Yesterday's Sup Forums was quite friendly and chill...

Yesterday's Sup Forums was quite friendly and chill. Nowadays this place has been brimming with assholes who gets triggered over anything. How did things change to this extent?

The x-men died and Bendis is alive

The constant shitposts, buzzwords and daily bait threads have been getting to ridiculous levels lately.

You were born.

Dregs like this came from Sup Forums and Sup Forums.

Long answer: With the introduction of the Avengers movie introduced comics to such a wider audience, with that came attention that should have stayed the hell away from comics. This includes the annoying fangirls, you know the ones, the type of people who are constantly on their SuperWhoLock blogs. It also brought about more politics that should have stayed the hell out "Why the hell aren't there enough *insert minority* in comics?!? I wont read it till you put more in." "WTF Marvel?!?! Really /She-Hulk/?!? How stupid can you all get?!?" This obviously attracted more people to comic sites like Sup Forums. It doesn't help that some of the companies don't want to lose the new viewers so they start to boil shit down to "not confuse anyone" and make it look more like the movie counterparts, they also like to pander to specific groups. This only spreads the fires and makes things more hostile.

Short Answer: The MCU did this.

I'm not saying the Avengers movies is directly responsible, but we started seeing a lot more Sup Forums-tier and tumblr-esque posts right after the first came out. I think Sup Forums's true death came this year, were there's been a lot of Sup Forums shit fucking everywhere. Goth girls thread got shut down the other day because it just turned into a Sup Forums thread.

Without that forced drama to sustain their interest, X-fags became a destructive, cancerous force.

The MCU didn't have anything like the audience the Nolan movies did until 2012.

Batman did this.

tumblr happened

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>this sucks, I want neo-Sup Forums to leave

The 2010's are here, so Tumblr started to ruins everything.

shut up shill

triggered

This decade as a whole has proven to be a horrible one for everything and everything, and Sup Forums thus becomes bitterer and more jaded as time passes.

Stop going to shitty threads. There's always good threads, you're just choosing to stick your head into the shitty ones and pretend those douchebags represent the entire board. If anything, outside of company wars threads this place is more chill than ever. I mean for starters we're not being harassed by a tyrannical nigger mod anymore, are we?

Sup Forums was as close to a nerd utopia as I've ever seen back when things were simpler. There was more creative energy, positivity, and support because it was kind of like a little club, and people tended to give more than they took.

It's inevitable that anything that gets too big kind of turns shitty. More people know about Sup Forums and Sup Forums than ever before. It's not quite as bad as youtube comment sections per se, but I feel that's kind of an indicator of how shitty a public discussion forum can get.

I think one of the first major catalysts was mlp, because they attracted so many newfags that it almost changed the environment overnight. Having "____ general" threads were never really a thing either before they came, because there was never a need to quarantine a fanbase to a single thread at a time because people knew how to coexist better.

I'm not saying it was perfect--far from it. There were assholes and shitposting as is inevitable for a board on Sup Forums, but I shit you not that there was a time when it wasn't uncommon for people dropping in from other boards for a quick look would become so enamored with Sup Forums's environment that they'd be inspired to check out and become more proficient in Sup Forums-related material, just so they could be a part of this board.

As for the "assholes who get triggered over anything," that's unfortunately most of the internet nowadays.

>This includes the annoying fangirls, you know the ones, the type of people who are constantly on their SuperWhoLock blogs.
Those have always been here. I remember back in 2009 when every single Transformers Animated thread eventually turned into MegatronxStarscream yaoi.

Well OP, I want you to ask yourself this:

Which are you more likely to do:
Post relevant content which you enjoy in the hopes of finding others who also enjoy it
OR
Make threads complaining all day everyday and post an endless stream of scripted stock responses to any given post in any given thread which even mildly hints at discussing something you personally disapprove of?

Wish I could TURN BACK TIIIIIIME
To the GOOD OLD DAAAYS

Pretty much this. Besides faggot mods refuse to ban obvious Sup Forums related superhero themed movie threads which causes those annoying angry neckbeards to accustom this place. Also the great 2010-2011 homestuck invasion is mainly responsible for Tumblr.

>homestuck
That already existed in '08, user.

You know the things are very annoying when you can't talk simply about any comedy american cartoon without some crybaby offended by everything and who has not the capacity of liking a thing, even if this is objectively shit.
this people can't understand toilet humor, black humor or shit like that, they constantly take everything with a serious point of view, even if the thing was made to be absolutly not serious and with offensive stuff.

>hopes of finding others
That's the issue here. No one actually responds to those kind of threads anymore. And even if they do, that's because of porn and other related shit instead of quality (a rare Dandy thread became a softcore milf for example) Unfortuantely, doing the latter seems more applicable.

>tumblr
Playing into the gay site wars shit is what's killing this board. Please fuck off.

Videogames, tv shows and movies.

You start attracting trash from Sup Forums and Sup Forums you are set to see your board turn to shit.

>implying Tumblr's homosexual agenda and gender politics haven't destroyed cartoon industry alongside with this place
They deserve it.

I think it was general threads in general that has brought about the downslide of Sup Forums. Well, not them exactly but the people that create them.
Sup Forums is ephemeral place. There's a conversation and when it's done it's done and goes away.
But people that visit generals seem want it to be more like a traditional forum. Where there's a constant discussion. When you have that, combined with a lack of new source content you get people stop having a conversation about the source and start having conversations about the content they've created from the source.
When it finally does get new source content it quickly gets devoured within an hour of it's release. So anyone that may be delayed viewing the new episode/strip/whatever don't get to join in on the conversation because it's already over and people are now talking about the content created from that new source content. Combine that with the never ending lifespan of the general and things quickly devolve.
It also creates another community within Sup Forums. Instead of just being Sup Forums we now have collection of communities within Sup Forums which doesn't promote unity. It's like Sup Forums and Sup Forums, we may all be apart of Sup Forums but I'd bet you see them as a separate entity.

It became angrier because of Sup Forums and Sup Forums. It became shittier because of Tumblr. It became both because of Sup Forums, who couldn't resist against those faggots.

I blame the counter culture developing against non-Sup Forums websites. It is turning Sup Forums into Website Wars: Tumblr Strikes Back. I liked Sup Forums more when everyone pretended it was a super secret club.

General threads are fun if you're inside the fandom. Since everyone in this board has a fandom, it's quite hard to ban general threads. Because nobody actually wants his own fandom to end. I think we're all responsible in here.

It's because people insisted that "Sup Forums is love", which was a nice way to say "too spineless to throw away crossboarders."

Sadly, you're right. We should've show our teeth when we had the chance.

But it's true, also like others user said here, it's not only Tumblr but also retards from Sup Forums and Sup Forums.
Everyones know that the most cancerous internet communities are always about vidyas and movies, full of pretentious and frustrated people who hate everything with exaggeration and passive-agressive internet street cred.

Suprisingly Sup Forums is quite mild compared to it's former self.

A decline in the quality of comics from both DC and Marvel made people salty.

Just look at
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Right now I'm visiting a Sup Forums thread where a black guy is taking pictures of a house where he broke and entered. I'm sorry guys, but I remember shit like this happening in Sup Forums years ago.

That makes sense.
Instead of what used to be kind of a "familial unit" that was inclusive of the entire medium, I think we've all seen the odd post of some particular fandom in a themed thread of some kind that's been told to "get the fuck back in your general and stay there."

Which to a certain degree is understandable, given what you've described. It's been observed elsewhere too--I'm sure people who like talking about videogames tend to groan when a group of them won't shut up about Undertale. Fandoms nowadays have a tendency to get out of hand, and aren't very considerate of/are ignorant of the needs of people who share the same space as them.

I still feel like it wasn't too much of a problem before the mlp fans--I recall a lot of people didn't like having "generals," but unfortunately there wasn't much of a choice, because before there were mlp generals, the entire board was nothing but pony threads of morons roleplaying as their favorite characters. It was the worst thing I've ever experienced.

At the time, I felt it was a necessary evil.
Do you think it's necessary now, or do you think people are capable of being considerate/reasonable?

...maybe that's a dumb question.

As some of you said, this started when generals were enforced because of MLP and it became worse when tumblr culture and cape movies gained more popularity.

Sup Forums made its bed, now lie on it.

General threads are fun if you're inside the fandom of the general. Take the Gravity Falls general. I liked the show but most of the threads were about Dipper's feet, what ever fanfics people were writing at the time, or things they've created from the show. There was very little discussion about the actual show, relatively speaking.

>There's a conversation and when it's done it's done and goes away.
Aaaand here's the problem. The fellas in this board don't know where to end a joke. They are so desperate to continue a fun thread that by making a new one they ruin what made it special in the first place.
You can't recreate the events that happend in a thread by simply making another one. It just happens. Let go and let it die in peace. Also fucking stop taking baits for fuck sake.

Constant fear mongering of the tumbler threat turned Sup Forums into /tumbler/. Now posters are un-ironicly triggered at the slightest of things.

It feels like the autists who are complaining about "muh Sup Forums" are the ones who have a problem. I mean, there was the OP earlier who was complaining how Sup Forums had changed from being super against girl nerds to just wanting OP to stop complaining and to get over how a girl made fun of him when he was younger for liking comics.

People ITT are going to shitpost about tumblr, and then there are going to be replies about the logistics and semantics of tumblr's "influence," and no one will really have gained anything useful by the end of the thread.

Simply put, the issue here is that Sup Forums doesn't actually watch anything and simply chooses to shitpost about vague eye-of-the-beholder concepts like tumblr. And when nothing's being watched, nothing's being discussed.

Still isn't nearly as bad as it was back in, like, February. God, February/March of this year was just utter shit.

It feels like the autists who are complaining about autists who are complaining about "muh Sup Forums" are the ones who have a problem. I mean, there was the OP earlier who was complaining how Sup Forums had changed from being super against girl nerds to just wanting OP to stop complaining and to get over how a girl made fun of him when he was younger for liking comics.

>Do you think it's necessary now, or do you think people are capable of being considerate/reasonable?

I'm not sure. I think there are too many people around that don't think with the spirit of Sup Forums, for lack of a better phrase. Like people bumping a thread from page 10 long after its served it's purpose.
I also think this mentality and the generals feed each other.
I don't believe that if we somehow magically got rid of generals that we'd return to the MLP days but I would imagine there would be a transition phase where the people that thrive in those theads would be set loose, so to speak.

All the good cartoons got cancelled and Marvel went completely and utterly to hell.
DC has been flirting with hell a lot, too for the past few years only recently turning things around, hopefully for good.

Basically the biggest things Sup Forums loved all went away and left only things to complain about. While that was going on, an increasing number of posters from other boards were led here by an increasing number of live action movies, serieses and games. These people brought us console wars, Sup Forumsitics, memes about reddit and bane, you get the idea.

I told you, Sup Forums. The MCU was a mistake.

MLP was the beginning of the end. It brought a million autists, popularized generals, popularized ironic general shitposting with the thread simulator videos, popularized popular things having shitty fanbase and having people being shunned because they like something that has a shitty fanbase. I WANT to be able to discuss Steven Universe because i think it is a great show but instead i get one side blasting my ass because "TUMBLR REE" even though I've never used the fucking site and the other side saying how much they want to fuck the Gems. And the horndogs are the only people that I can remotely discuss the show with because they're all packed in the fucking general!

>Also fucking stop taking baits for fuck sake.
This had been a problem on Sup Forums even in the good days. People here have always had trouble differentiating between honest oppinion and things fabricated just to piss you off.

i dunno. i haet being here but no where else talks about comics and Sup Forums format has ruined like forums for me (you gotta wait forever for a response??)

It's not. You have convinced yourself there are enemies making the board shit when it's the constant in-fighting and baiting with "Sup Forums" and "tumblr" that's shitting up the board.

Remember when meta threads were forbidden in this board?

I never understood the PUDDING meme...I vaugely remember seeing the episode its from but what exactly was the context and how does it into a meme?

you are part of the problem

Eh, Sup Forums will always change. I guess, just like anytime when you're faced against assholes, embrace them with love and ignore their stupid shit.


Positively enforce what you like, ignore what you don't.

> meta thread
> manga storytime

mods just don't care.

It actually wasn't. Sup Forums had shit taste and bad people from the start. Source: I was there and you weren't, lying fuck

You stopped enforcing the rules and bashing shitty posts. Every summer we would have a drop in quality but with patience and lurking everyone eventually caught on to board culture now you're all a bunch of fags who report occasional anime threads and get butthurt over gay threads

I blame Stephanie Brown.

Because of Stephanie Brown's War Games death comicdom attracted the WORST kinds of fairweather incredible sensitive fans. That cosplayer that kickstarted a media wide "DC is sexist" campaign? Not a coincidence that it was Stephanie Brown Batgirl.

And because for every action there's and equal and opposite reaction, that effort to paint DC in general and Didio in particular as shitty bigots invited the equal and opposite number in rabid Sup Forumstards and capeshit console war fags.

Follow the trail. It all goes back to Stephanie Brown.

Sorry this wasn't directed at you specifically.