It was a good run

I agree with you. 2 years since i began to walk the patrician road. It helped me a lot to learn which authors to read. Nowdays it is hard to read actual good literature discussions.

bullying butters with love

But where do we migrate? ;_; pls don't leave me

What if memoirchan actually is writing a memoir and he won't finish it in time?

I found some of the best and obscure pieces of lit thanks to Veeky Forums. I'm going to miss it if its really going.

There's always 2^3chan.

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>The board is overrun by genre fiction readers.

Vade retro

It's a slow board and would be easy to fix that.

M-maybe we can fix them. But we should start as soon as possible.

it's getting better all the time

What the fuck is this.

He didn't do it out of charity.

It's the multimillionaire drug tycoon who's streaming himself buying Veeky Forums from goot.

This guy will turn lit into a "ask rowling anything for 5$" board.

Thanks alt right

Veeky Forums is worth pennies, he only bought it for the brand name that is worth something.

The left created this website, the right killed this website. The right kills all good things, you'll learn this in life eventually.

Jesus Christ.

This is going to make reddit look like a symposium.

W-wait is this for real? That's just an edit, right guys?

Np, it's real.

The first 90 or so days here were very formative for me, and honestly invaluable. My perspective was shifted, widened, and it completely changed my approach to literature and introduced me to works I would never have otherwise explored.

That being said, after those 90ish days I got everything I need and I'm only here for dank memes, shitposting at newfags, and the occasional get. I've mined this place for everything of value, time to move on.
fuck all y'all,

You're probably in high school

I hate this board.

See you guys tomorrow.
In an hour.
In a few minutes.

>caring about gets on on Veeky Forums

> all this traffic from this board...

Oh god I just found the thread
Welp that was fun, pretty much all options seem like forced amputation, so unless some autist with more cash than brain decides to adopt the site we're fucked hard. Deleting, or merging slow boards would be the worst though- that's literally the best part of this place. Even though I think there are some which could
It's somehow tragic that the only way to set us free is to kill this place

Getting rid of /marx/ would be an excellent move. And fire all the janitors associated with this pisshole board

>It's somehow tragic that the only way to set us free is to kill this place
>/pol/ getting free

This is disastrous, I don't know for who. The normal innocent people, or the social rejects of /pol/ having to face reality.

The internet was a mistake

>The internet was a mistake
naah, don't put it like that. We didn't use it in the right way. that's the problem here.

>get rid of the people who disagree with me
>make it more like what I like even if the board isn't for me

Well there would be some obvious candidates if you wanted to reduce traffic, but then you wouldn't have epic memes and edge that are going to be a huge source of revenue apparently

Personally I would cut mlp so we could be together with mu again.
Like the good ol' days.

I've never been there, but why is there a /v/ and a Veeky Forums anyway?

to keep video game generals out of /v/ obviously

of course they cannot shut down /b/. In the world outside of Veeky Forums people think /b/ IS Veeky Forums. And /pol/... oh well. you don't want those people anywhere else, to be honest. /pol/ is already leaking of course but we all should be glad that those people have a place of their own.

where's the difference?

If they don't delete Veeky Forums then I'm going to kill myself

Honesty I want /pol/ to be cut just to see what would happen

Like throwing a rock at a hornet's nest knocking it down.

Except the hornets are autistic men

video game generals are entire threads dedicated to one game while /v/ is a board dedicated to talking about various games and game topics. If Veeky Forums were gone then all the Veeky Forums people would make threads on /v/ overwhelming /v/ with generals.

> pic related would happen

Its mostly the porn boards serving thousands of high quality images that will likely be cut although we can still dream that Veeky Forums will be flushed.

Why would I want that. I want Veeky Forums gone more

wouldnt that mean that we would eat Veeky Forums since at least this would be the place for history books?

I dont want to see we wuzers, or what is more common here, people asking if ancient persians/egyptians/greeks/romans were norwegian looking blue eyed blondes . we dont have that much /pol/ here.

>Oh god I just found the thread
Which board?

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Did he actually say how many boards he'd close and which ones?

I wanted to make a smaller alternative to Veeky Forums at one time but realised it'd be a waste of money since it'd die.

When will it close down?

It's just a threat to make the lemmings buy Veeky Forums passes

Also, why not some boards to text boards to cut down on hosting costs? We could be a text board with linked images if they were necessary.

Imageboards were pretty useless to begin with and just advocate retardation. Why respond to anything when you can just answer with a le smug peepeepoopoo face and le win the epic internet argument?

>go to uni
>meet an irl lit poster

well, at least i have that

Yeah, but assuming they don't buy more, he'll probably do it now that he said it's an option if only to rake in more ¥€$.

Agreed. Shifting to text only would instantly expel half the infantile riffraff.

Sometimes images are important. My proposal is that mobile phone OS are banned.

I guess I'll download all the archives, read 'em and feel like the guy in The Invention of Morel.

Linking would work in those rare few cases. It'd also discourage more obnoxious mobile posters since they love spamming images.

>It was just us being boys. Posting dank memes and messing around. I never had friends like that again. Jesus, does anyone?

I am posting from my phone right now whilst sitting on the couch right now. If you want images, why not link the image from another site? This board is primarily text based, as are most boards.

>mobile phone OS are banned.
How should that help?
Someone will find a workaround anyway.

How likely is it for Veeky Forums to get deleted. Does anyone have the stats for the monthly unique users, data used, etc.?

I have a to-read list of about 500 books on ms word. At my current rate, I should be done in about ten years. But that's not really accurate because some of the entries on the list are placeholders for an author's collected work or even a whole school of writing. I'll probably be set for reading material until about 2040 or so. If I keep adding stuff to it I'll never be done and I'll have to bequeath the reading list to the cloned children my sex-robot bore me.

Thanks Veeky Forums =]

I sincerely doubt any board will be deleted. The small ones don't affect the traffic much individually, they'd have to be massacred to actually influence the financial balance, which would cause massive fights and exoduses. Deleting the big ones (b, pol) would be downright catastrophic for the site. Hiro doesn't want either result, if he's not dumb.

>Shifting to text only
ASCII David Foster Wallace spamming

Except /pol/ is not a containment board, it's a breeding ground. They are already leaking so there's no point in keeping it around. They could also combine boards like /sp/ and /asp/, and /w/ and /wg/.

They could also delete most of the porn boards because they are pointless and don't even start discussion.

Nothing is getting deleted. This is preparation to mitigate the outcry for whatever moneymaking scheme is about to come.

There's something about the chaos of Veeky Forums's fine art boards that produces some of the best recommendations I'd never get anywhere else.

You were my greatest friends.

okay, and...? more ads won't kill this place, neither will signautres. you guys just like to overreact. if they close certain boards they'll close the biggest boards since they have the most posters.

This was the only place I could come and talk about books.

None of my friends like reading. No one in class likes reading.

I will forever remember this place and my time writing the first Veeky Forums book (the only good one) The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.

Peace

yfw shkreli saves the day and donates one billion dollars to keep Veeky Forums afloat

twitter.com/hiroyuki_ni/status/782730299574714368

Who is this guy?

The guy who hiked prices on Daraprim from $13 to $750 a pill in US.

What a piece of shit.

without Veeky Forums i would have never pushed my boundaries and found better and deeper stories to write as opposed to the genre shit i had been so caught up in during the early years in my life. wish i could have stayed longer, gotten more recommendations

Same desu. Hopefully this storm passes and we can litpost for years to come.

You've probably never even heard of Daraprim

/r/literature is OK, but it's even slower than Veeky Forums and is still reddit.

B-but where will we go?

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>tfw Veeky Forums ends
>tfw no one to verbalize your sorrow to

I see your zizek and raise you one

To life, maybe get a real job.

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lol he jacked the prices up for the pharmacies, not for the patients. media never reported that. he's a competent businessman and a high level troll that will either save us or destroy us.

B-but I do have a real job, and I come here to escape it

I have a real job. I come here to forget about it. Do you have any idea how comforting it is to see elitist memes about the Greeks and Pynchon after a long day of making reports in Excel, sending emails and reformatting Word documents?
I hardly see my friends anymore because of work and they all are going different directions with their lives (most don't have "real jobs" and a lot of them work weekends) so most of the fun/comradiere in my life comes from Veeky Forums.

If this board gets deleted or ruined that's just more time I'll end up mindlessly scrolling through Facebook watching sharebait videos autoplay with the sound off.

Or I can just spend more time reading and further isolate myself from living human beings.

I'm aware of how lame this sounds, but I'll miss you, Veeky Forums. It's been a good run.

And where do people get their pills again, dubsman?

I was unconsciously talking about myself, I guess.

First off, I really don't think any board will be axed. But I'll continue as if Veeky Forums is going to be one of the first to go.

Veeky Forums showed me what literature actually is. Before coming here I thought all books were just time-wasters like video games or movies are. I didn't get it at all and was a total pleb.
A few years ago I came up with some ideas for a book series without ever having been a reader. More and more ideas came to me but still I didn't know how to structure so much as a paragraph. Eventually I found Veeky Forums through my Veeky Forums addiction. Started off with The Sun Also Rises, Gatsby, and A Clockwork Orange and I was totally enthralled. Two years later I have an enormous backlog and appreciation for the written word all thanks to Veeky Forums.

The decline in discussion quality through this year has made me really sad. I wish a curse upon the fucker who brought the redditors and mobileposters. It's just about impossible to start a thread now and get replies longer than one sentence. If this truly is the end, at least we'll always have the time we've spent together.

That's true, you /pol/ dip