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[_] Were you raised by 4chan? Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)01:11:52 No.

  Would you go back if you could?

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>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)11:18:08 No.

  >>3460825
  if i did then i'd probably be worse off

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)12:38:20 No.

  >>3460825
  truthfully, yes in a way
  in elementary school there was already signs that i wasnt normal and didnt do well in school so i
  went to a program at a school that puts more effort into the student's learning and being more
  attentive
  but this was a terrible choice
  while the teachers were good, the program didnt last long, and my only friends in the program
  were furfags with mental disorders, ie severe adhd, bpd, and some other things
  if that wasnt bad enough, the school was in a poorer part of the town and the majority of the
  school was mexican kids so i never fit in, and i was pretty much outcasted
  sometime around the 7th grade i discovered 4chan, i fit in with nobody and i never used social
  media before it, i had tried reddit and never liked it
  if this didnt pin me into this website, then the fact that there was other students who were more
  asocial who seemed to know a lot about this site aswell did, as i eventually grew to hate the
  furry friends and get myself closer to the asocial group
  in highschool i drew myself away from them aswell
  i've got a whole shit ton of problems, used to just be adhd but then my lack of ability to be
  sociable turned me into a schizoid and i dont feel comfortable doing things in front of other
  people

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)13:50:06 No.

  >>3460825
  I'd go back to the old times of 4chan if that's what you're asking.

  >>3460835
  On /f/ you're home, /f/riend.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)14:32:02 No.

  i was raised by the interwebs, i just got stuck forever here in this goddamn mongolian
  basketweaving forum. AND i would love to go back and buy bitcoins

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)15:17:27 No.

  I can’t say I was raised by 4chan
  But 4chan changed me, for sure
  I discovered Flash here, on /f/
  I even remember the first Flash I saw on /f/. It was a game with sci-fi theme and blue
  characters, I think? I don’t have the name
  Also 2hu. Fucking 2hu every tuesday for years

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)15:48:38 No.

  >>3460825
  Not exactly as I was a young adult when I started browsing here but I have been heavily
  influenced by 4chan, being here for almost 15 years.

  Sometimes I wish I was just a bluepilled normie hanging on reddit and twitter but I honestly
  think 4chan's anonymity makes people better because of these reasons:
  1. You get to actually speak your mind and your past posts won't come back to bite you in the ass.
  2. You can both agree with and hate the same person in a thread, because you don't know it's the
  same person that made the two posts. This teaches you the duality of mind.
  3. You judge each post's content by its own merits, not influenced by who said it or what that
  poster has said previously.
  4. You are taught to be critical. Everything is fake and gay.
  5. You get to know that life isn't so fucking serious and nigger is just a god damn word.
  6. You don't hunt for internet points. You're posting on 4chan because you like to talk with
  people and everybody is treated exactly equal. Your thread gets dropped into the bucket of shit
  just like any other thread. Gender, skin color, literally nothing matters unless someone decides
  to make it matter (which is where the "tits or gtfo" thing comes in if a chick tries to go
  against the "there are no girls on the internet" fact).
  7. desu

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)17:31:39 No.

  >>3460825
  I was raised mostly by the internet but I had a real childhood too, chans only helped shape me
  during teenhood into who I am now.
  I have no regrets and no complaints.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)18:30:16 No.

  I've been here since I was 13, so yes I guess.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)19:41:11 No.

  >>3460825
  i can't say so
  i had my first internet connection pretty late, around 14-15 i guess?
  i discovered 4chan when i was in technical college but only browsing, started posting last year
  i don't remember my first flash, exact year or time i did something first time
  poor memeory sucks, i hate this so fuckin much but i don't see any way to improve myself

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)20:23:34 No.

  Been here 20 years, so yeah to #1.
  No to #2. The only thing I'd do differently is spend less time on /h/ as a kid. Old /b/ was
  really important to me and I can see how its shaped me as an adult in a way I'd say is productive.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)20:24:46 No.

  >>3460871
  15 years*

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)20:27:43 No.

  >>3460871
  itty bitty baby itty bitty boat

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)20:35:21 No.

  >>3460850
  i think the first one i saw was yotsuba spinning on top of a vinyl record, but i forget the song

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)20:37:08 No.

  >>3460852
  desu desu

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)20:58:15 No.

  My parents weren't really around a lot and I grew up in a rural area, so 4chan was pretty much my
  only source of social interaction as a young teen. This website was probably the single biggest
  positive influence on my life growing up, and I'm thankful for it.

  Would I go back to my life in 2005? Fuck no. 4chan was objectively better back then but
  everything else in my life was worse.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/26/21(Fri)22:56:37 No.

  My views on society, my own morals, thoughts on freedom and expression, came from imageboards. My
  parents raised me and impacted me greatly, but I feel the non family side of my raising, usually
  handeled by people around you in school, was instead imageboards. Ironically I found the right
  alt-chans and was encouraged to be less of a hikki neet. "Believe in the you who believes in
  yourself" and "NEVAH GIVE UP" were drilled into me from imageboards. imageboards, and /f/, will
  always be home.
  I don't know if I'd go back to be honest, I feel like I am back ever time I visit /f/ desu.

  >>3460835
  Man, I feel old, I wasn't even aware of reddits existence when I found 4chan. Though it was
  around in 05 apparently.

  >>3460852
  desu desu desu~

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)01:08:40 No.

  I don't want to go back, I want all the present to stop being retarded

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)03:06:39 No.

  >>3460825
  Honestly, yes. I've been on this site longer than I really want to remember. Would I go back to
  ye olde days? Of course, who wouldn't, at the least to buy all of the right stocks and whatever.
  Still, I come here because there is good stuff here and I appreciate the good parts of this
  imageboard enough to keep coming and keep enjoying things.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)05:09:17 No.

  yup, there's a reason why I'm 26, still single and heading towards NEETnes

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)07:41:25 No.

  >>3460825
  Kind of. My brother is a real oldfag and has been suing it since it was new. I've been on it
  since 2007. I was an actual 13 year old poser then. I had my first online friends and my first
  fap from here. Every hobby I have is because of stumbling in on other boards at random and taking
  a liking to certain things, one of which becoming a job. It's become my bread and butter too as I
  do commissions mainly for people from here too.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)08:36:57 No.

  >>3460835
  lol just lol if ur mantra during elementary wasnt "be normal"

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)08:39:24 No.

  >>3460825
  Not exactly. Around 2008 I played maid.swf on another website and when I searched google, if
  there are more like that game, I stumbled upon /f/ and, by proxy, /b/. I treated it as some treat
  reddit nowadays, just to have a quick laugh.
  It was a common consensus before but /b/ strengthened the idea of never ever abandoning my
  anonymity on the internet or sharing any personal details.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)11:34:47 No.

  I was 12 when I found 4chan via Uncyclopedia which my computer programmer dad showed me. It was
  great! I loved the culture which Encyclopedia Dramatica helped with understanding, and I feel
  like a proper oldfag looking down on things like KnowYourMeme and the Cheezburger Network and
  other ways people tried to monetize our stuff.

  Iparticipatedinaraidortwo,madeamemeortwo,spammed/b/oncewithschizomaterial,andgeneral
  lyhadalulzytime.Ilivedfor4chanformanyyears,itwasmymainsourceofhappiness.OverallIthin
  kIhavelostsomethingbyloving4chansomuchbecauseit'ssuchanastyplace,butI'vealsogainedal
  otofhobbiesandalotofperspectiveonlifeIwouldn'totherwisehavehad.Ifitwasn'tfor4chan,Ip
  robablywouldhavegottenintoalcoholinmylateteenslikeeveryoneelsedid,andIneverwouldhave
  trieddrugs.AndpsychedelicsdefinitelymademewhoIamnow.I'maveryhappyspiritualpersonnowa
  ndIwouldn'tchangeathingthatmademethiswaybecauseIlovemylife,Ireallydo.ButwouldIvisito
  ld/b/?Whowouldn't?Therewascp,raids,oldmemes...thegoldenyearsof4chanweresomethingthat
  mayneverberecreated,asortofWildWestthatneverreallygainedafootholdonthedarknettomykno
  wledge.Wild,WildWest,WorldWideWeb...itwas
  different back then. Probably better. But I don't care, I don't need 4chan any more. It was fun
  while it lasted but now I only dabble a little. Thanks for the memories.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)12:30:24 No.

  >>3460912
  in kindergarten i was a chad and even had a girlfriend
  but from first grade on, it was all downhill

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)13:14:13 No.

  Kind of. Started browsing back when I was 11...15 going on 16 years ago. Time flies.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)14:17:28 No.

  >>3460852
  Spoken like a true gentleman and scholar.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)14:30:12 No.

  idk, reading through this thread with >>3460880
  opened in the back really makes me feel the uglies

  >>3460874
  life_is_beautiful.swf
  seems like you haven't been here a long time, but for you it might as well has been, so welcome
  newfriend

  I remember my first flash very much:
  it was ADVENTURESOFXENON.swf where they drive in a flaming car, only to get stuck in traffic
  still screaming in flames
  my introduction to flash as a medium was through a friend who both showed me /f/ and also
  pown.it, where I lurked before starting to shift more onto chan culture with /f/

  >>3460918
  Encyclopedia Dramatica brofist!
  I know it devolved into some form of internet personality drama haven, but early on it was just
  about document memes and language
  Anyone remember Uncle anon? yeah that was the stuff

  >>3460921
  haha, literally me

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)14:46:32 No.

  >>3460825
  >Would you go back if you could?
  nah, but i would tell my young self:
  >clean the fucking black box with pirated Wii games you got, retard, or else it will all get
  fucked up and not work
  and to say to that tomboy i was hanging out with to give me her number

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)14:49:02 No.

  >>3460825
  does anyone have the sauce on that song?

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)16:58:22 No.

  >>3460943
  you're a special kind of retarded, aren't you

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)17:10:51 No.

  >>3460825
  Yes, we are all here forever

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)18:28:12 No.

  >>3460943
  Not for an illiterate retard like you, no.

>> [_] Anonymous 02/27/21(Sat)19:25:56 No.

  Not exactly only 4chan, but at my 13s I discovered image boards from my country, since they were
  a lot edgier I saw fucked up shit that scared me for life, we had daily threads about crimes and
  hate talking criminals, there was a point where I couldn`t walk on the streets without being
  scared every time I heard a step on my back. I used 4chan for some time but since I couldn`t
  English very well it wasn`t one of my main sites. If I could I would go back and stop myself from
  accessing the disgraceful world of Brazilian image boards. Only 4chan would be okay