Does anyone else feel that we are being constantly astroturfed. Certain threads, I will not name them...

Why would people stop posting in a thread just because they find out it had been posted before. Starting from the premise that theyre just interested in the topic, why would that matter at all

For me it was when I caught someone starting a thread by copying the exact wording I had made in a post the week prior. Literally just copied a thing I said about Adventure Time and used it to make a new thread. It was fucking weird and I've seen other anons mention similar things happening to them.

Anything Teen Titans related is shilled by WB

no use, the good threads are slid

YEAAAH I actually confronted that person and sked him why he is reposting my posts with my pictures, and he replied that he liked them and that I was correct in my assessment. I blushed, but t b h, that's kinda shitty when you think about it

even if they're 1:1 copies of previously-made threads with people directly pointing this out in the thread itself.

I know, right?

the pedo threads?

The only thread i shamelessly bump are story times.

Anon Babble is dying and is basically unusable. the bigger tragedy is all the alternatives being dead or just as bad/arguably worse. the internet had a good run but it's time to admit it's over.

yeah. thank mods//jannies

Anon Babble as a whole has been full of inorganic traffic for a long time now. Bunch of different groups doing it for different reasons, lots of propaganda, lots of advertising, lots of bots just for the sake of disrupting.

Not sure what can be done about it, but sometimes you wonder if sifting through the garbage is worth the time.

Yup. The internet peaked in the 2000s, it's all been downhill since 2007.

but sometimes you wonder if sifting through the garbage is worth the time.

ultimately it's not. that goes for all social media at this point.

You join my Discord where you have nothing else to talk about but the subject at hand.

Anon Babble was at least somewhat usable until 2012-2013. election tourists basically permanently killed any hope of this site recovering. it is actually impossible now, the majority of people who have found Anon Babble in the past 10 odd years are not the same people who found Anon Babble prior, and the tourists make up the vast majority of posters and have for ages. you can't heal a userbase when the userbase doesn't want to be and instead wants to spread their cancer forever.

Anon Babble had a weird kind of bounce-back in the early 2010s, the late 00s were honestly kind of a clusterfuck. There was a massive influx of newfags and it turned the site into a chaotic mess for a while until things eventually kind of sorted themselves out. 2008 and 2009 in particular were grim.

A good chunk of it is toplessbot spamming random bullshit threads and bumping old threads to kill the current drawthread faster once it hits imagelimit.

tfw you kindasorta know that feel

I occasionally repost old drawfag stuff and other rare Anon Babble images, only to see a thread with that exact image in the catalog a few hours later.

a billion dollar industry uses shills on a known gossip board to control naratives and influence

What happened?

and participate in the good ones

There have not been good ones in years

Nta, but I try to participate in threads that seem interesting enough, until they inevitably get overrun by the usual suspects.
I do still like this board, for whatever reason, even storytiming a comic I made here a couple months ago. Board's just kinda dead, and the removal of the IP counter certainly has made things worse.

occam's razor: it's the autistics

the removal of the IP counter

was it to make advertisers more effective?

they should just change the bump limit to 100 and be
done with it. I also dunno why the website itself doesn't detect duplicate threads showing up. I mean I get that that's a SHIT ton of posts to check against for every posting but r9k does it without any problems

was it to make advertisers more effective?

Not advertisers. Astroturfers and other propaganda spammers. Can't push a narrative when it's easy to see it's all one jew samefagging.
Advertising (shilling) isn't done here to sell shit to us, it's done to influence trending and algorithms. Every board here has at least 2 offsite archives, so every shill post here counts at least thrice.

We are. Believe it or not Anon Babble is a node of internet culture that has influence or has hosted people who go on to take real world action. Business and governments have a presence here and they'll take steps to influence a less moderated space for people to communicate.

one jew

The anti-jew propaganda is way more common here and you know it

intentional misunderstanding

shalom
It's a reaction to your action. We all noticed how the cuck and niggerspam suddenly vanished from Anon Babble and Anon Babble for a day when hamas missiled israhell.

Those are just Anon Babble standard.

Because if you're familiar with those threads you'd know they often have information that can be up to a decade out of date in them and the points being argued don't make sense anymore.

God, that was hilarious. I think someone posted a graph and the traffic was just gone. Fucking mental.

so do you want this site to become the EU and just fact-check every post with AI

No... but when a thread is full of people pointing that exact thing out and an argument continues to happen around them as though it's still relevant, like the post here is talking about, it's pretty God damned fucking strange. The Anon Babble equivalent of posting about Kony 2012 like it still matters.

If you're referring to the porn/lewd/waifi threads, it's usually the work of a few pathetic anons. They seem to lose sleep in order to keep certain threads bumped so that needy drawfags drop by and draw free stuff for them, or so that people drop links to porn sites. The busier ones become largely porn discussions, but die a little faster because they reach bump limit faster or go too far and get deleted after a week. The threads constantly necrobumped by pathetic anons can last over two weeks. Some of these are babysat too.

The drawfag thing has gotten way out of hand. This is no longer a discussion board, it's a "content"-sharing board. Apparently, drawthreads have become unbearable (because of course they would) due to some unsavory anons being more malicious and autistic than the majority. They drove out a lot of requesters, who make drawfag bait threads. It's possible that the people that drove them out will repeat the process with the entire board. Basically, this board will keep getting worse. Drawfaggotry should have it's own board, honestly.

Hashtag Kony 2012

cartoons

comics

e-celebs

drawfags

is it really that hard for them to just make these their own places, video games have twelve different boards at this point

Its like Anon Babble is an image board or something.

Certain boards are god damn unsalvageable at this point. How many times do your eyes glaze over when there's row after row of ragebait in the catalog, and yet somehow anons fall for them every time? Like screaming into the void is productive. A shame because there's some real creative people on these boards but it's all drowned out by constant bait spam.

Anon Babble is the worst, not even a team of trolls could post garbage like that consistently. The biggest beef I have with Anon Babble is all the pedo porn threads. Wow, you want to fuck a prepubescent cartoon character. How original! Anon Babble is just ragebait by people who hate games, Anon Babble is the same handful of memes spammed forever, the only good parts left are the slow boards. Bring back forums, at least the shitposters can be muted.

Shitty how? You don't have ownership on things you post on an anonymous forum, and there's no inherent value in changing your wording when the thought you want to express isn't different.

erm did you just do a heckin micro aggression?

nah that ain't it cheif, mods get him, do better be better

100 other faggots spamming w mods

Despite the bad shape Anon Babble is in, it still is better than 99% of other sites and that's what is sad. You can blame smart phones but I think Tumblr and reddit killed the internet completely as their faggotry spread out and did irreversible damage

Because if you're just copying what someone else said, you're an unoriginal tool desperate for engagement.

Just like how you have to stay on the outskirts on Anon Babble to avoid ragebait, you have to stay on the outskirts of reddit to avoid thought policing and dumbass politics.

How many times do your eyes glaze over when there's row after row of ragebait in the catalog, and yet somehow anons fall for them every time?

People don't "fall" for ragebait, they simply enjoy being angry and being allowed to express that anger with as much vitriol as they want, something you are not allowed to do in polite society. Screaming your frustrations out is therapeutic and ability to do so is probably the single most genuinely useful thing about Anon Babble.

Like screaming into the void is productive.

Good thing we don't work here, so we have no obligation to be productive.

Originality has no inherent value. If I like Spodunk Spermpants, there is literally no reason for me to invent new shit to say every time I want to ttalk about him (especially if I'm autismal and want to talk about him every day 10-12 hours per day).

You have the right to hate these things but you do realize you're watching cartoons that are filled with characters under the age of 18. Its like being surprised that Pokemon is filled with furry porn.

Screaming your frustrations out is therapeutic

Sure, buddy

youtube.com/watch?v=Emq8p9DLO2M

why yes, i wasn't here 13 years ago when Anon Babble became blue Anon Babble. how could you tell?

Anon Babble is a special case.
As for the rest, the only thing you got right is that we need /InCel/. The rest just leads to ghosttown boards like Anon Babble. What Anon Babble actually needs is jannies that gives a fuck and nukes shit that belongs on Anon Babble and Anon Babble. Not lazy retards that only sign up to push their own agenda, exclusively protect topics they like or get free Anon Babble gold.

If it wasn't for the personal info shit and the fact that I'd have to frequently interact with the aforementioned rejects, I'd gladly janny Anon Babble. I spend 8+ hours here everyday anyway.

just get under the covers and have a good sob, no one on here cares about your feelings
there you go, faggot, leave

I just wish these freaks would be as vocal about their desire to bang animated children in public as they are here, so they can be treated like they deserve.

Careful, anon. There's a trend of overtly vocal anti-loli and shota people getting exposed as actual pedos.
I'm not pointing any fingers, but you might wanna clear your hard drives.

t. actual pedo

You have COMPLETELY misunderstood the idea of Anon Babble. Anon Babble is not "hey guys take a look at this funny link ha ha." Anon Babble is not Facebook's whiteknighting. Anon Babble is not Reddit, Tumblr or 9gag.com. Anon Babble is a place for people to be monsters. Disturbing, cold, heedless monsters that they really are. Tsunami kills people in Asia and we laugh. Psychotic emo fulfills her sick desires with her cat and we laugh. A man rapes his grandchildren, we laugh and demand more. Suicide, foul play, genocide- we laugh. Racism, sexism, discrimination, xenophobia, rape and unfounded wrath- we laugh.
We are cruel; we do not forgive; we do not forget; we are the real face of the internet.

Tl;dr: Go back to whatever shithole you came from. Anon Babble was never meant for the likes of you.

There's a reason the bump limit is higher than the image limit. And even then, you can still post text until you hit an even higher limit or until the thread falls off.

Kyle is that you?

Absolute blast from the past

I'm not ranting and raving against the cartoons themselves, just people using Anon Babble as their own animated MAP support group like they're so cute and funny. Shut up.

I don't care who the jannies send, I'm not gonna stop making Rule 63 threads!

Okay, don't say I didn't warn you.

Akshually there isn't any upper limit.

inb4

b-but 1000

Stickies were changed to rolling with a limit of 1000, because opening a thread with 5000+ posts is murder on most machines.

An image takes more resources than text anon, I don't think Anon Babble would be able to handle so many images.

Anon Babble these days is a pretty slow board - even now, there was a Men In Black thread that took about 15-16 days to finally archive today, so because of that it's REALLY easy to notice that some threads get a very blatantly artificial infusion of traffic

it's for le hackin loser freaks like me to be on the dark web

Anon Babble is not and will not ever be what you think it is.

I’ll be honest with you, sometimes I leave a thread open on a side tab and then check it hours later and accidentally reply to something without realizing that it’s on page 10. not going to lie though, it feels kind of arbitrary and autistic to tell other posters not to engage with threads they’re interested in just because it’s on the way out, I get where it comes from though, it’s infuriating to me too when an anon necobumps one of moviefag’s threads just because he can’t resist the rage bait.

Stay on the sharty, kiddo. I've been here since before you were a twitch in your dads nutsack.

i pin threads all the time and see a good chunk of them reach page 10 only to get bumped. it's hard to not notice when it happens five times in a row

Even 99% of discords are like that too it's infuriating. Also I hate reddit because of the insincere fake overly niceness the user base trys to have over there it's creepy and I can tell it's fake and they're fake. Like imagine posting this exact meme in the appropriate place and still having some fucking loser tell you "erm wow that's insensitive and we don't cultivate that toxic culture here"

Still too fast for comics. As a comic fag, most of the problems I see would no longer be a problem for my kind if the board was split between comics and cartoons. I'd still have to contend with webcomic retards and live-action shitters, but it would be a massive improvement.

The schoolmarming is absolutely maddening. Literally no fun allowed except for what they personally deem acceptable, which changes depending on their mood that tends to be fickle anyway because you just know all these faggots are on several SSRIs.

Astroturf properly means big companies like WB and Disney are behind it

It's been misused to mean some nebulous organized enemy is behind it, the grassroots and even bandwagon effect cannot exist anymore

site moderation on reddit is absoulte ass. my account was suspended for quoting the hangover movie, the "Paging Doctor Faggot" scene, on a movie meme page with like 4,000 subscribers. it wasn't the mods either, it was an admin-wide thing.

Yeah, keep pretending we can't all see the endless Anon Babble threads across the site where the same Holocaust denial and other anti-Jews images get posted. People "notice" what you're doing.

It's a new transitional Era.
It is okay to be edgy again, and it's okay to say shit like faggot and nigga.

It is just gonna take a few years for shit to reset.

edgy kids like this were always cancer

Oh no, not le heccin' holocaust denial! Oy vey, it's annudah shoah!

Is it really therapeutic when you do it several times a day every day? At that point I feel like you need a different outlet.

Right, I’m reminded that Anon Babble has this bizarrely high amount of namefags and tripfags for some reason

That's what blows my mind cause you could clearly see other users post more risqué memes or outright fucking porn and no that's totally fine so it'll be natural someone gets mixed signals on what is OK and what isn't

Doesn't matter if you're retarded enough to agree with it or not, it's routinely spammed in an organized fashion. It's exactly the sort of inorganic posting people have been complaining about in this thread. I know being dishonest is part of your strategy, but it's not even that hidden, people talk openly about spreading the propaganda. There's even regular threads about how to do it more effectively on Anon Babble.

I hope the 110th will be endlösung. It stops being a mere coincidence when it keeps happening over and fucking over.

There's even regular threads about how to do it more effectively on Anon Babble.

I think it’s funny that there’s no real point anymore, sense Anon Babble’s traffic is rapidly freefalling

I don't care what Anon Babble does as I've never been there in my entire life. If I see jew shit on here, I call it out.

Yeah, the site is more dead than ever. But since there's no barriers to posting and Anon Babble still has some lingering influence, propagandists use it as a dumping ground. It's a low hanging fruit.

I hate these teenagers RPing on here among real antisemites

le endgültige Lösung

kill yourself, retard. you will never be a german

and Anon Babble still has some lingering influence

To be honest it doesn’t really feel like it, modern Anon Babble has basically been hollowed out and has its skin worn by twitter

Its the digital inquisition

More like old Anon Babble was the headwaters of internet culture, and now it's just a React channel to tweets and clickbait.

Yeah I browse r/Anon Babble on reddit what about it?

Might be more accurate to say Anon Babble had an influence at one point, people who still hold that perception try to use it the same way they did 10 or 15 years ago, and with the difference in traffic and topics it’s more blatantly obvious when that happens now

the last time i remember fitting in on my regular boards was 2012. there was definitely a massive shift going on at the time and it just got exacerbated in 2016.

Spiderman. Nobody is reading or buying that trash when manga exists.

its Twitter's fault!

You're not fooling anyone goonbrain

When was it that Spider-Man threads became near unusable? Because it's not a recent thing.

youtube and twitter screenshot threads

Did you consider that broad drama topics simply cast a wider net?

cast a wider net

Apt metaphor, it's called "bait".

wut

How would.you feel if comics were rolled into Anon Babble instead, they aren't as biased against comics anymore.

Anon Babble has always been a coomer board, there's a shit ton of early flavors of the month waifus. Like of all the problems to complain about this is something that hasn't changed.

It's because it's filled with users who react and don't create now. Old Anon Babble was responsible for creating internet reaction image trends and iterating on memes before they were called that. It was stupid shit and not even that funny but at least it was anons having fun and not anons baiting and raging at each other for the sale of displacing their anger on the internet.