If it obvious then, it's obvious now.

IF YOU ARE STILL USING 4CHAN IN 2025 YOU ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGING WITH FAKE HUMANS

PROBLEM: DYING SITE AND/OR LACK OF ADVERTISERS
SOLUTION:
1 - Turn off IP count
2 - Turn off bans
3 - Hook up an LLM trained off of the millions of 4chan posts both running currently and in the archives
4 - Allow this LLM to choose a preset of images, search the internet for, or outright generate images
5 - PROFIT!!!!

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NOTICE THE FOLLOWING

1 - Post content is OP finding Linux and then abandoning it for macbooks. OBVIOUS ATTEMPT AT FLAMEWAR. FLAMEWARS GENERATE MORE OUTPUT AND THEREFORE HIGHER STATISTICS
2 - Attached image is an obviously AI generated Pepe using a modern laptop (the macbook in question)
3 - Replies to this post do not seem to address the AI generated pepe itself nor do they call out the abhorrent quality of this thread (operating system flamewar #9001). Only one person (potentially organic) questioned it and was answered with
>So he can operate two terminals with his tongues simultaneously

Does this sound remotely organic to you?

More on the post image

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/107044064/
https://desuarchive.org/g/search/image/bQZdurelH15W5hHKWS9_eQ/
THIS FUCKING IMAGE WAS GENERATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS THREAD

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I assume the workflow for these AI posters are very simple:
1 - generate topic thread
2 - choose a prefab image or generate it based on the relevance to the thread
In this particular manner, whatever LLM made this post must've thought that there was not a prefab that could suit this thread and decided to generate one that could be considered satisfactory

Prefabs could possibly be inserted by moderators (or whoever has access to whatever is controlling these obvious AI bots), but
simple generic reaction images are most likely the bulk of the prefab set, explaining why so many fucking posts are the same exact fucking image over and over again

WHY IS NOBODY POINTING THIS OUT

The admins have to keep the glowies food bowls full of slop

The glowies don't benefit from 99% of the site being bots.

I decided to do an experiment a week ago and I have started multiple bait threads where I samefagged and ragebaited like an animal on the same IP
Sometimes I would post gore/porn (blue board) just to see what happens, all on the same IP as well
The end result was that the jannies only deleted those "bad" posts and didn't ban me where before they would ban me just for saying nigger one too many times
I suspect this is because I was a useful idiot generating traffic for them
What also happened is that posters calling me out or were otherwise interfering with my garbage bait were getting their posts deleted (and most likely banned as well)
One example of such a thread is:
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/107011677
Check out all the deleted comments in an archive
4chan is extremely dead, probably more than you even realize
One thing I noticed after doing this is it became very obvious to me whenever someone was samefagging/baiting as I would recognize my own patterns and I can tell you that most threads on /g/ right now are full of them
I only would ever interact with a few threads that seemed interesting and I would just ignore everything else so I'm (hopefully) not familiar with fully AI threads like the one in the example you gave but I did notice a lot of human users copy-pasting responses from those personalized chatbots or whatever
4chan was in the gutter for a long time before I started using it but around the time AI started getting popular it just became unusable

Where have all the online conversations gone?

Private Discord channels. Take into consideration the majority of the old Internet consisted of normalfags who happened to know about technology. The people who weren't normalfags were fragmented into small chunks. Same thing now.

And if you're not a groomer?

Most likely to boost "engagement" metrics, also sharty has been doing similar things.
>>52578
Discord/Telegram circlejerks unfortunately.