>>15174
>>13970
Well, I mean, yeah, 4chan had been around since 2003 so practically 22 years (originally went up in October).
So for as bad - and I mean IN SPITE of the shitposting - you get used to it. It felt kinda like a relic from another time, mostly because it was honestly.
For as much as I see people making mention of, "I am 4 followers away from X number", or people simping over vtubers, streamers, and egirls, I miss back when there was a general acknowledgement that the internet for all it's usefulness WASN'T there to help you. Like I recently have been thinking of that old post where someone follows an image for mug brownies and ends up making like mustard gas and gets sent to the hospital. I remember seeing that and thought, "Well that's what you get for trusting the internet," yeah it was cruel thing for that anon to do, but also why would you trust any information from an anonymous image board that frequently posts CP - for the LULZ?
I'm not going to deny that I probably should of stopped using 4chan years ago, but at the same time, I can't deny that shitposting and experiencing it has made me a better and wiser person about how the web works in general. Like, yeah, I had my "we are legion" phase, but I also learned the importance of certain things we take for granted and how fragile and easily dismantled pillars of our world can be.
Follower counts can easily be flubbed and "interaction" can easily be manufactured, the crass and shitpost nature of 4chan kinda protected it from most of the "influencer" bullshit plaguing so much of the internet today. Fuck you, you're not important, you are one of thousand of anonymous internet assholes swimming in an ocean of piss posting on a website that's falling apart at the seams. Nobody gives a shit about your ePeen.
You would have someone post the worst most vile racist take in /pol/ and then head over to /ck/ where they would give you the most delicious cake recipe you've ever tasted.
Someone would have a nasty fap to futa smegma porn on /d/ then head over to /b/ and give a deep and profound insight into the war in Iraq because they actually came from the Middle East!
That was the nice thing, to paraphrase something I think Moot once said, "You deserve the right to be wrong."
I hate my younger racist piece of self, and I'm glad I grew out of it, and I'm even more glad that all my shit can no longer be found as it was posted years ago on a funny website.
It's not tied to my username, display name, or anything else, I don't have to have someone go over my 20 years of shitposting just to find out I used to be an edgy teen like everyone else and try to hold me accountable for something I've long since grown out of.
I have been seeing a lot of "good riddance to bad rubbish" posts on BlueSky about the whole thing, and fair enough - 4chan did do quite a bit of damage to the world at large - so fair enough....
BUT I feel like I lost I friend, I knew the days of MARBLE CAKE ALSO THE GAME couldn't last forever, but I'm still sad to see it go.
Yeah, I can post different video types here - and they have SOUND too!
But - it's - just - how to I say this delicately - the blue makes me think I'm posting on a SFW board...
This is still very much a Chan board, but with all the other anons scattered to the winds it just doesn't quite feel like home.