Is 4chan dead?
Oldfags have been saying for years that 4chan is dead and that newfags are ruining it.
I think that while they’ve been saying this for eternity, they may be right soon.
Let me explain:
4chan was once comprised of the “bad boys on the internet”, and they often did behave in ways that outraged people and made images that people thought were disgusting.
But like with anything else, soon the rebels cause the mainstream to shift in their direction. Then the rebels have to shift further in a direction that they may be uncomfortable with, and instead of finding a new place to hang out, simply realize that 4chan was apart of their youth, and that the mainstream accepting your youthful passion is a sign that your youth is behind you. Mission accomplished.
They move on to other things like business, IRL sex or actual friendships.
What happens to 4chan? Well it subsists on rehashing old memes and lols, sometimes directly, sometimes by imitation until it is no longer a forum for a very certain kind of joking, nastiness and snarkery but instead a museum for such things. A repository. Archive the good shit, let google crawl it and put a lock on it.
Who knows. I outgrew 4chan a long time ago, and I think it is full of newfags now, but maybe that’s the circle of life and 4chan will be fine: every fag is new once.
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Man I wish I could leave image comments here…
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me too..
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So I know moot, we went to high school together and my little brother just about worships the guy and spends way too much time on 4chan. I was never into amime, becuase I am not a gigantic faggot, and i never really loloked at 4chan except for /ck/, but anyway last night i called moot because my brother wanted to know wtf was up and moot said we should come over to his parents house (he has a swanky appartment near the servers in downtown Dallas, but its not very big. Great building, though). So i got my little brother and a couple six packs of lone star and some kirins and went over. There was maybe a dozen people over and when we came in moot told us 4chan was over and he wanted it to out like it started, without much fanfare. He said that he’d banked enough money from it (almost three million after taxes he said) and after the latest terrorist scare of 4chan origin this week he was afraid that he’d lose it to government fines or lawyers somehow and that he enough money for the rest of his life now anyway. Then he went on about how since 4chan got so big he didn’t any time to have fun, but he didn’t want to sell it and see his creation turned into corporate crap, so he just pulled the plug (he was a huge nirvana fan in highschool, so at least he didn’t suck on a twelve gauge) before it got completely out of control. Then he talked to my brother about anime for like an hour. Apparently he was trying to get brought up to speed after missing out for a couple years. He said he is considering moving to Japan and writing or producing anime designed for western audiences and the the 4chan servers will be auctioned at the begining of next year and maybe the domain as well. My little brother was trying to show off or some shit and pounded one too many and puked on the kitchen floor so i threw him in the car and went home. Anyway, I thought you would want to know about this, so here it is.
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thanks mr cervix great info if its for real. Moot should sell 4chan to me. If you know his contact info, see my contact page at the top.
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Wow, 3 million!
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Throw in a sharp kick in the nut sack, Id say move forward with it…
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oh man that sucks, if 4chan is gone i might have to go an hero. i loved that site, it kept me busy and i guess its better than giving it to the governments but getting rid of 4chan would be a bad move on moots part i think, if he was suied anon army and all the /b/tards out there would call the lawyers and ask for battletoads 2
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WAT. I call shenanigans on this one. I second the motion to an hero if 4chan is dead.
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Damn, I wasn’t crazy about 4chan, but without it, all the 4channers are going to spill over into other sites and ruin the internet (ok maybe not) but its really annoying on other sites.
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We are not dead. We are sleeping.
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/facepalm 4chan was Ddos’d not shutdown.
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He won’t be successful in Japan. The competition here will eat him alive.
And when his money is gone, the girls will be, too. He’s better off importing yaoi for horny fat girls.
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http://status.4chan.org/
Duh.
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you guys are dumbasses.
MrCervix’s comment was copypasta. that exact paragraph has been posted a shit load of times. raptor fuckin’ jesus, people.
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I want to be a fucking tractor
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O rly? We do not forget. when the time comes the people of this blog will be noted for a painful death.
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Die 4chan.org,lol joke,4chan 4ever and the pronz.
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You all fail. You know nothing of what has happened.
STFU.
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cool story bro
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Dead because ALL the furfags and whiny little fucks can’t handle a little bit of humor and reality.
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The circle of FAIL is almost complete. Anime porn is also neither funny or arousing. Shit just go find a real japanese chick. I was never part of 4 chan, I discovered it way to late. Anon are by far the best thing out of 4chan. Anyone like Mudkips???
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i am sad to report that 4chan, much said “dead” b4 now, is now truly dead. Not just on 4chan…all over the tubes.
earlier today, or, actually, about 2 days ago, a cat was severely disrespected. This, in the past would have caused…ahem…”that place”…to shit brix..instead, i found no more than 2 threads over 12hrs…and most of those threads were filled with infighting and trolls…the media coverage over recent (sad) raids has destroyed what was. /b/ is done. (say it, ass. say “rules 1&2″. THEN GO TO YOUR MIRROR AND CHANT “IT’S 2006. IT’S 2006…” there is no 4chan anymore. just a fukt place of underage b&’s, no respect, and fail
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Wow, I can’t believe moot is really shutting down 4chan (((
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people ruined 4chan.
i hate you cunts.
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