/jp/ - check pinned thread, please.

mostly spent time 2008-2012 and then switched to spin-off. took long breaks after the spin-off went to shit and started falling apart. basically quit /jp/ related stuff in the last couple years. it was fun, but i didn't get much out of it while i spent too much time on it as well. the posters who made it special disappeared. probably killing themselves mostly and what's left is a husk. there's still posters left who i wish well, but /jp/ stuff got infested with loonies so what could've been a good community got shattered. that rene descartes quote about communities getting their laugh by pretending to be idiots seemed so cliche, but god was it spot on. painfully spot on.

/jp/ is my only sore spot. i had too much goodwill and overlooked too many glaring issues. when i finally noticed that the /jp/ spin-off were burned down rubble and and the cute image of awkward /jp/sie i was projecting was wrong it hit me hard. kinda felt like you're at a cute tea party, but then suddenly there's roach inside the tea and you pause blinking, but then suddenly everything turns into a horror show around you.

/jp/ itself improved, but i feel disconnected after realizing the cute tea party was actually a freak show. you never know when you're going to be replying to some frogposting subhuman from /b/

>>36770

I've noticed the same thing happen in my own circles. Only this time, everyone is gay.

It's the only kind of social interaction I have.

>>36783

I want to go back. /jp/ lets fund a time machine.

>>36790

Who should we ask for? Sakuya or Sanae?

Sakuya can manipulate time, but Sanae can get miracles....

I have no regrets, I'm pretty happy about how my life is right now and if it wasn't for /jp/ I wouldn't be here now

>>36783

I think I understand what you mean. Back when I was a child the internet was a little paralel world where the possibilities are endless and where all kind of people could live peacefully together.

Now the internet has been infested by normal people, it's just another thing that caters to them at every turn. Really goes to show that anything that becomes popular will turn to shit eventually

>>36770

Hey, I agree with your point (that /jp/ has been invaded by outsiders), but you're being unfair here. Chances are you have seen a lot of posts that made you think "damn, this is a good post", but they were actually made by frogposters. Sure, a lot of frogposters are normies, but don't forget that Pepe is 4chan culture and its existence preceeds the creation of /jp/. Don't judge /jp/sies just because they didn't get here through the same dank memes as you.

i dont have a single regret in my life

in fact, i would not be the same person today had i not found out about 4chan all those years ago.

but the magic is gone

>>36910

But it wasn't dank memes that brought me to /jp/. It was moving beyond chinese girl cartoons to fapping to dolls. The problem with new arrivals is that /jp/ isn't really a thing that ought to still exist, the people who are now what we were then are welcome company on /a/ these days, so we're basically just holdouts from a time since passed, which naturally can't be all that accommodating of new arrivals.

This is probably why the spinoffs that are shitposting general get wave after wave of new blood, as the boards that try to relive the past generally stagnate after the initial surge. The wandering /jp/sie diaspora keeps us alive as anons come and go from place to place, but those numbers shrink with every passing year, and in another decade or so all that will remain will be cargocultists and the archives they study as gospel.

>>36764

What else would I have done? Not like my other interests were more productive.

Imageboards gave me a sense of community when irl was like a Kafka novel.

>>36783

I don't feel the latter, but yes. We are seeing monopolies kill sites. It's sad when you stumble on old comfy forum graveyards. You see communities, people who know eachother and the last post is from 200X, the donation bar unfilled and you wonder what killed it. Then you remember the big sites like Reddit and now 4chan. It's sad, especially when you arrive after it died and it seemed so comfy.

But it's consistent with everything else getting worse.

>>36929

>cargocultists

That was a nice documentary, and good choice of words, too. Made me think about my studying BBS culture

If I fuck /jp/, am I considered a pedophile?

>>36764

I am in the exact same situation I was in 10 years ago, except it's not considered acceptable for my age group anymore.

I don't regret anything except my inability to stop the end of the Internet as it was.

The thread for /jp/'s 9th birthday is still up.

>>37629

No. Anything I wish for doesn't come true. It's better not to wish and instead focus on trying your best.

>>37629

So is today the exact birthday of /jp/?

>>37634

I cropped this image and turned it into a reactionimage.

It makes me happy everytime it's posted

I doubt there are many people here who have been on the /jp/ for ten years.

>>37641

You are not a girl.

Someone linked me the 4/jp/ equivalent of this thread and it made me feel sad.

I'm almost tempted to make an angry rant post over there, but what's the point?

>>37665

How will they know you're angry if you don't tell them?

Maybe meet them half way and tell /ghost/.

>>37665

What were you going to rant about? 4/jp/ going to shit?

>>37681

First of all I would have called every single person in that thread and on 4/jp/ a mouthbreating protonormie for still being on that godforsaken policestate shithole.

And then I would have gone with the flow.

>>37682

>normie

You should go back there or to whatever shithole you came from.

The 4/jp/ thread is full of people who have suddenly been there for ten years while the board is humongous trash. How does one explain this?

>>37690

Timetravel.

>>37690

Pretend oldfags, besides 4/jp/ was pretty much always /a/'s containment board

>>37682

Might as well do it now that the thread hit bump limit and will fall off the board eventually.

>>37701

Guess my chance to pass on my divine judgement is gone.

Now I will never get it off my chest.

Just kidding, the next metathread will surely come

>>37703

Considering how many times 4/jp/ complains about the idol/jav/monster threads, another one should be up soon.

>>37704

But is it really worth it to visit 4/jp/ still just to complain about it?

Seems kind of silly.

>>37705

Not really, meta discussion on 4/jp/ is tends to be ignored by hotpockets anyways.

>>37817

That's not the point.

No one cares about their opinion.

They don't care about /jp/.

However, if my anger could reach some poor innocent anon who wants to escape that hellhole would it be worth it then?

>>36929

>>36770

Really, really good posts. Or maybe I'm only agreeing because I too moved on. I don't know.

>>41699

Im not sure whether I have or not but I agree.

Though the second half of their first post(second linked) is foolish.

>>36929

I honestly feel like that cargocultist from time to time.

My first interaction with /jp/, or 4ch for that matter, was around the latter half of 2012 due to my interest in anime and Japanese subculture as a whole. I kept the rule of "lurk before you post" to heart as my motto and just spent my days reading posts of others, bookmarking things I saw that interested me, such as shows, games and visual novels I hadn't heard of before and kept on going. Where most people were in their 20s and over, I was a brat finishing middle school just having his eyes sparkle over something others did instead of trying to do something similar for myself.

While everyone moved on, either to spin-off boards or entirely, I continued on with nothing but a slight sense that something doesn't feel the same. What made it worse was that I never dedicated myself to 'catching up' to what I considered my goal and group of people I adored. I simply switched between sparkling my eyes at people that were what I considered as 'far beyond me' due to that age gap that I could never catch up to and having fun with teenagers close to my age.

After I noticed that nothing seemed right anymore a few years later and the space I adored was no longer there, only then did I start searching for where those people went, while picking faults at both the differences in the places I found and at myself.Afterwards I instead distanced myself entirely and just collected otokei doujin music from kuukunen and all that while occasionally buying imports of favorite albums, studied for university, played video games to fill some free time and continued to talk with those similarly aged friends I've known since back then.

All in all, even if I had a time machine, I would not decide to go back to those days to 'redo' anything. Even if that mental wall was something I forced upon myself and all I required at that time was a bit of courage, even if that half-assed effort to infodump myself could be done properly to feel like I'm in the same standing. Through those wrong or right actions, I met a very small handful of friends I treasure beyond everything else and even a friend that's identical to me from likes,dislikes and habits to phobias and metabolism. And honestly in a state where I never felt like I fit into anywhere, having a person that seems like a mirrored image of yourself, just with different experiences was lifesaving for me. I only ever managed to meet them out of coincidences that happened due to that half-assed lifestyle, so I can never accept changing that, even if all the actions I took in regards to my aspirations were horribly wrong.

It's more of trying to take a load off my chest by writing this than anything. Even if things could've been worse, when I look back to things I admired while knowing that I could've been part of that with just a bit more effort instead of being a bystander, I can't stop getting sad at myself. I don't fully share the sentiment of all of you that have warm memories of those times as an active participant, so I can't say that I understand you as one of you, but instead I know that looking back at something bright while having no part in it isn't a pleasant feeling. In the end all I can do is continue to have my back against those times and try to contribute elsewhere to create even this tiny tiny shard of what /jp/ used to be in the space I have created over the years.

I regret being a lurker. Watched everyone live their life while I did nothing with mine.

>>41822

Let this be the start of your bright posting career.

Back then when I was young I looked up to people on 4/jp/ who made awesome, meaningful and unique posts.

Most of them are gone, so we have to step into their footsteps.

>>41844

You from MPC?

>>41844

Seems like too much work at this point with little to no reward.

>>41848

What's MPC?

>>41851

It's now or never. If you don't do it you will sit here again in 5 days and feel the exact same regrets. Also what kind of rewards do you expect? It was never about any reward, it's all about putting a part of your soul out there and inspire people to do the same

Congrats on turning this one into an absolutely disgusting circlejerk that is impenertable to people that actually want to use the Jay. You faggots can't keep your socialization in IRC. This tea party shit is new as fuck and gross and the same identity laden poison as all the rest. I legitamately hate the people on this board and am disgusted at you niggercattle who have set up a gypsy camp here to jerk each other off pretending to care about the banalities you endlessly spew.

Fuck you all for highjacking this board

>>41870

There's only so much you can do with 5 people. I'm trying my best to make meaningful posts that stay true to my personality. Would you rather have me run around and pretend to meet your expectations? That's not something I would want to do.

>>41870

Which faction are you referring to?

>>41870

Leave this shit place anon! Come to 4taba.net/ni/

>>41865

Nevermind, nobody else on /jp/ would know about it.

>>36929

I can't agree with your post. /jp/ content really isn't welcome on 4/a/. Figure (``buyfag'') threads are tolerated, but BJDs wouldn't be if anyone tried to make dedicated threads about them. That already justifies the existence of 4/jp/ for me. As for VNs and Touhou, you've probably got a better chance at having a conversation about them in the abyss of /v/ than on /a/.

>>37637

I witnessed its creation but at the time I was a /b/tard and didn't care about /jp/ stuff.

>>41870

I, too, hate identities and pretending to care about each other. You are indeed not wrong there.