No.222522
no need to be consistent i guess
no need for a constant identity, a personality, just let the thoughts flow
allow yourself to be self-contradicting at times
No.222523
You must be strange too, OP. Or else you wouldn't be here.
No.222524
>>222521>What is it that makes them attract such a particular kind of man and allow them to spread the messages they do?The anonynimity is a big factor. Unlike most other places, there is no social capital to be gained, no identity or reputation to build, so people don't use them for the same reasons they use the non-anonymous platforms, and they draw a different crowd because of that.
>How have certain images, cultures, rationale, and atmospheres come to be synonymous with them?They appeared just at the right time on the internet to take root and foster a specific culture.
I'm sure if 4chan had opened in 2009 instead, it would have never achieved the same level of peculiarity in people's eyes.
And there is also the whole japan/otaku influence they still carry, which made them a bit odd from the start, but nowadays I don't think that's a major factor.
>Have they been beneficial to you, advantageous, or ruinous? Little bit of both. Probably made me too desensitized to certain things, but there are pros and cons to that.
No.222525
>>222524This. Particularly the focus on message only at the expense of username and status circlejerks strongly appeals to spectrum people.
That's why full neurotypicals generally hate and despise imageboards.
To them it's very important to see how many people up/downvoted you, who shared your post, how many followers or subscribers you have.
Your value as a contributor to neurotypicals comes from those status factors. The content of your message itself is pretty irrelevant to them as long as you don't go full Ww2 nazi on the readers.
No.222526
>Inb4 someone redditspaces about how imageboards are for AUTISTS, who can enjoy them because they're better than FILTHY STATUS-DRIVEN PLEB NEUROTYPICALS
No.222528
>>222525>>222526Oh damn I got ninja'd
No.222529
>>222526are YOU a filthy normalnigger?
No.222530
>>222529Wizard ≠ "spectrum person"
"Spectrum person" ≠ wizard
No.222531
>>222530admit it, you remember shitting your pants
No.222533
>>222532don't try to distract anyone with that bullshit, anon
tell me about the one time you shit your pants
was it warm?
No.222534
>>222533Rather warm, yes. Had my diapers so it's not like it was a problem. Now tell me about your story, normal scum.
No.222535
For me imageboards are the best way to socialise for more than a decade.
I tried all manners of forums, social networks and non anon imageboards but I grew a hate for them which I cannot describe with mere words.
I'm glad this place still is a float. I always have an anxiety where the rest of them had a poster affluence as big 4chan.
No.222538
>>222533Imagine your life is so shit you need to come here to feel better.
You're not a virgin, yet you feel the need to invade the space of those who are to "feel better".
No.222541
>>222538I am 100% a virgin of the purest, handholdless kind.
I just wanted to get this
>>222526 autist in denial to admit to remembering shitting his pants. Whenever autism is mentioned, he keeps repeating that no one here is autistic, and that "real" autistic people are drooling retards. In one thread he said that autists have a thing for shitting their pants, and ironically, he admitted to it. If anything, he is the normalfag for caring so much about not being labeled autistic, on an anonymous imageboard where identities don't matter.
Come on buddy, admit that there must be something very different about a man, for him not to end up having sex one way or another. That's a sign of significant neurodivergence.
No.222542
>>222541It is. I confused you for that other poster you were quoting.
No.222543
>>222541>and ironically, he admitted to it. LOL i need to see this
No.222544
Asynchronous and Anonymous. Not pseudonymous like reddit and forums. What other communication platforms are there that share these two characteristics? I am unable to think of anything. Those two characteristics reduce anxiety and allow people to post in a more truthful way.
Additionally, no upvoting means that unpopular opinions are not emotionally punished as much, and unpopular posts not made less visible. Actually an unpopular post could get even more responses and reactions, so they can generate more reward chemicals in the brain. Platforms with upvoting train people to write what is popular, in a very strong way.
As a result of LLMs and more sophisticated spam attacks this type of communication will only become more and more rare
No.222552
I like the anonymous nature of image boards opposed to forums. Also, the static nature is comforting, there are no instant replies or notifications or anything awful from the modern internet.
I would prefer image boards to be without images (which is ironic) and only text-based, but text boards are irrelevant now.
No.222568
>>222552Newsgroups became irrelevant because an imageboard is superior. There is the rare occassion where a visual point alongside the text is necessary and can't be reliably communicated in text only.
Of course hyperneurotypicals go even further and want to get rid of both, and just want to see someone saying their point in-person (which is why Tiktok has a billion users).
Also, normies are generally appearance over substance. They will only believe someone if they are beautiful/handsome or if the background of the short Tiktok video looks like they are wealthy. Ugly people get little to no views and shares even if they have correct information and the "influencer" spews pseudoscience.
Imageboards do not have usernames, user statuses, downvotes, upvotes, follower counts, view counts, they don't grant any automatic advantage to good looking or rich people, and each post is purely about conveying a point. In essence, they are completely incompatible with the normie world and their psychological mechanisms.
No.222764
I do like imageboards. I could tell I was going to spend a lot of Time here The minute I got on 4chan For The first Time in 2008.
memes died probably some Time after Trump got elected. I dont know what was The objective golden years but it was baneposting For me
No.222781
>>222764That was ages ago, people haven't posted Bane pics in like 10 years.
No.222782
>>222781I kind of miss 8chan's /bane/ board. I wonder where it ended up.
No.222828
>>222764>memes died probably some Time after Trump got electedThere's just nothing funny about today's memes. People post the most retarded out-of-context shit and expect that you understand the jokes they're trying to convey, even if there's nothing funny to them.
No.222830
>>222828I Would More argue that memes dont Even exist today
No.222831
>>222781>That was ages agoFor you
No.222832
>>222830Capitalizing random words in a sentence was a huge meme last Thursday
No.222833
>>222521>What is it that makes them attract such a particular kind of man and allow them to spread the messages they do? Alot of imageboards, with a few exceptions, allow its users to speak their minds without needing an account to do so. With an account, there is history, creates egos, and worst of all, worshipers. With imageboards, everything has equal footing and only by the post's merits are measured towards attention. Everyone here assumes that I'm a virgin because everyone else is assumed to be a virgin. If someone else claims to be something else, its either considered bait or attention-whoring. Imageboards weeds out the egos and let the intellect, the uncomfortable,and otherwise out of the norm posts to rise without using a system to boost such. It legit creates a "safe space" for everyone without actually making rules of what is acceptable opinion. You are always in fear of steping on someone else's toes with a lot of other sites, but imageboards allows such a degree of freedom to speak one's mind without consequence that it creates an environment for many different groups, autist especially, to forgo their masks and let loose. /8pol/ and /v/ are good examples of this when 8chan was still up, and to a lesser extent 8chan.moe.
> TLDRRead the post you faggot.
No.222840
Smaller communities are easy(and less cringe) to interact than larger communities that's why I no longer use 4chan either lol
No.222846
>>222541I dont think that the fact you like to shit yourself means you are a wizard
Ask me how i know
No.222902
>>222832The amount of seethe a shitty phones autocorrect can cause is staggering
No.222904
>>222902Doesn't change the fact phoneposters are much more likely to be shitposters
No.222921
>>222904Rarely holds up in 2025 anymore because a massive amount of people, even oldschool geeks have switched to a powerful android or ios device as their main computer.
In 2015 and before I would have agreed.
No.222922
>>222921But it's such a chore to type on the tiny touch screen keyboard. It has to affect the quality of the post.
No.222926
>>222922The quest for the perfect pocketable/handheld/UMPC continues.
No.222928
>>222926the PC is enough
if you go down the route of this quest, you'll end up with a neuralink or something in your head
No.222931
>>222928PC's are close to perfection, and I type this message on a PC.
But I understand less and less people will buy tower PC's or laptops until we become a 0,1% minority.