Anime Boards

I have to say that i really think that 4chan is drifting off from what its original intention was. I really miss the early days of 4chan when it really was for anime. Now its just an adult content carnival. >:(

Why is it bad? Anonymous forums are a great idea for various reasons. It's a good thing that it has expanded beyond anime and it's being utilized for various types of discussion. There is more to life than anime after all.

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It's not an entirely bad thing that it has drifted from its original intention but I agree that it feels weird that there is no common link between the posters now. That would have been anime before.

Anime was never a ``common link'' nor has it ever been, /b/ is! /a/, /a/ is! /b/, /k/ is! /l/, so on and hence so forth. The idea that there was any universally bonding topic on 4chan is a complete fallacy, I HATE anigay and it was the fringe nature and the introduction of massive anonymous bulletin board posting that drew me to 4chan in 2004, not anime, and many others were in the same boat.

Also: when it was not an adult content carnival is when exactly? The very person who tipped me off to this place back then did so by spamming me with shit from /l/ at that moment in time that he must've felt was particularly amazing stuff, meanwhile I just smile and nod and explore the domain of the host of this image's url... the rest is history.

>>5
I suppose that's true, but I've seen preserved screencaps and HTML files of old threads from the late 2003-early 2005 era and it does seem like it was a much more anime friendly place than it is nowadays. Some of the memes from the early era also are derived from anime shows e.g., Waha, Thrust Vectoring Owns the Sky (Macross Zero), Osakaphone (Azumanga Daioh), etc.

Of course, even in its early days there were non-anime boards, and of course I expect that not every early user of 4chan were fans of anime/manga, but it does seem like it served as a kind of ``center of gravity'' that kept the small community together. Now of course 4chan is too big and too popular of a place with many diverse topics to even have that same ``community feel''.

I see the same with iichan and 4-ch, but they're nowhere near as large or popular enough to get out of control like 4chan has.

4chan has been a site for normals since 2005. The days of quality discussion about anime are looong gone, my friend. They've since been replaced with macro images, memes, reaction faces and shitposting. The only good boards with real on-topic discussion left are /tg/ and /m/. The resident /a/ board has gone to complete shit because of the 15 year old boys and the /v/ cross-posters.

4chan, as a whole, has suffered greatly from its exposure to the rest of the internet. Not advocating the SUPER SEEKRIT club mentality, but it would have been different if gaia invasion, the myspace hackings/raids and Scientology protests never happened.

I agree in principle, the popular boards have discussion more akin to youtube comments than anything. Rather surprising that while anonymous boards were concieved to avoid faggotry of forums, they have far exceeded it but in a different way.

But as I see it, without the popularity 4chan went through from 05-08, no other place on the net could have made the great content 4chan did.

>>4

The common link is that we're all socially retarded aspies

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