Thread 281683501

We post like it's 2006

Don't be gay. Just post old /a/ images if you want to do that, you don't need to post about 'lulz' and shit for no reason; /a/ is changed and worse but this isn't a quality thread either.

b-baka op! >.<
don't you know that teenage millennials acted wayy more cringey than zoomers :333

>>281683738
*holds up spork*

I miss the old days.

Kono band gummy wa grando sponsor Tokyo day OH Christmas

>>281683738
Having fun has been illegal on 4chan for 15 years. You have to be in a constant state of anger. No OC or discussions with your friendly /a/nons.

>>281683501 (OP)
daytime /a/ or nighttime /a/?

nobody here other than me has any 2006 images
>>281684501
>>281684399
nice larp geg

i descend from prehistoric anatolian aryan emperors
>>281684779
nice "oldfag" image

>>281684501
>No OC
A lot of the anons who produced original content left for other websites.
>discussions with your friendly /a/nons
There's still events like anison (we're supposed to have threads today and tomorrow if mods allow it) but yeah, /a/ is completely different from what it used to be. If that's what the majority of users want then there's not much you can do about it.

this tripnigger is so shameless geg
i can check the archives yknoe

>>281684791
Trying to prove someone is or isn't an oldfag is a waste of time and always ends up looking pathetic. Better to just celebrate the good times and not worry about it too much.

>1745539051984275
GEGGG
ok

>>281683738
you would've been called a stupid gaiafag if you unironically used emoticons and talked like an anime girl in 2006
these days it's way more acceptable to be an irony princess who wears tie dye shirts and invader zim chokers, because tiktok made it cool again

>>281684909
Now who's the newfag?

you are a subhuman dravidian brown untermensch
i am an aryan conqueror atop his chariot

>>281684936
How old is Nevada-tan now?

>1742058025861474
geg

>>281683501 (OP)
Hardly any replies

i have blonde hair and a10 eyes.
you have brown skin and brown eyes.
my ancestors were all pure aryan warriors
your ancestors were all brown dravidian pedophiles

Nobody tell him.

i silenced the tripnigger GEG

>>281685235
No maduka, dont be maguka.

Wow man I certainly can afford to buy eggs and a house, the future looks so bright
>>281684950
Too old

>>281685232
>GEG
Hard to believe that a grownass man would be using this word.

>>281684501
>No OC
That's because if you post OC you get banned for off-topic.

>>281685615
What about a grown tits-man?

>geg
>geg
>geg
itt zoomers larping as oldfags. nothing more pathetic than an obsession with fake nostalgia.

>>281686211
Some of us still exist.
Not as much fun after the introduction of increasingly awful captcha and now this stupid post wait time.

>>281684588
I browse at lunch time

>>281684900
Oh yeah, Imma きている alright

>>281686211
I'm not a newfag, I've been here all summer.

I used to make threads on /a/ all the time way back in the day with no text and just this image and it would get so many replies.

I don't know who is worse, the tripnigger or the faggot taking like normalfaggot scum. remember suicide is an option

>>281684950
30 or something?

>>281686715
>They hated him because he spoke the truth.

>>281687004
2006: The year of 3 Haruhis.

>>281687032
the forgotten Haruhi

>>281683501 (OP)
*glop glop*
My father's semen was flowing endlessly into my mother

>>281687103
Year of the Trap

>>281683501 (OP)
>muh oldfag
i cannot think of anything more pathetic than bragging about the fact you've been browsing this website since the early 2000s
think of all the time you've wasted and all the great things you could have accomplished with that time
not to mention how unbelievably cringe it is to be nostalgic about the most embarrassing time in the history of the internet
you dinos used to say shit like "epic for the win" completely unironically and your memes were unfunny trash like "long cat"
>but-
you are old and cringe grandpa
go be old and cringe outside
you are too old for the internet
leave

>>281687135
fag

>>281687135
/a/sisters... the zoomerCHADS are making fun of us again...

I just want a place to discuss my hobbies and be playfully argumentative with my online friends. I hate that this place is just outrage farming and everywhere else on the internet is dead or too busy clutching pearls to have a decent conversation.

>>281687135
>wall of text
>posts on 4chan
Ironic

underwater Ray Romano

>>281687364
I guess most of the laid-back people left. Probably from natural attrition but also exacerbated by the crazies driving others away

>>281685516
So in the end was it just a troll?
Because I know of several instances of people realizing they have a serious penis health problem after making a dumb thread on an anonymous forum that are most likely real.

>>281687135
It may have been cringe since it was a bunch of teenagers having fun, but it was a much better time full of soul compared to how things are today with rampant censoship, half of the stuff online being bots or ai, everything turning into a bland consumerist product and third-worlders getting access to the internet.

>>281687135
>achieve greatness
kek, lmao even.

Most people are incapable of greatness. Only a select few are capable of achieving great things.
Savants don't waste their time arguing with retards online.

>>281687135
That's the kind of post that 2000s /a/ would relentlessly spam as a pasta.
>>281688597
We'll never know.

moot is pushing 40...

>>281689457
Who?

>>281687135
I agree that it's cringe but
>achieve greatness
What fucking greatness nigga?

>>281687230
They're great at comedy. It's no wonder when their entire life is one big joke.

>>281683501 (OP)
Nigga I can't remember that far back

>>281689508
founder of 9gag

>>281685516
I wasn't on 4chan back then, but I wanna go back... 2007, old Google design, better Internet community,

>>281685656
Age difference is truly great, but 12 with 35 is really straddling the line.

>>281689730
>Google
Nigga we're in this mess BECAUSE of jewgle

Can we have nighttime /a/ back?
Please

>>281685516
I lold |___________________________|

>>281689829
Underagefags stay up far later than adults

>>281683738
>>281684917
>irony princess
This is why zoomers are way more cringey.
Gaiafag were genuine, and had fun.

>>281687135
The actual sad thing is the constant "muh oldfag" purity testing.
There's no real way to prove how long you've been on 4chan short of having a visible pass, and that only goes back to 2012. Anyone can get muh oldfag images, and anyone can fake the timestamp on regular images very easily, and because there are no proper image thumbnail archives prior to 2009, I could very easily just go "Yeah this is from 07", who the fuck is gonna call me out?

It's dumb. It's like when /r9k/ purity tested who was and wasn't a normalfag, retarded faggot shit.

>>281690087
We all grow old, fren. For me, the quintessential anime experience was tracking down badly dubbed (Finnish dubs were awful) VHS tapes from fleamarts with my grandma.

>>281690087
In 2028, there will no longer be underage zoomers

>>281690087
so are those considered retro now

LOL I TROLL U

>>281690168
I don't care! Life used to be more comfy and fun.

We used to be so cute.. what happened bros?

>>281690554
Terminal late stage irony poisoning

>>281690038
Easy. Ask them about their top 3 anime and why they like it. You can easily filter out the larpers from the real oldfags
For me, it's Slam Dunk, Houkto no Ken, Cyberborg Kuro-Cat and Ojamajo Doremi. Golden Boy and Angel Densetsu are also high up, but they're OVA

>>281690554
Normalfags started watching anime

>>281690705
>top 3
>lists 4 shows and two more on top of that
Nani the fuck

>>281690784
i riku animu

Where do you find your anime reviews these days?

>>281687121
beyond trap

pantsu

>>281690876
You don't. I have given up a long time ago on reviews. It's either shills or ragebaiters. Nobody is honest anymore

>>281690705
I don't even know what metric I'd use to quantify a top 3

>>281690876
>>>/a/catalog

I'm a 2010 newfag.

>>281690087
Those anime are now as old as Ranma was when they aired.

>>281691101
>OH LAWD
>facepalm.swf
>I lol'd
TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BACK

>>281691102
Then why do I still think of TTGL as "the new Gainax show"?

>>281690705
Hell Girl. The melancholic atmosphere is soothing. The episodic format makes it easily digestible, and I enjoy the weekly tragedies. The opening is fantastic as well "in this crazyness and uncertainty..."

No game no life zero. It's a very touching story with pretty visuals, which recontextualizes the state of the world and character relationships from the first seasons. The music is great too.


There's so many. Is this a zombie?, Angel beats, Another, Darker than black s2, Gantz O...

Perhaps this one, Ixion Saga DT. It's a hilarious comedy with great characters. Both opening and ending songs are catchy with funny lyrics.

Protip: the oldfags didn't disperse. There is nowhere else to go. In fact, most are still here, they just no longer post because it's pointless now. Over the years it became illegal to not like the anime the mods like, to make and poat oc, or to post long and reasonable arguments that don't repeat the normalfag zeitgeist.
Now, the newfags who took over years ago only watch simuldubs, never read manga, and can't tell the name of the anime in romaji if their life depends on it. What do they know about anime or manga? Nothing. But they also won't discuss, the obly thing that matters now is twitter screencaps. I guess it brings in traffic so ad revenue is up that way.
But the rest of the internet is even worse. For example, 4chan in general is the only place left in the world where you are allowed to think ai isn't magic and currently able to generate indistinguishable content from that of human, despite how it's worse than most amateurish crap most of the time. Likewise, despite the constant spam for some 4th rate series,, people can still express dislike. Unfortunately that's all that's left of what 4chan once was.

>>281691779
>never read manga
Speaking of manga, we're living in a time when Ashita no Joe, Legend of Kamui and Stop!! Hibari-Kun! are all being released in English
We're living in times when we have legitimate access to more classic series than ever, while at the same time having nobody to discuss it with.
At least there's cool guys storytiming manga like Lone Wolf & Cub and Getter Robo

>>281690705
Hyouge Mono
LoGH
Baccano

>>281691904
Slightly unrelated but the death of the fansub and scanlation scenes was a major blow also. Official contents always has major issues, either too liberal translation, drops the series after a few volumes, often both.
Today's best option is often mtl.
I won't say that's better access than ever exactly, but you raise another good point in that even though access quality may suck, it is more in the face of the new audience, yet they seem unwilling yo engage.

>>281692014
You now remember Kaizoku Fansubs and the cool unique fonts they gave to the attacks of each character

>>281691779
>Protip: the oldfags didn't disperse. There is nowhere else to go. In fact, most are still here, they just no longer post because it's pointless now.
If nothing else, a lot of them seem to come back/post actively during yearly events (Christmas, NYE, yearly rewatches).

>>281692055
Yup. But even more generally you can point to op/ed karaokes that were a staple of most groups.

>>281691779
>For example, 4chan in general is the only place left in the world where you are allowed to think ai isn't magic and currently able to generate indistinguishable content from that of human, despite how it's worse than most amateurish crap most of the time.
I have bad news for you, anon. Mods have been enabling this shit >>281689617 for a while now

>>281692083
I'm aware. I implide further in the post that the mods are also enabling advertising of some particularly shitty series that have certain large backers for the us audience. Same deal. In both cases I was just pointing out that at least disagreeing is allowed. Quite the contrast from when bad content would easily be run off the board by user posting discipline alone though.

>>281691779
why cant oldfags just make their own site? why do all the altchans keep dying?

>>281684155
This gif is from 2007.

>>281686989
needed a pic like this thanks

>>281690876
I just watch whatever interests me and write my own reviews if I feel like it.
Not a faggot who "only watches what's interesting" (see: Toonamishit) though.

>>281692235
It's the network effect issue. You can make a site with good rules and even enforce them well, shove cool features in it like a nice translated japanese cgi game.collection and good oekaki support, but people won't post into the void for very long. How do you get everyone on the site at once so that post volume is enough for people to stay? Normalfag networks use notoriety of the owner or pay celebrities to get their fans to join. 2x4 used well-timed advertisement when a huge part of the userbase of 4chan was threatened of not being allowed to talk aboit their hobbies again.
So either you have to wait or find a new method.
The literature on the subject is quite accessible, to get inspired. Inveators are also very aware of this issue and they as well as social media founders often discuss the topic.

>>281691779
>Protip: the oldfags didn't disperse. There is nowhere else to go. In fact, most are still here, they just no longer post because it's pointless now.
Not really.
Most oldfags come back once a month maybe to post, and the majority of them just troll.
One person I know solely comes to /a/ to post in the OP thread and say "Newfags don't know about [2007 era fan theory]" and then closes the tab.

>>281692235
they get mysteriously dropped whenever they gain traffic

>>281692235
>>281692443
Not to mention that finding an oldfag to own the place is hard enough. Closest I got is heyuri

>>281691904
>while at the same time having nobody to discuss it with.
Because you're on a board for /v/tards to talk about store bought nostalgia and never actually WATCH the anime they jerk off to on twitter.

>>281692475
You take things too literally. You fit right in.

Remember when Tattun used to post?
Remember when googling HOTD yielded an anime? Remember when the news dropped that it will never be finished?
Remember the daily sakura fish? How bout the /a/ sings (but it's really just a bunch of faggots capitalizing on /a/ to launch their youtube careers)
Remember waifu shrines?

I used to be called a newfag. Then tourists flooded in. Then zoomers, then AI slop is literally everywhere. Internet culture has flattened, 4chan memes and culture used to be exclusive, now its ubiquitous and mainstream even. 4chan is not a sekrit club anymore and it sucks.

>>281692568
>Remember waifu shrines?

I missed out on old 4chan ;_;
>t.2013

>>281692878
its ok anon, im the cancer that killed this site in 2014

Did people think Elfen Lied was good in 2006? I can't remember anymore.

>>281692568
>Remember when googling HOTD yielded an anime?
Didn't know that's not the case anymore. Funny how the opposite kinda happened to "Nero Claudius".
I'm honestly not sure when Sakura Fish even stopped, but /a/ sings and waifu shrines are surely still a thing?
>Internet culture has flattened, 4chan memes and culture used to be exclusive, now its ubiquitous and mainstream even. 4chan is not a sekrit club anymore and it sucks.
This happened a long time ago. It was pretty much over when rage comics were being regurgitated all over reddit.

>>281693030
it was considered high art by edgy teenagers (myself included).

do u miss being a teenager /a/?

>>281693525
Hell no. Life sucked then. Life sucks in different, less physically painful ways now that I no longer have to deal with bullies or drunk step-dads

>>281693030
Outside of /a/ it was a complimentary recc.

>>281693525
Nah. I was a spaghetti spilling retard and didn't know how to think for myself. 4chan unironically helped me become more assertive but also cynical and realistic.

>>281693525
Yes and no. Not that everything was great then, but a do-over would be nice.

>>281693030
It had a niche following.

>>281687135
All this being the case, why do zoomers come here? What's the draw of hanging out with the old losers those cringy teens grew into?

Is the Tripcode still banned

>>281694292
Bravo, Hiro.

>>281691171
>posting the YenPress page instead of the fantranslations...
Let me see if I can dig out Null's release from my old harddrive.
also reminder that the Saki manga will be 20 years old in April 2026.
--- former regular in Saki threads that needs to read the last years worth of chapters.

>>281683501 (OP)
I've been here since 2022, I'm an oldfag now.

>>281690554
The teenagers became adults, and took the Internet way more seriously. It's that simple.

Rozen maiden was my first anime

>>281695394
My bad - it was the fan release. Time to catch up with the series.

JIBUN WO
JIBUN WO
JIBUN WO
JIBUN WO
JIBUN W-
(This is gonna get me banned innit?)

>>281684600
That's correct because mine are from 2004.

Forever regretting accidentally nuking my hard drive in 2006.

>>281685516
Penis Engine

>muh oldfag
i cannot think of anything more pathetic than bragging about the fact you've been browsing this website since the early 2000s
think of all the time you've wasted and all the great things you could have accomplished with that time
not to mention how unbelievably cringe it is to be nostalgic about the most embarrassing time in the history of the internet
you dinos used to say shit like "epic for the win" completely unironically and your memes were unfunny trash like "long cat"
>but-
you are old and cringe grandpa
go be old and cringe outside
you are too old for the internet
leave

>>281696264
Okay. Except for that last part.

>>281683738
Kill yourself, you filthy tripfag.

I still have about 8800 images I saved on the /l/ board from 2004

>>281691923
>Hyouge Mono
Truly a man of culture.

Does anyone have this video that was posted a few years ago?
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/215792031/#q215944199
It's a video scrolling through a saved old 4chan thread showing what the experience used to be like. There's a Japanese song with a lady singing in the background. It ends with typing "I want to go back" in the reply textbox (but of course it can't be posted).

what about those old 4chan banners? i remember that 4chan's back banner when the site was down.

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

>>281693525
Yes and no. I wish I was at the life stage and had the body of a teenager again. But I think I'm better off now emotionally and mentally. I guess I just wish I could do a lot of things over with what I know now.

But I guess this is contradictory. I only know what I know now because of what I had to struggle through my teenage years. It'd be like saying you wish you could cure yourself without taking the bitter medicine. The bitter medicine is what starts the healing process. They're not separable.

>>281696264
There was a time when I considered my father's generation (60's and 70's) to be so long ago. Now there are kids on this site that consider my generation (80's and 90's) to be retro. The point is that before you know it the next time you look in a mirror and old man will be staring back at you.

>>281693525
Zero doubt. I would only want to be a teenager when I was a teenager, though. And I'd like to do a bit of surgery on my childhood so as to set myself up better for a happier adolescence than what I actually had.
People will say that they resented the lack of control of their lifestyle at that age, but unless you're wealthy these days, you have similar net enthrallment.

Why did /a/ degrade so much more than other boards compared to two decades ago? This place used to have a ton of OC, unusual posters, entertaining discussion, a sense of community, etc. and that's all but gone. Other boards still occasionally have that old spirit while /a/ has it only during the holiday threads.

>>281697633
It seems like all teenagers watch anime now so that's probably why.

>Lelouch left
>PT stopped posting because of work
>Verty died of cancer after getting repeated treatment
Did all the remaining old tripfags quit? Jebus posts once in a while, AoG a handful of times a year, don’t see anyone else anymore. They’re cancer but it’s weird they left after so many years here

At least post the banners that got removed, not the ones still in rotation.

>>281697874

why were they removed?

>>281683501 (OP)
poor-chan is old enough?

>>281697910
Because gookmoot is a bitch ass nigga.

>>281697769
Tripcodes are for jerks.

all according to keikaku
(keikaku means plan)

>>281697985
>card crusher
Take me back

>>281698007
They were our jerks.

the more things change, the more they stay the same

>>281697633
Anime and /a/ both became popular. It was never supposed to happen, but Hollywood decided to commit sudoku at the same time as internet decided to become a shithole for normies, and now there's nothing else to watch and nowhere to escape.

>>281698072
No. Fuck them. I hope they all got raped and killed themselves.

>>281697697
This
I started watching anime in 2020 and destroyed the board

>>281697913
Waha~

>>281698431
>anon didn't sniff his sister panties
thats on him

>>281693030
Elfen Lied, people died

>>281697769
>Verty died
Wtf, when?

>>281684155
>Beijing Olympics
I remember that.

>>281697769
To add, Mami kawada lover stopped posting with his name and only post as an normal anon now

>>281699402
A few months ago he completely stopped posting in idolmaster threads so either his cancer killed him or he decided to spend the rest of his short life doing something productive, most likely it's the former.

#RapeRapeApe

>>281693030
I liked it
At the time

>>281693030
I thought the anime was good but the manga was too silly

>>281687135
Anon, you just achieve greatness with this pasta of yours!

FMA is so fucking good, I really hope these isn't a godawful remake that destroys the franchise by following the manga's retardation more closely and becomes the most overrated anime of all time

>>281685469
Somethingawful certainly went downhill but I am sure Lowtax will probably turn it around. Still nice to have this place though
>>281687135
Is right, I'll get a girlfriend this year and finally leave this place forever by 2007.

>>281699437
No one cares about that seanig.

>>281684900
is 2chan still alive?

>>281692437
what is this website?
I need something to keep up nowadays and to help me have a list since I've been archiving/re-archiving old series in case things go too bad in the west

>>281693525
Yes, I wish I didnt delete those "spyware" that later were known and BTC

>>281692235
Didn't who primarily advertise 4kangs on SA? The problem with an altchan doing that on 4chan is that you want like-minded people you enjoy talking to, but don't want to attract the schizophrenic faggots, trolls, and generally belligerent faggots who just want to watch the world burn. Specific demographics don't congregate on one sole site anymore, so you just can't advertise on a site expecting everyone to more or less be the same.

On the occasional imageboard thread on /g/ (back when there was actual discussion of technology), everyone points the finger at glowniggers for spamming CSAM on altchans for the sake of keeping one honeypot. I don't think that's the case, I think it's just the occasional pedonigger taking advantage of the situation and just generally being a faggot.

Slight tangent, but I've heard that the majority of altchans are owned by one network/owner. Not sure how true this is.

>>281687170
Magipoka memes were great.

>>281700372
I hope we don't get an autist that bitches about it in a thread he makes daily.

>>281697182
It's impossible to cover all bases.

>>281684600
>nobody here other than me has any 2006 images
>2006

>looking for old pics
>screenshots from when Nauto ended are already 10+years old
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>281686989
>Code Geass was 2006

Code Geass Sunday felt like yesterday

>>281693525
I miss the time when Gooks and Chinks weren't ruining the internet

Finally, /m/

>>281697769
I'm trying to post more often now that my Twitter is gone, kek. Anyone see that new show Lucky Star yet? I don't know how they expect that to take off.

>>281697633
Internet just become a shittier place in general and people are trying too hard at becoming a pseudo Internet persona. Also this might be a stretch but i feel like Chinkshills and Gookshills are also the factor

>>281703662
It's not a stretch, as soon as they started spamming this board in 2021 post quality plummeted.

>>281703649
Did you get banned for /pol/ posting?
What new Lucky Star? You mean that spinoff timeskip manga?

It's just not the same.

>>281691779
(You) should post moar anon, I'm a newfag and I will read them even if the others won't.

>>281703662
Even scarier is the number of indians. A lot of them are "able" to speak "English" so they end up soiling the nicer parts of the internet.

>>281691779
>In fact, most are still here, they just no longer post because it's pointless now.
That’s the same as not being here. It’s pointless because they didn’t make an effort against it.

>>281704027
Following the thread
>>281683501 (OP)

>>281687135
>you dinos used to say shit like "epic for the win"
No we made fun of that one.

>and your memes were unfunny trash like "long cat"
But this is true.

>leave
It's been decades and we haven't left, why do you think we'll leave now? Imagine purposefully going to a place full of older people and being mad you found older people there, you leave

>>281697633
We allowed Naruto discussion.

>>281693030
It had tits, gore, and piles of existential dialogue so teens in 2006 (not on this website) thought it was a life changing anime

>>281705291
Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind.

>>281693525
Not at all. I was a delinquent piece of shit that had very few friends and couldn't get a hug from a girl to save my life. I grew into a pretty great adult and despite missing 2000s culture I didn't enjoy who I was

>>281705375
Seriously, imagine if we didn't allow discussion of "insert current big shonen here". It probably would be Dandadan now, JJK, Demon Slayer or Attack on Titan before. People who come from streaming trying to find a website to discuss this epic new anime they just found would be filtered. On the other hand this board would be even deader.

>>281705391
>anon was a delinquent that straightened out
Glad you're doing better, Joe!

>>281705391
Onizuka-sensei...
>>281705404
I was expecting spinzaku.

>>281705291
>We allowed Naruto discussion
Not for a period from about 2012 to 2014.

Why is the internet still stuck in the mid 2010's?

>>281705723
It's not, otherwise it might be worth using.

>>281693525
I do. My life is a mix of boring and bad now with too much responsibility. I also used to have friends but now I really only interact with my immediate family and online strangers.
I miss the handful of friends I had in high school who I could talk with about anime and video games and whatever else. I miss hanging out at their houses on the weekends and night walking through the suburbs talking about anything and everything, it was very therapeutic.

>>281700582
Y

>>281705723
I wished it was stuck in the late 2000s. It was just better.

>>281705723
The world ended in 2012, we all died and this is actually Hell

J, Yutanpo, Natsume, Elizabeth Beurling

>>281706118
Where did they all go?

>>281703649
>the only one left from 15+ years ago is this faggot
This place has gone to the wolves

>>281706208
>>281706208
They are all unlikeable and with shit taste.

>>281686715
Fuuka is healthy!

>>281706208
I don't give a flying fuck about tripfags and if you want to be a proper '06 poster you shouldn't either.

>>281687135
based

>>281706208
Been on 4chan since 2005. I have no memory of that guy.

>>281697633
Name boards that have the old spirit and more than a handful of posters so I can call you a liar.

Which one are you. /a/?

>>281706391
Who?

>>281706438
What was the point of putting a drop shadow for the teal part and making it look like shit compared to the rest?

>>281706438
Newfag. I joined /tg/ when I got into warhammer 40k in 2012.

>>281706208
>>281706441
I don't know any of those guys. They might have been after my time I left after /jp/ was created. I only remember guys like AoRF, tonberryking,

>>281706438
We've actually lost more Redditors and NSA than Newfags and Oldfags, judging by thread quality.

>>281706477
You don’t know STALKER? The guy who translated a ton of manga for /a/, including Nagatoro?

>>281706208
>Komeiji
>good taste
You're being a top niwaka baka.

>>281693525
Hell no. My body used to be a mess, I couldn't do anything without getting tired, my back used to hurt. Now I'm /fit/. Also, I have a job now. Being able to buy whatever I want without relying on my parents is way better.

>>281706438
I've been browsing this website since a little before the habbo hotel raids, so probably since 2005 or 2006 I guess?

>>281706438
The original oldfags were the guys from 2003 and 2004. Those are mythical anons you rarely here about since 4chan's userbase was very tiny back then. I've seen many anons claiming to be from 2005 and 2006, I've never heard someone claim to be from 03 or 04, that's how rare it is.

>>281703596
Masaki...

>>281706438
The Keit-Ai generation is finally over and we're finally at Dead Internet Theory gen? Feels bad, man.

>>281706520
Nope.

>>281706520
it's genuinely impressive how much weeb shit is dependent on 4chan and people from here to translate and share it

>>281706438
2007 newfag and proud

>>281705723
Because you're on websites that haven't moved on from the mid-2010s

>>281706528
The image is from like 12 years ago, not by me

>>281691101
>facepalm.swf
R.I.P. Flash.

>>281706438
>13 years later
>still cancer

>>281706572
bring back /f/
rape rapeape

>>281706528
He might be cancer but is liking K-On really shit taste?

>>281706564
>*Because you're on websites
Fixed. I get the same feeling as that anon, but I assume younger people are talking on private discords, inside games like roblox and minecraft, on comments in tiktok videos or whatever phone app is popular now, etc. Being on a website, especially a website like this one where you don't need an account to view anything, is gonna become rarer and rarer.

>>281706438
Nothing after A.I., huh?

>>281706563
Lucky you. That was around the best time to be in here wasn't it?

Any oldfag /jp/ers here?

>>281706438
Reddit here.

>>281706633
It's just A.I. in an eternal ouroboric loop, shitting out things that it then eats and shits out again
>>281706649
Came here on a friend's "recommendation". I still remember how he told me
>4chan is the ass of the internet and /b/ is the asshole where all the SHIT comes out
This is my home now

>>281706661
Only because for a long time the best Ar Tonelico threads were there.

>>281706179
I would think they are living an honest normalfag life or they reside in an altchan

>>281706693
>I would think they are living an honest normalfag life
Don't forget: you're here forever

>>281706530
I guess I should mention, I came here originally from gamefaqs. People there would talk about luelinks, something awful and 4chan as being the funniest places on the internet but not for the faint of heart so to speak. Of course I wanted to see it, but this was the only one of the 3 that I could access easily. Then I get here, and a few months after people on /b/ were planning the habbo hotel raids which I only vaguely remember since I only lurked for the most part.

>>281706712
It's sad how you could say that 10 years ago and everyone would still believe it.

>>281706787
It used to be an epithet and now it's a prayer

>>281705914
>that rainbow font
I feel like a piece of my soul was restored

>>281706438
Between cancer and newfag. So not bad

I have this one friend who still unironically uses XD and epic. Cherish the things you have

>>281706438
2011 newfag. lurked for a few years on /b/'s YLYL threads then started posting on /tg/, then the other boards. stopped posting on /co/ when steven universe future and stopped posting on /v/ when cyberpunk 2011

>>281706712
This has always been such a silly turn of phrase. Most people I knew from 4chan, whether /a/ or another board, left and have no interest in returning. Even the people that contributed to this board in any fashion, like doing yearly streams like 25 Days, DJing for r/a/dio, translating manga or subbing anime, they all moved on with their lives. A lot of them let anime and manga fall to the wayside while their lives progressed. "You're here forever" is a comfort phrase for people that, at the time, believe they have nothing else or want to be content with their current mediocrity. It never lasts and it never should. It's the same with anons believing oldfags stick around here forever, just without posting. There will always be outliers but most people just go on to different things. Acting as if posting anonymously about now not-so-niche hobbies is impactful enough to drive people to stick around is absurdity.

>>281707030
But I really, really don't have anything else

>>281707030
I kept in touch with a few anons via IRC and all of them either became normalfags, trooned out or still watch anime and read manga but stopped browsing /a/. There’s a lot of anons who unfortunately went to /vt/ and believe the grass is greener.

>>281707030
I've moved on to the insanity of /v/, but I check back once in a while to be free of wojaks and frogs.

>>281706208
Verty is still around.

>>281707030
But we are here now. That means the phrase is true, right?

>>281707272
The archive is right there, go ahead and prove it

>>281707339
Yeah... I checked and I was wrong. He's gone...
I saw him not too long ago (before 4chan died) so I assumed he was fine ;_;

>>281707030
I was on /a/ and /jp/ from 2005 to 2012. I came back during the pandemic. Been stuck here ever since.

>>281707488
what did you do inbetween

>>281707030
I don't think those are two things exclusive to each other. Being drawn to /a/ or 4chan in general is probably the result of a certain personality trait set. Which may or may not correspond with failing in life and basing your entire life around the site or anime, but I think the concept of 4chan, which feels very much like the old internet, really captivates forever, if you're not giving up on the net entirely

>>281703403
Code gayass was such a trainwreck. A true source of endless laughter. I miss these kinds of threads. Well, I guess SAO was the same deal but after that it stopped. Now newfags think both series were beloved gems and can't praise them enough.

>>281707529
You failed to understand anything said in that post

>>281706661
I actually miss the old tripfag group.

>>281707530
From time to time I wonder if the 18+ oldfags only enjoyed Code Geass ironically and the underage faggots of the didn't realize it. Like when you watch Dragon Ball as a kid and it's the greatest thing ever.
It's the only reason I can think of why people, some claiming to be oldfags, keep pushing it as some masterpiece and they seem to be honest about it.

>>281703498
That was in the early 10s.
Now it's Indians shitting up everything.

>>281707613
Unfortunately most old /jp/ trips killed themselves or trooned out and then killed themselves

>>281706057
God I miss night time /a/ and /v/.

>>281706438
Shekel is pandemic era 4chan?

>>281707514
Work and school. I only came back in 2020 to see if /jp/ knew about the annoying vtuber phenomena and surely enough the first thread I saw was vtuber crap.

>>281707613
>>281707676
Most of the original /jp/ers migrated from old /a/ 2005-2007. Those were my frens. I miss them.

Toasting in an epic thread

>>2817079544
Seriously. Vtumors are AI-tier of abhorrent.

>>281708094
Epic bread u n00b

>>281692277
Older or the same age than a lot of people posting here now.

>>281708113
I am the EFG...

>>281706438
A friend introduced me to 4chan around Christmas 2003 / New Years' 2004.

I remember when /g/ was the guro board (still kinda is haha) and that there briefly were loli and shota boards.

>>281706661
/jp/ in its newly post-split heyday were some of the best times I had on this entire site. Even better than c.2005 old /b/.

>>281707676
You could've jus ended at killed themselves. You didn't need to be transphobic.

>>281700582
I'm a little surprised you would assume it wasn't.

>>281691102
>Those anime are now as old as Ranma was when they aired.
Not a single fibre of my being needed to hear that.

>>281704960
It's horrible. Whenever I search something Google's recommendation includes hindi. When I've to look up something I oftentimes end up on Indian subreddits too. Entitled 3rd worlders occasionally poison discussions by shoving their cultural or financial backgrounds into it. The amount of posts with grammar so horrible even I'm surprised by it is worrisome.

I still can't believe digibro trooned out.

>>281708764
He's still doing that?

>>281708764
>>281708809
Dropped him the moment it happened, how long has it been? Is he still alive or 41%?

>>281708843
I'm also afraid sleepy crest might've trooned out already.

>>281708588
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Make me wild like you

>>281708764
Still can’t believe anyone that browsed 4chan in any capacity did. Just goes to show that people here say one thing and then act contrary to it all the time. Like when anons say they don’t browse Reddit or stream anime.

>>281708891
We've always loved traps here, a fragile, disturbed mind might follow the path of trap appreciation to trooning out themselves due to not understanding that 2D fantasy can never be obtained by 3DPD

>>281707030
Most of the people that stream 25 Days don’t browse /a/ anymore outside of December since the best KEY girl threads died. They mostly browse /v/ and /sp/. The same goes for r/a/dio, they don’t browse /a/ outside of big events and the holidays, they mostly stick to IRC, Discord and shamiko.

>>281708930
You mean someone who is mentally retarded, not fragile or disturbed. Being a troon is not remotely comparable to traps, to such a point where it desecrates the very idea.

Is he right?

>>281708964
Heh, Canadians.

>>281693525
Yes, life has been downhill since highschool ended.
I'd give up my career at the drop of a hat if it means I can relive the happy years again.

>>281706060
This.

>>281708891
Nobody really gave a shit till 2016. you'd have /d/ threads with trannies swapping DIY hormone tricks and shibari guides

>>281693525
Hell no, I got my shit sorted way better than when I was a teenager

>>281708958
> Being a troon is not remotely comparable to traps, to such a point where it desecrates the very idea
We are on the same page here.

>>281708964
No, not at all.

>>281709004
Cucknadians are the most worthless "people" on the planet. Fact.

>>281708891
It's unavoidable to use reddit. You always find useful answers if you Google anything and attach reddit to it.

posting in an epic thread

>>281706208
PT showed up in the Christmas thread last year and anons were happy to see him
The culture of telling tripfaggots to fuck off and suck eggs has gone up in smoke and I don’t understand why
If anything the sentiment should be stronger than ever with how bad the board gets with any identifiable posters, like the schizos that hang around generals

>>281708891
>stream anime
What do you mean?

>>281708891
Could it be that moe anime is a psyops?

I just wanted to say that entry level anime has been completely vindicated as timeless classics and nobody gives a fuck about the random seasonal romcoms people were saying were actually 100x better because you were embarassed to talk about Death Note with a bunch of people on the internet in 2009

>>281709309
Watching on youtube I guess.

>>281700717
Its Anilist

>>281709569
The 2010s were particularly grim on that. /a/nons were insufferable in worse ways back then.

>>281706438
Originalfag, late 2004. I discovered 4chan thanks to an offhand mention on a review site called HentaiJump, a NSFW offshoot of AnimeJump. Those times were rough for me, and 4chan helped.

>>281706531
Heyo.

>>281683501 (OP)
Where did /l/ go?

>>281710846
>>>/b/

>>281698273
>Anime and /a/ both became popular.
/a/ is not that popular

>>281709653
>we're all little girls here hehe xD
>dogshit epic 4chan meme dialogue in scans from here
>tripfags fucking everywhere

>>281698273
>/a/
>popular
dude wtf are you talking about? Normalfags talk about anime on tiktok and twitter. /a/ isn't even relevant on anymore 4chan itself either.
And yeah anime became popular and socially acceptable to like

It's weird that you get banned now for posting thing that were completely fine not even a few years ago.

>>281709653
Remember when /a/ feuded with /v/ over calling Watamote "spaghetti-chan" (before it became a yuri series) and sending dick pics to the author saying /a/ would never have done something so disrespectul.
Then they heard about random voice actor bullying in Kokoro Connect and then they sent their own dick pics in revenge because they got highschool flashbacks (gajin glory!!!) but they accidentally sent it to the wrong woman who wasn't even involved in the whole thing? /a/'s been frauding hard since then.

>>281686989
I miss when edgelord stuff was cool.

>>281711792
I failed to find the board tan pics where /a/ is a trap and /v/ bangs him, traumatizing /c/ the little sister

>>281711535
Also
>3DPD!
>>Proceeds to obsess over random voice actors married life

why do threads like this always turn into whining eventually?

Stop watching meo shit and start watching REAL GARR anime instead you faggots

>>281711996
old people like to complain

>>281712005
>Al there twice

>>281712142
>Shirou there twice

>>281712218
I see what you did there

>>281700372
What went wrong? What the fuck were they thinking with this plot?

>>281708588
Would you also like to hear that the same is true of the Simpson's movie and the first episode of the Simpsons?

▲
▲▲
newfags can't triforce- FUCK

>>281712624
Pro-tip: ctr+w

>>281708588
>>281690087
>time exists
no way

>>281712670
Don't do this, it creates mustard gas.

>>281705364
This is pretty much how I feel about GitS. I feel like people were too distracted by Kusanagi's tits to realize how shit of a future it really was.

>>281712905
GitS being a shit future is kind of the point. Alienation from what makes us human and all that.

CARDCAPTOR SAKURA IS A PILE OF SHIT

>>281712923
I know it's the point, but I'm not really sure people getting wowed by its themes really got that.
People walk away thinking that the show was saying we're really nothing more than electrical impulses masquerading as consciousness rather than that simply being all that's left when you tear away at your body in soul in the search for progress.

>>281711846
edgelord stuff is still cool

For me, it's Koyama Mitsuki-chan!

>>281706438
NSA
Kemono Friends threads tricked me into thinking this was a nice website and I've been stuck here chasing that fantasy ever since

>>281712933
FUCK YOU

>>281712624
 ▲
▲ ▲

>>281706438
Original. I was here that first week in October 2003, and lurked on futaba and other places before that.
>>281691779
Sort of, but...
>>281712089
I can't complain. It's always been crazy here.

>>281706438
This places me as a 2008 newfag.
Came to see the reactions to Code Geass, stayed for the reactions to Haruhi season 2.

>>281713839
Wish I'd been here for Endless 8.

>>281687170
i can't find torrents anymore, i slept on this show to download

>>281690037
they were gay faggots, just like you
/a/ would be better if we had more shoops, more lulz, more genuine discussion
instead its a bunch of mexicans rubbing feces on each other. talking like a downie is not being genuine. Go to s4s if you want that

>>281691779
this, i keep coming back because 4chan is legit the only place to genuinely talk about something (specially when trannymods aren't being dicks and ruining threads just because they don't like the topic). other places like social media it's always a competition on who likes it the most or how you shouldn't like it because [insert guilt by association]. i stopped going to forums but i don't know if that's still a thing though, i might give it a try if there are forums still active without mods abusing their position

>>281712142
3 times, actually

>>281692443
>shove cool features in it like a nice translated japanese cgi game.collection and good oekaki support
You can just say heyuri, anon

I have some old azumanga shoe throwing gifs from when I first found out about 4chan

>>281706438
I originally found this place when I saw it linked in an anime DC Hub. I don't think it was raspberryheaven as I wasn't on the SA forums and I don't think that one was visible to outsiders but I honestly can't remember.

When I first came here it was still 4chan.net

>>281715602
Oh my gah!

>>281715747
>>281715747

>>281715793
ROAD ROLLAR DA

>>281690715
jibun wo…

>>281716325
one more

Do we have Veterans of the Taiga v Jack war here?

>>281716487
Done!

>>281691779
>>281714968
This, but I also like that I don't need an account, I don't need a phone app, I don't need anything. A chapter of something I like came out, I can just open a browser window and come here. Next chapter, I do the same thing and I don't even know if I'm discussing this new chapter with the same people from last week or not, and I don't care. Everywhere else I would start recognizing the regulars and getting attached, also why I usually avoid generals

>>281716512
They may be tiny, but they have huge soul

>>281711010
Meguca or shamiko or whatever retarded name it has now is one of the worst 4chan spinoffs popularized only because the r/a/dio staff started making threads there after 8ch proved unfruitful. Horrendous website to this day, with its only lasting legacy being the /pol/tard who failed his shooting being from there.

>>281710953
>using stats from the early hours for burgers as indicative of speed

What did oldfags think of the Code Geass ending? Was it as praised back then as it is now? I’m too lazy to browse archives

>>281691779
>4chan is the only place you can hate AI
Sounds like you’d fit right in on blusky pal, be sure to vote democrat!

>>281716726
I remember something like
>Lelouch was the only person in history to be both the villain and the hero, to both lose and to win, to both die and to live

>>281705291
I always said it unironically.

>>281705291
>We allowed Naruto discussion.
This. It lead to bad taste being outright encouraged.

What makes these threads so shit every time they crop up is that amid all the whining, anons always post about how oldfags still use this site in droves and use things like posts saying when anons started browsing as proof of that. The reality is, meta threads like these are only ever going to primarily attract those anons and it still amounts to only a few dozen. Caring about oldfaggotry or newfaggotry as a status rather than as a way to discern if someone understands the culture is utterly brain dead but given that /a/ and 4chan at large no longer has a culture, it makes sense the term is just thrown around for anything.

>>281714968
Absolutely, this site mimics a real conversation in a room with a group of people. You say something stupid, it either becomes a topic or it disappears, but it’s not stuck to your chest forever like posts on normal social media. The ability to talk without worrying about getting harassed is what makes this site so powerful and long lasting.

>>281717157
I wish I still had the "Naruto is the War and Peace of anime" post saved

>>281717157
Delusional take. /a/ was never a standard of good taste, as much as anons want to believe so to fellate their own ego. Anime and manga has and had become so accessible that the poor taste came to light with it, even before Naruto was allowed here.

>>281717177
It’s sad because /a/ still has a great culture it’s just subtle and different and not based exclusively on old memes, but those old memes were still the foundation
The culture today could look a lot more like the culture of yore if people stayed involved and didn’t disengage as it changed around them. This happens in real life too, if you participate in the change you can feel like you’re still part of it.

>>281717285
>Delusional take.
Not really, no. By allowing a bad series like Naruto to be discussed, it let in al the wrong kinds of people.
I am not saying that /a/ was a bastion of great quality or anything, but there WERE standards.

>>281717335
You can make a no-Naruto thread any time you want
Power tripping mods controlling discussion like that is not a good thing

>>281717463
That's not the point. I can make a thread about lots of things, it wouldn't make things as good as they were before.
Now I may be bitching, but I don't actually mind it that much, as "board culture" would have changed forever when posting in generals became the norm.

>>281717292
Current /a/ essentially has no culture and is used as a shitpost dumping ground by tourists from /v/ who don’t even like anime

>>281717292
>It’s sad because /a/ still has a great culture it’s just subtle and different
It’s the exact same culture as before, just diluted down to non-relevance. There’s no new culture.

>>281714665
https://nyaa.si/view/1716814
seeding, but slow

>>281714968
>if there are forums still active without mods abusing their position

>>281716726
We figured out what Zero Requiem was going to be but hoped it's not.
But it doesnt matter now because they ressurected Lulu

In the end we were defeated by moeshitters...

>>281717553
>3 seeders
>0 upload from any of them

>>281717523
>>281717544
Sounds like you don’t participate in any threads
Do you follow or post daily threads? Plenty of ongoing manga are great to read and discuss here. OPM WC story time was great and it looks like there’s a Getter Robo story time up right now. Fighting manga culture around Baki/Kengan are very entertaining. News and current events threads while rare have good discussions. We’re all waiting for the Madoka movie but meguca threads are always fun.
“The culture” is fine I think a lot of dudes here have just grown up a little bit which is fine too.

>18 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtJnix-9niI

>>281717778
>his only example of culture are the storytime threads
Grim.

>>281717811
That was 1/4 examples speedreader

>>281717778
>News and current events threads while rare have good discussions.
No, they have a bunch of tourists from /v/ shitposting about Jews ruining anime

>>281683501 (OP)
guys...
I just watched shakugan no shana...
and it's fucking SHIIIT

>>281717862
News and current events aren't culture, you retard. That's like saying "the anime and manga board's culture is anime and manga". No shit, huh? What does that have to do with /a/ that it doesn't with other anime and manga forums?

baiting with nonsense like
>board culture
is still part of board culture I see

>>281717908
Maybe so, but Shana's still hot.

>>281717285
It was never about good or bad taste. Naruto was mainstream anime that people from everywhere knew about and liked, including people from lame sites where people were spamming old unfunny memes we already moved on from, like reddit. 4chan was our secret club, if you were gonna read or watch a shonen it had to be something like One Piece, a series that was obscure in the west but had a reputation as a quality massively popular series in Japan. By shunning Naruto, we were shunning people who watched dubs, who streamed anime or who used VLC, who made cringe Linking Park AMVs and so on. Real anons installed CCCP and MPC and either torrented or got from IIRC their obscure shows that they learned about because of a rare anon that speaks Japanese. Nowadays people here unironically have crunchyroll accounts, that's what allowing Naruto led to, a complete change in culture.

>>281718119
>Real anons installed CCCP and MPC and either torrented
I remember these days. It would take all night for my slow-ass internet to download a batch of episodes so I'd leave my computer on when I went to sleep, then check that it had finished downloading before going to school, look forward to watching my new episodes all day and rushed home...

Did all the oldfag tripfags died out?

Oldest I have is 08, most other pics I saved seem to be 2011 onwards

>>281717934
>the way people publicly respond to events isn’t culture
Do you regularly argue about the meaning of words you don’t understand?

>>281718119
*from IRC. I haven't thought about IRC in so long that the more common acronym came out, lmao

>>281683501 (OP)
I am still posting like it is 2006, because I am having fun regardless of how gay everything has become. It's the same shit just on a different day - in this case decade.
>this_is_fine.avi
Doing some OC, archiving threads and connecting anons together. This is all Anonymous truly needs besides anime, manga and vidya.
Also feels on Christmas and NYE.

>>281718199
Not nostalgic about slow internet, but that sense of excitement, yeah.

>>281718226
I want Bromont and his storytime threads back.

>>281718199
It took commitment to torrent on dialup.

>>281718309
Fuck Bromont used to write stories for the Monster Girl threads before those got booted to /jp/

>>281718119
>it had to be something like One Piece
Kill yourself.

Kamidori manga really went downhill as it moved to longer arcs. but the threads...
The threads were very good.

Probably wasn't til like 2012 that I satred regualry saving things of 4chan

>>281718415
Why though? It's true, I discovered One Piece because /a/ would talk about this anime you never heard about but that was secretly massively popular and way better than mainstream crap like Naruto. It was part of the appeal. That and shitting on 4kids.

>>281718226
Yes? Verty literally died. The others left. There was a post about it earlier.

Ancient how2japanese pic

OP is a faggot

>>281718556
Speaking of this, anyone else remember "it carries out and is w"?

>>281718530
I remember a time when being a JoJo fan took dedication, there were no anime secondaries since the only anime was the 90s OVA (which is still amazing btw) and all the translations were shit, some of the scans were even shittier and nobody fucking understood what the characters were saying most of the time

Seems to be a gap between 2011 and 2015. Must have manged to escape for a bit

>>281718530
>this anime you never heard about but that was secretly massively popular and way better than mainstream crap
Unless you browsed /a/ literally in the first year of it beginning, that was never true. One Piece started being dubbed as early as 2004 and shown on tons of major television networks, alongside shit like Naruto and Bleach. You are delusional and trying to justify your shitty taste.

>>281706208
Just remembered when blonddude was assigned me for secret s/a/nta
He sent me a card that was just art printed off danbooru taped onto it and no message
so I took his return address and mailed him a glitterbomb

Oh wait they are all listed on the same date so they are probably older and got their date changes by a computer changeover

>>281718610
Stealing my own post from /vr/, about people arguing if Jojo was already a meme or not before the anime:

Anyone who posted in this website had seen this a thousand times, with the road roller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrARZ8LWSgQ
Jojo in the west was a at the very least a 4chan meme. I know it got me to read the series around 2006 or 2007 I think.

>>281718700
It aired on tv but is was dismissed as crap because of 4kids. I know I tried to get my friends to watch it but they all had already dropped it because it wasn't cool. Naruto was bigger outside of Japan and preferring One Piece instead was some hipster shit.

>>281718823
Yes, it was dismissed as crap because it is crap.

>>281718769
Yeah, JoJo memes were definitely a powerful thing.
>WRYYYY
>EVEN SPEEDWAGON IS AFRAID
>KING CRIMSON, HOW DOES IT WORK?
Etc.

>>281714968
forums were always shit and i dont miss them

>>281718708
He still posts here

>>281718857
WHAT A GLORIOUS DUWANG

>>281718885
Yeah I intentionally spelled it wrong in case he vanitysearches the archive

>>281718859
Kek

>>281684501
>Having fun has been illegal on 4chan for 15 years.
Millenial here who has known about 4chan since his high school days around 2010 and maybe earlier, but wasn't even really a lurker back then until recently. I'm both aware and concerned about the modern Web's state regarding censorship, forced ideological homogeneity, "community guidelines", "hate speech", abusive terms of service + privacy policies, etc.

What's the alternative, getting into a darknet like ZeroNet or I2P? I tried browsing another -chan image board, but I think it's worse than 4chan in terms of both censorship and online traffic, with a few exceptions. Yes, I think censorship exists on 4chan too and I have video proof of it.

How do we get a free and open Internet back that's as fun and interesting to use as it was in 2006, anons?

>>281719022
You don't.

>>281719022
>I have video proof of it.
Bro if you are that bad you probably can't find anywhere to talk about anime because you are simply really annoying I'm afraid

>>281718925
Doubt anyone does that anymore, especially if they’re not posting here every damn day like trips used to

If only reporting ever did anything

>>281719022
>How do we get a free and open Internet back?
Keep fighting for it. The worst thing would be to give up and forget what it used to be like.
That's the only reason why I (>>281713476) stay here.

>>281719022
Yes you have to go to some private network run by pedophiles if you want the experience of cp spam, gore dumps, and other shit that is censored now

>>281719216
These days the janitors are sometimes responsive to racism and off topic reports so keep reporting the tourists to encourage them further. You’ll even see tourists start to throw tantrums as their posts get deleted.

>>281719240
>I stay here to "fight for a free and open internet"
Posting on 4chan is the least effective way of fighting for that or doing anything productive for that matter.

>>281719344
I'll take your word for it

>>281719344
>responsive to racism
I don’t care if someone posts racist shit so long as it doesn’t get into /pol/ territory. Simply posting nigger is of no consequence.

>>281719364
Go Illya!

>>281713476
>2003
hows life?

>>281717706
All those years of cart theorycrafting for this

>>281717335
lol dude old /a/ jerked the shit out of Eva which is as entry level as it gets in that sphere

>>281719464
No one really talks that way anymore though, the tourists all just bring their straight up /pol/ brain rot complaining about Indians, Jews, etc

>>281719344
http://185.10.68.107:1776/stats?board=/a/
They're pretty responsive to a lot of categories, especially relative to other boards

>>281719615
I should rewatch TTGL, I got it on bluray now

Sadly all my shit before 2009 got deleted

>>281719344
Let's be real. Getting banned for racism basically means you correctly called who you called what they are, all negative implications included

>>281718823
Dude what the hell are you talking about?
Naruto was normalfagshit, Bleach was normalfagshit, ONE PIECE WAS NORMALFAGSHIT you literally acknowledge that it had a running 4kids dub on a saturday morning television network. People fucking knew what it was, and guess what children don't actually have standards and thought it was awesome and became One Piece fans and are the modern one piece fans.

>>281719290
You sound like a zoomer who has been brainwashed by globohomo community guidelines and MSM propaganda, or a demoralizing glowie, if you really think that's what I meant by a "free and open Internet". Either way, shame on you and enjoy your censored, manipulated and pseudo-diverse Web experience that's a shell of its former self, which seems progressively more akin to a Great Wall of China but with Western censorship and ideological indoctrination implemented by the woke globalists.

And I apologize if my judgement about you was incorrect.

>>281719668
>People fucking knew what it was
Most people I talked to didn't, and the few who did disliked it. Naruto and Bleach were huge, One Piece wasn't.

>>281719765
>my anecdotal evidence speaks for everyone

>>281719658
Getting banned for racism means you’re a dumb cunt whose brain has been rotted by reactionary propaganda

What I hate the most about oldfag threads is the amount of historical revisionism

>>281719778
No one but turbo weebs cared about it, while you could see random kids wearing ninja headbands in your local supermarket.

>>281719873
>my anecdotal evidence speaks for everyone

>>281719825
Considering the word "racism" keeps being used in the wrong context now a days. Forgive me for being skeptical about your claims.

>>281719668
>and guess what children don't actually have standards and thought it was awesome and became One Piece fans and are the modern one piece fans.
This is wrong. The 4kids dub was so bad Funimation redubbed the whole show.

>>281692443
That's not the only thing.
Everyone spent 2 weeks on 8moe. The network and post volume were more than sufficient. And yet, 4chan came back up, everyone came back here.

>>281719897
No you’re just a racist piece of shit lol
Go back to /v/

>>281719290
I could be wrong but that comment makes you sound like someone rather young has been brainwashed by globohomo community guidelines and MSM propaganda about the deep / dark web, or a demoralizing glowie, if you really think that's what I meant by a "free and open Internet". Either way, shame on you and enjoy your censored, manipulated and pseudo-diverse Web experience that's a shell of its former self, which seems progressively more akin to a Great Firewall of China but with Western censorship and ideological indoctrination implemented by the woke globalists.

And I apologize if my judgement about you was incorrect, no disrespect to intelligent and cool Gen. Z people with critical thinking and an appreciation for good stuff that must be preserved.

>>281719825
Maybe the problem is people like you having to make everything about politicking instead of, oh I don't know, realizing that people just have their own initiative and opinion away from it all. I've never been banned calling a white or east asian anon whatever, but that's just me

>>281719938
Throwing that word at someone does not make it true.

>>281719897
faggot

>>281720005
Ok.

You guys are alright

>>281719904
/a/ was dead as fuck. My thread lasted long, but it was niche to begin with so nothing changed

When did we stop using motivation poster format?

>>281706208
>Verty
>likeable

>>281698200
/a/ may never have been good, but it sure has been getting worse

>>281719825
Newfags like you who only care about people not saying the no-no word instead of caring about post quality, fun and contents are exactlt why 4chan is dead, you stupid newfag nigger.

>>281720121
By the time that motivational poster was made, the format was already ran to the ground and was already unfunny. In fact, wouldn't surprise me if that wasn't made on /a/

>>281719968
Nope, cunts like you are the problem and should be banned everywhere lol
Before the /pol/ containment board was made it’d be standard to tell you freaks to go back to Stormfront. Actual racism and white supremacist nonsense were not accepted on 4chan.

>>281708549
well 2ch almost died several times

>>281719901
That shit was on non-cable free TV, it built and seeded an audience. Them redoing it after is them realizing the foundation would be utterly fucked up if it stayed the way it was for the franchise in the states.

>>281720195
Subhumans like you who throw tantrums if you can’t say slurs are incapable of making quality posts. That’s why gatekeeping you losers is so important.

>>281706208
SHiN is still alive but he's a gacha pleb now playing Wuwa and posting on /v/

>>281718700
Absolutely true
Toonami was airing anime 4 years before 4chan was founded

When did /a/ stop making threads like
>[QWER]_CGDCT_-_Episode_02_[BX2TY22].avi

>>281720159
You have to take the context of the image into account, which is that it’s made by someone who has an opinion on every tripfag of the time. Verty is likeable to those types.

>>281720198
Sorry you're Aussie, bro. The rest of the world likes being racist

>>281720302
Never?

>>281720198
NTA but you bring up an important distinction. You'd see casual racism all the time, people posting swastikas "as a joke" and shit, but when it became too /pol/ before /pol/ we'd tell them to fuck off to stormfront. No banning, more like shunning. But I'm not 100% on that, it was too long ago and my memory isn't the best for something I didn't care much about.

>>281720238
What has your poat to do about anime and manga again?
You are thr cancer. This is, incidently, an 18+ site. Come back in 4 years.

>>281720121
People in my country still make them.

>>281707613
today's trolls only get stronger if you try to out-troll them

>>281720282
Not the real SakuraFish. Why would the real one care about trips besides his tranny loving buttbuddy AoG?

>>281720302
When we stopped having to wait days/weeks for fansubs that could drop at random times?

>>281720357
Literally didnt talk to that fagget in 9 years if he is still alive

>>281720340
As if clinging to slurs isn’t the ultimate sign of being a 12 year old lol

>>281720394
>durr u use slurs!
I only use them when retards start with ad hominems. They get really mad for some reason.

>>281720428
>I swear I’m not really racist I just use slurs to make people mad in internet fights
Wait you’re an actual 12 year old

>>281720331
Yes, that is correct. Unfoetunately now it's all about saying the party line and not using bad words or get banned. Actual genuine racism is now totally acxeptable, it just has to be against the people the mods don't like (which is whoever the powers that be decree are non-persons this month). Nobody bats an eye and who cares about the board and what it's about. After all, what someone said on twitter is peak 4chan culture so why not.

>>281720238
You sound very upset over your own projections onto people that haven't even thrown out a slur yet

>>281720468
Huh? I am racist. I am actually very racist, I simply have a soul that allows me to talk about other things too. Don't ask for answers that you cannot handle.

>>281720376
So which trannies do you hang around with now

>>281720514
I just lurk /a/ and shitpost on /v/, I dont have frens

>>281720504
>racist
>having a soul
Funny joke

>>281720428
Sadly the entire state of discourse nowadays is pure ad hom. Actual arguments are summarily dismissed with 'show hands' or 'turd worlder' or 'pasty white bitch' or even 'jew', regardless of board or topic. There is therefore no reason to waste effort on a well thought out post anymore.

>>281720551
Post your ‘cord details and I’ll friend you, those are the same boards I browse

>>281716700
You're tooting your own horn hard if you think /a/ is "popular" or has really ever been even back in the days where /a/ was paranoid about gaiafags coming here to talk about Dragonball or something.
>>281717523
It's time to take account of your own faults. I've been hearing this spiel for fucking YEARS when you had shit like accelspammer (which retards probably look at fondly today)
Now you're getting gangbanged by tiktok shounen generals, half of which are schizophrenic messes where the people are more interested in waifuwarring while half the oldfags you beloved either became vtuberfags or gachafags. I mean what kind of shit do you think these kinds of mental profiles would gravitate toward in the present when shit back here was the norm
>>281711535
>>281711972

>>281720580
And that's a good thing. Nowadays I start arguments from "shut up nigger", I only argue with those that still keep posting after that.

>>281720593
No thanks, I want to be alone forever

>>281720601
>not sure if retarded or merely pretending.jpg

>>281720580
It's easy to slap together agitation chat bots that sling ad homs endlessly. Low effort for high returns in disrupting discourse.

>>281720658
Bite it geek

>>281720328
Nowadays /a/ makes threads like
>>new episode comes out in 30 hours
>>no thread
>let's fix that
instead

>>281720331
This is true

>>281720667
The majority of those posts are, in my experience, just floods of young normalfag invaders, not bots, unfortunately.

>>281720601
An event like Accelspammer that would force highly active moderation that would also wipe out tourism is pretty much the only thing that could save the board. Shounen generals are fine and the closest things to how posting was on early 4chan. Same for something like the Nagatoro chapter threads. That’s how everything used to be, just floods of images and short posts. I don’t think those things are any sort of problem.

>>281720580
Meh, if they don't engage back, just claim superiority and move on.

>>281720744
>claiming superiority against ragebait

>>281720613
NTA, but is that really a good thing? I feel like replying with a post calling someone a niggerfaggot without also providing an actual argument would just send the message that you're not really interested in arguing in the first place.

>>281720601
You're coping that One Piece is in the same field as Naruto and Bleach simply because you personally like it. That shit was always popular and always garbage. That's it.

>>281720722
Organic bots in that case. Still, we should kill all moeshitters.

>>281720725
Why would moderation wipe out tourism?
Tourism and moderation have aligned interests.