How long does it take for someone to be an oldfag on an internet community in general?
For instance, if some noob joined WoW in 2011, that guy would've been playing for WoW for 6 years.
Yet if someone started in 2006 and it was 2008, would they be an oldfag?
Hypothetically, if someone was on a forum and posted like 3 times, but never returned until a decade later, would they be an oldfag?
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I think anyone who began lurking Sup Forums in equivalent to starting WoW in Vanilla is classified as an old fag. 2011 in Wow was during Cataclysm, that's not long ago compared to starting in Vanilla.
2011 = 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
2017 = 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
thats still a long ass time
Even the newfags who found Sup Forums in 2012, when it was long since past its prime, have been here for 4-5 years.
since before using the internet was normal
that's why you can't become an oldfag you either are or you're not
No.
God I have been here a while. 2009, wish i could prove it, but Sup Forums is fiction and false good. I don't think I'm old fag. 2005 was considered old then. It really wasn't much different. More gore threads (but we have rekt now, it's better). Mlp wasn't around, but invaded Sup Forums and then had it's own board. So many events when i think about it. I think why I keep coming back is because it really hasn't changed. I'm positive the demographic has changed but it's still just has degenerate, pure, and anonymous as ever, plus still no subscription. This is where real people are. Where people express themselves no matter what. Stay how you are Sup Forums.
Started lurking b in 2008. Blows my mind how mainstream/well known it has become.
True as well
been here since 07. there are 3 categories of oldfags.
06-08 fags are all gone; not a single person here remembers cracky-chan, and nor should they. some stupid brit chick with bad teeth was literally as exciting as it got back then, with the exception of the holy god that is W.T Snacks (I miss you)
09-12 fags have all moved on. this is the golden age of Sup Forums. raids, meme machines, hackers named Sup Forums, the true engine for the hive-mind of the internet. any poster from this era has moved to youtube. #junee AKA shoeonhead, h3h3, creators of cards against humanity, anonymous h4x0r shittards, all those fags came from here. most of those are gone. m00t love was at its highest, raids where epic with time magazine, swifttrolls, ect.
2012-2015 are the edgy cancerous autistic fags who post old memes before their time and call themselves old-fags. these are the SJW calling MODS on every thread, thinking trolling makes them hardcore, or theyve all moved to reddit. dank memes where the only thing to come outa this time, but at least dank-memes makes them oldfags i guess...
after that this board got raided by FBI loving republicans and pumped full of propaganda. you guys all got hive-mind controlled into loving trump and getting him elected. anyone from this time was toxic as fuck and should kill themselves. nothing was original, it was all gov-controlled republican cuck conditioning that only ended literally 3 weeks ago.
there you go. i only came back since the cuck-conditioning stopped. its getting back to the 2013 Sup Forums im starting to remember. which is nice.
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Damn, thanks for the history. I remeber 08 my friend telling me about Sup Forums but never payed any mind to it. Where do you think all those guys went.
to tack on, the old measurement of calling yourself an oldfag was to be here for longer than 2 years from 2010.
basically when rules 1 & 2 where actually followed.
thats probably the best measurement you can use to be an oldfag or not. if you where here before the rules where created, youre an oldfag. if you found out after rules 1 - 50 where made, youre a cancerous newfag and youre only here because someone broke the rules as a board-troll.
You are never going to be an oldfag unless you are pre Eternal September. Deal with it.
2011 here
you're only an oldfag if the community is still a community or was so at the time of your joining.
This place stopped being that circa 2011-2012 so if you joined after that it's like being part of mainstreet than part of a neighbourhood. Too many strangers and a shit place.
>06-08 fags are all gone
>04
the raids killed it.
blaming reddit for youtube porn day, the time magazine raid was the real killer. the community got so fucking awesome at trolling that it let the cat outa the bag and brought in a mountain of newfags that killed the site.
Sup Forums got too good and reverted back to being shit. Sup Forums wasn't always shit, but it should have been.
lurking doesnt count.
faggot.
I know that feel.
I remember thinking that the Habbo raids and subsequent attention Sup Forums got had ruined it. Little did I know then how many degrees of ruined there are.
When I became an oldfag I had to give up newfaggy things, like the fear of being a newfag.
All the oldfags are gone, I joined in December of 09 and don't consider myself old.
I honestly don't know what this board was like pre-06.
fire away if youre actually from that time.
Basically if you lurked in online forums before smartphones became ubiquitous, you were there before everyone else, and were initiated into internet culture before it became just regular pop culture
Sup Forums used to be able to organise raids on just the thread alone, now there are a bunch of edgy cancer 14 year olds in discord sucking each other off when they get 10 people in some kids twitch stream
If you where younger then 10 years in 2003, you are a newfag irregardless of anything.
if you joined after 06, you are also a new fag.
2007 was the year of the 12 year olds. When everyone got internet in their pocket all the time.
2011 here hi guise
The iPhone came out in 2007. When people started walking around with computers in their pockets, the secret got out and normal people started participating. Before that were the weird ones. Those are things you call old fags
My oldest pic from /b, I think
>before smartphones became ubiquitous
yes thank you
>have no access to signficant and powerful storage
>have no access to albums of reaction images
>have no access to webms
>have no access to media to contribute
>have no access to paint/photoshop/vocaroo/megaupload etc to keep contributing and modifying and bumping threads.
>used in public so no ability to provide OC and keep up providing for epic bread
>mobile means ability to socialize. Mobile means more normies.
>only contributions are to shitpost in text and turn an imageboard into a chatroom.
>no new image macros, no new shoops and therefore no new memes
>shorter attention spans, lazier regurgitated posting, no considered amazing greentext delivery
>no considered deliveries by OPs, no indepth backtracing and slaying of white knight faggots
>DID I MENTION MORE NORMIES
You have 10 seconds to prove to me that mobile devices aren't the cancer killing Sup Forums and making Sup Forums mobile friendly is sudoku for the entire site.
It's good to see that 6 years after coming here, we're still having this thread
My first shit post was on parchment.
>Basically if you lurked in online forums before smartphones became ubiquitous, you were there before everyone else
Too young to remember eternal September, I see. This same shit happened when AOL ceased to keep the tide of American households off the general internet.
we have this thread weekly since 06
poster here.
that graph is perfect. but, one thing i forgot to mention that join-date and post-date is different.
you could lurk from 03, but you aren't anything until you post something.
I lurked since i was 11 in '04 on an old pentium 2 gateway piece of shit, but didnt post a single thing until jan 07. that was my birthday on Sup Forums. until you get feedback on your shitposts youre a newfag.
lurkers dont count, and never did. people forget that.
There is no real answer to this, it's all opnion.
If I am 5 do I think 50 is old? Yes. If I am 40 do I think 50 is old? No, I think 75 is old.
Perspective.
I think you have to have spent enough time to obtain the culture of something for you to claim to be an oldfag. If you take a break from it and it distorts your ability to fit in to the community, you've lost your status.
newfag detected
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newfag
If you found Sup Forums later than me then you are a newfag fuckboi that needs to lurk moar.