.

[Anonymous No.9721389]

>>9721352
Niiiiiice thanks for that

[Anonymous No.9721409]

>>9721050
Well, it's like you say: whatever comes next, normalfags and commercial interests will always follow eventually. What gets me, again, is how hard they have humanity figured out now. Sure, advertisers have known for some time some good general rules about what makes us tick (sex sells, etc.), but now they have some of the brightest minds in the psychological field advising them on the latest science and on how best to keep us glued to our screens, crazy-ass algorithms to best ensure that happens, and the nature of the internet means you can get a never-ending stream of content that seeks YOU out and feeds your interests and biases to you rather than the other way around, as was the case with older media. I'm not saying I'm immune to it, but at least I'm aware of the "game" being played here, and I'm often reminded of that when looking at my Youtube feed (even the word feed, now that I think about it... it really does bring up images of a cattle ranch or some shit). And I can't even imagine how AI is going to fit into all this. I'd say thanks to existing algorithms advertisers and commercial interests probably already know our biases and interests better than we know ourselves, since it's not like we're constantly, consciously thinking about them, whereas the algorithms have them all recorded and are constantly updating your "profile" based on what you browse and click on. It's some dystopian shit, and it's here now.

[Anonymous No.9721452]

It's a long shot but I'm kind of hoping the VR headset stuff takes off big time and all the people go there leaving the outdated technology of the internet to loser like us.

[Anonymous No.9721557]

>>9711638

[Anonymous No.9721576]

>>9710723
Maybe it's a reference to Angela's knife, in that case it would only fit on a Silent Hill 2 photo. Or something.

[Anonymous No.9721769]

>>9709128
looks like the setting from the saw movie

[Anonymous No.9721791]

>>9719894
You know, I think I miss the 2011 era most. For me, that was the last great year for 4chan, the last time I really felt at home and among my people here, where I was excited to load the catalog and see what everyone was up to. I liked the memes and culture a lot, which is something I never could have said about the memes and culture for nearly the past decade now.

[Anonymous No.9721792]

>>9709128
>>9709130
>>9709135
>>9709138
But I never lived this life, how can I go back to it?

[Anonymous No.9721796]

>>9721791
It's interesting how ingrained pepes and wojacks have become. There certainly were memes that spawned a gorillion derivatives beforehand, but they typically lasted a short while before they became old and people moved to other memes. But those two just refuse to die, and I'm not quite sure why. Maybe they're more malleable than anything else that came beforehand?

[Anonymous No.9721839]

>>9721050
I'd really like to have a second, separate Internet for nerds and outcasts like Web 1.0 was. Sure, it would also fall eventually, but I'd be too old to give a shit by then. If I could afford to buy 4chan, the first thing I'd do is ban phones from posting and force computer ownership for contributing.

[Anonymous No.9721853]

>>9721796
I've been wondering about this myself, but I can't arrive at any possible explanation. If I had to guess, I'd go with something like how they phased out original content by being easy templates to work with, but we had literal meme templates before they took off that are now extinct.

[Anonymous No.9721860]

>>9721839
Just removing mobile browsing optimizations alone would make the site near-unusable for phoneposters and cause the vast majority of them to fuck off. Sure, it'd mean I wouldn't be able to browse 4chins anywhere outside my home, but it's a sacrifice I'd be more than willing to make.

[Anonymous No.9721865]

>>9719894
>Now that 'real life' is largely on the internet, people take it really seriously, like adults needing to make curated linkedin profiles and zoomers giving a shit about their social image on instragram or tiktok.

[Anonymous No.9721874]

>>9721796
>>9721853
Because there is no difference between 4chan or reddit anymore. I know people will get upset by me saying that or post soijaks in response which only proves my point, but the reality is reddit historically has never had a problem with running a meme into the ground and then just never stop using it. 4chan would do that but it would also stop using said memes the second it saw someone else using them because 4chan was incredibly insecure and hated the idea of anyone else being part of their unironic secret club so they would abandon anything that spread in order to maintain that. That's why 4chan is unironically, with complete sincerity, listed in polls as a form of social media now. Because that's all the site really is these days, just one where you aren't punished for saying nigger/faggot/tranny/insert no-no word you can't say on other sites (even though racism is officially banned outside of /b/ and /pol/). It's basically just twitter for autists, especially in its obsession with being paid attention to.

[Anonymous No.9721882]

>>9721791
>For me, that was the last great year for 4chan
I wouldn't say that because 2011 was still a completely insufferable shithole if you were trying to actually discuss anything without being shitposted into the ground. It's just looked at fondly because at least it felt like actual 4chan people and culture doing it, and not normalfags.

[Anonymous No.9721895]

>>9719894
>>9721865
Remember when 'internet tough guy' was a thing? Like everybody just knew it was ridiculous to try to act tough and put down other people online.

[Anonymous No.9721897]

>>9721874
>you aren't punished for saying nigger/faggot/tranny/insert no-no word you can't say on other sites (even though racism is officially banned outside of /b/ and /pol/)

I report anyone using nigger non ironically and the posts get deleted quickly

[Anonymous No.9721898]

>>9721796
>wojacks
these are just rage comics' evolution. I think turning memes into formats & templates helped in the decline of the internet in general. I miss the variety of memes jokes and gifs of the early 00s.

[Anonymous No.9721909]

>>9721874
most forums are vaguely social media anyway, you make a profile and interact. 4chan is anonymous so I'd say that keeps it distinct.

[Anonymous No.9721913]

>>9721898
>these are just rage comics' evolution.
That's how they started, and honestly just the honest wojaks that are just the simple wojak face or the sad one, or the one with the gun to its head, they are still just rage comics in another format. Soijaks on the other hand is something different, it is intentionally designed to ruin discussion and when you get down to it, is just the modern version of pic related. It's taking the thing the other person said and saying "I don't like the things you say and you look like the people I don't like if you say it". There is nothing to it beyond that, and any 'sons that get posted in reply to this only proves my point and shows how almost robotic they are in the predictability of their response.

[Anonymous No.9721914]

>>9721898
True enough. Pepe still befuddles me, though. I stopped using it once the /pol/ types latched onto it and morphed it into the current abomination, and to this day I refuse to save any Pepe-related images.
>>9721874
Heh, I remember feeling a little thrill when someone outside the sekrit club dropped a 4chan mention. Anyone remember that one 8-bit Theater parody on Newgrounds? I think it was called 8-bytch 5 or something like that. Anyway, it had a short throwaway scene where the dude says something about taking a quick look at 4chan and showing Rei-chan in its full glory. Must've been around 2005 or so. Also 4chan City.

[Anonymous No.9721931]

>>9721913
Oh yeah, the simple wojaks, when it was just the Feels guy, isn't even that bad. Overdone and overplayed, but it at least conveyed something. Soijaks, however, can fuck off to hell.

[Anonymous No.9721948]

>>9721865
It’s literally a giant social credit score system now. If you don’t participate in “accepted” social media networks, you’re considered a potential threat, if only at a low level, like girls thinking you’re weird for not having instagram.

>>9721839
I started using web in 1995 on a shitty compuserve dial-up modem that only worked 2/3 times. So I’m not even part of the og crowd lamenting the downfall of their Usenet, etc. Even I wish the internet was how it was back circa 2000, but it’s not coming back. We collectively decided to trade freedom for convenience without much question.

[Anonymous No.9721951]

The problem with 4chan today is so many people are insistent there's no such thing as board culture, then will also go out of their way to shitpost to death or shut down any actual attempts at board culture. I know it got spammed back in the day so it's now banned from discussion on any board that isn't /m/, /sp/, /mlp/, /vg/, or /vt/, but the divegrass league IS a genuine celebration of board culture and the reason both it and board culture in general is dying is because no one is allowed to talk about it anymore. I don't know why management is actively in favor of most boards becoming a generic cesspool of shitposting (easier to manage if you don't have to understand the culture of a board when moderating posts, maybe?), but that's how you get the ever-present feeling that things are dying.
Dying, but keeping around elements that no longer have any meaning, just so that people can feel like things are still the same. Remember that even after its transition into an empire, the old Roman senate stuck around for centuries before one of the emperors finally got sick of the relic and dissolved it.

[Anonymous No.9721980]

>>9710302
>>9710297
>>9710274
>>9710248
This is honestly comfy as fuck

[Anonymous No.9721991]

>>9721951
I haven’t heard of that, I’ve been here a long time sporadically so I’m curious what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous No.9721993]

>>9721991
Board culture or the divegrass? Because if it's the latter, the reason you haven't heard about it is because we're not allowed to talk about it.

[Anonymous No.9722008]

>>9721993
The latter. Anyway random thought to contribute to this thread. I remember having this retarded naive idea around 2006 or 2007 that memes were the funniest thing ever, and that if normies could experience them and get the humor of it, somehow people would be happier or less angry by participating online in fun creative things sharing them with their friends. Well not only is that not true but ironically I think every person being on the internet constantly has made them more hostile suspicious or disagreeable with one another. I didn’t know. I never could have known.

[Anonymous No.9722030]

>>9722008
>The latter.
It's a 4 times a year soccer tournament using a modded version of PES where the teams are represented by the boards with the players being various references to board memes or culture. It gets streamed on cytube and is good fun.
There's a general about it on /vg/ but don't go there. Seriously, don't go there outside of seeing what the OP post says, it's by far the worst general on the entire fucking board and will kill any and all interest you will have in it because the shitposters have taken over. I can't even type the name of it because that shit is wordfiltered now but it's the only general that has the word "Cup" in the title

[Anonymous No.9722471]

>>9721931
LOL XD

[Anonymous No.9722502]

>>9718607
It's heavy-handed by american and western standards, but I think that the chinese and koreans are on point when they work to limit or ban access to certain internet stuff. I was a child of the internet (spent time here and there online as a kid) but nothing like today, and probably not because I was some special kid who was immune to the dopamine (if so then how am I stuck here?) but because the net just wasn't as addictive back then, to me anyway. That can't be totally true because there are cases of people in the 90s talking about their net addictions (todd rundgren wrote a song about it called "I hate my frickin' ISP" and comically distributed it first via the net), but I feel personally like it's gotten much, much better at hooking you. And as you point out, the bait is stronger and there's a million suckers born a minute now instead of just one, so it never stops working (for more proof, see every single /v/ thread that hits triple-digit posts, it's always the same kind of disingenuous, purposely antagonistic OP). I don't think the net is at the point where it's helping people develop anymore; If anything it's just making people worse. I think the net is proving to be the new smoking, especially if it's for social media use. Treating social media companies less like entertainment providers and more like big tobacco would probably be a benefit for the world.

>>9721409
Things like this are why I just outright don't use social media or use it as sparingly as possible, and I also isolate it; The media is on a completely separate email account, on a separate device, that is turned off and stored away when I'm not using it. Also, I pay for software that offers an ad-free version. You may laugh at the thought of paying for software, but the truth is that if the software is free, then that's because it's not the product; You are. A forgettable amount of dollars is a pittance compared to what they will make off of you, so I just pay it.

[Anonymous No.9722515]

>>9721839
I'd be about it; Have wanted to be part of a webring for a while now.

>>9721860
I'm not a web expert, but I have asked around, and the tech lines have blurred a lot over the years and it's rather hard to make a system that is impenetrable for phone users. That's what I read when I looked into the matter a few weeks ago (and what /wsr/ told me, I told you I'm not a web expert :P)

[Anonymous No.9722536]

>>9717867
I think you get an updated view if you look at musicians from the 60s and 70s and what they're doing now. As you can see, it's a mixed bag; Some are still making music, some are just doing production, others are just riding royalties and have fucked off. I expect the same to be true of anybody who's internet-famous. Influencers (or should I say influenzas? lol) I actually know a bit about them, and most of them quit by the time they're X age because 1) they can't keep up with younger, prettier models, and 2) they are tired and ready to move on. Most of them say that the money and fame doesn't really last, and they also say that certain markets are just way too crowded, so like other things the bubble should inevitably pop. The ones who stick around are ones that have some actual talent, like musicians for example, or I guess people who are good at "famous because we're famous", like the kadrashian family (sometimes it's impressive to realize how wealthy they are in spite of being totally useless, but then there's such people throughout the elite of the world, such as the british monarchy). People grow up, I guess is the takeaway here (as this post alludes to as well >>9719272).

[Anonymous No.9722628]

>>9722515
It doesn't have to be "impenetrable". Just make it more tedious to use. Even if there's ways around the lack of optimization, that's already one barrier to entry too many for most people wishing to phonepost.

[Anonymous No.9722632]

>>9721791
2011? Maybe some places but not all. /v/ or other /b/ contaminated boards were shitholes that got spammed endlessly with greenlexluthor and pretty 18 blowjob and swallow. Other boards were okay, /new/ (or was it already /pol/?) was a slow board for discussing politics rather than stormfront's personal nazi incubator (I still remember in 2012 when they had a thread finally die that had been started in 2007), /g/ actually had powerful neckbears and wasn't just smartphone faggots comparing chinkshit phones, /sci/ wasn't flooded with retard conspiracy theorists and had real, high-level discussion of topics, bronies hadn't really started up yet, etc.) but there were still a lot of problems on anything with a higher population. There are some things I miss, but /v/ and the contaminated boards I do not miss at all.

>>9721796
I think because they're easy to manipulate and they work, their goal is to get people's goats and they fucking work.

>>9721874
True enough in that there is enough cross-users online now to remove any meaningful difference between userbases.

>>9721897
I mean that is the point of the rules, just because people ignored them for all of the 2010s doesn't mean it wasn't supposed to be enforced.

>>9721913
yeah it makes me laugh how pavlovian they are, it's fun how you can fuck with them by making them automatically reply and not even realize what you're doing to them. They've huffed too much 4chan gas and now their brain is totally fucked.

Also that image made me laugh, surprised I've never seen it before but it sure does sum things up nicely. From the image and the topics therein it's also old as fuck now, fucking hilarious and also sad.

>>9721931
I remember once I found a cookie at a shop that looked like this guy, made me laugh heartily. That was a decade ago. Ouch.

>>9721865
Fucking this. MAKE INTERNET SRS BIZNESS AGAIN!

>>9720847
another thing that influences effort is reward. Art flowed freely online when nobody ever got paid for it.

[Anonymous No.9722679]

>>9721991
>>9721993

are you IMPLYING that it's RIGGED against us? So typical to have people post nonsense and refuse to give us the .INFO to prove it.

>>9722628
Reasonable assertion. That's what I plan to do with my site anyway, just make it a pain to use if you don't have keyboard, mouse, and at least 8" screen (gotta be mindful of the pocket computer crowd).

>>9722632
that last point was unclear due to lack of space. Basically, there's research that shows that when kids draw that they'll do it for the fun of it. If you start giving them some reward for drawings, but then later take it away, then they'll stop drawing. It's part of new psychological research which demonstrates how important it is to build an internal rewards system, and basically to motivate yourself by getting excited not by prizes, but instead by the potential for suffering. Basically, the tl;dr of this research is "don't focus on prizes as your reward, focus on hard effort and painful struggle as your reward, and then your mind will naturally start to want to suffer more, which will make you work harder and achieve more by association of straining and striving." In simple running terms, you will run faster and harder if you are hooked on the pain and hardship that comes from running hard than you would if you were hooked on the medal or trophy you'd get for winning the race. Doc's name is Andrew Huberman if you're interested. He does really interesting research. Just be wary that there's weird clickbait shit that wants to redpill you about this or that based on his findings. That's why I wouldn't look up any videos or interviews that aren't directly with him.

[Anonymous No.9722682]

>>9721791
>>9722632
I don't remember what year it was, sometime late during the 7th gen, but at some point /v/ was just trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls, like you could tell one guy was baiting and the other guy was pretending to be retarded to bait the baiter and so on. Just an endless trolling cycle.

It was really awful. I quit /v/ at that point and only came back when /vr/ was brand new.

[Anonymous No.9722683]

>>9722632
Heh, I still remember some of the shittier shoops I made way back in the day for no reason other than it was my contribution to whatever meme was current at the time. Like when "one does not simply walk into Mordor" was all the rage, in which case I just grabbed some artist's rendition of Mordor, slapped some in-game graphics from Star Fox 64 on top, and had Boromir radioing in with something like "one does not simply barrel roll into Mordor," and I thought it was comedy gold. How something like that compares to some zoomer making the umpteenth soijak/pepe edit, you be the judge.

[Anonymous No.9722712]

>>9722682
Same here. I have the image somewhere but it was a list of every throwaway shitpost response to any and all game threads (ie. if it's a wii game then it's casual wagglan), but then the last line was "if it's offtopic then it's 214 posts and 73 images not shown, click [here] to expand". Was pretty happy to leave around then, and pretty happy when /vr/ came around since now I could actually fucking talk about video games again.

>>9722683
I know that feel bro. I've got some shit I've made here and there on drives. Or shit people have posted for contributan. Most of my stuff I've actually made is from long ago now though, when people cared about doing it. Posting random image from earlier this year in a bootleg game thread just because it's still funny that this ended up on some random chinese GBA cart.

[Anonymous No.9722729]

>>9722682
I noticed that trend as well, but I stuck around until the gaymergate shit blew up and the entire board became a political shitfest and assholes blatantly baiting with said political shit, at which point I ran here. Every once in a while I pop my head in just to see what's up, and NOPE not long after.

[Anonymous No.9722778]

>>9722729
I still don't know how to look at gamergate. On one hand it was a big wake-up call that weird shit happened in the game industry, and also helped to further expose that game journalism was trash (if you hadn't known to ignore reviewers, or didn't read them and just remembered how magazines were from youth, or just didn't think about it before). On the other hand, it was such a shitfest with how anita successfully baited so many anons into harassing her and then turned the entire thing into a specter of woman-bashing for the news networks to pick up. I guess the only good thing to come out of it was a healthy dose of skepticism. The worst things to come out of it were cancerous industry behavior and cancerous board culture (and 8ch of all godforsaken places). Not a lot of wins for such huge losses. Every once in a while I also wonder how much of everything that allegedly happened in that saga was real, at 10 years old now it's hard to piece together the memories, and frankly, hard to trust any employed writer to honestly cover and analyze it. The only other thing that sticks out to me otherwise is how stupid it was to see game sites write about social issues. Like, you're a fucking video game site. If you wanted to write social commentary at a serious journal then you shouldn't have graduated bottom of your journalism class at bush-league university.

[Anonymous No.9722794]

>>9721951
When did they ban the tourney? I didn't even realize I hadn't seen any posts about it in some time. I always wanted to check it out but just never did.
I've missed a lot of remembered threads like that. Sometimes I'll see some screencap posted in "best of board" threads and kick myself for having purposefully scrolled past it on the front page.

[Anonymous No.9722885]

>>9712845
>>9714085
This interior always felt so nice and I was always excited to see what the other islands held for me.
Disappointed at the warehouse we never saw, and the Apartment you somehow magically acquired, I know it's silly but hell, the Warehouse had an explanation, you're telling me off-camera Claude just applied for a house in the shitty projects? LCS is so much better in this aspect.

[Anonymous No.9722931]

>>9721791
2012 was the last good year imo, but you could sense something has changed, then by 2013 the entire site went down the shitter. I don't know what happened but it was really noticable, especially on /sp/ or /x/

[Anonymous No.9722964]

>>9722794
yeah, the problem with 4chan now is that they banned a lot of the best stuff for no reason and left a lot of the shit.

for example, the other board I mostly go on is /a/. They banned sakurafish, which was legitimately fun and funny and a big part of the board culture but they let the people who do nothing but say how much they want to fuck little girls run rampant.

>>9722778
Yeah gamergate was a really weird thing. On one hand, what we would now call Woke bullshit had started to run rampant in the game journalism, and there were all of these shits like Anita coming in and doing the standard Woke playbook of coming into a community that they don't actually give a shit about and bitching endlessly that it's not woke enough. Gamergate was the real first flashpoint of the culture war because the gamers were the first to collectively say no.

On the other hand a lot of it was just people who wanted to harass people looking for an excuse.

[Anonymous No.9722975]

>>9722794
Tl;dr is a couple years into its run it got spammed on a bunch of boards by autists, was seen as a form of advertising, and officially banned everywhere but the following
>/vg/
Its general is there
>/m/
The threads have always been civil and /m/'s mod was cool with it
>/sp/
They take it really fucking seriously so better to let them have it, plus it IS a sports competition so it's on-topic
>/mlp/
They also take it seriously, or at least used to
>/vt/
Officially it is banned there but half the time the mod doesn't give a shit and they keep to one thread instead of spamming

[Anonymous No.9722987]

>>9722975
Also because /vt/ has it's own minor-league between seasons like /vr/ and /vg/