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Never

Literally never in my life

I haven't been on 4chan since like 2011

Zero times. If it’s worth looking at it’ll make its way eventually to another platform that’s less of an ass fissure

Like once a year or something.

Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.

Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn't expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.

Absolutely never.

Why would I want to lower my faith in humanity more?

I haven't been on 4chan in over 20 years since I saw a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel.

That place is a cesspool.

4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.

Never have, never will.

I used 4chan daily from 2005 to around 2013. It just doesn't have the vibe it used to, or maybe I'm just getting old.

Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it's actually decent-ish to talk about games.

I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:

Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don't... really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)

0 times per year.

Never.

At this point I see pepe as a hate symbol.

I used to when I was in my teens, when 4chan wasn't as "well known" by so many people. It was definitely wild then. Now I don't really have the desire to browse there or anywhere else besides Lemmy

Sometimes I remember it exists and is vaguely legit to visit, and that there are other sections besides /b. I think maybe I go there for about an hour once a year.

5 years ago? Some people have something funny to say but it's not worth groveling through the hundreds of bot comments to find it.

None. I will never touch anything *chan

2chan, 4chan, 5chan, and the other number I won't even mention cuz I actually saw something very traumatizing there.

been decades around when moot left and 4chan was hentai pics.

0 times a year. I used to lurk on Something Awful and Fark back in the day but I never liked 4chan.

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised 4chan is the one still around but I guess the non-religious kids who are the future of the Republican Party need somewhere to hang out.

The interface sucks. Never

I haven't been there, I only see screenshots here and there, and the occasional YouTube video detailing their shenanigans

Maybe once a year to remind myself I'm not a complete twat.

Not much anymore. /diy/ is still good for some of my weirder technical questions, but the rest of the boards are in the gutter. /b/, which used to be good for a Friday-night laugh, is nothing but transphobic-trans worship posts or loli threads.

I mean a long time ago, like 15 years ago, before I really found reddit, I went on there pretty often.

Never. I only look at the funny greentext highlights and I don't want to hunt for those.

Maybe once in the last 5-10 years to look up something specific... so basically never.

I have never visited the hacker known as 4chan, I hear he's a gross neckbeard who never showers.

I looked at it for the first time a few weeks ago to see what all the fuss is about. Terrible user interface and the content wasn’t very interesting. No reason to go back again.

Maybe once a week. Their torrent board /t/ occasionally has some neat stuff but sporadically when browsing different boards like /v/ I'll hear some news about a niche topic I'm into.

For example last time it was that a Youtuber I follow named MittenSquad died. Had no idea.

Rarely. Not more than once a month, and then I remember why I outgrew it.

Too much...

Daily, watching the advances of ai porn generation techniques and tools. The deep fakes trend didn't spontaneously emerge from a vacuum, and ai generation of gif/videos from a single text prompt is in the 'dreaming' stage. I give it 6 months before you will be able to have a coherent scene of 10 seconds of ai gif or video based on a single prompt with minimal editing.

4chan is the best place I've found to watch this that isn't trying to sell me something or over sensationalize it.

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