go ahead! how long have you been on imageboards?

Yeah, never mind

huh? what's wrong?

You been here longer than me.

It's fine bro,this IBs about dead though it seems since the last few months.

nyoo i meant being on ibs in general but alright x'(

i asked cause im a noob and want to know how the wild west of boards looked like yesrs ago

yeah, unfortunately it has even less people now rather when i started posting here

Yeah nowadays your lucky to see more then half a dozen people here

Lucky duckies

I think it depends a lot on the ib.

In general I would say that IBs were much more centered around trolling, doing raids, and other things just for laughs. You laugh you lose, and similar.

 

IBs always tended to the right, but as the west culture war intensified, and terms like uncles, transgenderism, became normalized on general society, IBs became more serious, isolated and siloed.

I have been with IBs since late 2012

 

The period that I consider to be the IB golden era spans 2011-2017 (or until spring 2018 when Krautchan was hut down), that is when imageboards where the cutting edge of internet kültür and ebin new menes were created constantly

the death of KC was definitely a mortal wound to the scene and it has been on its deathbed ever since, dying its slow deda

i really tend to think people just grew up, and something similar to the "old" IBs by vibe (imo) is sharty, but maybe i have too marginalized picture of boards to assume the sharty carries the old energy of bosrds

wait what

there was more to life once than just porn and ragebaiting

what can you talk about on boards now? i have a feeling the one who were on IBs long enough are able to generate topics out of nothing ((tuna thread))

2014

shitposting never changed, that's why i remain. it's consistently the funniest thing i get to see in my life

tbh thats what i think

there are some notable changes, but they're a consequence of the internet evolving as a whole

i.e. 4chan these days it feels like it is mostly shills way more often for example (or maybe i just became more aware of them) and just less human

also a long time ago 4/int/ wasn't 50% generals

shitposting and trolling is fun, as long as both parties have fun imo ((i feel bad when trolling becomes bullying))

Tbh i dont think it changed at all

It changed in a way. Many more imageboards opened since more and more communities felt they need their own. 8chan's approach that users can open their own boards just accelerated this, instead of containing it. But each community is relatively small and as the years pass numbers always dwindle and since only a few people know about them they don't really get new posters.

This led to the popular belief that imageboards are dead, or a surpassed format. I do not agree. I do think this relative anonymity and freedom imageboards offer can be attractive to many people on the internet. Except they don't know about it. Sure can be strange for them at first, but the ease of use, the lack of need for registration are also big plusses.

Question is, how to introduce them to people?

I also feel like we are going backwards or full-cycle with the edgy and autistic people around the world that gathers on X/Twitter. Image Boards are kind of dead/old but the concept stills alive

I think ex-twitter feels louder for all the bot armies there.

Of course and X will never have the "soul" that imageboards has but it really seems that they want to """replicate""" that...We will see, young lads are already feeling tired of social media structure. Perhaps web 3.0 could be something real and not just a cryptoyapper thing.

third worlders, especially indians

don't believe me? remember this in five years when even more of them gain internet access and "learn" english

 

t. IBer since 2007

holy shit a veteran

Not just thirdies but their bitter and resentful diasporas growing up incel in the west

nah normie indians don't use imageboards but...

 

 

is correct, in particular, on 4chan's /int/, there are multiple indians in europe who post from finland, poland (polishpaki), yookay, etc.

Imagebourds have ALWAYS been a cesspool to avoid unless it's assburger enough to not feel crowdyness.

 

 

t. IBer since 00's as well, NEVER liked big boards (as well as "social webs")