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NOT another "/b/ Vs. /gif/" thread Anonymous
I don't wish this to be another lame ass "/b/ Vs. /gif/" discussion, but I do see /gif/ today as the GOOD /b/ of immemorial times -- well, not so far away either to be honest, but I'd say /b/ was good and nice since its creation (together with 4chan as a whole, in 2003) up to the very ending of 2004, and maybe the beginning of 2005. Heck, I was there during the Happy Negro frenzy in 03-27-2004 and it made me shit my pants from all the laughter.

Back then, there were interesting discussions in /b/. People didn't complain about politics -- in fact, the discussion around it were quite popular. Memes didn't use to be created by the second and they weren't forced. Comments were, in its majority, made out of sense in response to a previous one. Threads wouldn't magically/simultaneously disappear and be thrown 3 pages behind as you refreshed the page. People didn't feel the need to use incorrect grammar and ponctuation to express their ideas just because they were in /b/. It was rude, it was raw, but it quite still wasn't a place where 12 year-old-AOLers would reign supreme and in abundance. Yes, we used to laugh over the disgrace of others and loathe gay shit, but it used to be in a very peculiarly refined way. In short, /b/ was simply a board for pics that wouldn't fit in any other section of 4chan -- random in its original nature -- with people only showing a little bit more of their true cruel selves.

I am saying this because I see /gif/ today as the good /b/ of those times and that's why I hang around here infinitely more times than I do in /b/. Heck, I don't even visit that board anymore, and I considered myself a "/b/tard". Not sure if I'm the only one that feels like this, but is there anyone with me here? Well, I don't know, perhaps I'm thinking too much about this while I'm here, too.