I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.
Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.
Literally never in my life
I haven’t been on 4chan since like 2011
I’m not adding to any conversation really but this is pretty much my answer too
Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it’s actually decent-ish to talk about games.
I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:
Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don’t… really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)
4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.
I think this is it more or less.
It felt like fun freedom to have a communicative realm with no rules, guidelines, morals at all. But in hindsight I guess it was fine for me because I had a moral compass and intellect so mad-max-land allowed me to re-explore my limits and opinions on my own, like from point zero, without preexisting structure (wich is always present if there is any decency).
For some, apparently, that was not fine. Like they didn’t catch themselves in the freefall of morals and epistemology that comes with the 4chan credo of “everything here fake and foolish…”. Or maybe it’s that some don’t have a corrective social realm outside 4chan, able to get them back to the ground. And those ones overtook. (Maybe cause the other ones are done playing edge walk after a while).
Tl;dr: had fun, learned some, feel a bit bad now
Never. I only look at the funny greentext highlights and I don’t want to hunt for those.
I used to when I was in my teens, when 4chan wasn’t as “well known” by so many people. It was definitely wild then. Now I don’t really have the desire to browse there or anywhere else besides Lemmy
I haven’t been there, I only see screenshots here and there, and the occasional YouTube video detailing their shenanigans
The interface sucks. Never
5 years ago? Some people have something funny to say but it’s not worth groveling through the hundreds of bot comments to find it.
Bot comments?
Here’s a fun video https://youtu.be/efPrtcLdcdM?si=LWaMckxSwL2_lmKZ
That was a year ago. I doubt anyone’s still running that outdated 23gb model still on torrents.
Many of the comments on 4chan are not very insightful and mostly repeat the same classic mantra’s. Now I’m not shy for dark humor but I do like it original.
Once before gamergate. I didn’t like the sort of people I found there. I wasn’t surprised about the following decade of newsworthy and leaking bad behavior
I mean a long time ago, like 15 years ago, before I really found reddit, I went on there pretty often.
I’ve never visited 4chan. Everything I’ve read about it makes me think it’s not the webforum for me.
0 times a year. I used to lurk on Something Awful and Fark back in the day but I never liked 4chan.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised 4chan is the one still around but I guess the non-religious kids who are the future of the Republican Party need somewhere to hang out.
I have never visited the hacker known as 4chan, I hear he’s a gross neckbeard who never showers.
Not much anymore. /diy/ is still good for some of my weirder technical questions, but the rest of the boards are in the gutter. /b/, which used to be good for a Friday-night laugh, is nothing but transphobic-trans worship posts or loli threads.
