Something I've always found fascinating about this board is that most people here are fairly young. You'd think that a community of people using software as outdated as imageboards would be a bunch of oldfags who miss da heckin old internet, but most people are like 16-25. Even with the cacacaust there's still tons of underaged people on the site, it's a common joke that most people here are underaged.
I'm 19, I was not around for the peak of imageboards or the "old internet", by the time I started using imageboards 4cuck had long fallen off. I personally started using the 'arty after discovering it through SPVA. At first I really didn't like it much, imageboards weren't familiar to me and I felt out of place
Now I love it. The soysphere combined is pretty much the only site I use outside of youtube.
I think what really drew me was the anonymity and free speech. I think the only true way to have free speech is through anonymity, even if there are no rules on a site you'll still be pressured to conform to certain social rules if your activity is tied to a name.
On the 'arty, you can say whatever you want without people ever being able to tie it to you. You can be a chud in one thread and being a leftist in the next without people ever knowing. This is why I hate namefaggotry and don't use the boorum, even an anonymous account draws attention to you.
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