>>21479
I’m not a doomer — not even close. I love 8chan. I even have a soft spot for 4chan, flaws and all. I’ve been around imageboards for over half my life, and even though I’m just a zoomer, I know one thing for sure Outside of a few old-school forums, chans are still the only place online where you can have real fun.
But if you want to understand where chans are heading, just look at what is happening to Facebook just like how the old people left on there are schizoposting into a void 4chan trannies are doing the same shit but wether schizo-related or not its irrelevant the site has on all most all boards become boring and If you don't believe me download and open Instagram. You can find gore, death porn, racial flame wars — and almost totally unfettered chaos that looks exactly like /b/ did fifteen years ago. Now go look at /b/ today. Nothing funny. Nothing original. Just endless low-effort porn dumps, recycled memes, and desperate attempts to slip past filters. It’s obvious why a lot of zoomers are checking out — the energy’s gone.
And here’s what people don’t want to admit: 8chan? It's not coming back. That era is over. You can't put lightning back in the bottle. No amount of nostalgia or effort is going to rebuild what it had. It’s done.
And there’s a clear reason why if the loli/ shota/ abdl/ beastiality boards and shooting legacy don't drive away most of the newfags to the site upon first glance away the fact you can't even fucking find the site on edge or google it’s game over. No advertisers. No payment processors. No normal growth. No public legitimacy.
And if you really want proof that the magic is gone? Look at the numbers. When 4chan went down for a while, 8chan had its shot. The doors were wide open. 4chan users were wandering. And yet — 8chan barely grew. Even with a golden opportunity,
But here’s the real deal: that spirit isn’t dead. It’s just trapped. The style, the culture, the raw chaos that made imageboards great — it can make a comeback. It’s not a generation problem; it’s a management problem. As long as mods keep strangling the culture and no alt-chan steps up with real credibility and critical mass, things will stay stagnant.
If quality posters wake up, if they rally around the right project, then imageboards can thrive again. It's all about knowing when to step back and let people build the magic themselves.
atleast that's what i think