I think it's pretty neat too OP. Helps keep these places feeling connected.

>>7034
How the hell is our anime board anti-anime?

>>7041
Somebody said the same thing in that bingo thread around the same time.
>I haven't been to /an/ since I saw some 4chan-tier retard posts about how anime sucks
Something pissed them off.

>>7042
Wow, How fickle can a person get?

The rest of the interesting posts from that /jp/ thread.

In the past... Of 2006... There was loli boards. They are all gone now.

sad

>>7048
That makes me pretty sad

>>7056
"Little Angels Hentai" is the last man standing from that time from what I found. It's not an imageboard though. Maybe I'll ask them for more info.

>>7048
I miss this system of websites linking to each other with banners.

/bun/ on tc. Every post about tohno-chan being dead is funny in retrospect. /bun/ has been getting a little bit more activity recently though. Their dislike for tohno-chan looks like it grew with time.

>>7059
Well they're certainly not wrong about me being an autistic retard.

I don't understand their complaints.

>>7065
You can not please everyone, especially people like these. More than likely these people browsed the site for a few hours until they saw some random thing or post or board they didn't like, and condemned the site for it on the spot.

It's like if I was to say /bun/ is cancer because five years ago I saw someone there say they like guro. As such /bun/, it's staff, it's userbase, and it's design are all fucking garbage and I'll never go back again.

Selected excerpts from this extensive list.

I love kiwifarms. It's people posting the same things over and over about "lolcows" for hundreds of pages and upvoting each other. Any post that agrees with group consensus gets 20+ up votes. They'll do this on a thread for years. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really understand why Tohno is worse with too many boards. Maybe some are a little useless or could be merged but it's not like, say, 4chan where each board is its own separate community or anything.

>>7070
It's a difference in priorities. Most people actually used imageboards for "socializing" I think. The format sucks for that though no matter what you do, but interaction feels more "flowing" when there's a lot of posts in one place. More, a bit slower boards is better for post quality though. Either you've got a mediocre "social platform", or a decent place for discussion. People who want the former usually move on to discord, twatter or whatever else.

I don't use imageboards other than tohno anymore. Sometimes I do get curious about what's going on in the outside world but I never actually try looking, mostly because I don't know where to look.
This time I tried some URL I saw in one of the screencaps, went sightseeing on that site and from there to a couple of other related places.
It was a sad and lonely experience for me. I didn't even have to participate and get into arguments to feel how hated I'd be if I posted there.
It was also an uncomfortable reminder that I probably stay here only because tohno is so slow it shelters me from being exposed to many opinions of others, especially the ford drivers. Contemplating these different opinions tends to bring me emotional pain when I consider them in the context of my own life, personality, experiences and relation to the world.
It was a sleepless night full of uneasiness, angst and constant asking of the question: is there really no place for me in this world? What a horrible feeling.

>>7072
I've done the same and it's never been a very pleasant experience. From what I've heard, sushi for example is supposed to be a nice and friendly place, but after hanging out there for a while I found they can actually be really vicious and nasty people hiding behind smiles.

>>7073
The problem is that they form cliques and dislike people that disagree with them. It happens on many small boards, the only reason it doesn't here so much is because we still seem to have a variety of people with different views and because we don't all have names or flags.

>>7073
I've noticed that as well with places that claim to be friendly specifically, when talking to people personally.

>>7066
It's really funny to me. I came to imageboards in the late 2000s with the expectation that I was probably going to see a lot of stuff that normal people don't like. I never liked all of it, but none of it was ever enough to make me upset because I was already prepared to see and hear about things not to my tastes. That was the beauty of imageboards, to me. A place where you could post about things that were not accepted elsewhere among people who were not normal and who would not only not expect you to be normal, but often times share your tastes in the unusual. The idea of actually going into a thread of things I find unpleasant and complaining about people posting it is just baffling to me.

Laugh riot.

I wasn't around when this happened, but I went there a month of two before and I remember everything was kind of messed up and unpleasant. Most of the old threads were deleted and the delete limit was only one page for some reason. On top of that, the moderation was way stricter than before, or just different. Something about trannies. It was bad. Wasn't great to begin with though.

Post edited on 5th Mar 2020, 7:11pm

>>7080
>>7081
That person is more pathetic than I. Impressive.

I have a really hard time taking people like this seriously. Not only have they had relationships and one night stands, but they mention it casually while calling other people normalfags. Like a starved dog saying how long it's been since they've eaten. I don't even understand what is normal, but I think I know it when I see it.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>7088
>>7089
What is this shit and why is it posted here?

>>7090
Because it fits the thread. Ridiculous things people have said online. Just laugh at it. Marvel at how stupid and hard-headed people can be.

>>7091
Yes, stupid people exist but why would I (or others) want to see people talking about their personal experiences? It doesn't belong here. Anyways this thread is about imageboard screenshots.

>>7088
Not an imageboard. Deleting.

>>7089
The contents of this screenshot really shouldn't be discussed here. Read the rules. Deleting.

>>7098
>I remember in ONE there is a scene with an actual retard
Picked up.

>>7098
>Are girls with flat chests cripples too?
Interestingly enough, they're usually the cutest and best too.

There used to be a shota imageboard around 2012. Then it turned into a forum. Now it's dead.

>>7104
What makes somebody reconsider his interests to such an extent? I can't imagine walking away from loli.

>>7106
Maybe legal risk, if they live in a bad country?

Post edited on 27th Mar 2020, 11:08pm

These people are so negative and they take themselves too seriously. And why do they cater to fanfiction writers? /mggg/ is bad because you can't post porn, but at least the atmosphere isn't so suffocating.
what the hell is a "monsterboy"?

More nanochan posts. These ones talk about other imageboards.
https://i.postimg.cc/5xPz9VKK/quality2.png
https://i.postimg.cc/NszPHZFp/quality3.png

Post edited on 7th Apr 2020, 7:54am

GYAAAAHHH

>>7115
The board literally called loli is still up. For 90 days at least.

>>7110
This isn't funny, this is frightening.
Can't imagine that photographing a facade of a building counts as copyright infringement.
In the eyes of law, it's like we're committing felonies everyday.

Spooky shit. From only 8 months ago too.

>>7133
The board isn't a secret, people just don't like it because it's too slow for the average person with ADD and we've got a rep for being too depressing and cynical. I just wish people would stop comparing us to wizchan.

>>7133
This scares me. I hope this place will be properly gatekept.

>>7135
People have been saying that same thing for many many years now.

>>7136
Because it's always been pertinent. I hope the same thing.

>>7135
The slowness is indeed a virtue. And I think the fact that the board topics are pretty narrowly defined helps deter off-topic discussion from taking root (moving things to /tat/ pretty aggressively helps in this too). The fact that it's survived for this long (and it's not a particularly obscure board or anything) is a good indicator of its hardiness.

That said, some day this place will succumb – either to linkrot (knock on wood) given that it probably has a relatively low bus factor, userbase-rot (as the userbase slowly dwindles, possibly from physical expiry), or the infestation of the plague of rotten users that have befallen and consumed most of the other imageboards.

>>7133
I mean, it doesn't look like it has affected anything. Female imageboard users are such a small group that fracturing them will probably turn any influence they had into nothing.
>>7138

That said, some day this place will succumb – either to linkrot (knock on wood) given that it probably has a relatively low bus factor, userbase-rot (as the userbase slowly dwindles, possibly from physical expiry), or the infestation of the plague of rotten users that have befallen and consumed most of the other imageboards.

Physical expiry would probably be the most fitting, but that is too depressing to discuss honestly.

>>7139
Part of what's scary to me is that there apparently were female users on tohno-chan, but they went on to use sites like those and talk in that kind of way. They also thought it would be fitting to recommend tohno-chan to other people on those sites.

>>7140
To be fair, it's like our neighborhood neo-nazis. They kept their shit to /tat/ or other websites.
I think they're recommending it because of that. its not like they're expecting to change things here.

>>7133
At least half of the CC and lolcow population are just males LARPing and traps. Even if any of them left their containment boards, rule 12 exists for a reason.

>>7140
What concerns me more is the growing amount of posts I've seen lately that add absolutely nothing discussion-wise and aren't even complete sentences. I'm not expecting to see PhD theses in each thread, but part of the reason why I post here is because it's clear that most posts are made with effort and sincerity. I see more and more examples of people bumping threads that haven't had replies in over 2 years just to post three words and an irrelevant image (or using their waifu as a makeshift avatar).

>>7142
>At least half of the CC and lolcow population are just males LARPing and traps.
I don't know how you would know that. It seems like the kind of stupid meme people tell themself because it's what they want to hear.
>I see more and more examples of people bumping threads that haven't had replies in over 2 years just to post three words and an irrelevant image
I haven't noticed much of that. Bumping old threads also isn't something i'd consider a bad thing since it often leads to renewed interest in them.

>>7143
There isn't anything wrong with bumping older threads. Older threads being bumped while nothing of value is being added to the discussion is part of the problem. However, it's not the main problem which is low-effort shitposting. I'm sure you can find examples of what I mean and I'd rather not turn this into a meta thread.

>>7155
He's being sarcastic, right?

>>7166
I'd call it shitposting.

>I love seeing and recording stuff people write, especially about other boards.
I wouldn't use the word 'love' for that in general, but this excerpt from the image in >>7044 has a very nice feeling. I want the same things as this anon.

>>7069
I don't follow internet drama much so I was only vaguely aware of kiwifarms until recent news that they had harassed the developer of higan snes emulator into killing himself. Then again I don't trust the media's reporting of anything considering they inflate 4chan's /pol/ into some sort of boogeyman, but it does seem like the entire shtick of the forum is harassment of individual people.

God damn. Web masters give up so easily too. Fucking spineless.

>>7242
After recommending them a new domain service, the crisis has been averted.

You know, at some point, you think something can't disappoint you more than it already has. Like you've already reached the bottom of the barrel and things couldn't possibly get worse. And then somehow, in some way, you get surprised. It's really amazing.

>>7252
lol. I didn't use any slurs, just told him off. He even deleted his own response.

>>7253
What a faggot.

>>7253
dare I say, based.

>>7253
Is this for real I can't find anything about that board even in the archives. Do you know what is even worse than making such a board? Retreating afterwards. At least stand for your own damn opinion if you wanted to make it.

>>7272
He deleted it soon after that screenshot was taken.

>>7273
That's kind of hilarious. Thanks for the post.

voidchan

On R34, the featured image right now is a photo-shopped picture of a young queen Elizabeth's face on a nude, buxom woman in a kneeling position.

Here are some comments I picked. While I expected ambivalence, I was surprised that some have a strongly negative opinion of her. In any case, I find the reactions of people in this very particular, unusual context to be interesting.

>>7343
I'm fascinated that people have any opinion at all. I mean at this point I expect normals to basically take up the topic du jour and beat it to a pulp, but as far as I understand (which is minimal considering I don't live there) the queen was just a figurehead who looked fancy sipping tea and had zero influence on any policy. So it makes no sense to mourn (or exalt) the passing of someone who's entire presence was basically just a no-op in terms of influence on the average person's life. I can at least appreciate the passing of someone who has contributed meaningfully in a unique way to art or math, because their contributions are not fungible: if a manga artist hadn't been there, it's unlikely that particular series would have ever existed; but if the queen hadn't been there, another person would have taken her place.

>>7344
I talked about it with someone who does live there and has a negative opinion on the whole royal system. They resent its use of tax dollars, and certain members' involvement with shady people and groups. Epstein, Free Masons, stuff like that. William apparently also has some skeletons in the closet that have been totally covered up.

To give the Queen credit, her way of conducting herself was smart and must have taken quite a bit of resolve. In the hands of a less competent person, the system very well could have collapsed. Maybe that will even happen with Charles as king.

Culturally, I kind of get it. There's some religious aspect to it, and I would consider her role similar to that of Japan's emperor.

Post edited on 9th Sep 2022, 3:40pm

>>7343
Some people are just horrible and there are quite a few conspiracy theories about her.
It's also based on politics I would say, those on the far left hating her for being a monarch and those on the far right hating her for representing a system that is failing them even if she is not the cause of it.

>>7344
She does do nothing, but she is a symbol and something we all grew up with.

>>7345
I think she probably gives more back the the English economy than she takes. In the same way that France has an image of romance and sophistication, Britain has an image of royalty and things that are old and that is based around the fact that they have a monarchy. In the same way the image France has attracts millions of tourists a year, I would say the image Britain has would do the same, particularly amongst Asian tourists.

This conversation I had resonated with me. 66749 was my first post. As usual, people don't have a proper response to the truth.

>>7356
I replied to your post on lainchan, since my post is pretty long and I didn't want to derail the thread

Adding to the growing collection of TC mentions screencaps.

>>7379
Always had the impression uboachan has more users, but I stopped going there regularly years ago.

>>7380
I don't know. That place always seemed dead to me. Maybe that's because it has too many boards.

>>7381
Every time I tried to go on there it was always spammed with images. (Not spam in the "spam" sense, but more like a bunch of posts with only images attached and no text. There was no actual discussion to be found.)

Very suspicious.

>>7386

>>7387
That's almost 2 decades past now though. It really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that basically every federal agency and state-police has direct access to posts and IPs of every user.

>>7388
So why haven't people moved on?

i needed to look at it twice initially as well

>>7252
It goes on and on.

>>7432
How things change...

>>7432
>>7433
You can tell the admin did not fare well in the intervening years. Makes me appreciate all the more the stability of tohno even as he goes through his rough patches. This board has held up very well.

>>7433
While going down the list, the new rules seemed reasonable until about half way down, which is when I thought to myself "oh boy, here we go..."

>>7432
>>7433
It honestly makes me sad to see, I used it quite a lot in the early 2010s. I don't remember when, but I ditched both Uboa and Sushi years ago. Although old Sushi wasn't owned by Sei.

>>7434
TC is the only place I know that withstood time. It makes me worried that there is no other site left I enjoy, but at the same time I am very grateful for TC and those who maintain it and impressed by their work.

>>7435
2016 really opened the floodgates and swept away almost everything. Nothing like the occasional flood that occured earlier, where either only one thing went under or took a hit but was build durable enough to take it.

>>7433
It's funny I remember talking about the decline of Uboa on a different thread offsite and everyone was just blind to it. On Uboa itself they even do historic revisionism saying "we [trans users] were always here first". I suppose the decline makes sense, it was frequently advertised on Tumblr early on. It was bound to happen.
>>7434
I really admire the resilience of both Tohno and TC. Even when he's at his lowest, I hope he remembers that people here appreciate him.

>>7437
We should have a tohno appreciation day (nanchatte). Likewise I really do appreciate having this forum for discourse. I don't know anything about Tohno himself as a person; I don't know what his mental state is, or if he ha e.g. ever posted in the /so/ anime girl for your thoughts thread. But I do know that maintaining this forum against tides of time must require a lot of patience and fortitude, and I will assume those qualities reflect on Tohno himself as well.

>>7436
I actually only posted there from late 2016 to early 2019. At the time I was an underage highschooler. Many of my posts were dumb and annoying, but I made a lot of them. If you look at /ot/'s catalog, at least a third of those threads were made by me. So I like to think I didn't contribute to its decline.

sei was always an inattentive admin, and all the mods had moved onto their official discord, which had siphoned off the majority of activity. So whenever there was a flamewar or something, it took forever for anything to be done about it. In 2018, he started begging for hosting money. Uboachan even went down a few times. This is despite a friend of his already offering to pay for hosting. Regardless of his mental health issues, I think this is unforgivable.

I finally left after a rule change was made I disagreed with. It came from the staff, the very same who abandoned ship as you can see here >>7273
In retrospect it was petty, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

>>7437
>it was frequently advertised on Tumblr early on
I figured he proactively advertised it in places like that.

Post edited on 23rd Nov 2024, 1:15pm

>>7437
> It's funny I remember talking about the decline of Uboa on a different thread offsite and everyone was just blind to it.
I made the horrible experience that a lot of people don't even know how it was in the past and therefore have no idea what you are talking about.

> On Uboa itself they even do historic revisionism saying "we [trans users] were always here first"
History is something I love. Be it Internet History or not, if I see something like this I wish I had a Death Note.

> I suppose the decline makes sense, it was frequently advertised on Tumblr early on.
Advertising imageboards is an awful idea. Find it on your own, at most word-of-mouth. Even when you look up a list of them you have at least to know what an imageboard is and it implies you know the basics of them.

> I really admire the resilience of both Tohno and TC. Even when he's at his lowest
Tohno cares about TC. Unlike for example Sei, who pushes his ideology. Even worse is that he tainted Sushi with it, something he snatched from a previous owner and perverted it.

>>7438
> forum
Nigger please.

>>7439
> and all the mods had moved onto their official discord
Already hated IRC for that and Discord made it even worse. Maybe I am alone with that, but I think all activity should go to the board and an imageboard should not have anything affiliating with it.

I appreciate the kind words, but again I feel like I don't deserve it. I don't do nearly as much for the site and community as I could (but should have some more free time now that I'm going back to being a NEET again). I've had help along the way from people who I feel don't get enough credit. Most of the bans or deleted garbage you see is probably thanks to them.

I do have to say though, I'll never understand admins/owners who beg for money and keep their sites hostage in the process. TC is a home for me as much as it is for anyone else, probably more so. With the increasingly condensed dumbed down corporatized and sanitized landfill that the internet is turning into, floating in a sea of brainrot, It's feels like I'm stranded on an island and it gives me some peace of mind knowing I'm not alone in being alone.
Even when I was flat broke I didn't have much trouble paying for this. Then I see stuff like >>7439 with "$4 needed by the 9th to keep the boards running." What the fug is this? Who can't pay $4 for their own site?
You know the only reason I haven't already paid off our servers for decades in advanced (so the site can go on without me) is because people keep recommending we change servers, which is something I try to keep in mind.

>>7438
>the /so/ anime girl for your thoughts thread.
If you mean the post cute anime girls thread, yeah a few times...
If you ever want to talk, I'm chronically on our IRC channel (I have no life) chatting with others about pretty much anything and everything. At the risk of sounding narcissistic, I've also made a number of posts here http://tohno-chan.com/ot/res/33536.html and have taken to making blog like posts on twitter https://twitter.com/Tohno__ It's kinda the only large social platform I've used, and even then it can feel like a chore which is why I'm always so far behind with my posts. I dunno, even with all the artists uploading content to it "something" about using twitter just doesn't feel right to me, maybe it's too normie for me, too social, too mainstream, I don't know.
Hopefully that can paint a bit more complete picture. If you want to know more, we could make a thread on /fb/ for Q&A, maybe something other staff can join in with too, but again I'm always on IRC anyway and can be a bit of an open book. I can understand it can be a bit concerning to know the community you join hinges on it's owner, so I'd like to try and give you guys some peace of mind in that regard if I can.

>>7441
I personally prefer preserving the mystery of it. I feel like if I learned too much about you I probably wouldn't like you (it's not an indictment of you, there's just very few people I would imagine myself getting along with.)

All boards on Channel4 BBS just show this picture. Does this mean it's kill now? Well, I don't know. Posting this for archival purposes.

>>7443
It looks like it's just the links in the sidebar that were changed. Access to the boards still appears to be available via their actual URLs.