>>56605001Modern-day 4chan is probably the greatest “artificial engagement” site of all time, which is really saying a lot because Twitter is currently jampacked with shitty bots and blue checkmarks (and blue checkmark bots).
Every so often I mull over why the IP counter got removed, but I always end up thinking that, at bare minimum, that it’s partially because this place is trying to hide how fast it’s bleeding genuine users and how most threads are just fake interactions. Even the fastest boards like /v/ would top out at around high 60-low 70 IPs at bump limit, but think about it even harder:
>Phonefags using mobile data, which adds a new IP even when it’s the same guy who posted from another device earlier>Chronic ban evaders>Actual bots>Severely mentally ill samefags>Several posts are made by drive-by posters who only make like 1-2 posts, so the vast majority of each thread is carried on the backs of a very small amount of people>Bonus Round - there’s so many recognizable dumbfucks that the amount of actual “anons” is even lower These days, I feel like 4chan is entering it’s swan song: threads are so insular and have so few people in them nowadays that it comes across like some genuine uncanny valley type of feeling, where you know that something is horribly off and inorganic.
