What are your thoughts on 4chan?

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/vg/, /vr/, and a couple porn boards get visited a couple time a week. /Fit/ can be fun for a laugh and occasional tips. /TG/ is amazing but I don't partake in tabletops at the moment. Of course I stay away from /b/ and /pol/. /V/...is pretty negative, but there's rare occasions where it's fun, like ys threadsm FE threads that don't devolve into Awakening waifu nonsense, SMT threads, and of course a good old fashioned Husbando thread (until they get one too many lewd pictures of Bowser...)

I honestly feel that the internet is a better place for having anon locations like 4chan to post. There's a lot of shit, but it can be a bit liberating to post stuff there, and you see people vent a lot of shit that they wouldn't do on boards like neogaf.

Anyone who posted or was amused by the anonymous confessions topic last month should at least have an idea as to why 4chan is appealing to so many.
 
I used to use a BBS we called 70.85.67.76 because "fuckface" was hard to get listed on other BBS's phone # directories. This was a Citadel, of course. If you don't know what that means you don't matter, so fuck right off. Anonymity is all well and good but I can't use a board populated by shitlords who have the freedom and inclination to argue against themselves without even having to fucking login and logout.
 
100% honest

I don't even know what it really is

never cared to go to something that sounds dumb and it just comes across as something associated with weirdos, trolls and losers.

I even avoid reddit, except for the porn subreddits.
 
The comic-book section can be pretty good, but it seems like most the stuff that amuses me gets filtered through to Neogaf anyway. So it reduces the need to go and hang out with the idiots there.
 
I lurk on a lot of chans but I like the smaller ones because it's easier to read and there's less idiots. I used to go a lot to /tv/ and /x/ but I don't go to 4chan anymore.
 
FelixOrion said:
Oh, there gonna be in-joke and funny moments in any sufficiently large community, but the sheer amount of purvasive memes and jokes that have leaked from 4chan to the greater internet concousness, and even the mainstream media, are so incredibly numerous.
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Though looking at that pic it's amazing how many of those memes represented are from the earlier days. Things lasted longer and were purely 4chan back then. Now everyone wants a meme to be web famous they are basically run into the ground and it becomes forgotten about in a week's time.
 
My first time going to 4chan, the first comment I read was this really inspiring response to some guys personal crisis. The comment actually moved me a little.

The respnse right below that was, at the time, one of the most vile, horrible things I had ever read.

Most everything else was just garbage nonsense, at least 1/3 of them trying to make jokes or references that weren't that good.

I feel like this sums it up nicely.
 
Valhelm said:
I have to disagree. Race is often really relevant to music (as much as it is to TV), and I've heard a lot of posters say in full sincerity that they believe Black people are usually better musicians than white people.

And /mu/ may have only encouraged /mu/core in 2011, but these days you'll be mocked pretty mercilessly if your most-played artists are dominated by Sufjan Stevens, NMH, or Death Grips. "/mu/ drone" is probably a more biting insult than pleb, right now.
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I guess it's not as prevalent as it used to be but I'd still argue that /mu/ is a) only decent in the absence of real competition and b) mostly concerned with a kind of indie arms race. You're more likely to see pop music on there than something really different.
 
I have a weird opinion on 4Chan. Honestly tried to browse through it, seems kind of unwelcoming, and I have no idea how it works--- but my boyfriend uses it as his main source of on the go-to information, which is, well, whatever works- he's usually super (like incredibly so) on top of a lot of information with Video Games and whatever.

It's something we don't like talking about though, because I just don't associate it with much good.
 
People tend to reduce 4chan to /b/ and /v/ and miss out on all the great boards.
/po/ (not to be confused with /pol/) is one of the best ressources available for Papercrafting and Origami, /tg/ might just be the best place on the internet to talk about rpgs. Their homebrew output is absolutely staggering.
Many generals in /vg/ are the most comprehensive ressource for their respective videogame.
I also enjoy /diy/, /out/, /n/ and to some extent /g/ (which unfortunately has a high shitposting ratio and constantly gets worse).

Additionally, there is a metric ton of other *chan-style imageboards and *ch-style bbs, sometimes as general as 4chan, sometimes very specialized. The latter tend to be great ressources for their respective topic.
4chan's userbase is often described as very hateful and I can understand this complaint to a certain extent. However, again, this doesn't apply to all of its boards and certainly not to all *chan-style imageboards and *ch-style bbs.
Also, much of this "hate" is targeted towards new users who mindlessly create new topics, don't use the catalog or the archives or want to be spoonfed, resulting in wasted space and time.

*ch(an)-style bbs are drastically different from non-anonymous boards, but I prefer them for reasons the creator of 2channel put best:
Hiroyuki said:
If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, "it's boring", you can say, if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.
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It's nice not having people stealth bragging, trying to be witty for karma, trying to detective each other through posting history, being sensitive over some words on the internet, etc. Since people aren't afraid of being downvoted into oblivion, banned, or having their personal information quickly exposed, you'll see some truly hilarious shit that's usually not very politically correct.
 
It's an interesting social experiment but I think far more bad than good has come out of it.

It also has a stupid echo chamber/mob mentality effect where random people start trying to force out memes or certain (often terrible) viewpoints, and then people just roll with it just because of... wanting to feel like they belong? I don't know.

I feel like joining 4chan too young can easily turn kids into terrible people.
 
I'd say I browse there 70% of the time, and here the other 30%.

Posting between the two is probably evenly split.

The anonymity thing really works well when you get past assholes abusing it to troll. /tv/ and /mu/ are my favorites I'd say.
 
I used to visit /a/ and /vg/ (mainly for smtg), and they had great discussions (eventual offensive language aside), with people that seemed knowledgeable of the most obscure/niche things, but now with certain recent events, I'm just... trying to avoid it. I'm not even sure how infected the site is with stuff related to those, I can only imagine.
 
Is it weird that I have a better opinion of 4chan than I do Twitter.


God i hate Twitter...
Or, rather, the majority of people and what they post on Twitter.
 
I like it. Favorite boards are /m/ and /vp/, especially /m/. Even browse /v/, /a/ and /co/ from time to time.

You just need to have a thick skin/tongue-in-cheek attitude really, generally the common internet attitude you should have.

It's a common misconception that all sub-boards have the same attitudes. Shit you see in /b/ for instance doesn't apply to, say, /m/ or /vp/, or hell even /v/. /pol/ tho... In any case, saying that "4chan as a whole sucks" because you saw posts is rather silly, because it is also the only place where you can see people discuss tokusatsu, Godzilla, etc. with fervent interest.

btw get 4chan X extension. Makes browsing through it much more comfortable.
 
/vr/ has a fantastic community and always has interesting stuff. I also love /mu/.
rip /pol/
 
Mailbox said:
Is it weird that I have a better opinion of 4chan than I do Twitter.


God i hate Twitter...
Or, rather, the majority of people and what they post on Twitter.
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They're both places that don't exactly discourage anonymous ranting and hate speech.
 
Surface of Me said:
You sound like fun.
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I am actually, that's why I don't have friends on 4chan. There's better stuff to do you know. Life is too short :D

BreezyLimbo said:
But Andrew WK posted there. You don't hate Andrew WK, do you? You don't hate....partying?
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I....don't know.............if i'm supposed to care?
 
I mostly stick to vg and v. When friends come over and drink we like to laugh at the gifs on worksafe gifs.

Boss Doggie said:
What exactly happened to /pol/ anyway and why did it become /b/ 2.0
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They kept calling moot a cuck, especially as a result of the gamergate crackdown on /v/, so he decided to nuke the board. Most of them migrated to 8chan similar to a sect of /v/.

/pol/s glory days were the zimmerman stuff. Everything after was just a second rate regurgitation (chimpout alert! like every night despite nothing truly big ever actually happening) and reddit tier bs (redpill me). I think the only oc I saw was the different types of pills (iron pill) and the dindu nuffin meme. Cant forget the jew stuff either.

I know there was a text news board before but I never went so cant compare. There was a variety of posters on pol but it was turning into stormfront lite. Even v has better political discussion. Politics is not videogames afterall.
 
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