/p/ — Where the fuck did everyone go?

>>4507583 (OP)
it's the whole website.
things were already declining then nosedived after the E-stein moot stuff.

>>4507583 (OP)
Dog snapping gearqueers, neonazis, and snoyboys killed /p/

You can revive it by contributing quality cat photos. Restore 4chan to its feline glory.

I stopped shooting because someone used my camera to film a sniff video while I wasn't around apparently. Sold it to a black detour that was at the snowed in party as a joke and he paid 400 matrix cash to buy out the same camera they filmed him with lmao.

Gotcha flem hours

~b~

>>4507583 (OP)
buy the dip

Photography became more and more readily available.
People did it as a hobby for a decade.
The realised they didnt make any money out of it.
They took fewer photos. Posted fewer photos.

I think it still has a place, this board. Its a good place to dump stuff, get it seen, talk about things that piss you off.

>>4507585
The funny part is each of those three categories are mutually exclusive. Dogposters are based and heal 4chan btw.

captcha and waiting systems are a pain in the ass sitewide

>>4507583 (OP)
>instagram spams people with images so much that content creators start using captioned video to get more information density
>the masses who consume media start preferring short form video over photos and then become conditioned to it
>photos, even very good ones which most amateurs could never hope to create lose value as media, cannot communicate or get attention with them as once before
>instagram as a platform for photography dies, the one platform where mass consumers in great number were provided to photographers to give amateurs a chance at recognition
>photographers slow to catch on, and facing sunk cost fallacy continue throwing photos on IG to get single digit or even no likes
>photographers finally catch on years late, and just give up or cope "i shoot for me"
>all interest for photography as a hobby online dries up, starting with small niche places like /p/ but even youtube has 10% the engagement on photography content it once had, and reddit is down over 80%

There you go bud.

>>4507643
>>all interest for photography as a hobby online dries up, starting with small niche places like /p/ but even youtube has 10% the engagement on photography content it once had, and reddit is down over 80%
do you have data for this?

>>4507583 (OP)
if anyone is wondering about the source of the stats in OP: https://4stats.io/

the whole site has been decreasing. its not just /p/

>>4507647
I think this place just doesn't appeal to younger generations and there's very little newfags coming to this site compared to 10 years ago.

>>4507583 (OP)
Personally I think the gay mods and the gay backseat mods who always cry whenever somebody makes a new thread is to blame.

Performative photographers finally got filtered by living in a post-simulation society. Global cost of living increases pricing out new photographers in ways that hasn't really been seen before. Indian mudflood diaspora to the west making the outdoors less enjoyable and less photogenic. Even if 4chan got new users (it doesn't) the gatekeeping influencer mafia who own wedding "photography" businesses are targeting mindrotted would-be hobbyists with a constant bombardment of information overload to scare them away and make this Fisher Price hobby for retards seem difficult to learn somehow and since they have goldfish attention spans, the psyops stick. Literally no one is doing photographers any favors. I don't think it's just photography though, people generally don't have hobbies anymore and everyone seems to be shambling around in survival mode instead of enjoying life.

>>4507583 (OP)
Blame the fujislugs and the staff that enabled them. When you have nannies banning people for making f/64 threads and leaving brandfag circlejerks up that's what you get. Sonyggers too helped sink the place into nothingness. Glowies and perfidious angloids trying to dox people didn't help either. And the mirrorlesscuck to AI prompter pipeline is also real. If you're content with seeing simulacra, some deformed shadows instead of reality, then it only makes sense you'll be content with AI. TCD.

>>4507659
Based and Baudrillard-pilled synchronicity

>>4507661
Now that I look at it again it was like 6 minutes apart, still synchronicity to me because the post loaded after I posted my own ))))

>>4507583 (OP)
I recently came back.
Anyway, this is the whole website. But to be /p/ specific, photography is an increasingly insufferable female dominant hobby raising prices for everything.
Even shit analog gear is now priced like new on my local second hand goods site

kek if you'd just draw a downward arrow on paint and write no text you would still get schizos to seethe about how photography is dead

The place is full of wankers who prattle

>>4507670
Inessantly about muh art and gear they never use

And fuck the captcha

>>4507660
You know you specifically are part of the reason why the board sucks now?
Remember when we had that poll thread where everyone voted for who they hate on here?

>>4507641
>captcha
>>4507671
It's probably the captcha. Having to solve 3 of them every time you post discourages people from posting.

>>4507583 (OP)
Scared away by pedo-in-chief cANON, ambush and CineFAG

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>>4507672
>remember that poll that us fujislug discord trannies brigaded?

>>4507712
Every accusation coming from you kikes is a confession

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>>4507727
>IT'S DA JOOS

>>4507727
>n-n-n-no you!
Can't wait for the glowies to put you in jail

>>4507621
Dogposters botted the most hated user poll
>dogfags on /p/
>i need a z8 to photograph my husky! FUJI BAD! FUCK YOU, MICRO FOUR THIRDS!
>Same, but I need a bigger sensor! 8x10 10000000mp dog! Muh medium format! Digislugs BTFO! Half frame is 50mp!
>oh no everyone is mad better erase the evidence of them being mad i win awoooo

>>4507726
It was you and your dogfucking friend who brigaded it. Explicitly.

>>4507726
Oh my dearest huskyfag why dont you post photos anymore
https://archive.palanq.win/p/thread/4460246/#4460343
https://strawpoll.com/Qrgewx9XQyp/results

For me, this:

The board culture here was never that great, but you could learn some in the olden days. Nowadays it is just a bunch of brand/meme shit posting, like that cANON in this thread going on about fujislugs and snoyboys. How does that in any way help me with my photography? It doesn't. And I'm soooo fucking done with it. Take photos with whatever you want, who cares? Sadly, just too many.

Sure, stuff like that has always existed, but it feels like every thread goes there nowadays.

And I've never felt safe posting my own pictures here, because well... it's 4chan. Were I to post my pictures I've always felt I could be doxed, or stalked etc. Which is on me.

And well, what little photography talk I need to have nowadays there are much better places to have. Mostly I just shoot pictures instead, learn and develop by doing.

>>4507757
>everyone
Classic schizo cope

>>4507760
If it makes you feel any better I've posted a few hundred images over the last few years, some with myself or identifiable areas, some linking to my actual site, and post enough to have a nickname here, and doxxing hasn't been an issue for me yet
Just look at what variety gets posted in RPT, most people don't seem to have a problem with dox either

Busy with college

>>4507776
Everyone misses you zach.

>>4507780
No, they'd much rather focus on themselves.

>>4507786
I perfectly understand everyone's opinion on this board and everyone misses you. Trust me. I would know because I know exactly how everyone feels.

>>4507794
I miss ArtReproFag

>>4507795
ArtReproFag aka ARF aka every dogposter aka ken rockwell.
Everyone misses him, but he didn't know how to critically focus a view camera to save his damn life!

>>4507758
Looks like only one loud sperg hates me, I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you were the one who put my name in that poll.

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>>4507760
>The board culture here was never that great, but you could learn some in the olden days. Nowadays it is just a bunch of brand/meme shit posting, like that cANON in this thread going on about fujislugs and snoyboys. How does that in any way help me with my photography? It doesn't. And I'm soooo fucking done with it. Take photos with whatever you want, who cares? Sadly, just too many.
Whenever I talked technique or pointed out errors constructively, I got fujislugs seething and ignoring the nuggets of truth I was handing out because I dared not be part of their cult.
>And I've never felt safe posting my own pictures here, because well... it's 4chan. Were I to post my pictures I've always felt I could be doxed, or stalked etc. Which is on me.
That's very sensible actually. The cases of doxxing and stalking here are numerous.
>And well, what little photography talk I need to have nowadays there are much better places to have. Mostly I just shoot pictures instead, learn and develop by doing.
Back in the good old days this had some really interesting content but you can thank the usual suspects for supressing anything worth discussing to enable the garbage.
This board used to have rich discussions, but over time the brandfags and dramafags took over. Brand circlejerks became a thing where you'd better praise everything a fujislug made no matter how garbage, because shooting with a Fuji and putting some white borders meant it was to be revered as art. So it went from a place where snapshits were shunned to a quantity over quality disgrace where "nophoto" was deemed an acceptable response to constructive criticism, where the attitude wasn't to learn to do better but to demand those having anything different from praise to give post a photo so that you can make up some bullshit reason to feel better about your snapshit. It's izzat culture, instead of trying to better themselves they try to make their critics look bad to save face.

>>4507583 (OP)
There was a core group contributing to the board, then casuals arrived, all of whom are zoomers. Since zoomers are mentally ill and scoff at accumulating knowledge or skills, the board died under a torrent of mental illness and snapshits.

>>4507805
Pretty much, they basically took a vibetographing approach aka know nothing, snapshit away and pray for the best

>>4507643
/thread
Everything under this is attention seeking from retarded namefags.

So, what is the future then?

Anyone got any ideas about what the future will be?

>>4507803
>Whenever I talked technique or pointed out errors constructively,
What would be an example of this?
> I got fujislugs seething and ignoring the nuggets of truth
What truth where they ignoring?

>>4507803
isi really did a number on you huh

>>4507871
They refused to acknowledge that his dog made any photo great

>>4507643
When I read posts like this I am floored by how feminine, fragile, and empty westerners lives really are. By allah you are unknown to passion and have never enjoyed life.

>>4507871
I'm talking about things like the guys who complain about their terrible image quality while shooting a still subject with the shutter manually set to nanoseconds and a sky-high ISO to compensate for that.
>>4507880
The problem wasn't "isi", in fact isi was one of the more knowledgeable fujislugs.
>>4507889
I have no dog in this fight.

>>4507583 (OP)
I went to Leddit and never looked back.

I followed the ex-users that actually take good pictures on Instagram and gave up talking about photography here.

I grew up and started a family.
This place was great in '08 but its just aged and gotten stale. I learned a lot from other anons here back in the day, now its name calling and gear queering.
I also hate the captchas.

It's just a shit place to talk about photography. The whole website has gone downhill for the same reason: each board is actually a shit place to talk about the subject of the board.

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>>4508850
this

>>4508850
I feel this way more and more as time goes on. Where is the good place to talk about photography?

>>4509230
FM

>>4507904
How did you grow up? I want to leave this place.

>>4507583 (OP)
That one obsessed autistic snoy schizo killed this board.

>>4509231
But everyone is so nice there. Im scared.