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[_] Apocalypse scenario for /f/ Anon 3521243 Imagine if one day some 16 year old would make a video essay about how olden flash culture was great and nostalgic and anyone should experience it and how you're still able to do that on /f/, which in turn would cause a flood of zoomers to come here, while spamming gay shit brainrot skibidi toilet tik toks etc. How would we prevail? Would we even prevail? Or maybe that would be a net positive for us? Of course, I highly doubt this ever happening, given that the public perception of 4chan is that this is 'le evil nazi pedo site', but you might never know...
>> [_] Anon 3521244 >># It may happen to other boards but I doubt it will ever happen to /f/. Its just a higher bar of entry just by the lack of flash support in general. I think it will stay a niche topic for ever.
>> [_] Anon 3521249 Part of the beauty of our corner of the internet and why it's (mostly) free of modern brainrot bullshit is because its more difficult to get into. You'd have to go find a working copy of flash, find an editor, learn to use it to convert 15 seconds of tik tok garbage into a format that 5 people are gonna see on a vietnamese cave painting forum. There will be no mass demand for this because it would require an attention span orders of magnitude longer than the modern person possesses. I wouldn't mind the younger generation appreciating what we did back in the heyday, but there is absolutely no chance of it making a transformation to modernity.
>> [_] Anon 3521250 >># not gonna happen. You already see 2 examples in this board like the zeitgeist guy or the rare flash guy. Even that last guy doesn't post more than 4-5 a day, because of the waiting period between posts I assume. Those autismo kids who can't keep the attention on a tiktok for more than 2 seconds, to the point tiktokers are putting other shit next to their videos to keep the attention of the viewers on 10 second videos, don't have the patience to try to spam the board or even create flashes/convert videos. What happened to zeitgeist guy anyway, did he finally an hero?
>> [_] Anon 3521251 >># this, barrier to entry was the sign of the golden age
>> [_] Anon 3521254 >># He still comes to post his crap a time or two per week, just sage, tell him to kill himself, and move on. >># I wouldn't call it a golden age since that barrier is also preventing new content, but given the alternative I'll take what we have.
>> [_] Rare Flash Collector !bgvu1ECAmM 3521257 >># Weareinsulatedbyboththeobscurityofthisve ryboard(persistentthroughout4chan'shistor y)andtheprofoundobscuritybroughtaboutbyth eforcedobsolescenceshuntedupontheflashmed iumbybigtechin2020.Forthosereasons,Idon't thinkwe'lleverhavetoworryaboutthissortoft hing.Butjusttoentertainthethought,itwould becomeanewchapterinourcollectivehistory-- afascinatingoneatthat--oneinwhichpeoplewo uldteachthemselvestheskillsnecessarytocre ateandconsumeeasy-accesssurface-levelcont entthroughaforced-obseletemediumthattakes efforttointerfacewith.This,coupledwiththe doubtlessinteractionwithheavilypersistent contentonthisboard(dailydoseforexamplecou ldnevergetfloodedaway)wouldcreateanintere stingclashandblendingofcultures.Suchaneve ntwoulddoubtlesslybesomethingakintotwover ydifferentcivilizationscomingintoforcedco ntactwitheachotherandwouldcreateauniquebl endofculturefor sure. Makes me think about Himilayan food, and its very clear south asian and chinese influences. It's also worth noting that this has happened before. The very concept of newfags and oldfags describes this process. Indeed, oldfags are a cohort, rather than something one can get grandfathered into. In the days of yore, most would agree that only those who found 4chan before around 2006 can be considered oldfags, because after that the site went "mainstream" (by contemporary Internet standards) in a way that flooded the site with millions of users. They tried their best to preserve their early culture, but fucking newfags like me at the time came and ruined it. Like the flash OP posted, we started enjoying the site wrong, and for the wrong reasons. And now that stuff is just a part of 4chan's history. Make of it what you will, but it's just part of the story. I think if an event like OP describes would happen, it would just be the next chapter in an already long and rich history.
>> [_] Anon 3521259 >># Are you trying to fit in?
>> [_] Anon 3521261 >># here's your (You), fwend :)
>> [_] Anon 3521269 >># https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhvey_Fj tXA I mean it DID happen with flash games. Believe it or not, at least among gaming affinity people, flash games really hold a nostalgic memory still. Not so much flash as a format or as a whole, but those games every kid killed some time with at some point really, reaaaally left a mark on this generation of people. Everyone loved them, but I guess normalfags kinda accepted that they are now what became gacha mobile slop app games. >># >They tried their best to preserve their early culture That's meee. I learned from the best, but by the time I was old enough to really appreciate it, the big guys (tm) already moved on and I went on to experience the feeling of being the oldfag only by means of that nobody older than me persists. They all went away somewhere and suddenly it's all you and a bunch of greenhorned wankers. Only joking, but it do feel like dat sometimes.
>> [_] Anon 3521271 >># Is it not working?
>> [_] Anon 3521276 >># Zoomers don't know how to make swfs. At worst they would just shit up the comments. /f/ experienced this sort of thing in 2015, but unlike it happening now there was actually good content being posted among the reposts.
>> [_] Anon 3521279 >># post exclusively daily dose. instant filter and only a select few zoom zooms would find it amusing
>> [_] Anon 3521296 >># You underestimate how many zoomers will find it amusing
>> [_] Anon 3521297 >># Give it a few more tries, I believe in you
>> [_] Anon 3521298 >># Zoomers are by far the gayest and most sexually deviant generation of all. They'd love the fuck out of it. I'd bet <1 year after the flood zoomers will be posting their real life tiktok adaptations of it in flv format here, besides the million 'brainrot' variations of Thanks doc we haven't even come close to thinking yet. And also AI slop.
>> [_] Anon 3521301 >># Truly a fate worse than death.