How often do y'all visit 4chan?

2 years ago by asudox (only for mod, alt) to c/asklemmy

I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.

Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.

BaalInvoker 74 points 2 years ago

Never

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Ejh3k 44 points 2 years ago

Literally never in my life

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Nemo 13 points 2 years ago

I have successfully not visited it for, I think multiple decades now.

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glimse 37 points 2 years ago

I haven't been on 4chan since like 2011

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pezmaker 8 points 2 years ago

I'm not adding to any conversation really but this is pretty much my answer too

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eddietrax 29 points 2 years ago

Zero times. If it’s worth looking at it’ll make its way eventually to another platform that’s less of an ass fissure

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bloopernova 26 points 2 years ago

Like once a year or something.

Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.

Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn't expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.

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alternative_factor 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah I was a big channer many years ago I still don't understand how the fuck fascism won there. The only reason I go there now is to snoop on fascists since I know how to click around there. The only thing I can say is that it must be that most channers really were idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for, instead of people pretending to be idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for.

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chaogomu 9 points 2 years ago

Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.

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EssentialCoffee 3 points 2 years ago

I pretend to be an elven paladin regularly. I'm not going to become an elven paladin.

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CurbsTickle 4 points 2 years ago

Pfft, just try harder

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captainlezbian 4 points 2 years ago

The alt right playbook is a great resource to understand how they won there if you’re curious.

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sapient_cogbag 23 points 2 years ago

Absolutely never.

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Montagge 20 points 2 years ago

Why would I want to lower my faith in humanity more?

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metaStatic 7 points 2 years ago

rock bottom should be the default

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pearsaltchocolatebar 20 points 2 years ago

I haven't been on 4chan in over 20 years since I saw a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel.

That place is a cesspool.

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cyberpunk007 3 points 2 years ago

Oh I forgot about that one. I also saw that. Sickening.

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9point6 15 points 2 years ago

4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.

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kwomp 2 points 2 years ago

I think this is it more or less.

It felt like fun freedom to have a communicative realm with no rules, guidelines, morals at all. But in hindsight I guess it was fine for me because I had a moral compass and intellect so mad-max-land allowed me to re-explore my limits and opinions on my own, like from point zero, without preexisting structure (wich is always present if there is any decency).

For some, apparently, that was not fine. Like they didn't catch themselves in the freefall of morals and epistemology that comes with the 4chan credo of "everything here fake and foolish...". Or maybe it's that some don't have a corrective social realm outside 4chan, able to get them back to the ground. And those ones overtook. (Maybe cause the other ones are done playing edge walk after a while).

Tl;dr: had fun, learned some, feel a bit bad now

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THE_MASTERMIND 1 point 2 years ago

Litterally me

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lvxferre 13 points 2 years ago

Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it's actually decent-ish to talk about games.

I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:

Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don't... really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)

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Kit 12 points 2 years ago

I used 4chan daily from 2005 to around 2013. It just doesn't have the vibe it used to, or maybe I'm just getting old.

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altima_neo 1 point 2 years ago

Cuz it's not the same without mootykins

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lvxferre 3 points 2 years ago

Moot? That newbie ruined 4chan forever since he joined it! :^)

Shitty jokes aside, I didn't notice too much of a change with the moot→hiro transition. Most negative changes in the "vibe" there predate hiro for me.

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Tramort 10 points 2 years ago

Never.

At this point I see pepe as a hate symbol.

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tal 2 points 2 years ago

I don't follow 4chan politics, but isn't Pepe a /pol/ thing or something like that? I mean, 4chan's got a number of different forums. That seems like saying that Reddit is X because of a particular subreddit, or the Fediverse is X because of a particular community/magazine.

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Tramort 3 points 2 years ago

I see your point: pepe can be used for anything.

But it's so strongly associated with hate in my experience that I cannot see its use in an unbiased way.

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felixwhynot 1 point 2 years ago

There’s a documentary about Pepe and his creator, Matt Furie, called “Feels Good Man”. It’s worth a watch!

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THE_MASTERMIND 1 point 2 years ago

I like pepe though there is one pic of him for most situation or you can make one easily and he is kinda funny ngl

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Gabadabs 8 points 2 years ago

Never have, never will.

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Vanth 7 points 2 years ago
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MxM111 7 points 2 years ago

0 times per year.

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CryptidBestiary 7 points 2 years ago

I used to when I was in my teens, when 4chan wasn't as "well known" by so many people. It was definitely wild then. Now I don't really have the desire to browse there or anywhere else besides Lemmy

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 5 points 2 years ago

0 times a year. I used to lurk on Something Awful and Fark back in the day but I never liked 4chan.

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised 4chan is the one still around but I guess the non-religious kids who are the future of the Republican Party need somewhere to hang out.

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cyberpunk007 1 point 2 years ago

Not really sure what it has to do with religion

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 1 point 2 years ago

The future Republican voter base is basically: white Evangelicals/homeschool kids, white dudes who own (or aspire to own) an ATV or Jet Ski dealership, and 4chan/Reddit/Discord users who are being ironically racist/sexist but will soon drop the comfort of irony and just be racist/sexist.

I just assumed the latter 2 weren’t necessarily religious like the Evangelical homeschool kids who go to Liberty University or wherever.

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squiblet 5 points 2 years ago

Sometimes I remember it exists and is vaguely legit to visit, and that there are other sections besides /b. I think maybe I go there for about an hour once a year.

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Usernameblankface 5 points 2 years ago

I haven't been there, I only see screenshots here and there, and the occasional YouTube video detailing their shenanigans

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tcrash 5 points 2 years ago
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FunkyMonk 4 points 2 years ago

been decades around when moot left and 4chan was hentai pics.

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AlexSup21 4 points 2 years ago

1/lifetime

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stackPeek 4 points 2 years ago

None. I will never touch anything *chan

2chan, 4chan, 5chan, and the other number I won't even mention cuz I actually saw something very traumatizing there.

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Asudox 2 points 2 years ago

as in?

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Agent641 8 points 2 years ago

A picture of a married heterosexual couple having sex in the missionary position

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stackPeek 1 point 2 years ago

Late reply but not even close

It's genuinely morbid

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Linkerbaan 4 points 2 years ago

5 years ago? Some people have something funny to say but it's not worth groveling through the hundreds of bot comments to find it.

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Asudox 1 point 2 years ago

Bot comments?

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Asudox 0 points 2 years ago

That was a year ago. I doubt anyone's still running that outdated 23gb model still on torrents.

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Linkerbaan 1 point 2 years ago

Many of the comments on 4chan are not very insightful and mostly repeat the same classic mantra's. Now I'm not shy for dark humor but I do like it original.

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Fudoshin 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe once a year to remind myself I'm not a complete twat.

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maxenmajs 4 points 2 years ago

Never. I only look at the funny greentext highlights and I don't want to hunt for those.

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captainlezbian 3 points 2 years ago

Once before gamergate. I didn’t like the sort of people I found there. I wasn’t surprised about the following decade of newsworthy and leaking bad behavior

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PP_BOY_ 3 points 2 years ago

Not much anymore. /diy/ is still good for some of my weirder technical questions, but the rest of the boards are in the gutter. /b/, which used to be good for a Friday-night laugh, is nothing but transphobic-trans worship posts or loli threads.

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norbert 6 points 2 years ago

/b/ was never good.

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PP_BOY_ 1 point 2 years ago

Eh, in retrospect I agree but as a socially awkward annoyingly atheistic teenager in the late oughts/ early 2010s there was some times that were fun in the moment. Definitely didn't do anything good for my development though

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norbert 1 point 2 years ago
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ruckblack 3 points 2 years ago

I mean a long time ago, like 15 years ago, before I really found reddit, I went on there pretty often.

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DirigibleProtein 3 points 2 years ago

I looked at it for the first time a few weeks ago to see what all the fuss is about. Terrible user interface and the content wasn’t very interesting. No reason to go back again.

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metaStatic 2 points 2 years ago

official old fag right here. bet he can triforce and everything.

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DirigibleProtein 4 points 2 years ago

What does that mean?

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lvxferre 5 points 2 years ago

"Oldfag": site veteran, old user. Social acceptability of the suffix -fag is at most disputable; someone would argue that, in that specific context, it conveys simply "person", while someone else could argue that its homophobic meaning is still there. Anyway, you see the same suffix being attached to other adjectives, specially in the coordinate term "newfag" (newbie, noob).

Triforce: a symbol from The Legend of Zelda. 4chan users, specially in /b/, liked to prove that they were veterans instead of newbies by posting the text version of that symbol, as

 ▲
▲ ▲

because, if you simply copied-and-pasted it (like a newbie would be assumed to), 4chan would automatically remove leading spaces, and you'd get

▲
▲ ▲

instead. (The trick was to insert a non-breaking space before the first triangle. In Linux I remember doing this with Ctrl+Shift+u, a, 0, Enter.)

Funnily enough nothing screams "NEWBIIIIE!" the loudest than trying to prove that you're a veteran of the site.

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BaldProphet 2 points 2 years ago

Guy was roleplaying as a 4chan user.

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paddirn 3 points 2 years ago

I have never visited the hacker known as 4chan, I hear he's a gross neckbeard who never showers.

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CorrodedCranium 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe once a week. Their torrent board /t/ occasionally has some neat stuff but sporadically when browsing different boards like /v/ I'll hear some news about a niche topic I'm into.

For example last time it was that a Youtuber I follow named MittenSquad died. Had no idea.

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otherbarry 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe once in the last 5-10 years to look up something specific... so basically never.

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spittingimage 3 points 2 years ago

I've never visited 4chan. Everything I've read about it makes me think it's not the webforum for me.

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TGhost 2 points 2 years ago

.

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henfredemars 2 points 2 years ago

Rarely. Not more than once a month, and then I remember why I outgrew it.

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AngelJamie 2 points 2 years ago
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stoy 1 point 2 years ago

My 4chan days was almost twenty years ago, I am no longer interested in it other than the occasional greentext repost.

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angstylittlecatboy 1 point 2 years ago

Never. Like, I've browsed around a few times. /LGBT/ (when it wasn't people from /pol/ trying to debate trans people) was the only board of value...I can't put it into words but, it's the only board I think really lives up to the romantic ideals of what 4chan is. It feels... weirdly neither irony poisoned like the rest of 4chan nor dead serious and moralistic like the rest of the internet. Maybe the rest used to live up, I'm young so I wouldn't know (though I do know people were moaning about "the old 4chan" in 08.) But I don't belong on /LGBT/, I'm moralism poisoned.

Culturally, 4chan is a spent force, I think that became clear when every new meme from there was a Soyjak variant. It's a shame some channers think they're still on the precipice of internet culture. I just wish the ghost of /pol/'s influence would stop haunting my country.

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Xtallll 1 point 2 years ago

Not since 2006 or 7, used to hit up the paper craft forum for Warhammer proxies.

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altima_neo 1 point 2 years ago

I'm on /v/all the time

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Inucune 1 point 2 years ago

Daily, watching the advances of ai porn generation techniques and tools. The deep fakes trend didn't spontaneously emerge from a vacuum, and ai generation of gif/videos from a single text prompt is in the 'dreaming' stage. I give it 6 months before you will be able to have a coherent scene of 10 seconds of ai gif or video based on a single prompt with minimal editing.

4chan is the best place I've found to watch this that isn't trying to sell me something or over sensationalize it.

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Donut 2 points 2 years ago

You're looking at AI porn every day?

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Inucune 1 point 2 years ago

Yes.

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solitaire 1 point 2 years ago

Only ever used it for piracy, it's been the most reliable source for finding niche TTRPG books. From the first time I used it to now it probably averages out to once or twice a year, though in practice it comes in bursts.

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cyberpunk007 1 point 2 years ago

Piracy exists on 4chan?

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solitaire 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, /tg/ has a share thread. It's kind of ephemeral and it's not straight forward to navigate but if something cant be found elsewhere it's your best bet.

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THE_MASTERMIND 1 point 2 years ago

Who is moot you all are talking about ?

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xc2215x 1 point 2 years ago

I don't really anymore.

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