What was Sup Forums like before it went mainstream?

What was Sup Forums like before it went mainstream?

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Rather small and comfy. I remember ranking board speeds by post rate a couple of years back, and Sup Forums was number 10. Now it's number 1 and it's too fast to have sensible conversations here. By the time you're finished typing the thread is about to 404.

Case in point, this thread was posted at 8:49PM ET. My first reply was at 8:55 PM ET, six minutes after the OP posted. The thread was on page seven at that time. I only found the thread 2-3 minutes after it was posted. If I took longer than five minutes to write my reply, the thread would have fallen off of page 10 and been archived.

I had five minutes or so to write something intelligent. I had to break my thoughts into two posts just to make sure I could post without the thread being archived.

In the two minutes it took me to write my second reply, this thread had already fallen from page 1 to page 6.

Being heard on Sup Forums is now a race against the clock. You have to either compose and type your thoughts extremely quickly and hope the thread isn't dead by the time you've finished, or else post low effort bait with stupid reaction images as fast as possible in hopes of getting a reply.

Guess what most posters choose? Memes and bait.

Sup Forums is fucking shit echo chamber now.
Trumps personality cult has only made it worse, however it started down this shitty path after Zimmerman Trial

Back when Sup Forums was the 10th fastest board you had PLENTY of time to think about your posts. You could take your time and type out your thoughts coherently. You had time to google stuff and do basic research. You usually had time to make an image to support your point. None of that is possible now.

Sup Forums users like fast boards because they get instant gratification. Post a stupid troll comment or bait image and get (you)s in real time. Trouble is, is that fast boards are inherently stupid. It's what happened to Sup Forums, it's what happened to Sup Forums, it's what has finally happened here with the election.

Every time you post some dank maymays on twitter or try to 'redpill' your facebook buddies you draw more people here and enable the destruction of the last place for free discourse on the internet.

Was a constant war between Paulbots and NatSoc. Then the JIDF and other came along and tried to destroy everything so they teamed up. Over time the libertarians redpilled themselves until it became a solid 75-25 Natsoc/Libertarian ratio. After Romneyberg lost Sup Forums fell into darkness but regained its strength in 2015 albeit with so many fucking normies REEEEEEEEE

this

HOLY FUCK DUDE STOP FUCKING POSTING WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU YOU LOOK LIKE SUCH A FUCKING RETARD

It wasn't full of:
>what if?
>Stands in you way, what do's?
>Niggers with big black dick fucking our white whores
>Anti-anything we like threads

Not that different really, Sup Forums is trash now but thats about it

Dont let anyone fool you. It was pretty much the same as it is now.

You have to admit that the downfall of Sup Forums has had some positive effects here though. We have a higher population density of weaponized autists since instead of going on raids just to fuck with people there is a purpose behind everything. Sup Forums would not have found Shia if we had the same retards from 2012

Yeah I am incredibly impressed, Sup Forums would have never pulled that off in its prime. It was my first board like many olderfags on here and it hurts seeing it the shit show it is, but Sup Forums has replaced and exceeded past it.

I remember the first actual Great War, glad to see a fellow old fag. We must teach the normies about (((them))).

Can't flim flam the zimzam

In the very beginning it was filled with tripfaggots and creative things.
After it became natsoc vs libertarian, with a shitty 2012 election in between.
Then most everything became /hwndu/ tier, with more internet trolling and less real life stuff.

And then moot the backstabber pulled one of his tricks again, so no idea what happened in the meantime.

So basically, it's the same it has been for many years, just too fast for serious discussion now.

Sup Forums was mainstream before Sup Forums even existed sooooooo kys

Don't think that will ever get old.

can't corner the dorner

we could wave to each other on the streets in peace and secrecy

take pic related. You couldn't write this much today. Thread would 404 before you hit submit, but back then it was a different story

>tfw one has deeper and more sensible political conversations on Sup Forums

Not really, no.

Journalists in the past were completely clueless as to who or what Sup Forums was. Now they're namedropping us at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

Agreed.
This was a great place to engage in thoughtful discussion. Many times, posts are now flooded with nonsense, and Lefty-chan levels of musterbation
>THIS
>Bump
>that made me laugh so hard!
>kys

On and on and on. People love to contribute, but little to the convo at hand. AND if you do have something insightful to contribute, it gets lost amongst the shitposts before the thread gets 404'd

Don't get me wrong, the occasional shit post is fun, it's what separates us from the hardcores over at 8pol, but becoming more and more unberable.

Stormfront. I was there, and I want it back.

Precisely my point. Thank you for the example.

Victory has defeated us.

Bull fucking shit.
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This is an example of one stroy in 2007. Sup Forums wasnt around until around 2011. By the time Sup Forums came about Sup Forums was very well exposed.

Honestly, Sup Forums used to be more enjoyable to browse before. The past few years you see more of these one word replies that add nothing to the conversation and act more like upvotes or downvotes. It feels like we're full of people from sites like Youtube or Reddit, where the only way they know how to contribute to the discussion is through upvoting posts.

The worst part is those faggots that deliberately try to get more of these people on here in order to spread their ideology.

I chose that gif because more people would recognize it and I didn't have a version of this much more recent clip with no sound:

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My point stands. The media didn't know who or what Sup Forums was before the election, and now they all know who we are. Being able to operate in obscurity completely beneath media radar was a major strength of Sup Forums. Now that strength is gone. What have we gained from it?

Came here to say this.

It was gamergate that led up to moot's cuck moment, wasn't it? I remember waking up and Sup Forums was nothing but desu and some porn actress talking about cucking scenes in the background.

Sup Forums would have been known, but from the public eye, Sup Forums equated to Sup Forums so that scared the majority off, or kept the confined to the the Sup Forums subreddit.
Moreso than shills, leddit or summerfags, e-celeb endorsements is an outright scourge.

we had fun

Sup Forums is the dark matter at the center that keeps the Sup Forums galaxy spinning. Sure the other boards have to stay on topic, but every once in a while Sup Forums will um, shine? Shine through?

OG Sup Forumsack here. The Zimmerman trial was incredible. It remains the most fun I ever had on Sup Forums. So much OC and so many dank memes. All of our Trayvon memes pissed norm is off to no end. It was great. Modern Sup Forums sucks, in comparison. Too many newfags, shills, and shitposters, even for Sup Forums. :(

Bump chumps

Also, OP, if you want to know what Sup Forums used to be like, try the hotwheels version. Dubblechins has the hard edge and well-thought out posts that this place used to have.

I just lurk 8/pol/ these days. Sup Forums fucking sucks rn

Nice try. You'll never flimflam the zimzam

I consider myself an oldfag and I came here after Trayvon was gunned down by Zim, so maybe a year or so before the trial. I still remember oldfags complaining how that event brought in tons of newfags (such as myself). Now I know how they feel after seeing what the elections did to Sup Forums

>What was Sup Forums like before it went mainstream?

Sup Forums was Sup Forums

didn't think it was that bad.

99% of us came from Sup Forums. Well now its more like 50% since we have so many /r/the_donald fags here

before mainstream:

>libertarianism and national socialism were the two 'dominant' schools of thought, slightly favoring the former
>less racist
>less impact on the site as a whole, basically a b-level side attraction
>Sup Forums was the board that did the most when it comes to affecting mainstream thought/news. major claim to fame: either raiding an online secondlife-esque game/chat room or when oprah said they have over 9000 penises and they were using them to rape people
>patron saints: ron paul for libertarianism, adolf hitler for national socialism

after mainstream:

>libertarianism and national socialism are the two 'dominant' schools of thought, slightly favoring the latter
>considerably more racist
>exponentially more impact on the site as a whole, arguably becoming the new main event attraction for all of Sup Forums
>Sup Forums is almost certainly the main mover of mainstream news/events. major claim to fame: getting donald trump elected to be the 45th POTUS
>patron saints: donald trump for non-natsocs, still adolf hitler for natsoc

in short: Sup Forums is the new Sup Forums, hitler has serious staying power and while Sup Forums has done more over time, Sup Forums BY FAR owns the record for "most worldwide impact" by getting donald trump elected as the 45th POTUS and the mainstream race hustle has gotten a lot more blatant.

Isnt he still hiding somewhere in a binland shack?

You could have actual political debates and talk about political theories. Those threads will probably never return

Ive been on Sup Forums since 2009

This board is pretty much the same as it was. Just "cucking" was not a thing people talked about or obsessed over and Donald Trump wasn't a thing.

Sup Forums as a fucking whole has gone downhill rapidly in the last several years.

I've been coming here so fucking long I can't even remember during what years things happened. It's all blurred together for me, but I've been watching this website go to shit at all corners slowly for years.

Since '06 myself.

The major change happened when /new/ was axed and Sup Forums came on. /new/ (and /n/ before it) had a structure, Sup Forums was freeform.

Sup Forums was mostly tracking with /new/ in spirit when it came on, but it really started change when /x/ came in with conspiracy shit, then you had "generals" become a thing, and the autistic obsession with "is this redpilled" and the whole spectrum of that shit.

But the spirit of the board has mostly been the same since the start.

Anybody else here remember the days of Sup Forums between 2008 and 2010? God, the memes were godtier. Lot better than the shit you niggers come up with.

Just go to 8

The biggest mistake this website ever made was doing away with Sup Forums Gold Accounts.

shut up newfag ive been here since 1994

Obvious bait. Everyone knows Sup Forums wasn't even around till 1995

More lolbertarians and less redditors. I don't know which are worse.

>not being on Sup Forums during the 1980s
>not witnessing the "MICHAEL JACKSON IS GETTING WHITER" threads
you faggots missed out.

thats nice to hear

Best post so far.

It still wasn't good, but it wasn't full blown retarded faggot shit literally every post, also obligatory sage..

>had more fringe opinions
>had more long and informative discussions
I have many capped images from the population was few, and threads etc moved in a slower pace, increasing the quality
again this is mentioned, but even at late 2013 when the population was fucking booming, it was 40k, now its about 120k, so thrice the amount of what I think "geez this place got crowded"
>no flags
so no 3rd worlder who spout their inferiority complex on us, no 1st worlders spoutin their superiority complex, both trying to compensate for their shitty lives.
There was a time people attacked the argument and not the flag.
>less religious
this can be seen in occasional religious surveys, by half 2013 xtianity and atheism became almost equal, in 2014 xtianity suprassed it

Same standard, different management, no flags

It was more relaxed, less right wing white nationalist autist shilly. People had more fun with being cunts. Now there's a bunch of retards who take it seriously.

Slower. It was better since I could enjoy a thread comfortably without feeling rushed,

honestly though, what's there left to say?

Cuck

>you will never relive the Zimmerman trial on Sup Forums

My god, what a fantastic time to be on Sup Forums. This board was never better.

you're wrong, new, or were in the wrong threads.

could also get sick digits

>less right wing white nationalists
Kek. You obviously came either right before or right after Sup Forums harbor because the truth is that this board is WAY LESS white nationalist than it used to be. I rarely see shit like GTKRWN these days when back then, it was everywhere.

this is only 1/88th of the problem imho,tbqhwyf4u

>the asshole of the internet
Always has been, always will be.

The Kek cancer didn't exist, that's enough of a reason to miss it.

True. Sup Forums has a colony in Sup Forums and it moves much slower there. It's nicer to have extended time to talk about things. Here the sliding is real.

to add
>People unironically asked who is Ben Garrison
This saddens me the most

I agree with you and dumb posters obviously get mad cause they like it like this.

But I think you overreact and the threads don't 404 as fast as you say, besides you can always make a new thread if the discussion it's fresh.

Infographs about how Jews control everything and screaming JIDF at anyone who disagreed with you. Slowly but surely, Sup Forums became more political and less tinfoil /x/-tier as time went on.

The biggest improvement was the flags with IDs in each thread. This increased the quality of bantz a million fold.

you done goofed

not much different

Makes me miss the days of /n/ before Moot got triggered over stories of niggers committing crime and SHUT IT DOWN.

zimmerman/boston marathon manhunt Sup Forums was the best Sup Forums. this place went to shit once trump declared. I finally back now that hes becoming more unpopular on here

/n/ was the best.

I like riding bikes and hating kikes

I remember when Sup Forums was #5 in speed and competed with Sup Forums and Sup Forums. Now we're #1 by a good margin, even faster than Sup Forums.

Sup Forums has basically been the same 10 threads on repeat for the past 5 years

The nation-based generals are where Sup Forums survives.

>before mainstream:
>>libertarianism and national socialism were the two 'dominant' schools of thought, slightly favoring the former
>>less racist

you fucking liar. racism was the foundation of this board because the stormfags were banned from every other forum and the europoors couldn't talk about it lest they get charged with hatecrimes

that being said that's why i didn't come here back in the day. too much retardation racism

I've literally been here for fucking 9 years.

Not much has really changed. Just some new memes and now more catholic general threads with tripfag apologists, which I sort of miss

I've been on Sup Forums since 2006, but I only came to Sup Forums after I realized that I supported Trump and that the media was twisting everything on my own, so I wanted to find out what Sup Forums thought about him.

I remember this

Really what was it like?

It didn't get triggered over every little joke.

howdy reddit. fuck off back to your circle jerking safe space.

yea this is what I always assume, I feel like Sup Forums has adopted some reddit tier forum speak but overall it hasnt changed much

Wow. That legit make me sad that these fucks don't know who Ben 'The Montana Merchant Mangler', 'Emptying my 9 on the welfare line', 'gas the kikes, even the tykes' , the nigger grave digger' 'Going Rambo on Sambo', 'Gassed a throng of Viet Cong', ' The Racial pain hurricane' Garrison is.

We have always been mainstream
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