noneofyourfuckingbusinesschan

The real world.

Reported for conspiring against the 4chan regime.

leddit or some of the more sane boards

They're in a better place now.

>>552228 (OP)
You just move on. When the site launched it was very different from 2007 and so the oldfags from then called people from that era summer or newfags. Now those guys are the oldfags and the 2010guys will soon take over. You either move on, only come back for a certain niche or keep up with whatever's trendy.

You can always just try going to slower paced board. The worst posters are always on the fast ones.

You'll find it out when you move on yourself. Various corners of the Internet, nowhere in particular.

Other image boards mostly. Some fairly well known, some not so much.

Wouldn't pointing them out defeat the entire purpose?

All I know is that /s4s/ is like old /b/.

>>552368
Except you're wrong.

To answer OP's question, most of the original faggots went back to FYAD
I came from there, but I found anonymity far more appealing so I never went back

Real world?
7chan?
420chan?
Some other imageboard?

Of course we are not telling you, last thing we need are autistic animefag rebbitors infecting our boards again

You'd know if you were an oldfag.

I'm still here :)

>>552570
>smilies
>oldfag
yeah uh....nope

>>552579
>Getting trollied this easily

>>552582
>"trolling"
Hahaha, whatever man

>>552579
People used emoticons and words like epic all the time before 2007

>>552585
>oh fug i was le rused so easily!! D:
>better play it off like he wasnt even trolling so they dont think im a new fag ;)

>>552228 (OP)

Post 500 merchant images and you will receive an invite.

>>552604
implying i don't post that many on pol on a daily basis

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>>552587
yeah, those were different times.
>>552596
Back in my day, "trolling" meant something.
Pic related: trolling nowadays

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>>552228 (OP)
i'm an oldfag if my terminology is correct. not an originalfag mind you, but i've been here a long time, seen some shit. because it's all shit. it's almost pure crap. /b/ was never "good" for instance; it's pretty much always been the asshole of the internet. if anything, there's a lot less illegal content there than before so it's probably improved. If you're lucky you can still find "good" threads there, or maybe /s4s/ now if you're looking for quality trolling. I browse multiple boards and see a lot of the same shit i always see lately implying no one is going anywhere, right? I mean, /pol/ is still happening and Jews and political compass stuff. /a/ appears to still be circlejerking lolicon nerds. Your thread on /q/ (which has always been for qq-ing) is literally yostuba-chan crying about the end of 4chan, which is proof there are still trolls all over the place. 4chan is alive and well my friend. (^_^)

I'm ignoring today's "happening" of course... I imagine every board will be full of shit today, so I'm probably just gonna lurk /q/ and play videogames on fullscreen. Kudos to the mods though; I think happenings got you stepping up your game. I saw an OT thread on /pol/ deleted before I could report it that had no replies yet... normally i report and hide those and they go to image cap... *rolls eyes*

>>552368
/s4s/ is the less cancerous version of the /b/ you are able to 'enjoy', if you want to call it like that, at the moment.
>>552623
>(^_^)
>*rolls eyes*
You are obviously an oldfag.
Most people who call themselves and beg for attention with this term are either pretty new or are just in need for some kind of verification of their own worth.
If you refer to /pol/ as something which is here for a longer time seen on the entire existence of this board, then you are the kind of person I expected to call themselves 'oldfag'.
The only obvious thing I can see is that you are probably an emoticon-using and avatarfagging tripfag who may leave now. Thanks for your attention

I am worried that I will never leave.

>>552801
I'm almost 100% sure that he's being ironic.

>>552811
Irony is dead on 4chan

So are jokes

Everyone just greentexts the post with >LELELEL XDDDDDDDDDDD

>>552368
this was true for the first day or two of its existence and that's being generous

>>552855
you're all just not understanding the thing of beauty that is /s4s/. It represents a new paradigm in shitposting. you should appreciate a thing for what it's meant to be not what you want it to be.

>>552623
Thank you for this post.

>>552228 (OP)
i can recall 4chan being funny at one point. then again i started coming here back in '08 or '09

We all went back to where our tenbux matter, because for the most part the tweens that now infest this place don't have credit cards.

7chan or /jp/. Pick your poison.

I wonder how FYAD's doing. Is doc still a mod?

>>552379
pretty sure /b/ was also an anime board at some point

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>>552801
>The only obvious thing I can see is that you are probably an emoticon-using and avatarfagging tripfag who may leave now. Thanks for your attention

O_o... I'm not going to leave because you call me names. Baka... Step up your game, onii chan. I like this picture of kirino; it's cute. And it seemed like a good "explaining things to someone kindly" sort of picture.

But anyway you were right-ish about /s4s/. It's good parts are like /b/'s good parts. For those of us that understanding its backstory and have watched it develop it has been awesome. I've been calling it the new paradigm in shitposting. I don't really lurk there just take a peek every once in a while. It's almost never been a disappointment.

>>552811
the judges are saying we'll accept that, yes. lots of motivations there but irony was definitely one of them. dingdingding!

>>552874
you're welcome? :-P

>>552889
I started coming here summer '06 the start of my second year of college. Since then I've seen the "quality" of every board I've lurked go through more ups and downs than I can recall. People that didn't just hear about anonymous leet hackers in pop culture and actually USE 4chan will always come here.

>>552806
this guy

>oldfags

that entire period of time didn't even exist. It's a fabrication to make people believe there is a better place. 4chan didn't even exist prior to 2007.

I've clung to /jp/ for the past few years but... I dunno now. I can't think of anywhere else to go and it's starting to hurt me inside.

>implyingoldfagsexist
>>552228 (OP)
old fags are still here, they just don't announce there presence like some of you shitposters.

Dead chans, still here, other sites.
I wouldn't know what happened to the ADRTW originalfags, obvious exception being moot.
I sort of wish moot rescued the textboards from the automated spam.

>>552228 (OP)
alot of us abandoned this place after Subeta and chantology.
That's about the time when it started becoming a shitfest. The ocean of piss became a sea of diarrhoea.

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I've been here since early 2005.

/b/ used to be cooler because people posted wittier things (sort of like early /r9k/, before it became a gangbang of whining) and because it used to be full of people who had a great sense of humor and knew their way around Photoshop.

I stopped coming to /b/ around 2009-2010 and went to Digg, and then reddit. Came back when /r9k/ opened, then left, and eventually came back to /fit/ and /trv/.

All the oldfags left are in /fit/ and /fa/. They've realized if they're going to continue to browse an anime forum, they might as well improve their lives in the process.

i've been here since 2006, and i can tell you that oldfags are just an illusion. being an oldfag is not about how much time you've wasted on the boards.
it's more of an attitude, really. a shitposting "newfag" and a shitposting "oldfag" is indistinguishable from eachother.

but many expats are moving to other *chans, like 420chan, 7chan, desuchan (if you're a dollfag)

They all got kicked out of their parent's basements so who knows.

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>>553262

(continuing) Anyway, as for your question- the answer used to be redddit. Before the Digg exodus, reedit was actually an awesome little community. I'm convinced- and there's actually an infamous old reedit comment which argues this as well- that the oldfags went there when exposure from Anonymous and Chanology started bringing in the hordes of newfrienditry.

But then, of course, the hordes followed the oldfags there, and now redddit is a festering cesspool of children spouting le memes.

Now, I think the oldfags have gone in two directions. The normalfags and non-NEETs have graduated from 4chan and gone out to live normal lives. They come back out of nostalgia sometimes, but when they do, they leave disappointed.

And the truly unsalvageable, the real neckbeards, have retreated deeper into the internets. Other chans, deepweb maybe, I'm not on the pulse of the Internet enough anymore to guess. Some of them might remain in the smaller boards, but they, too, visit infrequently.

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.

Smaller boards.

It's only a matter of time before these boards also get overrun.

After that, I'm not sure where else to go - other than the smaller chans.

Some hang out on /q/.

Other still lurk /b/. Posting an old meme on certain threads will always bring a happy response from a nostalgic /b/tard.

According

>To answer OP's question, most of the original faggots went back to FYAD
>Calling the original ADTRW/FYAD faggots oldfags
>The year of our saurian lord 2011

Those were a bunch of faggots that only posted loli and retarded idiocy because they wanted to "transgress" the rules of SA around 2004. They left when 4chan closed on August that year.

>>552368
/s4s/ is like /b/ between 2008 and 2010. It's not a carbon copy at all, only a tame joke of what it was. It's bad, a little better than /b/ in terms of contribution but still bad.

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SILENCE, FOOLS

lest you summon the old ones

>>552228 (OP)
They all left to real boards. /sp/ still has a lot of them, hence why so much OC comes from there.

I am thinking of leaving altogether if the ID shit becomes site wide. I bet a lot of oldfags cannot stand it either.

/pol/, /tg/, /sp/, /fit/

That is if you count "oldfags" as 2007 and earlier. The site has grown so much that the 2005 and earlier crowd is just a tiny tiny minority, too small to have any influence.

>>552368

Not really at all. Maybe 2009 /b/. Kind of.

>>552933

No /b/ is and always has been the "random" board. This whole website used to be a lot more Japanese though.

>>552933
/b/ - Anime/Random, /a/ was added later and /b/ renamed to /b/ - Random.
You can go dig the news page if you want.
/b/ grew further away from anime around the time of DESUspam.

>>553384
It was Anime/Random at the start.

Possible 'locations' oldfags have escaped to (in descending order)
1.The real world
2.Little known IRC rooms
3.The grave
4.The least shit boards on 4chan

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Honestly I think /a/ has been recovering somewhat. It has yet to be worse than 2009/10, with the exception of early 2012. Incidentally, both were times when spam was allowed to run wild.

Personally my problem is the rest of the site being overrun by normalfags. They claimed /v/ and they brought /sp/ and /pol/ upon us. All I want is for the site to be primarily about Japanese pop culture again. The only reason /a/ has slowly been getting a bit better is because they isolate themselves aggressively from the rest of 4chan.

[spoiler]I'd love a secession of all the Japan-themed boards but who would maintain a new website for them?[/spoiler]

>OP: I WANNA BE THE OLDFAGS!!1
>So OP and all the retarded kids can follow them and shit up the site they went to

I've been here since November 1st 2003 and I'm not going anywhere.

>>553818
What about the bullshit elitism?

I posted a thread about the new Hellsing Dub and everybody flipped their shit and called me a newfag.

In 2009/2010 it was fine to talk about dubs, but now they've gone the way of /v/ with tryhard elitism.

>>553889
>not October 1st

You must be new here.

>escaping

you forgot

>>553909
Elitism is the chemo saving 4chan

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They are on 99chan and they soooooo want us to come post the old memes they miss so much. . Really they would be so happy for a visit, post this gif...one of their favorites.

>>553927
He said oldfags, not SA-fags

>>552228 (OP)
Back when 4chan was on the brink of being considered left-wing.
Good riddance.

>>553235
>>552898
>/jp/
/trv/ and even /b/ is a better board for the culture than /jp/

They're dead, Jim.

>>554083
I know there's better elsewhere, I just can't bring myself to leave.

>>552266
>leddit
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>>553925
It isn't. It's the new furries, everyone trolls them because they shitstorm at anything..

>>552228 (OP)
I don't know if I qualify but after 5 years on the site I'll have to be here much less. I got promoted and it will take much more of my time than I had.

Also I think oldfags leave because newfags make the boards shit which is entirely counter-productive.

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>>554148
actually yes they went to invade 4chan back in late 2011 and shitting up my 4chan

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>>553251
>when it started becoming a shitfest. The ocean of piss became a sea of diarrhoea.

A lot of the oldfags never left.
Most of them changed, adapting to the standards of newfags.

Honestly, Oldfag humor has become completely saturated on the internet. No one finds it shocking, interesting, or funny anymore.

Asking where the Oldfags went is like asking where the 90's went. Everyone simply got sick of acting like that.

>>554263
>Honestly, Oldfag humor has become completely saturated on the internet.

Fact: According to USDA standards, a box without a central hole does not quality as a box.

Probably more obscure chans, a lot are on leddit too.

I'm not a super oldfag, but I've been here when the term OP was starting to become used on 4chan if that tells you anything.

From a time where trap didn't mean transexual, and people actually did lurk moar before posting in order to learn board culture.

I'm proud to say I lurked a year and a half before I even made a single post on /b/.

Nowadays, any faggot 12 year old just in anywhere and shits up the place. I think the rate of decline massively increased about the time of the great cancer, such as the TIME article and those guy fawkes fags claiming that they were the true anonmyous of 4chan instead of newfag cancerfaces.

>>554521
I've been coming here for about a year and a half, and stumbled on this interesting thread yesterday. Basically, what it all boiled down to is that browsing /b/ and being an offensive little imp is a fad nowadays, just like Pokemon was a fad back in 2001.

They grew up and got a life.


>>552368
You don't know how the old /b/ was, so shut up.

>This entire thread

You guys do know that only newfags call each other newfags, right?

sometimes I don't know whether I'm being trolled, meta-trolled or just a victim of real idiocy.

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>>552228 (OP)
what is there to escape from?

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>>552228 (OP)

/pol/ has the highest concentration of oldfags. Come home, anonymous man.

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>>552228 (OP)
They are in a better place now. And I envy them.

>>554527

Pokemon had like 5 movies and a shitload of games out by 2001. It was well past being a fad at that point

>>555404

>what is there to escape from?
>pony.jpg

well done

>>552228 (OP)

> implying moot is not the John Galt of the internet, slowly over time giving people, who can handle it responsibly, access to a hidden board.
> implying /sc/ "secret club" isn't just a single thread with moot as the only not-faggot OP and everyone else partakes in the greatest and most quality single conversation ever had on the internet

> being this uninvited to /sc/

Does your Atlas even shrug?

>>555453
But you know what i'm getting at, right?

There was this news story in my country that a bunch of tweensies send each other horrific gore, as a dare. Some were severely shocked because of the imagery, but still kept on doing it because they didn't want to back off.

I'm just saying that it's a game nowadays to be the most offensive shocker in the group.

>>555348
That's what the newfags want you to believe.

leddit mostly. Smaller subs over there are much like 4chan was in 2005

Sometimes I forget that i've been browsing 4chan since I was 13, and I'm 19 now. it's been so weird, seeing memes evolve from jokes on a board to part of mainstream culture.
>tfw 4chan has numbed my emotions to where nothing shocks me and the only thing that I find consistently funny is Spurdo Sparde
>tfw the old boards I used to browse will never be good
>tfw /sp/ is in decline
>tfw can't find another board to browse besides /sp/, /pol/, /r9k/, /fit/ and /vr

Oldfags don't escape to anywhere, they fade away or go out with a bang

As an hero

Does Oldfag count as from 2005? Because that's when I came to 4chan.

I remember very distinctly how.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/214733
The 'inbetween' animation of the Arfenhouse guy.

Eight years later and a lot of fandom-jumping and a break for a while after the Dragonzord bit, (that's another story) I mainly hang out on /co/, /m/, /toy/, /pol/, /tv/, /vg/, /vp/, and /d/.

I suppose I differ from other oldfags in that I'm fine with how most of 4chan's changed in the superficial areas. New people aren't really a bad thing, as long as they try to live up to the older standards, but not to a fault. There's a light touch to take with it.

Also, I despise tl;dr. We're not fucking twitter, we're a text board. Read posts, faggot.

>>>555555 →
Just lookin for this

most probably killed themselves already

>>555620

IMAGE BOARD you fag.

If you want tl;dr you should go to the actual text boards. 4chan should be about images, not discussion. I fucking despise discussion fags.

>>556003
yeh, you are right....

>>552228 (OP)
Reddirt. No joke.

I started on 4chan around 2004, migrated to 420chan around 2008 then came back to 4chan around 2011. Now 420chan moves too slow and 4chan is a shitbox full of serious faggots trying to mold the place into an echo chamber. Thanks to generation iPhone, /pol/ and the whiners on /q/, this place has lost any semblance of fun and creativity it used to have. /s4s/ seemed hopeful at first, but the parody elements were removed and now it's just another board for newfag /b/tards, with slightly less moderation. The problem is twofold: Anons started taking themselves and the site way too seriously; and mods are beginning to enable their seriousfaggotry. I miss when this place was mostly trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls, but those days are gone. It's now trolls trolling anally raeped seriousfags, who lack any sense of humour about themselves or the world around them. This place is dead. It's time to move on. At-least Reddirt has thousands of subreddits to cater to an enormous array of interests and the site doesn't pretend to be something it's not.

>>556099
>reddit
>the frontpage of the internet
eek-a-boo!

Their jobs and families.

I'd go to r3ddit if the layout didn't annoy me. And also all my saved images would become worthless.
I only have two interests, anime and video games, and /a/ and /v/ are both shit. /v/ a tiny bit less so.

>>552228 (OP)
still lurking here

/vr/.

No seriously, the age there can get pretty old.

>>556099
damn right. get rid of the captchas (don't give a fuck about the spam, i'd rather have that than carpal tunnel and fucked up eyes from trying to make out smudged letters) and go back to relaxed moderation (not the tyrannical bullshit we've been getting for a while now). then maybe this place can get rejuvenated. until then, 4chan is no better than reddot, arguably worse.

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>>556145
>get rid of the captchas

You weren't here pre-captcha were you?

>>556152
see:
>don't give a fuck about the spam, i'd rather have that than carpal tunnel and fucked up eyes from trying to make out smudged letters

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>mfw we used to make fun of people for saying they'd been there since row row
>mfw we used to close pools
>mfw girlvinyl wasn't a cunt, rickrolling was funny, and you could post coolfaces without getting shit on

For all it's bullshit moralfaggotry and drama, I'd rather be back in Chanology-era 4chan than where we are now.

>>556298
Congratulations, you're and idiot.

>>556309

it's like i'm laughing and crying at the same time

also, for old times' sake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR92pCPcenE

>>553417
/a/ and /b/ were created at the same time. Their names and their letters should tell.

>>556317

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOospcm5CXk

>>556337

... No they weren't. /b/ was created as Anime/Random. /b/ was October 1 and /a/ was November 8; it wasn't even the second board. Pretty sure /b/ is only called /b/ because that's the name of (one of?) Futaba's nijiura boards.

http://www.4chan.org/news?all#20 for reference.

>>552228 (OP)
/s4s/
go see

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>>556298
Remember the Noughties?

I don't know...

But I'm pretty sure it's still September there.

>>556473
Actually, time doesn't exist at all.

pretty much IRC.
>irc channel gets semi-popular, sometimes a few threads about it
>slowly falls away from association with the board
>few if no new users recruited
>falls into "obscurity", ends up growing to an even smaller but more loyal userbase

>>556503
>>few if no new users recruited

I lurked there for the first time a few weeks ago.

>>556508
you mean you idled there for a few weeks
and I don't even know what you mean by "there". There are thousands of irc servers, saying you lurked there is like saying you went on a website, pretty broad.

Generally a good idea is to not idle a lot on smaller channels, actually chat a little and such. Big channels there are tons of idlers so meh.