No.154202
It's been ten years since Gamergate happened. I never cared about it, but the fallout surrounding it lead to a portion of the 4chan userbase to move to 8chan. It was a wild time, the freedom we had. Didn't like the moderation on a 4chan board? Make the board on 8chan. Make a board for a specific interest. I remember so many people moving over to the site, including content creators like drawfags. It was such a breath of fresh air to be able to post and not be so bogged down by the moderation of 4chan. I remember in the early days of posting and having Hotwheels replying to something I said, it felt nice having that connection with the admin of the site. It felt like the dawn of a new era.
Of course, the good times didn't last forever. I seem to remember a solid six months where 8chan was busy, but then as 2015 rolled on you could feel it wasn't the same, and people were quietly going back to 4chan, even the ones who proudly said they wouldn't. I stopped visiting the original 8chan sometime in 2016 or 2017, because it felt so dead. Then the original site was taken offline in 2019. Now with 8moe, a spinoff of the original site, it feels like a shell of its former self.
In the decade since Gamergate happened, there has never been a single event that has caused a mass migration of 4chan users to go elsewhere. Despite the fact that people proclaim 4chan has gotten worse and worse over the years, people still stay there, stating there is no place else to go. 8moe still exists. So the question I've been pondering for the last little while is this: why do people stay using 4chan when they have alternatives? Will there ever be another event that will cause 4chan users to leave en masse? Or will everyone who likes the image board lifestyle just stay on 4chan 4ever?
No.154203
4chan panders to really low IQ people and children now, that's all
they just made it so you need to wait 15 minutes before they set a cookie so you can post, so maybe that will cause some people to leave
unfortunately it just gets more traffic than everywhere else, people don't want to post on a dead board like
>>>/oven/, even if the post quality there is better
if you actually try to read 4chan it's just garbage now, for every good post there is 20+ bad ones, not even funny-bad shitposts, just shit like real trannies trying to groom underaged users into taking HRT
No.154204
The internet is dead. I can name some names but at this point who gives a shit? It is dead.
No.154206
I believe that 8chan had both the problems of
consolidating and
splitting.
People would either consolidate on a few boards like /v/, /b/, and /pol/ and let them monopolize the entire site. Or, general boards would split off into smaller and more niche discussion boards that would only appeal to the tiniest portion of posters.
>and people were quietly going back to 4chan, even the ones who proudly said they wouldn't.I don't think this was the case. Moot left a lot of bad taste in people's mouths. I think those users simply stopped using imageboards altogether and migrated to more modern alternatives like Twitter or Discord.
>>154203The reason people aren't leaving 4chan is because they're not actual people, they're bots. Very few human users are on the site anymore. You can tell with all that spam being constantly posted. As for actual people still posting on 4chan, well you've answered your question. Those people are the lowest of the low. Posters that are so asinine that they're only welcomed on a dead 20-year-old website whose new administration uses as a data scraper.
No.154207
>>154206>consolidating and splitting./v/ took a story about some whores fucking for good reviews and then tried to make it about "gaming journalism" when those whores got paraded around by the Jews. /pol/ tried to tell them what was going on, /v/ refused to listen, nobody learned anything and everyone lost.
No.154208
>>154204Yeah, I stopped lamenting it years ago. Just waiting for the ASI demiurge to come online and usher in the next age.
No.154211
dup is going to bring up GamerGate soon. I can feel it.
>>154202>Despite the fact that people proclaim 4chan has gotten worse and worse over the years, people still stay there, stating there is no place else to go. 8moe still exists. So the question I've been pondering for the last little while is this: why do people stay using 4chan when they have alternatives? Will there ever be another event that will cause 4chan users to leave en masse? Or will everyone who likes the image board lifestyle just stay on 4chan 4ever?I don't know how anyone can stand it over there. I was getting really sick of 4chan at the time the Exodus happened, and it's only gotten worse since then.
No.154221
I prefer the old gamergates to the faggots that exist nowadays.
No.154237
>>154206the splitting thing is the same thing that fucked over the webring
Mark Mann might have been a traitor, but I think now that he saw the writing on the wall with 8kunt dying and just wanted to save /v/ from balkanization
>>154211yeah /v/ was already starting to become unusable in 2014, there was too much spam even 10 years ago
No.154308
It's depressing to see how much was lost:
https://8kun.top/dir/index.htmlIf only the images had remained online, to act as an archive. Now even the text is becoming lost as some old boards are being spammed and the board owner is long gone.
No.154309
>>154237>the splitting thing is the same thing that fucked over the webringMark Mann might have been a traitor, but I think now that he saw the writing on the wall with 8kunt dying and just wanted to save /v/ from balkanization
Than maybe he should have kept vch.moe online instead of trying to get anons to return to 8chan's corpse.
Also the main reason the splits always happened was because anons didn't want to use shitty boards run by shitty mods like mark in the first place.
The honest truth is there was nothing to keep the anons together of what was left of 8chan, the war for the internet was lost and the ones who remained who wanted to be together and have an honest discussion were either outnumbered or driven off almost half a decade ago by the same well-poisoner types who did their best to ruin 8chan, think (((/intl/))).
Since anons are just sort of in this retirement home mode where they don't make any new content and there is nothing to rally them together it makes sense that it would end up like this. It seems like besides tvch everyone on the webring basically seems like they are in zombie-state, waiting to be revived or waiting to die.
You can see attempts to reunify the webring several times but it never worked because the anons either had grievances with each other that could never be consolidated, were isolationist, or just didn't really care anymore.
>>154308Yeah pretty much everything is almost completely lost at this point, nothing more than a damn shame.
No.154310
>>154308That BO is a faggot. Hotwheels is a fiend. We were stupid to trust a genetic dud in the first place. Jim was after money? No shit, who the fuck isn't? Jim really did nothing wrong.
No.154311
>>154310>Hotwheels is a fiend. We were stupid to trust a genetic dud in the first place.I never trusted him, I didn't even think we would stay there forever, but any splinter attempt never held, so I think most anons remained on 8chan with a lot of cation.
No.154313
>>154207>/v/ took a story about some whores fucking for good reviews and then tried to make it about "gaming journalism" when those whores got paraded around by the Jews. /pol/ tried to tell them what was going on, /v/ refused to listen, nobody learned anything and everyone lost.More like a bunch of e-celebs saw what was going on and took the option to redditize internet culture as a whole. Gamergate completely broke open the floodgates, gatekeeping? What's that anon?! I agree that /v/ at this point had become pretty retarded and was lagging behind /pol/ but what do you expect? The fact that so many of them fell for the fine young capitalist and muh daughteru trick and actually funded it is all one needs to know to how much they didn't get it.
although vivian was admittingly cute, shame she is only remembered by porn addicts from cake/v/ at this point No.154321
>>154320>The more i think about it, gamergate, 2016, all this gay internet shit truly was the great war of our generation. We lost and threads talking about it always end up in the same result.Its not like we didn't fight bitterly to the end, we really didn't fucking want the normalniggers to steal everything from us, now reaction images that we once used to convey our feelings are used by scammer youtubers to trick young men into thinking they can fuck 30 girls.
The future of the internet, your looking at it bitch-ass anon.
When you sorta think about it we won all the major battles, even gamergay at least established a base of anons/other fags who realized what was going on. The sjws got their shit kicked in, the kikes got scared, but at the end of the day the door to power is closed, and so we lost the war. Normalfags are just to fucking stupid to understand anything. Literally all they had to do was sit there and wait, sit and of course encourage dumber anons/more mentally unstable anons to do stupid shit to get us taken down.
What was funny is the shooter who got 8chan taken, the faggot who was the basis for the symbol of online right-wing zoomers, the much now beloved chudjak was the guy who was used as an excuse to take H8chan down. He wasn't even from 8chan and he was a fucking jew. reality is cruel and I miss my brothers, I'm glad a few still remain here.
No.154356
>>154321Yeah, it had some positive effects and open the eyes of many people to all the bullshit going on at the time. In the long run, the downfall was eventual, normalfags take over everything big but at least things didn't go down without a fight.
Personally, it sure was a growing up experience since I was a young adult at the time and that time period shaped up a lot of my current idealogy, for better or worse. It's also interesting look back on how things were, and how things turned out as a result. Thinking about simialr movements in the past that I only read about, it put things in perspective for me.
>>154313Vivian was nice, would've liked to see her stick around more.
No.154359
>>154356>In the long run, the downfall was eventual, normalfags take over everything big but at least things didn't go down without a fight.I think if it weren't for the suicide advertisement attacks towards the end which amounted to nothing but the left realizing the could do whatever they wanted the adpocalypse never would have happened or it would have at least been greatly delayed. You can blame IA or metokike along with the same attention whoring newfags from chanology/reddit/twitter for turning the five guys threads into the infernal gate that allowed the endless summer to take over the internet. Much like I said earlier about the advertisement kamikazes things probably would have gone a lot better for us had it never blew up in the way it did. Freddit might have never been able to make 8chan the home of the eventual exodus from cuckchan, maybe something more organic would have sprung from old /pol/ like a better Endchan. It is all what if but I just wish things didn't have to go the way they did.
No.154360
>>154359>could do whatever they wanted the adpocalypse never would have happened or it would have at least been greatly delayed.Perhaps.
>It is all what if but I just wish things didn't have to go the way they did.I feel you. The world may go to shit but it would've been nice to have our own haven. I don't know if I am a deafeatist/blackpilled but looking at history, things always turn out this way, typically by forces that are much larger against us. The golden ages always meet their end.
Sidenote, now that I think about it, gamergate signified the end of the old days of the internet. The so called wild west of the internet already ended by 2014 but I guess remnants of its cultire were there and gamergate, at least part of it, was the last stand against 'modern internet', but things were already too late. The normalfags already had large presence and where present on both sides. The identity/PRfags mainly from reddit were the worst of it and they didn't even realize it.
It's always sad to look back considering how things are now, but it's good to know that we once experienced the internet at its peak.
No.154362
>>154361yeah, he won, he got a rimjob made by Nuzach, LMAO!!!
No.154369
>>154362nuzach hates mark and essayfag too, easy mark W for years and tears of those two.
No.154372
>>154369How do you know if Nuzach likes or hates Mark and Essayfaggot?
No.154376
>>154372they both write paragraphs on how much they hate mark, i consider this a mark W moment, keeping the haters seething
No.154379
>>154376But Mark
is a worthless piece of shit.
No.154382
>>154360>The so called wild west of the internet already ended by 2014 but I guess remnants of its cultire were there and gamergate, at least part of it, was the last stand against 'modern internet', but things were already too late.Totally agree I think 2011-2012 was the last true year of the old internet, with their being really strong echos of resistence till around 2019.
>The normalfags already had large presence and where present on both sides.>The identity/PRfags mainly from reddit were the worst of it and they didn't even realize it.The worst part is their lack of self awareness is so strong you could never convince them otherwise. Some of them thought and really thought they were >le 4chan shitlord, not realizing just how stupid the context of their adoption of said identity. You can't be a "based oldfag anon" when you are some milktoast twitter personality.
No.154409
>>154202>why do people stay using 4chan when they have alternatives?Habit. Also how many oldfags are actually still there? I imagine most have moved on. Most of the people there nowadays are from after 2014 or 2016, children that don't know better being tryhards.
Will there ever be another event that will cause 4chan users to leave en masse? Or will everyone who likes the image board lifestyle just stay on 4chan 4ever?
It's the living dead. Nobody cares anymore. Imageboards are of a bygone age, again the kids on 4chan are only there because of its notoriety, not because they like imageboard culture. Most have moved on to othet platforms. It's over.
No.154630
>>154604
Why are you always butthurt, Nuzach? You loved soyjakparty memes, until they were used against you.
No.154688
>>154676
You mean like your intense rage at your boogeyman Ramon?
No.154697
>>154309>Than maybe he should have kept vch.moeWe wouldn't have had tvch.moe if that did not happen.
No.154706
>>154409>Also how many oldfags are actually still there?I lurk a couple threads on /tg/ from time to time but except for that I moved on a long time ago
No.154718
By Satan, I want to tongue Mark jewish butthole, that would make all the essayfags of the world seethe, heh! I'm le joker, baby!
No.154767
>>154718>Rent freeKys essayfag.
No.154818
>>154600I moved to OF what about you?
No.154858
>>154852>>154834lmao he was seething about "muh essayfag" all across the site, probably bc he got baited by you
No.154859
<Embrace Infamy
We should give this another try.
Image boards and this side of the Internet, in general, have gone too soft. Were's the Internet Hate Machine?
No.154867
>>154859The last time we embraced infamy, some folks took the slogan a liittle too literally.
No.154869
>>154864This pic always makes me laugh
No.155440
Dup won again, uhh did we win gamergay bros?
No.157157
bump
No.157181
>>157180
>still posting this fake shit
Fuck off already.
No.157182
>>157180
>t. BBC respecter
hang yourself
No.157193
>>157187I'm not even a waifufag but that's the best choice without a doubt.
No.157197
>>157195What happened to the actor who played Daniel? The last time I saw him he had a white beard and seemed to have sunk into madness.
No.157202
>>157197Wait he went insane? Always thought he was better than the actor in the movie. Stargate was a fun show for its pure action and guns solve everything moments.
No.157203
>>157202He was quite arrogant and one of those actors who wanted more until they found themselves hitting a wall. I think both he and the actor who played Jonas Quinn talk a lot of cringe shit on social media.