Thread 718336757

What was /v/ like before it became a breeding ground of scammers, culture war rage farming, twitter screenshot threads and just plain negativity? I don't think I've ever seen anyone on here actually play video games and enjoy them, it can't have always been like this,right? I swear I remember it being games and horny posting more than this, what the fuck happened?

>718336757
you are part of the problem.

every problem was fixed by spamming loli porn, after the tranny jannies stopped allowing that this site just became reddit lite

It was mostly console wars. And lots of Smash Brothers threads. Not even discussions, just asking for characters to be in it.

>>718337198
That is correct.

>>718336757 (OP)
There was still a lot of trolling, but most of it revolved around fanboy console wars. At the very least back then people had to actually form their own opinion and argument and not just parrot whatever trending youtube ecelebwas saying that week.

It was also more liberal with anons going after then popular conservative figures like Jack Thompson, Westboro Baptist Church and the whole Chanology project thing.

I'm still suprised at how "conservative" the culture got because that was never a thing until a few years after gamergate.

How sad, it's like people no longer want anything but to be lay within their resentment and misery and try to drag down everyone within reach

>>718336757 (OP)
>I don't think I've ever seen anyone on here actually play video games and enjoy them

I play video games, but I'm also the last 4channer left. Look at how much of the BF6 beta I played. You saying you've never seen anyone play video games just means you don't spend time here.

>>718336757 (OP)
You see quite a few of the old shit still here. the coomers. The company wars. the weeaboos. Bitching about low quality translation.

>>718337576
>I'm still suprised at how "conservative" the culture got because that was never a thing until a few years after gamergate.
Seems natural for anons to be reactionary, considering the things we can no longer have.

Anons would shit on booth babes for being cheap distractions for low quality games. They'd still post them and goon to them of course, and compare 3dPD, 3d rendered and 2d waifus of course. Very different than not having them now, but allowing trannies in lingere to run around events.

>>718337974
Here's a game I played for my entire stay on 4chan, which was a very long time. Anyone who says
>/v/ doesn't play le games XD
is just someone who has an imagined view of 4chan and doesn't spend enough time here to know the truth.

>>718336757 (OP)
There was always negativity, and Twitter screenshots have been a thing since like 2012. Before then it was screencaps of other forums. There was also WAY more off topic, blatant off topic not even pretending to be about vidya. It often was the majority of threads on the first page

Also dozens of tripfags running rampant

>>718338293
valveslop is not video games, it's just an online casino for children and turdies

>>718336757 (OP)
Scammers and trolls were always here and the board culture was to trick new posters into doing something stupid and destructive like deleting their system or installing malware. There are still threads talking about vidya and people playing them but you don't visit them because ragebait naturally draws in more people (me and you included).
Vidya related news often come from twitter so why are you surprised there are so many twitter screenshot threads? People on /v/ are so vidya saturated they care more about the industry than the games at this point and this is true for anyone sufficiently interested in a topic and isn't exclusive to video games or /v/.
If you actually do the math twitter threads are the minority but gain the most traction because of course news and new info have more people engaging with it than people talking about some specific game. It's like being bewildered more people tune in to the news about some important event like the elections over someone covering the local theater play.
People are overreacting how bad the state of the board is because they're looking at it through the prism of their jaded selves and are too blinded by nostalgia to remember all the annoying shit that has always been happening since the inception of the site.

>>718338390
>There was always negativity

If that's true, then why don't I like any of you? I don't like a single person on Nu 4chan.

>>718338969
OP, for example, dares to ask what old 4chan was like, when he doesn't even care. I really hope he's posting in the rest of the board, because this is how much I have open. When people complain about 4chan, they're just talking about the people who destroyed it. I don't even speak to those people.

>>718339462
My other tab is this. I don't even want to read anyone's post in passing, and that's why I use the Catalog now. It was not always the case.

>>718336757 (OP)
We used to have lots of little activity threads like Reveal the Vidya and the /v/ Gauntlet. There was also a lot more organized game lobbies for free and cheap games like Transformice and 100% Orange Juice. It was much more common for sub-communities to grow and stay on the board for quite some time, and it wasn't always just "/vg/ circlejerks". Users were a lot more interested in trying out activities or exploring new games so long as they were accessible. Now it's pretty much impossible to get anyone to look at something they aren't already committed to playing. I think a lot of it was just the shift in user expectations which I think is the result of our "asshole of the internet" reputation. People are told this is the spicy drama site so it's what they come here for. It's what they post about and so it's what the board becomes.

>>718340934
>Users were a lot more interested in trying out activities or exploring new games so long as they were accessible.

Absolutely. I used to try new things because I wanted to play with /v/ and talk to /v/ about the games. I still try my best, and that's why I played Battlefield 6, but it's very different to the past. In 2025, I'm less likely to play something if /v/ is talking about it.

>>718336757 (OP)
there were tails gets trolled storytimes lol
I don't think there was this much ragebait but no video games either

>>718341448
To be at least a little fair, modern games are not at all conducive for this sort of sub-community interaction anymore. Matchmaking systems have taken away the watering hole of the simple sever/lobby hosts. Games are also now built around progression systems and ELO ranks, so there's this extra tension added on top of everything that emphasizes the grind over casual hang-out play. But I still think it was the gradual rise in popularity of e-drama that got us here today. It's not just /v/, but the whole internet is very spicy gossip and controversy focused. Everyone is either talking about someone getting cancelled or trying to cancel someone. It's no surprise /v/ took such a sharp shift towards that sort of content since we never had much of a push-back against it in the first place, and the opinion of outsiders is that we specialize in that. So we get people coming to /v/ looking to discuss the hot new e-drama that's too spicy for a non-anonymous board, and that starts building a sub-community here that attracts more like it. Eventually we just become a vidya themed gossip board.

>>718342129
>It's no surprise /v/ took such a sharp shift towards that sort of content since we never had much of a push-back against it in the first place

Push-back isn't possible if you don't have any power. I'm not a moderator, so I can't perma ban people for discussing e-celebs. All I did was filter every single one of their threads. I did that for years and now I'm the only one left because people just talk about things without you. I see threads like this asking what 4chan used to be like, and it's just offensive, because nobody actually cares.

>>718337576
Fucking retarded zoomzoom.

>>718342290
You could look at /a/ as an example of what proper pushback would have been. They are very adamant about gatekeeping and do not answer stupid questions which anyone beyond an entry level interest in the hobby should be able to find the answer to themselves. On the contrary we have /v/ which was always at odds with the mods over what is and isn't "/v/ culture". Yeah, some of it was justified like defending the activity threads when they weren't about a specific video game. But there was always a rebellious clamor to bring non-vidya topics to /v/ because the users wanted to discuss those topics with other /v/ users. The mods hold a very large part of the blame too as they do little to nothing against it as well. It some cases they even reward it. But we also hold some responsibility ourselves for letting off-topic stuff go because it was off-topic stuff we also wanted to talk about.

>>718337576
>back to the "4chinz was librul" narrative
it was counter-culture, retard
it always has been and still is

>>718342740
Thanks for yet another wall of garbage. I'm filtering this thread before I get bombarded with another two digit IQ NPC wall. Reply after I've filtered the thread. Keep in mind 90% of the board is filtered at all my times and I will be reading this page 9 thread with no new replies.

oh it's the "i am filtering this thread" schizo

>>718343049
Are you the schizo?

>>718342872
OK. It doesn't matter either way since it's not like we can just rewind the clock and try again from when /v/ was "good". Though I think we're actually on the same page since as you said nobody actually cares and there's never going to be a push to fix /v/'s quality. That is preciously on us that nobody cares. That is a user quality issue. I'm just saying we could have respect what we had more when we had it and maybe then we would have still had it.

>>718336757 (OP)
>>718337198
https://old.sage.moe/v/search/order/asc/
Archives exist so take a look if you actually care.