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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 You'd think that a community of people using software as outdated as imageboards would be a bunch of oldfags who miss da heckin old internet, but most people are like 16-25.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.
This is more of a personal thing but I think I'm drawn to anonymity so much because when I'm in normal communities I often end up sperging out and then either getting kicked out or leaving out of shame. I've lost countless friends to this, I don't really blame them because I did act like a retard, but it still hurts losing people over something you can't control. This board is unironically one of the few places I feel safe on.
Elaborating more on the old internet thing, I think it's interesting that this site is one of the last places which actually functions like the "old internet". We use old software like imageboard, boorus, and ircs, we aren't monetized in any way, we use the site out of passion rather than a desire for popularity or wealth, we don't rely on other websites like fandom or discord, and we mostly have free speech and anonymity here, two core principles of the old internet era.
Millenial trannies love to jerk off about the old internet but the soysphere is unironically one of the last places that operates like it, and they hate us. It's even more fascinating that the actual people on this board weren't even alive for that time period.
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Yes i agree with the anonymity part, i always feel out of place or self-conscious anywhere else
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>>95265 (OP)It's not just about the software being old, it's also about the demographics of the userbase. Like you said, the majority of the userbase is young, creative outcasts. That's another part of the "old internet" before every person on the planet started using it. 4chan for example is flooded with boomers that don't create anything, just point at the clouds and complain.
I'm 22 years old and I first got into imageboards around 2016. 4chan was all over YouTube back then, both as the "scary boogeyman" and the "based internet though guys". I knew about it, but rarely ever used it. The first imageboard I really started using actively was 8chan. I made friends with a guy on steam because we traded items in TF2. While he didn't explicitly mention anything about using imageboards on his profile, I could tell he was part of the "scene" because of his sense of humor / memes and general attitude. I wanted to show that I am "part of the clique" and complained to him about how much porn there is on non-porn 4chan boards. He told me that 4chan is shit, and I should use 8chan instead. So I did that, and it grabbed me much more than 4chan did. I started frequenting the /r9k/ board of 8chan, although I still mostly lurked. I stopped using imageboards for a period of time, but got back into them around 2022 when I found the sharty through the 'ru. I don't use this site very much anymore, in fact I use 4chan more than I use this site today. There just isn't as much OC here as there used to be, too low PPH, and too many autistic children spamming NAS coal. 4chan also sucks, but in a different way, maybe the opposite way. But at least on 4chan I don't have to wait 5 hours for somebody to reply.
Picrelated is OC I made for the site in 2023.
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im not reading allat
I use the sharty as a supplement for social interaction because i’m a paranoid schizophrenic
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I’m not reading all that words-words-words nonsense, but the only image board I use is the Streety because it’s anonymous but less degenerate than 4cuck, and I can relate to the people here a lot more than those on any other social media sites
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>>95270Salt's changes look promising, booru nametrannies got expelled and pph is higher now. You should look into it again
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Are you me? I say all this. Fucking love old internet, love anonymity, fuck social media, fuck algorithmic recommendation, fuck monetization
those pieces of shit ruined teh internets
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>>95290I'm not sure if the old internet was actually better since I was never around back then, but I do think it had its merits. I do think we're moving in a positive direction though, a lot of people are nostalgic for the old internet and I've heard that some imageboards are actually growing. The major social medias have become so shit that people are looking for something with actual sovl and not mindless slop
The normies are still gonna use their instagram of course, but normies never used the old internet that much. I think it would be nice if people like us actually returned to the older, more hidden corners of the internet.
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>>95265 (OP)If I had to answer this question myself I would be regurgitating practically everything you said. Though I would like to add this: people actually care about what you have to say (unless you're a namefag). On normalnigger soycial media nobody could be paid to care about what you have to say unless you're famous or your comment got thousands of likes.
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>I think I'm drawn to anonymity so much because when I'm in normal communities I often end up sperging out and then either getting kicked out or leaving out of shame.
THIS, SO MUCH THIS. No matter how close I feel to an actual "friend," I know that being chuddy will be used against me 75% of the time and thus be too risky for the remaining 25%. I hate feeling as if a fatass janny or even a group of acquaintances is constantly waiting for an excuse to spazz out at me.
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because i can say something and i have a chance of people seeing it unlike normie social medias where if you dont have a big account then no one will see it
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>>95310true
>>95270i agree but this site is going into the same direction as 4cuck
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Now that I'm thinking about it, I think the booru and the 'ki are a large reason for this sites growth and popularity. Both websites heavily encourage the creation of OC because it ensured that people will actually care and that it'll be preserved to be seen by 'teens in the future. The two websites were incredible ideas that may have honestly been what saved this website from obscurity.
I think the wiki is especially important. The nature of imageboards is such that you sort of have to be there to understand how something went down, imagine the countless interesting things that happened on 4cuck which nobaldi bothered to document.
With the wiki, you have a way to preserve history. Nusois can easily read up on slang, lore, or whatever else the editors bothered to document. I remember reading through happenings when I first joined the site out of curiosity, it was really interesting and let me understand the site better.
If you want to learn about the history of 4cuck you'll most likely have to watch some jewtubers 2 hours essay slop which will be full of inaccuracies and will leave out essential details. If you want to learn about the history of the sharty, it's as simple as opening the wiki and reading the pages.
It's honestly baffling how far this site has come, it has survived constant 'p spam, the tyrannical rule of 2 pedophilic admins, several hacking attempts, outages, mass immigration from other sites, and it has never fallen into obscurity like pretty much every other 4chan splinter.
If you wrote about this site in a story people would've never believed that it could make it this far, yet here we are, PPH higher than ever and an incredibly popular admin who actually seems to care about the site
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>>95309It goes beyond being a chud for me. I have experienced this phenomenon among fellow chuds and I experienced it back when I was a leftist.
I think it just comes from my nature as a sperg. I'm usually /calm/ but when I get angry I really do get angry and I absolutely humiliated myself, destroying my reputation and any enjoyment I may have had of the community. It really sucks because I loved being in those communities and I ruined it because I can't contain my sperg outs
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>>95265 (OP)Because this is the only place with people that are like me, we've had the same struggles, the same ideas, the same way of thinking. Also it's anonymous so thats a big plus.
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>>95265 (OP)>It's even more fascinating that the actual people on this board weren't even alive for that time period.Yeah and I don't think that's a coincidence. Imageboards were never just about having fun, but about dreaming of a different world.
Like take prime 4cuck for example. From 2003 to 2008 (even as late as 2014), these people had a kind of emotional bond with one another. They were all nerds who loved anime, so growing they were kinda isolated and lonely and outcasts at school. But suddenly they go online and discover that there's more people like them. And turns out liking anime is not as rare as you think. So you find a community of people just like you, who you can actually relate to for the first time. And they share your values too. And just as this happens, anime culture starts blowing up. Cons, cosplay, JP imports, the video game market, fandom culture. All of it just keeps growing. So you think, maybe I could actually build my life around this stuff.
And for a while it lasts. It feels like a dream come true. You go to cons with friends, maybe even move in with some people. And it's one of the most fun and meaningful periods of your life. You feel like you finally escaped the gay hypocrisy of the mainstream normie world. But eventually, it starts to fall apart. The years drag on and somehow the places loses its spark, people grow up, they get jobs, they get wives, they somehow become normal. There is just no energy, no OC anymore, no creativity. At this point, you no longer really know what to do. It feels like you lost a part of yourself, and there's no way to get it back. It feels like having multiple years of your life washed away like sand on a beach, and you wonder what to do next.
That's where most people end up. They either cling to the dead remains of what used to be alive and amazing, or they become lonely hermits. But if you're like me you'll wonder, "Hmm, maybe it didn't have to be this way" and keep dreaming pretty much
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i like going on imageboards when the rest of the internet gets boring to me, and yeah i like retro games and software n stuff but sites like this just feel more authentic in the sea of rulecucked enshittified ragebait algorithm slop with chatbots most websites nowadays have become
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imageboards dont rely on algorithms but show the most recent content instead,they are just more advanced version of forums which is what most social medias are
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>>95331tsmt. Very well said nate. The sharty is a beautiful site. Im glad were able to enjoy it. Right here. Right now.
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I like the format of imageboards in general, it's simplistic yet charming, also they don't have any ads nor algorithms, and right now it's the only place where you will only find chuds
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>>95265 (OP)>>95307>>95331>>95332I like the way you articulate yourself, you seem like a smart guy. Good thread.
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i use the sharty to spread hatred towards asians and to share my thoughts online anonymously
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>>95512Thanks, I've been trying to improve my writing skills and the sharty is a way I like testing them
Spacing things out in paragraphs is a good idea. It makes it much easier to read instead of just wordswordswords.
It's also a good way of getting across specific points, a good idea of yours can be lost if it's just thrown in the middle of a long paragraph of SNCA
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Sorry for the ID change I'm using hotel wifi on vacation
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marge why orange arrows didn't work
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vp don't let this die
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Very good read, 10/10
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>>95462The internet is hostile and actively wants to rule your life on the web and offline. It's being proliferated so hard by every fortune 500 media corp and digital retail service; it's half because optimizing and rulecucking everything makes more money and the other half because terms of services allow corps to erode your freedoms in factors of magnitudes in a way that's impossible to telegraph to people what they're signing up for because you have to read a book of legaleze, it's all fucked and sites like the 'Party are my last bastion of authenticity in this Antihuman world even if it does go through seasons of brimstone. 150 Million Drivers liscenses got scraped by a darknet ID vendor from a verification site from America.
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I used to use 4cuck in middle school but even my retarded child brain knew it was shit. I always had a love for soyjaks (I autistically collect them. I don't even read whats in the thread half the time i just geg at the 'jaks while downloading them all lol. I love collecting them but ive lost two (2) full folders by now) and when I found the shart in the mart I was hooked by/ohio/. I guess I just love the idea of zoomer 4chan,I prefer my social media's focus to be toxic memes and shitposting rather than vanity I guess. Something about a forum just feels so much more sovlfvl than normie websites, plus I always loved /r9k/ but the original one on der 'cuck is… well, cucked.
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>>95331The sharty unironically has Rome levels of plot armor. How can a culture based on wanton hostility so toxic it is constantly eating itself alive survive for so long? Only SOOT knows…
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>>97058tsmt, zoomer 4chan 4eva
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>>95265 (OP)I'm 18 and started using the sharty around the time the 'cuck got 'aped. I enjoyed the 4chan narrations on jewtube from guys like frauded so I wanted similar stuff, but when I went on the 'cuck I was severely disappointed to see how it was mostly AI porn and retards.
Found out about the sharty from SPVA and Gem Records and I really enjoy it. Its one of the only places online that feel like its populated with real people and not the most vantablack jeets and niggers that shit it all up. I like the anonymity and true freedom of speech, it lets you speak your mind or share personal experiences without risk of online footprint.
I'd been looking for somewhere to talk freely with internet niggers for ages. When I was a caca a friend showed me preddit and I tried it out but everyone is on a high horse with a rod up their coinslot. Also most of the places online are just too "normie" for me to enjoy, I don't find trends amusing and theres no sense of community whatsoever
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>>95309I'm not severely a sperg but I feel the same way. I've gotten pretty good at hiding any traits or things I do that people would normally get disgusted by. I used to get mocked a bit in early secondary school for trying to copy the behaviours of people around me to try and fit in and not knowing all the trends properly. So now I only disclose the most basic information, and basically every friend I have gets a curated slice of information about me depending on what I think they will accept. The baseline would be shit like playing the normie vidya like 'craft or terraria, and then I'll add in any spergy interests if I think its acceptable.
I kinda talk about politics but not much because my views are too niche for anyone to want to hear including the sharty. I'm more or less an authoritarian socialist when it comes to economics but i'm a lot more right wing for social issues, especially immigration because we have more than enough jeets and niggers in the west. No matter who I talk to they will not like one side of the other. Right wingers tend to prefer laisser faire economics and will say I'm just like heckin Stalin for wanting state control like the chinks have and for managing welfare fraud by conscripting them for labour if they're leeching off unemployment. Left wingers are generally faggots and troons who want welfare so they can live off of the labour of hard workers.
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>>95278tsmt I honestly stopped lurking on anything but /r9k/ at the end of quotes reich but now /soy/'s back to shitflinging and dnb posters instead of endless bait
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>I'm not severely a sperg but I feel the same way. I've gotten pretty good at hiding any traits or things I do that people would normally get disgusted by. I used to get mocked a bit in early secondary school for trying to copy the behaviours of people around me to try and fit in and not knowing all the trends properly. So now I only disclose the most basic information, and basically every friend I have gets a curated slice of information about me depending on what I think they will accept. The baseline would be shit like playing the normie vidya like 'craft or terraria, and then I'll add in any spergy interests if I think its acceptable.
Holy fuck that's exactly how I've acted and still do act. I'm scared of ever revealing my interests to people so I always just find the most acceptable normie thing to tell people if they ask about it. I still frequently copy behaviors from people, especially things like speech mannerisms and writing styles. I think I do it because I just don't know what's socially acceptable so I copy what other people are doing in hopes of emulating them.
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>>97260I used to understand social dynamics less and would parrot memes that people would say without fully understanding them. It doesn't work at all so I stopped.
I kinda subconsciously copy speech mannerisms like you say. Otherwise I've stopped trying to interact with people unless we have a shared interest or are more open with each other because they are also a sperg. Its pretty easy to go unnoticed as a sperg if you want to, since most normies don't do anything in their free time. Just do small talk about the latest thing thats trending online and don't have any strong opinions. If you find out they do/like anything you are interested in subtly probe them on it to see if they actually do and you could reveal your own interests, otherwise keep it zipped.
I found a friend who is a history nerd like me so I can talk about that with him freely. Hes a diagnosed autist but not severe at all. I have ADHD but again very mild case, just makes it harder for me to focus on things like revision. If you find autistic people that aren't groomed into being faggots they're generally nice to hang out with because they don't judge much
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>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.
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>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
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>Now I love it. The soysphere combined is pretty much the only site I use outside of youtube.
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>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.
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>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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>This is more of a personal thing but I think I'm drawn to anonymity so much because when I'm in normal communities I often end up sperging out and then either getting kicked out or leaving out of shame. I've lost countless friends to this, I don't really blame them because I did act like a retard, but it still hurts losing people over something you can't control. This board is unironically one of the few places I feel safe on.
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>Elaborating more on the old internet thing, I think it's interesting that this site is one of the last places which actually functions like the "old internet". We use old software like imageboard, boorus, and ircs, we aren't monetized in any way, we use the site out of passion rather than a desire for popularity or wealth, we don't rely on other websites like fandom or discord, and we mostly have free speech and anonymity here, two core principles of the old internet era.
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>Millenial trannies love to jerk off about the old internet but the soysphere is unironically one of the last places that operates like it, and they hate us. It's even more fascinating that the actual people on this board weren't even alive for that time period.
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