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Welcome to /imgbc/! Here we talk about the the history of chans and the userbases they attract. Follow the global rules and try to stay on-topic.
Feel free to make some banners if you are up for it.
This thread will serve as a meta thread for anyone who wants to discuss things about this board in particular.
Here are a few resources on chan history:
http://world2ch.org/wiki/doku.php
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What are non-english imageboards like?
Krautchan, cable6, Hispachan, the russian 2ch, whatever that polish imageboard is called, obviously Futuba, etc.
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Alternative chansite general thread
During the exodus many anons were unsure of where to migrate. Luckily, Masterchan and, more importantly, 8chan managed to enter the limelight. Next time, should Hotwheels fail us, we might not be so lucky.
ITT:
Share links to alternative chansites, preferably with a brief summary about it and how good you think it is.
Example:
>http://www.4chan.org/
>massively populated chan with a long history and boards for lots of topics, but with no way to create your own boards
>it's a decent site but the moderation has gone downhill recently
>overall 6/10
Alternative chansite general thread
During the exodus many anons were unsure of where to migrate. Luckily, Masterchan and, more importantly, 8chan managed to enter the limelight. Next time, should Hotwheels fail us, we might not be so lucky.
ITT:
Share links to alternative chansites, preferably with a brief summary about it and how good you think it is.
Example:
>http://www.4chan.org/
>massively populated chan with a long history and boards for lots of topics, but with no way to create your own boards
>it's a decent site but the moderation has gone downhill recently
>overall 6/10
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7chan
Tell me everything you know about 7chan
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wat
>there are channers who don't know what loic is
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Home is where the heart is….
What's your home board? /a/ hits closest to me. Always liked how cozy it felt, especially here on 8chan
Home is where the heart is….
What's your home board? /a/ hits closest to me. Always liked how cozy it felt, especially here on 8chan
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4chan Ethnography and Historic Summary - Bibanon
Hey. For the last two years I've been curating a 4chan history .doc. I've been hosting it in vyrd.net and bibanon since then. But a recent problem in vyrd has left me unable to post.
I think you may find the 4chan .doc interesting as it contains a full timeline of 4chan and a bunch of information including a historic summary and staff info.
But well, enough talking, have the link:
1.4.2 - https://mega.nz/#!UUcBHagL!OHYl4zArBKai7-QmaL2im_E4kzfrWuMef1cdjdOTAv8
If all is good I'll post the updated versions from time to time.
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Repostan from thread in /cyber/.
This document is the earliest writing about what chans are and why they are superior done by someone from inside the culture I know. I even think it'is pretty much chan bible:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan
Do you have more? I really like reading this stuff, even if it's done by outsiders.
Repostan from thread in /cyber/.
This document is the earliest writing about what chans are and why they are superior done by someone from inside the culture I know. I even think it'is pretty much chan bible:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan
Do you have more? I really like reading this stuff, even if it's done by outsiders.
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Shwoops
Dumping some OC I've been making, partly for /tg/.
Old timey images are an untapped treasure trove.
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Eastern Imageboard culture
Lets talk about Futaba Channel, anons. Disregard that I'm using an image about 2channel.
For a long time, I've felt that Moot didn't bother learning the culture of Futaba when he tried cloning it. As each day passes, I happen to believe this more and more. There were some big mistakes like only having a single /b/(Boards that become too big on 2ch and 2chan get extra pages so they don't flood into other, offtopic boards) among other things.
With this in mind, I wanted to learn more about Futaba . 2ch also works, but Futaba is the imageboard with a culture closer to ours. Thank you.
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Ask me anything about the site, imageboard culture,imageboard archvial and 4chan (since moot has retired.)
I'm Jkid of Yotsuba Society.
aka: The Society for the Study and Preservation of Yotsuba Channel. (read: 4chan and other imageboards.) I've been the co-founder and head webmaster of the site since 2011.Ask me anything about the site, imageboard culture,imageboard archvial and 4chan (since moot has retired.)
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board culture
Post boards that you think have an interesting culture built up, along with why they would make a good case study for board culture.
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You guys should check out mah chan :3
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This board is pretty much dead.
Is there really nothing left to discuss about imageboards?
This board is pretty much dead.
Is there really nothing left to discuss about imageboards?
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Dying boards
How do you keep small boards like /imgbc/ alive?
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https://8chan.co/tg/res/11678.html
This thread seems pretty relevant to this board's main topic, even if it's focused on the internet at large rather than just imageboards.
>webm unrelated
https://8chan.co/tg/res/11678.html
This thread seems pretty relevant to this board's main topic, even if it's focused on the internet at large rather than just imageboards.
>webm unrelated
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To start us off, how long have you been using imageboards?
I myself am rather new, actually. I'm pretty sure I joined 10 months back or so. I really wish I had jumped on the chan-train earlier, but I'm glad I went through most of my terrible posing phases before I arrived.
To start us off, how long have you been using imageboards?
I myself am rather new, actually. I'm pretty sure I joined 10 months back or so. I really wish I had jumped on the chan-train earlier, but I'm glad I went through most of my terrible posing phases before I arrived.
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So was it just 4chan that censored discussion of gamergate? I head that other chans censored discussion as well, notably 7chan and maybe 420chan?
Does anyone have more specific info?
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My favorite thing about imageboards is the fact that every image is rehosted with a UNIX timestamp as the filename. This is one of the earliest pictures I saved from 4chan, and I can pinpoint the moment in time that it was uploaded by the filename.
Assuming you don't change the filenames of your pictures as you download them, your /b/ folders are pretty much anthropological goldmines. Keep them preserved for a few decades, go through them, and be amazed at how weird imageboard culture was in the 2000s and 2010s.
My favorite thing about imageboards is the fact that every image is rehosted with a UNIX timestamp as the filename. This is one of the earliest pictures I saved from 4chan, and I can pinpoint the moment in time that it was uploaded by the filename.
Assuming you don't change the filenames of your pictures as you download them, your /b/ folders are pretty much anthropological goldmines. Keep them preserved for a few decades, go through them, and be amazed at how weird imageboard culture was in the 2000s and 2010s.
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Has it spread? Did other use it? Is your legacy living on others harddrives for all time?
How does it feel?
Content
So /imgbc/, how many of you have made content?Has it spread? Did other use it? Is your legacy living on others harddrives for all time?
How does it feel?
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How has imageboard culture affected your life?
>partially responsible for my depression
>gave me a metric ass ton of new fetishes
>kept me from becoming an sjw
>made me go from cancerous newfaggot to slightly smaller faggot
>exacerbated my fucked up sense of humor
>desensitized me to all manner of disturbing content
How has imageboard culture affected your life?
>partially responsible for my depression
>gave me a metric ass ton of new fetishes
>kept me from becoming an sjw
>made me go from cancerous newfaggot to slightly smaller faggot
>exacerbated my fucked up sense of humor
>desensitized me to all manner of disturbing content
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/tikilounge/ had there own advertisement.
Think this might catch on with other boards?
Small boards outreching
So I've notice some boards making videos for themselves out there in hopes to get fresh new users./tikilounge/ had there own advertisement.
Think this might catch on with other boards?
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which Pokémon would you fuck?
yiff
hey /imgbc/which Pokémon would you fuck?
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pic unrelated.
/newspaper/
Hello! Head Editor of >>>/newspaper/ here. Not sure how I missed this place. Everyone here is encouraged to contribute to the /newspaper/ project, which is just a board for articles and information about site happenings, currently focusing on archival of 8chan history, so people years down the line can see what it was like.pic unrelated.
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Post links to other meta boards along with a short explanation of the board and how they relate to /imgbc/. If we can build up a small community that crossposts on all the meta boards, that would be awesome.
>>>/reactimg/
Reaction images. At the very least, it has the potential to become a valuable resource.
>>>/a8syndicate/
A board dedicated to weaponising autism in order to stop the SJW menace. This is relevant because SJWs are the antithesis of everything *chans stand for and the greatest threat to imageboard culture at this point in time.
>>>/baphomet/ and >>>/cow/ are already featured boards.
I don't have any related images, so here's a gif of a girl with a spider in her mouth.
Post links to other meta boards along with a short explanation of the board and how they relate to /imgbc/. If we can build up a small community that crossposts on all the meta boards, that would be awesome.
>>>/reactimg/
Reaction images. At the very least, it has the potential to become a valuable resource.
>>>/a8syndicate/
A board dedicated to weaponising autism in order to stop the SJW menace. This is relevant because SJWs are the antithesis of everything *chans stand for and the greatest threat to imageboard culture at this point in time.
>>>/baphomet/ and >>>/cow/ are already featured boards.
I don't have any related images, so here's a gif of a girl with a spider in her mouth.
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>>>/pie/
What do you guys think of >>>/pie/?
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/b/ has /b/tards
/tg/ has fa/tg/uys
/mental/ has /mental/ists
What will the users of /imgbc/ be called?
webm unrelated
/b/ has /b/tards
/tg/ has fa/tg/uys
/mental/ has /mental/ists
What will the users of /imgbc/ be called?
webm unrelated
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WOO. FEATURED BOARD PARTY!
Quick, name one of your favorite things about *chan sites!
The lack of usernames prevents people from making judgments about your posts before reading them, and forces them to judge actively on it's content alone.
WOO. FEATURED BOARD PARTY!
Quick, name one of your favorite things about *chan sites!
The lack of usernames prevents people from making judgments about your posts before reading them, and forces them to judge actively on it's content alone.
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What do you think of the relationship between /pol/ and /leftypol/?
What do you think of the relationship between /pol/ and /leftypol/?
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VERSION 2: I've been thinking, and I've noticed two ways you might find this interesting, now that I thought of it. Inspiration came from the screencap from someone on the /baphomet/ board on 8chan
While Transphobia, Racism, misogyny/misandry, SJW/MRA etc is a significant portion of the various factions and clusterfucks which Gamergate is - a large portion of it seems to be class struggle. Or more specifically - Gamergate is a class struggle over who "owns" the gaming/geek industry (Regionalism/family ties), and a symptom of the "gentrification" of the internet. A /baphomet/ poster noticed this analogy hilariously given his experience with "SJW" scene – the screencap noted above.
A. The Struggle over the industry. The original "creators" of geek culture were science fiction fans. science fiction was cheap, easy to get to/read, etc. Comics were similar. It was “democratized” (minus race and gender constraints in the US scene). My main focus though is gaming industry/culture, and perhaps "Tech" fields and american comic-cons. The original innovators were mainly middle class white males, with a few blacks and asians, etc. They worked pretty much "from the ground". They weren't exactly ghetto poor (at least not the white ones, there were black hackers like John Threat who were), but they weren't privileged bourgoeise either.
Pretty much, they built the internet. They developed it. The internet culture 'originally' was pretty formal, but as the internet democratized it adopted the wild west/BBS mentality which you attach to the "old school" internet (Which itself was only one part of the internet). The dial-up BBSes with hacking information which is now horribly outdated (TOTSE.com was the last remnant of that culture which was somewhat active with a forum; textfiles.com is a static mirror of that era)
The "Eternal September" was a democratization of the internet. There were problems with aspect of culture, but it was not exactly a sense of 'our culture will be wiped out' as internet culture, or what we consider as internet culture did not develop yet (absent alt.tasteless and trolling which prompted the meow wars on usenet). Some administrators of forums managed to get rich. Lowtax might have been one of the first forum owners/admins to have made money. The admin of newgrounds did as well. They were still 'attached' to forum culture, so there was not as much of a problem, even though there was say rumbles that (in the case of newgrounds) 'it's not as good as it "used to" be.'
By this time, it is I guess 2006-08. This is when web 2.0 becomes popular. The first “popular” (as opposed to internet liberation front hackers) aspects of perhaps some resistance to commercialization comes up. Mainly people saying web 2.0 is shit and hype. People are 'meh' and "transition" over seamlessly, and arguably there was no 'real' difference between web 1.0 and 2.0 other than perhaps graphics.
However, the social capital and social status of "geeks" has risen since I guess the 1980s, and arguably always has been high. Due to historical revisionism of the concept of 'geek culture' being oppressed (for truth or not, there may have been that oppression, but on the other hand you had Carl Sagan and Issac Asimov in 1970s on national television, and american politician Newt Gingrich brags/bragged about liking science fiction and going to sci-fi cons)
Is Gamergate A Class War?
someone on /leftypol/ told me to submit this here:VERSION 2: I've been thinking, and I've noticed two ways you might find this interesting, now that I thought of it. Inspiration came from the screencap from someone on the /baphomet/ board on 8chan
While Transphobia, Racism, misogyny/misandry, SJW/MRA etc is a significant portion of the various factions and clusterfucks which Gamergate is - a large portion of it seems to be class struggle. Or more specifically - Gamergate is a class struggle over who "owns" the gaming/geek industry (Regionalism/family ties), and a symptom of the "gentrification" of the internet. A /baphomet/ poster noticed this analogy hilariously given his experience with "SJW" scene – the screencap noted above.
A. The Struggle over the industry. The original "creators" of geek culture were science fiction fans. science fiction was cheap, easy to get to/read, etc. Comics were similar. It was “democratized” (minus race and gender constraints in the US scene). My main focus though is gaming industry/culture, and perhaps "Tech" fields and american comic-cons. The original innovators were mainly middle class white males, with a few blacks and asians, etc. They worked pretty much "from the ground". They weren't exactly ghetto poor (at least not the white ones, there were black hackers like John Threat who were), but they weren't privileged bourgoeise either.
Pretty much, they built the internet. They developed it. The internet culture 'originally' was pretty formal, but as the internet democratized it adopted the wild west/BBS mentality which you attach to the "old school" internet (Which itself was only one part of the internet). The dial-up BBSes with hacking information which is now horribly outdated (TOTSE.com was the last remnant of that culture which was somewhat active with a forum; textfiles.com is a static mirror of that era)
The "Eternal September" was a democratization of the internet. There were problems with aspect of culture, but it was not exactly a sense of 'our culture will be wiped out' as internet culture, or what we consider as internet culture did not develop yet (absent alt.tasteless and trolling which prompted the meow wars on usenet). Some administrators of forums managed to get rich. Lowtax might have been one of the first forum owners/admins to have made money. The admin of newgrounds did as well. They were still 'attached' to forum culture, so there was not as much of a problem, even though there was say rumbles that (in the case of newgrounds) 'it's not as good as it "used to" be.'
By this time, it is I guess 2006-08. This is when web 2.0 becomes popular. The first “popular” (as opposed to internet liberation front hackers) aspects of perhaps some resistance to commercialization comes up. Mainly people saying web 2.0 is shit and hype. People are 'meh' and "transition" over seamlessly, and arguably there was no 'real' difference between web 1.0 and 2.0 other than perhaps graphics.
However, the social capital and social status of "geeks" has risen since I guess the 1980s, and arguably always has been high. Due to historical revisionism of the concept of 'geek culture' being oppressed (for truth or not, there may have been that oppression, but on the other hand you had Carl Sagan and Issac Asimov in 1970s on national television, and american politician Newt Gingrich brags/bragged about liking science fiction and going to sci-fi cons)
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http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/
http://www.yotsubasociety.org/
other boards
have you guys been on the society for modern imageboard culture and the yotsuba society?http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/
http://www.yotsubasociety.org/
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What is this /baphomet/ board? It looks like some /i/ but with extra edginess.
What is this /baphomet/ board? It looks like some /i/ but with extra edginess.
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Found in my bookmarks, pretty interesting article.
Engineering a meme
http://www.yalelawtech.org/final-projects/engineering-a-meme/Found in my bookmarks, pretty interesting article.
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>pic unrelated
containment boards
Have any of you guys noticed that boards which were originally for containing something cancerous will eventually develop a culture and become a fully functioning board in their own right? Just look at /mlp/ on halfchan. Why do you think this happens?>pic unrelated
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Board owner of the shiny new >>>/craft/ here
Any suggestions on how to up my board traffic?
Board owner of the shiny new >>>/craft/ here
Any suggestions on how to up my board traffic?
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100 GET
/imgbc/ shall have a bright and prosperous future
100 GET
/imgbc/ shall have a bright and prosperous future
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why do you think moot is burning 4chan to the ground?
Most theories I've seen say that moot is killing off all the boards because he wants to abandon 4chan and make a new website, or at the very least clean up 4chan's reputation. The problem with moot's plot is that he will forever be associated with 4chan, and /b/ will always be the public face of 4chan. The faggot could cure cancer and he'd still only be Chris Poole, creator of 4chan and king of the retards. I think moot knows this on some level, even if he doesn't want to admit it. He already tried to do something similar (canvas), but that failed entirely.
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http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/censorship-shadowy-forces-controlling-online-conversations
I've just read this and it made me think. Are imageboards easier or harder to manipulate? Have you ever seen attempts?
http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/censorship-shadowy-forces-controlling-online-conversations
I've just read this and it made me think. Are imageboards easier or harder to manipulate? Have you ever seen attempts?
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Why channers have such a hardon for villians so much?
Is it some weird meta underdog effect?
Why channers have such a hardon for villians so much?
Is it some weird meta underdog effect?
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Can we make a list of cuckchan boards that got screwed over by shitty moderation?
>/sp/
>/tg/
>/pol/
>/co/
There are almost certainly more, but that's all I can think of right now.
Can we make a list of cuckchan boards that got screwed over by shitty moderation?
>/sp/
>/tg/
>/pol/
>/co/
There are almost certainly more, but that's all I can think of right now.
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How the hell did my old board get popular enough for someone to remake it? Even though we've only got 38 posts.
Furthermore, how did you get more people?
How the hell did my old board get popular enough for someone to remake it? Even though we've only got 38 posts.
Furthermore, how did you get more people?
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Feels
>tfw someone posts an image you made