Since it's that day again, it's time to reminisce about how Jow Forums was actually fun, creative and original until it wasn't and moot left it in the hands of jmoot who's been adding ever increasingly obnoxious ads. (What happened to j-list?)
What are you? I'm a cancerfag but I've been lurking SA since 2005.
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>tfw 2010 cancer
I'm a newfag. Good times.
>tfw oldfag
Can't believe I've been here for a decade...
Been here since February 2007.
>tfw newfag by 2 months.
I swear there's been no camgirl or attention-whore for at least 5 years now.
>been here for over 10 years
>am still a newfag according to this graph
Discovered it in an IT lesson in school, in 2006.
Such sweet and innocent times
>/b/ on Boxxy
Since 2009 newfag here. Jessi slaughter was the hotness when I joined
((2011+7)-10) < 2010 [earliest newfag year]
It's never gonna return to it's former glory.
Oldfag. Started browsing in 05. Used to be a regular on /b/ from 05 to around 07, then branched out to /v/ and /m/. I really loved this board when it was in its first couple years but all the Jow Forums shit has kinda ruined it for me. It still has its moments though. I really only go on /v/ and /vr/ these days with the occasional visit here.
>on /v/
Isn't /v/ like incredibly shit now in the same vein as /tv/? Does /v/ still have leaks or is that also long gone?
lurked a couple times during newfag and cancer era but i guess i'm a death fag
it's still fun video game discussion sometimes. just kind of ruined by the /b/ and leddit crowd
>leddit
Yeah, but literally everyone from AT LEAST 2014 onwards is from reddit. No matter how much they pretend they're not.
this looks like copypasta to me.
/v/ is fucking horrible. you're a faggot for going there and youd be good to get leveled in the mug by some random nig.
/vg/ has autism levels too thick for the average human to fathom. stay away.
What era did board meetups die?
If you think /vg/ has maximum autism then you've never been to /a/
I haven't cared about anime since 2008 but is /a/ the only board that retains it's original atmosphere?
This is the oldest Jow Forums pic I saved on my hdd, so I guess based on the filename/timestamp I came from 2005. Someone on IRC mentioned Jow Forums so I went and mostly hung out in /s/ but sometimes other boards.
Everyone talks about how much Jow Forums has changed, but compared to other communities that have been around for over 10+ years this place has changed surprisingly little. New boards were introduced, /news/ turned into Jow Forums, moot and Snacks are gone, and mods have less of a presence. OP is still a fag, the frames site is still working (Jow Forums.org/frames), the flash board /f/ is still up even though nobody uses Flash anymore, and /b/ is still shit.
Yeah it's pretty similar IMO. "No spoonfeeding", everyone is autistic as ever, popular shows get tons of replies every week but after the show ends everyone pretends to hate it, etc.
Cancer, originally
>but compared to other communities that have been around for over 10+ years this place has changed surprisingly little
The intent has changed. Everyone seems to be doing an imitation of an user based on hearsay of they think an user is.
It's all hollow.
2015, the eternal quadruple newfag.
As shit as this place has gotten according to oldfags and pseudo-oldfags it's still one of the best places on the internet I know, which must be saying something very grave.
The newfag line is /b/day, so arguably it's more common to be close to the line than it is to be far away for a newfag.
People have been crying about how Jow Forums is dying since at least 2006, probably earlier.
Crying isn't going to fix anything, time goes on, things change. Deal with it.
Pic related as well. Jow Forums used to be more cancerous than Reddit.
>Jow Forums used to be so much more high quality
Oldfag, just barely.
Been here since 2012. /B/ first then Jow Forums and a little /mlp/ for a few months then Jow Forums & Jow Forums then Jow Forums and Jow Forums
are you a brainlet, blind, or both?
Has moot really been gone that long? It feels like it was only a year ago. My oldfag boomer brain can't keep up anymore.
Say what you will about Pepe but any Jow Forums timeline that doesn't include him somewhere is invalid.
He wasn't even named pepe back In the day. Holy shit, I hate every single faggot that came here after 2k5. Eternal cancer.
He was named Pepe before Jow Forums ever got a hold of him.
His name has ALWAYS been Pepe.
2011 here
Started on /v/ shortly after went to Jow Forums for the feels
Is there some sort of brain damage you have?
You're thinking of the advice animal frog. Forget his name though.
I swear it's been 5 years of the same wojak and pepe memes.
>it's still one of the best places on the internet I know
You're a bandwagoner. You're here to be "different", even thought Jow Forums is ridiculously mainstream now that's it not even a joke.
Id stay friends with this one giy who was my best friend my entire life right up until the start of high school and i ditched him for literally no reason just cut off contact from him and am now too awkward to look him up or ask if he wants to hang out
Been coming here since 2013. A friend showed me reddit in 2012 but I thought it was fucking gay just by looking at it once. Jow Forums's really the only online community I've ever been on, been coming here nearly every day for a little over 5 years now. First was on /b/ for a year, then moved to /v/ until the leadup to the 2016 election when I was mostly on Jow Forums. After the inauguration I moved back to /v/ and then started coming on Jow Forums as well a year ago when I started college and realized how lonely and autistic and depressed I was.
>2011 cancer reporting in
March 2011
Where my fellow cancer Anons at
I think we were the last anons to experience Jow Forums as it initially was before absolute shite it's become.
I can't tell if this is a real post.
i came here from reddit since i thought the format was better there, but i toughened up and came here instead.
the format fucking sucks, but at least im with the cool kids now.
About 2007 or 2008 for me
Newfag. Moot should have deleted this place
Another post where I can't tell if the user is trolling.
I wonder what's left though? I have an SA account but it's like being at the house of someone who's dying.
>I can't tell if this is a real post.
Why not? I was just running through my time on the site. I at least got to experience Jow Forums before the fappening/gamergate/2016 election.
>2009
>nearly a decade
>not much has changed in my life other than getting a meme degree
2005/2006 so an oldfag but I've had a few periods where I've lost interest a few times over the years so it's not exactly a solid 12 years+
>Why not?
cos
>A friend showed me reddit in 2012 but I thought it was fucking gay just by looking at it once.
>I at least got to experience Jow Forums before the fappening/gamergate/2016 election.
Lol no. You didn't experience shit. Hell, 2016 was actually a pretty good year when it felt like voting Trump was for the lulz and pretty decent OC was being produced if only for that singular year.
>A friend showed me reddit in 2012 but I thought it was fucking gay just by looking at it once.
What part of this sentence doesn't sound real to you? That was my first exposure to any sort of online community but since it looked like a shitty website I never used it and ended up coming here instead.
>Lol no. You didn't experience shit
Not saying I got to experience the golden age of Jow Forums but 2011-2014 was all generally the same
>Hell, 2016 was actually a pretty good year
No it wasn't due to the reddit influx (just look at that image showing the wesbite's spike in traffic at the time of the elections. All problems people say Jow Forums currently has is due to that influx of newfags from r/The_Donald, it's also the reason why Jow Forums cancer is on every board now
Some recent /v/ leaks have been right apparently but I don't pay much attention. /v/ has always been shit so I can't say it's much worse than it used to be. When it's good it's still great. Get a thread where a bunch of anons all play the same shitty flash game and /v/ delivers just like always.
>I've been here so long that anything I say sounds like something someone else already said ages ago
Such is life in the Jow Forums mansion
First browsed in '07 but I wasn't an active user until '14
I know some people say Jow Forums was never good, but it was much better in the past.
I joined in late 2008/early 2009. I was like 12 at the time. I really loved /b/ due to its aggressive style but I eventually left that board due to a lot of reposting. Yeah, gross shit would be posted but I never saw the shit that's posted on there now which is completely degenerate.
I remember when Jow Forums wasn't some incel board. People were kinda eccentric and failed normie-esque but these people weren't virgins. It was a gentleman's club, and it felt like a higher IQ version of /b/. Then, misogynists came and shit it up. I thought the misogyny shit was funny, but it actually attracted a lot of the current cancer.
I remember when Jow Forums was deleted, and we all shitposted on Jow Forums, and people would call it /adv9k/ or some shit.
What I really miss is the average person you talked to actually knew the internet, and had some level of intelligence. People were edgy, but it wasn't some trihard shit. If you acted like a retard, people would actually bait you and make you a fool.
The problem with this website was the creation of Jow Forums. It just brought in so much cancer, and I'm a rightist so I'm not saying this out of some butthurt because muh racism. The Trump people were the final nail in the coffin. The internet is fucked, there's a few esoteric imageboards (not wizch4n) that keep the spirit of the old somewhat alive but they're on the verge of death and I will not advertise them here.
>been here 7 years
>Is still a new fag
Atleast I was here before b became full of porn, back when it was mostly porn. r9k reminds me of old b
I'm 27 been coming here for like 13 years I think, fucking kill me
>be actual oldfag
>browse Jow Forums everyday for literately half of my life
>turn into more of a social retard
>go nowhere in life
>highlight of my day is getting high after work and talking about my life in 25+ threads
"Don't forget you're here forever" its not a meme
I regret being on here so much. It ruined me, but let's be honest. It provided some bliss for us. We were being shit on at school, and this was an outlet of escape. Now, it's ruined and all we have left are the memories.
Is this how boomers feel about deprecated early BBSes and sites like Usenet?
who /newfag/ here? i'm one of the newest people to remember there not being captcha
>remember there not being captcha
Who else remembers all the anontalk adspam posts? Kimmo sure was committed to building his CP community.
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Its a mixed bag for me like a love hate relationship, if Jow Forums went offline tomorrow I don't know what I would do with my time and would probably have a panic attack since I do nothing else on the internet really. It was cool when I was younger and Jow Forums and anonymous was actually kind of new I found out about it from people talking about it on Naruto forums. So it was cool finding a site that had all this anime shit on there but also everything else I was interested in, and on top of that I didn't need a username and there was no forum politic bullshit.
Like you know back in the day if you saw someone post in a thread and they had like 10,000 posts and a bunch of good karma on their profile then they kind of knew what they were talking about so you would listen to them but if a new user wrote up the same post most people wouldn't even bat an eye at it or just say they're wrong cause they're so new to the forum, while here everyone was the same shit. Also back then it kind of did fell like "muh sekret klub" unless that was just placebo from being a naive 13 year old finding this place. Also its a weird feeling knowing that I have been coming to Jow Forums longer than some users have been alive.
Yeah I guess you look back on the time spent here and its kind of like real life, some of it was good some of it bad and you regret some things you did maybe, But at the end of the day its pretty much pic related and even though I would of rather spent less of my life on here than I did and still do I'm still glad I found this place cause I never had a myspace or a Facebook as a kid so this was like my only social outlet online unfortunately, and you could really say whatever the fuck you wanted too. I would be able talk about how my mom was trashed and almost killed me driving home, cause she was an alcoholic when I was younger, but I wouldn't tell my friends in school that.
I like the anonymity aspect of this site and I've become too invested. I don't see myself using another website without outing myself as a newfag.
October, 2014.
Not that bad imo.
Honestly, if you invested yourself in one of the blue boards you might have had some RL friends from the boards. I see meetup pics and vids of past and see some happy dorky people.
I don't think that's possible these days since newfriend anons think Jow Forums was always an unending river of hate.
fucking night shift nurses
wew
theres using reddit and being from reddit
Started lurking in 2016, started posting 2017
>Tfw part of the Trump chunk of timeline
>havent even gotten a degree yet, otherwise exact same
on the plus side ive stopped giving a shit about wows story so i can just play it and have fun
I'm sorry to say,
This my first year.
inbred buffoon
I face fuck people like you with my fist
Newfag, but not like anything after the eternal september matters
>I have an SA account
Imagine actually paying to post on a forum
It's the last refuge
I am so afraid, please hold me
2008. I came here just in time for Project Chanology. /b/ made me the man I am today which is a redpilled loser.
Been off my anti-depressants for a while now and I think that's why I started coming back.
>tfw I'm a 2011 /v/ fag as well
Technically I'm an original fag. But I only stuck around for a month or two before leaving and coming back in 05. I'm really just some oldfag. Unlike a lot of the posters so far though I don't regret my time one bit. No "bittersweet", nothin'. Just good times. I fucking love this place. The insults we sling around may change but the arguments never really do. This place sure has gotten a lot more negative over the years though. I think that's just a fact of growing up in the decline of western civilization
>tfw you'll never experience old Jow Forums
Cancerfag
Yeah, I came in in 2014.
Yeah, I'm an oldfag. So what, faggot. U mad?
l don't even remember.
2018
Praise Hoon.
Even after 10 years I'm a newfag don't even remember when I started coming daily for hours. Everything since coming here has been a blur.
Wait, I am an original fag? This... feels fucking bad man. I did not actually know when it started just that I ended up here because it was a -cool new site- for my pre teen stupidity. Granted I did not post until around 2010.
I have been more committed to Jow Forums than any relationship.
been here since 2006, but i was on other forums long before Jow Forums
checked, but there's a new flavor-of-the-month camwhore on Jow Forums every time I turn on my computer in the morning it seems
it just all happens on discord now
That is so foreign to me. I guess because this was the first forum I ever went to. Idk, what I recall of 03 was pretty humble and was still about digits. I guess I found the simplicity extremely comforting as a reject in a small town school system of a whopping 100 kids.
You are obviously a veteran. Is there any one forum you would recommend?
>I guess because this was the first forum I ever went to.
>03
Wat? Literally tons of forums were in existence back then.
Saging because I am youing myself.
I have seen this image posted a lot as of late. Not once have I seen one renamed anything to do with crazy bones. It has all been shit like spoopy or kill me. The wild ride is forgotten?
It was more climatic than the wild hunt...
I know but for me I just played games. I was still pre teen so when I did stumble upon this I just visited here and nothing else. Only other forums I would pop into involved Empire Earth or Warcraft and it was only for info. Never frequented or went back. Feel like I need to broaden my forum horizon.
I am not counting bodybuilding forum. That is just Jow Forums but the posters actually lift
Crazy bones... for fuck sakes phone posting life is dildoes. Too drunk f
>I am not counting bodybuilding forum.
The misc. Is that still around?
I have no idea. I only end up there now when I google something about new supplements. Its always one of the top results
came here in 2005 after someone on ytmnd told me about it. I wish i could say that old magic is there but we got to big.
>was actually fun, creative and original
no, it fucking wasn't. You're a sixteen year old faggot whose LARPing as an old fag.
I'd know because I did the same fucking thing in 2012. Now fuck off with your shitty bait
>LMAO LETS CLASSIFY EACH OTHER HEY GUISE IM CANCER BUT IVE BEEN AROUND!!!!1!! XDDD
You are the reason online image boards will never be the same. It wasn't about acceptance or communities or labels. It was about being user, and thats it.
OP is a cock sucking nigger faggot.
>zoomer being mad that he missed out on the golden years