How the chan culture died#

Spoiler: It was the Gen-Z nazis

You might say that I don't know much about the very original chan culture either, and you would be partially correct. I don't know what 4chan was like in 2003. I have come across 4chan for the first time in 2006. My memories of that time are a little bit hazy, because I didn't pay attention to that website too much at that time. It was just an another anime and hentai website to me.

My interest in 4chan has peaked in 2008 when I've read a lot about it on various web forums. I remember many people mentioning its "crazy community". That made me more interested and I have truly started to lurk properly and become a regular visitor there. I was pretty fascinated by its culture and so I have began to read lots and lots about its long history from various sources all over the internet. So yeah, I'm definitely no "originalfag", but I think that I have been there long enough to confirm that it culture has changed drastically recently.

From what I can tell, its culture has evolved less between the years 2003 to 2008 than between the years 2008 to 2019. Actually I'm quite sure that this big change lately took place between 2011 and 2015. And I should definitely not call it "evolved". It was not an evolution. The old imageboard culture has been completely replaced by a new one. It was a total and (I believe) somewhat forced replacement. The imageboard culture was replaced by stormfag culture. The chan culture died and stormfag culture took its place.

And the worst thing is that current chan users don't even know there have been a different chan culture before this one and consider their inferior new culture to be the original chan culture. They would not even believe you if you tried to convince them otherwise.

It was a genocide. A generation genocide. They didn't just replace our culture, they replaced us. And even more than that - they erased us from the pages of history. Quite fitting for stormfags.

As the newfags moved in, the oldfags have moved out. The true oldfags have moved to many different places on the web and mostly abandoned the imageboards. That emptied the place for the influx of even more newfags to take over the chans and crown themselves "oldfags" instead. But they are not oldfags. Most of them were about 10 years old in 2008, some even younger. Hell, some of them are even younger than the website itself.

And how exactly is the original chan culture different from the current one you ask? Well, it's many individual things, but also the overall atmosphere there was different. The old culture was definitely more nihilistic, while the current one is full of stormfag nazi nonsense. The old generation was also definitely way more creative, inventive and fun. The current generation is far less fun. The only thing the current generation can think of is politics. If you removed all politics from their brain, they would be completely empty. The old generation was more anarchy loving - not in political sense, but in the "let's cause mayhem just because we can" sense. They loved chaos and destruction for the sake of fun. That's what the whole chan thing was all about to them - the opportunity to be creative, inventive, random and fun. The current generation is not like that. They don't cause mayhem for the sake of fun and randomness, they do it to achieve their political goals. And that is something the old generation would frown upon, because we knew that political ideals destroy the fun.

But the current generation is so absorbed into politics and knows little of fun that it would not be even possible to explain this to them. They don't even want to make their own fun, they expect the fun to be delivered to them in a box ready to use, like everything. That's why this people will rather pay money for overpriced and oversimplified videogame than to go make their own fun in some creative way. People of this generation completely lost the ability to be creative and want to consume "fun" via visual media in the same way they order pizza. They would not understand my generation. They would not understand that we spent countless hours inventing countless original ways to have fun.

They would not be able to understand our way of thinking. And I can't understand theirs. I don't understand why are they so dull and obsessed by politics. They love to claim that they are the better generation. They always talk bullcrap like "the Generation Z is better than Millennials". And their reasoning? They think that they are better because they have "the right political opinions" and we have the "wrong" one.

Well, let me tell you this Gen Z - You are not better. You are the worse generation. You are not even able to invent your own kind of fun and expect all fun the be delivered to you by corporations and media like some kind of a hamburger. And what's even worse: You can't even communicate your ideas in any other way than by using memes created by somebody else. Without your memes and infographics, you would not even be able to express your opinions. You know that you would sound like a bunch of retards if you had to write something original by yourselves. This demonstrates how simpleminded your generation is. You are an inferior generation.