I didn't want to have to write this.
tl;dr - Fuck this shit, I'm out:
https://archive.is/NmtCw
https://archive.is/KRnIe
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.
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