No.110053
Around 2011. Was mostly on forums before then, and found the ability to be Anonymous a whole lot less stressful.
No.110054
I am also around 2011. That was when I finally resolved to walk away from MMORPG addiction and then started exploring the internet again. After stuff like YTMND faded away I just lost my connections to the 'real' internet so I fully entered the fake MMO worlds.
The sad thing is there's a parallel universe out there where I started in 2003 because some guy on EmuParadise told us about some new place called 4chan that everyone was excited about. I just wanted to play video games so while I read the thread I never actually clicked.
No.110057
I got around 2012. Same as
>>110053 I also found posting anonymously less stressful and witched from forums.
No.110063
I think I first found 4chan in 2012, but didn't become active on there until the following year. That was around when I was getting into anime (2011), and was my first foray into the anime fandom, although I would also be active on /b/ and such for a time as well.
No.110069
I don't recall the exact year, but around 2006 when I was still in primary school.
No.110086
2015. /a/ was my first board
No.110087
/r9k/ in 2015 was my first encounter with a board.
i was looking for a place where virgin misfits could talk to each others and it was alright until it got invaded with sexhavers and faggots.
No.110093
Right now, I just discovered this site and this is my first post. Nice to meet you guise. ^_^
Btw, sorry for the noobiness but how do I set my avatar and signature? >_>
No.110094
>>110093OH MAI GAH
A NEW PERSON WOW!!!11!
HI!!!!!!!1!!!!!!
No.110095
started with the 'sharty in 2022
yep im pasted(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
No.110100
>>110087Never really ventured there much but I get the feeling that at that time the board must have been a cistern of negativity and downward spirals.
Glad you got out of it.
No.111632
>>110052my very first time going onto a board firsthand was...sometime in the mid 2010s, maybe 2016? i don't really remember. i went onto /b/ out of curiosity once.
i didn't start actually using imageboards, as in, posting on them until...way more recently than i'd like to admit...like, in 2020 or so >_>...
>>110093hai newfren ^_^
No.124123
In 2009. The mostly gaming-focused forums I used at the time had pretty limited anime discussion and I wanted to learn about stuff outside of mainstream shonen. People seemed to speak of 4chan as the home of "expert" anime watchers so I eventually ended up on /a/ and later /jp/ in my continued pursuit of more niche Japanese stuff.
No.124131
>>124126aha, naruto, so it's middle of 00's for ya
No.126928
Probably 2011-2012. I found a remake of the Naruto shipuuden OP by Nobody Knows+ but with 4chan characters and I thought that looked fun and that it must be a fun site. Well I was wrong but still. I think I was there for a year or so before I left for other imageboards.
No.126929
>>126928I meant the OP song was by Nobody Knows+ not that the remake was done by them.
No.126943
>>126942¥tailIs that Bernkastel?
No.126952
>>110052In 2011-2012 time period, used to be big into ED but then I figured might as well browse 4chan proper.
No.129585
>>110052Not very long ago, around late-2022? I had looked in on 4chan every year or so before, but never actually really used it.
Blogpost:
For some reason, I mostly stopped reading manga in 2017 or so. I could either never be bothered to, or wasn't in the mood, I never knew why. In 2021, I decided to read AoT since I was feeling nostalgic for the anime I watched a long while ago. I think with that as well as Fire Punch, I wanted to see anime discussion, so I used 4/a/ (Discussion on twitter & reddit felt really uninteresting, compared to even anime comment sections :p). I also use /g/ for the programming and stupid question threads. For some reason, /a/, and to a lesser extent, /g/ question threads, don't see nearly as much /pol/ influence - which is nice.
I can't remember exactly where I first came across this site, maybe from an imageboard list? When you narrow down on anime/manga/etc related imageboards in English, there's not actually very many with decent activity. If I'm being honest, I don't understand what /qa/ actually is.
No.129586
>>129585This is the trve version of /qa/, not the faggot teenbro versions that exist as a bunch of splinter sites because teenbros are fucking stupid lmao
No.129590
>>129585/qa/ started as the meta board for 4chan after moot left it up after his final Q&A. Over the years it transitioned to a more 2D/Random themed board with meta and then that culture was unceremoniously killed off by overbearing moderation and superseded by a cancerous rabble that eventually got the board shut down for being neo-/i/. The /qa/ here is the splinter of that 2D/Random community. Although I think a lot of the people from it originally have more mellowed out and become a bit less spammy/funposty than they used to be so there's a lot more discussion threads and such over edits and the like. Personally I'd like to see more newer people come that can re-energyize people.
I think that the /pol/ influence leaving is just a natural course of it becoming more the norm/culture rather than the counter culture it was in 2014-2016 that really propelled it everywhere.
>>129586Your post is emblematic of everything I hate and have criticized about the smug/superior spinoff mindset. Even though I sorta agree...
No.129591
>>129590becoming the norm?
No.129593
>>129590Listen it is always kosher to shit on teenbro fuckers with their cancerman and toadposts and all that, nobody wants them. We need people who aren't going to be like that, but the problem is the people who aren't like that are usually faggot up the ass with a stick who try to insert idpol bullshit into everything.
No.129594
>>129590>Your post is emblematic of everything I hate and have criticized about the smug/superior spinoff mindset. Even though I sorta agree...You shouldn't take those posts as emblematic of kissu as that guy bit more aggressive about this stuff than most. He doesn't really mean it since he uses stuff like "trve" himself. If we were that stringent that post would get nuked for having a 4chan teenism. We're quite laid back here.
Anyway, I wouldn't concern yourself with what /qa/
was as I think it's best to care about the present and future, and /qa/ is a board on kissu where we have slightly more serious discussions than /jp/... generally.
No.129596
>>110052embarrassed to admit but i started recently engaging and even then i mostly lurk, i like this site even though i come on and off.
No.129597
>>129596Don't be! A healthy community has a variety of people with different experiences and perspectives and stuff.
No.129601
I learned about Touhou. Wanted to discuss about Touhou, everywhere was either dead or platforms that I didn't like. Found 4/jp/, liked it. This was 2021. Eventually made it to other boards, eventually made it to the happenings thread, eventually made it to kissu. I browse some other imageboards but only post on 4/jp/, 4/sp/, the happenings thread and kissu.
No.129603
>>129602liked it enough compared to the alternatives I suppose? I had nowhere else to talk about Touhou, and still don't.
I really have enjoyed my time in 4/jp/ a lot. Many good threads, nice discussions, got me into actually playing the games which was much better than I could ever imagine. Got me to start trying to draw again.
If I were to stop using imageboards suddenly I would probably continue visiting 4/jp/. It's probably the most fun I've had with the internet since like 2011, and the only time I have ever enjoyed talking to people on the internet.
No.129604
>>129602This is something said for every year. You liked 2007 ____? It was awful and not as good as 2005, etc.
No.129670
>>129598that's interesting, i can't imagine myself ever sticking with a community for so long without taking part in it regularly
i GOTTA you know, look at all the fun they're having, and in general i wouldn't browse a site that i don't want to post on
>>129605>It feels naive and quaint looking back but it was nice.this is an impression i get from looking at some old screencaps that consist of someone making an edit or a joke or just a weird comment and that over the years ends up getting reposted dozens of times (pic with this hash appears 34 times in desu+4plebs+arch and it feels like normal stuff to me)
in my experience when someone says x "feels like old 4chan" it's because there's a mixture of hype, interaction, and OC that you don't see elsewhere, but i can't really make any sort of assessment beyond that
No.129685
I think the last time i posted on 4/jp/ was 2019, it was before I finally gave up on the original /qa/ anyways.
No.129793
>>129670Aside from my aforementioned reasons, for me it's also a game of evading the latest deep packet inspection censorship in my country while still using my actual IP address to post (most websites require that). I figured out a new way to post on the 4 after they nipped the eSNI/ECH trick. These are not permanent solutions however, the word gets out quick. It usually takes roughly ~6 months after I switch to a new method. I need to come up with novel tricks for personal use because they monitor our discussion forums and probably dedicate far more budget to the Firewall project that could be reused for more useful things, and I spend far more time reading RFCs and specifications for current/new communication protocols than just writing new blogposts. Usually I'm browsing with Tor, which is understandably outright banned on most websites. When I have long dry spells, I can't post anywhere at all but at least I can browse.
No.129817
>>129793It sometimes astonishes me just how sophisticated 4dev can be when it comes to creating anti features and as a less fun and appealing place to post.
No.129825
>>129793So you can't use a residential vpn then?