>>112
I mean the web has changed, with social media and the shift to video and everything. Weird emphasis on politics, what used to be "yeah, there are anonymous assholes on the internet, learn to deal with it" is now serious crime (sometimes literally, lol wut).
For me it's less about taking part in big moments in e-culture, and just the simple fact that linear message boards like this are better than the 'Big Five' sites we have now.
Basically in the same boat as >>113 since it's 'the' omni-forum the same way YouTube is 'the' video website. But god damn it is terrible: the voting system alone means it gets so myopic. And you're not even able to keep track of specific users like a 'normal' phpBB-style forum, what's the fucking point?
>>107
I know that feel. Been a daily 4chan user since 2007.
I'm also realizing that I really only got exposure to new memes and jokes from my old hangouts /g/, /biz/, and a few others. Now I'm finding that I don't have a real place to laugh at stuff online anymore ecxept for maybe kiwifarms. But it's not quite the same experience that the rapid fire anonymous shit posting on 4chan provided. Also every alt chan is basically unusable without a 4chanX equivelant.
>>107
I know where you're coming from. It's nice to retreat from worrying about the roof leak that's getting worse into reliving something from easier times (when other people were the ones worrying about leaking roofs). I think part of the reason I clung around to 4chan, or even just the internet in general, was a desire to not fully let go of this, even though the reason that I was hanging on hasn't been true for a long time.
I've been having a feeling that the internet is, in a way, "over," and the death of 4chan -- whether it comes back or not doesn't really matter -- is the final nail in the coffin not just of my youth but also the internet that was worth caring about to begin with.
It sounds weird to say, but I used to think that the internet dying would be terrible because, at the core, it would mean the end of 4chan, and the end of something that pretty much defined my teenage years. Or at least a major part of it.
Now it's gone, why hang round? I don't mean "make a twitter/facebook and go normie," because that doesn't interest me at all. I mean, why even go online at all when the symbol of why I was there in the first place is gone?
I've been on 4chan daily since 2005. I'm realising part of the reason I still post is to cling on to the glory days of my youth.
Your mid-30s is kind of cruel when you have lots of responsibilities: job, house, pets, kids, wife, aging parents etc and sometimes it's nice to dive into boards and remember the good old days when you'd fap several times a night, play vidya with friends, and read visual novels and play 2hu. Maybe I can quit for real this time.