2012 sperm reporting (rip my homies on plus4chan). the issue with 4chan was that you've had like four groups all trying to steer the wheel that decided the website's culture: > introverts, neets, and hikikomori who percieve 4chan as the one forum they can use without setup, a digital footprint, or the risks they percieve in opening up to others and socializing  > stoners and high schoolers who percieve 4chan as a valhalla of trolling, irony, porn, and out-of-pocket stupid shit they can forget their troubles with > angsty motherfuckers who percieve 4chan as the one place they can vent and point fingers over the state of their life and land without being shunned or supressed in any capacity (ignoring that this place is as much of a honeypot as tpb) > bots/glowies/agenda-pushers group #4 managed to play #2 and #3 to their whims and once places like twitter, discord, r/conspiracy etc became more mainstream there was little reason to stay here unless you're hardline member of group #1 or a schizo on /v/ samefagging his own permanent general 24/7. this isn't to say hiro/moot and the staff are blameless (gg was handled in the worst way possible, admin tools are so behind the curve they've been lapped a thousand times over, everything that happened with /qa/ etc.) but there's only so much to be done with a forum so clearly divided among itself.
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