>>2826 >>2828 I believe it's just exchanging owners now with a planned rebranding. >>2829

>>2829 >alt-internet porn derangement That's a good term for it. >One half of the net went full /trash/ open gooning, the other turned into rambling e-puritans. The duality of 'foo. To be more serious I can understand both ends of this spectrum of reactions. "No. I will, in fact, not do what you are attempting to tell me to do" is a very common motivation. Some people see these characters and their minds go immediately to a particular subset of topic matter. And stay there. And they can't shut up about it. And they post visual aids that could give you visual AIDS just from looking at them. I came to the 'foo from 4chan and I know how bad things can get. It's always been part of human nature. Augustine of Hippo was complaining about too many people being uncontrollable horndogs seventeen centuries ago. And historically there have been times and places where strongly anti-sex attitudes, the kind we'd call puritanical now, were common, and they go back much further than the Victorian Era (which was itself a reaction to the extremely raunchy Georgian Era). A lot of these people, eras, and groupos, were reacting to the opposite extreme. I get it. Anfoo represented an attempt to gatekeep and mitigate the worst of the hornyposting. I don't know Floof. I don't speak for him. It seems like he is willing to tolerate a little hornyposting, without which you get Avfoo and its chorus of "die in a fire GOONER" every time someone says "That girl is cute." But if you don't gatekeep hard it turns into /trash/ and people show up posting HDDs full of fetish stuff involving characters drawn to look about eight years old getting tortured, raped, and vored. Maybe Floof got sick of dealing with it all. If that's what happened I can't blame him. Maybe it was half that and half all the people riding his ass and bitching at him to stop adding new flags and emojis and concentrate on just keeping the wheels turning. I can see that getting hard to keep seeing over and over day in and day out. >successor >>2830 >rebranding I hope you're right. I stopped reading yesterday afternoon. There was a conversation with several people offering to take over, then I got the impression he changed his mind. I decided it was too depressing to read any further and I haven't been back to look at it any more.

>>2831 What catches my attention is the >young adult part, which tells me he is a late Zoomer who is perhaps dealing with all the stressors that come at the beginning of adult life, and for that, I can't blame him for prioritizing his responsibilities. This does, however, leave much uncertainty about the future of the community, but I hold out hope that things will be okay. Though more importantly, I wish for you to be well.

>>2826 >I am not sure it'd be appropriate either. This is an established community with its own userbase. There has already been some friction. I anticipate perceptions of an attempted takeover and a great deal of resentment. I don't think it will end well. I mean, I wouldn't mind some anons from the foo dropping by if the place went down, although I will admit to not being terribly fond of soyjaks.

>>2833 yikes

>>2833 >although I will admit to not being terribly fond of soyjaks. We're not fond of them either, the schizos that used to obsessively post them are all gone by now

>>2826 Damn, this is the first place I've heard an explanation for what anthro foo is supposed to be. Hopefully the replacement pans out.

>>2828 >There was a story I was writing. There was art I was working on. I wish to see it please, if you do not mind sharing. I believe there is value in creation, no matter how incomplete. The expression of the idea is what matters.

You'd all be fine to come here provided that you don't expect the board to be a churn of posts like "hiiii frens" and "henlo :3". I think most anons here are a little tired of that kind of performative lingo and would prefer everyone just said what they meant. >working on art, working on a story You should keep working on them and share them here. Creation is the most important thing we can achieve as humans. >In all seriousness I feel kind of bad about the situation. And I feel bad that I feel bad, if that makes sense. >On a certain level it seems kind of shallow and entitled to be depressed about this. >I shouldn't be so depressed about this. You have asperger's and you're young. It happens. The 2010s were a decade of psyops that affected the whole world and it seems the 2020s are continuing that apace; we'll be living in the shadows of psychic warfare mushroom clouds for our entire lives, most likely. Just take a deep breath, slow down a bit, and you'll be fine in the end. The reason I feel strongly about creativity is that it provides one a personal, indisputable grounding with himself that can never be interfered with or dissected by an outsider. You know what you like, and you know what you find beautiful and true in the world.

>>2832 >>2839 Thanks. Just now I don't feel very creative at all. I hope no one minds if I borrow some of the last art being posted on the 'foo. It is the eternal exodus. Imageboards seem to be dying off. I will not pretend to understand how or why. I have given up on 4chan due to the persistent low quality of its moderation. Whenever I find a little altchan and begin posting there, it very shortly dies. Goddamnit no, not again, maybe I can find another place to funpost about cartoon foxes.

>>2884 >I will not pretend to understand how or why That part is no secret, at this point everyone knows shitcord and twitter are the main culprits. The real enigma is how to keep the remaining embers lit. The fact that much of the remaining imageboards userbase became unstable paranoid schizos is certainly not helping.

>>2886 "Tradition is not the worship of ashes. It is the preservation of fire."

>>2833 im coming in from there. honestly jaks are one of my main problems with the site right behind the nat soc spammer that doesnt even seem to like anthros.

is there ant oc art on this site? i mean id love to contribute but i cant replicate the kemono style well despite my best efforts and it seems theyre rather selective here and i wouldnt want to force myself where im not wanted

>>2892 there's a whole art thread nigga, though it is bumplocked as of recent. me and at least one other guy have been posting in it for over 2 years

>>2893 Not the guy you're responding to. I think his question is more about non-kemono-style art than about whether art threads exist at all. There are rules, of course: https://capybarachan.org/kemono/res/381.html If the board owner says he wants strictly .jp style kemono art here, that's his prerogative. Exactly what "kemono" means, where the limits are, what is considered kemono and what isn't, are not questions for which I have any answers beyond "read the FAQ."

>>2893 i have been told im bad at looking for things >>2894 i mean i have a question about the rules. i know its kemono only and western styles get banned and i get that the owner has his tastes. thing is theres also rule 6 to be supportive of oc. does that mean theres some more leeway if the actual poster made the art so long as its trying to be kemono or am i reading too far into it

[link removed] my cord im VikingTiger btw, cant figure out how to change name

>>2898 Ah, hi there. Have an Averi.

>>2898 Discordfaggots are the cancer killing imageboards

>>2898 This isn't /soc/ or a forum, so names are disabled for a reason.

Hi guys, today's the day. The 'foo is already locked and the backend has been moved too the new domain (https://anthro.boo) with some annoying issues like wildly inconsistent ping for live messages and rate limits--which is why I came here. Hope the new admin gets it figured out soon. >>2828 I had never known this history, thanks for sharing even if you don't have all the details

>>2904 >anthro.🅱️oo

>>2892 I can't say I've see many, or even any, kemono insect OCs. Go for it, provided you don't act like a fag and expect people to follow you to walled NSA gardens like Discord. >>2898 >cant figure out how to change name That's a feature, not a bug.

>>2906 He probably meant "any," but "ant" is funnier. Especially when you then say >That's a feature, not a bug.

>>2827 they're not the same. the boo/foo userbase is more mature, averi.foo's on the other hand are mostly under 18 teenagers, the way they post shows it.

Is this now an Averi thread?

>>2934 She is a smug li'l shid and she is fun to doodle. I regret nothing.

Welp. That didn't take long.

>>2943 That sucks.

>>2944 >"hi! I'm gonna shut down the site!" >"where did all the users go? all I said was that I'm pulling the plug, don't go yet guise, lol" >"It must be that gosh-darn Discord that stole all my users. It certainly can't be that people read my sudden and unexpected announcement of impending shutdown that caused everyone to leave." Many such cases.

>>2948 it's almsot like people were already gone before he made the announcement

>>2950 The 'foo never had a lot of traffic, but when a site's administrator suddenly says "I'm shutting this place down, lol" it does not surprise me to see everyone running for the exits. Floof did it and more than half the users left. Less than a month after taking over and promising stability, the new guy has, totally unprompted, said "so, guise, I'm thinking about shutting this place down." I'm calling it now. Half the remaining users left when they read that post. There is no point in participating in an "online community," and I use the scare quotes because I am fully aware that it's an oxymoron and an Orwellian neologism for parasocial behavior, when you see a message from the guy who runs the place saying "screw you people, I'm out of here." You can't un-ring the bell. You can't un-say the words. I am not attributing any hostile intent here. I'm just saying the consequences were predictable. I'm not good with people, I don't understand human nature at all, and I've got a letter from my doctor saying I've got the 'tisms. And even I saw this coming. Even my fumble-fingered grasp of human nature, which probably lacks opposable thumbs, suffices for me to comprehend instantly and intuitively that when you announce a shutdown, people leave. It isn't "muh Discord stole muh users." It isn't "the kids today, they're all too brain-fried from muh Tik Toks and muh Cocomelons and muh legal weeds to appreciate what we have here." No, the bartender leaped onto the bar, fired a shotgun into the ceiling, and yelled "CLOSING TIME!" People left. And because they left, they aren't going to see it or read it if the site owner says "just foolin'," or "there's gonna be a new guy," or "we're going to continue under a different name." Because they're gone. They saw the announcement and said "this place too? Goddamnit no, not another one," clicked the X at the upper right corner, and went back to binging the Photoshop Phriday archives at Something Awful, or listening to bad AI covers of 1990s grunge music on Youtube, or playing Tony Hawk's Underground in an emulator, or trolling /pol/. They're not coming back.

>>2951 it was already over, no new people joining and no way to have new people to join. you can't bring stability to a sinking ship. the site was doomed from the start. shutting it down is the only reasonable decision in this case.

>>2953 the new site, that is

>>2953 In the 99% chance that you are frog, you made up a problem and went hysterical over nothing like a woman does. Calm down and stop this gay depressed teenager faggotry. If your site was dead, no one would have responded to you, and this behavior only shows you don't value the people who do still return. You're going to kill a niche part of the internet and then wonder why everything online is fake and gay now. Pic rel from their art thread. There's still people who care, and the site means something to them.

>>2955 You're not wrong. Maybe the single thing that irks me the most about the situation is that the 'foo was growing. It had just hit its all-time high number of concurrent users when Floof announced the shutdown. Small altchans aren't dying. Little imageboards aren't dead. There are people out there who want a place for anonymous funposting. I am not the only one unwilling to send in scans of my ID and dox myself to talk about cartoon fox waifus on Facespace. People were coming. The foo's userbase was growing, right up until the day floof said "I'm shutting it all down, lol." I'm not claiming that anyone did any of this out of malice. Floof has a life and I have no claim on his time and energy. If fronge wants to shut it down, I cannot make the argument that he somehow owes it to me to devote his time and resources each day to keeping the site going if it's not what he wants to do with his life. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying anyone did morally reprehensible things here. I am saying, however, that there was an audience, and it was growing. One of the things that is fundamental, one of the basic, foundational assumptions, when you begin frequenting a little imageboard, participating in discussions, posting content, creating content, is that it's going to be there tomorrow. When you seek out a little niche place to talk to your fellow autists about our little niche interests, if the plug could get pulled at any instant, there's no point. They're anonymous strangers and you'll never meet them, you'll never know their names, but you talk to them civilly and you make stuff for them, and it's fun. When the site owner announces that he's going to turn the big machine off, it all feels like a waste. It all feels pointless. Why would you stick around? You feel like you might as well leave now and beat the rush. You might as well look around for some other place to post the goofy Maid Marian pictures you drew for that one funny guy who uses all the emoji. Maybe you can find a new place that'll have cool people who like this stuff. Maybe the new place won't vanish in a little puff of electrons in a week. Maybe. Maybe?

>>2943 >look it up >"hornyposting" gets (partially) blamed lmao This solidifies my belief that the staunch anti-porn types on imageboards are unstable and not any saner than /trash/ gooners

>>2957 They're likely right about some things, but their wider solutions tend to be badly thought-out.

>>2958 It could be worse. Some people don't think at all.

>>2961 KEK

>>2958 The 'foo always had horny posting since it's inception, and only those who wanted the site to die took issue with it. None of the admins ever thought it was "the" problem, the only problem are people who use a website they hate always. >>2956 You should join the game and movie nights we have

>>2964 floof/lys fucked up by associating the site with the sharty and also being a discordfag with ties to awful people. weren't for his own fuckups things would be a lot better

>>2965 I think this wasn't really avoidable. The 'foo was created as a refuge for the sharty's kemono enthusiasts. I think it was baked in from the start. Ironically it was the influx of /HMOFA/ enjoyers during the various 4chan outages that diluted that influence and made it much more tolerable.

What/how many altchans are online? Is there a list or history of them somewhere? I never went on /trash/ so I didn't learn these things. I assume based on OP that those are basically all the kemono places online.

>>2964 The foo didn't always have hornyposting, back when it was first made the rules were adhered to a lot more, over time people from different sites (4chans trash, reddit, twitter etc) joined and admins got lazy, stopped enforcing rules and the place ended up looking more like da jerdee with every passing day. >You should join the game and movie nights we have Those were kino. >>2970 >I assume based on OP that those are basically all the kemono places online. All the kemono places OP knows of.

>>2969 Wow, so when you exchange cancer given human form for dudes who are actually into fluffy girls, the fluffy girl themed board improves. Who would have thought.

>>2970 >What/how many altchans are online? No one really knows. There are people creating new ones all the time. Old ones get shut down all the time. >Is there a list or history of them somewhere? https://allchans.org/ has been created as a sort of information center but it is, unavoidably, always out of date. It's not updated until volunteers bring new information, and so on.

>>2969 >The 'foo was created as a refuge for the sharty's kemono enthusiasts. I think it was baked in from the start. it shouldn't ever be. associating with a stale cesspit full of angsty, terminally online children and pedophiles is never a good thing. if the site wasn't a refuge for shartoddlers, there would be no bad rep, no off-site raids and fewer drama, and also the shitty averi.foo splinter-of-a-splinter would never exist.