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Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 21:32:45 No. 464315
It’s been ten years since Gamergate happened. I never cared about it, but the fallout surrounding it lead to a portion of the 4chan userbase to move to 8chan. It was a wild time, the freedom we had. Didn’t like the moderation on a 4chan board? Make the board on 8chan. Make a board for a specific interest. I remember so many people moving over to the site, including content creators like drawfags. It was such a breath of fresh air to be able to post and not be so bogged down by the moderation of 4chan. I remember in the early days of posting and having Hotwheels replying to something I said, it felt nice having that connection with the admin of the site. It felt like the dawn of a new era. Of course, the good times didn’t last forever. I seem to remember a solid six months where 8chan was busy, but then as 2015 rolled on you could feel it wasn’t the same, and people were quietly going back to 4chan, even the ones who proudly said they wouldn’t. I stopped visiting the original 8chan sometime in 2016 or 2017, because it felt so dead. Then the original site was taken offline in 2019. Now with 8moe, a spinoff of the original site, it feels like a shell of its former self. In the decade since Gamergate happened, there has never been a single event that has caused a mass migration of 4chan users to go elsewhere. Despite the fact that people proclaim 4chan has gotten worse and worse over the years, people still stay there, stating there is no place else to go. 8moe still exists. So the question I’ve been pondering for the last little while is this: why do people stay using 4chan when they have alternatives? Will there ever be another event that will cause 4chan users to leave en masse? Or will everyone who likes the image board lifestyle just stay on 4chan 4ever?
ONLY because 4chins has active boards Also, I'm mostly on /lit/ and /x/ over there, even though both boards are brain dead and filled with 20 year old morons I'm not sure there are any such boards on any of the other chans; but if there are, they are dead; so why talk to myself?
>>464315 > there has never been a single event that has caused a mass migration of 4chan users to go elsewhere. I got here from /pol/ harbor, but it was also later that same year.
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>>464315 I'll never understand this site's attitude towards shilling on 4chan. >GUYS, remember the GLORY DAYS when a bunch of 4cuck users came here? Okay, let's shill on 4cuck and bring more here. >WTF, NOOOOO, YOU'RE KILLING OUR SITE, ABSOLUTELY KILLING US Make up your mind, people.
>>464329 That happens on 8kun by one or two schizo's; I haven't seen that attitude here
>>464329 >I'll never understand this site's attitude towards shilling on 4chan. Because it's not the same site that people loved and posted on back in 2014, nor 2010, nor 2007, nor 2004. Cuckchan has been sanitized to Hell and back to where it exists as nothing more than an edgy version of GameFaqs. Anyone still posting on that site is doing it for the "street cred" rather than for lulz.
>>464329 Nigger, it's been 10 years. Anyone who isn't braindead left cuckchan ages ago.
>>464315 I have never been to nu4chan, but I do not imagine that the people who use that site would be at all interested in a place modeled after the old chans. Why would some basic bitch who is perfectly fine with captchas, cookies, registration, bot posters, and unironic gold accounts ever want to visit a place like this? 8chan appeals to a different demographic than the one that inhabits the shambling corpse of 4chan.
>>464327 Have you tried using our /lit/
It's depressing to see how much was lost: https://8kun.top/dir/index.html If only the images had remained online, to act as an archive. Now even the text is becoming lost as some old boards are being spammed and the board owner is long gone. >>464365 You make a good point. These type of people, who feel like the only type of 4channer left, are the normies that are used to all that shit. They are also okay with mediocrity, because site wise 4chan hasn't changed much in over ten years and is lacking in many modern features it could have. But the users there don't care aslong as the site works in its most basic functions. The staff also don't care either, no new boards for the longest time, the 20th birthday celebration was just the same usual party hats, their April Fools Day jokes feel uncreative and effortless. It's all very depressing to see.
>>464373 *Lacking of effort. Effortless sounds like a positive here if read in a certain context. Oops.
>>464373 >/dir/ Aw man, I'm not ready to feel that feel
>>464328 Apparently OP is a total newfag, or he'd remember /g/urochan and how deleting /n/ews created Onechan/krautchan/7chan and a mess of other punies
>>464329 >I'll never understand this site's attitude towards shilling on 4chan.
>>464328 This is what ruined 8chan. All the principled anons moved when Gamergate happened. I didn't even use /v/, but any good user knew 4chan was fucked for years, and was just waiting for a viable alternative. You're just a faggot who was probably a relative newfag and didn't move until your board was personally fucked with. You were willing to tolerate 4chan even after moot explicitly banned a topic based on his political opinions, and a viable alternative opened up. When you and your kind came here, it ruined the site. >>464497 Those examples weren't nearly on the same scale.


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