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The story
A thread on “Nandemo Jikkyō G” — better known as NanG — on 5ch has sparked debate after a poster claimed “this board is nothing but washed-up old men whose lives are over,” pointing to the aging of its userbase. Some argued NanG’s average age crept up after crackdowns on lewd-image threads and a drop in visitors funneled in from aggregator (“matome”) sites, while others weighed in on how NanG’s crowd differs from that of its neighboring anti-corporate (“kenmo”) board, Edge. Commenters traded impressions like “five years ago it was full of young social misfits, but now it reeks of kenmo,” lobbing mutual jabs between NanG and Edge regulars until the thread turned into a self-deprecating debate about the very nature of the board itself.
What people said
Why not go hang out in a community with your own generation?
Are you isolated in real life or something?
But mention something from just 10 years ago and it's suddenly too 'new' for them to keep up.
Doesn't seem like you can hold a conversation.
You've already gotten riled up, assuming this is generational trolling.
A properly aged old man wouldn't snap back at every little thing.
'Life is over' 👈 that's the key part right there.
This wasn't originally a spot for old geezers to begin with — if anything, they're the invaders.
NanG itself always felt like a landing pad for people funneled in from aggregator sites.
Edge isn't any different, is it.
Edge's manners have actually gotten a lot better lately.
Meanwhile you're sitting in this closed-off little bubble trashing another board based on your own self-serving delusions.
NanJ folks aren't even interested in politics to begin with.
Compared to Futaba (another major Japanese anonymous imageboard), this place is way better — no, seriously.
If Edge is really that good, just go enjoy yourselves over there without worrying about NanG.
Honestly I don't feel much difference between them.
I use both, and it's mostly the same affiliate-marketer types starting the same threads on each.
Whether Edge is fun or boring isn't really the point — threads like this only exist to poke fun at people who feel a sense of belonging to an anonymous message board.
Same crowd that uses the Chiikawa movie (a hit cute-character anime film) as a bludgeon in the movie threads.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The phrase that kicked off this thread — “this board is nothing but washed-up old men whose lives are over” — is a self-deprecating label commonly thrown around on anonymous message boards, not actual data on the board’s age makeup. NanG (Nandemo Jikkyō G) is a board once known for its lewd-image threads and copypasta culture, with a reputation for skewing young, and it’s often said to have “aged” following stricter content regulations and a drop in visitors arriving via aggregator sites. At the same time, the thread is also full of back-and-forth over how NanG’s userbase differs from — or stacks up against — its neighboring anti-corporate board Edge, with much of the exchange really driven by rivalry between the two boards. What readers should be careful not to misread is that the age references scattered through the posts — “50-somethings,” “the Ice Age generation,” and the like — are purely gut impressions drawn from the posts themselves, not the results of any actual survey by site administrators or a third party.
※This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyō G) thread “Isn’t this board nothing but washed-up old men whose lives are over?“
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