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Some number of years in my teens browsing mostly /b/.

Looking back it's interesting to see how much the company you spend your time in makes you become like them. It pretty successfully radicalized me into many stereotypical right-wing beliefs. Then when Trump got elected I over-corrected to the other extreme. I've since settled somewhere in the middle and now it's curious to see this exact same influence on other people I hang with. I was under the illusion that the thoughts and beliefs were mine but they weren't. I simply adopted the views of the group wholesale. Then I discarded them all and did the exact same thing again from the other extreme. We're so gullible.

None. I just know 4Chan from memes and !greentext@sh.itjust.works

Here and again, less as a place to interact and more how one might look at a perti dish on a lab. A lot of Internet culture has been born there in a virtually unrestrained chaos, no accounts, no names, no reputations, just doing whatever comes to mind and seeing what sticks.

That lack of any real reputation or responsibility lends itself to people letting out their worst parts that they wouldn't publically sometimes, but can also let people explore other ideas they might not elsewhere too. Just so long as one doesn't take it too seriously and has a stomach for some nasty shit it can be interesting.

I used to be a regular on /tv/ and /r9k/ between 2011-2015, I was even a tripfriend on /r9k/ for a while. It was very entertaining, all the interesting schizos were on the chans at some point. I even "drew" my own wojaks and pepes, lol, but only once each because I have no artistic talent, I'm just a big yapper.

I lurked most of the time, especially when the captcha system got out of hand.

Mu, co, tv, r9k, trv, TG, v, fit, ck also, po & toy when I wanted something I wasn't interested in doing but wanted to see something other people liked. Also the porn boards.

I visited pol to see news, but didn't agree with the opinions there.

The site has a bad reputation due to b and pol. The other boards have a lot of interesting new culture stuff and honest opinions that are pragmatic and nihilist.

Unfortunately lots of astroturfing also happened there.

I also hung out in 420chan and britchan. Those were a lot slower, and RIP. It's just a nice format for a board.

/p/ (photography), /g/ (computer)

i used a filter in 4chanx to hide some words i find offending. it's true there's many hateful/misogynistic/racist people there, but there were also many interesting stuff. they have a very minimal moderation policy, i'm not sure if it's a good thing.

haven't went there much lately though.

/b/ and /v/ semi randomly, /tg/ more when it was created. Then I took a year off snd the place was ruined with ragecomics and all the other zoomer bs.

None, ever, because I’m not a degenerate Nazi fuckbag

Better question is "What year did you visit 4chan" because some people will say /b/, some will say "when /b/ was good" and others with say "/b/ was never good".

I remember coming back some years later and everyone was talking about /r9k/ and /b/ was old news.

Look, all I'm saying is just triforce. That'll say how long they were on there for.

/g/, because it was one of the only places I could ask tech questions without needing an account

I frequented /b/ a few years ago, and i would frequently see threads with nazi stuff, white supremacist bullshit, maga glazing, some actual delusional conspiracies (those where real fun) and just to spice it up, the occasional neighbourhood racist going on a bender. But all of the above was only like 10% of the traffic, the rest is litterally all porn and not even good porn ngl. If i had to say the stories are worse than the actual board, not a good place still but not as atrocious as its made out to be. Pretty much instagram reels but dialed up a bit

Used to look at /b/ fairly frequently. Eventually though it just turned into constant really boring porn (like, "rate my friend/girlfriend/sister" and a load of boring pictures of an attractive person who is almost certainly unknown to the OP)

It contained a lot of new, funny stuff, before then. A lot of racism and paedos, too, but I was never easily swayed on anything so it didn't change my views. Back then I thought a lot of most extreme views were just ragebait, and didn't take them seriously, due to how far away they were from any views I'd hear elsewhere (online or in real life) by serious people. With the Nazis coming out of the woodwork with Trump, I don't know how true it was. I still tend to think quite a lot was not reflective of the views of the person posting it, but realise that a fair amount will have been.

I have never frequented the more mundane boards as I always felt like I could find that stuff somewhere else easier to use.

I used to lurk /v/ and post semiregularly on /vr/.

Those are the most tolerant boards, and you can still get called a slur for liking 'the wrong' Pokémon game lmao.

I remember checking out /lgbt/ in college, and I think my mental health is still recovering.

I like ttrpgs so that board was fun

I also like arguing with people so /b/ was fun for me, but yeah "asshole of the internet" is polite term for the place.

I went over a couple of times in like 2012 just to see what all the fuss was about. Probably less than a half hour total on b.

I always liked the greentext stories on various boards, however.

Zero.

I lurked on /a/, /an/, /b/, /f/, /g/, /t/, /wg/, /gif/ previously and now /wsg/.

I spent quite some time on /b/, when it was good. Because of the anonymity you'd focus more on the content and engage more based on the ideas themselves and not who said it.

I used to consider the deranged content as trolls but nowadays I'm not quite so sure... Many have been brainwashed into becoming extreme. Overall the board became a trash bin with 98% sexual content so I've lost all interest.

From like 2004-2006 and mostly /b/ because I was an edgy teenager. Probably some others but I honestly don't remember much of 4chan

A few years in high school, mostly /b/, then much less as I found other chans and eventually settled on 420chan. I thought the incel/MGTOW/neckbeard population of 4chan was insufferable, annoying, woe-is-me, crybaby losers who found a way to blame everyone else for their own problems.

420chan was much better; it was full of reckless idiots, jaded addicts, and degenerate losers who found a way to blame society and "the system" for their own problems. Totally different. Not the same flavor at all.

When 420chan started to die, I started trying out Reddit. I stayed there until the API-pocalypse, where I switched to the Fediverse; first Lemmy, then here because, while leftist, I can't stand tankies.

/b/ and /r9k/.

/b/ because edgy teenage humour. /r9k/ because that's where the fellow incels hung out. Before incel got such a bad name.

At some point though i noticed that /b/ was sharing nazi/racist/homophobic "jokes" but they weren't really funny and nobody really seemed to be laughing any more. And quit r9k because incel stopped meaning "foreveralone virgin" and started meaning "serial killer/sex offender in training".

right up until end of 2016

/b/ when I was an edgy teenager. Not proud of it, but here we are.

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im sure I have been on it because I heard about it and wanted to understand it and if its what im thinking it is its all haphazard and unorganized and I can't see anyone spending time on it. you know its a bit why I was never wild about chat clients like discord. lived up to its name the way everything is just chaos to me.