Oldfags wanted

No I mean in 2009 people were dumping NSFW doujins

I miss the days were people posted rage comics that had some effort to be funny.
I miss the days were gorespamming purged newfags and was encouraged
I don't miss everyone spamming ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWAH/mudkips
I miss loliposting
I miss that posting Naruto was grounds for a ban

I love the revisionist redditors trying to claim that Veeky Forums was never racist, yet I remember the threads like for Hurricane Katrina or any time a disaster hit a mostly black area and we made photoshops and laughed at the niggers.

Oh boy and when they try to claim that /pol/ ruined Veeky Forums in the last few years when in 2013 the nigger hate was as real as ever, that fucking Zimmerman Trial.

There were constant threads about nigger hate, but also about using drugs, especially weed. Also many threads about Nazi hate/stupid Nazi stuff too.
I don't like redditors doing revisionism but let's not act like the site was spewing Nazi propaganda like some of those guys will have you think.

I mostly stayed on /a/ until 2009 so my experience is kinda limited

Veeky Forums was being irreverent.
There was no ideology, no fucking moral crusade going on, just kids being edgy.

This
Veeky Forums had a general dislike for authority, no ideological basis except "for the lulz".

Oh I know, neo-nazis merely exploited that chink combined with a lot of chantards actually being pissed off about liberal domination and them scapegoating "white" people. Fox News used to be a colossal joke to us, but what very recently happened was Fox reshuffling its deck to appeal to the people it fell out of touch with, becoming usually the more reasonable mainstream outlet than the liberal networks. We were just generally edgy under a dipshit neocon administration, then came Obama, genuinely scapegoating white people and helping in any way possible to launch Black Lives Matter in all its retardation. That and the shit with the migrants in Europe, we reacted naturally.

There were also the threads about how awesome school shootings are laughing at both the shooter and the victims, but actually those are still around. HAPPENINGs are a separate thing but reminiscent of it, we still like watching things burn to the ground but we also have interests to look out for.

Please don't say words like "we" and "us". I am getting vibes from the era where Anonymous became an ideology. Very cringy!

>we browse Veeky Forums
>"DON'T USE 'WE' TOO CRINGY"
I'm getting a suspicion about you actually.

Just take the criticism, you said we were edgy, not that we were browsing. Just got some of those cammadereddit vibes, 's all.

The problem wasnt the racist memes, those were great, the problems started when people started taaking them seriously

nailed it

But what do you mean? Do you think that people posting racist memes in 2006 didn't really think that blacks tended to be worse than whites? Even with a lot of joking, I'm pretty certain the average "racist" poster in 2006 really was racist.
Now, I wouldn't believe that they were all nazis, since that's a different thing entirely than being racist and enjoying racist jokes, but I doubt they were all jokes.

>Do you think that people posting racist memes in 2006 didn't really think that blacks tended to be worse than whites? Even with a lot of joking, I'm pretty certain the average "racist" poster in 2006 really was racist.
They were more "original" racists, if that makes sense.

There were actual skinheads who believed in weird race war shit and there were people just fucking around making black jokes because it's fun to say edgy things anonymously.
All of it came organically from real life and mixed into a wild fray of different radical ideas that had no coherent feel.
The issue nowadays are the young people that developed and grew their opinions on life while browsing Veeky Forums.

Like, half of the people on /pol/ and all of those magapede redditors are under the age of 22 and fully formed almost all of their "knowledge" on the internet.
Little kids browsing Veeky Forums in 2009 grew up thinking that the memes were gospel truth, and now here we are.

No but now I have normfagas unironically do "anti decadence" decadence and other shit.

Look for a site called everything shii knows

one internet year is like 1 month tho

/mlp/ was a gigantic mistake since no fucking Veeky Forums cup commissioner has the balls to permaban them.

Nigger, literally every thread on /v/ was derailed into ponyshit. Literally. All it took was some pony reaction image. Then again /v/ at its best was low tier.
Hello newfriend! Remember "can't corner the Dorner"? Remember when you could post something about blacks/women and no one would derail a thread into autistic whining and circlejerking? No one denies there was legit racism and misogyny. The problem is that /new/ kept itself contained. Saying nigger was (and still is, thankfully) about as impactful as calling someone ugly for most people. GG happens and now every thread is a stage for the woes of white people, everyone has an agenda. Just look at /tv/.

That's partially because now nations have literally hired dedicated shitposters espousing one end of ideology.

so organic posters have to differentiate themselves by adhering to the other end of ideology. It's a shitfuck shitshow.

/a/ was always a worksafe board though, it was just a matter of absent moderation.

The rich and noble history of Veeky Forums:
1d4chan.org/wiki/Veeky Forums

Then why are you still here?

Once you get in, you don't get out.

>All boards used to be /pol/-lite
They weren't. On /b/ where almost anything went offensive content posted on there lacked any rhythm or reason other than shock value. On other boards you could find making making sexist, racist, and generally offensive jokes at times. If you thought everybody who made those jokes spoke of their true feelings then you are one of the worse thing about comedy, people who take jokes too damn seriously. Some were doing it for little reason other than to be edgy.

>Veeky Forums was always racist, misogynistic
Veeky Forums had a lot of people making offensive jokes like plenty of other sites. That isn't enough to make you /pol/.

This guy kinda knows what up. A majority of the memes not matter their subject on Veeky Forums were bad, only kinda funny in a certain context. Veeky Forums became worse when people started taking them seriously which led to people who do nothing but spout memes. Playing with someone from /v/ was always a gamble because you could get some "Hey I'm from Veeky Forums and know Veeky Forums memes!" fuck who spends the whole time making painfully predicable meme jokes.

See how the newfag still tries to revision history.
See how the nu-/pol/ got his feelings hurt when this post
Got this response
Calling him a redditor. See how he immediatelly twitched.

you can dislike nigger behavior without being a skinhead

I've been around since 2011, remember when /mlp/ was created.

I remember when the site used to shut down Westboro Church site.

/jp/ and /a/ split in January of 08'. /jp/ in the earlier years was kinda symptomatic of the general problem with Veeky Forums as a whole, in that a lot of the original population was supplanted by people who weren't a part of the culture and only came for the memes. While early /jp/ - Japan/General had a fair amount of shitposting and fuckery, like all semi-decent boards, there was a healthy (not really, almost everyone on the board seemed severely depressed and it was the place where dreams went to die) amount of OC and quite a bit of camaraderie in getting NEETbux, complaining about secondaries, and legit crossdressing advice from a Taiwanese dude who disappeared after forced conscription. I recall drawthreads got their organized start there and like all boards that tend to produce OC, it was meme-central for about two years to where you probably couldn't go anywhere without seeing James Van Der Beek crying or Reinhardt asking are you frustrated. However, an influx of retards and a culture that got a good portion of it's kicks from being self-depreciating killed the board for me, with Giga Puddi being the collective sitewide necro gang rape that sealed the deal.

I actually remember many drawthreads on /a/, had many pics saved too. /jp/ was really comfy
But I have to say that the board that degenerated the most, and I am actually bummed about, is both /tv/ and /x/.

>I've been around since 2011, remember when /mlp/ was created.
Reddit or newfag?
Reddit generally started invading around 2012.

Newfag probably.
But if we go with what the word USED to mean, then I am a newfag too since I started browsing from 2008-9 onwards.

>Obama, genuinely scapegoating white people and helping in any way possible to launch Black Lives Matter
That never happened, though

Well, same.
A Runescape friend brought me here in late 2007.
That's what the word still means; I don't consider myself an oldfag because I wasn't here when the culture reached its climax.
Everything since 2011ish has been a hollow shell.

Newfag, never been to reddit during that time. Started out on /x/, been on /b/ during the pony wars.

>I don't consider myself an oldfag
Eh, I would say we both are since the culture didn't completely die out. Really. Although 99% of the time there is no resemblance, there are many people that used to post then, and it shows when they do.
It all ended with chanology me thinks. It was then that "WE" git infiltrated.
Poor /x/, I used to browse there too. Fucking /b/.

>Poor /x/, I used to browse there too. Fucking /b/.
/x/ went from scary to "how 2 summon succubuss for succ?" schizo posts.

I blame that one /b/ raid that made all /x/ anons give up entirely.

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If you can't take a fucking raid then this chan is too strong for you.
Speaking about raids, haven't seen one in quite some time. Am I lurking the wrong boards?

now thas some real history!

Was a /b/tard like the most from the sart, fled from there when it became just a porn board and nothing else.
Went to /pol/ in 2012 for the lulz and stayed there until the cuckening and /pol/harbor and realising jut how much i hate NatSoc larpers.
Then became just a /tv/fag until gookmoot created Veeky Forums... a subject i quite enjoy.

I miss rage comics before reddit claimed it...

>Speaking about raids, haven't seen one in quite some time. Am I lurking the wrong boards?
/int/ still does it.
Mostly on double4chan now though.

>Everything since 2011ish has been a hollow shell.
Its always interesting hearing when people thought Veeky Forums reached the point of no return. I came in 2004 and could never be sure if Veeky Forums really was getting worse or was always shit and just seemed like it was better to me at some point because it was newer then.

Moot having to put a "Don't believe all the stupid shit people post and don't download sketchy exe files from Veeky Forums" disclaimer for a while was a major high/low point for Veeky Forums. I miss the "I hope you got 10 bux" jokes. Don't miss the times where spam almost completely took over certain boards forcing captcha.

who /duckroll/ here

who /thrustvectoringownstheskies/ here

>For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago.

>/r9k/ was created to contain all the bawwfags taking over /b/

this is how you spot a newfag

maybe I just don't remember things well but I feel like people were more relaxed in the past, these days it seems like they go out of their way to be abrasive just because they are Veeky Forums

probably just my memory embellishing things

>people do not remember the /q/ wars

It's basically when the term SJWs took off from the fight with r/srs/

I came to Veeky Forums for the first time in 2011, I arrived in time to experience the flag collecting culture of /int/ before the generals took over, the Russian invasion from 2chan when it went down for a few days. I had a lot of fun shitposting and discussing things related to history before Veeky Forums was made. I have to say that board culture went down the drain as of late, largely because redditors have set up shop and huddle around boards that have a snooty culture to begin with.

Entire chan forum culture went down the drain when reddit implanted itself here.

/x/ was a small board back then, and /b/ was at the height of its acitivity, so when /b/ raided (and they didn't raid once only) the board was destroyed

>mfw read about Veeky Forums on Encyclopedia Dramatica in 2006 and underage as fuck
>mfw been here ever since

>oldfags only
2014
Facebook link to 9 gag->"le edgy Veeky Forums"-> lurk /b/ and learn how to bait atheists with n.e. movie images

It went into overdrive in 2016 when /pol/fags started accepting the idea with the 't_donald is our colony' only to get reversed colonized like the cuckservatives they are

Is this accurate?

This but in 2010.

>yiff in hell, furfags
God i fucking miss that image

The "maga dynasty" is just gross normie redditors.

They became too irrelevant for the meme to survive.

It's actually quite ironic.
It shows perfect transition on just how much reddit shit was ingrained into Veeky Forums not just on /pol/tards.
Very sad indeed...

ED used to be so fucking shitty. Every article was just "this is for FAGS like YOU!" but they have since actually become somewhat internet culture historians in a way.

>/pol/ was originaly /new/
I've heard rumors that /n/ was the original /new/ and got turned into a train board for the same reason old /new/ got nuked, but that's "in the time between when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Arius, there was an age undreamed of"-tier speculation.

>Remember when you could post something about blacks/women and no one would derail a thread into autistic whining and circlejerking?

Honestly no I do not, I've been here for ten years and it's always been impossible to have a thread about black people that didn't get derailed by racism as far as I can remember.

It only takes one guy with a folder full of monkey pictures to detail a "post hot black girls" thread, and I'm pretty sure that particular shitposter has been plying his trade since the ham radio days.

No I'm not that old of an oldfag.
/r9k/ was initially just moot copying a concept from the XKCD guy if I recall, he wanted it to spur conversation and original content; the current /r9k/ we know was not /r9k/ back then, which was sort of thought of as "/b/ but good"
It was absolutely necessary, and its implementation should be used as the model for the creation of any containment board. But it was also an easy criteria to enforce because there's no grey area or subjectivity to be had, if it has a fucking pony in it, it belongs on /mlp/ and nowhere else.
An attempt to create a new /new/ which had previously turned into something similar to /pol/.
I can't remember exactly.
Veeky Forums was at one point one of Veeky Forums's most popular boards, regarded as helpful and unusually polite (for a Veeky Forums board). It has since declined. I blame the release of 4th edition D&D and the shitstorms that ensued.
Only time will tell.
/b/'s decline began most noticeably with chanology, though it had a big change in tone after the major raids brought in a lot of new people.

>Honestly no I do not,
I do. I remember the shitposter you are talking about and all it takes sometimes is one really dedicated fuck like that fucking barney guy on /v/. Topics that were difficult to discuss on Veeky Forums depended on the board.

Veeky Forums always had an edgy streak, but that isn't the same as being /pol/. Particularly on Veeky Forums, there was a strong progressive bent to the local politics. The locals tended to laugh at conservatives and libertarians alike, and it was there where I first learned of concepts such as privilege and intersectionalism.