Question to Veteran Yas Forums Users

From what year have you been using Yas Forums and list the reasons why. You can also tell about how it changed throught the years and which era was the best in your opinion. I'm just a newfag who found about this god forsaken site and especially this board in 2018 and right now I'm accessing it because I'm quarantined and I have nothing better to do.

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I've been here since 2008.

Yas Forums used to be good memes and funny people.

Yas Forums used to be mostly greentext and entirely inhabited by lonely male virgins. It was a nice community because we all faced the same issues.

Over the years, people starting posting rate my cock threads and degenerate stuff, at first it was mostly ironic but over time the repeated exposure actually turned most people gay or at least made them attracted to penises even if not attracted to male bodies. Traps were inevitable, and webms accelerated the process.

Yas Forums became completely dominated by cock threads, interracial race baiting threads, cock lust, traps etc.

It was inevitable that Yas Forums would become full of traps, because so many people here were lonely unmanly men and turning yourself into a woman was easier than living as a man.

Femanons came next because there is no safe male place that they won't invade, no matter how hostile it is to them, women cannot fucking stand men doing anything without them. And the presence of women changes men's behaviour, so instead of being the supportive community of forgotten men, everybody gives femanons attention in every thread and shit on anyone showing weakness.

A lot of stuff that was trolling and bait and funny when I started browsing was slowly morphed into actual extreme beliefs. This is the case for everything mostly. Saying nigger was funny but it was chan culture to be incendiary not actual beliefs. I wasn't around for chanology but I can say with gamergate, the elections, the trandemic, the amount of people that want to have fun on here have been slowly filtered to the point we're the minority.

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I first came on here when I was 7 back in 2008 cause I saw it on the news, I thought it was a really fun site cause all the shit I'd seen on youtube was on this site. I didn't stay for long only like 4 weeks and then went back to youtube. God it really was the golden age of youtube then..

I came back in 2012 and had sort of forgotten the site, used Yas Forums then went to Yas Forums now I browse /his/ and this shit hole. This place is a great fucking time waster btw OP, i've probably wasted so much fucking time here I'd otherwise spend not knowing what to do or actually being productive. Imagine that.

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I started browsing in 2009, on Yas Forums and /x/. At first I was into it because I could say any stupid thing that popped into my teenage brain with zero consequences whatsoever. Over time, though, I came to really appreciate the knowledge that one can gather in an environment such as this. It's not always vetted by an authority, and it's probably bullshit, but it's stuff you'd have a hard time finding elsewhere. I stopped browsing Yas Forums maybe a few months into my time here, but I can say with absolute certainty that /x/ has always been awful (aside, of course, from the aforementioned nuggets of wisdom one can occasionally gleam there). It's also funny as fuck watching shit like Call of Duty go from taboo to something people wax nostalgic over on Yas Forums, or how Yas Forums has Naruto threads. Yas Forums was pretty fun until the "gangbang of whining" thing happened, then people here started taking shit way too seriously. I still come around these parts because I see a lot of posters who remind me of myself when I was younger, and so I try and impart some advice based on the things I had to learn the hard way in my youth.

2007

i was always autistic as fuck and was fascinated by the internet(i was able to use it since i was 8 yo). not to mention i was animufag and boards like Yas Forums was what drawn me to Yas Forums.

early 2000s were super comfy since majority of kids and teenagers weren't able to use internet almost at all. social media was scarce and there were lots of interesting obscure sites and domains made by people who were autistic about their hobbies etc. this was the best era.

in 2010s things started getting more known/explored by normies who had access through shitty laptops and smartphones. the sad downhill.

Sound fascinating...

>2014
>I was committed to hospital for half a year and needed somewhere I could get my pork and banter under one website

I've been used Yas Forums since 2008 and still consider myself a newfag. As for why I mostly come here when I'm bored. That's literally it, it's a good way to pass the time if you're a person that likes to hear other people's thoughts on certain topics and shitpost. That's what 90% of the board boils down to, shitposting about similar interests. Sometimes it's investing so I go to Yas Forums and laugh at the pajeets while scanning for that 1/50 chance that there's a genuinely good investment I didn't know about. Sometimes I go to Yas Forums to get laughed at for being fat and ugly. And every once in a while I come here to R9K to hang out with the other incels and complain about life with them.

I have some friends, but the friends I have I can't talk to about the same subjects. They wouldn't get it both in a literal and metaphorical sense. I'm not even saying people here are smarter on average, but there are some things you can't talk about in real life even with your best friends, or even in a lot of parts of the internet because you have a username attached to the post. This is the only place I can shitpost the truth and not get a jail charge or become further removed from society

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Been here for like 15 years, originally from Yas Forums and /k/.

Came here for the memes, stayed for the edgy shit moved on because Yas Forums became too spam infested and Yas Forums became to negative and I had to take a break.

Eventually came back to Yas Forums because of fun conversations about random topics and because the cuck bait eventually moved back to Yas Forums.

The best time was probably around 2008 when Rick Astley was pushed to be the best act ever in the EMAs. Creativity was at an all time high. I remember someone saying that this would be the end of Yas Forums as we know it. It hurts to recognise that he was right.
That was also the time when Yas Forums began to decline because it got too much public attention. Stormfront, a large amount of redditors and facebook normies came here which ultimately ruined Yas Forums and a bunch of other boards.

Yas Forums has something refreshing: Do you want to turn off your social filter and talk about whatever? For instance: "Imagine you are in Asia and a mother offers to sell you her daughter who would otherwise starve, would you buy her? If yes, for how much?"
It is those kinds of questions about random, often incredibly offensive (read as: ethically questionable) topics that had me stay here. Yas Forums can help thinking outside of the box. Yas Forums can be friends or enemies arguing with one another.
The beauty about anonymity is that nobody is right about something due to the person he/she is, but only due to sheer hard arguments. A downside that can't be stressed enough is the fact that some people abuse the anonymity for polirical extremist propaganda.