>>46199Pretty much this. The "4chan was never good" meme does have some truth to it, but it does have its moments and can be super entertaining.
One thing that I've noticed that has changed though is it isn't as... shocking. Like the content on lesser known boards has gotten "better" in some ways, but that's sort of killed the randomness on some of the other boards. Now that stuff like s4s, soc, etc exist, the random bullshittery that lead to some of the more epic threads has been split. Not that the potential doesn't still exist, just that it isn't as concentrated as before... and I'm not 100% sold on whether that is a good or bad thing. The same has come with the huge number of copy-cat sites and them young whipper snappers moving on to them newfangled meme posting places that has diluted the influence of this place in particular.
4chan is kind of like the famous basement bar for locals that went main stream over time. Now it's chocked full of tourists, other bars are trying to copy its success, and the original charm (just how fucked up the users were) has somewhat gone.
This is still a place on the internet for people to fuck around and laugh at the horrible things in the world before having to deal with the bullshit of offline responsibilities. I could get on here all the time in high school and college, but now that I have a real job and shit that actually pays me to be productive... well the real life grind is real whether we like it or not. That doesn't mean we have anything less to laugh about with our fellow anons, just that finally we're getting paid enough to put up with the bullshit (inb4 everyone is a NEET, the basement dwelling btard was a fucking joke we embraced but SOME PEOPLE took it too seriously).
I doubt we'll ever relive the Habbo hotel raids or Old /b/ or the Puddi Puddi invasion, but one can dream. Just remember:
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH.
