Is this the origin of Any Forums?

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That is to say, young Japanese NEETs in the late 90's to early 2000s having too much free time spending it on Anime, making an image board called 2channel, which was then mimicked to the USA as Any Forums?

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Yep.

Something Awful forums also contributed. Its how I came here.

Respect the white gooks

So this means that Asian male NEETs are the actual most native population of Any Forums. Interesting

>things will change when old men retire
Not only they'll fuck up the world all they can before dying but those cokroaches won't die until their 95s. This means even zoomers will be hit by the 30 years old crisis because boomers won't fucking retire or die
I've already started seeing zoomers being nervous since they see they haven't amounted to anything in their later 20s

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Nothing ever changes

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Yeah I guess.

Something Awful, with a bit of Usenet mixed in too. A lot of early trolling culture was first developed on Usenet. Any Forums went on to weaponize it.

What I've never really understood though is how so many young American males discovered Any Forums in the first place. Usenet was mostly an academic networking site, Something Awful was a popular blog that added a forum section, but what the hell led so many people onto a Japanese basket-weaving forum of all things? It's not like there was any marketing for it.

In 2004 newgrounds managed to piss most of its entire user base off and m00t came and collected us and brought us here. This is the real reason why Any Forums got americanized to hell, it's also where the term newfag came from, it stood for newgroundsfag originally. Then after the fact it stood for anyone who was new.

It was boxxy you see. But more seriously, fucking around on Any Forums

Any Forums is based off Futaba Channel, not 2channel.
>what the hell led so many people onto a Japanese basket-weaving forum of all things?
Word of mouth, and the ebin memes from Any Forums getting reposted on other websites.

>like 75
>they'll try to take the road with them
Yes boomers have ruined every society on the planet at this point. Have sex, get money, disregard appeals by old people for "helping your elders" or whatever the fuck. Old people are just pure parasite at this point.

It's funny because nu-newfags always call people 'tourist' now, just like normalfag gets redditized to normie. I should have left this shithole in 2014 after Any Forums harbor and become a wagie.

Thanks user, you just filled in a missing puzzle piece
>ebin memes from Any Forums getting reposted on other websites.
Yeah, I was aware of Any Forums memes as far back as 2006, but I just could not bring myself to come here and sift through the garbage heap until 2012 or so, when I realized what I'd been missing.

it all started on Dustin's Sega Saturn Page then escalated drastically on the Sega Web Forums where it spilled into Yahoo Chat

Why do you think anime is Any Forums and random is Any Forums

Agreed, but there's no place left for people like us other then here really. The other chans have been eaten alive by the alphabet agencies and everywhere else is under the directly censorship of the globohomo. If I have to be anywhere if everywhere fucking sucks, I may as well stay here.

talking about 2009+, but porn and you stuck aroundfor the content, the black box with caption "meme format" was spammed everywhere too and half of the time you didn't even know from where they were from so you had to dig and find Any Forums

2channel was not an imageboard bro

None of you were banned by snacks an it shows

Why don't you return to source (2chan.net)?

I think it's the reason they're pushing the vaccine so hard, it's either going to kill or shave off decades but most people won't live to see their 80s or 90s anymore

Because I'm fairly sure I and all the ranges of my IP's have been perma'd there over the years from the various stupid shit.

Bring back snacks, he was is and will be the only mod worth respecting half a shit because he was a retard, but he was one of us.

Every so often I like to go back and rewatch the infamous Fox News report on Any Forums from 2008... it's amazing how this place already managed to impact the mainstream media landscape like a hydrogen bomb all the way back then: youtube.com/watch?v=kkAngvkWVkk

Nice oldfag larp, because absolutely no one outside of Japan can use futaba anyway

These days yes, but it wasn't always like that.

>wasn't always like that.
Post proof

>the black box with caption "meme format"
It's amazing how only Any Forums and no other website figured out how to weaponize memes and spread them to all four corners of the Earth... how many Something Awful memes can you remember? Zero is the answer (other than the site's creator getting his ass kicked in a boxing ring I guess).

Shows how new you are

The numerous Any Forums raids are probably responsible for the initial growth of the site. Idk about you guys, but I’m a zoomer newfag that discovered Any Forums in early 2017 after watching the internet historian’s video about the HWNDU thing.

There's no place anywhere really, all the cool places like the local gaming nerd store or even shit like gamestop are subject to retail die off and bars and nightlife got fucked by covid and are only halfway back. Everything that existed before Any Forums is gone. 19 years is a long time. The world has changed and this place, as newfagged and zoomered as it is, is a relic of when gen x still dominated the internet and could drop n-bombs without fear that they'd get niggered by faggots. Lost like tears in the rain, scoob.

In particular in the past 5 years it feels like all the changes in the world accelerated, the world that existed before 2017 doesn't even exist anymore.

Yeah faggot, imageboards are referenced in japan animes before even Any Forums existed

He's literally a socialist who jerks it to trannies now. All the people you thought were cool when politics didn't matter turned into huge faggots who think gas prices being infinitely high is a good price to pay for muh ukraine.

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Just like how no one can play region locked hgames

You stupid