>>2162314you're clearly new here. /out/ used to be one of the friendlist boards on 4chan, you wouldn't believe it was part of "the asshole of the internet"
that all changed since COVID, a bunch of newfag board tourists from the popular boards like /v/, /pol/, /b/, and /k/ started flooding here looking for "muh epic survive le apocalypse innawoods tips". The problem is none of them had any clue of what /out/ board culture was, and thought this board was just another dumping ground like any of the popular boards. Like you said, imagine if they dumped a bunch of /fit/izens onto this board all at once, it would quickly turn to to shit.
The problem is /out/ was always a slow board, which kept the odd troll or two away, since they would get bored and leave because nobody would respond. But when a bunch of newfags visited all at once, they started replying to each other, trying to derail each others threads, and it just went to shit. A lot of the oldfags who would contribute to discussions and post outdoors OC left. Those who remain are bitter and are the people you see constantly telling newfags to GTFO.
It's sad, old /out/ was really a special place. I don't know of any other place like it on the internet. Backpacking forums are too serious, reddit is too amateurish; there was no other place to find a good balance between serious discussion of the outdoors, having a place to casually share OC without long trip reports, and also occasional funposting our inside jokes.
That all is gone now, because newfags believe every board on 4chan should be treatinged like /b/. Just look at what happened to /tv/ and /lit/; those used to be serious discussion boards back 8 or 9 years ago, and are indistinguishable from /pol/ or /v/ or any popular board now.
