I normally do not go online as much anymore. There are only a seldom amount of sites I even use today, one being Ebay just to buy some stuff I desire time to time. Social media seems pretty dead then again I have no presence on the major platforms that require phone number identification so I may be totally out of the loop. Boring day today with not much I need to do so I am online, for now.

That's a good question.
I'd say it's because chans are just so damn slow, nobody likes waiting around for some rando to come and answer a thread that got posted three days earlier.
>>Be me
>>Be on some random social media
>>Post a thing, wait five minutes.
>>Six hundred answers!
>>Be me.
>>Be on some random chan.
>>Post something
>>Come back three weeks later.
>>Still no responses

>>46739
What made older anons leave image boards for normie corporate/govt controlled platforms though? I remember the days anons would brag about their opsec, dox popular people on major social media sites just for fun, they loved shitposting every day and then suddenly after covid every image board seemed to die out, barely anyone visits image boards anymore. Did the covid lockdowns get them all hooked to normie platforms? I distinctly remember before covid-19 boards were populated with users. Now it's next to nill.

Most people on inageboards now are boring and only want to talk about the most dry autistic shit.

>>46740
It wasn't after covid, this shit all died when 8chan went down and all imageboards were seen as nazi platforms. People went to discord and a shitload went to reddit.

>>46743
>It wasn't after covid, this shit all died when 8chan went down and all imageboards were seen as nazi platforms.

Yes, it did die down some after 8chan went down for a while, but I happen to remember there still were 30 to 40 anons posting daily and regularly when 8kun first went up online and I had some conversation with people there. I also remember this place had more people too. It was around the later period of the covid scare that the user base started dropping like flies and today it's near dead. 4chan use is also way down now that they banned VPN use.

>People went to discord and a shitload went to reddit.

Reddit is cancer. I guess Discord is a little bit better than Facebook or Instagram lol, but I refuse to give away my personal info (like phone number verification) to online social media companies, using a smartphone or giving that data away is just asking to be doxxed, bullied and harassed. So I guess I'll stay on sites like this that still allow anonymous posting.

>>46747
Imageboards aren't going to make a resurgence and people on irc are all pedos. Good luck

Its an end of an era. Its like asking why there are so few people on BBS or IRC these days. Tech changes and people just head to the next thing because they are ADD and that's where the majority of people are. Young people dont even understand what opsec is or why its important. They will gladly give their info to any 3 letter agency that asks for it. The Internet is increasingly centralized and almost entirely under surveillance. Shit sucks.

>>46737
>Why are image boards so dead today?

Why do we get liek the same thread as the on OP made every single month on /b/? Eggsplain OP

rape niggers

Because Imageboards ban the Son of Man from posting even non-sexual things. If someone comes in like the Son of Man and starts posting actual FACTUAL IDEAS and things they ban me for "spam". It's never changed and my suggestion is that you should kill yourself so your life cannot go around and cause mischief for others and so myself can have peace knowing you're dead.

Kill yourself. Praise God for dead trannies and mischievous demons

Kill yourself. Praise God for suicides. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord for suicides.

The push for trannies makes me hate them. I hate trannies now. I want to kill them. Stop pushing trannies. If you're not as good as me, kill yourself.

>It feels like a whole generation of people suddenly vanished.

millennials were the last pillars to be actually holding it up. broccoli heads were never going to be apart of what kept imageboards going and most of them are too narcissistic for anonymous places. /b/ on 4chan started off with having lots of weebs even while it was mainly random focused, but fast forward into time, moot gives the middle finger to the kind of people he once originally wanted on his site, and he took the easy way out to be working for jewgle to leave the site to its demise and into 2016 where tourists both young or old developed their first fetish for interracial porn on top of their political alignment kink. its an endless story of betrayal when it comes to imageboards, but you shouldnt worry about something that has been dead for a while now. this topic has been discussed more times than i can remember, so im not going to bother tidying it up in autism sprinkles when the answer is so simple. you'll just have to enjoy these places like everyone else does. take this raisen-dick idiot for example >>47103

>>47115
Only problem is not all of us enjoy normie gatekeeping platforms which run contrary to the anonymity of open sites such as this. Whatever though, I'm getting adjusted to not using the internet as much as I used to anyway. Luckily I have years worth of media backed up on offline drives I can still enjoy from time to time, as well lots of booze and family/friends to enjoy it with. My bother streams most his shit, so when we visit one another we get drunk together and watch random funny videos from Youtube or wherever. It kinda feels like the death of social life online, but at least there is still informative content and lots of media entertainment.

>>47104

I don't think the pic in the OP is a tranny. I would bet my own dick on that. If that was a tranny it would be the best damn cunning disguise in the entire world.

>>47106
Just rape them

>>47157
That's what likely happens if the male trannies ever go to prison, and after another STD outbreak occurs they relocate them to the female prisons, and then the trannies eventually start to rape the women. It's a vicious cycle. Prison industrial complex, meet your new lucrative business partners, the medical industrial complex. All subjects exploited for maximum $$$$$$.

>>46737
I have come to the conclusion image boards are dead because critical thinking and opposition to corruption is pretty much dead. Image boards were once a bastion of free speech and individual opinions often uncensored and unsuppressed. They were not originally part of the corporate establishment. Oh my God how the times have changed!

>>47156
>I don't think the pic in the OP is a tranny. I would bet my own dick on that. If that was a tranny it would be the best damn cunning disguise in the entire world.

Nah hips are too curvy and face is too soft and round. She's a real woman. I could be wrong though

>>47160
>>46737

>I have come to the conclusion image boards are dead

There's a bunch of imageboards with dozens of hourly posts out there nowadays. What are you talking about?

>>47173
active doesnt mean its good.


also, it never ceases to sadden me seeing what random boards have all become. heightened sense of awareness limited things and we arent living in the "xD so randum" timeline anymore. there's not enough variety to add into the mix. just the same dead nigger jokes on repeat when you can easily view pol for the exact same thing.

>>47173
I found one that is semi-active and it's mediocre like this place. I don't mind it, it's just that many image boards that are still alive are hard to find these days. Most of the alternatives seem dead.

>>46742
Anon needs a place for hobbies too, and not just for fun.

What other boards are still active besides 4crap? Any suggestions?

>>49014
Soyjak Party. Unfortunately I have two more recommendations but it's worse than 4crap due to the existence of pedos there

>>49014
The one ur posting on right now

>>46739
>Be on some random social media
>Post a thing, wait five minutes.
>Six hundred answers!
Depends. If you have a social media account with almost no followers, if you're shadowbanned etc, you get zero replies at your posts. Doesn't matter what kind of post you make, if you're a big name at social media you'll get lots of replies immediately even if you just upload a photo of your poop.

>>46747
You can get doxxed literally everywhere, even at "anonymous" imageboards. Also all big imageboards are monitored by feds. And even the most niche imageboards get doxxed by retards with no life for the most retarded reasons.

>>47115
You realized that 4chan has always been an anime imageboard that copied famous Japanese anime imageboards, right? Oh wait, you're just another /pol/tard tourist that discovered 4chan during American elections and you larp as an oldfag.

>>49016
Soyjak Party is crap and run by faggots who raid other imageboards and harass/dox innocent people at the internet just for playing "problematic" video games.

Sexy vagina!

>>49055
I disagree

I was offline for around a month since my harddrive crashed and had to get another one for my computer. I'll be honest, it sometimes gets boring without the internet or being able to keep up with current events online, but it's not horrible. You get used to being offline after a couple days and you find other things to occupy yourself with. I started watching the Breaking Bad series I have on DVD box set. Pretty classic show. I also did more yard work and landscaping outside when it wasn't as cold out on certain days. Now that I'm back I find out I haven't missed much of anything, bullshit hasn't changed in the world much, system is still corrupted as ever before, people still killing other people, debt insolvency galore as usual, etc. Oh well.

>>49184
Yet you still post at imageboards to brag about something that old people do. Also the only reason you were offline was because your computer crashed.

>>49055
YWNBAW
Doxxing tranny pedophile discord groomers is doxxing innocent people?
Dilate

>>49189
I do like checking in here time to time, nothing wrong with that. I just assume this is the end of the anonymous image board era. Luckily p2p networks and alternative media sites are alive and well, it's what keeps me on the internet today.

>>49184
Always remember to back up your files in external HDD. At least 3 of them in case something like that happens

>>49189
Not everyone is the same age, person and background as you anon

>>49270
>Always remember to back up your files in external HDD. At least 3 of them in case something like that happens

Good idea, I do have an extra backup but I will definitely consider having more than just one these days now that privacy and security have been tossed out of our society. Best tip I've heard from this website in a long time btw.

>>46737
>Why are image boards so dead today?

When you walk into a room and you realize very few have anything relevant to say you just leave the room.

>Did everyone bail to bigger online platforms?

Yes.

>>46740
>what happened to "older anons"/oldfags
They were all 14-17 year olds who eventually grew up and became more invested in existence outside of their digital identity, or experienced hardship that made them realise how pointless imageboards are unless you are using them for a specific purpose.

>>46737
Dear police officer
Fuck you!

btw, boards popular in Russia/Ukrain/Belarus especially if you like to smoke weed

It's illegal here, but ppl steel wanna smoke and discuss about how to grow or smoke xd

>>49189
tbh I wish I had a lawn and house to maintain. At least this anon >>49184 has something compared to most people on earth in general

>>49280
And always keep using your drives. Liek keep putting them in your computer at least twice a month.

If you stop using them, they stop working sometimes for some reason

>>49313
It's legal to use in some countries nowadays so whatevs

>>49052
yea doxxing was literally one of 4chan's biggest things for some time when it was good.

In 4chan you have to wait 60 seconds to post now, i'm done

>>46737
underdeveloped and stinky

>>49834
LOL, the narrative gatekeepers are very desperate these days aren't they?

It would be nice to visit places like this every so often and not find the same person bumping their own political threads with mundane short statements. Seeing the same damn threads pushed to the top again and again gets very old.

>>49836
If you are referring to that model-tier body in the OP anon I would beg to differ. Even if that body were once a man every hole deserves to be pounded and blasted full of protein.

>>49836
Do you think only women at the age of your mother are well-developed and perfumey?

She has enough big boobs and looks sexy!

because fags keep on bumping same old threads no one else cares about?

>>50367
...and the fact normfags prefer gatekeeping platforms like Instagram and Tik Tok anyway. Whatever.

because my parents started pestering me to get a job so i did.

The fediverse is the new image boards.

>>50423
Since when did this begin to happen?

Why is it that every fucking time I come back to /b/ the same old threads are bumped back to the top with one lined broken record comments? Can someone please explain why?

I for one left for the fediverse. I only pop back to image boards every several months or so to see if they're still dead and same answer for the past several years: "Yup, image boards are dead."

>>50584
Oops, forgot I already posted about the fediverse in here.

>>50433
To answer your question: about 4-5 years ago.

>>50584
>>50585
I must be a normie fag, I have absolutely no idea what the fediverse is. Why do they call it fediverse btw?

>>50589
Think email, but with social media. There are different servers, referred to as instances, that people can sign up to. Each instance can communicate with each other; for example, users from instance A can view, like and follow users from instance B, and vice versa.

It's called the fediverse because it's federated, has nothing to do with feds (I thought the same when I first heard about it a few years ago).

>>49050
>The one ur posting on right now
we're doomed

>>46737
there's nothing to do on them. also, people are getting increasingly boring and lazy and such people don't make threads.

In most cases when considering certain names out there, they're in bad hands or indirectly controlled by shitty people. You're actually posting among people that probably know each other and are tempting others outside of their circle to post. What makes this all bad is that it takes away all charm of how an anonymous community should function but instead it leads to things like drama, literal who's being mentioned, personal attacks, etc. It's an old problem actually that's been enabled by those thinking it's progress and "convenient" to have something so backstage like an IRC/discord where people storm in to have special treatment and allowed influence. And by being a lurker and not contributing, it pressures many of these assholes into doing the most work when dealt with low activity or boredom.

>>49053
it's very telling how stupid you are replying to me with that kind of misunderstanding and obvious information. It just makes no sense what you communicated to me because at such a time, I was already finished with posting on /a/ and /jp/ a bit earlier than 2016.

insta: jrmflemos89

>>50817
This this this.

its over

Seems like I need to research and try to figure out how to use the "fediverse" everyone keeps raving about.