>>205860632008-2011 was probably the worst time on 4chan, if it weren't for the 3 years that followed. it was a bunch of newfag cancer just repeating "memes" that they'd read about on encyclopedia dramatica to each other to pretend they had been in on the joke the whole time. then "cool story bro" and "you mad?" hit the scene and that was the worst time to be on the internet. we had to go through the caverns of irony and the depths of post-irony and finally ironic-post-irony before the misaki renaissance in late 2014-2015. it was during this period that i coined the term "shitpost" to describe the kind of posting i was seeing on 4chan. you may have seen people use the term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCgr3dj5mqY 