Why Are You Here?

Hey Cred Forums been here since I was in middleschool,

Thought I'd ask how long your tenure has lasted and why you still come to these boards.

5 years, I'm here for the porn threads.

I've been here since ~2006 but I had been reading about Cred Forums before that on ED. I was just too scared to come here before that. Now I mostly come out of habit. But every once in a while there's a thread that rekindles why I started coming here in the first place.

It probably isn't worth coming here any more, but where else would I go? I grew up on this site. How could I just abandon it.

Because in spite of everything, I still feel the completely unabashed irrational honesty refreshing.

jaded cynicism regards video games, plus you people are the only ones who'll listen or understand, as sad as that reads

No joke I visited Cred Forums for the first time about 9 months after it was created. WT Snacks was still an active mod in those days and no one knew what moot looked like and we wouldn't know for years to come because he was an underaged kid hiding his identity. The server was down more often than it was up and there were constantly begging drives for money to pay the meager server bills because moot was unemployed and everyone was a kid without a job. It was new, interesting and funny back then. Mods actively and openly participated in threads and meme was a word no one knew yet. The biggest achievement of Cred Forums in those days was making those stupid talking owl pics. Cred Forums came later. It wasn't a starter board. In the early days of Cred Forums we were watching the beginning of the new gen of PS3 and Xbox 360. PS4 has no games was our motto.

I am undergoing a similar experience though I really only started frequenting in 2008

this is another large part of it

i imagine a lot of board frequenters are the same way

Honestly I feel the same way, any 'new' itteration of these boards would be false and would attract the wrong flock.

2012
nowhere else to go

I feel you.

about 10 years

heres the challange. estimate your daily average time spent here, and times it by 365, then by years.

now consider that 600 hours is long enough to decently learn a beginner tier language, how many languages would you know now?

Been here since 2008. The threads have always been the same shit, only the video games, if applicable, differ.
I still feel it's the best spot on the Internet to talk about video games and get some honest opinions.

As shitty and retarded as this board is, and as shittier and retardeder as it keeps getting, I guess I've developed a taste for eating retarded shit, because everywhere else I go, the speech and the behaviors of people talking about video games is worse than the most retarded shit.

I don't know how it got this way but it is unsettling.

I know the lingo of the internet, tossed it aside now develop my linguistics.

We all basically have stockholm syndrome for being here so long. Or battered wife syndrome. Not sure which is more fitting.

Maybe, Munchhausen

>5, going on 6 yrs
>2 hrs almost daily
>2 x 5 x 365= 3,650 hrs wasted
Fug

How the fuck do you only spend 2 hours a day here

Started my shitposting regiment back when I was 14. Shit was posted on a forum called ebaumsworldsucks

Ten years later I still wonder where it all went wrong.
With my life.
With Cred Forums.
It's really true though, you're here forever.

My homepage is Cred Forums, Everytime I boot up my computer - steam, battle.net and Cred Forums open and the ride to hell begins

That's what I'm saying. And you *only* spend 2 hours a day here? If only I could be so productive.

>work
>college/tax courses
>fiance
I may be a shit, but im a busy shit. I'll always find time in my day for some Cred Forums shitposting tho

When this site eventually goes down, where do you go? Another chan or actually try to get out of this endless hell

I think I can finally move on with my life when its over

Where else is there? I think a lot of the old chans either shut down or are basically dead. But I guess I'd check around and see where the biggest influx went to find you guys again.

That's my reason too, being anonymous brings out the honesty in people since they're not afraid of repercussion. I fucking hate interacting with people in real life or even forums, it's all a fake circle jerk to make them look good while talking shit behind your back and if you disagree with someones opinion they always take it as a personal attack to their integrity. I fucking hate being honest to a fault since I always get fucked over while the liars and opportunists take the credit.

>I'm a normie and I actually have a life unlike you I can't be browsing this board all day

Came here in 2010
Pretty much what said
is what I've been and going through.
Cred Forums, from what I've experienced, seems to be at it's BEST during E3 and some occasional fun shitpoating when everyon's in on it. However I still keep coming here when there's nothing that catches my eye anymore.
If I had friends I'd be less inclined to wasting my entire day on here.

Its gonna be weird when gook moot eventually fucks up and implodes the site. Most of the other chans are dead or beyond repair. I checked out cripplechan recently after like 2 yrs of swearing off that site and jesus christ those mouth breathers are a joke. Maybe 7chan is somewhat active. Remember them having good porn

No, I'm OP, I replied saying how much time I soend here measured in my dedication and daily grind of shit posting, I don't counthow long I spend here but I do know its about half my leisure time.

>try going anywhere else
>just get disappointed everytime

it's just a matter of going where i'm going to be disappointed in people the least

at least here a laugh or two aren't bannable offenses, and nobody's going to bother adopting pretenses for anything other than shits and giggles.

I go anywhere else and it's all just lies and social pressure and reputations, nonsense and reacharounds and rank nepotism.

i can tolerate all the bullshit here because at least it's honest, if that makes any sense

Not as active as you think. Still find myself louging around and wasting time on junk. But when you pass your mid 20s life catches up to you and its a really fucking bitch

Came to Cred Forums in 2010. Spent 2011-2014 in Cred Forums then that went to shit. 2014-2016 on Cred Forums because I enjoy vidya enough to talk about it but not so into it that it angers me when others are plebs. I also go on /an/, /so/, and /his/ once in a while.

*Cred Forums
Not /so/

I'm really surprised 7chan is still active

Came here in 2007 as Gurren Lagann was airing. Back in the days when it was still okay to be someone who browsed both Cred Forums and Cred Forums.

>Cred Forums somehow manages to be the best board, even in its neutered state

Like i said, the porn can be pretty good. That and from what i remember they were a pretty chill group. Like us, but a lot like vicious and foaming at the mouth with memes

Meanwhile Cred Forums fell for the caring about what the government or media says meme

Want to say it's interesting going back and looking at old japanese fanart circa the 00s and seeing just how much it's changed in 10 years. Aside from being higher res and not having compression artifacts it's way more sexualized than it used to be

2009 after finding out on ED what Cred Forums was, I come and go every 2 years or so. pic related is literally the earliest thing I remember from this site.

But porn isn't "good" its quality, porn is immoral not amoral, And I jack off as son as I have my cup of coffee. This is coming from someone who Knows porn is bad news bears. Just ween of the shit. Go run.

>mfw you can have a more civil discussion about Jojo on Cred Forums than on Cred Forums

Itty bittty baby? Itty bitty boat!

I DON'T BELIEVE IT

Cred Forums is full of ego and exempt of personality.

>heres the challange. estimate your daily average time spent here, and times it by 365, then by years.

Jesus christ I need to get the fuck out of here

HABEEB IT

Been on Cred Forums since 2005. Never really came to Cred Forums until this year after I was finally able to buy a high end gaming PC. It's not as shitty as the rest of the site says this place is.

I've been trying to browse NeoGAF the past couple weeks just to see if I could transition to somewhere else but I'm getting pretty irritated by them.
>thread about Mang0's wife whining on twitter about how he's abusive and posts some pic of an "injury" without saying what body part
>no other information or proof given
>NeoGAF jumps to a conclusion right away
>"WEEEEWWW fuck Mang0"
>"WHAT AN ASSHOOOOOOLE"
Not saying he couldn't have done it, but the way most of them jump to a conclusion is just stupid.

TWINKIE HOUSE

Why even fo the math user, just take the feeling you got, the haunting, and crush it into something worthy of your body, the temple. Condense everything and everyone you've learned not to do and be from this sewer and rise above my friend. Cred Forums is a mirror.

...

I'd post the picture with that tall haired faggot but I'm at the bar, how far I've come.

I got a girl user so I'll be fine. Even if i didn't, it really wouldn't change much. That being said, porn/sex is still a major selling point in literally anything

06 or so. When I can get my disc drive working or my external HDD cord I'll be able to access some ancient backups with vintage memes. The oldest non mainstream (shoop da woop and brian peppers and all that other shit that I'm not sure if it was YTMND or Cred Forums) I remember is "I'm Freddy Francesco, I'm rich enough to buy a PS3 and 1 game - are you?".

Came from a hentai forum. Hentai Shrine or Hentai Paradise, I think.

Find me a better community. Leddit might work for smaller subcommunities but the upvote system is godawful horseshit. What said.

This is not the pastoral or nomadic bronze age of the internet where you went from forum to forum. In this present day and age of social media you largely stay on one or more places with once and awhile a new one added to the mix.

Would I rather be stuck on Cred Forums forever or facebook, reddit, imgur, instagram, pinterest?

And hell this is current-year.jpg, even the normies are stuck on the internet forever.

Might be boards develop a kind of puritanical streak to whatever tastes or niche is dominant. Not sure how to pontificate it, I just know I don't want to discuss history on /his/ but I like discussing it on /tg/ or Cred Forums. I don't want to discuss anime on Cred Forums but I do on Cred Forums or /tg/, and I don't want to discuss vidya on Cred Forums but rather on /tg/.

I migrate to different boards every couple years or so. Cred Forums was my last stomping ground until the general threads got obnoxious to the point where a thread in English wasn't on page 1.

True. When we jump to conclusions, its always to the extremes first. We've come to know never to believe anything posted here. Is cynicism at its finest, but it works 9 out of 10 times. Plus it gives us fuel to fuck with others so that's a plus

I've been here since around my HS graduation year (2006). Just randomly heard about the site through classmates and decided to visit.

I find fewer reasons each day to visit Cred Forums since I noticed it's mostly younger anons and the threads are typically shit. Seems like nobody lurks and OC is at an all-time low with people putting in minimal effort, just editing existing shitty memes and forcing them hard.

Still, there are those rare good threads every now and then. Probably the reason why I still visit.

i remember brian peppers from ytmnd before i knew what chrono trigger or Cred Forums was

I don't know how long i've been here.

I think i remember puddi puddi puddi being a thing.

What i do know is that i on average spend around 12 hours a day on Cred Forums.

I have no friends and nothing else to do in my spare time.

Been here since 2008. No regrets. I learned a LOT from all boards.

Then why use porn as a dopamine crutch when you have another human being to experience pleasure with? To me, it's depressing. When I am spending time with someone I care about I always feel an intense sense of warmth and love.

I too have learned, but here on the internet, I feel it's what you take away not what you give that helps in the long run, This place has taught me more about humanity more than any textbook has.

>why watch a sport when you can play it?
>why eat a hamburger when you can have a perfectly good steak?
>why spend your time in Cred Forums when you can use it to be productive?
Just because you can do one thing, doesnt make the 2nd option any less viable. If you don't like porn, thats fine. If you do, thats fine also

Been here since mid 07 when my Middle School history teacher mentioned Cred Forums accidentally. I googled it, and, now, here I am.

>Middle School history teacher mentioned Cred Forums accidentally

Whatever makes you feel good, user.
I'm not one to judge, only the OP trying to have some conversation. My only point is pornography is a substitute for self love and love from others.

One for the memory logs. Love this linda of shit.

Came here around '08 when console wars shit was taking off. I couldn't believe the huge amount of discussion, the first new threads I made got bumped to page 5 in minutes. Before that, I was mostly fucking around Maplestory forums that averaged like 10 posts an hour

Used to come for the cool original content and fun(yes, there was a time 4chin wasn't just shitposting and memes). Then came for the false sense of camaraderie. Now I just do it out of habit. And /d/.

I have a siteblocker for all chansites that I keep up usually, but every few months I relapse and spend a few days here

Hope you faggots move on someday, and I hope I move on too

I have been here since 2004, there's no way out.

THERE'S NO WAY OUT

I think it's at least 10,000 hours over 4 years.

My hard drive that I've been using for 4 years has 25,000 on it, and the other 15,000 was probably movies/anime/vidya/youtube/other sites/didn't shut down computer

I was full time NEET for half of that time, and now I'm barely a part time student. 70% of my life has been on the computer the past 4 years I think.

Used /gif/ for porn. Was just googling for porn and stumbled upon /gif/. Thought it was a god send as I could just browse through and find random shit to jack off too. Then a few weeks later I saw there was also a video games and weapons board. Been maining both ever since. Been almost a decade now.

K
>In History class
>One student who's name leaves me is acting like a little shit
>teacher responds with this (word for word)
>Shut up and go back to Cred Forums's Cred Forums board.
After he said that, I could see the shock on his face.

It's been pretty helpful in developing a thick skin, an appreciation of how to deal with trolls and shitposting, and the desensitization I guess cuts both ways. I remember seeing a beheading video back in 04-06 from Iraq and it fucked me up watching it.

Now I'm pretty sure I've lazily passed through /wsg/ threads or /k/ threads with Mexican cartel beheadings either in a break between casual fapping or before I do it with no shake to my resolve.

That's not meant in an edgelord way as I am sure seeing it IRL would be a different kettle of fish. And can I say that desensitizing is for the better? I don't know.

>Came here around '08 when console wars shit was taking off.

I would give it all to have us return to the vitriolic bullshit of the console wars over SJWs, feminism, nu-males, cucks, all that shit.

What the fuck is a tenure, will you westerners stop ruining the English language

While it can pay to dwell on that you have to remember that 90% of people will be 'shitposting' in wasting their time on some trivial pursuit for pleasure and boredom. It's not as if you are the only one fiddling away time. They are just doing it on facebook, instagram, pinterest, imgur, reddit, on little cellphone games or snapchat (Though that can have you socializing with Friends which is a bit more rewarding than anonymous Singaporean water-doll affictionatos)

Kill yourself. If you don't like the way I type then go post in the daily milkies thread you overdone slice of fish.

A period during which something is held.
The status of holding one's position on a permanent basis without periodic contract renewals, there faggot, I googled it for you.

Do you honestly want to know why? Alright, I'll respond to a completely trash thread for once.

I come to Cred Forums and Cred Forums for a few reasons, mainly because I'm anonymous here, and the rules are pretty great when they're properly enforced. But I also come here to see the countless morons who spew stupid shit everywhere you go. The console wars, the arguments over nothing, the porn threads, I don't do that. It's not fun, and extremely juvenile. I'm not the best person, but I'm certainly not bad enough to really fit in with the retards here. I come to Cred Forums to feel better about myself. I come to Cred Forums to look at retards so I can say one thing:

I'm a better person than you.

So many of you are unbelievably shitty, horrible and genuinely stupid people. I can't help but look and continue to feel better about myself.

Some of you are alright.

If some of us are alright why would you respond to a shit thread? Are you shit too?

2005.

I don't even play video games any more.

I browse Cred Forums as a terrible means of procrastination.

Better than checking jewbook, am I right?

It probably is, and I mean that sincerely.

I do both user.

help me.

Fuck, Help me first, lol. Im sitting alone at the bar waiting on replies to talk to strangers.

Started on anime IRC channels. Started on Cred Forums during the huge shonen craze, and drifted between boards until the huge purge from Cred Forums. Since I already played videogames I could relate to this board.

I'm disgusted with how fake other videogame discussion sites are, and scared of how they are becoming used more and more as an opinion-less marketing tool.

Cred Forums is the meta shill board where the successful brain slugs embue the posts of today with drivel.

Things get shilled on Cred Forums literally everyday.

Then go buy destiny uts ur dezteknee

There's a few reasons I still come here
>anonymity means people can post whatever opinion they want
>format similar to a forum, but as instant as IRC
>if there's a good thread I do enjoy having discussion with you
Other than that, It's probably the only online community where I've felt I was able to fit in, I could never really get into forums.

>I could never really get into forums.
the only forum I frequent is based in the UK. It's pretty comfy but like most forums nowadays, slow.