What kind of bizarro world do we live in where everyday person not only is terrified of a site that advocates open source ideals and pushes their user base towards creative commons but has learned from the popular media to actively resent it? What has happened to us that people are flocking towards grotesque, selfish corporations whose only interest is to satisfy their shareholders as though they were some warm, fuzzy paternal figure? What is wrong with our culture that a company like Apple--the same company that lobbies against right to repair laws, has a worker death toll in the thousands, and forces their users to throw %95 of their old merchandise in to landfills rather than recycling just to stifle third party repair practices--is lecturing us on how we should feel about gay marriage? And we're actually listening to them!
Just to be clear, I'm not disparaging gay marriage. I just like the fact that the sentiment is coming from the mouths of publically traded companies.
You should disparage gay marriage.
t. nazi incel
>>4
I can tell yours is a remarkably valuable opinion.
dicks out for Harambe
>>6
At this point I think it's being done manually.
The dicks being out or the spamming?
Why not both?
>>6
Tsk
wow this is an awful thread
How is it possible that for once in the history of anonymous boards, it is everyone BUT >>1 who is a faggot?
I'd be scared too if I was told I'd have to deal with those retards.
i am become nigger
praise me and reply to this post with "HAIL GREATEST AMONGST THE NEGRO RACE! MONKEY BRAIN, MONKEY FACE!"
>>14
I dub thee, H-rambe, in honor of thy ancestor.
This is good thread
no this is a really bad thread
It's the jews, OP.
Dying? I wish! 4chan has become so popular in the past 3 years that it has at least 5 times the amount of people it's ever had before. Also STFU OP and stay in the closet where you belong, what does you being gay have to do with imageboards? oh yeah, you're OP. Never mind.
>>20
4chan is alive and well, but the number of small imageboards and textboards has dwindled drastically in both amount of sites and activity on them, as well as in general quality.
Also, your typing style immediately gives you away as a 4chan regular, and a rather new one at that. This makes you by far more homosexual than >>1 could ever dream of being.
It's because forum-dwellers are dwindling in numbers. Without the idea of having to actually dig and search for a place to belong, everyone growing up now are just handed the "usual places" and never stray that far from them. We're basically facing our own Eternal September; the more and more kids who come online to be edgy or have non-conformist ideas are all being funneled to either Reddit's edgier corners or 4chan/8chan. No one's going to bother creating their own image board when they can just set up a Discord.
>4chan/8chan
>non-conformist
Good joke
>>23
oh yeah, because your sekrit club is better than mine
>>23
They're non-conformist in how they present themselves, but of course they rarely stray from the norm. Best example I can think of is the "race realism" thing where they want to be edgy by saying that niggers have low IQs but they won't call them niggers, opting for a more "pc" substitute like "nigga" or even worse, "nibba". Or how they'll watch anime and play videogames and whatnot but only whatever shit's popular this year, and they'll regurgitate opinions that they heard from youtube reviews or whatever
>>25
Youtube is popular, and they're all crypto-normalfags, so meme & YT opinion regurgitation is inevitable IMO. "Race realism" has always been gay, hiding behind a bad attempt at political correctness instead of just being honest with yourself.
>>25
>>26
You're both missing the point. 8chan people are most definitely not politically correct. They use racial slurs all the time, they use fag as a term for gay people rather than a joking means of endearment, and a large chunk of the userbase consists of actual nazi sympathizers.
No, the problem with 8chan is that it falls into the "popular unpopular opinion" trap.
If you visit that site and look around enough, you're going to see the same supposedly unpopular opinions stated the same way over and over and over again. Everyone there thinks the same, talks the same, ect. They even have very similar tastes in things like art and music. There's no room for individual opinion, and anyone who goes against the grain is marked as an outsider and is antagonized.
It doesn't matter if they're different from the rest of the web, internally everyone there is very fucking similar. And I get that communities are supposed to have a shared culture. But there's a point where it goes from being culture to dogma, and the likes of 8chan have the latter, not the former.
And said dogma isn't really a dogma of its own. It's been so long since the openminded individualistic version of the internet died that it's gotten to the point where people honest to god can't imagine how things were anymore. The closest thing we have to individuality nowadays is contrarianism, which is really just a dishonest form of conformity.
Imageboards in the west were destined to fail. They lack proper moderation, attract dipshits, and are contrary to Western culture, yet still exploitable by capitalism.
4chan is now dead too.
The mods have started globally banning many people for 24 hours or more for "replying to off-topic garbage." They do this without linking to the post. So they can now ban you for literally any post for literally any reason and you'll never know what post it was, what board it was on, and why you were banned. It's not even possible to know what's defined as off-topic on 4chan, e.g. anime is on-topic on /tv/ but often deleted, while /g/ threads about trannies should be off-topic but actually aren't. It's absurd that users now have the responsibility to know what posts they may or may not reply to, instead of the mods deleting those posts and banning the people who made them. I also got a warning not long ago for replying to a spambot--as if I'm supposed to possess a real-time encyclopedia of all bots active on the site.
4chan's been on a downward spiral for years but this is the last straw.
There must be a 4chan meta thread on every English speaking board ever made, this is a law of the internet
Let the big boards die.
imageboards are dead, long live imageboards
the time of small hobbyist boards is here
death to redchannit
>The mods have started globally banning many people for 24 hours or more for "replying to off-topic garbage."
Finally! It is about time someone actually moderates that shithole.
>>34
So they ban people who replied to off-topic threads and then ban the original posters?
>The mods have started globally banning many people for 24 hours or more for "replying to off-topic garbage."
Hah! I wish.
>>34
What exactly do you believe they are moderating? They won't say what the post was and what made it off-topic. They can't define what off-topic means on the site. Even common sense and reading the rules won't help you navigate the distinction between on and off-topic on 4chan, and the mods would sooner saw off their own limbs than explain anything to the users.
Did I write this post? That's literally my exact thought on the topic. It pisses me off how a forum with such a superbly ethical structure is antagonized simply because its moderation neither condones nor condemns the content hosted there. Whereas, a service like Facebook can be literally the biggest hotbed for animal abuse, child pornography, and hate speech and be accepted in the mainstream simply because they allow themselves to be chastised. Imageboards are literally the epitome of clearnet: public forums that anyone can participate in. Facebook, in contrast, is predominantly darknet and is literally designed to cultivate echo chambers.
This whole situation makes me so devastated. Sure, imageboards are 99% shitposting, but what about that 1% spark of /real/ contact? Real human interactions, not facilitated by some Big Other, not sterilized by a mainstream consensus about what's pedagogically and politically Good. Imageboards never cared about my gender, socioeconmic status, age, race. Everyone always treated my as an equal, which is why I was constantly abased. But, in the midst of it all, there's always that spark of--by sheer entropy-friendship and love. I loved everyone on those stupid sites. I don't like posting on 4chan nowadays, but it always made me happy that someone else in my place could come along and join a community like that. Even if I never recieved credit for my contributions, I was so happy to participate. The very thought filled me up with goopy, squirmy joy. Now that I know the longevity of such cultures is much smaller than I anticipated, I feel scared and lonely. I want to kill myself. I really do. Everything I've ever done, everything I've ever worked for, down the drain. Versions of myself, unfortunate enough to have grown up during this political climate will be alienated and ostracized with no avail, no light at the end. I want to die.