4chan's traffic tanked after 2020. Glowies say "it's because 2016 election tourists left", but where were the new election tourists? What about other websites?

Give it to me straight /x/...
Everyone fucking died, right?. The internet is not dead because the number of bots increased but because the number of people decreased, isn't it?

We can disagree on the cause. The virus, the vaccine, some other bullshit... but let's not distract ourselves from something most of us can agree: Way more people died than reported. You can feel it everywhere go. Both online and in real life.

>>40714640 (OP)
> real people died with the jabs
> now only NPCs exist
> bots mostly

>>40714640 (OP)
I mean the quality of threads now are in the trash can, and not just /x/ but the whole site. I'm pretty sure most of the old userbase migrated to twitter, or just lurks now.

>>40714640 (OP)
In part. The rest ran. Everyone saw it coming a mile away. Emails were sent out for those in the know. A war is happening. Right underneath your nose. And I don't just mean the subterranean tunnels. Your little videogames were fun, but real life is a lot more serious. Drones. Robot armies. Power brokers. Space travel. Pawns, and kings. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
https://youtu.be/E-_JcJiUOII

>>40714640 (OP)
4chan's metrics are declining in general, why do you think they got rid of IP counters? Most of the threads and posts nowadays are schizos spamming the same thing over and over. 4chan has no relevance any more, in large part because of the election tourists who've destroyed the site's culture over the past decade. We have no influence, no creativity, no humor. We are destined to rot away until the server costs finally outweigh the generated ad revenue and hiro pulls the plug. The sooner the better, quite frankly.

>>40714655
Doomsayers unironically deserve hell. You're acting as satan's pawn and feeling pride in it.

>>40714671
Can't handle the truth?

>>40714681
It doesn't matter if it's the truth or not. Doomsaying is purposefully spreading negative thoughts in a way that it's ONLY sole purpose is to generate fear and anxiety in people. You don't offer and resolve, you don't offer and calming words inspiring hope, you only offer fear and anxiety.
You know exactly what you're doing, rot in hell.

>>40714671
The moment anything threatens your power you immediately demonise it. Literally and figuratively. Predictable. A weakness. You know, a member of the clergy hurt me, when I was very young. I will feel nothing as I exterminate every single one of you. In the end, the only thing that matters is who comes out on top. Even if that means over piles of your bones.
https://youtu.be/ppQWYU2B7x8

>>40714640 (OP)
There are no more than ten thousand people sharing this instance of the internet with you.

>>40714720
I'm not even a Christian you schizo... After reading your message I'm pretty sure you're just an edgy and confused child, so I retract my statement about you deserving hell. I hope you figure it all out before you get too old.

>>40714720
whoops me and my dad chose the green ending looks like you're our spaceships now

>>40714754
Too late now. I'm an old man. A weapon's expert. A manipulator, a liar, a coward, and a bastard. For the first time in your miserable existence, you'll be 110% right. An actual fucking Devil has come. To drag you, and everyone you love, to Hell with it. I won't let you "retract". That arm is mine, and I'm going to rip it off and EAT it.
https://youtu.be/tT0XXhfXYnU

>>40714771
There's no way you're not a child lol, if you're actually an "old man" then you must be Indian.

>>40714640 (OP)
they all got psyopped in 2016
stopped questioning
joined discord and reddit and became normies

>>40714792
https://youtu.be/BQo_mJnUxv0

>>40714801
What's next, are you gonna show me your badass phonk playlist?

>>40714765
Piss off Luciel. These are mine.

>>40714656
>Most of the threads and posts nowadays are schizos spamming the same thing over and over
Schizos? You mean eglin and other bot niggers running bots? Why do you gotta gaslight like that, claiming it's anons spamming? You're so full of shit lmao

>>40714640 (OP)
Jannies killed this place

The moderation got too harsh and people left

>>40714640 (OP)
You expect the new generation to read? They get all their information from short form social media. Your post is almost an entire paragraph!

/x/ has been dogshit for literally years.
4chan as a whole died a fittingly undignified death when /b/ finally drowned under the flood of porn spam, funnily enough.
/pol/ remained the still beating heart since that's where most of the aging btards went but even that was stopped by the great tide of election tourists.

>>40714640 (OP)

I felt it since late 2021. The world just suddenly started vibing like a ghosttown. I see people, but it still feels empty. Moat online ate either bots or demons, I noticed this in the same year.

I guess the simulation lost a good bit of the real ones. IDH why.

>>40715638

*most *are *IDK

>>40714640 (OP)
OP, captchas killed the internet. It is not just 4chan.
People stop visiting sites when they have to fil captchas. Bots, on the other hand, can solve captchas easy. So most sites are filled with bots now.

>>40714640 (OP)
demons, all of /x/, much of /pol/; it isnt bots its demons in demonically possessed hosts. Im honestly sort of in psychosis on 4chan right now in that its exhausting telling who is an isnt a demon outright (with time its easy though). Maybe the hobby boards have more actual people? idk. The world is getting demonically owned right now

>>40715799
Yep, definitely demons. It couldn't be that your average person is now an autistic half-tard that is told that celebrating their mental illness is a good thing and isn't being taught any real world skills in school and then being sold into a lifetime of crippling debt to jewish overlords. Nope its demons.

>>40715799
How big is my demo?

>>40714771
OOH, scary. You have an awfully high opinion of yourself for someone who hasn't managed to nail the first and hardest lesson.

ITT: noone answers the question, where do we go next? Psychic esp image boards? Tik-tok scrying?
I really want a place where i dont need to make an account
IRC channels? But even that is a step backwards from imageboards

>>40716217
We leave this fake simulation. Start contacting those ayys

...

>>40715799

I agree, but honestly I think most do not need a host to interact with the net.

>>40716217
start reading books

Lots of people died.
However the problem with the internet currently is that the dopamine hit of high traffic 4chan is gone.
That’s now the dopamine hit of instagram reels, and the dopamine hit of TikTok.
The truth is that the framework for high intensity dopamine was accidentally created on 4chan.
Then copied.

Now it’s the modern devices that have the dopamine hits of 4chan but without the spectrum of thought 4chan had.

Free speech was the front to entice people.

Now “free speech” is the domain of Reddit, pay walled behind Israeli intelligence firms that harvest your data and identity.

Same thing that happens here but with the privilege of longer video uploads with sound.

>>40716712
Jesus Christ I mean twitter not Reddit.
Reddit died first, then tumblr, now the chans.
The shutdown really killed it too.

>>40714640 (OP)
The cringe "nobody" larp generals were the final nail in the coffin.

>>40716830
Really the push for general threads was a big issue.

the internet is now managed differently than it was in the past, at the routing level.

>>40714640 (OP)
The traffic is bigger than ever and it's for the worse. At least here, I don't browse other boards. I've been an /x/ purist from the start. Chronic losers, blatant larpers, pseudo-spiritual subhumans and lobotomized christcuck doomer boomers have taken over /x/. I don't recognize this board anymore. The moderation has no interest in quality control and I frequently catch it deleting actually paranormal threads.
It's only natural that people with genuine interest in the paranormal, the occult, the mysterious have begun to increasingly avoid this diseased place that resembles a mental asylum where the patients constantly scream at each other.

>>40714715
Assholes that give false hope through toxic positivity are no better. At least people can prepare to get hit instead of being blindsided.

>>40714640 (OP)
aight

>>40714724
Seriously what happened to the comments sections all across the Internet? An old, popular video has only 20 comments and only 5 of them are displayed? And the entire surface web is like that now?

>>40714640 (OP)
None of you will believe my story but it's because of me. I convinced the lurkers through syllogism producing bait that the site is loaded with bots, intelligence ops, and general illwill that is damaging their potential as they browse. Which is true.
But it's impossible for something so simple to have killed the site.

>>40721400
>useful idiot falling victim to solipsism
many such cases

>>40714640 (OP)
I think it has something to do eith infinity chan refugees who migrated back here. They've turnee everything political. It used to be us vs the man and now it's all about being more based/sociopathic/larping. 10 years ago there was no reason to be here other than curiosity. Nowadays 4chan is the only website with free speech. The rest of the internet fled here and lowered the quality of the website. Sure there's less people now than 10 years ago, but that's because oldfags fucked off to Telegram and shit.

>>40722650
Are you blind to glowfags?

>>40715638
Our reality jailbreak generals / outer heaven seemed like the last time real anons came together here. All forums feel like they're populated by bots and dead people.

>>40715799
>The world is getting demonically owned right now
I think the same too. I'm starting to believe CERN really was opening portals that let demons spawn into our realm.
I think it's also linked with the generalisation of stabbing attacks and other violent assaults. as if more and more of the population is demon-possessed, or even replaced by demons, idk. I hardly recognize the world I used to live in

>>40714640 (OP)
You understand NOTHING about the hivemind.
When there is no opportunity for lulz, the hivemind operates in its default modality. Bottom-tier quality shitposting.

When the hivemind is activated by lightning-in-a-bottle, that is when the swarms seed like locusts

see:
habbo hotel
project chanology (cringe af but example)
gamergate
pizzagate
pepe 2016

the hivemind never activates for a true moral purpose, it activates for chaos and lulz which sometimes intersects with a teleological order

>>40723000

I think this place is a demonic dreammatrix.

>>40714640 (OP)
The site got astroturfed too hard and people fucked off.

>>40721681
Perhaps I was lead to water, but it does not matter to me. I did the work and I did it fairly well. I baited the glowies and their assets.
It wasn't sollipsism, it was awareness only possible for an existentialist.

Nah. You can tell there are still a lot of people because every day when Daily Dose of Internet posts another mid clip compilation video, millions of people watch it.

If the population wasn't so large, there's no way that many people would bother watching those videos.

>>40723001
>pepe 2016
more like pepe and goyjak forever and ever

>>40723512

Cough cough bots and demons cough cough.

Been here since 07-ish only browse occasionally nowadays. There was definitely an enormous shift in general culture post mobile phone revolution, and then again with the election tourism, in which every edgy 16 year old in the world was advertising 4chan on their socials to spread hekkin based Trump/Kek memes.
One nice thing about 4chan getting taken down for a week was that all the board stats got exposed. This site has definitely declined severely in activity, and looks lower than the stats that moot talked about during one of his send off podcasts, which is pretty grim.

Basically, election tourism spreads like wildfire, /pol/ shit up every board to the extreme, a ton of people leave, election tourists eventually leave, neither come back, you've got what we have now.
Also, the nature of the boards are just different. Most discussion about anything serious is relegated to generals a lot of the time, pretty sure 90% of /x/'s daily activity is in succgen, nobody gen, and the christ-cuck gen.

As for your "theres just less people alive" theory, its factually incorrect. There are more real people on the internet than ever, its just that 4chan's old culture is gone, and the people left with it, on top of that the vast majority of real people on the internet congregate on like one of 3, maybe 4 sites.

In a way, when you think about how congregated in a few places everyone is, plus AI and botnets running rampant over everything else, the internet at large really is dead.

>>40714640 (OP)
Most of us oldfags got fed up with the rightoid politics spam that came with the zoomer invasion.
Old 4chan:
>Make a thread about a topic on its specific board
>You'll get replies focused on that topic from people who engage with the board's subject matter and are knowledgeable in it
>Lots of shitposting but everyone has at least a basic understanding of what's being discussed

New 4chan:
>Make a thread on idk, /lit/ about a book you like or /a/ about a manga you're into
>Thread gets maybe 1 or 2 replies and both of them are going to accuse the work of being "woke" or "DEI" or call you a tranny
>If you reply to them your thread will go on for 200 posts of just back and forth insults and chudjaks being spammed
>If you don't reply to the politics spam your thread just dies with zero real discussion
>No one on any board actually engages with the subject matter, it's all just different catalysts for forcing their shitty political views

There's no conspiracy here it's just that Hiromoot refused to moderate the site for far too long and people left for better curated hobby websites or platforms like Twitter where you can curate your own feed.

>>40723675
*hugs*

>>40723697
We can truly thank that Jap for giving Rapeape and his goons the means to push /pol/ into every board.

I think it’s a combination of things, mostly that the larger psyop worked and people are way more inclined to hover around on social media than anywhere else because it’s faster. I also think a lot of 4chan’s core user base got tired of it being ground zero for whatever fuckery. I’ve been on this site on and off since 08. It got really bad just before and during gamergate, and then the 2016 election was so miserable that I thought the site was dead for good. I genuinely think the answer is that in the 2010s 4chan was one of the largest propaganda tools (especially of the right) and they got bored with their new toy. I remembered recently that I actually got a hand written letter in the mail around peak gamergate that was basically a “hitler did nothing wrong” infodump pack from an anonymous sender, and it seemed to be aware I had at least been exposed to gamergate rhetoric. I have no idea who it was from or how they got my info, but after over ten years my sneaking suspicion is certain individuals on this site were targeted to spread RW talking points, especially conspiracy-oriented ones into the general culture. Now they don’t need 4chan to do that, the bot infrastructure is complete and AI in the comments section can do that job just fine, on a much wider scale and to a much larger demographic of people. Those extra users weren’t just tourists, a lot of people now are straight up addicted to arguing politics in circles on the internet.

>>40724129
>I remembered recently that I actually got a hand written letter in the mail around peak gamergate that was basically a “hitler did nothing wrong” infodump pack from an anonymous sender, and it seemed to be aware I had at least been exposed to gamergate rhetoric.
If it was between 2013 and 2020 Gamergate talking points became the standard Conservative talking points during that period. I doubt someone was targeting you it was probably just some local Nazi spreading it all around your neighborhood to every white person's house. Depends where you live I guess but in America literally every right-wing grifter picked up Gamergate lingo to pander to the zoomers.

>>40724168
This was probably around 2012, I remember laughing and feeling like it felt like something from Hotline Miami - you’re not wrong though, however there’s a reason they adopted that sort of rhetoric. Bannon literally funded some of the earlier gamergate talking heads. I could see arguing that the establishment right got involved later but I have distinct memories of how artificial a lot of the threads felt, on /v/ especially. Even back then it felt like a viral marketing push of some weird sort to me, so I left sometime in 2013 for almost all of the rest of the 10s. I didn’t really think about politics at all back then but it reeked of something being “off.”

Ironically enough I actually think most boards are somewhat decent now, but they’re just a lot slower than they’ve ever been with a lot less creativity and variation in the topics. I can’t deal with social media anymore so I don’t mind the slower pace desu. I welcome any alternative at this point.

>>40724129
literally every social media you cant have actual discussions or relationships, its all attention seeking single posts and stuff like that, imageboards are the only public social media where talking to people can happen; hence its been taken over totally by demons.

There are people on this board who thinks that "integrating the anima" is to turn into a homosexual.
There are people on this board who take a ton of drugs and still can't see, touch and interact with spirits, demons, and/or tulpas.
There are people on this board who cringe in fear when they see a black cube, and immediately associate it with zionists.

Let that sink in.

>>40723697
>moderate boards
>receive harrassment from 6 different intelligence agencies
>stop moderating
>allow glowies to take the moderating roles
>receive money
>forget about 4chan

>>40717854
i think we got too many leakers so they instated a scorched earth approach. they really don't want people talking about the technology.

>>40723001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdVnBxJtto

>>40723675
In my experience, a lot of people that bailed to 8ch with GG ended up violently hating the internet in general and go out of their way to avoid it, with the handful that still use imageboards are mostly there to find things that seem fun rather than having a perpetual stick up their ass about this or that. Doesn't help the current "vocal minority" across the site seems to be normalfags who think the major boards are nothing more than /pol/ but with [topic] and also hate anime

>>40714640 (OP)
it died when trump got elected for the first time and kikes caught wind of the site

>>40725313
simple as. pedogate didn't help.

>>40714640 (OP)
>The virus, the vaccine
There was no virus. It was a psyop. It was just the flu from the very beginning.
>Way more people died than reported. You can feel it everywhere go
Yes, most uneventful genocide in history, but also a lot of people fucked off to Discord, Telegram, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit etc. A lot of people have formed closed communities because of the nature of doxxing and cancel mobs. Not everyone can withstand the gangstalking that comes with having a truthful opinion on the internet.
>Both online and in real life.
Lockdowns broke a lot of people, it created more terminally online people than ever before and the soviet era communist whisper network nature of "the pandemic" makes socializing difficult because of the aforementioned cancel culture. Why risk saying something that offends the party and getting sent to the gulags when you can just be a shut in and watch netlfix 24/7.

>>40716141
Ooh ooh! I know this one!

Stop lying [to yourself]. (be honest, especially to yourself)

>>40716041
>your average person is now an autistic half-tard
demonic inspiration in the engineering of the food and medical systems
>told that celebrating their mental illness is a good thing
demons notoriously teach inversion
>isn't being taught any real world skills in school
demons want people ignorant and helpless
>sold into a lifetime of crippling debt to jewish overlords
demons want people enslaved

>it's demons

oldfag here
I left because it was boring and nothing was happening anymore. Meme magic was the peak and after that it was gone. I left shortly after but I came back because things happened.

>>40714656
Nah the mods are obviously complacent at spamming the site with leftism. They do the 1pbtid threads which never get deleated.

>>40716041
It is demons though.

>>40726506
But where is there to go on the net?

>>40725456
>There was no virus. It was a psyop. It was just the flu from the very beginning.
This is the psyop they pushed to stop people talking about what they were doing in their work with the Wuhan lab. I remember it too, as the covid threads became more and more dire the posts saying there was no virus and it was all a psyop started coming in. It seemed like denialist cope at first but in retrospect it was just another psyop itself to muddy the waters as they realized the magnitude of it all. That said, the virus itself is clearly either nowhere near as dangerous as they were hyping it up, or is going to be a long term killer (I remember 5 to 15+ years being thrown around in /CVG/ for how long it might take) which will make its effects virtually unnoticeable in every day life. The virus might also be causing some of the "increased all cause mortality" they've been blaming exclusively on the vaxx for a while now.

That said, the fact that flu cases reported for that year was way down and they blamed it on lockdowns, social distancing, and masks when these were barely followed and supposedly didn't really do anything anyways was skeevy as fuck

>>40715799
>The world is getting demonically owned right now
Yeah it's really scary.

>>40723697
I'm worried that after gen A that it will be humans in a vegetative state. Rip established evolution.

>>40714640 (OP)
They’re all mindlessly doom scrolling on TikTok and Instagram. I’ve killed entire days doing that. Sucks but it’s true

>Way more people died than reported. You can feel it everywhere you go. Both online and in real life.

And?
Not enough died if you ask me. I was expecting corpses mounting on major cities and you give me le "20 millions".

>>40726731
Ohhhh so that's where everyone went. Now youtube is spammed with shorts to appease the fried brains of caffeine addicts.

Yup, we're in hell. If you told me the new world order won, I would consider it.

>>40714640 (OP)
>Way more people died than reported.
Maybe, I know China started putting out fake numbers about half way through 2020 but at the same time American hospitals were bumping up the numbers of reported covid deaths when they could because it paid more.
>You can feel it everywhere go. Both online and in real life.
Real life honestly seems MORE crowded than before. Like there are more cars on the road and more people in the shops than before the pandemic. Online also feels just as busy if you go to the websites where everyone is. But there's way more suspicion with any given post that it might be a bot. As the bots get better it's going to become impossible to tell if it's a bot or not, too.

As for why this website in particular seems deader, as the number of active websites has shrunk and people have congregated around a few central hubs, it's hung on because it's the most active site filling a niche the large main-stream social media and forums won't. That said it's important to remember this place is very old, by internet standards. Its format isn't intrinsically appealing to phone users (most of the internet), it's very limited in terms of media sharing, and a good number of people drawn in by stories or memories of the old culture of chaos and whimsy find a place that's much more stagnant, politicized, and controlled, that a place once filled with the frenetic energy of an edgy and rebellious youth is now a scandalous battleground of the culture war, filled with mentally scarred old hands engaged in a seemingly endless meme war with moneyed interests, the wet splats of heavy shilling the only sound to be heard as shitpost after shitpost is fired across no-man's land.

>>40714640 (OP)
>Everyone fucking died, right?
Would you say the number of funerals you've gone to has increased significantly? Not the case for me.

>>40714640 (OP)
>I’m not here right now. I’m not here right now. This is all in my head.

>>40723697
You're mostly right in my opinion, to add to what you said
>find thread on an interesting topic
>make an effortpost about it
>it gets completely ignored
>later on see it screencapped and doing the rounds on facebook or twitter
>your effortpost got ignored by some media fag is making money off it anyway
>There's no conspiracy here it's just that Hiromoot refused to moderate the site for far too long and people left for better curated hobby websites or platforms like Twitter where you can curate your own feed
I don't think that explains it, there was a sudden internet death around 2012 or 2013 where things became lifeless over the course of a year all across the board, on every site, even in MMOs

I can tell almost immediately these days if a post was written by someone ''alive'' or not

>>40714640 (OP)
>Way more people died than reported. You can feel it everywhere go. Both online and in real life.
You mean the amount of shitskins and genetic trash spiked to a point where everyone with brains decided to finally leave the internet do something more productive with their lives. That's what most anons from 8ch did at the very least. Twitter and tiktok are just curated brainrot shill shit no different from the time r/thedonald flooded in. Just more degenerate and disgusting.

>>40728647

Hmm...so bots and demons took over around then? I honestly just started truly surfing the net by then, but i was young, so never noticed. But 2012-2014 were when a shift happened in general. Started going downhill and started to feel faker or something.

>>40728647
why don't you just screenshot your own effort posts and make money off it? lol

>there was a sudden internet death around 2012 or 2013 where things became lifeless over the course of a year all across the board, on every site, even in MMOs
Is that when you noticed forums and stuff starting to die out? The internet back then felt as alive as ever to me, but even then a lot of the old internet was already dead as people had moved on and abandoned small forums etc. for reddit/twitter.

This site is mostly bots and marketeers. They call it engagement farming, but there's actually a demonic aspect to it. Something called neuropolitics was brought up in some thread, and it may be linked to that https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/40698272/#40698460 . There's a reason they removed IP counters from this site, they don't want you to know how much of this site is just eglin botting

>>40714640 (OP)
> OP says everyone is dead now
> checks real estate prices
> checks rental prices
picrel

>>40729470
That doesn't debunk anything. When I went looking at housing there were like 3 that no one fucking lived in.

>>40714640 (OP)
Israeli bot farms shifted focus from demoralization / honey potting to full time PR.

I don’t think zoomers give a fuck about being puppets for Jew wars though. The only Abraham they fuck with is Lincoln

im staying til the lights go out or the site moves on spiritually somewhere else.
>>40714724
That's not so bad if true
>>40715424
>>40723462
This
>>40717063
Generals are just threads with topics that people want to talk about every day
>>40717854
Conspiracy counts too but it feels like there's a lot of disingenuous posts and loweffort propaganda
>>40726574
youtube

>>40730220
You're literally a propaganda bot or retard if you think jew bots are shilling on this site. it's like 99.9999999% anti-israel bots. i don't even think ive ever seen a nice thing said about israel on this site. god i hate you guys. nobody cares about israel or palestine. literally nobody cares about either country.

>>40730261
Then you've never truly spent time on pol

A massive amount of 4chan's traffic came from Israel over the past 15 years. Where no rabid anti-semites exist, they must be created, a la Kanye, to justify the increasing genocidal violence of the Zionist colonialist project.

>>40714648
This.

>>40728701
No, but I think perhaps the internet was gently segregated around then, perhaps into spheres of influence.

The MMO I used to play became lifeless very quickly, a lot of my old steam friends seemed to vanish or become unresponsive, the forums I posted on slowly became lifeless ...
>>40728772
Yeah they became less populated as reddit, twatter and facebook took over interactions between people, but there was more to it.

>>40716217
daobumbs

>>40723000
Crime rates have been rapidly falling before the migrant crisis. Now that the bad apples are being deported you should see crime return to normal.

>>40733333

>33333

Hmm....

Bump

>>40714640 (OP)
It's very interesting to me the amount of people talking about how le right wing destroyed the site. I got to /b/ and then found /x/ while underageb& at about 2008. Lots of happy merchents, first exposure to real antisemitism, and first reading of counter-MSM opinions, first time seeing the word nigger hundreds of times on one screen. Back then. On /x/ too when it could be remotely justified as tangential to /x/-related While the election tourists and Trumptards actually did fuck things up horribly, it's not like 4chan was ever some hugbox for diversity and acceptance. Quite the opposite. There have always been communists and other left people from "fringe communities" but the HRC liberalism posting was basically nowhere to be found.
What they're doing now is acting like this type of political posting isn't taking place under the same conditions. People are tired of a lot of the shit. Politics have been so "in your face!" for so many years that priorities have changed. The discussion is expanding in scope as a reaction to what has been going on. Not all of it is organic, quite clearly, but it is also not exclusively Americans or conservatives who push narratives on this site.
>i have never voted for trump and he's a fat fucking faggot but somebody who won't even say glownigger trying to tell everyone else that this used to be a happy place full of current liberalism ideals is both incorrect and flagrantly retarded.

>>40736795
And to add my last point because I hit post too early like a spaz
>all wrongthink has been cracked down upon and banned so hard and ubiquitous that people come here and get culture shock that it doesn't 100% agree with whatever the current narrative is. "It feels so fake!"
Yeah, I bet you do get a sense of dissociation when you find out the opinion you thought EVERYONE had was simply forced with bans and censorship instead of unanimously agreed upon.

>>40736795
>those 2016 election tourists were posting like this in 2008

>>40730261
This is what it feels like for jews when they find out sucking them off isn't actually popular and is rather enforced on every other site
>ahhh its all fake robots who disagree with me
>i just happened to go to the only site on the internet with any semblance of free speech and now people disagree with me???
>ahhhh everyone is a robot!

>>40714652
this is what happened most likely

also, not for nothing but yeah I suspect a larger than imagined subset of anons have died. Personal anecdote: I know two that have died in the last few years (car crash & suicide), irl friends that I know were posters too.

another aspect is, I don’t think there was actually 8 billion people to begin with. I think populations are inflated (variety of reasons like national pride, war mongering and posturing, for more economic or charity aid and so on). If this is the case then yeah, probably the good bakers went to green pastures like X or starting living adult lives with no time to post cuz kids and work and tired. The threads are DOG SHIT now like yeah sure 4chan was never good but there is some really shit tier threads being made. Whiny bitches mad at mommy type shit. Obvious AI slop threads. Multiple threads on the same topic, multiple times in the catalog. This is off putting to anyone returning and not willing to slog it and try to help boost the content. So this place is in a death spiral, but because it’s what it is, it will never die.

>>40736940
Unpopular opinion most likely but the biggest offender on repeat threads is Trans people. There needs to be a "change my gender" general or something because I dont hate them but theres just TOO many threads about it. All the time.
Slightly more popular opinion id imagine- the tripfags and LARPers also ruin everything they can get their hands on now instead of making one (1!) thread about it. Literally everywhere you go now theres at least one person posting
>I am literally lucifer himself hahaha watch as a spam my poorly written opinions everywhere with all the self importance and none of the associated ability!
Horrendous. It wasn't always so bad.

>>40730220
>Israeli bot farms shifted focus from demoralization / honey potting to full time PR.
Sorry but what does this mean? Full time PR, like what, just out right promoting Israel in every way or what? I find it weird Trump was all for releasing Epstein list during elections, but now that he's elected he's being very hush hush about it, it feels like a complete 180 to what he was saying earlier.

>>40718833
Hope is never false.
Get murdered. Blasphemer of Her.

>>40714640 (OP)
Some people died of the jab but nobody died of covid it was just the flu.

>>40732429
Picrel is quite the trvth nvke

>>40714640 (OP)
>4chan's traffic tanked after 2020. Glowies say "it's because 2016 election tourists left
Every website around the world tanked after covid you fucking moron, that was probably was in highschool during covid. Hence the retarded question.

>>40714652
My wife and I used to post here daily 16+ years ago.
We left because gookmoot and his trannyjannies let this site fall apart.
Kiwifarms is a better site for dropping slurs and twitter is decent enough if you want to shoot the shit and keep up with the news.

>>40740511
we get it you are a weak man

>>40724934
It's ironic because the people who left the internet didn't make things any better for themselves or anyone they only made things worse. Abandoning imageboards doesn't mean the government and corporations stop spying on you. It doesn't mean the corruption goes away. It doesn't get rid of smartphones and social media. All it means is there's less people to talk about these things online which is good for the system and the remaining are more isolated and less in number.
It's in a lot of ways no different than shutting your eyes and ears like the more conditioned normalfags.
But it's understandable. Things have taken a course for the worse and there's only so much garbage people can stand.

On the other hand even if things are worse now it's only become more important. Think about it. The imageboard population is decreasing year after year but the shilling and botting remains the same or worse. So the threat posed by site is the same even if the damage to the collective is severe.
If you want to win a game you want to control as many variables as you can. Anybody who has ever played games knows it's not the big things that make you lose it's the details. It's always some little detail you missed which ends up ruining a perfect plan which is why they created * as a psyop.

>retards invent and do anything to try to cope about falling for it again and voting for the dark government they allegedly hate and stop protecting literal pedophiles
two more weeks

>>40714640 (OP)
>election tourists
kek. 4chan went to shit around that time not because of election tourists arriving or leaving afterwards, but because around that time zoomers started pouring in. Generational replacement.

>>40724934
>Doesn't help the current "vocal minority" across the site seems to be normalfags who think the major boards are nothing more than /pol/ but with [topic]
You don't need to be a normie to be aware that /pol/ shittifyed the site. A lot of boards were/are unusable because most threads are "/pol/ but with [topic]" and the ones that are not like that get derailed onto that most of the time
>t.anon that left /ck/ because it's useless now. even the clasic memes on the video/webm thread where changed/used to /pol/bait the fucking thread

>>40718833
lmao theres the toxic positivity guy again. If you hate positivity so much why don't you kill yourself already, useless shitstain. Oh my bad, that would be something positive. Can't have that. Only cringy teenage moping is allowed here

>>40715424
more proof each day. What happens after the end of the written word?

>>40726731
this is what everyone is doing on their phone in public. I assumed it was email or messages for the longest time, but then I had the courage to stare. Also it takes seconds to write a reply, maybe 5 min for most email. Absolutely fucking unnerving how often people pull up the phone. There isn't even good shit online anymore.

I also tried the looping mental midget videos, and you can scroll for hours no problem if you've got no tasks. The algorithms are amazingly adept these days.

Try finding anyone in your life who recently completed an 800 pg book.

I'm gonna go an a limb and say like roughly half the posts on this site now are engagement ragebait slop shills of different varieties. There posts always read similarly, it's always some political/social bait that starts off with something to the effect of >why are [insert group that native channers identify with] so [negative descriptor]. Twitter threads, reddit threads, combative posters who seem to only come here to kick the hornets nest. It's constantly fucking shoehorned literally everywhere, it's like shareblue and correct the record all over again. And desu i do think there are a lot of dumb newfags because they are the ones who eat the engagement slop up. Of course bait has always exist but there is definitely a concerted effort to poison the well, and a lot of the smarter older anons have fucked off with age. I think the glowies are scared of the cultural powerhouse of 4chan and seek to curb and misguide it by essentially forcing as much low brow shitty bait social and political threads as much as possible, and I think it's multiple parties. Eglin AF Base obv, democrat shill orgs, seething brownoids spamming bbc, literal discord trannies, JIDF, anything to control thoughts to ruin meaningful engagement and subconciously railroad your thoughts down to one of two extremely retarded watered down normie ways of thinking, basic democuck shit and basic republicuck shit. I see posters on /pol/ all the time that are either A) pretending to be poltards to shift what /pol/s stances are, and B) extremely heavy handed obvious ragebait spam, recycled images and posts and all. This place definitely isn't the same anymore, normal smart based native anons are the vast minority of posters, the rest are dumbass zoomer newfags and shills.

>>40736795
>>40736808
By pretending to be retarded 4chan let vermin believe they were in good company. They believe saying words like nigger and praising Hitler is a revolutionary act because it triggers blue-haired feminists.

>>40714640 (OP)
I dont know anyone who died as a direct result of covid or the jab. Granted I have been a hikikomori for a couple of years now but I do have facebook still. If anything, the people using this site and pol in particular would be one of the least affected groups since they are typically loners with little to no social contact and therefore minimal exposure to the virus. A lot of us are neets too so there was nobody forcing us to get the shot either. If it feels empty then it is probably because many users simply left, probably for twitter. To my disappointment, they seem to have been replaced mostly by boomers

>>40742624
>because many users simply left, probably for twitter
Any dumb faggot, who left for twitter is another variation of NPC. Should have fucked off back to plebbit.

>>40714640 (OP)
Could be.
There's that Chinese defector lady who does podcasts/videos on what's actually going on with China, one of her podcast appearances got recommended to me a few days ago.
She claimed that China's population is overestimated by about 1 billion.
They can't all have been accidentally registered as alive and berthed.

Then there's interaction online.
Bots are everywhere, but between the bots you can read comments from two types of people.
1 type is normal, just guys shooting the breeze.
The second type is very weird. They're hyping up AI as the second coming of Christ.
They say shit like "DLSS balanced is better than native" and the only reason they can give for that lie is "it's AI, it's better", even though it's objectively not true.
They also quote ChatGPT as if everything it says is gospel, and use ChatGPT for Linux instructions knowing that it's mixing instructions from different distributions which when applied to their install WILL brick the system and force reinstall from scratch.
You can see it in real life too and I'm spiritual enough to tell: you can feel that these people are vaccinated.
Besides their jaundiced skin and glazed over expressions, there's not a single statement they make without citing AI or a media source. Not one.

As for whether these hylics are just a projection from the machine, holographs, or something else entirely, I don't know.
With your kind permission, I'd like to keep trying not killing myself over the inability to kill them for being subhuman slabs of sunterranean shit.

>>40726646
You're confusing one statement for another.
They never said that there never was a virus at all.
What they said was that the widespread occurrence of the virus was a false flag, that if there was a virus at all it was in the shots people took.
Shills and low IQ retards took that for "the whole thing was a hoax" as if that means the jabs were safe too.
The argument from the start was that covid-19 was a false flag to get you to take the bioweapon voluntarily out of fear and paranoia.

>>40714640 (OP)
jinx?

>>40714640 (OP)
The site sucks now because of bots and shills

>>40742764
No it sucks because of schizos like you.

>>40714640 (OP)
no, it was the fucking Sharty with their basedcalypse

>>40726780
American hospitals were openly killing at least hundreds of thousands a year for years before they got paid extra to give people the wrong covid treatments like forcing people on ventilators or giving old people even more dangerous meds than usual. Everything got shut down over a sickness that was killing less than the treatments.

>>40714640 (OP)
Boards have become unusable because the jannies delete all remotely interesting threads. Not talking about your thread OP it's pretty shit I have to say, but yeah jannies are heavily censoring all the boards since they are paid glowniggers, so anons have stopped effortposting. I know I'm not the only one noticing this.
Let them have it:
https://www.4chan.org/feedback

>>40742347
>everyone who disagrees with me is just pretending and, in fact, does agree with me.
Weird.

>>40740511
Kiwifarms is full of direction-brained chuds who orbit lolcows for a living. Oh, but you can drop slurs. How impressive.

>>40717854
Oath /x/ purist aswell i used to come here all the time before the pandemic and 2016 election, It was an actually good board for yapping about paranormal shit mods need to get a fucking grip

>>40714640 (OP)
The narrative has been completely censored and inorganic since 2020. All news is now bits and shills. This board is all bots. Every news story you hear now is 100% fabricated. Nothing about our current reality is real. Donald Trump controls the entire planet earth. The entire economy will be destroyed, crypto stocks all of it. Complete chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2xvePQ3ejo

All of you need to start nurturing the light on your own heart; then you won't need forums anymore.

>>40724934
>INSISTS everything is /pol/ and also doesn't like anime
Incredibly spot on. If anything those people trying to place themselves above the "vocal minority" of people who disagree with them are ironically just as nazi-adjacent as everyone else they accuse. They come to 4chan (on purpose! Nobody forces them) and hang out with supposed Nazis all day. They think they're different but in reality
>if a place has a bunch of nazis and you choose to stay, it was obviously never all that fucking offensive to you

>>40714652
where would i post? none of the threads are like they were back then. Most of you seem so mentally ill I'd rather not speak to you. At least the tulpa guys used to be kind of interesting now its basically all i can see on here, rping and weird cringe schizo threads.

Bump

>>40714640 (OP)
The internet isn't dead, its just becoming more and more unusable for actual people. This site is flooded with revanchist thirdies spouting the shit in their brains along with the bots that they coded, wrecking every discussion and destroying all discourse. You can still find decent people and opinions here but its largely flooded out and snowed under by the endless tide of shit-spewing so most people left.

>>40714640 (OP)
4chan's metrics are declining in general, why do you think they got rid of IP counters? Most of the threads and posts nowadays are schizos spamming the same thing over and over. 4chan has no relevance any more, in large part because of the election tourists who've destroyed the site's culture over the past decade. We have no influence, no creativity, no humor. We are destined to rot away until the server costs finally outweigh the generated ad revenue and hiro pulls the plug. The sooner the better, quite frankly.

>>40714640 (OP)
Yes

>>40714640 (OP)
No. 4cahn has always been a transient place. Most start out as little summer fags, grow up and move on, some linger and fade and a few of us are here forever (this is aside from the glowfags that slink around and work for RAND, CIA,KGB, DARPA,Tavistock,etc. They fancy themselves people controllers but I’m almost certain their personal lives are in ruin or non existent. Sad but anyway-).

I use Occam’s razor. Old users aren’t dead man. There’s no mystical reason other than people turning into normies. I wish I could be a normie but I ain’t cut out for it. Plus I can’t abandon you fags I have to tell the truth.

>>40714652
After 20 years I moved off site somewhere else. I still hang out here, visit boards and read threads while lurking but I don't participate as much. Quality has been bad for a while all around.

The real question is, who cares?

Engagement bots. 4chan fucked up with those. If they would have done what every social media website did in the 10s, train chatbots to align with the users, 4chan would grow but noooooo not out dear retarded moderation and admins, they use stock bots with libtard bias

The website died naturally and as it has a reputation it won't regrow.

>>40726755
Hell is jam packed with people... bumper to bumper traffic everywhere and the clouds in the sky are all smoke from what smells like tire and trash fires everywhere. It's so hot you can see the red hot oven atmosphere and everyone wears nothing but black.

Bump

>>40755336
That pic is just a depiction of how the underground bases operate

>>40714640 (OP)
They were all assassinated by the Mossad.

>>40757098
faggot trips like you are the reason shit threads still live.

>>40714640 (OP)
>Give it to me straight /x/...
Everyone fucking died, right?. The internet is not dead because the number of bots increased but because the number of people decreased, isn't it?

Yes. We are experiencing a population die off. It is subtle, but noticeable in every facet of life now. Anyone who doesn't notice it is just in denial. Or lying.

>>40716664
This is what I did, desu. Its actually quite nice.

>>40723697
Is that supposed to say nigger? Why is the word nigger blurred out?

Nothing gets responses except political or sexual content. People low effort just agree with things. Social media everywhere is apparently getting like this. The internet isn't dying cause of bots though. We're just not posting anything anymore. I guess we all just try to become youtubers now.