No.547
What led you to 8chan and why do you stay here?
Just curious.
For me, I don't remember how I got here. I almost want to say I saw an ad for it on 4chan (this would have been months before Septermber/gamergate stuff), but that seems somewhat unlikely to me. Maybe I saw a thread about places where you can make your own *chan style board, that seems more likely. At any rate...no idea what brought me here.
I stay because I'm addicted to image boards and this one feels much more cozy than 4chan ever did.
No.548
I first came here because someone from 4chan's /g/ had created a cyberpunk board, but he also abandoned it almost immediately and I couldn't find a reason to stay. Then months later, threads about Anita Sarkeesian started being deleted from /pol/ and to be honest, by that point I was already sick and tired of 4chan and was looking for a new home, so when someone said "see you guys on 8chan" (this was before mentioning 8chan got you banned) I didn't think twice about it.
I'm a NEET, no friends, social anxiety, etc. Without the internet I would be forced to go outside and meet people. 8chan (and 4chan before it) is big enough that I can always find something to talk about and someone to talk to, even if it's just shallow impersonal conversation. It's also a great way to keep up to date with current events and discuss them without fear that your comment will be censored because it offends someone's sensibility.
No.550
I had just discovered 4chan right before Moot became known as a giant pussy ass faggot who was trying to make his sjw "friends" like him by fucking over the site. I had heard of this "legendary" website from r/4chan and other sources. At first the site was weird for me to use. Everything looked outdated, like it was a slightly more polished geocities website. Eventually I got the hang of it, and boy was it refreshing. I preferred the chaotic nature of 4chan to the reddit. On reddit everyone is afraid of offending people or looking stupid. You can tell by how they post. All the main subreddits were too circlejerky. Lesser known, better quality subs like r/politicaldiscussion were slowly becoming infected by the circlejerkiness too. On 4chan, since everything was anonymous, you could call on people's bullshit all the time. This meant that even circlejerkish boards like /pol/ were much less circlejerky than their reddit equivalents. The people were much more honest, unlike reddit where most people try to pretend to be an intellectual. Then of course all that gamergate shit happened and I heard about 8chan. I visited it, and i liked that users could create boards. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough activity on it for it to replace 4chan for me. The board quality was mostly the same as 4chan, maybe a little better, but it wasn't worth the lack of posts. Eventually the gamergate shit kept growing and growing. 8chan's board quality was getting better for most of the main boards. The final nail in the coffin was when moot did that trigger warning shit on half/pol/. That was the final straw. I would never visit 4chan again. 8chan is now the only chan I go to, and I'm hoping it gets enough activity on all the non /pol/ boards for me to use it instead of reddit. 8chan is probably the only social media site I regularly post on.
No.552
>>547I've been here since Jennifer Lawrence's pics were getting removed after The Fappening. That was the final straw for me. Then I heard about 8chan. I forget how exactly I found out about it. I think I was searching for other imageboards to give me a better general idea of what really makes an imageboard, because me and a friend were fed up with joot and decided we'd make our own website that was like 8chan (we didn't know about 8chan at the time). The way we thought of it was "like 4chan and imgur mixed together". Anyway, thinking harder I'm fairly certain my friend was the one who told me about 8chan, but point is, once I came here I didn't go back to 4chan once and still haven't. 4chan has turned into a bunch of edgy kids being retarded, with censorship left and right. Fuck that shithole. On 8chan, different kinds of people use different boards, so you can't really generalize the entire website, which is great. It's a wonderful place for discussion and staying up to date or getting a laugh or being ruthless on boards like /baphomet/. The best part being that the source code is all out there, so if something happened to 8chan, someone could remake it.
tl;dr: Been here since The Fappening, never went back to 4chan since all the censorship was the final straw for me.
No.555
>>552The fappening was the last good thing to happen on /b/. It was one of those few rare moments that make you say "I love the internet".
No.577
I just happened to see an 8chan ad on ED back in September, in the 4chan article or somewhere else. Of course, said ad wouldn't have been there if the Gamergate controversy hadn't happened, but I'm glad it did because this place is just so much better and cozier than 4chan as you said.
No.589
I've hated a lot of things about 4chan for a few years now, and while I was never a part of the gamers gate I checked it out when /v/ was blowing up, saw an ad, and took the first ship out of there. I stay here because I have nothing better to do with my free time, and having some form of interaction with other people makes the crushing loneliness marginally less unbearable.
No.599
Because as soon as censorship hits, it's no longer the place to be for the latest and greatest.
Also, quest threads in /tg/. Fuck that.
No.665
For me, I've been looking for a new forum / community for a while. 4chan has been shit for a long time now, and after all the recent bullshit I'm outta there. Reddit has some good discussion but a lot of circlejerking happens there. The smaller subreddits can be nice, but there's gotta be something better.
I used to hit up Ultimate-Guitar a lot and it was the first online community where I felt part of something, I recognized people and they recognized me, basically I liked the smallish community.
I got into the cyberpunk genre, it led me to /cyber/, and it's been smooth sailing. I like that the smaller boards have a slower posting rate, I feel like the conversations are better and there's a bit more of a community-feeling even if it's anonymous, which I like. Never really got that from 4chan or reddit. Time will tell, but 8chan is looking alright. Plus the imageboard format rules.
Someone actually posted about /txt/ in /cyber/, which is why posting here right now.
No.667
About a week after the exodus and my migration to Masterchan, someone mentioned 8chan on there and I migrated yet again
No.672
>>667Just in time, or you would be in prison now.
No.683
ylilauta /int/ became progressively shit, presumably as more folks from 4chan came
No.755
I left 4chan because of the typical stuff on September 18th. I wasn't a fan of the censorship more due to the principal of it than the reality of it, if that makes sense. I never really cared deeply about gamergate and all that but I sided with the pro side after seeing some stuff and generally not being a feminist. The obvious mod stuff was really irritating me, and it just seemed like of all places 4chan should be safe from SJW mod overreach. In hindsight, I think what the mods were doing was poorly communicated and not really malintened but the core SJW stuff is kind of there. Plus the mocking stuff with the girl and the banhammer picture for the gamergate threads bothered me.
After leaving and really liking the first few days due to the general sense of "something big is happening" and exodus themed stuff, I spent more time monitoring the board I made, /christian/ and watched the live stream with HW which kind of solidified my place in the community at an emotional level, and my board ownership made me appreciate 8chan as a concept a lot more. There are boards like this which I really like, and so many little places that don't exist the way they do here. Now that /christian/ is a top 25 board I'm pretty much stuck here forever, but I wouldn't have left anyway.
No.767
>>755>I think what the mods were doing was poorly communicated and not really malintenedHave you seen the logs? Fuckin' mods were seriously out of touch with their boards. I think they hated them.
No.831
I left before the /pol/ exodus. The cucking of /pol/ has convinced me to stay, but the quality of some of the boards here is quite questionable (/r9k/, /int/) and I prefer the 4chan ones
Heresey, I know.I'm not sure exactly why I'm still here. I pretty much only browse smaller boards, and occasionally /int/ in the hopes that it gets way less shitty. I reckon I must be weaning myself of this chan shit.
Also shout out to
>>>/aus/ No.833
>>831>Please let it be Austria>It's Australia>Cunts everywhere No.834
>>831/int/ used to be pretty great but it got overrun with yililauta faggots and then the board suddenly imploded on itself in january, which is sad. i can't post there anymore because it's become a place for tryhards to force memes.
No.835
>>834Try
>>>/lang/It's the closest thing to a decent /int/ on 8chan
No.836
I'm here because I found out about new imageboards very quickly when I was super involved in the scene. I thought it was a neat idea. Now I've settled because it has sufficient traffic and all the cool kids with views contrary to the mainstream are here. At least for the time being. I'm sure this empire will crumble eventually too.
No.838
Someone mentioned this on /b/ before the whole gamergate shit. There was a lot less people then I just had it bookmarked. When I came back to it after gamergate it was just fucking flooded.
Now I occasionally come here to check out boards like these.
No.1060
So it's been a full year now.
I came here when InternetAristocrat (now Mister Metokur) held a livestream about gamergate. I wasn't a gater then, and I'm still not, I just liked his videos and thought the sitewide ban was bullshit.
Anyways, the chat was saying that everyone was going to 8chan. I had stumbled on it before when searching for alternative imageboards, but treated it with the same sort of apprehension that's normally directed to masterchan. I wondered how the admin would be able to keep up on the site and figured it was crawling with CP.
When I switched over, I was still pretty unsure about it because of the image of HW literally having a jew look over his shoulder and the fact that board owners could see IPs; so I was just a silent lurker for a month or two.
I still use archives of 4chan, but I was pretty much already doing that before any of the major shitstorms happened. I don't see myself ever going back. It feels too different and I've gotten used to this place, despite all of its problems and garbage.
No.1061
>>555
>Fappening was the final win of old /b/
Yeah. Project harpoon made me giggle, but it's hardly worthy of what a board with millions of visitors a month could do.
No.1064
>>1060
Basically the same thing with me, felt something was coming on in August and when 8chan came along I was really excited. Never got into gamergate but but sided with it kind of by default.
It's so odd it's been a year. Feels like forever in some ways and like yesterday in others.
No.1072
>>1064
Gamergate brought me here too. I feel like there aren't an 8chan users that weren't 4chan users in the past.
Has it really been a year? Good grief.
No.1073
I felt like 4chan was crawling with normalfags, moralfags, cancer, etc. for well over a year. It was a completely different site almost, I'd quit browsing for about 3 years, came back to find my favorite boards had gone to shit. I only continued to go to a couple of generals that were comfy most of the time, plus /vr/.
When one of my generals suggested moving to 8chan, and I'd heard about the gamergate fiasco, I immediately was happy to jump ship. Pretty much every board reminded me of 2008-2009. It was like a time machine, the quality was great, even though some communities didn't come over, I felt like it didn't matter that much. I'm happy here. I wish there was more activity on other boards, but I would never go back to that shithole.
No.1077
>>1073
Yeah, the low activity is probably the biggest problem with 8chan right now. I feel like hotwheels thinks the solution to that problem is moar new blood, but I can't imagine attracting the kind of people who are still over at 4chan or who infest the rest of the internet in general.
8chan/b/ is getting enough shitposts from "tumblr" users who ask "why are you all awful?"
No.1078
>>1072
I think you'd have to be around 13 to go on 8chan first. We're all definitely 4chan imports, for better or for worse.