Because they like to create an infinite loop of circlejerks.

Because of 4chan. That's it.

People don't like to read long shit anymore, so they use images, GIFs and WebMs. That's the reason 4chan has millions of users per month

>>3
What does that has to do with it, even?
4chan is the __only__ reason textboards are not completely dead. And that's because of world4ch.

>4chan is the __only__ reason textboards are not completely dead
... how in the world? B.a.I has absolutely nothing to do with 4chan. BBS culture can be traced to the eastern culture. Deflate your ego.

>What does that has to do with it, even?
I think he's pointing to the fact that 4chan popularized the imageboard concept, thus conditioning the western side of the internet to its culture. Since the BBS culture was never spread here anyway people tend to consider the format of these kind of websites unpleasing.

>>4
Basically this. Memes and GIFs are so widespread that people doesn't even think in words anymore, they think in "graphics" (reaction faces, memes etc). It's the modern plague of society.

Or greentexting for those who can't convey messages like a normal person.

>>8
Greentext more like misuse of the quoted text feature

build it, and they will come

>Why are textboards dead in the west?
ネタ職人がいないからね…そりゃ寂れるさ…(´・ω・`)…英語でレスしてあげないもん

Hey JAP NO MOON RUNES PLEASE

>>12
意地悪するから嫌だ。英語でレスしてあげない（｀・ω・´）

Baiborto nació muerto.

>>12 is just a jealeous weeapanese.

SUCK MY DICK WEABOO BITCH

come to life

We'll never know.

日本語はおｋ

>>20
チリ人は優しいっとφ(..)memo

Because 4chan became popular first.
Also the Japanese are living in both 1995 and 2040 at the same time.

These places were fucked since the beginning. Anonymous posting was a mistake and it eventually gave us the shittiest timeline possible. Nerd/anime/gamer culture can fuck off and die and especially its mutant brother *chan culture.

4-ch is neglected, and there's no other site with its scope. What was supposed to take off, tablecat's lounge?

world2ch was made by a Japanese teenager and it barely attracted English-speaking people, while 4chan was made with the whole anime subforum of one of the largest English forums at the time in mind. It was inevitable.

HEY JAP, ANSWER MY QUESTION, THAT YAMI KAWAII GIRLS ARE MENTALLY DISORDERED WHORES WHO CUT THEMSELVES WITH CUTTERS AND TAKE ANTIDEPRESSANTS?
I WANT TO MAKE RYONA TO THIS CUTIE https://www.instagram.com/a_n_o2mass/

maybe western mind truly be inferior

this true

>>22
>Also the Japanese are living in both 1995 and 2040 at the same time.
I think that's called Galapagos syndrome (ガラパゴス化).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome

There was an artificial death in the west
EAST
Pyramids on deck
SHINE

Even 4chan loses to Japan. 4chan gets an average of 800,000 posts every day, while 2ch gets an average of 2,800,000. No idea about Futaba Channel, but I know 4chan surpassed them in traffic in late 2006.

Futaba is mostly weebshit. Which is really waht image boards should be used for.

Thanks to weebs you can have a comfort zone, fucking normal ww

Reread what he said you fucking retard, he's saying imageboards should be for anime.

Are text boards the last bastion for board culture?

Well, I don't know about that. I just want to discuss things without memes and chanspeak being shoved on my face, anyway.

I just want to discuss things... There's nobody here!

I am here, you know (´・ω・`)

That's a minor downside to small communities, however it's better than being bombarded by posters that are trying to get screenshots for reddit and etc.
Anyway what brought you anons here?

I found this place by lurking English textboards and now I check it out periodically.

>>40
I came here to try and recapture some of that nostalgia that pre-mobile internet had. I seriously think the internet was a better place then, sure it was wild and random but that's what made it fun you never knew what you would see.

You should've seen the mobile version of this textboard like seven years ago, it was made with i-mode and WAP in mind. Real nostalgic.

>>41
Truth be told I'm not sure this place is too wild and random nowadays, we're all probably too old and jaded and focus more on regular discussions. I know what you mean though, and if the FAQ is anything to go by, this website tries to keep a web 1.0 sort of feel, or rather a Frankenstein monster between web 1.0 and web 2.0.

>>42 sounds cool, anon do you think the current internet is pozzed? I've heard rumors of a "meganet" being developed but it's been a while since I ran in that circle.

>>43
True, I think enjoy the come and go nature of what it was. Do you anons browse image boards?

Yeah, I think social media were a blight unto the Internet as a whole, centralizing everything and destroying the once rich ecosystem of wildly varied stupid and funny websites on which we might waste our time. And the worst part is that once social media sites stopped being fun and interesting (probably around 2012), the cool websites they had supplanted were never coming back. Forums were depopulated and blogs were shut down.

>Do you anons browse image boards?
Very, very rarely. Sometimes I check 4chan's /a/ board once an episode of a show I'm watching airs (not that I've been able to watch too much stuff thanks to uni) and quickly leave once the thread goes back to the usual shitfest that 4chan is.

>>41
Did the advent of smartphones itself cause a degradation of the average netizen or did they show up at the wrong time, so to speak, getting associated or even blamed for a second Eternal September that would have happened regardless? I personally don't know. And I only use smartphones to stay in touch with family and friends, listen to music, and browse this specific website.

>>46, >>47
I think smartphones did accelerate the centralization of the internet but even without them PDAs would have taken their place they do everything a basic smartphone does minus calls and browse the internet (except for a few). I think the major contributing factor was the barrier of entry I recall back in the imac G3 came out it was aimed at causal consumers much like the iphone today. In short by removing the barrier of entry more and more people have access to the community. This will cause a dilution of the community and eventually a schism will form.

I think that everyone should just invest in themselves and shy away from regular social media because it literally is the Sodom and Gomorrah of today's society which is to say it robs people of their soul. Like seems most people can't handle banter except blue collar types.

Forums and usenet exist. Textboards have nothing unique to offer that isn't as retarded as "culture", furthermore imageboards are objectively superior to textboards as they allow more freedom in user interactions.

>objectively superior
lol

>as they allow more freedom in user interactions
lol what

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Image boards are fun but text will always be around. Forums always spring up for niche hobbies and communities.

They're not completely dead tho
http://4-ch.net/dqn/ and https://dis.tinychan.org are pretty active, but /dqn/ is like 2 times more active than the other side altogether

Still, they're more active than a lot of imageboards.

Because Americans and their ADHD and autism ruined the scene for everyone else.

>>54
But we are in South America, thats America too www

It's America but not MURRICA

To be fair South Americans ruined the scene as well.

（´・ω・｀）y-~ anybody here ?

yeah i'm here

surprisingly, yes

They are not dead,

No textboards in Europe?

because of vanity, people want recognition for what they write, plus texboards don't have the visual appeal of ibs.

This.

The image, the visual surpassed the meaning in modern life.

Welcome to posmodernism.

Now all is lost...

>>57 Why? Internet culture is mostly from USA, Japan and some few other countries.
SA in Internet is often Chile, Brazil, and maybe Venezuela, otherwise is just as important as, idk, Africa

Because IBs are much, much better.

>>66
IBs more like Irritable Bowel Syndrome

we should create a new textboard for once

↑ Define "new"

Textboards are dead in the east too, 5channel is occupied by a bunch of stupid wwwwww spouting schoolchildren.

So this is like That Avengers movie but without epic music and expensive CGI, and only text?

Why it didnt happen to 4chan, WHY???

>>71
remember what you described, that's "apparently" what 4chan has. out of the doubt, if 4chan was a textboard, most likely it would be unpopular.

Just isn't suited for Western palettes. You have to look at the way respective bigger social media platforms took on in the East versus in the West. Imageboards in the West are dead as all hell too in reality. 4chan is immortalized in internet anthropology, notoriety, mass media, and in language. 8chan took off because it was it's retarded little Reddit spin-off. Imageboards in the West were never big, never will be. 4chan is unique because it was created as a fun was for people from an already well established website to interface in a way that they thought was interesting. Textboards are only good for discussion. Sad, but Westerners just don't like discussing things. No, they like networking differently. You can just look it all up, it's in English after all. Archive culture, question forums, that shit is far bigger in the Global Language than it is in Japanese, thusly, you don't really need to talk about it as much. Not so hard to find something you want to discuss and have it already had been discussed and said discussion being documented for everybody else to take from. Imageboards are also dead in the West because you don't really have to be apart of them to enjoy their fruits. Archives, YouTube videos, Wikis, the list goes on. As for textboards, Discord and Reddit probably, I don't know. When you have these "DIY" megaforums you kill an incentive to make your own place. I think Infinity scripts might have done this for the IB Dev scene. When a retard can make their own forum or chat room for thousands to join in three clicks as opposed to a competent person せっかく developing their own, there isn't much of a point.

>>73
Textboards are well-suited for Spanish-speaking countries because we are more regionalist than English-speaking ones (given it's a much more widely spoken and global language online) and freaks will post doxxes and revenge porn on local imageboards. It's just a terrible culture, BaI is a shining light in the face of that...
Anon discussion can only be tolerable in our sphere throught text-only interfaces.