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So… my comment might go unnoticed, but as a teen in the mid-2000s that discovered 4chan through an Argentine forum which was itself based on Something Awful, this video brought back many memories. I had broadband installed at home in 2006 and started browsing 4chan in 2007, right before Project Chanology. Some people from my forum actually went to the Scientology building to annoy them. I've got a picture of my forum friends disguised as the black guys from Habbo Hotel and a signpost with the infamous phrase.
I'd browse /b/ late at night, a bored 16-year-old girl who was at times a normie who enjoyed partying at nightclubs (it's Latin America, don't ask) but would also spend hours chatting to strangers, learning about weird stuff, and just hanging out anonymously in cyberspace. I remember the "Baww" threads, where people who were having a really rough time got advice from other. The "altart" threads where people posted cool pictures. I'd occassionally browse other boards, like /soc/ (my picture was used once for the "girls in glasses" thread, to my dismay) or /ck/ or travel/literature (also the weird hentai one). But it was mostly /b/. I even tried to write a paper on lolcats for a Linguistics class but it was almost flunked due to lack of reliable sources. Now there's books about internet English.
Then I turned 20 and it wasn't fun anymore. Society became more "progressive" (there was a black president) and so the chan became reactionary. Then Trump came along. And social media poisoned everything. Maybe Jeff Epstein was behind it too, I wouldn't write it (I'll keep watching and see if you mention it). It was good while it lasted, and I miss the internet of old. It was fucked up and disturbing, but at the same time more innocent and less omnipresent and oppressive.
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I was a moderator from 08'-11'. When /soc/ and /pony/ came in 2011, I quit. I mostly just worked on /a/; I love my anime! 😅
Though I did see some unspeakable things on some of the other more popular boards. Kinda got PTSD from that…😢🥺😔