>>149919990
I've been lurking on /co/ for literally more than half my life
what kept me coming back in the first place were the storytimes. Scans of comics with people sharing their favorite stories/issues, and most storytime threads had good discussion coming from people who were passionate about the hobby. I read a lot of good and funny comics that I never even would have heard of otherwise. I also started storytiming myself a few times, and it felt really nice to share something you liked with people who would discuss and appreciate it.

Flash forward to around 2013. /co/ starts getting completely shit up with /tv/ tourists who saw a couple MCU movies and are desperately pretending to be comics fans so they can maintain their sense of self-superiority to other /tv/ tourists. Every other thread was filled with mouthbreathing retards who didn't know how to use reverse image search posting the same panels over and over asking for sauce. can you imagine if there was a hobby board for movies, or for video games, where more than half the discussion was just newfaggots posting screencaps and asking where they came from? Capeshit is the only hobby where this is allowed for some reason. Discussion during storytimes started to die off, there were so many storytimes that took up two threads and got less than 10 responses, or only a few bumps would trickle in after it was done. The only discussion that really takes off nowadays are the new issues every Wednesday. At the same time, sites like readcomicsonline started popping up, which filled the hole in my life that storytimes used to. It's easier to just google "read batman online" or whatever and it's the first result instead of having to download scans. The changes to captcha didn't help, since it made storytiming more of a chore than it was before.

that, and I'm a 27 year old boomer working a full time job now. so between all that, im only posting here maybe five times a year