If it is dead then all they have done is turned off its life support machine. /r/ died in reality when it was overrun with AI requests. same girls being spammed in every single thread, it was like watching a relative slowly die of a terminal illness.
/r/ was shit. https://archive.is/2026.05.21-102104/https://www.wired.com/story/4chans-misogynist-wizards-are-nudifying-women-by-request/
only sad part is there is no place to ask for hentai sauce on 4chins currently.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)04:16:30
>>1565948 its suspected to have something to do with the take it down act (which came into effect on may 19th) and the news article i just posted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAKE_IT_DOWN_Act
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)04:39:36
maybe this'll finally kill the bloated corpse that is /b/
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)04:51:14
>>1565967 man how the fuck did /r/ get yeeted before /b/
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)04:53:25
>>1565970 /b/ is not getting removed before its 1B post
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)06:27:24
>>1565964 >only sad part is there is no place to ask for hentai sauce on 4chins currently. That wasn't even possible on /r/ for several years (well, you could ask, to no avail), so those requests would overflow to here
4chan in general is clearly suffering death by a thousand cuts. It's a relic from another age. A website like this can't exist with the profile/prominence it has in an internet full of AI shit Anyone with any brains has long since moved to the indie web, including smaller imageboards/textboards. I only come here to /wsr/ because it has enough traffic to get people to respond quickly.
And nothing of value was lost. (Except /f/. /f/ dying is a legitimate tragedy. There was nothing quite like it anywhere on the web.)
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)14:31:40
I had not visited /r/ for a while. Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board? It's not a good sign that 4chan bends the knee so quickly to this sort of thing. What does that say about the future of other boards? Are they suddenly going to ban AI now? Remember that it was discovered during the hack, that janitors wanted an AI board, but the idea was struck down from those above them. They could have made it a red board, allow for loli, furry, and put all the AI crap on the site in one place. Then, they could have made a sticky saying "no IRL edits". Then /r/ could have been kept alive. But these are the same people who killed /f/ because they are too fucking lazy to improve the site and find proper solutions to fix things. Instead, they'd rather just close boards.
>>>/trash/82963852
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)14:38:50
>>1565992 Smaller imageboards/textboards are all too slow and dead. If they weren't, I wouldn't be here, honestly. also rip /f/
>>1566019 Contemporary /r/ was just full of 3DPD and AI shit, I don't care about its death much. They could've fixed things instead of killing the board but whatever, welcome to new 4chan. It will only get worse.
>TAKE IT DOWN Act Literally nothing, look up Parents Decide Act. Everyone is fucked if that passes.
>>1566019 >Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board? Yes. Pic related was my front page most of the time after filtering out all the keywords used by slop beggars. >Are they suddenly going to ban AI now? inshallah
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)14:48:46
>>1566019 >Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board? Any threads not using the words "nudify" or "wizard" (/r/ cultural phrase for people capable of using AI) would be completely ignored and pushed off page 10 in maybe 12 hours. The board was unusable garbage, nothing of value was lost
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)14:52:20
It was a pointless board, as said here >>>/vg/567854048
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)14:57:13
>>1566020 4chan dies slowly by removing boards, one by one...
>>1566021 Were these irl edit threads, were they around for a long time?
>>1566022 Gotcha. Honestly they should get rid of /wsr/ as well, it's a slow board and its better to ask for things on the board you are on.
>Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board?
The board was hijacked by endless AI requests, it died in spirit long before they deleted it. They could have given ai its own request board, but the janitors would have been working overtime on /r/ to remove every ai request since no one ever reads shit.
One possible solution would maybe have been to only let the OP post and image, with all responses limited to text only. Don't know if the board software can do that, but it would certainly have been a way to limit it to being just a source request board again as the only replies could be in text.
>>1566024 The archive is still up (for now), it's a pretty accurate snapshot of what the board ended up being like.
https://archiveofsins.com/r
A couple years ago there used to be a trend of requesting "bubble" edits (covering up parts of swimsuits/clothes to make it look like a censored nude, you can search it in the archive for examples) and that gradually got popular enough to push 90% of the normal source request threads off the board. Then those got replaced with nudeshop requests, then the slop-pocalypse happened and suddenly /r/ was the de facto deepfake board. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)15:47:57
>>1566026 >One possible solution would maybe have been to only let the OP post and image, with all responses limited to text only. Don't know if the board software can do that >>>/news/
Thanks, wasn't familiar with that board. Guess they had an answer, but either never thought of it or went with the faster option.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:04:14
>>1565970 /b/ is literally run by the FBI. Only board which never asked for new janitors because they got their us government paid mods and posters.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:08:02
>>1565975 >That wasn't even possible on /r/ for several years (well, you could ask, to no avail), so those requests would overflow to here i did it successfully a few times in 2025/2026.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:08:52
>>1566027 I remember seeing a bubble thread on /b/ MAAAANY years ago. I found it hot for 1 thread and then moved on. Years later I foudn out that was the mormons doing it because their retarded ruleset allows no nudity or some shit. Like the dryhumping where thy lay naked on each other and have a pal jump on the bed to make them fuck without them doing the fucking.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:09:53
>>1566026 >One possible solution would maybe have been to only let the OP post and image, with all responses limited to text only. Don't know if the board software can do that, but it would certainly have been a way to limit it to being just a source request board again as the only replies could be in text. >>1566028 >>1566030 That might be a viable option but it might be awkward in some niche cases where the original drawing is deleted.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:37:28
>>1566031 no, that's because /b/ is supposed to be moderated only by mods this "rule" is also present on boards with /b/ settings like /s4s/ and /bant/
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:38:24
>>1566033 >the mormons Christ who can seriously believe in this heretic nonsense?
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)16:56:50
>>1566033 >the dryhumping where thy lay naked on each other and have a pal jump on the bed to make them fuck without them doing the fucking. That's a myth.
>>1566047 up.php looks/looked like unmaintainable garbage
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)17:47:50
>>1565964 Post it in a relevant thread on /h/, /d/, or /u/ then ask about it in another post. Google reverse image search is also significantly better than it was.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)17:53:47
>>1566053 >Google reverse image search is also significantly better than it was. no its gotten worse in some areas. it often wont accept hentai as a search image. and it sometimes has trouble finding stuff on twitter due to the log in wall.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)19:19:29
>>1566047 Are there any other imageboards that allow for flash files? It's already been a year and I still feel the emptiness inside
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)19:24:32
>>1566020 >Smaller imageboards/textboards are all too slow and dead. If they weren't, I wouldn't be here, honestly. also rip /f/ A. That's not even true B. This just shows you've been overdosing on dopamine. At this point 4chan is basically a social media skinner box but with 'likes' replaced with '(You)'s. Although it's been like that for over a decade now so IDK.
>>1566062 >That's not even true Well, yes. All of them? No. Most of them? Yeah, it seems that way. I have several imageboard lists saved somewhere but I don't really want to wade through excess gore and cheese, maybe even malware and phishing urls, to find something somewhat tolerable. I'll be forced to do it anyway if 4chan dies.
>This just shows you've been overdosing on dopamine. Like 95% of the population. But true. >At this point 4chan is basically a social media skinner box but with 'likes' replaced with '(You)'s. Although it's been like that for over a decade now so IDK. Correct. I don't know, there's no better site that's as active as this heap of crap. It's all bad.
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)20:09:11
They're going after rule34 sites and the lots too. AI literally ruined the internet, I mean AI literally ruined sad panda with the constant AI upload spams that they removed pages and replaced it with a "date selector" because maintaining the cost of servers is too expensive.
>>1566053 You should also try Yandex. It's generally a shit engine, but when it comes to images, it's really good. Don't forget to use ublock though.
>>1566061 Most of them are ghost towns getting like 1 post a month. And the few that get some activity just aren't the same as /f/. Some that I can think of the top of my head are: >swfchan.net >7chan.org >kissu.moe >hikari3.ch >heyuri.net Out of these, Heyuri has the most activity, but I heard that it's run by people who got the site by flooding it with cp and then offering the original owner for them to take over the site that has been generating him problems, so I don't really go there.
>>1566062 Idk, boards like /b/ were pretty fast even back in the day. Unless you're out of touch with time(I don't mean this as an insult, it happens to me sometimes too) and think that 10 years ago was like 2007 or something
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)20:17:14
>>1565964 No way this one article is the reason that /r/ got nuked, also the languages used reads like something of 2015, it feels like a time capsule to the tumblr days.
>>1566066 >but I don't really want to wade through excess gore and cheese, maybe even malware and phishing urls, to find something somewhat tolerable How did you even find this site with that attitude?
Anyway, yes there are, but nothing like a dedicated fileboard like /f/ was, just stupid vichan sites that add swf to their allowed filetypes. I haven't seen one in a while, but I doubt any of those even have ruffle embeds. We're left with pretty much just swfchan.
(Also while we're huffing nostalgia fumes, even all the m0ar clones I was aware of have been taken down except dagobah.)
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)20:21:56
>>1566073 >but nothing like a dedicated fileboard like /f/ was Welp >>1566068 proved me wrong lmao
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)20:26:09
>>1566067 Didn't e-hentai also change shit to webp? I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBP. Why the fuck would they do that?
Also why would e-hentai ever allow shitty AI to clog up their servers? Site should be for real art only. Too many websites allowing AI and they are getting overloaded with too much slop that will hit on storage and server costs.
>>1566075 >Didn't e-hentai also change shit to webp? >I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBP. Why the fuck would they do that? There's an alternative timeline where JPEG 2000 didn't flop and everything was wonderful
You guys 'member /rs/? /q/? The textboards? I 'member
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)20:45:05
>>1566078 I've got some stuff downloaded from /rs/ that seems to no longer exist on the internet
I also remember /5/
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)20:48:23
>>1566079 >I've got some stuff downloaded from /rs/ that seems to no longer exist on the internet I have a bunch of similar stuff too, garbage that I'm pretty sure only exists on my HDD now and literally nowhere else. I often wonder what to do with it. I uploaded some to archive.org but some of that stuff is a bit too /b/ and edgy for that.
>>1566085 >/5/ shitpost about number 5 >/fk/ a fake board "for kids!" with only one post
t. newfag who does research
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Anonymous05/22/26(Fri)21:19:31
>>1566075 >Didn't e-hentai also change shit to webp? >I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBP. Why the fuck would they do that? That's a perfectly valid image format here in 2026. If your image viewer doesn't support it, change image viewers. I have no idea why 4chan doesn't support it