Can anybody explain to me what Jow Forums is all about? I don't understand that board

Can anybody explain to me what Jow Forums is all about? I don't understand that board.
Come to think of it I don't understand other boards as well, like Jow Forums.

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I think it’s where new suicide, depression, and virgin memes start and where the same people congregate to hate on everybody and everything

The initial purpose was for it to be a less dumb version of /b/. Basically where people could discuss any old bullshit without every other thread being a coypasta, cutesy repost, or meme.

Early on it was mostly depressed people with relationship issues, loneliness issues, etc. I think that part of Jow Forums's culture migrated to Jow Forums the moment Jow Forums was established.

Sometime around 2012-2014 it became where a mix of psychopaths, racists, sexists, and probably some would be spree murderers congregated to vent their nastiest, most psychotic thoughts and fantasies.

Then around 2015-2017 it became Jow Forums 2.0

I haven't been there in a while but it looks like it's mostly back to where it was when it was a mix of depressed people and psychos posting random, unhinged rants.

Jow Forums is about incels coming up with ways to cope being virgins and conspiracy theories on why Stacy doesn't want them (which involves everything BUT the fact they are insecure and, most of the time, really dickish people).

Isn't Jow Forums the parent board of Jow Forums?

Yes. Everything and everyone good or tolerable about Jow Forums migrated to Jow Forums when Jow Forums was founded.

Jow Forums is now just the containment board for hopeless cases shrieking with toxic rage. Think a userbase that is a mix of Eliot Rodgers and Chris-Chan

Don't want to shitpost a shitty thread so I'll ask here.
What's the best Jow Forums board that has the best friendliest and actually intelligent community?

You're on Jow Forums. Literally every board is going to be inundated with trolls.

Depending on you go there and what topics are being discussed even the "smart" boards like /lit/, /his/, and /sci/ are filled with racists/sexists/fascists/communists, people shitposting ridiculous and unsupported opinions, total morons, and outright headcases.

That said, usually the speciality boards that almost no one goes on, like /ck/ or /an/. They're a little hypersensitive to trolling, though, and usually assume that any thread that's off the beaten track is a troll attempt.

Jow Forums is genrally chill.
You can scavange for them on /mu/.

Should also add that /sci/ posters have a history of trying to prank scientifically illiterate posters and visitors into killing themselves. Tread with caution if you go there.

Jow Forums was born as an experiment, it was a board where every post was parsed by the Robot9000 script. Basically, whenever someone wrote a post, the contents would be remembered, and any user reposting the same contents would get b&
At first it was basically an extension of /b/, despite what autists wanted you to believe back then. Then it kind of developed into ironic greentext-central, complete with spaghetti posting, >tfw no gf and all that jazz. When other online communities refer to "greentext stories" this is mostly what they think about. Obviously, ironic posters were later overwhelmed by oblivious newfags who really thought Jow Forums was a feels board. That part of Jow Forums would later become Jow Forums
As Jow Forums was going to total dogshit, (circa 2010) m00t decided to axe Jow Forums for absolutely no reason at all, which led to much shitposting and outrage. A few months later though he schizophrenically revived the board... except the bot was still kill because m00t's ways are impenetrable, and since that day Jow Forums has never really been Jow Forums and it's now a containment board akin to [s4s], /b/, Jow Forums and /v/

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You a historian?
I would watch that documentary.

/s4s/ is fun though...

I would love that too desu. I wasn't on SA so I wasn't part of the first waves of Jow Forums immigrants, I wish I had seen this shit unfold live, it must've been plenty of laughs
If you're interested in chan histories, there are some surprisingly accurate sources out there.
If you can tolerate the cringe writing ED is a good resource on chan culture.
KnowYourMeme (I shit you not) has plenty of good articles about obscure memes and subcultures
And of course there's the archives, if you can be bothered to read through them

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Cancer right here

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Jow Forums has been a few different things during its existence but it became a new refuge for the worst form of human garbage possible, called incels, ever since they were kicked off reddit.

Jow Forums but filled with autists instead of failed normies and reddit boomers.

>new trollface
still not funny.

Do all the hilarious greentext stories that become so popular originate from Jow Forums or /b/?
Damn, I love them but the majority of posts on /b/ are absolutely retarded and I don't have the patience
to scavenge hours of bullshit to find a single decent post. I was hoping Jow Forums was better.

What about /s4s/? I don't understand that board either.

I mean, the bleach crystal thing should be fairly well known by now. I did it and now have this huge crystal in one corner of my apartment.

Why do you hate virgins?

>Do all the hilarious greentext stories that become so popular originate from Jow Forums or /b/?
They can come from any board but yeah mostly the two you listed. In the Rules, Jow Forums is even described as the place for “posting greentext stories.” Both boards’ greentexting heydays are far behind them but you’d have better luck wading through Jow Forums than /b/ to find some gems

cool sharing knowledge sibling
what about /s4s/?

>What about /s4s/? I don't understand that board either.
[s4s] is /b/ 3.0. When /b/'s creativity waned, moot made Jow Forums as an experiment to see if a board with forced originality could make new memes. But it became a containment board for the >tfw no gf crowd, so [s4s] was made to fill the memeing and shitposting void.

I should also add that the board was made as an april fools joke, with mods constantly changing the board's name and stickying random threads, and users being able to check their #fortune. But it was such good fun that the powers that be decided to keep the board for good.

So /b/ is /b/, Jow Forums is /b/ 2.0 and /s4s/ is /b/ 3.0?
Is /s4s/ the best way to post or get those sweet greentext stories then?

Jow Forums is the hidden home of the incel movement.
Jow Forums is an international travel board. Am I missing something here? There's a lot of hate for america and americans.

Jow Forums is a banter chatroom with flags

Jow Forums is probably your best bet for greentexts. [s4s] focuses more on shitposting, although I rarely go there so who knows. Don't ever bother with /b/ unless you want porn.

Hilarious green text came from actually talented posters. Nowadays it's all just weakass baiting attempts by posting the exact same shit over. And over. And over.

It's not really about anything. It was supposed to be an experiment to see what happens when you prohibit ever saying something that's been said before. It ended up being just whiny faggots dumping their relationship woes on the board, because unlike /b/ it took too much effort to spam them to death. Technically you can talk about whatever there, but it's pretty much all normie garbage regardless, even after Jow Forums and /soc/ were made to contain it.

It's trapland now, full of homosexual faggots who stick things up their ass, a few angry people who want girlfriends, and /b/2.0
People who think it's about incels haven't been on it
It also is (was, and always will be) a shithole

bump

Like the other user said, I too find Jow Forums to be the best board on Jow Forums.

yo wtf op just wank shitpost and go back to sleep

y u wanna knoe the history and shit

>t. who is this "Jow Forums" migrant

damn you're right bitch..what was i thinking?

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People who call themselves "incels" are to virgins what the Taliban are to Muslims and the KKK are to southerners.

People unironically call themselves incels? Why does it feel like nobody on this board browses anywhere else?

Its about trying to find ways to cope with problems which you accept as unsolvable, then reaffirm your weird worldview resulting from said attempts with others.

A good example are the "pills" (blackpill,redpill, whateverpill) it regularly spawns.

/sci/, /lit/, and Jow Forums are probably the most intelligent boards, but most of the anons there are so up their own asses it's hard to parse out anything useful.

Jow Forums is probably the most helpful board because that's what it's here for. /diy/ or /o/ are good for their specific topics.

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Honestly Jow Forums may seem intelligent on the surface but they are actually really fucking stupid.

Jow Forums
/tg/ and /a/ if you actually care for those interests and follow their “board culture”

I lurk /mu/ and /tv/ a lot because film & music are my main interests but /tv/ is filled with nazis and /mu/ has a lot of shit to wade through to get to the good stuff. This board, /wg/, and /x/ have been my best experiences.

but /x/ hasn't been good since around 2010
you get a quality post maybe once a month
shit sucks, OC is non-existant

the best ones IMHO come from boards that have a specific topic but are still fairly open, like Jow Forums and Jow Forums and /a/
before that it was /x/ with a side of /tv/ and the like along with Jow Forums and the odd post on things like /o/ that are more insular or less popular
before that it was /b/
I'd say /tg/ has been the most dependable board for sharing decent stories for a good while now, not the best but the most dependably decent
that makes sense because while you might expect /lit/ and /tv/ would be versed in storytelling, they don't practice it much while /tg/ does

I don't believe in the supernatural at all so I don't browse /x/.

the most reddit board on Jow Forums is the best? Why even bother coming to this website then.

I think Jow Forums has the best memes, but Jow Forums is a close second.
But that is just my opinion.

This.
They all got a shallow perception or experience in programming and they got a "console war" equivalent with intel vs amd shitting up most board.