I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.
Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.
Never
Literally never in my life
I have successfully not visited it for, I think multiple decades now.
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
Zero times. If it’s worth looking at it’ll make its way eventually to another platform that’s less of an ass fissure
Like once a year or something.
Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.
Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn’t expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.
Yeah I was a big channer many years ago I still don’t understand how the fuck fascism won there. The only reason I go there now is to snoop on fascists since I know how to click around there. The only thing I can say is that it must be that most channers really were idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for, instead of people pretending to be idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for.
Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.
I pretend to be an elven paladin regularly. I’m not going to become an elven paladin.
Pfft, just try harder
Yup I’m a level 20 warlock.
The alt right playbook is a great resource to understand how they won there if you’re curious.
Absolutely never.
I haven’t been on 4chan in over 20 years since I saw a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel.
That place is a cesspool.
Oh I forgot about that one. I also saw that. Sickening.
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
Litterally me
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.)
I used 4chan daily from 2005 to around 2013. It just doesn’t have the vibe it used to, or maybe I’m just getting old.
Cuz it’s not the same without mootykins
Moot? That newbie ruined 4chan forever since he joined it! :^)
Shitty jokes aside, I didn’t notice too much of a change with the moot→hiro transition. Most negative changes in the “vibe” there predate hiro for me.
Never.
At this point I see pepe as a hate symbol.
I don’t follow 4chan politics, but isn’t Pepe a /pol/ thing or something like that? I mean, 4chan’s got a number of different forums. That seems like saying that Reddit is X because of a particular subreddit, or the Fediverse is X because of a particular community/magazine.
I see your point: pepe can be used for anything.
But it’s so strongly associated with hate in my experience that I cannot see its use in an unbiased way.
There’s a documentary about Pepe and his creator, Matt Furie, called “Feels Good Man”. It’s worth a watch!
I like pepe though there is one pic of him for most situation or you can make one easily and he is kinda funny ngl
Never have, never will.
0 times per year.
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
