I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.
Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.
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Why would I want to lower my faith in humanity more?
rock bottom should be the default
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
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.)
Never.
At this point I see pepe as a hate symbol.
None. I will never touch anything *chan
2chan, 4chan, 5chan, and the other number I won’t even mention cuz I actually saw something very traumatizing there.
as in?
A picture of a married heterosexual couple having sex in the missionary position
Late reply but not even close
It’s genuinely morbid
Never
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.
/b/ was never good.
Eh, in retrospect I agree but as a socially awkward annoyingly atheistic teenager in the late oughts/ early 2010s there was some times that were fun in the moment. Definitely didn’t do anything good for my development though
