What happened to this board?

What happened to this board?

We grew up, got old, became bitter. More bitter.

Normalfags.

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The losers came, and the weirdos left.

Why is this supported?

Mass immigration.

If that's all it was, it wouldn't feel so foreign. Those that became more bitter left.

we grew and stopped being a hivemind that all watched the same shit

The oldfags who kept it alive left or killed themselves, and normalfags with pleb taste took their place.

So why haven't you left? Unless you're one of these plebs.

Haven't killed myself yet. Soon, though.

What seems to be the issue?

It's not my time yet.

I just lurk from time to time. Sup Forums isnt really the same as it used to be.

Sup Forums in general has just grown so dull over the years. ‼️⁉️️I blame Sup Forums for all of this.

There aren't many places left where one can discuss loli. Sooner or later I expect Sup Forums won't be included in that number either.

Shadow of its former self.

That's a really nice image, OP.

change in management

Most people stopped giving a shit about board quality after moot banned naruto spam.

actually blame Sup Forums for pulling gamergate which made Sup Forums explode in popularity

I haven't been on Sup Forums for a couple of months- did they ban sadpanda threads?

Userbases change, user. Like things in life, nothing stays the same forever.

You can blame it on reddit, Sup Forums, Sup Forums, Sup Forums, tumblr, etc, but the thing is that thousands of new anons come to this place from many other websites and stay here, thus "rejuvenating" or "ruining" the site.

Mods don't help. They seem to have no idea what's allowed and what isn't allowed. They're more likely to delete something that's explicitly allowed, e.g. pages from TLR, than cancerous shit like Sup Forumsposting.

I'm more likely to be banned for posting this than I would be for posting Sup Forums tier "so funny" racism.

The low quality of posts both for thread OPs and in threads themselves, the overwhelming presence of what are considered generals, the overbearing moderation on even slightly off-topic threads, the list goes on. Don't worry, the irony isn't lost on me that I'm complaining about the quality of posts while discussing this in what might as well be a meta thread but at this point, it's a lost cause trying to fight it. You might say "then why don't you make a quality thread instead?" but the likelihood of it staying up or having decent content or discussion is impossibly low.

I say its true because they made a lot of genuinely hateful people come to Sup Forums. Also they make everything political.

Also people Sup Forums bought into theie crazy image. They just keep trying to outedgy each other.

Sup Forums exploded in popularity because they were literally collaborating with reddit and frequently making the news during the election, and so now they're the 2nd largest board after Sup Forums.

Yep.

Rejuvenating is the wrong word entirly.

They don't even have the DJT here anymore...

it's on Sup Forums because mods

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The only real issue I see here is (pseudo-) generals but that ship sailed like 5 years ago. For better and worse, they serve their purpose, congesting popular shit.

Moved and/or killed like most of the meaningful content that was previously on this board.

It deserved it. The threads were generals full of non-Sup Forums posters and shitposting like you would expect because of it.

so lame
it's not like we need another "I'm going to post this every day until you like it" thread to take its place

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Oldfag here, I actually grew out of being a NEET and turning my life around.

Really? No issue with the low quality posting? I don't know if you've become desensitized to everything except the most horrible shit but it's bad. Even ignoring the fact that most thread OPs are template garbage.

You might not believe it but Sup Forums actually has higher quality than places like Sup Forums now. But pol also keeps fucking up Sup Forums so its not all their fault. Imagine if on Sup Forums every time you wanted to talk about something like Evangelion you get shitposters dumping anti gay propaganda trying to "redpill" people because of that scene. Or if you wanted to talk about cowboy beebop you get people complaining how many "niggers" there are in the anime. Thats the type of shit something like pol tries to do to Sup Forums. So im kind of thankfull for the mods, but i do wish they relax a bit, like let some off topic stuff slip by. But only some, like anime reviewers and shit like that.

Archives exist. Check out old front pages. It's all the same.
Only very rarely do I get the feeling that there's some genuine MAL-type retards on here, like a couple of months ago where some guy was hell-bent on trying to convince me Guilty Crown was a good show.

Written by a crossboarder who thinks shitposting means "opinions about anime I don't like" instead of "objectively low quality trash more befitting other boards or websites".

>What went wrong?
>Why is she so perfect?
>Who X here?
>Would you a X?
>Discuss
>Everyday until X
>Daily Reminder
>You will never mumble mumble
>Mumble mumble Prove me wrong - You can't
>You have X seconds to mumble mumble - You can't
>What does X's Y smell like?
>How do we fix X?
>X a Y
>Which X would you Y?
>Sup Forums suddenly hates x
>Why is X the only studio willing to take risks?
>About to watch X what should I expect?
>Don't mind me, I'm just posting mumble mumble.
>There are people on Sup Forums right now who mumble mumble
>What the fuck happened?
>Mumble mumble when?
>What's wrong with VLC?
>Wake up, see this. What do?
>I'll just leave this here
>What's your excuse for not watching X
>X will save anime / I'm here to save anime
>What does Sup Forums think about X?
>What's the most boring anime you've ever watched?
>X is Love
>Haven't seen one of these in a while
>Is X worth watching?
>yfw x wins da y
>Mumble mumble thread? Mumble mumble thread
>What the fuck did I just watch?
>X confirmed for Y
>Best Key girl
>Why do you still watch moeshit?
>She sees your dick
>Why is this allowed?
>Which anime has the worst fanbase?
>What anime is this semen demon from?
>X becomes the MC of the Y. How fucked is X?
>Could X defeat Y?
>Your waifu's face when X
>It's time.
>Your waifu is now X, do you still love her?
>Was it rape, Sup Forums?
>Weekend waifu drawthread
>All your waifus are wonderful, Sup Forums
>You should be able to solve this
>Let's get a X thread going
>Do X if your waifu is posted
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?
>ITT: overrated shit
>What an utterly useless power
>Date-a-live? More like date a slut am I right?
>*sip*
>I want to protect X's smile
>Why can't I hold all these feels?
>This is your X tonight
>Why did X fail/Why wasn't X popular
>TADAIMA
>what did he/she mean by this?
>what was his/her fucking problem?
>this is a japanese X
>Do you like girls (male)?
>Say something nice about __
>Describe Rin in one (1) word.
>What are ___ for
>My wife ___ is so cute
>I'm going to marry ___!

This is the biggest factor, but Chanology started the trend and the recent hire in fun police ensures no board can ever have fun again.

Honestly, Sup Forums needs an enema

It really isn't. Now I often see things like female posters declaring their gender openly or anons posting screenshots of tumblr and mangafox and no one calls them out for it anymore. Sadpanda threads are gone, loli threads are deleted half the time, multiple Naruto threads every day.

I'm an oldfag who was 13 when I started lurking Sup Forums for TTGL threads in 06.

I watch so little anime now, not just because I'm in grad school, but because I'm hardly interested in anything airing. Really only following LWA and Youjo Senki. And then I read SnK(both of them, but now just one since Sidonia ended) once a month.

>You might not believe it but Sup Forums actually has higher quality than places like Sup Forums now.
>now
That's always been the case.

>now
Sup Forums was always higher quality than Sup Forums, what are you smoking?

>So im kind of thankfull for the mods, but i do wish they relax a bit, like let some off topic stuff slip by

I wish they could make up their damn minds about whether or not manwha is allowed here or not. Just shit or get off the pot, fuck.

>using the word crossboarder

thanks for proving the image right, user

>Sup Forums actually has higher quality than places like Sup Forums
Not a high bar

Mobile posters, attentionwhoring tumblrtards especially female ones, etc

Maybe it really is just becoming more bitter. I know the archives show basically the same thing in terms of templates but the whole site was more immature back then, or at least it felt that way. It's hard to explain but it feels like the creativity has long died and we're beating a dead horse. "Sup Forums was never good", sure. But it feels more apparent.

What are you implying? That crossboarders don't exist and every trump hat frogpost I see on Sup Forums is actually posted by people who solely browse Sup Forums?

If the oldfags all died or became casuals like you, then Sup Forums really is dead.

Have you been gone a while? got it. Anime got too mainstream. I miss when this place had more in common with /jp/ than reddit and Sup Forums.

Pic is me and mai waifu when we were happier on Sup Forums 10 years ago.

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women got access to the internet

>Have you been gone a while?
No, just hoping for the best.

this post makes me sad/angry for a lot of reasons

And then there's this faggot.

But we are all little girls here user.

This reminds me - I haven't updated my filters in, like, three years. I'm still getting a good 30-40 threads so I'm not exactly motivated, but it's down from 40-50 so I guess some of it has lost relevance.

It's not "this" faggot, it's "these faggots", the lot of them on the board at this very moment.

you're just a dicklet larping as a little girl

>watching a train station on /jp/
Abstract sort of comfy

What did he mean by this?

The problem with secret club mentality is that it comes from a time when this place genuinely unknown. Its really hard to say "my secret club" when the website you are talking about is largely mainstream in the Internet's eye.

Are we ever going to leave? I've been here 10 years. Even Moot deserted this place.

Good job user

newfag

But K-ON aired 8 years ago.

Still, though
>image filename starts with the digits "12"

Goddamn, thanks for making me feel old.

It's an old meme, ya dip.

Seconded

Ancient fag from 2007 here. There is nothing wrong with this board. It is still organic and evolves by itself. Having the same memes and shitposting is boring, change is good.

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About the same.
I used to browse almost every day but now I just come back once in a while, browse for an hour and then leave disappointed again. I wish I could get away altogether.

Fuck off newfag.

Yet that post was made only a couple of years ago, the point stands still.

Sup Forums became too popular
>sekrit club

It's not even about a sekrit club, people just join en mass and dont give a shit and freely post without spending time learning anything. It's no different from people invading an eco-system and building homes, except It just doesnt matter as much. they're more focused on getting the opinions and threads out rather then learning alittle bit of the culture Sup Forums has grown with, Sup Forums in general the smaller boards are pretty much mini eco-systems within the internet.

>ancient fag
>from 2007
>change is good
pic related

>Goddamn, thanks for making me feel old.

Sorry. Trying to come to terms with the situation right now. I guess I've been here 10 years but didn't select a waifu until Ritsu. I haven't even watched her show in 5 years. How long is mid life crisis supposed to last?

Except there has been little to no change in the last half decade, if not longer. This place has gotten more popular while stagnating at an accelerated rate. Maybe if you could consider Hiroshimoot a welcome change but then you would be retarded.

>3D reaction image
Really contributing to the thread.

>newscum calling somebody a newfag
the little girl larp meme is dead as fuck get over it retard

>Ancient fag from 2007 here.
Newfags, everyone.

I don't know anywhere better, and the fact that communities like that aren't openly known by everybody is probably a good thing anyway.

>tfw the slow, niche boards are the only good boards on this site
>tfw someday even they'll be gone too

Yeah pol really fucked up this place. They are agenda driven so they push their autism on others. Sup Forums is a shithole as always, i dont even get the appeal of it much anymore aside from porn threads. Maybe we need a new imageboard. One that isnt trying to be edgy 24/7. I dont know, i hope Sup Forums can get better.

At least capitalize or punctuate shitposter-kun.

I still spend a huge amount of time on here. I don't feel like talking to office mates on my work breaks so I browse here. I end up on /fit/ and some other boards I won't mention in hopes it'll keep the cancer at bay.

>Sup Forums is a shithole as always, i dont even get the appeal of it much anymore aside from porn threads.

It used to be fun, now every thread is routine bullshit or porn threads. Who the fuck goes to Sup Forums anymore?

>One that isnt trying to be edgy 24/7

Thats the basis of Sup Forums as a whole unit. I miss the days when Sup Forums even Sup Forums as a collective would usually laugh at people for taking the internet seriously.

Someday all of this will be gone.

We might be complaining now about how it used to be so much better but we're still going to be sad when we have nothing left, not even somewhere to reminisce. What comes after won't be the same.

It feels like we're getting dangerously close to that point.

It doesn't in a practical sense. You just cant enforce it anymore realistically.

Terrible moderation, appealing to the wrong target demographic.

Its not gonna happen. People just aren't gonna take time to learn anything. Its juts not something realistic to say. The best you can do is curate the conversations which would require more mods.

i just sort of lurk now, poster quality is garbage, boring, pathetic, or just not worth interacting with. the better threads are the ones off the general radar

alexander if you're still fucking here i have your forced meme saved

Whos Sup Forums targeted to?

occasionally (very occasionally) you get a hilarious raid going.

And there was an unnecessary surge of new users after gamergate and the 2016 election specifically. I feel completely justified blaming Sup Forums and Sup Forums for making this place's community deteriorate faster than it already was.