>>50992015
cute thread, makes the world feel warmer

GOD I miss old Jp

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>>50992015
So it seems that that anon isn't here anymore... Can't blame him though, /jp/ is dead and even I stopped coming here.
I only come now on special occasions such as this one to make threads like these.

>>50992417
>2023
>old

>>50994128
Yes, oldfag, that is old. Give up and accept that you are a man in your 30s.

>>50994128
Ironically, oldfags gatekeeping literally anyone who wasn't 40 years old and "Knew about it before it was cool" did fuck all to stop the board recline.
This means I can call them slurs in good faith, as they turned out to just be fucking assholes with no credibility.

Now that I'm here though the fucking cancerous captcha might not help.

>>50994128
Pre sage rape

>>50994972
Nigga 2023 was just 3 years ago.

When even a hag thread isn't enough to make anons come back... You know that is truly over.

>>50994128
>>50995811
You guys dont understand. anyone who joined a second after me is a newfag.

>>50994581
>>50994972
So true fellow february 2026 oldfag.

>>50992417
>>50994581
>>50994972
There was a definite major and rapid change in board culture on /jp/ before and after 2020. We had things slowly shifting in the late 2010s where the general attitude and lingo on the board became gradually more like the rest of 4chan, then the vtuber phenomenon went semi-mainstream in 2020 and flooded this board pushing out many of the last holdouts of old /jp/, then /vt/ swept up most of that population in '21, and since then things have been mostly the same for the past few years. The /jp/ of 2026 is still pretty similar to how it was in 2023, especially compared to that rapid change at the turn of the decade, so this three-year gap is a lot less significant for being meaningfully an oldfag than it was in much of 4chan's past.

More importantly, though, that thread is from /po/, not /jp/. There's some crossover but they're different boards. There's no reason to bring up "old /jp/" when the topic is a /po/ thread.

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>>50995836
Do you know where some of these lost anons went? I don't care about /jp/ anymore, I just want someplace where I can post with like-minded otaku without having to deal with retarded mod decisions and needing to filter out a gorillion idol generals.

>>50998982
Outside.

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>>50997511
/jp/ was still alive in 2020, and even back in 2023, but after the mods implemented the 14-day autosage limit /jp/ became really dead, 3dpd and vtumors are now the board's sole source of activity.
>>50998982
probably some altchans like kissu, zzzchan, eight chan, ...etc. kissu is probably the closest to /jp/ in terms of culture

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>>50999028
To prove that /jp/ is really dead, let's do some simple stats to see how many posts /jp/ gets yearly, to do this, I looked at the post numbers of each post each year past 8:00 AM UTC (this is the time that warosu prefers to sort by for some reason), I searched warosu and got these post numbers, starting from 2013:
2013: 10297729
2014: 11764203
2015: 12860895
2016: 14558326
2017: 16348231
2018: 18138263
2019: 20538186
2020: 22696392
2021: 31595696
2022: 37980765
2023: 42230486
2024: 45673518
2025: 48594983
2026: 50522073

After this, it's easy to do the math to find out the number posts that have been posted between two years (e.g. the number of posts from 1/1/2014 to 1/1/2015 is 12860895 - 11764203 = 1096692)
I've done these calculations in a spreadsheet then plotted them, you can see that there was a huge spike in 2020-2021, but posting activity is going down still, even vtumors are not enough to sustain its activity.

Also, let's try to predict the numbers for 2026-2027, right now we're in the middle of the year, the most recent post number I can see as of now is 50999408, doing the math, that's 477335 posts since the beginning of this year, multiply that number by 2 and you get 954670, that is about half the number of posts last year, and that is assuming activity doesn't go down till the end of the year.

>>50998982
Kissu was thrown around a lot during the autosage disaster

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>>50994128
/jp/ was gently reclining since a long time ago, but "something something" happened, and here we are.

there are simple ways to understand what went terribly wrong with the /jay/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190526014327/https://warosu.org/jp/reports/image-reposts
https://warosu.org/jp/reports/image-reposts

Just curious: what is so special about that specific post anyway? Did people even care about it at the time? I've never seen this before so I don't know the context.

>>51001180
Annoying shitposters got replaced by annoying shitposters?

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>>51001250
OP here
>what is so special about that specific post anyway?
Nothing, I just wanted to prove that guy wrong by remembering him, that's all, there's no special meaning to it.

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>>50999028
>>50999530
Kissu seems pretty comfy. Thanks.
I noticed that they have threads for Sven, L4D2, and Killing Floor over there, so I guess that explains why I haven't seen any game threads on here in a long while.

least obvious shilling attempt

>>51001180
Years of culture and history erased in but a few months.

>>50999441
2020 was vtubers + covid combined right? grim

>>50999028
>probably some altchans like kissu, zzzchan, >eight chan, ...etc. kissu is probably the closest to >/jp/ in terms of culture
I'm to scared to be a refugee...

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>>51001724
Omaygad hi kitties

>>50992015
I remember that thread. It's wild to me that after all that time no one wound up just buying and posting the papercrafts off of the dude's DLSite shop.

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>>50999441
You forgot to mention that the vast majority of activity nowadays happen in the vtumor and idol generals. If you ignore those generals, then the PPY is way, way lower than what is shown in the graph. I think someone in the happenings thread on kissu calculated that around 80% of /jp/'s activity happens in the vtumor and idol generals alone, with the remaining 20% spread across 2hu threads and various non-3DPD generals.

>>51004325
If you remove monkuso refugees, the /v/ erp exiles, and the onahole posters it's probably closer to 5%.
And even then, era and elona/elin threads also have populations of people that primarily use other boards and only show up for their specific general.
Hell, even some of the more niche but traditional /jp/ threads are in a similar state, with a bunch of them pretty much being a place for other communities to bitch about how shitty their discord/reddit/whatever is because their scene is infested with autistic power-hungry crossdressers shitting up their hobby that relies on weird workarounds to play it outside of Japan like some of the arcade/rhythm game shit they play.
/jp/ has been turned into a pseudo-general board, with several of the generals being problematic invasive pests, and it was done on purpose out of spite towards a tiny pocket of shitposters that personally upset moot and other members of the staff. It's genuinely pathetic that they went to such lengths to choke out a board and its communities over ancient perceived slights like that.

>>51001180
I haven't checked that in a while, that's painful to see. I also miss the days when ghost posts actually functioned so I could see a thread in case someone replied after deletion or to try and get in contact with an anon, but admittedly they were always doomed by way of spambots eventually finding the site with no real counters implemented.
>>51004325
>>51004405
It's been said a thousand times and I imagine it'll be said a thousand more, /jp/ becoming effectively a board for other boards to dump their trash into if it's vaguely Japanese related fucking sucks man. And now it's even worse because of the leaks proving that mods hate the board more than their abusive daddies which only made the whole invasive pests part worse.
>And even then, era and elona/elin threads also have populations of people that primarily use other boards and only show up for their specific general.
Not that I think it still applies, but for quite a long time I think this was the ideal way to use 4chan for a long time. Cross-board culture was great, and anyone who acted outside of the bounds of the board hosting a general they exclusively use would eventually get filtered. Nowadays it's all fucked though.

>>51004777
>because of the leaks proving that mods hate the board
How did the leaks confirm that? Did IRC logs get leaked like back in the day? Not that I'm doubting it of course.

>>51004896
Not him, but yeah, there's irc logs that are over a decade old at this point floating around but he's probably talking about something more recent. Apparently there were discord leaks in 2025 too?
One of the highlights of the irc leaks was some /vp/ janny (that might have been double-dipping with /jp/) that was bitching and crying about /jp/ saying "who are you quoting" to him.
He got doxed back then and it turned out that he was anonymous of slovakia (who was actually living in the US most if not all of his life so his slovakian bullshit was a larp), and his internet footprint was extremely humiliating; he was a literal "asperger", obsessed with sonic, had extremely embarrassing selfies floating around of his ugly face, and was trooning before it even hit the mainstream. I even looked him up again a couple years ago and he's since become a resetera regular, not sure if he still moderates but I doubt it.

>>51001369
This
>>51001180
All you, or anyone else who truly cares, need to do is post most of those older images ~400 times and they'll be back on there. If you had the true autism that got them on there in the first place, you could probably spend a couple evenings just posting and deleting the image over and over again in threads.

>>51004896
The leaks from the "recent" hack included /j/ which, unless that has been proven to be fake and gay since, was filled with mods from all kinds of boards ranging out from throwing out suggestions for their boards to holding enough autistic rage in their soul to blot out the sun. /jp/'s mods were shockingly the ones that were among the most autistic including the vtumor one that got booted from the team between his posts I believe sometime in 2022 and when the hack happened last year, but he wasn't the only one. I can't remember what the specific complaints mods and jannies had with /jp/ was. Just that it was objectively retarded on at least one if not multiple levels. I believe one of the complaints was that "there aren't enough idol threads" which was strange back then as literally every single 3DPD thread on the board was born from another thread, and it's sad nowadays because bare minimum half of a page if not the entire page itself of the board is dedicated entirely to one idolwhore thread's multiple image-in-every-other-post-abandoned-at-300-posts threads.

I'm not going to go back and check though. It was funny and slightly depressing back when I first read some of it, if I went back now it'd probably just be depressing.

>>51005888
>/jp/'s mods were shockingly the ones that were among the most autistic
Okay I realize now that I probably could have phrased that better because it absolutely makes the most possible sense, I mean autistic as in having melties over random bullshit rather than autistic as in the usual /jp/ autism.

>>51005480
/jp/ is a place to take it easy.
I will not be swayed into a frenzy because of virtual whores or their worshipers.

>>51005888
>>51005891
I'm sure being a /jp/ janitor would drive anyone insane. It was just people reporting everything all the time and then spamming the board when they didn't get their way and then taunting the janitors once they actually did their job. Then they probably went on to repost the very stuff they wanted deleted.

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>>51001724
To be fair, Skydrift threads are still being hosted here and the MTA host avoids cross-hosting
However as someone who was there when it happened I can explain why game threads have been moved to Kissu
After the hack was over the L4D2 gamethread host wanted to cheer up and unite the /jp/ community again by hosting a L4D2 game night, notably this was cross-hosted on some altchans like Kissu (imo probably to just remind people who moved ship that /jp/ was back up and to come back ironically enough)
However some schizo chimped out because it was being cross-hosted and caught the attention of the jannies who decided to move the thread to /vm/ which completely defeats the point of a /jp/ *community* gamenight, /vm/'s users and jannies even felt sorry for us.
Needless to say everyone's opinion soured really bad because it proved the jannies not only learned nothing but got worse post-hack since they took the side of an obvious derailer schizo to take down a funthread. So a lot of gamenight threads have been moved to Kissu since then which also caused a large amount of new gamenights to be attempted, I played Morrowind multiplayer briefly on there a long while ago
Not really a gamenight but Kissu has a "Kissu Theatre" that let's you stream shit and chat anonymously so an anon hosted a watch party for Robot Carnival, Memories and a third sci-fi anthology anime movie I didn't stay awake to watch two days ago. Very fun rewatching Robot Carnival since last time I watched it I was a teenager and couldn't appreciate the actual artistry on display, first time watching Magnetic Rose, genuinely as good (and scary) as it's hyped up to be

Pissu is a dead shithole.

>>51006870
ironically it's more active than /jp/ if you don't count vtumors and 3dpd

>>51006956
Pretty sure this is the same schizo lol, he just keeps repeating this everytime it's brought up to demoralize people from checking it out no matter the context of what he's replying to, I literally talk about attending a fun community hosted watch party two days ago, that's about as dead as Odorigui

>>51006956
It's the same speed, and primarily /a/ rather than /jp/.
>>51006981
You weren't being replied to.

You aren't fooling anyone, it's obvious it's a reply even if you remove the reply link

>>51007009
I'm sorry but I really wasn't talking to you.

>>51006012
Yes, that's a much more accurate picture of what happened. Jannies joining who cared and wanted to improve before realizing that the majority of users want the board to be shit https://bvll.neocities.org/j/6415

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>>51006987
>and primarily /a/ rather than /jp/
It's funny you say that because if you ask /a/ they'll tell you it's the opposite, that it's primarily /jp/ rather than /a/.

Personally I think the latter is more correct, culturally it feels /jp/ (no surprise given its history), but it's for everything 2D otaku, so it also allows anime posting.

>>51008929
>before realizing that the majority of users want the board to be shit
As opposed to the generals and e-prostitute dumpster mods envision.

>>51016759
yes, they want the board to be unusable for everyone instead of people able to discuss their interests in peace.

>>51016860
Huge win for people who have an interest in Ameican prostitutes with 2D avatars instead of otaku culture then.

>>51016865
What is even otaku culture anymore. It's not anime culture, it's not japanese culture, touhou is gatcha culture, vtubers are just more idols.

>>51017553
Maybe it's time to find another hobby and community...

>>51017553
STG and gacha games...
Jailbait j-pop bands and Boxxy...
Sorry I don't see the link between those things other than some superficial similarities. I guess the former are both video games and the latter has someone watching someone?