>>769>>7692009-2013 was when i had the best time there. entirely different place, far less hateful and racist. fewer angry people for sure. i remember things getting really bad over like 6-8 months after the sandy hook shooting, which brought a ton of political shit to every board (i spent most of my time on /k/, which was one of the first to go to shit). the real change is due to the dinosaurs at the fbi and cia figuring out that the internet wasn't a fad in 2011-2012 due to the arab spring.
it wasn't just 4chan that went to shit then, that's when the entire internet started to turn into the mess it is now. the big-I Internet is gone, replaced with little-i internets designed to keep communities insular and polarized from one another. not that long ago, the only barrier was in the language of the posters, now it's more complicated than that. we need to figure out how to make an imageboard so esoteric and so niche that un-virgins and other normal people are filtered out, along with some kinda protection against bots because that's why everything sucks so much. dead internet theory is seeming more and more correct as time goes on ;_;