>https://old.sage.moe/a
You guys told me that old /a/ was all about having fun and the community surrounding it was nice but the 2006-2013 archives are filled with just shitposting, trolling, people that hate everything about anime and manga, "ironic weebs" and all that stuff.

And automated spam
lots and lots of automated spam

>>279850468 (OP)
what are they doing

>>279850468 (OP)
>2006-
newfag

>>279850684
So 2003-2006 represent the best years of /a/?

>>279850468 (OP)
I love Yuki so much it’s unreal

>>279850468 (OP)
>people thought Nichijou was the worse anime of the season
>people actually liked the 2011 hxh anime
the archive is quite interesting

>>279851106
People dont like the 2011 anime these days?

>>279851106
Both of those are correct opinions and I agree with them.

>>279851106
Both correct, nichijou is shit and hxh 2011 is the most tolerable shonenslop

>>279850468 (OP)
post screenshots nigga

>>279851106
People only recently pretend to like nichislop because they saw clips on tiktok/youtube.

>>279850468 (OP)
>You guys told me that old /a/ was all about having fun

>>279853163
It wasn't but anime community was a lot different then. Much less culture wars. Much less grifters. And anime discussions didn't really happen on social media. So what happened on /a/ went unnoticed. Nowadays we have shitbag feminists and christian trads arguing for their agenda when it comes to anime on X.

That didn't exist in those times.

>>279850468 (OP)
Eh there was trolling, but compared to nowadays where entre people are dedicated to shit posting and circlejerking specific series, it was way less bad.

>>279850468 (OP)
>counting 2010 onwards as old /a/
lol

>>279851106
>Nichijou was the worse anime of the season
It was seen as an unfunny azumanga clone

>>279853192
Why are you talking about X like anyone gives a shit when we're talking about /a/

>>279853698
Because that place has 1000x the anime discussions this place has. Unfortunate. Anime should have never left nerd communities

>>279853684
By the reddit niggers that bought dr pepper

>>279850468 (OP)
The problem is you can recognize this as trolling. On today's /a/ I can look at the board and not see a single good thread. People genuinely think they are contributing to the board when every single thread in the catalogue right now is dookie dogshit and 10x worse than some guy spamming over and over because its all genuine shit taste and aggressive astroturfing. Additionally, in 2006, I could just go to a BBS if I wanted to talk about anime, or just chat with cute weebs on gaiaonline, not so today.

Old /a/ is honestly full of the most casual normalfags ever
Their tastes begins and ends with whatever franchise is the most popular and hyped flavor of the season.
There is only ONE exception to that, to maintain the farce that they had any kind of taste in any way, and it's Naruto.
The Fate obsession is especially bad.

I wouldn't put any stock into what they say

>>279853773
this, trolling >>>> (you) seeking whores

>>279853802
Naw pre-ttgl /a/ is good.

>>279853773
>Additionally, in 2006, I could just go to a BBS
Weren't BBSes dying by then?

>>279851106
>people thought Nichijou was the worse anime of the season
Few shitposters saying that doesn't make it true. I frequented the threads when it aired and most people enjoyed it. Nichibros was better, though.

>>279853903
You could argue they really "died" in the mid-90s, but they were relevant for hobbies well beyond that. You didn't go to MySpace to discuss anime. Even today places like steam use a bbs format for community discussion.

>>279853903
They were long dead by then.

Maybe anon just means forums. There were still plenty of those around before reddit killed them off.

>>279854132
>Maybe anon just means forums
I think bbs is an acceptable term for forums as 90% of them were using phpBB.

>>279853802
Anime was a lot less accessible back then lol

>>279850468 (OP)
Are you surprised?

>>279850468 (OP)
The amount of original content is staggering. What did all the creators go?

>>279850684
>>279853163
>>279853802
Threads like these get replies like these because every single person who told you old /a/ was better was lying. You are the frog that let the scorpion get on its back.

>>279854630
I forgot how to use photoshop

>>279850468 (OP)
JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>279854641
Is this the new demoralization grift

>>279853773
>the problem with modern /a/ is blah blah blah
>still uses the same image he uses in every other gay post he makes to identify him as the irrelevant opinion having bitch faggot who can't grow up
So you don't get to complain actually, sorry you had to learn that from a zoomer.

>>279853698
Twitter after Elon is literally every trump-kike oldtroon copying /a/ memes to screech about tourists and cunny for infininity, everything they talk about is identical to every thread on this board. They are the same people with the same ego and the same dead memes.

>>279854675
>you post like old /a/ used to post, y-you can't do that zoomer!

>>279850468 (OP)
>>279854089
>dunks on tranny jannies so hard that he gets permanent captcha implemented
He's directly responsible for lord inglip memes

>>279850468 (OP)
Why did old /a/ love posting trollfaces so much? It's like every image is a trollface!

Does anyone remember some spam about "a doctor"? It used to be in every thread

>>279854711
lol trolled

>>279854711
It was our late 2000s wojak, until reddit claimed it for themselves

>>279853773
Hello Oniami tranny who LARPs as an oldafg

>>279851106
>>279850468 (OP)
Unironically what are other opinions that have completely changed with the passing of time(and the influx of newfags)?

>>279851106
>people actually liked the 2011 hxh anime
This was always the case and i have always said it, it's just one retarded spammer saying otherwise

>>279854701
Looked at Elon's account and his posts. Dude is trying to relive and bring back that 2016 election feeling. But yeah people on X are using old /a/ memes to shoute at each other online. But the 4chan screenshot accounts always take pictures from /v/, /tv/, and other boards but never /a/ from what I've seen.

>>279854630
But you're still here.

>>279851106
That was before:
O

>>279850468 (OP)
WELL duh
Dont tell us you actually bought this tranny gaslighting that we were always leftists and anime was always woke?
FAGS ARE THE TOURISTS
TRANNIES ARE THE TOURISTS

>>279857018
Nigger, what are you talking about?

>>279857018
Kill yourself, retarded tourist.

>>279857083
You retarded?
Fags/trannies are the gatekeepers and straights are the shitposters on nu-/a/
It's always some nigger faggot that cries to janny he doesn't like some trollpost

>>279850468 (OP)
>check out discussions in the "anime community" and weeb media in general from 20 years ago
>it's filled with browns compulsively broadcasting their retarded opinions and shit taste in broken English
Maybe things weren't always better

>>279854641
no way...

>>279855296
MY

>>279854855
One very notable one is that everyone fucking loves Bleach now in 2025. How the FUCK did that happen?

>>279858772
RUBBER

>>279854752
I remember the surgeon
>the surgeon is inspired
>the surgeon is inspired
>the surgeon is inspired

>>279858843
NEN

>>279856063
Thanks, Yuki.

>>279851106
>people actually liked the 2011 hxh anime
/a/ has always been soft on HxH, the only exception is calling the 1999 adaptation bad because it deviates from Togashi's vision (by being better than the source material).

>>279850468 (OP)
Wow, that's old Daikinbakuju art

>>279850468 (OP)
pantsu nice

>>279860453
Thanks for spoonfeeding. Now for the rimjob, please. Remember you spoonfeed you rim.

>>279860898
Nobody mentioned it, I thought maybe I'd be the only one besides OP who valued fine DiD art

>old /a/ was about having fun
Old /a/ was more sincere and the rules were looser so there could be communities built around anything from seasonal anime to trying to fuck your sister.
Also never underestimate the damage the catalog did to the board, to the idea of 4chan.

>>279861719
The problem is more that /pol/ seeps into everything, so back then it was "anime sucks now, people nowadays have shit taste", but today it's "anime sucks now, the leftists ruined everything"

>>279850468 (OP)
cute

>>279850468 (OP)
>he wasn't here for the accelerator spam that forced the captcha implementation
oh no no no

>>279861843
>2000 /a/ thought anime sucked
>now people call it the golden age of anime
It's hilarious when you think about it.

>>279856063
no thanks, you freak

>>279863497
personally that would be the bubble era but the 2000s came close. we never anticipated how bad things would get afterwards

>>279851056
It represents a time before most of us knew English, less how to post online.
A little known 4chan lore is that around December 2005, all the original inhabitants just vanished from this plane at the same time. Rumors says they moved to "geosokyo" or something weird together, holding hands and smiling as they left. As an older newfag, don't pay attention to those rumors. Oldfags simply died out because as the name says, they were old!

>>279864050
I am sure you can find people from the 90s saying the same thing about how every anime sucks now. People can never appreciate stuff until it's gone.

>>279864050
>we never anticipated how bad things would get afterwards
it happened to all media to be honest

>>279863497
I mean if you're comparing it to cherrypicked OVAs from the 90s/80s, the quality fell off a cliff after the 90s bubble burst so there was QUALITY absolutely everywhere and censorship was at an all time high (relatively compared to the decades prior) with a lot of shows being heavily watered down compared to its source material
At least the QUALITY got better, right? Don't see many of those threads anymore

>>279861719
It just fills weird how a lot of the threads are people acting like ironic weebs/normalfags. From what I heard /a/ was so keen on gatekeeping but the archives barely reflect it. I guess my expectations were different.

>>279864790
/a/'s famous self-moderation and quality control didn't really become a thing until 2011 or so. Before then, it was still heavily influenced by /b/tards who were a bunch of immature 15 year old shitposters.

>>279864926
Ok

>>279864926
This, and irony wasn't overplayed yet. Normalfags/casuals at the time acted like completely sincere cringelords. Ironic weebs weren't really a thing at the time.