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Five months later? Six? It seems like a long time, or at least a significant Era—the kind of peak that rarely comes again. 8chan in late 2014 was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run …
but no explanation, no mix of archives or WebMs or screencaps can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the internetz. Whatever it meant …
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of the outcasts of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
There was always madness in every direction, no matter where you looked. If not down a habbo raid, then in a /gg/ stream or up a /baphomet/ thread… You could raise the fire anywhere. There was a careless sense that whatever the fuck we were doing was right. No matter what happened.
And that, I think, was the handle –that sense of inevitable EPIC WIN over the forces of the Jews and SJWs. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a hasty and reckless wave. We could not fail!…
So now, around 6 months later, you can go up on a thread in the archives and lurk back, and with the right kind of eyes you can see the high water mark –that post where our wave finally broke and rolled back.
I have noticed that through every *chan's history, there is a certain point in time. A kind of point they will talk about for years to come. Ours was in October. 4chan's was in '05 or '06. Now, we are almost on par with 4chan in quality terms. We reached the peak of quality. The wave broke. Now we have a steady regress.