shit

Terrible, but hindsight is 20/20.

shit

Shit. 60% of the board was desu spam and KyoAnus lickers.

If I were to want to have a Disgaea thread anywhere in 4chan, where would it go?
/vg/ never shows any in the catalog and /v/ is a massive steaming pile of shit who'll definitely call 'pedomoeshit' the second I step in
And there wasn't a Disgaea anime
So where?

>>90557104

But there was a Disgaea anime.

>>90557104
/a/ and /jp/ have both have Disgaea threads with varying degrees of success.

>>90557104
I would assume nighttime /v/ would be your best bet, however I haven't tried posting there in years. Surely the way people like to portray /v/ as hating everything Japanese can't be true. Do they hate Dark Souls, Sony, and Nintendo now?

>>90557104
see
>>90557162
>>90557189
There was a mildly long disgaea thread a couple months ago if I recall right. We have them every now and again reminding people to never watch the anime.

>>90557162
A delicious PV isn't an anime, anon.
That's all there was.
>>90557189
>>90557367
Thanks, I'll try posting about that one manga it has and try to get one running some time
And keep it related to the characters/story more than the game.
really surprised /jp/ would even tolerate it though
>>90557346
I'll try it if this doesn't pan out
I just want to talk about it with people who actually care about it, and not a bunch of normals complaining about the grind and how little reading comprehension they have on some filthy anime forum.

>>90557500
By all means Its always nice having a disgaea thread. Also not sure if you are just denying the anime's existence but there was definitely one. It was god awful. An example of how not to do an adaptation. There are a couple LN's also which you could give a look at as well.

basically like /b/ but with anime

it was a more simpler time back then, back when you can call someone a /b/tard all throughout 4chan and they would take it as a compliment.

>>90558065
>basically like /b/ but with more anime

fixed
/b/ was pretty anime loving back then

It was like now but with a little more lolis, different series and slower downloads.
well, we had Franken Fran threads, that is.

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>>90558092
That's because 4chan as a whole wasn't normalfag central back then.

>>90559277
>OP said 2006
>posts screencap from 2007.

>tfw I browsed /b/ exclusively back then

I'm still waiting on that second season of Inukami.

>>90557104
/a/, /jp/, /tg/.

It was shit. Like gaia or /b/ today. /b/ was more like what /a/ is now.
It was some time around the expulsion of Shii and the reappearance of 0037 (w2c 2) that /a/ improved up to a point.

>>90559413
I went from /b/ to /f/ to /a/

and when moot gets drunk again and makes a manga board I'll be going to that.

>>90559654
>/tg/
Answer me honestly, what the fuck is /tg/ for?
I thought it was tabletop games and maybe LARPing and shit, but I see them everywhere on /a/ and they like almost everything

Lots of Haruhi and desu

this is going to hit the newfags hard, but /a/ and /v/ were pretty much the opposite of what they are now, with /a/ beign the very offtopic hur dur board and /v/ the elitist no newfriends one, after /v/ got hit by the newshits hard, /a/ got scared shitless and became a hardcore version of old /v/

i miss old /v/

anyone remember when naruto was broadly accepted ?
that was in 2009/10

>>90560929
any games outside of sports and video games.

Which board has the best board culture? I want to say /mu/, but all they really do is pretend to like things ironically. Few months ago it was PinkleTank, now its Avant Teens.

>>90561560
yeah with bleach talks too

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>>90556755 (OP)
The posting was more what we'd consider "low-tier" back then; but shit if it wasn't "fun" at least.

I wasn't there but I would think /a/ liked PPD.

>>90561615
we are the best big board, off topic or retarded threads get reported pretty consistently, save the waifu or some other shit threads, but the other big boards are far, far worse

>inb4 we are shit, name a better one from the top 6 in traffic


the small ones, dunno, /int/? they are pretty bro in their ciclejerk comunities

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"Is Liru furry?"

That's what it was like.

less drama
less elitism
no bateman

>>90559230
>It was like now

No it wasn't.

It was better, but had just started getting shit thanks to /b/'s popularity skyrocketing.

>>90562194

also this

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It was nice how prevalent shops were at the time; we could always use a bit more OC like this on occasion.

I suppose we do have the draw threads however

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>came here in 07
>was a /b/tard in 06

>>90562350
>we do have the draw threads however
Those are shit though.

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Don't know, I wasn't there.

But from my days of lurking, it was like adults pretending to be children...? With more OC and chilled out.

>>90562350
not sure, we have plenty of OC from seasonal shows, you know, ERU-ERUFU, the quality threads from psycho-pass, vividred mayo jokes, another pie threads, etc

>>90562863
>vividred mayo jokes, another pie threads

Those are awful though, they're like wannabe memes.

I never understood how the pie thing was supposed to be funny, it felt like someone was trying way too hard to make ~OC~ but had absolutely no sense of humor and low level photoshop skills.

It really is true that older 4chan was intelligent people pretending to be retarded and new 4chan is retarded people pretending to be clever. You can thank 'We are anonymous, we are unstoppable' etc. shit for that. The moment a board takes on a collective 'we' identity is a sign it's going downhill, there aren't many boards left without that mentality but they're all pretty good.

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>>90556755 (OP)
Everyone acted relatively more retarded, /b/ culture was the norm, and we were definitely not nearly as stuck up as we are now. lol and emotes were used more often, and epic, fail et al were still fresh and in common usage. Everything was either Epic/WIN or Fail/AIDS.

There was no "gb2Reddit", back then it was gb2Gaia. Shit hit the fan when we realized that Reddit was basically a training ground for newfags until they understood how to not APPEAR as newfags right off the bat so they could post on 4chan.

>>90559357

It's January, so it still counts. Sort of.

Awful, the board would be destroyed for days at a time from either big 3 discussion or "I hate the big 3 and think discussing them should be banned" discussions.

I mean DAYS at a time. Index was actually a savior when it came out because it was discussion about something that wasn't the big 3.

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Does anyone else still remember when we had Manly threads?

So has /a/ changed for the better or worse?

>>90563716

I'd say for the better, but some of the same shit from before still exists today, just with a different packaging.

>>90556755 (OP)
DESU DESU DESU

>>90563714
Now those are disguised.

>>90563716

Much much worse, most people I assume are waiting for another anime related board as /jp/ didn't really deliver the goods.

Or maybe we can get all the cancer (People who care more about fapping than anime and manga) to go away and /a/ will be better.

>>90563716
Probably better, we've even out a lot of the edges to the point where post quality is up quite a bit, but at the same time I can't help we've forgotten a bit of that soul we used to have back in our childhood. In the sense that some things weren't taken as seriously back then and we were better for it, but at least posting quality is up.

>>90563904
Think we'll get a containment board for fujioshits?

mother fucking code geass everywhere.

It was a lot less pretentious.

I'm ashamed that to admit I browsed /b/ exclusively from 2004-2008. I also never made a single post for 2 years because /b/ moved too quickly and I didn't realize "noko" would put you back into your thread.

so why did /a/ change? /v/? gaia?

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>>90563716
When I see how so many of the other boards have taken a turn for the worse over the years, I like to think we changed for the better. The only thing bad with current /a/ is that there's always a general feeling of pic related no matter what you're trying to discuss.

>>90563999

We already do, it was here before /a/.

fujoshit aren't the problem though, it's people who throw around the word fujoshit and any other flavour of the month scapegoat because they think /a/ is their sekrit anime klub

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like this

Seriously, to me it was better. The "moe"-ification wasnt quite there, there was no "waifu"-shit and in general it was, at least to me, a better atmosphere to talk about different anime.
Though a lot of /b/-threads were in /a/ before like cracky-chan threads

>>90563714
Wait, is that Signum 4th down on the right?

The last year it was anything approaching good, especially when compared to this.

I love you all.
Except you.

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Kind of like this

>>90564130
Same reason the internet in general did.

>>90564238

damn. That was 2005 then. Shit. How time flies...

>>90564130
the great newfag invasion of /v/ hit us hard, if they got hit by that, laid back /a/ stood no chance

Remember when bronies were relevant? And by relevant I mean they were fucking everywhere and shitposted every board to death. T-thanks /co/...

>>90564355

/v/ wasn't even that bad back in 2006/2007.

What ruined everything on 4chan was /b/. Anyone who came to other boards through /b/ ruined 4chan.

And as >>90564320 says, it's not just 4chan, the entire internet became shit for similar reasons. Bandwagon jumpers everywhere. We saw the death of the forum and the birth of web 2.0, then it was social media and here we are now.

Remember when YTMND was king?

>>90563716
Worse worse worse worse worse worse worse WORSE WORSE WORSE WORSE WORSE
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE BOARD ON 4CHAN THAT IS BETTER NOW THAN IT WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO AND ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE SHOULD KILL THEMSELVES

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>>90564293

I remember when Musahi Gundou aired. Only one episode was subbed. That reminds me that a lot of old /a/-threads at that time were "copy"-threads of 2ch threads.

>>90564580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z55BDpwF7Q
yep

>>90564513
I came from /b/ in 2007 and I enjoyed /a/ but I was more of a lurker. I left /b/ after moot went batshit insane and made all those stickies and put techno and shit on the front page

>>90564580
I preferred SA

>>90556755 (OP)
I want to fuck her.

>>90564513
what i'm saying is that /a/ and /v/ have always shared plenty of base posters, before the roles were reversed, when /v/ went to utter shit, people fleeing from it got paranoid about it and became the no fun allowed /a/ssholes today

it's kinda sad that it has been for the better, but that's what happens when you have thousands of people posting at the same time, you have to stop making exceptions or the retards will follow

>>90564580
Yes. Yes I do.

EVERYBODY POLKA

http://goblinpolka.ytmnd.com/

>>90564659
Too bad /b/ is total shit now not that it was any good and moot got more serious. Now he just spends his time on /r9k/ and doesnt mess with /b/ as much.

>>90564733
The problem with 4chan in general is that people use memes and buzzwords ironically, which eventually attracts people who actually use them seriously, and since irony doesn't really translate well on text everything looks shit.

You guys have always babbled about how /a/ was better, but this thread makes it look like shit.

>>90564910

In 2005/2006, at least thats how i saw it, memes were used seriously and to get a little laugh out of them. Like the huge gaping vagina the size of a hallway, cockmongler, how do i shot web, even raptor jesus for some time.

>>90564808
http://www.choice.ytmnd.com/

I still can't believe that Maddox and ROY4L teamed up.

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/a/ took its hits just like the rest of the pre-"lol internet" sites.
It was less autistic about things because the users weren't everyone and their dog.

>>90565076
I liked them more when they were called fads.

>>90564205
Really the only thing I consider an improvement is the lack of spammers. As awful as the spam was I think I still prefer it to the rampant anti-fun shitposting that replaced it.
Shit REALLY started to go downhill when 4chan got national media coverage for /b/'s shenanigans.

>>90565017

Guess it depends on your preferences. I still think in 2006 you could talk about an anime or a manga more seriously. You didnt have those waifu-fags, "what would you do to her", "which yuriyuri is the best?" and such things.

>>90565224
I always thought those "which yuruyuri is the best threads" were jokes and meant to be playful nudges at eachothet. Maybe I'm wrong...

>>90563714
what's that on the top right?

>>90564808
Highlighting the text from the back to the front, and back again gets me going. I mean, hot damn.

>>90563716
/a/ was better when there was no captcha on the site at all and there were no image posting waiting times.

>>90564130
/co/ gave birth to cancer known as bronies and the site was never the same since.

/co/ in 2006 was still neckbeard central.

Not too many Hollywood Jewood cape movies yet to lure in the tumblr landwhale scum onto /co/.

>>90565361
Remember the time moot changed the post intervals to 5 minutes?

That was fun for a while.

Or when you had to edit your hosts file to get in 4chan and the population of every board went down by like 99%?

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/a/ is still good in my opinion, we still don't have retardation like >tfw no gf threads and other completely off-topic nonsense like most of the other boards do right now.

When I go to /fit/ and see at least 5 feels threads or Korean "East Aryan" waifu threads. then look back at /a/, it reminds you of just how good we have it compared to the other boards.

>>90565495
>KoG

>>90565459

/co/ already existed in 2006? Wasnt it implemented later like 2008/2009 or so? Or am I just really getting old?

I remember when I started visiting here there were like 10 boards or so, mostly anime-centered. That was about early 2005, at least according to my 4chan image folder.

>>90565495
But then you see all the fujioshits making literal meetup threads or people actually linking to MALs and it just makes you weep.

i'm only posting these because not many people visit /q/, and you fine gentlemen are the ones that are going to flip your shit most with this

>>>/q/713163

THIS IS the fucking problem

What year of /a/ wud u fug?

>>90564580
Back before I knew what the fuck "Bleach" was.

http://leekspin.ytmnd.com/

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

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This Code Geass show is preJIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>90565703
Fuck off, you /soc/-tier tripshit.

>>90565601
>fujioshits making literal meetup threads
On /a/? Say it ain't so... I've been avoiding those Free! threads, is that where it's been going about?

>>90565742
:3

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Always follow this and /a/ will be clean.

>There will never be a place to discuss anime without getting flooded with waifus and moeshits or being surrounded by reddit-tier retards.

it's an awful situation.

>>90563716
Better

people who say it's for the worse are just pissed some users are obsessing on anime characters.

now only if we can get rid of those fanbase wars /a/ would be golden.

>>90565783
No, they just hijack any trap thread. This is what happens when you allow homo_.gif to be posted without resistance.
>>90565802
Just remember, you shitskin flip. Moot will never talk to you or notice your existence, unlike with me.

>>90565821
we must have the best almost exclusive mod around, seems like a pretty okay guy

could he be the kino mod?

>>90565870

I have to say chinese communities are really great in that, if you speak the language of course.
Have a really great time there. It also seems the "fanscene" is different than the western ones.

>>90565909
>homo_.gif
Try again.

>moot
That's nice. Do you feel more fulfilled?

>>90565963
too bad he only comes once in a blue moon.
most shitpost removal is done by our glorious janitors.

>>90565870
>implying that two long standing aspects of /a/ culture are bad
>using moeshits seriously
Trying way too hard, buddy.

>>90557104
I hate to tell you this, but the best place is /v/. Theres really only like one or two shitposters who start talking about moepedoshit, and on a good day it can be easily ignored. The problem is that there too many idiots on /v/ who fall for the bait and derail their own thread. Other than that its fine, you just have to get lucky .

>>90565870
think about it for a second, if /a/ ceased to exist, as this fuck up makes me fear >>90565627

where would you go?

>>90565599
Someone needs to post that image when 4chan still had the loli board next to /g/ and /g/ was still the guro board.

>>90566085
This.
To be honest, the greater danger with making a thread about something like Disgaea on /v/ is that somebody will mention the Vita and attract the autistic console warrior shitposting brigade. The "fuck moeshit" threat is vastly overblown.

>>90566074

You have to admit though, there really was a "cut" about what /a/-culture was when things like K-On and other girls-only cast anime started becoming popular.
A lot of people from ANN and other communities kinda migrated to 4chan.

Whether thats good or not, people can decide for themselves.

I disliked it.

>>90566047
Oh, you're trying so hard when you yourself admitted just a while back how jelly you were.

Is your memory that shitty?

>>90566153

There was also a /ss/ board, right? Like for a lot of hentai-fetishes there were special boards.

>>90566110
Nowhere, that's the point of the post. I browse /a/ because it's the least repulsive.

>>90566348
What happened to my 4chan.

>>90566272
when people started using "moeshit" seriously it really marked a bad point for /a/

because it allows people and trolls to just insult mediums of anime and shitpost them without tact and be congratulated on it.

you want to know why there's so many shitstorms on /a/ and why people are being made to be ashamed of liking anime?

that's why

>>90566153
I miss /i/

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>>90563716
Better.

>>90565783
Free threads have some many /fit/ crossboarders posting their 3DPD bodies and their exercise routines and landwhales posting all the 3DPD cosplay pictures they saved.

Here's some examples:

https://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/88966384

https://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/89272160

/tumblr/ + /soc/ + /fit/ at its finest

>>90565459
/co/'s only crime was watching a cartoon, it was people on /b/ and those who couldn't ignore trolls that caused MLP to become what it is today.
I know this is 20 minutes late but still.

>>90566085
Alright, I'll try stepping into /v/ just for Disgaea now and again
I must just be extremely paranoid from all of what appears to be '/v/' shitposting in threads around here
I wonder what they think of Valvatorez

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/a/ was amazing back then.

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>>90563714
...can we bring those back? JoJo is topical now and we have a whole new season of COME ON COME ON COME ON SAMURAI BABY

>>90566288
>Is your memory that shitty?
I guess so!

>>90565361
And then scriptkiddies ruined everything for everyone.

You know what I don't miss? 4chan's shitty, shitty servers back then. Fucking MySquirrel errors.

>>90565460
>Or when you had to edit your hosts file to get in 4chan and the population of every board went down by like 99%?
What? I want this.

>>90566440

I like Anime, my manga-collection has about 1600 german volumes right now and I also hate "moeshit".

The reason to be ashamed of liking anime is because of the fanbase anime/manga attracts. And at least here in germany about 10 years ago the fanbase was different, demographically.
Even if its just a small minority, but weeaboos, who act like that in public or even on conventions, are, at least in my opinion, the cancer of the whole fanscene.

>>90566562
pretty sure that was an isolated incident

though we do need another modcat

>>90566757
There was also, "stop fagging up Lucky Star threads" and "TTGL vs LS" threads.

>>90564213
>flavour of the month scapegoat
fujoshis have always existed. I have no problem with them being on /a/, because they are a kind of nerd like us, but they are not a scapegoat. They are here and do ruin things. They are part of the package for /a/.

>>90566718
It was great. Slow 4chan is best 4chan.
The top thread on both /a/ and /v/ were just pictures of tumbleweeds and empty towns.

We even signed a truce. I miss those days...

>>90566842
That faithful summer of '07. No summer /a/ will ever compare to that.

>>90566842
back then the only thing TTGLfags had to deal with is LSfags and vice versa

>>90566718
August 2, 2009
Site maintenance is now complete. A more detailed post about what was changed, and a real news post are both coming "soon."

If you are having trouble accessing sections of the site, or the site entirely, do the following:

1. Remove any entries for 4chan.org in your hosts file. On Windows, this file is located at %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, on Mac OS X, /private/etc/hosts, and on Linux/BSD /etc/hosts. If you still can't figure out how, Google "How do I edit hosts file?"

2. Flush your DNS cache. On Windows XP, type "ipconfig /flushdns" at the command prompt. (Note that on Windows Vista and Windows 7, you'll need to elevate your command prompt to administrator privileges. To do this, right click cmd.exe, and select "Run as administrator".) On Mac OS X, open terminal and type "dscacheutil -flushcache", and if that doesn't work, try "lookupd -flushcache". On Linux, type the command "/etc/init.d/nscd restart". If that doesn't make sense, try "How do I flush DNS?"

3. Try using a different DNS provider, like OpenDNS. "How do I change my DNS server?"

If you know anybody else having trouble accessing the site, please point them here. Thanks!
by moot at 16:13


Remember when people still used status.4chan.org because this fucking site went down all the fucking time?

>>90566719
I like you. Really though, the moderate (I'm using moderate for lack of a better word. I love my anime and manga, it's really the only type of tv show I can stand, but I'm not fullblown waifu kawaii cute girls doing cute things fan that /a/ seems to cater to) seems to be really out of options. One end of the spectrum you're surrounded by naruto fans and the other you're surrounded by the average inhabitant of /jp/, and there's very little middle ground as far as communities go.

>>90566085
This.

/v/ actually likes japanese games more than you think. There are the usual "weaboo" shitposters but in general japanese games do get good discussion. Hell, the most popular game there right now is Dark Souls.

>>90566562
Back then 4chan mods weren't normalfags but teenagers younger than the people who posted on 4chan.

Now all our current mods are people moot found on reddit and dress up super hipster in those magazine shots with moot.

None of them have beards either just really big glasses and freaking hipster shoes.

>>90566968
the word fan was supposed to go up in that top line somewhere someplace. Context clues.

>>90566272
>You have to admit though, there really was a "cut" about what /a/-culture was when things like K-On and other girls-only cast anime started becoming popular.

Except this is completely wrong, because K-ON wasn't the first show to invent the idea of a cast full of cute girls, and /a/, and even /b/ had plenty of love for shows retards call "moeshit" today. Rozen Maiden is a perfect example. Back then it became immortalized in 4chan culture (for better or worse), whereas today a thread about it or similar shows is constantly at risk for shitposting by "moeshit is killing the industry" faggots.

>>90565909
>homo_.gif
Oh, ignored those threads as well.
>>90566508
It seems I need to report more threads/posts. Being more of a lurker, I should be doing so.

>>90556755 (OP)
/a/ is objectively better as a whole now.

It might just be nostalgia goggles, but I think it used to be more fun back then, at least since I've been here.

I think the rampant protectionist stuff has really ramped up over the last two years or so even.

Every board was significantly slower, too.

All in all it was just more lighthearted.

>>90566960
>Remember when people still used status.4chan.org because this fucking site went down all the fucking time?
Yes.

Does anyone remember when it was down for extended periods of time?

Witchblade came out in 2006

Did people actually like it or did they just fawn of T&A?

>>90557104

The last Disgaea game released two years ago, what did you expect?

Anyone else looped back around to using lol again

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>>90567045
>dress up super hipster in those magazine shots with moot.

I didn't wanna believe what I was seeing when I first saw that image.

Fun was allowed back then, and the hivemind was just beginning to take hold, so it was pretty good. Bans everywhere, no CAPTCHA, no ads, threads lasted for months, all in all quite good.

2006 /a/ = /b/ + anime

2007/2008 /a/ was silly and fun. Kind of like 2006, except with more people and topics. Posting standards weren't very high in retrospect, but the community was lively and conflict was low compared to recent times. Lots of OC.

2009 /a/ saw a sudden rise in posting standards. People became less frivolous, saging became more prevalent, and newcomers, as well as general shitposting, were scorned. Maybe people grew up. The community took on an air of sternness. However, regulars were treated like kin and there were high quality discussions. However, such change does not come without reason. Conflict was high, with notable issues such as gorespammer and the Taiga/Lanced Jack fiasco.

2010/2011 /a/ was something of a transitional phase. The community became exponentially larger during this time (the post count doubled; it went from 29M to 59M), and with this came many changes. Looking back, it was sort of like a Cold War between shitposters and quality nazis, the two struggling for control in the background. Conflict was higher than ever during this time. But for the most part, /a/ held its ground and remained firm while the rest of 4chan succumbed. It was something to be proud of.

2012 /a/... was an abomination. Basically, the war went on and the shitposters won. This year demonstrated that all good things end in time, and /a/ was no exception to this rule. Especially in the second half, the shitposting was so overwhelming that it threatened the board's very foundations. Tripfaggots were rampant, crossboarders invaded with malicious intent and many threads were so unbelievably terrible that you could frequently see people talking about finally leaving /a/. Some joked that /a/ had finally gone back to its roots by turning into Anime/Random.

2013 /a/ seems to be a recovery period. People are coming to their senses and noticing all the bullshit running amok. Quality is still overall low, but it's getting better. Hopefully this trend will continue.

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Remember when people used to say GAR?

When 4chan didn't have captcha, I still remembered the glorious relevant copypastas that started appearing automatically whenever someone posted Taiga, Amy, Code Geass, etc as OP.

4chan was pure chaos at the time, like a buzzing beehive, and I loved it.

>>90567152
>No captcha
Buy 4chan pass
>No ads
Install adblock plus
>Thread lasted for month
search on archives.

You see problems where there are no.

>>90567074
It wasn't too long ago that in the dead of night, /a/ would have like 30 new posts an hour.

The longest I remember it being down was like a week and a half or two weeks or so.

>>90567296
>Buy 4chan pass
Holy hell you serious mate?

>>90567221
>but it's getting better
It was, but there's been a decline again since 1 month or so.

spoilers

>>90567324
Yes, i'm not poor.

>>90567221
This is pretty accurate, actually.

>>90566968

Mostly I think manga-threads or recommendation-threads are really the threads, that at least I can stand the most. The discussions are civil, the manga/anime in a lot of cases are the same I like and in general they seem to be more about the anime/manga, than about some overblown discussions about the advantages of one particular female character.

Im not sure if it is because of my age (come on, I have been here since the end of 2004 or if I just watched too much anime, so almost everything is just "same shit/different color". I am not sure what the average age of people here is but I think maybe people at around 26 are more rare here than 18/19 year old fags.

>>90567221
>conflict was low

Conflict has always been the same on 4chan since the beginning.

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Waifuism wasn't actually a joke
"waifuism is a joke" was pretty much a joke

waifuism back then was outright religious when people read that "discourse" copypasta they didn't say "lol autism" they cried manly tears. I guess people were referring to their own experience with waifuism that they were the ones that laughed at the concept, not so much everyone else they though it was a good idea when it was introduced (though they did think practices like having a hug-pillow was cancer there were /x/-type threads on /a/ about summoning their waifus to the real world).

Gar was also a very big thing back then. pic related

>>90567096
I'm bringing it up now because Disgaea D2, sequel to the first, is coming out in October
And I want discuss how fucking great the improvements are and how dumb monster riding looks
Sage for offtopic

>>90567382
Compared to now? Not really.

I remember ronery threads. They were fucking terrible.

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>>90567297
>The longest I remember it being down was like a week and a half or two weeks or so.
I'm not sure how I did it back then, probably was less addicted, but I wouldn't be able to handle it now.

>>90567428
Could be worse. Could be athens threads.

>>90566719
I'm not a big fan of KyoAni, most of the ecchi and high school SoL series I don't even watch, I'm usually into action and comedy series and a lot drama and psychological series, and like you I'm a mangafag, but I don't hate moe, I like cute girls though not exactly doing cute things mostly want them doing badass things and I don't think entire genres shouldn't be outright attacked due to what I believe tends to be perception and bias.

not to mention the attacks on moeshit tends to have a underlying decade war context at best, outright disrespect for anime as a medium at worse.

>>90567067

I know Rozen Maiden was pretty popular, but a lot of the discussions also revolved around the story of it and not just about which "doll"/girl is the best/most "kawaii"/waifu etc.

It is just my experience, but I can see a clear difference between threads nowadays and threads in about 2006. Like every harem-anime nowadays has multiple threads for each episode, while before such shows mostly wear ignored. Even Girls Bravo or Dears didnt get that much exposure here on /a/ like some Vivired, Qwasar, IS etc.

>>90559277
I miss those days.
Now it's drama and faggotry with no fun allowed.

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Anyone else really wish they had backed up all their old /a/ folders?

I'd love to go dig through a folder from pre 2006/7 and reminisce.

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>>90567221
I'm here since late 2008, when someone on irc said that 4chan was back.

So many years now...

Tonberryking

>2006 was 7 years ago

What the fuck am I doing with my life.

>>90559277
anons don't want to admit it but there was a lot more meme spouting back then.

>>90567365
sup moot

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I remember when /v/ and /a/ were bros

>>90567378
I always try and participate in recommendation threads even though they get shitposted into oblivion before being deleted, just because it's a chance to discuss what I liked or didn't like about a show without having to deal with too much bullshit..which is an oddly rare opportunity on an anime board.

What will be /a/ like in 2050?

>>90567827
404

>/a/ then

Much much much better userbase, less discussion of anime.

>/a/ now

Horrible userbase plagued by gaiafags and people who think Wan Piss is good, but the discussion is better.

>>90567687
Memes were different then. They just kind of "happened," unlike today, and they were actually ours, you know? It's not like recent times where /v/ just brings their shitposting over here.

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Moot didnt pretty well, he made millions of Canv.as and kept 4chan nice and relevant.

He isnt divorced with a child, in his thirties, stuck with an unprofitable website and living off ramen and tapwater like Lowtax.

>>90567750
That was a LONG time ago.

/v/ getting vidya discussion removed with the /vg/ and /vr/ splits didn't help.

>>90567827
We'll be happy.. :3

Many of us won't be here anymore among the living.

>>90565870
>implying moeshit isnt the savior /a/ used to have and need now

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>>90567876

>>90567907
You weren't here back then if you think there was a "better userbase". If anything, there was a fuckload of redirecting people back to gaia or animesuki back then. It's just now we have leddit and /v/ fags here.

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>>90567979
>Many of us won't be here anymore among the living.
Please stop

>>90567932
*Did it

>>90567604

For me it just depends. I just cant understand how things like Tamayura (I even watched 2 episodes of the OVA), in which nothing really happens in the episodes besides "lets have a trip" or "lets go shopping" can have fans. Same with K-On. I watched the first two episodes and it was the most boring anime I ever watched, because there is like no story at all. It was really like "normal girls doing normal things".

And because these were kinda popular (not sure about Tamayura though, still got two seasons, right?) it also influenced other anime and even LNs. It is like the Call of Duty of Anime.

I am btw. not denying anyone their love for such shows, just saying I dont really like where anime, and especially the fanbase, went because of that.

>>90567932
>he made millions of Canv.as

[citation needed]

>>90567827
dead, i just hope we can get a few more years and don't die sooner than expected, a janitor from /sp/ has been causing a shitpost on /q/ cause apparently mods would prefer it if 4chan became more like reddit

>>90568030
No, the userbase was definitely better than. 4chan as a whole going as mainstream as it did really hurt /a/ because everyone knows how much of a faggot your average anime fan is. Telling people to gb2gaia is an important part of filtering out the filth.

>>90567962
It wasn't that long ago. If I remember right, /a/ and /v/ were cool around 2009/2010. It was only after the influx of faggots who come here from /v/ with the HURR MOESHIT WHY DID ANIME DIE DURR that /a/ and /v/ started hating each other.

>>90567827
Either the HAPPENING happens and there will be no more chinese cartoons, or there will be no discussion because everyone will be in the 2D world.

>>90567932
If by relevant you mean moot allowed /b/ to become so cancerous that it gets on the news, then that is not a good thing at all.

>>90567932
>he made millions of Canv.as

You almost got me there.

I kinda feel that you can understand an /a/non on when they got here

05-06 - original /a/nons: basically just want to have fun and discuss anime

07-08 - elitist: refugees from /b/ who didn't want /a/ to become like /b/ turned out, wants to purge /a/ of shitposting

09-10 - shitposters: people who were done with other boards and want to make /a/ another /b/

11-now: ???

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Its kind of wierd knowing that /b/ will never be relevant again.

Its just sort of there now, isnt it?

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Almost that time.

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>>90568198
>>90568095
I was exaggerating, but I hear he made some nice bank.

>>90566938
All those TTGL vs LS threads

All those Konata, Kagami Tsukasa and Misao imagedumps.

That shitstorm when Kamina died.

>>90568210
What's the new "cesspool of the internet"?

>>90568201
07 newfag here, I fit more into the 05-06 anon, but that's partly because that's when I first found 4chan.

>11-now: ???
Drama queens who just love finding ways to start shit.

>>90568210
It's a containment board like /pol/, /sp/, and /v/. It keeps the rest of the site functioning somewhat well.

>>90568201
Yeah right, 07-08 wasn't elitist at all. 09 was.

>>90568074
Dont blame K-On or other SoL.
What is the worse that Rucky Star did? Just a small kagami sip, while the TTGL fanbase spam the whole board after ep8. It was unusable. Same when code gayass was airing, while strike witches only has 1thread that time.
The problem is on the other side, stop blaming it on cute girls anime.

>>90561805
/int/ is a fusion between /b/, /pol/ and /soc/ less exaggerated

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>>90568201
>11-now

The era of ironic shitposting.

I don't know when you fags will learn that ironic shitposting is absolute cancer. It's not an exaggeration to say that /v/ fucking died because of ironic shitposting.

>>90568074
Most fans of those series believe it to be the opposite of Call of Duty

on one end you have dark and gritty series people play to be manly and mature

on another you have colorful and bright series people watch because they want a serene and mundane life.

>>90568249
That is not moot's money.

The only thing ever posted about canvas was that it had 600 thousand dollars invested into it.

America has federal laws about running off with investor money.

>>90568249
He got some decent venture capital I think, but I'm not how well canvas is doing profit-wise.

>>90568210
Yeah, it's long since died. It's just a porn dump and a teenagers' hangout spot.

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I stayed away from /a/ when it was being spammed.

>>90568210
/b/ keeps the majority of the retards in one place thankfully.

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>Lanced Jack wannabes everywhere
>Spam everywhere
>Gorespammer


I dont miss 2010

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>>90566153

>>90561805
The only thing /a/ has going for it is that it doesn't get littered with normalfag shit or godawful memes. It's better than the other big boards in that regard but still pretty shit in terms of actual discussion.

>>90568300
>2007-2008
Between Death Note, Geass, and LS vs TTGL, it just seemed like the board got a lot more angry. There was still a lot of lighthearted fun and intentional idiocy that everyone played along with, but the arguments got very heated.

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>>90568201
> 11-now.
Tumblr and /cgl/, I wish I was kidding. /a/ has gotten almost as bad and, dare I say normal (and by proxy, boring), as the /v/ of recent. I only come for Valvrave and DJT threads at this point.

Deeper down the rabbit hole to /jp/ I go, I suppose.

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>>90568062
It's okay... it's okay..
Anons come and go all the time without anyone realizing.

>>90568300
07 was when they came

09 was when they put their elitism in full force in response to the 09 guys

Ever stop to think about how many lurkers have died over the years? Just average posters like you or me, just they never made it back to their computer to post and discuss anime, or music, or whatever their interests were. Excuse me for a minute, I have some things to think about...

>>90568150
I through it was for longer, fuck.

When it was exactly when /v/ started hating everything slighty japanese looking, 2011? I think it was around the same time the pcfags through that master race image was real and gabe newell started being praised unironically.

>>90564580

I used to love that site. I remember accidentally calling memes on here Fads since I was on YTMND first. lol

Gifsound is it's successor of sorts, but not as good.

/a/ of ages past was a lot more lolrandumb but it was also a lot more chill. It was shitposty, but it was fun shitposting.
/a/ is much more no fun allowed and angry shitposty these days.

I really kind of miss the old days.

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>>90567932
>Lowtax
I love how his biggest accomplishment was being knocked out by Uwe Boll.

>>90568074
I agree. I mean, I understand that there are people who enjoy moe/cute girls doing cute things shows, but the fact those shows seem to just be drowning everything else out seems like such a waste. When other genres do the same thing (it undoubtedly happens to every dominant genre), it at least leaves room for different stories to be told a little bit, but the whole SoL thing is formulaic and monotonous even by anime standards.

>>90568434
You can get decent discussion about unpopular shows. But if you want to do it with popular shows, good luck.

I came over in 2012

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>>90568453
Tumblr, really?

All the retards from Tumblr went to Something Awful, thats why our DR threads are so good.

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>>90568074
>just saying I dont really like where anime, and especially the fanbase, went because of that.

Moe isn't a new trend, it was always part of anime culture. You are complaining about shows you don't like causing a "divide" in the board, but fans like yourself are the first to shit up threads by complaining about anime not being nothing but battle shonen and 80's-era gorefests.

Just ignore threads about shows you don't like. Everyone would be much happier if they all could do just that.

>>90568602
Welcome home.

>>90568324

On what else then? Right now on the 1st page I see one thread called
>Precocious puberty.
another one is a raildex-thread, okay
then a Cecilia or Houki, /a/?
another ToLoveRu thread
a vivired-thread with lots of posts of one of the girls of the show
then a muvluv thread about asses
and a great junji ito thread.

You cant deny that at least "moe" or this only-girls-situation had a big impact on the industry and also on the fanbase.

>>90568405
/jp/ being created was one of the best things to happen to /a/. 2hu hijack was fucking awful.

>>90556755 (OP)

much more peaceful, yet you would see lot more discussion about novels like tsukihime and touhou, before that stuff emigrated to /jp/

tear down this wall

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>>90568464
But when an /a/non dies he becomes 2D to be with his waifu forever, right?

Right?

>>90561560
That was never.

Just because the threads weren't auto-deleted doesn't mean they weren't just spammed to death.

>>90568260
Oh man, I miss how they were at each others' throats at every god damned chance they had, it was fun to watch.

>>90568644
>>90568656
Heh.

>>90568074
If you're watching Tamayura for plot progression, it's no wonder you didn't enjoy it. Tamayura is about mood and emotion. It's a mono no aware show. Yes, there are cute girls, but that's only the surface. Finding a connection with a deceased father through a shared passion, through his homeland. Uncertainty as to what to do with your future. Feeling like you have no dreams to follow while everybody else has such clear ones. Not every show needs to hit you over the head to make sure you get it.

If you don't like cute shows, that's fine. Every season there's a variety of anime to watch. There are moe shows and slice of life, but there are also mecha shows and grimdark and action shows and romance and comedy and drama. You can look at any season and find something to watch. Japan has always had a fascination with cute things. You can joke about kawaii all you want, but it's also part of their culture.

Regardless, you can talk about most things on /a/. You may not always get post-capped threads about your anime or manga of choice, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There's plenty of great discussion to be had, you only need to put forth the effort to make quality contributions. It works much better than the fruitless lamentation of things you dislike.

>>90568434
I don't get how people say it doesn't get spammed with memes. It does, we just don't say the word memes so we can feel better about ourselves.

>>90568602
Whatever, I don't really care anymore. Have fun and shitpost as little as you can.

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Let's see what we already watched.

>>90561560
Naruto was never broadly accepted.

>>90568617

I do that. And of course I know this "moe" was always there, though at least to me it became really "big" with K-On.

I dont really post in threads on 4chan in general normally. Maybe once in 2-3 months like right now.

>>90568627
haremshit has always been around.
SoL != haremshit
If you want to blame something, blame trashy LN.

>>90567687

its because back then you didnt visualize a retarded leddit/ninefag/whatever faggot underage behind the computer when you spouted memes, before those stupid sites ran down on them and destroyed them

>>90567908
>Memes were different then. They just kind of "happened,
This, but for the record, we used emoticons.

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>>90568602
That's not really much of an issue if you know your role as a newfag. I've seen some newfags who were asking what to do in order to compensate for their status of being new. They always got tips on where and what to lurk.

>>90568602
Me too.

>>90568602
just as long as you hate Naruto

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>>90563448
I miss no captcha and the autistic AT spam. It was somewhat endearing.

Unfortunately, I didn't save any threads or images back in 2006. What the fuck was I thinking?

>>90568729
What memes do you think get spammed on /a/? Most of the popular ones of 4chan like "doge", lel, kek, HURR JEWS etc. aren't really tolerated on /a/ for the most part. You just get told to go to /sp/ or /v/ if you go overboard with that shit.

>>90568760

when the manga was around zabusa it was, it felt completely different back then

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>>90568666
Yeah :3

>>90563716
Worse, I say we got hit real hard with shit about 2011.

You think with the great cancer in 2008 /a/ would have been affected a lot but most them went to /b/ and /v/. Then /co/ in about 2009. Then moot made a lot more normalfag boards and we got fucked.

Best time was 2009.

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>>90568758
>no anime from that season because deployed
Did I miss anything?

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>>90568480
It started happening around late 2011 and came to a head in 2012 when Katawa Shoujo's release triggered the backlash of the fucking century.

>>90566539
You forgot the complete downfall of /co/ previous to MLP that was tumblr.

Operation Overlord fucked /co/.

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>>90568804
Th-That never happened. I don't know what you're talking about.

>>90568845
>lel
I see that used at least once is every thread.

>>90568758
>Shikabane Hime Kuro
>White Album
>Marimite 4
>Minami ke
>Maria Holic
>Zoku Natsume
>The Tower of Druaga
>Kemono no Souja Erin


Pretty good season

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>>90568728

I know what Tamayura wanted to tell, but I still thought it was really really boring, at least the OVAs. Like nothing happened besides walking to some mountains. And even then the "photography" aspect wasnt as important as the character-traits of each girl.

Besides that...
Even on /a/ there are anime that are "mostly" ignored or not talked about often. Giant Killing, when it aired. Then Kingdom right now. One Outs in the past. Tatami Galaxy while it aired.

It just seems the "girls-only" series are far more popular around here. I mean this Little Witch Academia was more popular than Death Billiards or Arve Rezzle with threads like "Why is she so cute?", "What does her panties smell like" and things like that.