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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.

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.

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

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

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.)

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.

Never.

At this point I see pepe as a hate symbol.

Never have, never will.

0 times per year.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

1/lifetime

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

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.

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.

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.

My 4chan days was almost twenty years ago, I am no longer interested in it other than the occasional greentext repost.

Once before gamergate. I didn’t like the sort of people I found there. I wasn’t surprised about the following decade of newsworthy and leaking bad behavior

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

I've never visited 4chan. Everything I've read about it makes me think it's not the webforum for me.

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

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