nigga you better not be trying to tell me that is you

http://archive.foolz.us/q/thread/25156/

/q/ - my blog

2004
-17
-lol no
-memes
-4chan was superior when it wasnt widely known. we need duplicate boards to reduce posting speed. three /a/ boards would be great for starters. maybe 5 /b/s would finally cure it of cancer... just a thought.

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4chan in 2007
>chocolate rain
>mudkipz
>chris crocker
>gotse
>rick roll
>chuck norris
>vanessa hudgens nudes
>shoop da woop/over 9,000
>Epic Fail Guy
>Party Van
>Pedobear
>O RLY Owl
>Internet Hate Machine
>Lulz

Fuck man. I kind of miss it, you know?
Back then, we had a culture.

>tfw
>mfw
>implying
>lel
>le shiggy donatello
>tfwywncomkf
>constanza.jpg
>rip lyl ;_;
>sad frog
>WHY
>clapping

>>69163
>maybe 5 /b/s would finally cure it of cancer
wut?
do you really want 5 boards of shitposting trolls?

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>>69144
Don't we get our break when we're 13 and have our lives ruined by some odd devotion to 4chan and the Internet.

>>69163
I know moot doesn't like the idea, and it might be a weird change, but that would do the trick instantly.

More OC is good.
Mainstream dribble is not.

Also, fuck Chanology. It fucked us over. It did this to us. (Also the popularity of youtube rising and rickrolling)

>>69147
Thanks, this is interesting.

>>69165
We still have a culture dumbass, it's just different than what it was before and people are still getting used to it.

>>69216
Yes. 5 /b/s would divide the traffic up and slow it down to how it used to be.

good chance of making /b/ good again if you ask me.

Other high traffic boards would benefit from this, too. Like /a/, as I said. use your head.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
late '07
>How old were you?
17
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were
when it first started?
im inclined to say yes, actually. I think the site went through some shitty phases but now has kind of come out of it. For example, boxxy shit, ponies, blocking out the last 3 post numbers on /b/, etc. When boxxy crap started taking over /b/ that's when I quit the board and moved on to others. Now over time more interesting boards have been created, some really really good. And now that boxxy crap is over, and you can actually see your post numbers on /b/ again, I even drop by /b/ every now and then these days.
>What kept you here?
easy to have a fast discussion on virtually any topic with a bunch of people, all unbiased towards you. You can't get that in real life. Also, you can say anything you want without any fear of social repercussion. Any viewpoint is ok, and your reputation is not at stake at all. I love that. I feel like I use this site as an alternative to RL friends too much though.

(cont.)

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>the bad feeling when you called people newfags in 2007
>maybe I was the cancer
>oh wait I lurked

>>69212
This.
This is why I've probably been one this website way too long.

>I also went to a high school, that, thanks to chanology and whatnot, was comprised of a shit ton of /b/tards.
Women and Men alike. Most of the high school knew about 4chan.
And this was in 2008.

(cont.)

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
I actually don't mind it so much. I mean sure sometimes you get more shitposters and 14 year olds as a result, but I think we should be discouraging shitposting in general, not discouraging other people finding the site and using it. I wouldn't mind seeing it more mainstream accepted, because it would be kind of nice to be able to openly discuss with non-channer people what you do without them thinking you're a total freak. That's the one good thing about reddit- you can tell people like your parents or friends you don't know so well that you browse there, and they won't think you're a total freak/loser. Not so with 4chan. I'd love to see that change and for 4chan to stop being seen as the biggest losers on the internet. because we're not. I think this is the best community of people on the internet.

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>>69259
I... I actually fell in love with Boxxy. Major crush.

However, the threads did kinda suck. I was glad to see her come back though.

I also left for a good bit, 1-2 year hiatus of 4chan, and when I came back I never touched /b/. Went to other boards. Now I don't visit /b/ at all, just because it's so bad, I stick to /k/, /fa/, /fit/, /mu/, /pol/, /int/ (post flags, it made the board fun), /sp/

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>>69231
If you're going to split /a/ into 3 boards better split /v/ into 6 boards (excluding /vg/) and others into 2 boards.

>>69399
any board that has way too many problems cause it moves way too fast would benefit

moot wont do it because he fears change

plus he only cares about canv.as. 4chan will rot.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2005
>How old were you?
9, my brother was 15 at the time and he introduced me.
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
/int/ and /x/ have deteriorated in quality, i no longer find /b/ funny but i couldn't imagine a life without 4chan.
>What kept you here?
/v/ the only board i frequent anymore.
>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
I wouldn't mind it as much if i didn't have to go to school with meme spouting retards, I'm forced into pretending i don't know what 4chan is and have to fake laugh at every advice dog clone picture that my friends constantly show me.

I have a few questions for /q/:
>2007
>17
>In some areas yes, in others no.
>Honest opinions and anonymity
>Couldn't give a shit.

>>69427
>plus he only cares about canv.as. 4chan will rot.
>moot didn't create /q/
>moot hasn't been posting on /q/ asking what 4chan wants
>moot didn't make any news posts

>>70257
call me when this board accomplishes something, and isnt just a pen for the complainers

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH spoiler tags in /tg/ and a new unenforceable rule on avatars! CLEANIN THESE STREETS UP, YEP!

>>70271
>I want everything NOW NOW NOW
Rome wasn't built in a day you little turd.

>>70294
>4chan is rome
durr i wish you faggots would think before you parrot your "wisdom" to no one in particular

>2008
>15
>Bit disapointed in the dipping quality, hopefully /q/ will help sort this stuff out.
>Good discussion with great anons
>really didn't like all the meme spamming, or the mainstream sites that spawned from it

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2006
>How old were you?
16, underageb&
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
Well, I go to boards other than /b/ now, so that's nice
>What kept you here?
I actually left between 2008-2011, it was just too weird to quit altogether though
>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
I wish it could stay obscure forever. Normalfags are ruining this shit. And no one makes amazing OC anymore, it's all rehashed retardation that gets seized upon by Reddit and 9FAG immediately. The landscape has changed for the worse.

>>70271
it's been like 3 days, dude

>>70311
That wasn't what I was trying to say. Either you've somehow never heard that saying before, or you're a complete fucking idiot that missed the point of it.

>>70380
you were making some stupid "conventional wisdom" point about things taking time by using the cliche "rome wasn't built in a day"

dont act like youre smart and cryptic, youre just a moron.

4chan isn't a city. and /q/ isn't anything but a quarantine. any "changes" brought about by this place will be cosmetic. the "issues" that moot is concerned with is whether the link should read "Reply" or "Read Thread"

>>69226

Agreed, Chanology ruined not only 4chan, but the Internet in general. Most of the other raids and shit we did were about lulz and ruining the lives of people. Chanology was based on moralfaggotry and militant anti-theist cancer.

Not to mention Anonymous sprouted from Chanology, leading every angsty libtard 12 year old with a computer to think they were Internet vigilantes, which in turn led to the spread of OWS and social justice faggotry.

Chanology should have never happened in the first place. It was cancer in its purest form.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
6th June 2006 6/6/6 was my first time on 4chan.
>How old were you?
16
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
It constantly goes through a cycle of being unbelievably crap and being addictive.
But atleast 3-4 years ago you could talk on a board without "trolls" acting retarded and spamming "U mad", back then trolling meant something.
>What kept you here?
Every now and then a new meme or world event pops up and the boards become interesting for a few weeks.
New anime makes /a/ intersting, new cartoon makes /co/ interesting, a new mass shooting makes /b/ interesting.
>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
Dunno, it was pretty much mainstream when I found it in 2006, I found it via RuneScape...

Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent president George H.W. Bush. As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement. He implemented Don't ask, don't tell, a controversial intermediate step to full gay military integration. After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years. Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president. He successfully passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health coverage for millions of children. Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U.S. Senate and served his complete term of office. The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency in the White House.

>>70396
because making major changes to the site are decisions that should be make quickly, and without time to think about what's the best plan of action.

>>70401
the sad part is this all happened because we thought it would be silly to take over habbo hotel

the next generation of posters really missed the point. i feel so terrible

>>70396
I'm not trying to be smart or cryptic. I'm not saying 4chan is a city.
I am using a simple metaphor to make it easier for your retarded little mind to understand that there won't be massive changes is such a short period of time. Like the other poster said, this board has only been here for 3 days.

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>>70414
I'm frankly amazed that you're still trying to do this

I've never seen someone as stupid as this before

Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. Based on his philanthropic worldview, Clinton created the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote and address international causes such as prevention of AIDS and global warming. In 2004, he released his autobiography My Life, and was involved in his wife's and then Barack Obama's campaigns for president in 2008. In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Since leaving office, Clinton has been rated highly in public opinion polls of U.S. presidents in america.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?

Somewhere around late 2006 early 2007? It was after the Habbo raids.

>How old were you?

15 or 16, I'm 21 now.

>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?

I suppose, I think I found it more entertaining because so much stuff was new and I was basically an easily amused kid. It's still my most visited website.

>What kept you here?

In depth and sometimes controversial discussion on good boards. The ability to speak unfiltered and without being judged.

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?

It always sucks to see meme-spouting little shits and hearing "lolol y u mad tho?" in public but they could be from any site at this point.

You have to rationalize it though, if 4chan never gained popularity 90% of us would have never found this place and it likely would have shut down.

>>70422
>>70417
this board isnt for "major changes", fools.

its for caging the shitposters who only want to talk about how bad everything is. thats my point. moot only cares about canv.as, or we would have had clones of boards (like 2chan has) years ago.

years ago

>>70452
/b/ is for caging shitposters, and by the looks of it, that's the only board you post on.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2009
>How old were you?
15. 19 now.
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
/b/ has definitely gotten worse, but I can't say much for the other boards.
>What kept you here?
I grew to hate the pony bullshit on /b/, so I started going to /v/ as a place to bitch about videogames. I guess now I'm only here for /vg/.
>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
I'm not a fan of it, to be honest. When I came here, I was bitter, cynical and angry at the world. I've grown a lot since then, but I still feel a bit irritated when normalfags and redditors and even good friends use memes and shit without understanding the joke.

I came here in mid-2006 because somebody posted something like "Yeah, 4chan sucks. All of it except /b/, of course. /b/ is the best!"

It piqued my curiosity and I went there. I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me. Before I knew it, I was stuck. Now I'm turning 19in a couple of months and I'm still stranded way out here in the deserted island of the internet.

>>70461
i left after the habbo raids changed things.

hence why i want clones of boards to slow down post rates and turn the clock back on the quality here.

weve wanted this for years, and havent got it. /q/ wont change this because all moot cares about is making money off canv.as while 4chan rots.

sorry, thats just fact.

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>>70497
>Yeah, 4chan sucks. All of it except /b/, of course. /b/ is the best!

-I remember I first came here in 2006 at the tender age of 15.

-No, I wish we were back in the glory days.

-I stayed here because 4chan feels like a really dysfunctional and hateful but loving family. We're like the Bluths.

-I dislike it because I remember when this place was a hush hush type thing that you don't talk with the general public about. This was like our secret identities and hearing people blather memes makes my rage factor overflow.

>>70509
Yeah. To think I was brought here by the scum of this website. Then again, they seem like the only ones who broadcast it, so whatever.

>>70498
From the gold account sticky.
anon:
>Is Canvas profitable? Do you use the profits to help support 4chan?
moot:
>No. Canvas is venture backed and a completely separate entity. It's resources and finances don't mingle with 4chan's at all.

>>70498
Before /q/ was made, I checked into a lot of meta threads that would appear on /a/, /b/ and anywhere else they happened to pop up. This thread is the first I've ever heard about having clone boards.

/b/ is a shit stain that needs to stay as it is, because it is just a filter that keeps cuntrash shitposters off the other boards. Not all of them, but a lot of them.

/a/ and other boards don't need clones, people just need to use the catalog. There are generally about half the pages on /a/ haven't had a reply in about 30-60 minutes. There's no need to have slower boards. Given that it is the 3rd fastest board, and /b/ is a shitstain that doesn't need any changes like I've said before, no boards need clones.

>>70537
I'm not sure if moot was saying that it wasn't profitable or if he was just addressing the second question. His choice of words don't make it easy to know if he answered the first. I have heard rumours that canv.as wasn't making profits, but those were just rumours.

>>70518
Depends on where you are.
I've seen links to /a/, /v/ and /tg/ on from other sites. /b/ is about everything the other boards aren't so it has a larger appeal I guess.

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>>70497
Adding on to this, I made a poor attempt at forcing a meme maybe just over a year ago. Pic related. People described it as "Fuck Yeah" guy, but more beta. I was trying to force it on /r9k/, though, so it seemed fitting. Obviously, it never made it big because you've probably never seen it before. If you have seen it, though, it was me posting it. I'm still waiting for it to take off.

The irony is that it's become a morbid representation of itself and my hopes for it.

What year did you (be honest) first come here? '06
How old were you? 13
Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started? not really, it's full of shitposts now.
What kept you here? 4chan never ceases to amaze me.
What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream? It was bound to happen eventually.

I was introduced by some emo kid in 06.

I've been on 4chan since early 2007. I was a meme spouting faggot, but eventually developed a hatred for it.

>>70556
clone boards are an idea from years ago.

2chan already has them. 4 different /b/s because so many people post there. youre clearly not thinking of how useful it is to curtail the traffic. so many problems that exist now would vanish.

>>70868
some advice from a meme factory and huge FAGGOT:

make your image larger. the jump from thick to thin, and detailed to vague should be jarring. so basically - make it big and shitty looking.

>>70980
It would only work to help /b/ as it has no catalog.
But fuck /b/. It should stay the shit magnet it is.

>>69099

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
Either 2008 or 2009

>How old were you?
16 or 17 maybe.

>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
Not really. I started out as a regular /b/ newfag and stayed on it for maybe a year before I got tired of the same old shit and moved on to /v/ for something fresher. From there on, I found a /v/ Steam group through there and actually picked up on PC gaming through TF2. This was around the time that Lanced Jack was popular and after he went AWOL, a bunch of LJ imitators popped up to take his place and it ended up shitting up not only THAT Steam group, but every other I tried to migrate to. Seems like things have been going increasingly downhill from there now that this "internet culture" trend is mainstream.

>What kept you here?
Because I've met some great people through here and been in some really great threads on /v/. They feel rare nowadays, but it manages to keep me around.

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
Horrible. I saw firsthand the start of the popularization of memes and internet culture within society with my senior class. Those kids quickly grew to become unbearable. It definitely seems like the problem has certainly worsened ever since.

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>>70989
Big and shitty enough?

I increased its size by five times.

>>71056
lol yeah man. now make a version without text and hit up /v/ and /sp/ with those bad boys.

remember, a forced meme is a good meme

>>71073
>Encouraging shitposting

Please no. We're trying to fix our problems, not make them worse.

>>69099
>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
late 2010 I think, around the time of mass pony bans

>How old were you?
16

>What kept you here?
I'm not really sure, i guess it was just interesting

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
>>70208 this guy's answer

>>71088
Don't worry. I'm past that shitposting and forcing stage. I've only used it as a reaction when it's necessary.

Although, that doesn't mean that I can't increase the size so it gets better reception when it does get posted.

>>71088

anyone who calls anything "shitposting" is an honorary goon and therefore worthless

HTH

>>71116
>I'm past that shitposting and forcing stage.
lol thats cute. you havent learned anything yet, jr.

>>71190
Except this is the first time I've posted the picture in two months or so.

I don't want to force it but at the same time, it would be nice if it caught on.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2007 or 2006 (not quite sure anymore)
>How old were you?
20 or 21
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
no, but I don't think it's because of the change of 4chan but because of my own change.
>What kept you here?
Being able to anonymously discuss stuff. Especially sexual stuff I'd be embarrased to talk about with anyone irl (/d/). Also: porn.
>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
I don't care too much anymore.
It used to piss me off but I think it's because I changed and not so much because the usebase changed. I try to be openminded and first see why people like stuff I don't.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
Late December 2006, It was Boxing day, in the morning, I was on a gaming forum, and I got linked to 4chan.
>How old were you?
16 years, 2 months.
>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
To be honest, no. Whether I was just blinded by how incredibly cool it was back then and I'm just looking back through nostalgia goggles I don't know.
>What kept you here?
The community on some boards, and generally, I can't imagine the internet without 4chan anymore.
>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
I don't like it, but it's inevitable really. It was bound to happen.
Personally, I think it's increased youtube presence via chanology, those 4 panel comics that have become 'meme faces' and rickrolls/lolcats are the main culprits for bringing 4chan into the mainstream faster than it could have been.

>>69099
>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2008 or 2009 i forget honestly

>How old were you?
18 senior in high school. Heard about it from a friend. The next day we were spouting off memes like newfags and then got almost my entire algebra 2 class involved

>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
honestly i am. 4chan has really evolved and gotten better in my opinion. No real spam anymore, plenty of boards.

>What kept you here?
I'm addicted. If i'm not on 4chan i'm wondering what's on 4chan and if i'm on 4chan i'm wondering what's on other boards.

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
hate it. I see tons of people everywhere spouting off memes, making shirts of memes, it just annoys me. I really wish 4chan hadn't gone mainstream, but it's mostly /b/ that keeps pushing the envelope and getting 4chan more unwanted attention.

Inb4 secret club

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2008

>How old were you?
15

>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
I'm happier with what I am today than when I first started, I'm not sure how 4chan has changed. During the first few years I almost exclusively browsed /b/ so now that I'm regularly browsing other boards my experience is very different.

>What kept you here?
I don't know.

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
It still makes me cringe whenever it's referred to in person, or even on other sites, but otherwise I'm fairly indifferent.

2008
17
Certain aspects have definitely improved since then, specifically the technical and functional aspects of the website. Content back then was more consistent than now, in my opinion. Across all of 4chan, I think the content has reached new highs and lows since then. This board is refreshingly free of all shitposting.

I'll admit, I initially came here because I thought it was edgy and cool. Back then 4chan's reputation for being the 'asshole of the internet' was much more intact than it is today (though I believe that it had already diminished a fair bit) What kept me around was further understanding what 4chan actually is. I've really come to appreciate the unique aspects of 4chan, specifically, lack of accounts and the occasional legitimate discussion.

4chan increase in popularity itself has never been much of an issue for me. There's a high enough concentration of people who are still posting in the spirit of 4chan (posting original content, participating in legitimate discussion) to sort out anybody who comes here thinking it's meme central. That notion, however, of 'memes' becoming popular annoyed me a fair bit. In fact, it annoyed me so that I couldn't comprehend exactly why these websites outraged me. When I realised it was because they were nothing but 'memes' and had no underlying discussion, my anger towards them subsided. Funnily enough, the newest developments (most of which are features that have been re-implemented in some form) such as removing dubs, this board and post IDs have been some of my favourite parts in all my time using 4chan. Reading posts on /q/ is by far the most enjoyable experience I've ever had while browsing the site.

>What year did you (be honest) first come here?
2007 was the first time I came. I started my full time browsing in 2010 during Jessy slaughter.

>How old were you?
12 ('07)

>Are you happier with what 4chan is today than you were when it first started?
No, but I think it's cooler when you first arrive, then you get used to it.

>What kept you here?
The CP; I was liked seeing porn of girls and boys my own age and I didn't feel like I was breaking the law, unlike using limewire. The edgy dis-regard of morals and values made me feel pretty l33t.

>What do you think about 4chan's popularity and introduction to the mainstream?
Obviously it makes /b/ less interesting, but the other boards have improved due to them being a bit quicker cause of higher traffic.