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.

>>50998
Have no fear: spoonfeeding is here!
https://nicecrew.tv/w/wz5Bn4Xy7kMVh8FKLF8zpN

>>52051
SHUT UP SPAMMER!

something to do with the glownigger takeover of the web. The war for free speech on the free internet ended long ago. Its only now that normalfags begin to realize.

>>52069
You can go to Gab, Minds, Telegram, (Elon's) Twitter or even Bitchute & Rumble chats and find people posting all kinds of stuff that would be banned from any other major platform, plus we have sites like this too. The question is, are Americans practicing their free speech enough here? Most are on the major platforms which is pathetic because they choose to be bullied and censored by gatekeepers/feds.

>>49014
I'm starting to think legit critical thinking anons have given up on image boards years ago and the few remaining "mainstream" ones are mostly filled with fed bots. Thus it stands to reason the only popular ones seem to regurgitate what you see on Western TV these days.

no, people tend to lurk more often than respond

>>52108
Do they though? What exactly is there to read or enjoy when there is very little contribution a daily basis? Most boards are getting too slow to even bother lurking, worse sometimes all that gets posted is gore or CP spam. I think the image board era is about over.

Maybe because the threads just keep getting more and more stupid as the years pass by and old school 90s/early 2000s anons have moved on to better things in life?

>>52137
I think it's a combination of that and the fact some younger gen z anons do not prefer authentic posting or quality media, they rather go wherever their peers are even if those platforms are filled with low-IQ ignoramuses and glow niggers. Then again, maybe it is also because no one here has much to say anymore in this modern clown world we live in? Maybe us older generations are just boring? It's not out of the realm of possibility.

oh I wonder

There's a shit ton of places like this some way worse you boys just need to explore more

gee I wonder why

maybe because anons have become stupid?

Many of them are now dominated by cliques led by hypocrites who only care about providing a space for their close friends from IRC/Discord. The days of having actual anons making natural, free spirited posts without calculation or manipulation done off-site will never come back.

Did kohlchan die?

>>52954
>Many of them are now dominated by cliques led by hypocrites
Well then maybe they were all idiots to begin with.

One could only wonder, maybe people are finally getting sick and tired of gay CP spam?

you cant escape gay cp spam

>>53002
I'll keep trying.

>>53002
i have never seen gay cp porn spam
I escaped it without even trying

>>53076
It's been posted here before, it often takes the mods some time to respond and delete it though. I notice when it does get posted here at least most of the images no longer show. Hopefully they have something that can detect and block those images by now. I don't know why the perverted jackass would post it in the first place when we clearly do not want that shit here.

>>53079
why do people spam cp anyway

>>53086
The ZOG doesn't want anyone to be able to post stuff anonymously. Any site that allows posting from tor will thus be bombarded with CP until it complies or loses its reputation.

There is no sanity in the USA anymore.

How can you deal with Americans when they look you in the eye and say that the US had TSA groping in 1776?

https://godlike.com/

>>53089
This, and it is the one exception where I do support censorship, ban the glow niggers who post that illegal garbage. Their sole purpose of posting that garbage is to ruin websites not fully under their thumb of control. Same reason my online forums had be shut down the last 10+ years. Assholes trying to ruin free speech by weaponizing illegal content.

>>53096
>my online forums

*many online forums

>>49014
kohlchan.net/int

>>53101
>I am flaming faggot
>I cannot stop obsessing over black cock
>I am a flaming faggot
>I am a total faggot
We can see that.

>>46737
Are you mentally retarded or just a fucking idiot?

>>53114
What? Are you too stupid to answer some basic questions? If you don't want to give an answer you might as well shut up if you have nothing important to say.

Americans scream being placed under arrest is wonderful because Communists will also be put under house arrest.

Americans think that only illegal aliens will be recorded by license plate scanners.

Americans insist only Muslims are groped by the TSA.

Americans say only negroes get welfare.

Americans swear a wall will only be used to keep Mexicans out and won't be used to keep Americans IN.

>>52954
This. Socialites eat up any medium and stow away all anons on a discord somewhere. Glowies only add and facilitate the stagnation. We really are an elitist species that sullies all watering holes.

anti-spam bumpt

>>53590
Some of us never go to 4chan.

God damn retards.

Sexy body OP who is she?

>>53619
No one likes 4chan so 4chan faggots go here to spam these boards up.

It probably is a bunch of morons coming from 4cuckistan/plebbit that spam up boards like these with sick stupid content would not doubt it.

smartphones killed the regular internet, face it.

is well I say yes so maybe

gee wonder why

this site fucking sucks kek
so many dead boards/threads
it's kinda sad

no one glow nigger appreciates spam

So I couldn't help but notice the Sabrina Carpenter thread was REMOVED here. Who deleted it and why? It was one of the FEW decent *non-degenerate* threads on /b/ today.

Why was the thread deleted yet all the other horrible spam gets to stay up? I honestly don't get it.... ..it's as if, perhaps, someone WANTS this place to remain filled with crude sick spam in order to drive good decent people away, and thus ridding this site of quality content.

I do hope the moderator of this board is not one of these spammers. If that happens to be the case, well, this place glows as much as 4chan or Facebook does.

>>53854
Let's make it better then. The board is only as good as the people who post on it. If it has gone to shit, it's because those who post here are shit too.

>>54100
This
Just make the good content you want to happen. Or something.

You can always hide threads and posts you don't like anyway. You don't have to see them if you don't want to.

>>54082
It probably just 404'd from all the new threads that keep popping up here lately

its deader than dead now than when you said this. I think the funding for the bots stopped plus mossad HQ got hit.

>>46737
Pretty much. And with 4chan down, it's a dead end for free anonymous boards.

In my case, the crowd just stopped being as much of my crowd. Too overly focused on contemporary politics, not enough focus on autistic hobbies and autistic people the way it was when I found it. So eventually as the number of people like me who just want to take it easy dwindled, I stopped coming. Probably around 2021 is the last time I posted on a regular basis.

Now, I've become something of a normalfag, and I guess everyone who hits their late 20s/30s eventually either becomes a total hermit gets their sould sucked away into normal life. And I do mean sucked away. If I could go back in time I would tell myself that an introverted autist like me would be miserable if they forced themselves to get out of their comfort zone and try to be normal. Because I am, and although some things I have as a normalfag family man are nice, it wasn't worth the extra stress and lack of free time. Don't get married and don't listen to redditors gushing about marriage. If you're autistic, or mentally ill, or an introvert, chances are you'll really, really hate not being able to get your own personal space and time.

Yeah, I guess that's also what happens. People grow old and eventually life takes you out.

>>54109
Speaking of this and good content, how about making a Tabletop Games board on Endchan? COYA/Tabletop RPGs were a huge part of 4chan culture back inna day because they were overtaken by liberal soyboys in the industry who couldn't handle a rape joke or an offensive slur or some other politically incorrect game in a fantasy world like slavery being part of a setting. We could redirect those kind of goofball gamers to Endchan and make a based forum here for gamers. The old board was a blue board and didn't allow porn posting image wise so keeping it that way but text wise it was allowed or relating to a tabletop source book that had it was allowed but no posting nudity.

>>46738

> 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.

That's pretty much the same thing as me. As much as I often use my PC to browse online on the Internet (both darknet/clearnet), I usually just spend around 30 minutes lurking and reading social media or forum posts, news sources/outlets, watch random videos on YouTube, etc.

> 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.

Same thing here. I have no time for social media companies and corporations using big data collection. I have no time, and rather not, register an account using my own personal phone number, because I'm more invested into online anonymity. Which is why I'm often present in using imageboards anonymously. However, when I feel like to, I only use a bigger portion on my time on social media only for listening to music, nothing else.

> Boring day today with not much I need to do so I am online, for now.

Same thing here, boring as usual. But as I'm not often online most of the times, I usually spend the time doing workout exorcises, continuing to read my novel, and other stuff. Try to make my day as productive as I can, even though I'm eventually lazy to do anything.

>>60962
>Too overly focused on contemporary politics, not enough focus on autistic hobbies and autistic people the way it was when I found it.
Thank you. Not just this one sentence, but the whole paragraph. This better articulates what I've been trying to say for a long, long time now.
I'm gonna keep clear of specifics, but, speaking generally, I got lucky over the last year and a half. I stumbled on one thread on one board with a ton of creative dedicated people. I was inspired to launch a creative project of my own, and see it through to completion across the topical threads. Was some serious hard work, made many mistakes, would not approach this project in the same way in light of what I learned, and I learned a lot. But I finished it and got some positive feedback from a handful of people who enjoyed the result.
But that's it. I won't launch any creative work on an imageboard of any kind in the future. The overall board was falling into the same dynamics you highlight well before I found that one thread, and became nothing special well before the hack hit. Even the thread became nearly dead from a lack of creative people before the hack.
But man did I get lucky.

Dead internet theory - 4chan was heavily botted to propagandize off-cuff ideas to try radicalizing some individuals

Re-concurring threads from 4chan appearing here such as OTK are PR marketing driven to artificially inflate the popularity of said streamers in-line with how heavily view botted those streamers are on Twitch

>>61259
Thankfully there were other boards on the site with activity coming from different countries.

>>60962
it amazes me how quickly anons went from "hopeless losers" to becoming tech millionaires. everything just feels like a big lie. all those people just a huge psyop

simply the internet became something used by all, and i seriously doubt your grandma would use an image board.

is this a good thing? fuck no, i fucking hate that the internet became this child-proof shitbox

>>62640
> It became child-proof shitbox.
> I'm mad.
You are just mad you can't groom kids online, go fuck yourself retard.

Because they wanted validation, not freedom. They couldn't stand being ignored or questioned, so they fled to platforms that feed them censorship. Like tiktok or similar platforms that are so censored that you can get banned for anything. I tried to post something controversial to see people’ś reaction there and the police intervened in my fucking house because of my post. 4chan was the most non-death one but now it's gone, 8kun posting is crashed so people are leaving. I saw a few anons saying they moved to nanochan (on tor) because they banned VPNs on 8kun but it’s also kind of dead.

>feels like a whole generation of people suddenly vanished.
They didn’t vanish. They got absorbed. Digitally neutered. Tamed like pets. They’re still out on internet — scrolling, swiping, drooling. Just not here

free speech? that means you stay in places like that, even when they're empty.

>46737

because the majority of the internet are fucking teenagers who had grown up on tik-tok or some similar braindead shit. the only things said majority needs is either porn or videos of faggots dancing under crappy music.

>69940
> Because they wanted validation, not freedom. They couldn't stand being ignored or questioned, so they fled to platforms that feed them censorship

that's the entire reason why pitholes like reddit and twitter exist in the first place