Thread 718971097

Game corporations now use le maymay arrows.

What epic video games are you buying, my fellow 4channers?

Test

>be le me
>be le trollface
>that le feeling when video games

Name the game.

>>718971097 (OP)
4chan has been a normie website for a long long time. Nice that you finally caught up with the times

It's bewildering that back in the days of rage comics, 4chan knew to move on from those kinds of templates the moment tiny-hat corporations started trying to appropriate them and sell them (like when Hot Topic tried to make rage comic merch). Fast forward to today and even though tons of companies are unironically using Pepe and wojaks to appeal to fellow kids you still see that rancid shit spammed everywhere here. Why can't we move on to something new anymore?

>>718971097 (OP)
>jobless faggot doesn't realize that even emails use '>' for quotes

>>718971097 (OP)
Ironic, comming from a faggot who made this thread several times now to farm (You)s

Fuck off

>>718971386
because unlike the days of ragefaces, pepes and wojaks are attached at the hip to a real-world (if incoherent) political fanbase. using a rageface to make fun of someone being deported is seen as a netpositive to these people.

I can't even tell anymore who's shitposting and who genuinely believes shit like "4chan invented using the greater than symbol for quoting"

>>718971254
Battleloads Semen Inferno

I know this website hasn't been le secret club for a long time but its always kinda jarring to me when I see trends and the vernacular make its way into reality. My grandma calls chicken tenders tendies.

>>718971386
4chan lost its internet isolationist culture + the drop off of people making OC + the website becoming more and more mainstream (it's easy to blame the election for this but 4chan has also just been widely known long before 2016).
There are accounts on twitter that will just take screenshots of threads on here to repost for clicks. A few years ago I made a thread talking about something something Smash Bros and a few hours later someone linked a twitter post that was 1:1 my post reposted on twitter with a hundred plus RTs.

4chan got sucked into the fold, the people posting now have no idea "we" used to hate reddit, reposting and crossposters with a passion. If there's an internet secret club, it sure as hell isn't here.

>>718971097 (OP)
It amazes me that Gamestop is still alive. So many times I've heard about Gamestop dying every year. lmao

>>718971719
Sometimes I'll revisit archived threads from 2015 and the discussions were miles better compared to now. Almost unrecognizable as the same community. Rather grim considering most anons didn't believe it could get much worse than it was.
Now everything's completely downstream from X/leddit/Discord

>>718972347
>started posting in 2010
>knew I was cancer, lurked for maybe 2 years before posting and kept my fucking head down
>mfw seeing people openly state they've only been around for less than a year if that with no pushback
>mfw saying "mfw" has fallen out of style somehow

The irony is that if Gamestop weren't such scumbags themselves, people would be more willing to buy physical copies.

>>718971097 (OP)
>gamestop talking shit
Don't make me remind you of what you are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EyUiHkEcYs

>>718971097 (OP)
Cring, all they need to do to get my support is say nigger but they dont have the balls

>>718972347
2015 was already horribly degraded from 2012/13 because of SRS and Gamergate, which in turn was leagues worse than 2010 because half the userbase had become tfwnogf wojak posters.

even my manager who's almost 60 uses slop unironically
I try not to laugh whenever he does that

I simply don't care about selling games. I don't buy them at full price anyway, and I never will. When I go to buy a game it's cheap as hell and everyone has access to the same deals, meaning they have no resale value to me.

>>718971207
Quit ban evading

Le epic 4channer le hacking nazis

>>718971097 (OP)
gamestop literally our guys go buy at gamestop today i love them simply love them i bring up the frogs and the ducks you know it's just some banter we have fun

>>718971097 (OP)
>>718975604
My favorite is how "black fatigue" has become a popular thing with Tiktok zoomers, when I've been seeing people here say "nigger fatigue" since covid, maybe even before that. The fact that it took them that long to start saying it, plus the fact they say "black" is just really funny to me. I can't get over the irony of there being a blatantly racist meme that's popular, yet they still can't say the n word.

>>718976327
I don't have black fatigue, I have nigger exhaustion.

>>718971097 (OP)
>implying I buy games

>>718976327
Baby steps.

>>718971097 (OP)
[Regarding Gamestop using memes]

>>718976327
Why'd they give the wojak karen gigantic breasts?

>>718975518
2010 was already degraded from 2008 because of Fox News' "Hackers on steroids" coverage which was already degraded from 2007 because of Chanology which was already degraded from 2006 due to the Habbo raids which was already degraded from who knows when from Gaiafags and so on

gamestop ass mad cause they are going tits up

Anyone remember that video of the two kids playing billiards and one of them talks in greentext? From before 2012 I think?

90% of this website uses twitter. Stop pretending.

>>718971254
>Name the game
You just lost it.

>>718971386
Rage faces were reddit and tumblr shit, wojak and pepe are 4chan culture.

>>718976327
The worst part is you know it only starts like that because a 4channer started posting about it and made the sterilized version so they could share it with normalfags.

I work for a fairly large company and my department manager posts on /tv/. I saw it on his browser while we were in a meeting. His privacy screen is really shitty. Not a secret club guys.

>>718978448
Your manager sounds cooler than you are.
/tv/ > /v/

>>718978539
He is, I wish I was him. His wife loves him.

>>718971097 (OP)
>Pay $60
It's either old or its fake and gay

>>718978218
?

>>718971097 (OP)
4chan has been normified since 2018 dude, just go to any sort of chronically online video on youtube and you'll see people using le maymay arrows. I remember the times where if somebody used ">" on youtube some sperg instantly replied with ">greentext outside 4chan"

>>718971097 (OP)
Gamestop sucks. Went there recently and they only had new gen shit. What's the point, new games suck. I don't even know where to go for early 2000s stuff.

>>718976327
>yet they still can't say the n word.
tiktok and insta doesn't like it, instead they use the ninja emoji

>>718971097 (OP)
bbs used meme arrows before you were born
but gaystop sucks ass

>>718978820
>since 2018
Jfc gotta love when newfags tell you the exact year they joined

>>718979137
Calibrate your spergsense because that was the year I stopped coming here lmao, took a break came back in 2024. Been lurking since 2014 and caring about newfags is the most newfag thing you can say here

>I can sell them
I hope to never be in a position where I have to sell a game to scrap together enough cash to make ends meet. Especially to GAMESTOP of all people. Even when I was a kid trading in games I always felt a pretty big twinge of regret walking out of the store trading like 6 games for 1 game.

>>718978938
If you lived here in my state I could take you to a spot. It has everything. Media reseller, but they have everything. They get new stuff all the time. Just look for that. I'm sure there is something similar in your state.

>>718977717
Yeah pretty much. From the getgo this place has been on a downward spiral.

>>718979530
I'd say that it peaked at 2016 with trump, every year after has been worse and worse.

>>718979341
People put a lot of clout on being an oldfag but the truth is the overwhelming majority of them became rightoids, trooned out or killed themselves.
None of that really matters in the here and now.

>>718978448
Do you ever banepost or discuss starlets with him at the water cooler

>>718978306
wojak and pepe are newfag culture shit and came with the first wave of newfags, then popularized by normalfags during the election.
It is the epitome of newfag reddit shit.

>>718971207
of which you have none.

>>718971386
put simply, we outgrew hipsterism

>>718979701
I miss when wojak was called feels guy

>>718971097 (OP)
Epic, as in EGS? I won't even accept free games from EGS

Was it ever discovered what happen to /b/ did it become to powerful so government agents sent bot waves to take it down?

>>718979643
>became rightoids, trooned out or killed themselves.
True, and just a few lucky ones truly outgrow this place and make it.

>>718979942
something like that, the other chans are nothing like our /b/ so even if you don't subscribe to those type of conspiracies it's super obvious that a different breed of person posts there and not here.

>>718979341
Sure thing mister "oldfag"

>>718978306
>wojak and pepe are 4chan culture
only trannies and niggers care about '4chan culture'.

>>718980213
Zoomer reading comprehension, I never said I was. True oldfags are the ones who lurked before 2010

>>718980439
Way before 2010, alphoomoid.

>>718978106
I tried using twitter and I honest to god don't get it. You can't really discuss anything, and you're co-habiting with absolute bottom of the barrel normalfags and nigs. What's the appeal?

>>718982559
Waiting for the self awareness to kick in

>>718971386
Because you're delusional and retarded and you supressed your memories of just how many traces and edits of the same image this place shat out.

>>718971097 (OP)
You realize that greentexting predates image boards as a concept, right?

>>718979432
i once read an article about a child genius (like way on the tail of the bell curve) who killed himself at 14. i don't remember the details of why, i think he was depressed and without purpose. but what stood out to me was that in the article his friends/family said that it seemed like he had things to live for, like for example he was saving up to trade in some old video games for a new one. i wonder if he'd be alive today if gamestop's trade-in values weren't so low.

>>718978820
fucking normies REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>718978735
/tv/ is full of faggot. Take his wife

>>718971097 (OP)
They have for years. You're so fucking behind the meta it hurts. They've been wojakposting, etc as well since that became normalfag. Do you still pop at politicians using pepes or something LOL it's old hat

>>718971530
Troons lost

GameStop was never for gamers, but for hamsters

>>718971097 (OP)
>maymay arrows
I don't think 4chan invented them anon.

>>718987959
we definitely invented them in this format

>>718971097 (OP)
imageboard culture already died in 2009 thanks to the Scientology shit

>>718976327
They cant use nigger word because all platforms insta ban you for using it. You can wish genocide upon groups,dunk on lgbt but if you will type out da n word youre fucked lmao.

>>718971097 (OP)
Why is a funkopop store preaching about video games?

>>718971097 (OP)
>Gamestop after making themselves a fortune selling used games for almost store prices while buying them in from people for scraps, pushing useless subscriptions onto people and locking game content behind store exclusive pre orders is painting itself as the good guy now
im one of the biggest physical advocates you can find but that wont make me like you Gamestop

>>718971097 (OP)
who cares

>>718971097 (OP)
You think


spacing is reddit spacing too, right?
lol

>>718971097 (OP)
>'s to quote was invented by 4chan
I hate you people

>>718977717
Gaiafags were downright cute compared to the abominations that the internet has nowadays. In a way, I miss their innocent retardation.

>>718992359
Eternal September is eternal. The majority of people here don't even know what usenet is.

>>718971097 (OP)
since when is gamestop a game corporation?
>b-but they sell games!
would you call blockbuster a movie corporation?

>>718972097
It's a strangely hostile shopping experience and they barely have any games anyway.
>Guess they stopped those games haha

>4chan
>le secret site
you're 17 years too late

>>718982559
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THEN RIDDLE ME THIS, WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS PLACE IS?! OHOHOHOHOHO

>>718972347
Lockdown unironically made everyone lose IQ points

>>718978218
Just lost the game fuck you

>>718976327
zoomers have absolutely zero mojo
Its like being a shy bodybuilder or a very pro christian who never seen a church from the inside. That said I'm tired of people pretending that any of these game stores were good.

>>718972347
The OC is on tiktok I'm not even joking.
>>718971719
The internet has gotten way too mongrelized where sites don't really have a unique identity anymore and all content is crossposted everywhere. Also mods not doing their fucking job and murdering twitter/reddit screencap posts on the spot. Funny considering I remember YEARS ago, people stabbing at shadows about reddit and making retarded '>le monkeyface' shit and today nobody bats an eye when someone outsources a fucking opinion from reddit. Twitter takes random mid-tier 4chan posts to post on twitter, I guess because the fact it's in greentext makes twitterfags think it's more important than it actually is. That boondocks post that went viral a few months back has been unironically made 10000x before for years

>>718990140
Based and not wasting time on corpo gaslighting-pilled. Gamestop could vanish tomorrow and the only people mourning would be ebay scalpers and guys still trying to trade in Madden 2016 for $2.

>>718971386
/v/ seems soijaks and pepe as core /v/-culture. You see more people screech about "tranime" than soijaks and idpol shit. The moment you don't like some tranny suicide soijaks you "aren't part of /v/". It's frustrating and I can't count with two hands the times I have gotten a 3 day ban when I reported the >"NOOOOOOO MY HECKIN TRANNYRENO" kind of threads and posts. Mods likes idpol and soijaks, majority(like +70%) of /v/ likes idpol and soijaks.
So what can you do?

>>718971719
We gotta unironically start making efforts to make new oc.
Not even talking about high effort drawings, people don't make shitty paint memes or even a simple /v/ plays post...

>>718992993
The vaxxjuice did, the cattle now got vaxxbrain

>>718971097 (OP)
You will own nothing and make jews happy.

>>718995870
I miss livestream.com threads, before twitch became huge and the internet had all these little communities on there

>News of gamestop selling a used game and it bricking someone's switch 2 is like a month old
>Nintendo has been bricking people's shit since the fucking Wii and the capability's been there to do it since the ps2/xbox
>Guys come on, please stay in the plastic worshipper cult
>Please think about this scenario that DEFINITELY happens all the time and PLEASE forget people have copies of Half Life 2 that have been around since before the Wii

Oh and
>Implying 4chan is the only place that quotes like this
>implying the format of derisively quoting someone or a scenario originates from 4chan

gamestop dabbing on steamies. what a time to be alive.
>>718996130
>You will own nothing and make jews happy.
nigga you mean gabe.

>>718976327
I've seen so many people use the TND pasta but with something else replacing niggers.

>>718971386
>Why can't we move on to something new anymore?
Because the Jannies ban everyone that can make original content because they're AIfags and full of blood boiling, pant shitting, puddle pissing rage for anyone willing to open up MSPaint and draw a funny little fella.
t. have been banned probably a minimum of like 40 times for drawing shit.

Gamestop is right tho, when you buy a disc or cartridge, the game is there and yo can play until it shits the bed, meanwhile if you buy a digital game and sony, Nintendo or m$ shut down the servers you get your money effectively stolen.
I've been saying this shit about key cards since they got announced, they're just shooting themselves on their own foot.

>>718997043
I get there's a genuine, incredibly real possibility that you're an adult and two years younger than the wii.
But playing "physical" for your entire life has NEVER been a guarantee that your shit will continue to work.
Ironically, the only real guarantee you'd have would be ripping shit to a "digital" format that you have control of.

>>718997172
I'm 28yo, the wii released when I was already old.
But again, as long as the disc doesn't rot and my ps1 works, I can play all my legally owned games there, same shit with my ds cartridges, so yeah, I wholly expect if I buy a cartridge to be able to play the game once the console is obsolete.
And yes, I understand that pirating is and always be the best way to play games.

>>718971386
Because the people who inhabited 4chan as a majority are now an minority or exctinct to an degree.
Remember when Family Guy used Pepe in a skit?
Imagien showing this to oldfags in pre 2014.
They woulkd have dropped this shit meme in an instant and created something new.

BUT because of the tourist influx with the downfall of The_Donald on Reddit all the normies, boomers schizos swarmed 4chan and tied this shitty memes to their politiucal believes.

Instead seeing an "inside joke" used "outside" aka. going mainstream these mentally handicapped faggots see it as "subversion by the JOWZ or NWO " in an attempt to "hjack" that memes for them. So they clinge to it like a nigger to his grapesoda
Also most people on 4chan browse with their phone so they arent capable doing something with MSPaint on their pc

>>718980007
wtf is a bloomer

>>718971097 (OP)
this is extremely bullish
time to load up on GME, you don't want to miss out again, right?

>>718971719
What you're forgetting is the fact that RapeApe has been senior moderator for almost around 15 years and had successfully purged the moderator staff of all non-/pol/ moderators. It's why /v/ has been a cesspit since Gamergate, it was literally a coup d'etat in the top ranks.

>But RapeApe isn’t just a typical /pol/ user who happens to run the site. According to three current and former staff members, RapeApe shaped 4chan into a reflection of his own political beliefs. “RapeApe has an agenda: he wants /pol/ to have influence on the rest of the site and [its] politics,” a current janitor said.
>Alone, RapeApe couldn’t steer 4chan to the far right. But he supervises a staff of dozens of volunteers who control discourse on the boards. According to the leaked chats and janitors who spoke with Motherboard, he instructed janitors on how to handle the more bigoted content on 4chan—and dismissed them if they deleted content he likes. He took a special interest in the /pol/ board, telling a novice janitor in the chat logs to “treat /pol/ with kid gloves. So long as they obey the rules, they are allowed to support whatever abominable political positions they want.”

>>718978448

If you were cool you'd be able to bring it up in a non gay way and get closer to him through that

>>718997525
It's honestly crazy to me that the lesson people took from Gamergate is that they didn't "ban the right wing hard enough" even though it created a massive tear where they kicked out all the people that actually like vidya.

>>718989868
Ancient greeks have us beat by over 2000 years.

>>718971097 (OP)

I remember writing an empirical research paper on "niche language acquisition" for my university all the way back in 2014 and one of the topics was the grammatical function of greentext. I remember my German lecturer being like "haha so when you do something awkward you drop de spaghetee..."

>>718971097 (OP)
Gamestop twitter guy that posts here, kill yourself, gamestop sucks

>>718998004

really? Tell me more

>>718998049
This never happened

>>718999506

Based. Is there a proper Linguistic term for this?

>>718971207
Welcome back

>>718999709
the origin of this meme was the film 8mile when eminem rapped about throwing up his moms spaghetti over his sweater
newfag

>>718999896

Yeah that was the origin of the meme, but that's just the origin. It didn't become an idiom in itself with the current semantic meaning until after the film disseminated the term

>>718971097 (OP)
>games keep being sold as SAAS nightmares that get shutdown
>the solution is not to ban the bad shit, but to put the games back on little plastic discs
God I hate physicaltards so fucking much it's unreal

>>718971097 (OP)
Call and ask if they have Battletoads

>be me
>don't buy any games
>profit

>>718971097 (OP)
Steamies will seethe at this

>>718995870
>We gotta unironically start making efforts to make new oc.
You first

>>719000043
I put my pecker in da scorgle weeeeee

There you go. Spread it. I dare you

>>719000043
I was doing that.
And the fagmins banned me for it.

>>718971386
>somebody i don't like enjoys something i enjoy so now i can't enjoy it anymore
this is pure millenial cuck mentality.
i'm not gonna let normalfags stop me from using good memes. they don't influence my behavior or my taste at all.

>>718980007
literally me

>>718978218
lost. I hate you

>>718992994
i lost it 3 times in 2 days what the fuck. Before that my streak was like 3 or 4 years

Wasn’t > for quotes a Usenet thing?

>>718971719
>the people posting now have no idea "we" used to hate reddit, reposting and crossposters with a passion
It still baffles me how /v/ is not only okay with fucking Twitter/Reddit screenshots, but fucking engages with that kind of stuff and they are NEVER deleted unless the topic goes full politics(and even then it is 50/50).
It's always okay to blame the users, but when mods don't say "Stop posting this fucking shit" and public bans don't exist, then of course people troll, shitpost, bait, falseflag, and go full off-topic.
I gotta admit that I yesterday talked about Christianity that had nothing to do with vidya(except few mentions of the satanic panic censorship and complaining about vidya) and religion in the fish blob thread and didn't get warning or ban. Honestly I would've deserved on the thread but when I subconsciously know that I'm not getting banned then it is hard to care.
Especially when some vidya threads get nuked for no fucking reason, or because some retard fucking derails the whole thing and mods go "Uhhblblblbl this thread is off-topic??? Don't ban the soijak posters or the guy yelling about kikes and trannies nonstop".

What the fuck are you supposed to do anymore on /v/? I considered genuinely becoming a janny before realizing you have to doxx yourself for the mods which is a great fucking idea hey how did that work with the hack? And even then jannies have barely any power and I have heard from my friend who is janny that the mods punish and complain to some jannies who reports the idpol shit.
We are absolutely fucked. I don't like being blackpill retard or such, but when there is no OC, oldfags, proper moderation, and AIslop gets a pass on non Dalle threads its stupid. I do gen some stuff, just saying before some people go full retard.

>>719000921
Now, who do you think popularized it?
Cause the source means literally nothing in the face of culture.

>>719000043
I doodled for Save the Princess threads but you get a ban for making those threads. I have literally no reason to draw anymore if I can't make anything for /v/. I did also few edits of the funi screenshots on "draw template" threads but those are rare these days. I rather gen AIslop.
I do respect anyone who actually pursues art and draws on this hellhole of a board. You deserve much more.

>>719001293
Yeah, OC in general gets quashed too easily by mods who hate fun.
Ah well.

>>718971207
Check

>>718971386
Pepe just has more staying power let's be real here.

>>718971097 (OP)
Gamestop's CEO is Ryan Cohen who used to shitpost on /biz/

>>718971386
precisely because of people like you who make this drawn out retarded faggot complaint post instead of actually making the thing you want to see

>>718971097 (OP)
Does this mean we can call them nazis since they're doing a 4chan thing?

>>719001293
>>719001383
Oh, that's kind of sad

>>718971097 (OP)
>Game corporations now use le maymay arrows.

I mean, they're not wrong. The future is super gay.

>>718971386
for one, rage comics were literally a reddit meme and were never a 4chan meme. two, when pepe started approaching normalfag friendly status people just started making pepe associated with feces and killing jews and now pepe is a hate symbol according to the ADL

>>718971097 (OP)
Twitter is only good for porn.

>>718990030
Niggers are so fragile they had to cry to the very corporations that enslaved them 300 years ago to protect their feelings
Now they look for trouble at work but nobody talks to them because if you call them what they are you get fucking fired and end up homeless
FUCK NIGGERS.

>>718994627
did you make this oc? if so thanks it's nice to see people still making oc instead of shitty wojacks

People still posting Pepes and Wojacks today are even more lame than people that were still using omgwtfbbq 7331 haxorz talk in 2015, because both of those memes are now older than that was by then. Regurgitating the same shit over and over again for 15 years is just being a retard.

>>719002287
I didn't. Haven't doodled proper in like 2 years. I sometimes start a drawing but then I remember I have nowhere to share and delete.
Well actually I doodled for one Queen of /v/ thread's tile collab now that I remember but some anons complained because I took someone's tile on collab who didn't seem to deliver but I realized that they maybe got embarrassed after I took their tile.

>>719001092

from your understanding and perspective with having a janny friend, how is the 4chan administration/janny/mod team?

>>719002839
This anon put it pretty well >>718997525
But I rather not give anything too specific so my friend doesn't get in any trouble. Seeing how schizo some mods are on /v/

>servers shut down
Has this ever happened?

>>718971207
did it work?

>>719003035
Plenty of times.
The major example which fits everything in OP is The Crew.

>>719003310
Im not talking about game as a service shit that depends on a server but actual games that you can buy digital licenses for it

>>718971097 (OP)
we joked about this 20 years ago

>>718971097 (OP)
>Game corporations
It's some retard who is running their twitter account. Not the logo.

>>719002979

Totally fair man, I understand. Seems likely, considering how 4chan has become such a cesspit of idpol stuff. I'm so sick of it. You woulda thought admin-san would stop this.

>>718971097 (OP)
>leftists trooning out over another 4CHAD victory
Pottery.

>>719004551
hello saar, tank you for shitting up 4chan for free!
trump! libtard! chad! virgin! trannies! I love /pol/ outside of /pol/!!!
id say look at this thread and realize you're one of the problems with this site nowadays we're complaining about but you're either an underaged newfag who knows only how to communicate online through repeating political schizo babble or something more sinister made to shit up threads. now I'm thinking of it the latter option is just the former, like reverse jannies but you still do it for free.
shit man how was I supposed to know this site peaked in 2007?

maymay arrows date back to the arpanet, as a reply to a message would have > at the beginning of each line of the original message

>>718971097 (OP)
Relax

>>718971097 (OP)
Fuck you GameStop

>>718971569
Nobody's saying they invented it moron they're using it at all is the point

>>718975604
I do that foo

>>718979137
Not him but I joined in late 2020

>>719007628
what even keeps you here dude

I think I realized this site was long-term fucked when the kinds of threads that churned out OC and used to even sometimes get stickied on some boards started to get banned instead. I barely even know why I come here anymore, more and more the conversations just seem borderline schizophrenic and have people hurling ad hominems at you that don't even make any sense.

>>718990252
Spacing isn't reddit but I still insist 4chan really obsessed over the green texting

>>718978218
Bro... we've won the game ages ago.

>>718992359
4chan is the only major site to still use it
>>718992651

Am I taking crazy pills? 4chan didn't invent the usage of greater than signs to quote no, that's literally decades older than the site itself, but it did invent the idea of using them to create shorthand stories. These are different concepts. You people do get that right? That a shorthand story isn't directly quoting another person?

>>719008092
4chan is not a major site, try again

>>718980439
>pre 2010
>oldfags
Man the march of time truly crushes everything.

>>718971719
Lack of OC being made definitely killed the identity of 4chan. More importantly, whatever passes off for 4chan's identity these days has definitely been warped beyond recognition due to tourists and outsiders looking in from filtered and cherry-picked posts from twitter and wherever else.

>>719002565
Memes started to stagnate when people started using Pepe and Wojack as all purpose mascots. They became skeletons that people hung different personas on to mock strawmen of people they didn't like.

>>719006172
Shut the fuck up retard

>>718971386
You just need to make the "meme" so toxic that it would be social suicide to use it

Look at how pepe exploded in the early 2010's and is now

>>719008294
i am an oldfag and anyone who lurked after the summer of 2005 (first otakon panel) is a newfag

>>718995870
Big issue is the phone posting, I'm part of the issue too, making OC when your not on your PC is a way higher hurdle. When I use my PC I still dos hitty edits and oekaki.

>>719008470
I hate how sitcoms just started writing jokes and episodes off of memes or social media trends. It's Always Sunny just had an episode based off the Hawk Tuah meme a year after it got stale. King of the Hill also used the Virgin Walk meme from like 2019. We need to start making memes so toxic that they'll never show up in Disney owned TV shows.

>>719008472
Agreed.
>t. 2004 underage

>>718971285
Worse, it's a failed normie website, virgins and losers thinking they're better than other virgins and losers because they followed the popular kid in high school.

>>719007869
>more and more the conversations just seem borderline schizophrenic
It's actually insane. I feel others are actively disconnected from reality or just making shit up in an attempt to be funny or something.

>>719008657
>We need to start making memes so toxic that they'll never show up in Disney owned TV shows.
I doubt any old shit involving stronger slurs like double nigger would hit mainstream media

>>719007869
I recently got into an argument with a blatant ESL poster that kept getting worse and worse grammar the more it went on to the point it was barely comprehensible, and he just kept accusing me of being born in 1999. I don't even mind ESL posters per se but it was one of those ones where you truly and honestly could not understand what the fuck he was trying to say and he just kept doubling down on 1999 like he somehow perfectly saw through my screen and was able to identify me.

>>718972584
I absolutely hate zoomers coming to 4chan who have no idea about the culture and are proud of it. They believe a reaction image is avatarfagging and double down when being called out, they're proud in their ignorance, never encountered anything like it.

>>718971386
I joined in 2011 and 4chan was only good for a couple of years and became complete shit ever since. I'm sure others think the board was already shit back then, I thought it was the sweet spot when looking at older shit from like 2003.

>>719003920
I don't think Hiroshima knows or cares about RapeApe's agenda, since he only cares they keep doing it for free and that's all.
You could send him a mail to let him know about your worries, maybe it would help in some way, but it would have to be on Japanese so nothing gets lost in translation.

>>719009273
I joined in 2023 and really, 4chan has been pretty fun so far

>>718971719
>There are accounts on twitter that will just take screenshots of threads on here to repost for clicks
There are even Youtube channels that make FAKE 4chan posts made up by AI and post them, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and audiences who unironically believe that they are reading a real 4chan post.

>>718971386
It’s called growing up m, maybe try it sometime kiddo

>>718971386
Phoneposters can't make OC, they can only post images they have saved. The entire internet is shit because the phone is optimized for consuming and sharing, but not creating, content.

>>719009273
I've been here since 2005 and late 2007 - 2009 was actually kind of like a mini dark age where the site got flooded with new people that clearly didn't give much of a shit. 2010 - 2013 was like the site rediscovering itself and was a lot better than those years, then shit derailed again.

>>718971097 (OP)
Modern boxed games are just a voucher for redeeming online anyways. Unless maybe you're playing with a plastic toy console. But even some of those work that way too.

>>719009602
>2007 - 2009 was actually kind of like a mini dark age
The amount of disgusting tripfaggotry in those years was absolutely unbearable. Half the site was completely shat up by narcissists.

>>719009721
I'm so grateful tripfaggotry fell out of style. It's probably the only situation on /v/ that improved with time.

>>719009480
What the fuck was the purpose of that last comma?

>>719009721
Bro has seen it all. The stories he could tell

>>718971386
>current year 4chan users making something new

>>719009401
The thing is that you could post just about anything on 4chan and pass it off as a "real" post, like someone sharing some life story or whatever. It might obviously be fake and gay, but no one watching such videos on YouTube would ever bother checking archives or whatever, so having AI whip up some greentext is just cutting the middleman when it comes to looking for posts or faking it yourself.

>>719001092
>I gotta admit that I yesterday talked about Christianity that had nothing to do with vidya(except few mentions of the satanic panic censorship and complaining about vidya) and religion in the fish blob thread and didn't get warning or ban.
That was a genuinely good discussion on a genuinely good thread. Glade the mods let it exist for a time.

>>719006653
Don’t do it.

>>718997982
They spent the last decade since GamerGate trying to ban the far-right (and anyone they considered far-right) from public society harder and harder and look where it got them.

>>718971285
Lmao no one is ready to admit that we lost
4chan lost
Anime is the most popular animation form on earth
Gacha is front page on v
Kpop niggers ruined mu
Capeshitters and simps ruined TV
AI niggers are so invasive they have generals on almost every board
70% of threads here are Twitter drama
90% of OC comes from Reddit or Twitter now
Its over, 4chan lost and SJWs won
We got crushed under the wave

I would say make the OC but if it doesn't have anime tits or Twitter drama attached to it then /v/ literally doesn't care anymore

>>718977717
Habbo came before Gaia

~ t. Gaia immigrant and 2007 newfag

>>719006571
Ssshhh!! Don't tell anyone about arpanet, it's our secret club.

>>719011256
When did Moid shut down?
I remember seeing Mr. Hands on a sketchy link to moid.org

>>718975604
My grandma is 71 and she was complaining the other day about how facebook is just AI slop now

>>719011374
What's Moid? Maybe I left Gaia too early, because I don't remember anything called that.

>>719011224
What in the fuck is OC?

>>719002804
>Breast expansion literally goes outbounds
Just like in every modded game collisions are ignored

>>719009721
Damn that cat got a pretty high level

>>719011753
Lol, original content my new friend

>>719011753
donut steel

>the English language itself is adapting to adopt 4chan board culture
>10 years from now chapters of novels will be written in greentext

>>718976327
On instagram reels there's a whole category of posts all about anti immigration (mostly in europe) and the nigger word being spammed as memes with hundreds of thousands of views, likes, and DM reposts
There's a pretty sizeable audience for this sort of stuff, and the fact that the accounts that post this sort of stuff are quite big means there's a pretty sizeable portion of the zoomer audience that enjoys this sorta stuff

>>719011806
I hate to say it, but that post is pretty accurate. Just left out the literal paid marketing shills like nVidia, Blizzard, and Nintendo

>>719011914
Nothing about modern 4chan implies we won, nothing

>>719011894
It's hilarious that normal people now use incel while attaching any kind of meaning they can think of to it.

>>718971097 (OP)
I bet a retard replied to that with some kind of game keycard bullshit

>>719012112
To be fair there are very blatantly associated incel behaviors that if you can find one you can usually pull the thread long enough to find the incel

That is to say incels are a growing problem of male failure

>>718971097 (OP)
>be shitty company
>go bankrupt

>>718978218
>lost the game

>>719012515
incel just means virgin, everything else is made up to make it morally acceptable to punch down on them
>virgins have things in common
yeah no shit

>>718971097 (OP)
This tweet was such a vibe! Gonna buy some more GME stonks during market hours. To the moon! Diamond hands!

Let's begin

>>719012694
>everything else is made up
Sure, if you want to be pedantic the word incel simply means "virgin not by choice"
But if you live in the real world where words are associated with other words and ideas are associated with other ideas then there are things that are blatant incel behavior beyond just their failure to have sex
tl;dr??? f you say "foid" i know you're an incel, as an antagonistic relationship with women is a hallmark of the breed

>>719012953
Yeah like being cripples or mentally disabled.

>>719012953
I say it because it's all made up on the spot, every time you ask someone what is an incel they start saying stuff like a loser, someone who blames all women for not getting laid, then they add more shit on top like they only want to date supermodels and won't settle for anything else, they hate women, they probably abuse women, they have never seen a woman but also they catcall women on the street constantly and they commit terrorist attacks and bla bla bla.
What they're trying to say is that being a virgin makes you an irredeemable person who is intrinsically evil. You're just trying to find an intellectual angle to it when there is none, again probably just trying to find a loop so your morality stays intact.

>>719012953
I think if you're a virgin you're an incel and no matter how much a simp you are or how much you think you respect women, or even how much you shit on incels on the daily, that's what you are. The other stuff is secondary, being involuntary celibate is the main thing.

And another one

>>719013296
You'll have to elaborate lmao

>>719013306
>intellectual angle
Don't be anti-intellectual, and it's hardly intellectual to recognize that incel the word and incel the idea aren't intrinsically linked.
What you have is a lot of emotional baggage associated with the word incel when in reality the "incel" archetype is something widely observed by many, many firsthand accounts.
When you want to talk about a virgin most people say a virgin, when you're talking about "that type of virgin" we're all (hopefully) aware of the type (incels).

>>719013421
Yes, by definition virgins who try to have sex and fail are technically incels. Trying is key here but that's another conversation.

People think incels are evil because the most outspoken and well-known incels are at best the kind of men who sit online and talk about how they wish "femoids" would die and at worst school shooters.
People don't talk about virgins, they talk about Elliot Rodgers who go online and post hour long rants about how they failed to secure women yet again with 0 self reflection on what the root cause is.

Here's my hot take: Incels are usually their own worst enemy and the self-same reason they can't succeed with women in the first place.
It's important to identify why men are failing to be sexually successful before 18, in a school setting where literally everyone is going through puberty and looking to score at the same time.
That's a fundamental issue with the incel, or I guess in this case the "incel".

tl;dr everything associated with incels is what incels openly project for everyone to see

>>719013732
The mentally and physically disabled consistently have issue when it comes to romantic relationships. They are often celibate due to no choice of their own but solely the disabilities they bear.

>>719013862
Yeah, and those are technically incels but in common parlance you'd probably just refer to them as virgins.
Incel implies the root of the cause is the individuals personality, not their disability. Wheelie folk still find other wheelie folk and get laid.

>>719013923
>Incel implies the root of the cause is the individuals personality,
No it doesn't. The disabled are the very origin for the term incel.
A bit like how body positivity started out as being for the scarred and disabled before turning into fatty cuddling.

>>719014029
Again, we're talking parlance.
If you want to be pedantic yes, anyone who can't have sex is technically an incel.
In a normal, informal setting the idea of incel takes precedence over the definition of incel. I've already gone over this.

But with my experience on the internet being longer than a month, it'd be hard for me to look at a cripple and call him an incel when we both know he isn't a virgin because he does or doesn't hate women.

>>718971097 (OP)
nah I kind of agree with Gamestop here
they're not inherently wrong because they're a corporation

>>718971207
I'm going to presume you're evading a 1 month ban after leeposting

ONE MORE!
DEATH TO WOJAKS!
DEATH TO PEPES!
DEATH TO ISRAEL!
GLORY TO OC!

>>718971097 (OP)
I agree that digital games are a huge rip-off in most cases, there might have been a tiny honeymoon period where they actually made digital games cheaper with the discs not being made being the excuse but it's gone now. Digital games ate whatever profit margin was saved by not printing discs and now they're full priced.

On the other hand is it really worth filling landfills with plastic slop like NIGGERBALL2K26

>>719014256
That's solely because incel got coopted into "man I don't like" it is devoid of most meaning as happens far too often when the masses mindlessly use any term.

>>719015040
Yeah, and I already told you that common parlance is what determines meaning in a social non-formal setting.
People associate shitty traits with incels because incels most commonly display these shitty traits.

>>719015325
No people associate shitty traits with incels because it gets used as a term for people they dislike.

>>719015563
No, people associate these traits with incels because they're the most common incel traits.
A "Jew" technically means someone who is ethnically Jewish, but how do you think they feel about money?

>>718971386
who fucking cares you idiot

>>719016102
>WHY DO YOU CARE
Anon, you lack a soul

>>719015734
There are no incel traits. That's the whole point. The way this term is used is merely a method to devalue people and allow them to ignore anything they say instead of engaging with it.

>>718978306
Wojak is a rageface fellow eternal newfag.

>>719016175
>There are no incel traits.
I can't engage with such a dishonest statement.

>>719016102
I'm not sure if you are under like 22 or are just trolling, but there are people who have been here for almost 20 years. I'm a newfag(2011 was first time I actually posted on 4chan but I had been using internet from like 2002) so I can't really comment too much on old 4chan.
Still I think it is important to try and actually fit in even a bit, and respect culture of the site or community you enter.
I don't know if you have a community or site you hold dear, but if you do I doubt you would like people trying to change it's culture to fit their own preferences rather than trying to fit in.

>>719016416
>I'm not sure if you are under like 22 or are just trolling, but there are people who blah blah blah

buying?

>b9f.gif
Try and upload files with Discord or Reddit filenames instead of kym default to be bit more convincing if you are gonna troll.

>>719016416
>>719016515
honestly i dont know why you expected anymore from a shitposter
he posted to get a rise out of you

>>719016868
I just want to believe in good in people.

>>719000720
I don't think I had a streak longer than one month these last two years. I automatically think of *it* whenever I see "the game" even in normal sentences.

>>718978218
I laughed after 7 years, I WON

>>719011902
I don't think it's anything more than just being "edgy"/ironic for the majority, just like the whole "Uoooh" trend, though there might be a sizable minority which actually is tired of negro worship. I know few people who are just like that, but don't they engage with politics in any way and get very uncomfortable if someone actually starts discussing right wing ideas about issues like immigration or crime rate.

>>718971386
the sharty are the ones spamming said shit, any normal being uses actual vidya images as reactions

>>718980007
>gf

>>718971207
Bong is preparing to post for when they lose access to 4chin.

I'm happier than ever to be completely honest with you guys.

>>718980007
That pic seems bit projecting or a cope for some doormat behavior and making socializing and trying to "be nice" your whole personality. It is very self-harming attitude, I can tell from experience.
And no, doesn't mean you have to become rude gigachad who treats other like shit or something, but don't stretch yourself thin for others and then complain.

If you do good and nice deeds only so you can expect something in return, then you should do some self-reflection. You should do nice and good things because you feel like it and it gives that warm feeling in your chest(the nice kind, not heartburn kind).
If (You) relate to that pic, then I genuinely recommend getting a proper hobby and interacting with people on more level and adult way. And actually talking about your feelings with someone, even if just anonymously if you genuinely believe you have to fake being happy.
Actually that point is funny with
>doesn't understand why people lie
When (You) lie to your family and friends. Do you genuinely think they are happy that you li- oh wait "fake" you are happy(because (You) would NEVER lie(ffs)).

Seriously.

Stop making your life about other people.

>>718971097 (OP)
im not buying anything

>>718971386
Frog website.

>>718971207
Your Grade: C+

its funny how people say /a/ is overmoderated but there is no off topic threads or twitter screencap threads.

>>719024142
Is there AI generals?

>>719024645
I dont think so

>>719024645
Nope. Sometimes people post AI stuff on threads but it isn't widespread like /v/.

>>719024834
>>719024878
Why can't there be a containment board? I'm fine with cross posting, but not full on generals. It's not vidya. At least the Claude people have an excuse.

>>718971097 (OP)
Why do you care? Corporations and normalfags using wojaks, gigachads, and pepes don't stop any of you from continuing to post them instead of making actual oc.

>>719011224
truthnuke

someone call them up and ask if they have Battletoads

>>719024959
shut the fuck up chud and enjoy the pajeet slop

>>718976327
Imagine thinking that racism or racist jokes are a new development on the internet and not the norm since 1998

Wow who could have guessed that a community of social outcasts and children would act racist under the guise lf anonymity and with the reward of attention?

>>719008470
>>719002047
Pepe is literally a normalfag twitch.tv emote, an entire series of them. Your tactics and cope don't work.

>>718971386
>you still see that rancid shit spammed everywhere here
Because it is the kids. Kids who probably have crippling autism.

why is gamestop pretending to be the savior of physical games when they spent decades destroying not only their stores reputation with all the merchslop but also physically destroying a fuckton of game discs over the years.

I wish I could leave this site but I'm stuck here watching it slowly rot away just like my life. I miss pre-2016 4chan.

>>719026046
when their stock was pumped by reddit it blew newfound confidence into their brand. they're still shit though and missed the point that the only reason it got any support at all was because people were trying to bet against a bunch of trust fund assholes and they were merely a medium through which a transfer of wealth could happen.

>>718971386
OC, in 2005? You're a madman

>>718971207
Enjoy your endless 120 and 300 second cooldown timers.

>>719008470
that doesn't work because its pronounced "may-may"

>>719025098
I had forgotten about 9gag. Thanks dickfuck

>>719025098
now we have to put up with ironic, passive aggressive LEs just because reddit stole some jokes over a decade ago.

>>719026632
Nah it's pronounced "my-m".

>>719024834
>>719024142
>>719024645
There will be soon. J/a/nnies have been gradually letting more and more aislop related threads stick around every day. Currently one-offs about """""""""""""""""""anime""""""""""""""""""" generated by aislop or using aislop to generate in-betweens and weird offshoot animations from anime/manga stills. I don't see it going any direction but eventually being just like here: with daily ai generals on a board that doesn't allow generals otherwise.
Also the only people who claim /a/ is "overmoderated" are the ones whose wojaks/pepes/twitter screencap threads get deleted.

>>718976327
the smoke detector meme is fucking everywhere now, they call it the hood crickets

>Word is "meme"
>Isn't pronounced "me-me"
Explain this shit.

>>718976327
>still can't say the n word
ironic.

>>718971386
Zoomers have no creativity, skills or drive to do anything that requires minimal effort. You can observe how zoomer culture today is devoid of soul or organic growth. It is always a jew pushing an agenda and they gobble it up.
The rise of phone posters was the nail in the coffin.

>>719001092
Its the mod team pushing those, with the fucking swarm of bots until it has enough traction to keep existing on its own
Just like whatever AAA paid for a spot on page 1, who can actually shitpost the same over and over but bots?
Every fun thread either gets nuked, hunted down or auto saged
Infinite was a better experiencr but what is the worst thing in all of this, is that anons are to adicted to fast paced (you)s even if they are filled with insults or are just bot replies

>>719001293
I was wondering what happened to those threads
Anon, i can only thank you for being awesome
Those were one of the few good threads not only on this board, but this site

>>719025607
Imagine being brown lmao

>>719024142
lmao bull fucking shit. /a/ quality went down the drain because I saw a twitter thread get to 500 because it was the same guy posting the same shit over the course of three days. almost unheard of years ago
second, /a/ has its own issues where they're still blaming /v/ when they need to take care of their own issues like the dogshit shounen generals plaguing the board

>>719028318
I'm not good at doodling, but I did doodle certain snek few times.
Also I made this for one of the STP threads which was fun.

Jannies started killing creativity when they made the push to every topic be contained in a general.

>>719028612
The mod team is fucking cancer spreading even outside 4chan, pushing their db "memes" on every site they can monetize
Of course /a/ is also a no man's land

>>719028718
Actually I went back to check stuff on the thread that other people made and realized that the thread was nuked even back then
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/544337162/
I seriously don't understand why mods hate those threads specifically out of all off-topic threads on this site.
webm related cracks me up to this day.

>>719014889
You can just use the banned page to check your banned status, posting isn't necessary.

>>718971097 (OP)
>pay $80 for a physical copy
>the servers are offline and it requires a connection to play
wow so much better

>>719029741
Threads like these ARE what defined 4chan as a site, people having fun trough the use of media and pics
This is what "generates" OC, this simple fun is what we're missing

>>719030354
It honestly sucks because I enjoy creating stuff but it is what it is. The hate mods have towards StP threads is the strangest thing on this site. Like out of all things, an OC thread where people draw stuff gets nuked. Like some of them(after checking archive) got nuked instantly like 10 messages in.
Also please don't post my old doodles I recognized it from thumbnail and instantly wanted to kms for few seconds. I first doodled that but even then felt embarrassed after posting and made the Doom webm
Pic rel however is the best piece of art I have ever made.

>>719031037
Everything has to end so
>Maybe one day everything will get better
After 4chan eventually just becomes an actual bot central, then someone will make an actual replacement
funny how many artists regret their "old" art
it is awesome don't be ashamed of it

>>718997397
>can't use the word jews
You are part of the problem

>>719009401
I mean depending on your perspective it can be kind of comforting to know 99% of the stats on youtube are complete bullshit and don't correlate to any actual viewership.