See you, Space Cowboy...
I didn't want to have to write this.
tl;dr - Fuck this shit, I'm out:
I tend to be good at seeing the writing on the wall. People have been spamming about how 8chan was doomed to immediate death since the beginning, but I always knew they were full of shit until now. I started lurking on 4chan in late 2007, and I started posting sometime in mid 2008. I was always an anon back then, because tripfags just weren't funny on 4chan, at the time, or any time after. They never had something interesting to add or something interesting to run other than maybe a few topic experts on /co/ or /tg/ or /k/. I liked bruting for tripcodes, but never wanted to use them. I never got banned on 4chan in all of that time, though I saw lots of other people get banned for stupid reasons. At first it was this sort of one-off, funny thing, then it grew to be more and more of a staple on all boards. After all, it was the oldfag thing to do. Bring back Snacks and ban until post quality rises…that's how it's supposed to work, right? Wrong. 4chan's whole appeal was, in practice, to be the lowest common denominator where nothing was sacred, and that went triple for a topic-less board like /b/. No arbitrary social restrictions.
By the time Brennan started advertising 8chan on 4chan (before the banfilter), I was just staying there because everywhere else online was more moderated (in theory at least) and every chan I went to was worse than 4chan. Especially fucking 7chan and 420chan, hugbox city. /b/ moved at light speed now, which was hilarious but meant that no one bothered to make OC anymore because their thread would disappear in twenty seconds unless they samefagged it like fuck, and the only ones who wanted to do that were the "artsy" attention whoring types, drawfags and so on, people with skills but usually without any appreciable creativity who would churn out the same staid, circlejerking stuff over and over. And of course, game and gimmick threads that were lots of fun years ago before they were endless spam.
I never went on /v/ because the userbase just seemed very stupid to me, not angry really, despite their caricature /tg/, /lit/, and the old /int/ had more rage. I always liked games, and /v/ liked circlejerking about game-related things without ever actually discussing games. It reminded me of the way your average idiot goes out with his friends, gets drunk, and spends happy hours talking as much as possible about as little as possible. No thanks.
So I left with the gg crowd despite not caring about gg. I picked up the common disgust at the retarded bullshit of your typical SJW, which I already had a distaste for since back before /b/ was openly embracing their bullshit in 2010, but I never lost my distaste for the substancelessness of /v/. That may sound ironic coming from a /b/tard, but until pretty recently /b/ threads were always about something, even if that something changed every 30 posts in the thread. /v/ threads were, more often than not, just about nothing.
So, I came here, made a board, bruted for tripcodes and got some good ones, including this very unlikely and obnoxious one. At first I favored some others more before realizing how rare a 10 char tripcode was and how much salt I could raise with it.
It was cool seeing other people's boards and I still have some favorites as well as some dead ones I miss. I used to explore a lot, that concerned me a lot more than driving traffic to my board or ascending or whatever. I had fun with /bane/, helping them get into the top five, and past /furry/, in IP count. Still probably the best board on 8chan. I liked the holiday boards. I found some other cool boards and imageboards through things posted on 8chan. I made a few secret boards. I found a LOT of secret boards along with some people from /b/.
GETball might have been the most fun I had on here, before the cancer. WEW indeed.
Hell, I might not really leave for quite a while. I can't even quite bring myself to delete the discussion thread here, despite having a copy saved.
But those archives I linked at the top…that's some shit for sure.
Yeah, Nunu can talk about no real rules and no clear rules, and to be fair has raised concern about that sort of thing before, but Hotwheels is busy being reclusive and disillusioned, and it doesn't really matter about the rest.
Those of you who have actually been around 8chan will be familiar with the screencap of Hotwheels banning and exposing the IP of a vol who was handing out random "joke bans" on /b/ without me having to dig through my folder to find it. However, that volunteer wasn't notlily.
Like I said, I didn't get banned on 4chan (until I went back for GETs, and then I got banned a lot), I left for something better. Something no one had ever really actually done before. It was fun and I don't want to hang around and watch it turn into a pale copy of the same old thing, but with user created boards.
Of course I noticed the influx of all of the idiots on /b/ lately…it's the real early warning system. The problem is that notlily has his head so far up his ass that he doesn't realize the people spamming "/ints/ pls go" on every dissenting opinion and eagerly suckling his cock and jumping at the chance to hand out permabans are the exact same cancer that's just here because they lack the brains or willpower to turn off their modem for 15 minutes and go back to their favorite sty.
These same people would probably find it really EPIC if Hotwheels just perma'd (lol three months) all of the Travis spammers and furries and so on and left the shitty roll threads, etc. Or if he banned the shitty roll threads and left whatever else. Whatever he does is "epic" and they can post in the thread saying "MODS = GODS" and get an epic screencap of them posting in a mod thread, selfie style.
On the other hand, you have the r9k and wizardchan crowd, and /pol/, and the average GG enthusiast, all of whom have been here for a while, and none of whom seem to ever exercise their native capacity for objective thought. If someone bans something that "triggers" them, they squeal about how great and based it is, fuck off Jews, [insert board] shills, butthurt libtards, christards, etc, etc, etc. The wizardfags are the worst of the bunch, incapable of objectivity, obsessed with their high-school outlook on life, the very essence of a "normie", just failed in every aspect. Cliquishness and willful ignorance are among the most common and unremarkable traits found in humans. No amount of irony can cover how staid, boring, monothematic they are. You could find more variety and intelligence in a rural bar in the midwestern US. I don't know if spending time with them is why Hotwheels so quickly collapsed into this limpid faggotry with no attempt at consistency, but either way, him making no attempt at consistent behavior is where this whole house of cards crumbles. I don't care how little he cares about the small boards or how well they can continue on their own, the base of the tower is rotting.
I said it before, but…I will miss a lot of boards. A lot of places I posted anonymously regularly or semi-regularly, fun places if sort of dead. Some of them will probably be about a third more dead without me posting there. Sorry about that, not that you'll know it was me anyways.
I really do plan to get on the hub, so some of you will see me there…I guess. The stereotypical gleeful power boner of both the previous and current administration of it is old, stale, and unpalateable, but if they've gathered the group into their stern, whip-cracking fold, I guess I'll go where the content is.
Other than that I suppose I'll be around various small imageboards, testing the waters and seeing what the admins are like. Have fun, all of you. Smegma, RIP. Stan, you're gonna carry that weight. Amaron32 and Koutoushiki, check your 8chan email.
Board Discussion Thread
Welcome to /undina/! This is a board for fetishes relating to women and water, and particularly women pissing (or at least that's most of what I'll be posting).
Rules/Board Settings: >>290