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Literally never in my life
I have successfully not visited it for, I think multiple decades now.
I haven't been on 4chan since like 2011
I'm not adding to any conversation really but this is pretty much my answer too
Zero times. If it’s worth looking at it’ll make its way eventually to another platform that’s less of an ass fissure
Like once a year or something.
Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.
Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn't expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.
Yeah I was a big channer many years ago I still don't understand how the fuck fascism won there. The only reason I go there now is to snoop on fascists since I know how to click around there. The only thing I can say is that it must be that most channers really were idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for, instead of people pretending to be idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for.
Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.
I pretend to be an elven paladin regularly. I'm not going to become an elven paladin.
The alt right playbook is a great resource to understand how they won there if you’re curious.
Absolutely never.
Why would I want to lower my faith in humanity more?
rock bottom should be the default
I haven't been on 4chan in over 20 years since I saw a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel.
That place is a cesspool.
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4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.
I think this is it more or less.
It felt like fun freedom to have a communicative realm with no rules, guidelines, morals at all. But in hindsight I guess it was fine for me because I had a moral compass and intellect so mad-max-land allowed me to re-explore my limits and opinions on my own, like from point zero, without preexisting structure (wich is always present if there is any decency).
For some, apparently, that was not fine. Like they didn't catch themselves in the freefall of morals and epistemology that comes with the 4chan credo of "everything here fake and foolish...". Or maybe it's that some don't have a corrective social realm outside 4chan, able to get them back to the ground. And those ones overtook. (Maybe cause the other ones are done playing edge walk after a while).
Tl;dr: had fun, learned some, feel a bit bad now
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Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it's actually decent-ish to talk about games.
I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:
Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don't... really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)
I used 4chan daily from 2005 to around 2013. It just doesn't have the vibe it used to, or maybe I'm just getting old.
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Never have, never will.
0 times per year.
I used to when I was in my teens, when 4chan wasn't as "well known" by so many people. It was definitely wild then. Now I don't really have the desire to browse there or anywhere else besides Lemmy
0 times a year. I used to lurk on Something Awful and Fark back in the day but I never liked 4chan.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised 4chan is the one still around but I guess the non-religious kids who are the future of the Republican Party need somewhere to hang out.
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The interface sucks. Never
I haven't been there, I only see screenshots here and there, and the occasional YouTube video detailing their shenanigans
Sometimes I remember it exists and is vaguely legit to visit, and that there are other sections besides /b. I think maybe I go there for about an hour once a year.
been decades around when moot left and 4chan was hentai pics.
1/lifetime
None. I will never touch anything *chan
2chan, 4chan, 5chan, and the other number I won't even mention cuz I actually saw something very traumatizing there.
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Maybe once a year to remind myself I'm not a complete twat.
I mean a long time ago, like 15 years ago, before I really found reddit, I went on there pretty often.
5 years ago? Some people have something funny to say but it's not worth groveling through the hundreds of bot comments to find it.
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Maybe once in the last 5-10 years to look up something specific... so basically never.
Never. I only look at the funny greentext highlights and I don't want to hunt for those.
Not much anymore. /diy/ is still good for some of my weirder technical questions, but the rest of the boards are in the gutter. /b/, which used to be good for a Friday-night laugh, is nothing but transphobic-trans worship posts or loli threads.
Maybe once a week. Their torrent board /t/ occasionally has some neat stuff but sporadically when browsing different boards like /v/ I'll hear some news about a niche topic I'm into.
For example last time it was that a Youtuber I follow named MittenSquad died. Had no idea.
I looked at it for the first time a few weeks ago to see what all the fuss is about. Terrible user interface and the content wasn’t very interesting. No reason to go back again.
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I have never visited the hacker known as 4chan, I hear he's a gross neckbeard who never showers.
Once before gamergate. I didn’t like the sort of people I found there. I wasn’t surprised about the following decade of newsworthy and leaking bad behavior
I've never visited 4chan. Everything I've read about it makes me think it's not the webforum for me.
Rarely. Not more than once a month, and then I remember why I outgrew it.
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