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>>11920639 >>11920722 >>11920962 >>11923218 >>11926129 >>11926140

Ok, so basically the board is an unusable mess because it's run by a pedo discord, started by the tripfag pedophile SLT, that rapes his kids and shares videos of said rapes on his discord and in return sends his goons to mass report and shit up all threads on this board in order to get more people to migrate to his discord.

I wish I was joking.

>>11920631
Wtf, which year was this when this fag infiltrated /toy/

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>>11920649

>>11920625
This board, like many other more niche boards, is essentially on the verge of death. Getting rid of the IP count has made it easier for trolls to samefag, threads autosaging and no longer bumping after two weeks has killed slower threads, and all the problems with the hobby itself like rising prices, inflated shipping costs, and tariffs coupled with an ever increasing cost of living have led to a lot of collectors slowing down or getting out completely. We're seeing about a third of the average posts we did in 2021 and we're not getting many newfags since young people are more likely to discuss toys on reddit or other social media sites. Of the dwindling anons left, the shitposters harboring years-long grudges and those that have a hatred/obsession with the few that still bother to post pictures of their own toys have become a very loud minority.

>>11920639
like 2021 or something

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>>11920677

>>11920646
I'm not a newfag but I'm relatively new to this board and there's tons of nice anons here, knowledgeable people, quality threads, fun photos, the board has less trolling than elsewhere and what it does have is at least on topic. Just my perspective.

>>11920625
Just the usual /v/ nintentoddlers and /co/ tumblrinas shitting up the place like they have been. Varying degrees of capeshit still dominating all the major brands.

I used to collect glyos but the only discussions they have revolve around color schemes and being trannies lol. Like cool, you like the binkroid metazoid color scheme.. All the lore for these toys were in some shitty website game like 15 years ago so why exactly am I supposed to care about and collect every single color variant of these figures?

>>11920649
well, compared to a lot of forums and boards, /toy/ is nicer and easier to use, but it's no longer what it used to be in nicer times.

And what that other anons has failed to mention is that a lot of the shitposters are mostly third worlders and/or shills for Chinese companies. Their recommendations are generally ignored, but they shitpost a lot in "rival" threads.

Despite this board's depopulation, they act like they're reaching millions. So you'll see them bump dead Generals from time to time, to announce new products. And you know those Generals are dead, because nobody posts their own photos there. Not even the shills.

Also, apparently there are no girls on this board now. The Doll General died, despite being almost as popular as the Marvel General. Other niche generals that attracted girls, like photography/nature and gashapon also died.

Damn it. Looks like I shouldn't have went into coma these 5 years which was the ending of golden years.

Hit right on point from anons mentioning reddit and other various factors.

In the end, 4chan will die a slow death like forum since younglings do not embrace.

/salute to each and everyone of you out there. Thank you for the insights! I'll just enjoy whatever that is left here :)

>>11920659
True that. I remembered the 2 separate discord going at each other. Guess it's just old guards slowly dropping off now.

Are there any better places to go to?


>I'm too much of a boomer millenial retard to understand how to even find communities on twitter, instagram, and discord
>Nothing feels as good talking to people when 4chan was good. As in how the websites work.
>Twitter is a constant feed of short posts, reddit sorts by upvotes and is centered entirely on getting upvotes, Instagram is mostly just very shallow comments on pictures, discord is more of a chatroom and instant messaging than a board
>They're full of jannies powertripping and social drama. I know we have that here but it's so much worse on those places somehow. Redditors make me angry.
>Transgender/Identity politics are at absolutely insane levels. I seen some shit man
>Most of the action figure pics are hand posing which isn't a big deal but it's funny how popular it is and I don't get it lol


I'll just rot here with the schizos I guess. What the fuck happened. I

>>11920625
Basically moderation has completely given up on this place letting schizos like >>11920631 run rampant. It got so bad that they implemented a 14 day auto sage rule where threads stop bumping after two weeks regardless of how many replies they have. It's pretty gay. That basically killed this place so now it's the same handful of people constantly arguing with one another.

autosage really hurts on /toy/ because this is a slow board with few users to begin with. it absolutely ended the BST, which was a unique staple of the board for over a decade.
there’s also a fag janny here but that’s a tale as old as time

>>11920722
Valley Forge?

I still post here, but one regular general seemed to die off for reasons unknown. Even big annoucements went quiet on the general, so I figured if no one would talk about it or anything exciting then why am I here? I left to another forum that was active, and I am glad for it. Still sad to see. There is another general I frequent that is showing similar signs. A big announcement happened and only two people posted about it. Writing on the wall. I may be looking for another active forum for that general next. Sorry anons. I don't know where you all went and I wish you good regulars still posted here.
There are a couple other threads I frequent that seem normal but they also deal with active trolls too.

Is this Loss?

>>11920721
>Redditors make me angry.
boy you must HATE S.H.Reddit fags then

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>>11920631
Oh my god, is THAT why moderation on here's been so kind to NECAnon? This explains so much. 4chan toy board's felt like saying you're "mildly conservative" on Reddit for well over a year and a half now.

>>11920713
If I was the dude who runs glyos I'd be pissed off that my miniscule customer base is dying and will never grow because the glyos trannies scare everyone off with their gay discussions. A shame that one of the few independent toy companies will die off because of this. I ended up scamming a couple of trannies on the discord and bouncing lol

>>11920625
French pedophelia

>>11920981
I boycotted anything Glyos because tards would be like, "big drop in 3 weeks!". You'd wait, be refreshing the screen at the time they set themselves... nothing. Then like 8 hours later in the middle of the night, they'd drop, be sold out in 1 minute. This is a thing that happened so many times it got retarded. I just... ditched, 100% cold turkey, no Glyos ever again. Money saved.

>>11920713
the golden years were from 2008 til around Star Wars Black series came out.

/toy/ used to have meet ups and give aways, but the trolls started to really act up around 2013-2015, and started stalking and harassing anyone who was noticeable. First the tripfags disappeared. Then the namefags. And finally anyone who posted photos with a noticeable collection or room.
For the past decade or so, they've also tried to stalk/harass anyone with a noticeable posting style, but that's iffy

>>11921065
I can attest to this. I post with a pretty distinct background and whenever I post, for like five years now, some schizo has a meltdown and has to get all pissy about the dumbest shit. It's so gay.

>>11921133
the hater is most likely a poor zoomer just make fun of him for that, works for me

>>11921135
I do, it makes him really mad lol

>>11920721
>Discord just feels like a gated community - how the hell do we even find the invite link?
>The rest of social media is a sad sad state of human.

Same, I'll rot with you here then.

>>11920722
No wonder the archive list is so short now. It was a long list in the past!

Absolutely agree that auto sage sucks.

>>11920811
Which generals and forum? I'm interested to take a look, please.

>>11920864
Heh, nice one.

>>11921234
>>11920981
Lol, what a great rug pull!

>>11920995
I'm starting to understand why there's so many posts on french now.

>>11921065
You just reminded me of /toy/'s christmas santa! Bet that magic's gone too.


FFS, even posting in this format in long form is considered spam by the system?!

>>11920721
Yeah, all the alternatives being shit is basically this place's saving grace. Like a lot of anons, I was looking for somewhere else during that long crash in April and everywhere else was simply worse somehow. They either didn't encourage much honest discussion because they're all about likes/upvotes and other engagement bait or they were even less active than this place is now. More traditional forums are largely dead or too specific in the toylines they discuss.

Honestly if this is the only place you have, you deserve to be here in this rotting corpse. This place used to be good and you let it turn to shit. You didn't fight, you didn't care, you cheered it on, you mocked those who cared and fought, you let deceivers lead you astray. Hell, they are in this thread lying to you and you lap it up ready to buy fantastic stories with no proof as the gospel. You are stupid, you are lazy, you are pathetic. Sit here with the villains as they tear down the last vestiges of what was good here for the lulz. You could have helped you yggg TXcould have stood and you did nothing. So when every one decent left they left you here and now we all come back and watch you from the shore floating into a sea of shit on a rotten corpse for a vessel. You deserve this fate.

Honestly if this is the only place you have, you deserve to be here in this rotting corpse. This place used to be good and you let it turn to shit. You didn't fight, you didn't care, you cheered it on, you mocked those who cared and fought, you let deceivers lead you astray. Hell, they are in this thread lying to you and you lap it up ready to buy fantastic stories with no proof as the gospel. You are stupid, you are lazy, you are pathetic. Sit here with the villains as they tear down the last vestiges of what was good here for the lulz. You could have helped you could have stood and you did nothing. So when every one decent left they left you here and now we all come back and watch you from the shore floating into a sea of shit on a rotten corpse for a vessel. You deserve this fate.

Place is so broken can't even delete a post. Fitting

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>>11921289
>>11921292
your edgy shit is embarassing, so they didn't want to let you forget.

fake edit (because i can actually delete my posts): this place is still better than most anywhere else.

>>11921236
>>11921000
Yeah I feel like the dude that runs glyos is a retard afraid of success and money. Why the fuck doesn't he just do pre orders? There's zero fun in sitting at a computer for hours refreshing, wondering if this retard has forgotten to make his store live again, or if he forgot to list something that will sell out before I see the correction. Fucking dumb dog.

I scammed a couple of trannies for thousands of dollars and dipped lol. Bought a new PC. It's their fault for being trannies.

>>11921294
>I don't know of any place better so they don't exist
Sorry you didn't get an invite chap.
Have fun with the 50 people left here, a number that decreases every day.
I'm gojng to cut myself with my edge right out of this thread and back to place i frequent.
Maybe you'll get lucky and people will come back.
Wouldn't hold my breath though

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>>11920721
I tried reddit, but it strangely is not a friendly place for talking about toys. The most I've seen is 'look at this' with a pic and people posting 'nice' and 'where did you buy it?'. I don't see any conversations happening like 'what did you think about it compared to other models?' etc. Maybe they are having those conversations elsewhere? I'm not sure.
>>11921236
>You just reminded me of /toy/'s christmas santa! Bet that magic's gone too.
I did it last year for the first time ever. It was pretty cool, seemed like a lot of people participated. It made me feel great knowing someone here got the present and enjoyed it.

>>11921315
I joined an action figure reddit then found their discord which was the only place that had conversations but I dont really like discord so I never use it

>>11921315
Also maybe try more specific things

Also I cant even fucking use reddit because I just want to lurk so I dont get addicted to social media and now you cant look at old.reddit without an account.

>>11920625
There are just less people overall who post. And that means there's a bigger percentage of autists who sperg out and schizopost. Also, back in the day there were posts all the time. Now there can be large periods without any posts, and spergs may feel compelled to fill the void with ritualposts and forced memes.

>>11920625
>What happened here for the last 5 years?
shit's gotten more expensive so people can't afford stuff and rather shitpost. and 4chan as a whole had a fuckhuge surge of posters during the 2020s, just to be killed dramatically by a hack last year, some people simply stopped coming here, but i'm sure those were newfags anyways, the old community that you mention must have been driven off by these guys long before the site got hacked.
that said the internet in general is getting way too shitty because there's too many retards

>>11921298
must be one fun place that makes you come back for some (you)s, though you're still right in this post >>11921289

>>11921346
>shit's gotten more expensive so people can't afford stuff and rather shitpost
most of the shitposters were alerady major shitposters before COVID and Biden fucked everything up. see >>11921065

The people who used to post quality content started getting priced out and other people were harassed away. People like that don't turn into shitposters, they just want to enjoy toys.

Shitposters are shitposters from day one. They don't know how to behave anyway else. They own next to nothing too, so if you asked them to every post their shit, they'll have maybe a measly shelf worth of toys and usually of only a single brand. They've never posted quality in their life.

>>11920625
>Did they die painfully or people just left 4chan for other places?
Both

Discords are either super big with thousands of channels and roles and too much going on, or super small with nothing going on.

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>>11921532

>>11920625
>3rd party brick
I've been getting into cheap KO Chinese blocklego from AliExpress and even Wally's sell this shit and wanted to post some and get ideas for some builds. So I OPed a recent 3PB Gen but most people ignored it and 50% of the comments were anons bitching about LEGO or the OP image. People are just aging out, tired of the 4chinz BS, the captcha crap and tiresome bitching by a few.
But we had a Gen attempt in the last 3 months

>glyos
No specific insight because I don't care but they also tried a Gen in the last 3 months. Some Gens are not an EVERY catalogue thing - which again I think speaks to this site dying and killing itself.

>>11921315
Tried Toy SS twice the past two years, it can be nice and cozy, which is rare for this hell hole site. But that was also after doing the /co/ SS for more than a decade, and that has become a shit-show but its more random and anonymous.
I will probably do it again but this might be the last year I try to do something like it. The first anon I bought for didn't seem to enjoy the other (stocking stuffer, extra) toy stuff I got them in addition to the two main gifts - maybe more on me and my interests than on them but they didn't even bother posting pictures or acting at all excited, which took away from my experience and was really disappointing. He barely posted a thank you.
The second one was interesting to buy for because he had toy lines I had to research and look up. Not stuff I would get into, other than a tiny fraction from one company, but he was fun to buy for that reason, definitely interesting.
Both were big boxes and I paid about $15-20 in postage each and I know from eBay sales, that postage has increased 3x since last winter, so this could be my last year. At least at being very generous.
The picture sharing is the best part but it can also be a very slow moving thread. I thought it usually started in October but I guess it's November 1st?

>>11921472
Yeah Secret Santa usually starts 1st of November or on Halloween.

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>>11921396
I've been a /mega/ and /pbbg/ regular for a long time and regret greatly that they've struggled to last long, even merged after Mattel effectively killed /mega/. Thing is between full-time work and keeping /amg/ alive just about single-handed I don't have much time for that side of my interests. Even when I did post in the gen attempts it didn't feel like anyone was responding, /amg/ is lonely enough heh.

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>>11921666 >>11922863

I still do a little Glyos now and then, just not here anymore

>>11921592
Nice build, but why do you think glyos threads died? Trannies? Unprofessional drop practices? Underwhelming color schemes? Trannies?

>>11921666
Is it even a real toy line or mass hallucination?

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>>11921666
I just wanted to see what would happen if I stopped refreshing the thread, you guys got kinda stale around 2024

Even if this place (and all of 4chan really) is a shell of what it used to be, it'll always be my home.

>>11921315
I had no idea this picture of Cactus Owl existed. Neat.

>>11921666
Splintering that never got better after the old old forums shut down.

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>>11921731
>you guys
I gave up on glyos in like 2020, literally too many trannies and gay inside jokes and shitty, late drops
>>11921881
Glyoss dude is a retard for dropping the ball so severely. What a lazy, dumb retard.

>>11921666
they went to discord because like trannies they need a circle jerk

>>11921532
i enjoy your pics, but i haVe nothing to post about, so i don't post in AMG or whaetver its called.

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>>11921930
All good, the knowledge of lurkers still hanging around is comforting.

>>11921532
I had to look up /amg/ - but I have also lurked your thread. I have some similar type DC figures but they aren't 'military' and like the other anon, I never post if I have nothing to add. I suppose I should do a 'nicr picture' when I see one.
As far as the bricks, unfortunately, I was really busy in the two weeks that the /pbbg/ I tried to start was in the part of the catalog that gets attention and I really didn't expect to have to do heavy lifting. I don't mind OPing a thread and have done it for some of the big Gens and newer interests but I wasn't expecting to have to 'baby' something.
Also probably made the mistake of choosing what I thought was an interesting non-LEGO and non-obvious picture for the OP but that was everyone fixated about - not plastic bricks
What can you do?

Hasbro raised prices sky high

Everytime I want to post pictures I go to a thread and people say things so mind numbingly retarded it just makes me want to lurk if even that let anyone contribute. It used to be worse too because I'd get troll posts insulting my pictures when I tried to post in a certain thread. Right now something like that is happening in the Marvel General, someone's trolling someone and literally telling them not to post pictures.

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>>11921731
Stale like your scalping sales? How much money do you have invested in figs which you’re never gonna sell cause newbies get told you’re a piece of shit?

>>11921886
The owner is a different breed for sure, but he’s been running his own toy line his way for almost two decades now.

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>>11920625
The Flash flashes

>>11922177
>>11921887
>>11921881
Another thing that pisses me off about glyos is people only seem to post builds. I like the characters how they look out of the bags, they can look sick posed and in cool settings. Fuck builds.

>>11921980
I'll never forget you, /amg/ ice ring anon. You're the only one playing with ice.

>>11921592
Where do you go now? Discord or Instagram?

>>11921353
People making stupid /pol-tard bait posts had never helped the quality of this Mongolian basketweaving Pinterest wannabe
And yet entire boards are mostly that

G8 b8 OP. How many threads you farming now?

>>11922843
It’s a bit of an arms race at times too, some builds look cool but then I calculate the cost for the figures/parts used, and yeah, would much rather spend that money elsewhere

>>11922863
Nowhere, really. At least, not to a place dedicated to it. I'm not hard to find, but I'm also not interesting to talk to.

>>11922843
I never gave a shit about Robo Force (and now, Kent obviously doesn't either). I just like building with the parts. I do like the idea of Travelers, especially the part where they're purpose made to fit in your pocket, but honestly I like building more, and Glyos is cheaper, more durable, and easier to get than Mugenbine.

>>11923110
I haven't bought any more in a couple years. I have lots of parts in a decent splay of colors already. If I did buy more, I'd probably get more of the Kabuto x Weaponeers combos that TGB is still selling.

>>11920631
this is true

>>11920625
Honestly a big part of it is just the overall decline of the more niche hobby boards on 4chan. It's not just /toy/.
From my own experience
>/mu/
Completely failed to adapt to changes in the newer music scenes and how they work or are discussed. It's insane how hard this board has fallen when you consider that it is very largely responsible for the initial explosion of vaporwave/ocean funk and these have been the starting point of all sorts of musical and cultural nostalgia. But now the board is largely dead, the only active part is the kpop spam.
>/tg/
The sort of projects that used to start on /tg/ have been eaten alive by discord. The increase of scale in 40k "content" has also made half of it "the 40k board".
>/cgl/
Eaten alive by discord. Was already slow but crawled to a stop with 4chan's reputation becoming more and more partisan/political (it always was, sure, but there is a clear before and after r/thedonald invasions when it comes to moving from " 4chan is full of weirdos and nazis" to "4chan is MAGA extremists meeting place" ) making everyone scared of selfposting or being too open about actual projects, of fear of being ousted as "posting on the nazi website" on other platforms.
Also the sharty incident caused a loss of posters that the site has not recovered from.

>>11921065
>>11921133
I love toy posters and owe them for getting me interested in toys again. Schizos aside, there's people who appreciate it.

>>11923155
Not shitting on your build at all, builds can be cool but it's all anyone posts. I have a few roboforce figures I got years ago, I love the way they look. To be honest roboforce builds are the only ones I actually pay attention to. I want to see some cool battle scenes with dudes from different factions, and dudes from totally different waves. What's the point of cool colorways and named figures if people don't use them to make cool battle scenes??

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>>11923643
Fighting? Too busy digging up dinosaurs, sorry. I'm not worried about what anyone else thinks about my builds, I post em because I like em.

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>>11923643
Post your own pics anon, let’s see what you got! Pic unrelated.

>>11920625
The thing is anon, it's not even this board. It's the whole site. Every board is either overwhelmed with schizoposting and drama, or it's dying a slow death because of the shift in what the internet is anymore. I'm all over the place, but the only places people seem to have authentic, sincere discussions that don't get derailed by bullshit are, unironically, discord: but only small communities that gatekeep religiously, which means they're impossible to find, at risk of becoming a circle-jerk, and typically even more quiet than this shithole. It varies by community and subject matter, but the death of forums and the rise of short-form communication and content has genuinely left no space for people to actually talk about a shared interest. Reddit exists, but because of all the younger people who never learned how to articulate a complete thought, it's usually not any better than twitter/etc. Tumblr can unironically have decent discussions for certain hobbies, but it comes at the great cost of all the other problems with tumblr, so that's a nonstarter. A lot of people genuinely seem to be going to Facebook Groups to actually talk about hobby shit, from what I can tell. Obviously, that's not appealing to most posters /here/. I don't just think this website has changed, I think the entire internet is rotting from the inside out. I think, too, the reason people stick around places like this is because there's just nowhere left to go. For all the bullshit on this website, somehow the people in this shithole are the most human people left on the internet. Everything else is "content", -farming of some sort, or literally AI posting into a void.

TL;DR the entire internet is a hollow shell of bait and artifice and there's nowhere left to talk about hobbyshit except dusty, dying corners of the old internet like this.

So what do we do about VF? He's clearly banning people willy nilly for no reason. He's on a power trip and it needs to be brought to the staff's attention.

>>11924776
>but only small communities that gatekeep religiously
Fuck those places.
This is why message boards became hell, because there's no new blood to keep the place interesting.
Literally the reason why i came to 4chan, because creating circlejerks is harder to do here.
Even pissing in the wind sites like Twitter started becoming circlejerks, so even giant sites aren't immune to it. Discord isn't decrepit yet because it's still relatively new.

Once you have your ingroups, the place becomes death.

One of the few places that actually got revived was neogaf, because all of the holier than thou assholes mass exodused to Sodom.

>>11924825
>So what do we do about VF? He's clearly banning people willy nilly for no reason.
VF is the one banning???
That piece of shit! I'm the guy who shared my story to him of meeting Michelle Forbes, and I was digging for my pic with her when that asshole banned me for the last time for an on-topic post I'd made, and I literally haven't posted since. I just checked in to see if there was anything else interesting from NYCC and saw this thread.

So FUCK YOU VF. Fuck your banning horse shit. I was being nice sharing my story and was in the process of looking for a pic to share with you and it turns out you were the psycho faggot that caused me to leave this fucking shithole. I got tired of being banned for being on-topic and sick of the trolls picking fights with everyone. This board deserves its fate. This is what I got for being nice. Asshole. Power trip with the last remaining posters. Nobody needs to participate here, and you've chased off enough decent anons.

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>>11923597
I'd say it was definitely more absurd than anything else; I miss the times pre-2016. Mostly genuine geeks posting here, and the occasional retard. Before FAGA politics started shitting every board up.

>>11922863
Instagram is designed to data harvest and has all the problems of something like Facebook or xshitter.
The only reason to use Instagram is if you think your toy content is interesting enough so then you could use the site to your advantage to monetize your content - primarily so you can afford more and better (or simply more expensive) toys, ideally.

>>11923597
People are getting older, some got married, had kids. Wasting time on-line isn't in the cards for them. Especially when they get attacked, see people they view as innocent or, at least innocuous, get attacked, plus shit like the captcha BS. There's clear demonstration to the year plus before Moot sold, when he was clearly already checked out, to the new regime.

It's sad when it comes to toy posting boards. Facebook, meh, lefties with "Free Palestine" avatars just blocked a lot of non-lefty people, making boards I visited for years and had great times with people just went to hell, tons of posters i liked missing / trying to create their OWN boards. 4chan, you get some mod or mods letting people like NECAnon just ruin thread after thread, telling everyone they're liars and retards, yet the people trying to just document their toy experiences are the ones that get banned. Then you have Reddit, where you can sort of get good communication on toy boards, but if lefty retards even smell a hint of pro-conservative in any of your other posts on the site... your account is perma-banned, just vanishes under "repeated violations" even though you've never had a moderation in your history. I really don't know WHERE you can go online to talk toys without getting F'ed over by mods and having your discussions deleted on a countdown timer basis. So damn annoying. We need like, a 4chan, with smoother pic uploading, and no damn censorship. Discord maybe, but meh... ...still run into mods that suck and it's easy to "lose" a topic after a few new posts. God, I just want a place where you can call a person a "retard" if they're a retard and continue talking toys with people that know the hobby.

>>11925205
>I wish there was a safe space for nazis
Pretty sure truth social was tailored just for you

>>11925205
>mods letting people like NECAnon just ruin thread after thread, telling everyone they're liars and retards
...
>God, I just want a place where you can call a person a "retard" if they're a retard

>>11925205
Well you are a lying retard. And a whiner too, good lord.

americans are too confrontational to ever have anything nice so they dont deserve a toy forum, its why japanese twitter is way better when it comes to talking about toys and thankfully gatekeeps all the gross americans out, thank god we can shit on american toys in peace and laugh at their failing economy

>>11925352
>laugh at their failing economy
Sorry but this is cope, most of the world is under economic strain and the US economy is doing better relatively than most. I wish I made burger bucks instead of dollarydoos.

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>>11925352
>thank god we can shit on american toys in peace and laugh at their failing economy
Hmm...

>>11925363
trump let russia take ukraine because he needs diesel from them, holy fucking shit your country is full of indians and browns what is this cope. for israel?

>>11925372
show me the graph that breaks down how many american companies make toys that people want compared to japanese toys that people want

>>11925373
None of that babble counters what I said.
>your country
I'm not American.

>>11924968
>>11924825
He's an attention whore who has gotten banned and been proven a handy in the past. The whore is not a mod but it's likely a butt buddy with someone who is plus he's been a paid up trip fag for years now. Unless he was posting child porn or doing something that would bury the site, of course they will favor him and give him his way over the average anon.
Why do you think people stopped engaging here?

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>>11925435

Everything is just fine and working as intended at the tarbaby honeypot.
>Community was replaced by terminally on-line autistic/OCD shitposters. Who wants to effort post for the failed tictock wanna-be influenza left?
>Faggots defending their reddit credit izzat on an increasingly irrelevant and dying anonymous sub board by non-stop thread shitting is never a fun read.
>The ability to hold conversations utterly devoid of meaning here is unparalleled. Not re-rereading this circle jerk blog again.
>Jelly turdys and soýtard r/saltyblogs proving the Dunning-Kreuger effect as ideologues opine the same regurgitated script every fucking day.
>Weekend at Bernie's site propped up by crest bots, shills, rot brains and trolls. Contributing feeds AI and the trolls on an anonymous site that harvests and sells your data. Moot knee-capped 4chan before he sold out and Heroshimoot chose not to update the site for 10 years and pocket the cash instead. Chicken jockey was inevitable.

As for the replacement posters...
Do you believe the children are our future? Toddlers with tablets & phones instead of toys...
Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents.
Future doesn't look so bright anymore. Literally and figuratively.

Once a month lurking for gold nuggets in the mined out turd of a site is just an exercise in futility at this point. Toys are an off-line activity anyway.

>>11925417
is there a reason you retarded faggots continually ignore all the research and evidence that gen z is geting into older technology and prefer owning physical media and by extension toys? jesus fucking christ always doom and gloom with you boomers

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>>11925435
>gen z is geting into older technology and prefer owning physical media and by extension toys
He's talking about gen alpha with the tablets and phones over toys part. The oldest members of gen z are 29 at this point.

>>11925487
and those parents are clueless millennials while zoomer parents seem to be doing a better job because they dont have money and have to be creative in how they raise their children

>>11925435
they don't know any kids, dude.
They just look at memes and thats all the facts that they need.

And they don't even like to read either. There was a study posted here almost a year ago about how adults are making up a larger portion of toy sales, but only read the headline part that sensationalizes the article. IF they bothered to hAve read the study, they'd look at how adults making up ~<40% of toy enjoyers, but since sales jumped up so much higher, that's what journalists are embellishing to attract eyeballs.

>>11925493
What? Gen alpha is literally the stupidest generation yet. Most of gen z can't afford to move out of their parents home let alone have kids.
>because they dont have money
That's one of the main reasons parents give their kids a tablet/phone over toys. It's a one time purchase that keeps them busy infinitely over toys that constantly need to be replaced with the latest thing.

>>11925502
>That's one of the main reasons parents give their kids a tablet/phone over toys.
holy shit you are so fucking stupid, millennials have the dumb kids because of over spending while zoomer parents are doing better, which is why theres a majority of dumbasses

>>11925509
>millennials have the dumb kids because of over spending
And the whole point was that they were doing the opposite of overspending, you illiterate moron. They spend a few hundred on a phone/tablet and that's the ultimate distraction for their kid for the next several years compared to toys where there's always something new to buy. And again, the vast majority of gen z doesn't even have kids and the few that do are very young so I don't know why you think that's even relevant.

>>11920625
Everyone you know and love is dead!

>>11925536
thanks for the iPad mom, now also
>buy me a phone
>pay 45+ for its service monthly
>buy me a spotify sub
>buy me a netflix sub
>buy me a disney+ sub
>I need icloud storage
>discord nitro would be cool too

A lot of well throughout responses here and I think we need to add the following: When Twitter/X went from high restrictions to "do what you want" and worse gave means to monetize posts, that drain a lot of 4chans traffic, where this site went from record breaking highs to extreme lows in counts. The only reasons now to post here is if your behavior is so outside the box that it would get you blacklisted, you are so chicken shit to the idea of sharing your when it's attached to a "profile", and/or you are just stuck in the habit.

That's been the biggest reason this site has been rotting, it's only function left is to the most insane and cowardly, it's not 2012~2018 where whatever toy posts you made here stayed here and you didn't have to worry about jeets and comparable taking your shit to use on their X accounts. It's not 2018~2023 where half the shit you said got you blacklisted/banned on most sites. The web has changed dramatically. Ironically you could bring this place back to life by reducing the anonymous nature(IP counters, thread post IDs, etc) which would surge traffic but I wager would make those of you that are still here leave.

>>11921234
>Discord just feels like a gated community
It is, and for good reason. Think of all the shitheads that make things bad here, the only way to keep them out is to have a somewhat stringent vetting system that makes sure they won't just stumble on your Transformers community or Gunpla scene. Drama still happens but when almost half are people you know irl and the other half are people that had to really make an effort to get in the place you tend to navigate better and feel everyone is debating in good faith and not just to be mad at something that isn't them and/or their life.

I feel for some of you anons but I'm not going to risk ruining a nearly 200 person toy/rpg group just so you can have faster and better conversations. Have you seen the shitposters here?

>>11925779
>I feel for some of you anons but I'm not going to risk ruining a nearly 200 person toy/rpg group
>The only reasons now to post here is if your behavior is so outside the box that it would get you blacklisted, you are so chicken shit to the idea of sharing your when it's attached to a "profile", and/or you are just stuck in the habit.

Fucking Faggot, you go on about openness yet keep your discord goomer circle jerk closed, probably has fags and troons in it too and any opinion outside of whats acceptable gets you kicked.

>>11925786
This is what I'm talking about.

>>11925812
go back to discord, tranny

>>11925779
>Ironically you could bring this place back to life by reducing the anonymous nature(IP counters, thread post IDs, etc) which would surge traffic but I wager would make those of you that are still here leave.
I've wanted all this for years now. They never should've removed the IP counter in the first place. Like the autosage, it did nothing but make this place worse.

Discord as a whole's never really appealed to me, though. Especially once they started talking about needing to see IDs for age verification.

>>11925819
all discords are gay too and have woke faggotry rampant

>>11925779
I just hate discord and I'll never use it. It's been so predictable watching it turn from "it's IRC but better!" into "it's IRC but much worse".
Groomercord, twitter, reddit: as soon as you attach a username to people, something about the discussion dies.

>>11925841
discussion dies because faggots are obsesed with status and attaching usernames makes it a circlejerk for faggots wanting to frot with each other

>>11925841
>as soon as you attach a username to people, something about the discussion dies.
Old-school forums didn't have this problem, though. I think it's the likes/dislikes becoming so prominent that really fucked things up. Made everyone start choosing their words more carefully and thinking the most upvoted post is right or "won".

>>11925841
I'm in a private discord channel with a very small number of alt comedy fans. It used to be a great place to actually have a laugh but now it's been completely dominated by a tranny who posts his unbelievably boring and depressing life like a blog and everyone in it just acts like he's so amazing. Just a completely poisonous mind virus.

>>11925877
Status was totally a thing in forums in the 90s and 2000s, it was cringe back then too. The difference is that no one got banned for retarded reasons, people had no fear of calling people out on cringe or gay shit. That's impossible now.

>>11923708
Post more glyos

>>11925335
Point well over your head. The person calling people retards isn't the one who gets banned, just the people defending themselves. Be fine if they could troll AND be called a retard in kind, but like with France burning, they know they can do what they want with no repercussions, no matter how intellectually dishonest or nasty.

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>>11925898
nyeh

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U Knoe whom needs a Permanent Rangeban?
>>11920743
>Toyfags explain to me...
>11925030
>I'm the "what's your...
>11924912
>The Toybiz Bat cave...
>11922628
>For $35 in today's...
>11925915
>The State of /toy/...
>11922452
>What's your response, /toy/?
>>11925798
>Strange that picked a...

...and most of the low effort/trash/ragebait/duplicate/spam threads he farms and trolls. It's why we have 14 day autosage.

The way to fix it might be found here
>>11926027
Or just keep making useless bitch & gossip threads op. You will never be the change or a with real woman.

>>11925779
>Ironically you could bring this place back to life by reducing the anonymous nature
Worst idea ever
Tripfags were hated since forever and then they were harassed out of 4chan by around 2013
The vast majority of all posters who came to 4chan come to not log in to anything and just post. These people just want to talk about the shit they enjoy.
The vast majority of people who come to ANY place to shitpost are actually a tiny minority and they'll shit up ANY PLACE even if they're made to log in or not. I belong to neogaf and the purple place, and they're very picky in who they let in. With neogaf, it can takes years to get an account approved. Yet neogaf needed to range ban an entire country due to a few shitposters who kept making up new accounts and seemingly posting from many cities/territories apart. Other forums do the same shit, banning entire countries, but due to VPNs, they still manage to get keep on shitposting and only get banned after they cause trouble
Do you really want 4chan's best feature in ease of posting to disappear and take years to even get an account?

The only reason your super secret toy/rpg group is fine (for now) is because nobody knows about it. IF it ever got popular, you're going to attract shitposters no matter what.
But even if you keep it unknown, one of your members will lose his shit and will want revenge, taking it out on everyone else. Implosions happen all the time

I used to belong to an elitist group way long ago and that imploded despite everyone being hand picked. Even an offshoot group that branched out from the fall out imploded, despite being known professionals. Funny enough, I've seen them posting /v/, anonymously posting about their life. Oldfags as fuck and some of the best people I've ever known. Some, because theres always someone(s) who's got a rotten core and it'll spread to the group

I've been around long enough to know most groups die out in a year if you don't get constant new blood

>>11925819
>They never should've removed the IP counter in the first place.
It never mattered in the first place.
Exclaiming VPNs and dynamic IPs was always an excuse to call someone samefag, and very few people even looked at the IP counter anyway.

IP counter was basically just to known if a thread was popular or not, and even then, people would say threads weren't popular because samefag would post from different IPs to make it seem popular.

>>11920631
fuck slt and his pedocord. All of them should be publicly executed

>>11920631
Nothing more pathetic than a toy board full of schizos LARPing about discords and mass-report goons. Touch grass (or at least a toy).

>>11926140
pedo spotted

nta but he's got a point
why post here if you're bored and need to create these fake scenarios in your head
this is a slow board, always has been, find another

>>11926124
>It never mattered in the first place.
Disagree with that much. Blatant samefagging definitely got worse when the counter went away and trolls no longer had to put in the barest effort. Thread Ids would accomplish the same thing but better, though.

>>11925877
Post count and date joined was the status symbol on older forums. More posts means you had seniority and many people would take the side of whoever posted the most, even if they were wrong. It still happens a bit today even in the forum I go to.

>>11926251
you might as well blame the disappearance of the IP counter on post count going down and the 2 week auto-sage too.

By the time the IP counter went down, all our problems were already magnified due to fewer people posting. So trolling seemed worse because the amount of shitposters remained the same. it only takes a single troll to shit the place up too, since we all saw how one kept on creating troll threads and bumping old threads.

And like i said, the IP counter never mattered, because people didn't care, because they'd claim VPN and dynamic IPs. Were you even hear when we were going to get our sticky? Nothing but bitching about how we needed post IDs, because the IP counter never mattered.
I mean, even when we DID get an IP counter, it was almost immediately dismissed, despite it being seen as important.

Basically, the IP counter is like a buy-fag buying the latest greatest toy ever, preordering it 9 months before release date, hyping it up in thread after thread, and one week after placing it on his shelf, it's forgotten about and he's become itchy for the next greatest toy of all time he just preordered.
Shit like the IP counter is never enough, hence people in this thread thinking we all need registered accounts, ignoring the fact that most forums and chats collapse in a year's time due to bad seed members and circle jerks.

>>11926511
We also have a rogue mod that bans people without actual reason. He thinks everything is "trolling" no matter what. He needs to be dealt with before this place can get better.

>>11925721
None of that stuff is necessary purchases, and even if you get a few the yearly cost isn't much more than a few figures these days. when you can get two 6'' figures or a game, the game seems far more better as a deal.

>>11926667
Yeah, I had a whole reply typed out to that post yesterday but then my browser crashed and I figured he wasn't bothering to actually add it up anyway, so there was no point. A phone's an inevitability regardless and most of the other stuff can be shared free or gotten discounted if the parent already has an account anyway.

>>11926569
THIS. It really does seem they're there to JUST make no one want to come here. Posting here feels like I accidentally walked into the "arguments" sketch from Monty Python, except there's no resolute punchline at the end. You just get yelled down so you leave and take a hiatus, occasionally coming back just long enough to see if that mod's still there, still turning people away from here.

>>11926511
The niche boards always were lower traffic.
Possibly there were people who were willing to be more active, but the captcha cut that down. Unless you can show that the IP count was going down before the captcha BS became something (which pre-dates HiroMoot, since it was simply the fact that Google decided to wanted to charge for their captchas that some sites moved away from them to these other things).
But the IP count isn't cause and effect - the 14 day auto sage is a bigger issue because that lead to the problems of threads not even hitting image bump limits or thread bump limits, with a few die-hard exceptions.
Finally, the busy threads are largely busy - no matter the gen - because of stupid arguments and shit-posting. It's not content that people rid, but skim, skip or filter out. And it happens pretty much in all the big gen. Some are just worse than others about it.

>>11927507
i was being facetious.
The IP counter had nothing to do with anything. IT was nothing more than a safety blanket to hide from the monsters under your bed. It was deemed important, but was forgetten about the next minute, because most people don't look at it or think it doesn't actually work, hence wanting IDs.

As for actual IP coutn, or poster population, that definitely does affect us. Like most people have witnessed, it only takes a single shitposter to troll an entire thread. How many people do you think were involved in bumping threads, which led to the 2 week auto-sage to be implemented?
Go look at how many people don't actually own a toy a General is About versus all the people who do. It takes a single shitposter to ruin that thread, even if there's 30 people who want to post about their toys that thread is about
It goes without saying, if that single shitposter stays and the overall population decreases, that shitposter's goes from being 1 voice out of 30, but 1 voice out of 20. So their voice is now louder

Them being more noticeable then leads to fewer people wanting to post
And if you've been here long enough, you'd know how true that is. there's always been shitposters who only come to threads to shit on a brand. there's always been shitposters who stalk other members. The difference between shitposters in 2026 and shitposters in 2012 is that there were waaaaay more people posting about how cool their toys are. It was way easier to drown out the shitposters when everyone was posting photos of their cool toys, instead of being one of three people who ever regularly post their toys and a shitposter telling them their taste in toys is shit. No one wants to be harassed like that everytime that they post

also, if you want a work around for the 2 week autosage, just create another thread as soon as it autosages. Oh wait, you get harassed for wanting your thread to actually be visible and bumpable because not everyone uses the Thread Watcher

Thread IDs would probably solve most problems in this site, except it'd further show how few people actually use it.

The /toy/ meet ups at Frank and Sons back in the day were fucking fun. Time flies by and we're getting old.

>try the discord during site downtime
>nobody talks in the open channels because everyone is wanking it in the hidden pedo one
are there really no good places to talk about toys on the whole internet?

>>11928257
There's a /toy/ discord? Oh god, what is that like?

>>11928261
I think it's some pedo honeypot

>>11927515
>It goes without saying, if that single shitposter stays and the overall population decreases
The site does know the IP count. We are all guessing that this is happening (and I agree with you that it is) but some of those single posters, trollers, shit-posters also sock-puppet their own fucking posts. That's why the "stop talking to yourself" is so frequently leveled against the attention whore who has been derailing the DC Gen for the past nearly two years (and probably more). Legends has too many people talking about comics and too many of the toys fans are casuals who care about the MCU and don't really care that much about comic accuracy (and this is coming from a long-time /co anon) but at least their trolling and shit-posting tends to be the kind of personal attacks that have been common on 4chan since I first lurked (probably 2010?) and they don't necessarily derail threads. One or two people may get butt-hurt feelings but they usually toughen up and come back.

>that shitposter's goes from being 1 voice out of 30, but 1 voice out of 20
Again, the site knows the actual facts
They know the loss and legit advertisers are not paying for 1000 views when they know a healthy chuck are false dupes even if the site claims 1000 "unique visitors" per thread day, or whatever 4chan presents to advertisers
So if the site doesn't give a fuck that this is a dead and dying hell-hole, why should we (see >>11926952 or >>11928189) - they inability to post was a nice break but it wasn't long enough, and most people who actually contribute probably take longer actual breaks away - and likely don't miss much
And 4chan's owner doesn't care, so clearly the mods don't do anything different.

>>11928450
Thats slt lmao

>>11928450
How long did it take you to collage all that shit together god damn

>>11928450
>implying the other asshole baiting him constantly isn't the issue

>>11928633
>saying you don't like something about the figure is baiting.

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>>11928415
>so clearly the mods don't do anything different.
they do something
The problem is that VPNs and dynamic IPs exist. They try to ban certain people all the time and shitposters get around it, thus the 2 week rule to combat a shitposter.

A dedicated troll ruins it for everyone and the reason the 2 week rule is so bad is because of the population already dwindling and the fact a vocal people are against creating a new thread once the old one can't be bumped anymore, thus those vocal people start trolling the new thread because they think everyone uses the thread watcher

pic is example of a shill getting caught and all his posts getting deleted for a few weeks, but he ran rampant afterward once he learned how not to get caught.
If the people who can view much more personal details can't ID them, what can an automated system do?

> the site knows the actual facts
Sure, but the thing that stops most people from posting is a vocal shitposting minority having a bigger voice.
You know why a lot of people stopped posting their pictures? Because they started getting stalked and harassed by that minority. 10 years ago, there were many more people posting their pictures because they were way more people posting pictures versus the shitposters. 5 years ago, the picture to harassment ratio was much closer together, which made even fewer people want to post pictures.
Getting IDed doesn't do shit to stop that and a whole mess of other things shitposters do.

Like i said before, i used to belong multiple places with very stringent memberships and it doesn't change a thing. Sometimes the harassment comes from the people in charge and circlejerks are extremely common, especially when people can lord their IDing over you (post count, seniority, mod/admin-ship, etc).
Point of entry is the best way to combat that, since ease of use also increases the amount of people willing to use it. And that's what made 4chan popular for so long.

>>11928625
You should try not being a schizo, Jesus. You are the problem here.

>>11928633
The guy making the collage is the one that's been causing all the trouble on the board for a while. Does nothing but shitpost and pick fights with people.

>>11928644
There's a difference between criticizing a figure and going out of your way to bait a known autismo into getting into an internet argument with you. There's clearly one guy who constantly baits neca anon into getting in a fight with him. I've called him out numerous times as being just as, if not more, annoying an disruptive than neca anon because this guy is going out of his way to pick a fight with him. So yeah, neca anon is an annoying fuck who can't help but defend his favorite brand, but at least he's not deliberately trying to antagonize another anon into getting into a years long grudge match. Really, they need to just exchange phone numbers and get married or something. They're clearly in love with one another.

>>11928450
Take your meds.

>>11928450
You're a psycho

>>11928689
>>11928703
NECA sucks ass tho

>>11928727
No, they don't. Get a life, spaz.

>>11928727
>>11928730
You two are so perfect for each other. I wish you'd just fuck already.

The schizos are now in the meta thread? Who wuddavthunk?

>>11928691
that's wild, false, but wild

>>11928768
No, it's quite true

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>>11928792

>same as it ever was
same as it ever was
>same as it ever was
never change

>>11928786
Oh god we're back to pre 2016 levels, whatever shall we do? It'd honestly be a breath of fresh air if it weren't for all the jeets and bots posting.

>>11928792
That's what should make you depressed as that implies are numbers are far worse they are just being inflated

>>>11928826 implies are numbers are far worse they are just being inflated
?
Someone explain the charts to me, because they're just showijng post numbers, right? So how would it imply they're inflated?

>>11926667
>>11926675
Financially illiterate retards

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>>11929229

>Farm fresh, totally organic sealions say what to the sockpuppets?
We are so back!
All answers were posted. Pop quiz on Monday.
If you can't stand the dead, get out of the graveyard.

>>11929051
He's saying because if a significant number of the posts are now being made by bots and shitposters who will each make tons of posts a day rather than pre-2016 levels where it was mainly normal posters mostly making a few per day, if that, then the number of real posts is much lower than shown.

>>11929152
oh, so its just a schizo post i should have ignored

>>11929137
I just learned what sealion was like 2 hours ago and then I see this.

>>11929229
Spooky how shit’s connected

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>>11929698

The last display thread was really good. Lots of new displays. I follow them closely, they remind me of how common it was to see 20+ different IPs/brands in the same thread. It's just about the only one i'll post on any more.

A lot of valid stuff has been pointed out. Captcha, aging out, trolling, mods, prices, autosage, so on.

What hasn't is ignoring all the nonsense. It used to be someone would have to troll/shitpost so incredibly hard to get attention. It would have to transcend its initial shitpost form into something very funny. Otherwise that Anon immediately got drowned out by the next on topic post. Shitposting got acknowledged way less. Sure there was way less of it but still.

Someone talked about getting recognized/trolled for recognizable displays or whatever. I get it. There are Anons that only post the same background every time and it works, they can post whatever else they want and not be recognized. I don't care or post any where else but I understand those who do.

>TL;DR Regular/novice pictures were the norm, way more IPs, humor, and themes.

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>>11929390
One of the problem with trolls is that they make it hard to ignore them. They'll sink the thread and make new threads out of a temper tantrum. They get away with it, so it keeps happening. I don't know what the solution is though. It is insane that people literally exist who's goal is to make other peoples lives miserable for no reason whatsoever. Just an absolute nightmare.
Maybe one solution is to repeat what happened when the site went down for about a week or two. Do another long term maintenance period with no end in sight. It seemed to temporarily move the trolls away because it cut off their misery life support due to not being able to post, leaving them to go elsewhere hopefully forever. It felt like older 4chan for the first couple days upon return.

>>11921133
Cube Cuban pls stop

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