Linguistics

[Anonymous No.13975916]

"based and red-pilled" is just the 4chan version of "yas queen slay"

[Anonymous No.13975923]

>>13975916
pretty much yes. A sign of approval of something ostensibly sort of edgy. barp is usually more edgy though

[Anonymous No.13975947]

Don’t talk about my secret club that way faggot. Were legion.

[Anonymous No.13975950]

>>13975916
okay? boring...

[Anonymous No.13975954]

>>13975916
Ye, took you long enough

[Anonymous No.13975967]

>>13975916
Yes

[Anonymous No.13975988]

>>13975916
Everybody knows this, Did you think you were saying something cuntroversial, cunt?

[Anonymous No.13975997]

>>13975947
WE DUNNOT FORGEEVE WE DUNNOT FORGHEEETE
EKSHPECKT USH!

[Anonymous No.13976014]

>>13975988
Well if it makes you angry, I guess it was worth saying.

[Anonymous No.13976020]

>>13975947
based

[emonationalist !!HxQhKkNYVzK No.13976023]

>>13975916
Based is a really interdasting word. It comes from crack cocaine, which is freebase or "base" in negroese. When Little B was growing up people would call him "based" and a "basehead" because of his spergish ways. In his rap career, he "reclaimed" the word used to bully him in the same way Negroes in general reclaimed the word "nigger". "Based" in Lil B's music means to be defiantly and maybe eccentrically genuine, generally positive, and honest. Gamergaters adopted this word, then the alt-right and manosphere, which was how it became widely used here. Many do not comprehend Lil B music who say this word.
https://youtu.be/66fTNNPAEPE
Also "based and redpilled" was used ironically by leftists initially to make fun of rightists saying both of those words too much. It doesn't mean "yas queen slay".

[Anonymous No.13976075]

>>13976014
you're retarded

[Anonymous No.13976086]

>>13976023
I paused Bach's WTC for this and don't regret it.

[Anonymous No.13976096]

>>13976023
Thanks for the history lesson, buddy.

[Anonymous No.13976098]

>>13975916
well, its the difference between english and french, when french people say the same thing, it will sound gayer than english

[Anonymous No.13976186]

>>13975916
no it would be the imageboard version of "Yas Queen Slay" ans "#woke". Since the first (based/yas queen) is an affirmation of believe (or rather an affirmation towards levels of dedication towards a belief, a proof of some kind of zealotry. The latter (red-pilled/woke) simply does attest that someone or something has reached knowlege over/about truth in a manner that is unusual. It is fundamental for this body of thought for it to function narrative-wise that its followers share the belief that this quality (redpilled/woke) distinquishes that specific entity it discribes with said adjectives from an unillumined mass.
>>13975947
WE WUZ LEGION N RAIDS

[emonationalist !!HxQhKkNYVzK No.13976200]

>>13976086
>>13976096
You're welcome. Lil B has a book by the way. I haven't read it.

[emonationalist !!HxQhKkNYVzK No.13976208]

>>13976186
Based and redpilled. Other than my autistic and spiritual definition of based which you must read and feel I agree.

[Anonymous No.13976266]

The redpilled/bluepilled dichotomy is supposed to be the choice between accepting an uncomfortable truth vs a comforting untruth. But retards have made it mean fuckall these days by mostly using it as thing I like or agree with vs thing I don't like or don't agree with.

[Anonymous No.13976290]

>>13975916
Based = upvote
cringe = downvote
But at least we're not reddit, right?

Right?

[Anonymous No.13976296]

>>13976290
they're really not the same at all. Compare it to an irl social interaction, people saying based or cringe is just a handful of individuals agreeing or not. The point system has no analogue at all, and the way it affects visibility in threads is even more contrary, because even negative attention is attention here.

[Anonymous No.13976302]

>>13976296
>"They're not the same at all"
>Proceeds to explain how they're exactly the same.

[Anonymous No.13976352]

>>13976290
ITS STILL A FUCKING CONTROLLED SYSTEM OF CONFORMITY HOWEVER ARBITRARILY DEFINED YOU DENSE MUTHERFUCKING BRAINLET

[Anonymous No.13976504]

>>13975916
Yes, and iq is the zodiac for based and redpilled
Yas queen slay + zodiacs
Based and redpilled + iq

[Anonymous No.13976695]

>>13976023
>>13976200
YET ANOTHER NAMEFAGGOT RETARD! JUST WHAT WE NEEDED!

[Anonymous No.13976703]

ITT. Let me guess the replies:
>no u
You have to go back.

[Anonymous No.13976709]

>"based and red-pilled" is just the 4chan version of "yas queen slay"
this

[Anonymous No.13976727]

>>13976023
>posts pink flame
Positively based

[Anonymous No.13976739]

>>13976302
That's not what he did you qbsolute microbrain

[Anonymous No.13977012]

>>13976703
Jesus Christ this is gay. I got here a week ago and even I wouldn't post something this gay

[Anonymous No.13977023]

>>13975916
>red pilled
Is there any movie from the last 20 years which has had the same profoundly ubiquitous cultural impact as the Matrix?

>hard question
has there been a movie since 2001 as willing as the Matrix was to glorify violence against police officers?

[Anonymous No.13977062]

>>13977023
probably the lotr and hp series, which are i guess books

[Anonymous No.13977150]

>>13975916
Which Darknet website do they visit on that screenshot?

[Anonymous No.13977210]

>>13975916
>My brain when I realized that modern day twitterites saying throwing shade is literally the same thing as people in the 19th century saying giving umbrage

[Anonymous No.13977221]

>>13977210
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.13977271]

>>13976290
Except it doesn't work like that. It's not like every post you make here has multiple people "voting" on what you're saying, its just if you say something somebody agrees with they might tell you they agree. Kind of like a conversation. Not everything is just reddit in different forms, redditbrain.

[Anonymous No.13977311]

>>13977271
It's the same as a like on twitter, or a thumb up on youtube. Any system where you can vote something greater or lesser. It's an empty acknowledgement of approval that does nothing except feed the ego of the poster.

[Anonymous No.13977317]

>>13977311
except it's not a vote, it's a comment. on twitter you can also reply to say you liked the post. points and the way that highly upvoted stuff goes to the top is a different thing

[Anonymous No.13977330]

>>13977317
You could say everything in 4chan is sorted by controversy. A lot of (you)'s isnt a sign of a good post, just an engaging one. Its why /pol/ is such a hurtbox. The most enflamatory things garner the biggest response. Honestly I like it that way.

[Anonymous No.13977332]

>>13977317
4chan essentially has a scoring system in the form of backlinks. I assume you have the extension enabled, or 4chan x or somesuch. When you see a post with a ton of backlinks, it looks important. The actual box of the post is larger, the text of the links catches the eyes of those skimming the thread. And the more backlinks you have, the more people are inclined to reply to you. Because they monkey see, monkey do, and want to be a part of a big post.

[Anonymous No.13977381]

>>13975916
>Linguistics
"The Red Pill" is just a Wittgenstein's beetle

[Anonymous No.13977394]

>>13977332
Put me in the screenshot.

[Anonymous No.13977440]

>>13977332
basically what this guy>>13977330 said
it's sorted by general attention, whether good or bad.

I still dont think it can be compared to points, for the simple reason that the set of people who will like/upvote is much larger than the set that will post , it's a different mechanism

[Anonymous No.13977468]

No because it's not a sincere statement and generally carries a negative connotation around here.

Maybe "yas queen slay" also isn't -- Sorry, I don't understand that type of lingo. What I want to say it's "being based and red-pilled" is not a compliment. It's a label that we use to mark a behavior that we decided to single out. Anonymous culture should be anonymous and anything that can be singled out is treated as something negative.

Some people can decide to identify with culture generates from the site but that doesn't represent the general culture of the site. Anything that is sticks out is cancer.

[Anonymous No.13977469]

>>13977440
You point to that guy like he isn't agreeing with me. The fact that based and cringe only shows nothing more than engagement is the exact reason why it's akin to an upvote or downvote. It's only a symbol of approval or disapproval. There's nothing substantial to it. You can't reply to a based or cringe post. You can't take anything away from it. It adds nothing to the conversation.

It's more than just conversation filler, because you have to expend the energy to actually post it.

[Anonymous No.13977474]

>>13977469
both based and cringe count as 'upvotes' in this analogy. Downvotes hinder visibility on reddit/twitter, here they promote it.

And youre still missing the point. replies/=points. Those platforms have replies as well

[Anonymous No.13977489]

>>13977469
also the amount of based/cringe posting is nowhere near as common as upvotes/downvotes which are attached to every single post in reddit.

[Anonymous No.13977498]

>>13977474
OK, so because the analogues systems are EXACTLY the same, then that means they can't be compared? Based and cringe are merely the substitute for a lack of conventional point system.

>>13977489
Yeah, no shit. Because the need to actually post prevents people from doing it as frequently. I don't see how frequency matters.

So say if social platform zoozle sees a 10% vote rate, and social platform zozzle sees a 1% vote rate, that means zozzles votes function differently than zoozles?

[Anonymous No.13977499]

>>13977469
Being based or cringe represents nothing at all. There's no correct pattern to use the terms. Unlike upvotes that always represent something positve, being based is neither good nor bad. It's an acknowledgment of a (supposed) position made with the intent of getting a reaction of the original poster

[Anonymous No.13977520]

>>13977498
I honestly think it makes a large difference. The other thing being that 4chan is sorted by 'new' as default.

I do get what you're saying but I still see a large difference in outcome

[Anonymous No.13977532]

>>13977499
I should add:
>getting a reaction of the original poster or people that would disagree with the original poster getting more attention about what was said prompting more people to reply

[Anonymous No.13977553]

>>13977532
I will add something more:

Getting attention to a post is very important here because threads without replies die. Saying something is based doesn't add anything to the discussion but get the thread back to the front page where it will get exposure again maybe summoning someone that will make a post in response about what was said.

Often the own original poster will say that his post is cringe or based with that type of intent

Sorry I'm drunk and my finger clicks before I finish writting

[Anonymous No.13977560]

>>13976290
Based cringe exists though

[Anonymous No.13977596]

See

Being right doesn't make your post popular. Being right and convincing someone most often than not means that the thread will die without anyone replying to you

A shitpost is only shitpost. It's just pee in the ocean

drink it, baby

[Anonymous No.13977631]

>>13977553
People aren't actually pathetic enough to really do this are they?

[Anonymous No.13977645]

>>13977631
You're anonymous, you can be whoever you want.

[Anonymous No.13977654]

>>13977631
Spending friday nights shitposting alone and drinking poisoning amounts of alcohol? I really hope not, people don't deserve this kind of fate

Replying to your own comments? Disagreeing with yourself or making false polemical comments to generate reaction? It's done all the time shamelessly. It's something integrated with anonymity. More than half of our memes would never exist without that

[Anonymous No.13977664]

>>13977654
I have never once samefagged on this website and dont understand the impulse at all. a (you) given to yourself is meaningless

[Anonymous No.13977673]

>>13977664
but a post without reaction when you are expecting some is also meaningless. Sometimes you need to bump your shit back up. 90% of the site only see what is happening on the first page

[Anonymous No.13977771]

>>13977664
Have you never heard about the whistleblower that posted the documents he found on /pol/ and the only reply he got was "fake and gay"? That shit got no attention for years. Sometimes you need to shill your stuff.

[Anonymous No.13977776]

>>13977673
i do bump my threads, I just post 'bump'

[Anonymous No.13977790]

>>13975916
"based" is used improperly by 99% of based-posters on 4chan. I cannot imagine a fraction of posters using that word have heard of Lil B

>>13975947
we...we WERE legion...

[Anonymous No.13977800]

>>13975916
ok but you said this 6 years too late

[Anonymous No.13977808]

>>13977776
shame on you. you are losing great self-arguments and wasting the chance of strawman-ing your opponents without repercussion, maybe even strengthening your position by realizing the things you missed on the point you're trying to make.

I see posting just 'bump' as lazy and unimaginative

[Anonymous No.13977809]

>>13975916
4chan just thinks they are cool but they are like the weird motherfucker eating their nose shit and then talks to you like they didn't eat their nose shit....

[Anonymous No.13977818]

>>13977771
Which was this?

[Anonymous No.13977848]

>>13977809
And were proud of eating our nose picks. Being cool is your own projecting, a signal that you are already corrupted. I see the shit we post as nothing more than the shit it actually is.

I live in the shit and relinquish in it, I think of myself no more than a pig. We are not the front page of the internet, we are the basement with the pedophiles, the serial killers and the legally retarded

[Anonymous No.13977853]

>>13977809
>4chan just thinks they are cool
Where did you get such an idea

[Anonymous No.13977859]

>>13977818
https://www.techspot.com/news/61680-australian-whistleblower-leaks-top-secret-report-4chan-users.html

[Anonymous No.13977861]

>>13975947
Based. Everyone in this thread is a nigger.

[Anonymous No.13977877]

>>13977848
>>13977853
>hehe im gonna eat my nose shit cos no one is

[Anonymous No.13977908]

My website's method of idea promotion and replication is better than your website's!

[Anonymous No.13977921]

>>13977877
it's not a good strategy in the long run. retards shows attracts retarded audiences and the thing is always continuously going downhill. it's good that everyone is anonymous and once you are tired of it you can just go out and live life as a normal person, with little of your retarded shenanigans on your resume but it's a bad decision altogether to be part of this even for a second, it's a waste of time. before going out thinking that you are better than all this shit, remember that you also helped to carry this terrible discussion

[Anonymous No.13977963]

>>13976086
I'm going to start playing the WTC again after being similarly enlightened.

[Anonymous No.13977964]

>>13977921
lol bruh

[Anonymous No.13977968]

>>13976296
I think you just found my biggest fear, real life point system.

[Anonymous No.13977983]

>>13976695
Thats a trip, not a name, you fucking newfag

[Anonymous No.13977989]

>>13976703
>still believing that polfags were here before 2014
Shouting pool's closed due to aids nigra and yelling at Tom Green isn't /pol/

[Anonymous No.13978103]

>>13977989
what is called /pol/ culture existed from the inception of the site as always existed on the in the internet in general and have existed much before the internet, it's just counterculture baiting.

the divide we have started around 2006/2007 with the rise of the new atheist movement. making people you disagree the boogeyman as you do with /pol/ and the other poster do with the other part is just you guys playing on this aids festival

[Anonymous No.13978112]

>>13978103
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA i like how you are so precise what are you 35? fucking loser.

[Anonymous No.13978132]

>>13978112
You are wrong by more than a decade. I will let you decide if for more or less than you guess. I gain nothing either way

[Anonymous No.13978142]

>>13978132
SO WHAT YOU ARE 45? YOU'RE DARING ME TO GUESS A +10 ON YOUR AGE YOU FUCKING LOSER?
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA

[Anonymous No.13978148]

>>13978142
I said more than a decade

[Anonymous No.13978154]

>>13978148
bro..... are you 50+

[Anonymous No.13978188]

>>13978148

[Anonymous No.13978221]

>>13978188
no but seriously if i was 50+ i would FUCKING KEEP THAT SHUT

[Anonymous No.13978460]

>>13977790
Shut the fuck up you stupid wigger. Fuck off back to R*ddit so you can choke on more bull dick

[Anonymous No.13979095]

this entire thread is reddit

[Anonymous No.13979390]

>>13976200
lil b seems like a based and cool guy. unironically

[emonationalist !!HxQhKkNYVzK No.13979445]

>>13979390
https://youtu.be/5P6-V7J5S-0

[Anonymous No.13979777]

>>13978148
Thanks boomer, t.zoomer

[Anonymous No.13979806]

>>13978103
Culture like the one in /pol/ has existed a long time, outside and within of 4chan. People getting asspained about /pol/ or places like that is just shows how internet is becoming more and more shit. Also you it can't be said /pol/ is same it was, it has barely stayed the same after the American elections. That board is now filled with newfag zoomers and retarded boomers.

[Anonymous No.13979898]

Memes are just digital cliches. They are antithetical to good art and decent discussion.

[Anonymous No.13980307]

>>13978103
We literally never had people discuss Nazism, ethnostates, Marxism, discussing whether or not the holocaust and communist death tolls are hoaxes, muh lgbt Soros globohomo funding, etc, etc. It all started and ended with some people yelling nigger on /b/, sometimes posting the old around blacks, never relax comic and the Jew one from the same author. The comparison is absolutely not valid and of you want to insist there wasn't a big shift around 2012-2014, you either have an agenda, or very bad memory.

[Anonymous No.13980341]

>>13976290
except based and cringe dont affect post visibility

[Anonymous No.13980687]

>>13980307
There was certainly a shift. Since the Berlin Wall went down there was hardly any considerable group of people holding hard positions on politics and defending it. Everyone seemed to be on the progressivist, globalist train. Neocons and social democrats were all nibbling on minor topics and agreed on pretty much everything.

Widespread internet brought the discussion to a new level. Fringe topics and opinions that were avoided in the past gained a new light. Ideas from a bunch of obscure intellectuals generated discussions and gained spread that could never be achieved in the past. The ideas discussed now are not selected by what the mainstream academia think is important but what a bunch of edgy teenagers force down on the internet while they are trying to make sense of their identity. Discussions that were once thought dead ressurge again and again with insights from a bunch of new directions. Everyone now has their pseudo-intellectual take on everything and often they seem to be willing to die to defend their ahlf-thought positions and promote their agenda.

Things you talk about were discussed widely in the past. Marx, the holocaust, ethnostates, nazism, hoaxes and the all the jewing we talk about all existed in the past and were talked about widely, they seemed to disappear because for a while the mainstream intellectuals deemed all these topics irrelevant. Shit is, now they don't have the control of the narrative. Chaos reigns back again

[Anonymous No.13981243]

>>13980687
I'm not talkimg about the world, or the internet, I'm taking specifically about 4chan and /pol/. We just simply did not have these discussions back in 08, 09, whatever. And shit, whatever, let them discuss whatever they want (although if you have several people directly inspired by them to murder, there is probably something you should do), but make it a fucking global rule to stop the leaking of their bullshit to unrelated boards. No one on /mu/ cares about some retard spamming his pol meme of the month or his conspiracy theory about Jews. No one on /3/ fucking cares about your political views. They're a fucking cancer killing the board by literally spreading all over the place and driving the legitimate posters out of the site. Anyone trying to say "this is how it always was" is a retarded newfag who came here post 2012 from r/tumblrinaction.

[Anonymous No.13981307]

>>13977012
>>13977989
>no u

[Anonymous No.13981338]

>>13975916
>"yas queen slay"
Look it up expecting to get to read about some fun old Brit slang, I do enjoy British slang, nope. It is weird to watch as culture begins to pull away from me, I know I never had a chance in this race, now that the distance is palpable I am not sure how I feel about it.

t.getting old

[Anonymous No.13981352]

>>13981243
Unrelated discussions always break in and they are not as unrelated as you might think. The dumb /pol/ meme of the month is shaping the current culture and artistic movements that run on this website. The thing you consider as /pol/ cancer had different forms around 07, 08, 09, and back them we already had complaints about people trying to disrupt the discussion by bringing those topics. Today they might seem common place but it's because the core culture already stabilized and absorbed the stuff that belongs in and have completely rejected what belonged out, our current board layout and how we manage the moderation inside boards are fruits of that time.

[Anonymous No.13981577]

>>13981352
You don't hang around other boards much, do you? Spamming wojaks with random green text one liner isn't shaping anything. It's stifling the discussion and any usefulness of the site, just look at /mu/'s current state.

[Anonymous No.13981584]

>>13975916
Not really. When something on 4chan is collectively decided as "based" , the attribute usually sticks only to things that are unique, innovative, ahead of the mainstream line of thinking, etc. Things that stick out not because they are popular among users but because they implicitly contain attributes of truth that naturally cause them to float up to the top of what we value. I believe this distinction is primarily a consequence of 4chan's anonymity. Since users have no social status ideas have nothing but their merit to propel them.

[Anonymous No.13981658]

>>13981577
I lurk on /n/, /o/, /g/, /out/, /fit/, /int/, /ck/ and my homeboards are /w/ and /asp/. Lurk the cultural boards occasionally but I don't fit in, usually look on /lit/, /his/, /pol/, /a/, /jp/ and /qa/ once a week just to know what is going up.

/mu/ is cancer and the current trend is wojak variations with people making music and animations of the current types of people ain't it? I don't give a shit, it's the current trend and people are making money out of it. You are the dumb one for failing to shape the culture by making something new or cash on from what is already there. You are the one that is out of place since you can't make the change nor enjoy what is there.

[Anonymous No.13981659]

>>13981584
How is "fuck niggers" innovative or ahead of mainstream line of thinking? If nothing, its the opposite.

[Anonymous No.13981671]

>>13981659
Showing open contempt and disdain for ignorant people can only be a force for progress for this society.

[Anonymous No.13981685]

>>13975947
YASSSSS QUEEEEN SLAY

[Anonymous No.13981699]

Lil B actually has a really interesting relationship with 4chan. Obviously he's never been here but his music has had a long and fruitful history with the memes and culture of this site. Not to mention his ongoing feud with Kevin Durant that became a meme in its own right.

[Anonymous No.13981709]

>>13981658
>I lurk on /n/, /o/, /g/, /out/, /fit/, /int/, /ck/ and my homeboards are /w/ and /asp/.
So basically the boards where /pol/ didn't really spread yet. Although you had to have noticed the quality of posts on /g/ AND the post count getting lower and lower. There's people all over /g/ who have no idea what they're talking about anymore, and the recent trend of defending proprietary software is not simple trolling either. /a/ and /jp/ feel like they're the ones that didn't change at all, that is true.

>/mu/ is cancer and the current trend is wojak variations with people making music and animations of the current types of people ain't it? I don't give a shit, it's the current trend and people are making money out of it.
I'm not sure where you think people are making money? But the effect on the board has been obvious: most of artists who actually posted on /mu/ left, sharethreads and /daily/, both staple generals with a lot of quality discussion and content are gone with all of the people keeping them up leaving for good, there's a whole artist collective who left for Facebook and 420chan, there is no more alternative music discussion, no more /mu/core, no more charts, no listenalongs, no curated stream marathons. The entire culture of the board is gone. The board has actually been one of the best music discussion platforms on the entire web in the past, and now everyone who made it into what it was left because of the polfags not being able to have a coherent discussion, and mods not being there at all. Shit, even my polfag friends stopped going there. So yes, I am put of place, but only because there's no music discussion on a music board. It's not /mu/ - memes and shitposts.

[Anonymous No.13981799]

>>13981709
Sounds like /v/. I never played video-games but I remember that they had to create /vg/ for something similar. Even /pol/ had do create /bant/ to end non-political shitposts.

Music is not my thing so I can't say much, I just see those youtube videos everywhere and sometimes something new that seems to come from that type of thing get on my feed. It's good that the board decided to get on new boards out of 4chan, maybe it's better that way. I rarely get good advice by browsing /g/ but by lurking the things that surround it (IRCs, smaller imageboards, wikis, pastebins, githubs) I can find the stuff I want.

If things are really obnoxious you can try to jump on the IRC and convince the mods to create a new /mu/ to cater to the old type of discussion. A single person can't do it but if a considerable part of the board feels the same way you can make it.

[Anonymous No.13981884]

>>13981799
That's the thing, there is no old /mu/ people around anymore. They left for Facebook and Discord. And people make fun of "lol muh pol bogeyman", but there is a clear correlation of rising popularity of /pol/ and other boards getting overran by low quality content. It's ultimately the mods at fault, but what does it matter in the end.

I mean, how many times do you see people on /g/ discuss important topics like CPU arch monoculture (something that's a big topic everywhere in tech), and how many times do you see people just posting wojaks and arguing about Intel/AMD or Apple vs flagship Android phone of the year?

Same with /mu/. Last year, Anguish released their first album. It's a collab of 3 absolute legends in both their genres and music in general. I've total of 0 threads about it. Instead, everyone was too busy discussing Lana Del Rey, Rihanna and Taylor Swift. Shit, we had people start their music careers and labels thanks to /mu/, all of them now gone, not wanting anything to do with the site anymore.

4chan and /pol/ in particular want to pretend they're the counter culture, but they can't help invading boards they know nothing about, and all we have now is people discussing the same pop consumerist shit everyone else on Twitter does. New iPhone is all over /g/, new top 40 pop all over /mu/, newest Star Wars and Marvel all over /TV/.

So yeah, when I see people like that dude up there claim " it was always this way", it's clear they aren't at all familiar with 4chan history.

[Anonymous No.13982004]

>>13981884
Interesting.

Looking at the graphics /mu/ had it's peak around 2013 and since the rise of /pol/ the number of daily users hasn't rose significantly. It actually diminished. What seems to have happened there is a true change of userbase. Old /mu/ is completely off the site, something like old /b/ changing completely once it became mainstream. Some boards seems to suffer drastically when a huge influx of people get on the site.

Look at /mu/ daily users compared to /int/ after the rise of /pol/.

[Anonymous No.13982082]

>>13975916
"yess queen slay" is cringe because women are cringe

based is based

[Anonymous No.13982103]

>>13982004
*daily posts

I never realized how small /lit/ is, it's actually comparable to /o/.

[Anonymous No.13982111]

>>13982004
I mean yeah, that's what I suspect happened. The more /pol/ grew, the more it bled thru, and people just got fed up with the shit. At least everyone I know cites that as their reason for leaving.

[Anonymous No.13982374]

>>13981884
I think you may be underestimating the amount of covert advertising that happens on this site. It would be chump change for these huge corporations to hire dedicated teams to AstroTurf places like 4chan and Reddit with inorganic posts and memes designed to increase sales.

[Anonymous No.13982408]

>>13982082
based

[Anonymous No.13982430]

>>13981884
with all due respect, /mu/ has always been shit.

[Anonymous No.13982891]

>>13981884
4chan stopped being a sekret club long ago. It'ds now as mainstream as it can get. Just more polarized than the average mainstream internaut

[Anonymous No.13982947]

>>13982891
>It'ds now as mainstream as it can get.

I wouldn't go THAT far. I think you're underestimating how impenetrable this site still is to lots of people. Remember, the vast majority of people who use the internet never step out of Facebook/Twitter/Google/Instagram/Amazon/sports websites. There are still people to this day who don't realize how the anonymity here works. 4chan's definitely more popular than it used to be, but I wouldn't call it mainstream.

[Anonymous No.13982960]

>>13982947
and it hurts because 4chan is very popular, but the rest of chans are very dead. There is no middle ground. There is no "2010 4chan" comfy chan to go. It's either this or dead chans like 420chan (like anon mentioned before in another post)

[Anonymous No.13982965]

>>13982960
4+4chan would have been able to keep going if the autism there hadn't gotten so overwhelming. That site's fate is a reminder that there is indeed such a thing as too much autism.

[Anonymous No.13982969]

>>13982965
Why exactly was it taken down? Domain name rejection? Cloudflare refused their services?

[Anonymous No.13982992]

>>13982965
>>13982960
>>13982947
It's weird because foreign imageboards work in the same way. There can be 20 different imageboards online but a single one always has 95% of the traffic. We still have a bit more of the old school comfy though

[Anonymous No.13983741]

>>13982969
Turns out no one wants to host Nazi pedo shooters

[Anonymous No.13983765]

>>13975916
>implying the green arrow isn’t an interesting literary device that gives all text it engulfs a distinctly snide and holier-than-thou flavor

ishygddt

[Anonymous No.13983973]

>>13977790
>we

[Anonymous No.13984183]

>>13975916
Nobody has said either of those things in quite a while.