Because you're not invested in anything personally you don't understand where the interest comes from

People love outrage. It's what powers the internet via clickbait and flamewars and all the other stuff. People might say they dislike being angry, but they're lying to themselves because they're addicted to seeking it out. Being angry and making other people angry. It's an ugly thing, but many people spend their free time doing it and making careers and industries are dependent on it. Social media or youtube without it is hard to imagine.
I think people do get tired of it when they get older. Sometimes.
I can't really relate to it. I grew up with when it was the "HOLY CRAP THE INTERENT IS AMAZING I CAN TALK TO PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD! LET'S ALL BE FRIENDS AND DO COOL THINGS! OMG LOLLERSKATES IT'S A DOG GIF" era.

>>136997
Erm why is this young girl smoking a cigarette...

>>136997
>How do people put up with the constant aggro and bickering
It's fun. I always laugh when I go to /v/ and see people being needlessly antagonistic over some random thing and I hate that so many alts seem opposed to that aspect of classic imageboard culture. The insane spam autists on /a/ do get tiresome, but even then it's cathartic when they get BTFO. It's annoying when people take their butthurt at America too far, but international banter is the most fun part of /sp/.

Of all the problems 4chan has, not being a mature imageboard for mature imageboard posters such as yourself is not one of them.

I fucking left because of that shit. Browsing 4/v/ used to be fun, then it wasn't. 4/jp/ was fun, then it wasn't. 4/g/ always sucked ass, but it was still a topic I was interested in, but then it became utterly unbearable. Every part of the site I used to like slowly became shittier and shittier in a way I wasn't willing to put up with.

so I just fucking left
there's no reason to sink with the ship, especially if you don't even like it anymore

>>137004
Needless antagonism is sometimes fine and I even agree it can be fun when you're able to get into heated arguments with others who actually care about something. But like you said the turboautismlords that shit up /a/ aren't even fun and people like them are becoming more numerous across the site because people think it's the 'culture'. Even more than that though I can't stand the hate circlejerk which goes on. If there's something substantial about games or anime people want to yell about I'm all for it, but just screaming "WOKE" or "TRANNY" and talking about ecelebs with everything it gets fucking dull. And it's just a constant stream of it that infects every single discussion. I can avoid it well enough usually but whenever it starts hitting the eroge threads or games I enjoy is when I get pissed.

>>136997
I think many do eventually get tired of all the bickering after a while and decide to either stop or leave the site altogether, but there is always a constant stream of new people on 4chan high on the rush of saying things that would otherwise get you banned to keep the neverending shitflinging going.

>>137007
>people like them are becoming more numerous across the site because people think it's the 'culture'
I don't think anybody devotes their life to an autistic crusade against a certain anime because they think it's the appropriate thing to do to fit in, they do it because they have mental health issues and moderation is incompetent.

I get disliking /pol/ spillover, but those topics are just a part of the world now and can't be avoided without taking great pains to isolate yourself, which will only lead to stagnation and becoming upset by an ever-increasing number of things. Twenty years ago people would have said the same things about 4chan calling everyone faggots because that was a mainstream social issue that got lots of discourse.

The only remaining board that I can't stop looking at on occasion is /a/ but yesterday I just discovered Jarman videos, which are much more fun than actually going to /a/. Maybe this will be the final push I needed to never go back to 4chan ever again.

Sometimes I look at the /v/-tachi boards for discussion about games where you play as a loli but those are so few and far between that it's better to just search an archive site once a month or so.

Many times when I'm halfway through writing a longer post that I'm putting effort into, I just give up and think why should I bother when I'm not going to get anything more than a one word reply. I tend to glance at it every so often an occasionally make a thread but not invest too much into it.

>>137016
Posting isn't worth it with all the barriers they've put up, but it's still good for gauging popular reactions to things without going on norm social media. Moreso for vidya and some tech stuff since they're not well covered on other chans, but occasionally specific anime series will have some event that isn't satisfactorily covered on alts.

imo almost every board has seen notable positive improvement after the most recent captcha change - seems like they sniffed out something the shartyniggers have a tough time working around. meanwhile it seems like they've started to spill out to altchans to get their negative attention dopamine fix

>>136997
The captcha never bothered me since it never triggered for me. For the rest I don't see it much since I exclusively use 4/jp/ and I'm just there to enjoy 2hu threads anymore. Used to be in an old AI general on /vg/ for years until the faggot driving people off became too tiresome to put up with.
>>137021
I disagree. Posts here on kissu will tell they left because of it and I can only assume more decent posters left or stopped for the same reason. It also doesn't actually stop threadshitters who will either buy the pass or use their stack of burner emails to get around it, sure it filters out the casual trolls, but they aren't the truly cancerous ones killing the site. If they're used to regularly ban evading to the point the janitors give up, then this captcha isn't going to do anything to slow them; their determination to ruin threads and make the experiences of other users actual hell isn't going to be stopped.

>>137024
right, ill go straight back to moping owari-kun

>>137021
In terms of outright spam, maybe. But try going to /pol/ without getting a headache and the problem is still clearly persistent with people.

4chan just needs to delete /pol/ and things will be fixed. Delete /pol/.

>>137021
Maybe nine or so years ago I was hopeful a contracting userbase would benefit the makeup of who posts on 4chan but from everything I've observed things have only gotten worse.
The hardcore lifer poster these days are people camped out in the chatroom generals, and the more and more inconvenient it gets to post on 4chan the more distilled and concentrated these posters are within the general population. It's people like me and others in this thread who are marginally still posting that are throwing in the towel.

https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/700713017

I think probably in addition to deleting /pol/, you just need to make a new web3 net or something that advertises itself as 'porn-free' for all these freaks to migrate to. Puritans should just ascend to heaven already.

Puritans are from reddit and twitter and all those other places.
They don't belong on imageboard environments.

>>137055
Excellent analysis, Andy. Glad we have your wisdom here to bring the trvth nvkes

>>137056
Hell yeah, so anyways I was browsing /tg/ and goddamn are the users such douches.

It's a mix of boredom and constant gratification. Not instant, constant. If you don't notice it early enough and cut it out, you might get caught in this spiral where you check several pages and sites on a loop of sorts where you switch tabs or apps until something catches your eye where you suck it up and move to the next thing the instant your interest in it wanes. Anger is just something that catches interest very easily and if you've browsed 4chan for long enough you might've on more than one occasion started writing a reply falseflagging as the type of response you yourself would hate the most, as an extreme version of what you're stealth mocking in hopes that other people call you out, only to then double down yourself on the message you hate.
It's really weird how things turn out this way, but the average twitter user could spend all day scrolling increasingly faster down some hashtag about a thing they never even heard of just to catch some post they dislike and spend more time getting angry at it.

I don't think people can stay in this state for particularly long though. I didn't bite this cycle too hard myself but I got burnt out on being angry at nobodies online and just stopped going to places full of people being angry on their free time, though it might have something to do with my free time being limited because i'm a filthy wageslave. There's probably a ton of people who burnt out as well and quietly disappeared, only to be replaced with 10 more anger addicts. Whether this effect plateaus on a grand scale or not is yet to be seen, though so far its only been getting worse and more common.

>>137010
>but those topics are just a part of the world now
But I don't care about the world or politics or whatever. I just want to talk about anime without ever discussion devolving into political shitflinging.

personally I only seek out political opinions I agree with, life's too short to listen to [outgroup elided for Kissu harmony]

I think everyone can agree that renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America was the right call, but the question remains of what the state of New Mexico should be renamed to?

>>137059
Join a monastery if you want to be an island. Getting mad and doomposting every time someone uses an offensive term for a group of sexual ideologues currently in the social spotlight just spurs on the negativity you're complaining about. It never should have received the attention it has, but it's too late to stop that now and the sooner we accept it's just a generic buzzword insult the sooner we can all stop pretending like the issue matters.