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>>18115 >/sthg/ is dead /fast/ is going to some interesting places at least. Pic related Seriously though, I'm pleasantly surprised by /fast/ >>18119 >Could 4chan survive this year? If we look at the current state of affairs: >50% drop in activity since 2022 >30% drop in activity since hack >probably a corresponding 30% loss in ad revenue >everyone knows the site's an insecure mess, so no one will want to buy a pass >jannies and mods phonebooked and demoralized >hiro somehow even more checked out than usual >alt-chan renaissance I don't think it'll die this year but I'm not sure I'd call it alive either. Saturday Night Live is technically still around after all. If they get hacked again I'm prepared to call it though
I'll just repeat this from last thread: >/sthg/ is dead It may have been a cesspool of some of the worst aspects of the fandom, but there was some good there, you just had to know where to look.
>>18138 eh, closer to 25% for global posts, depending on how you count. The site went from ~700k daily posts to ~550k. The bigger boards are the ones most affected. /vg/ indeed dropped by 30%.
>>18138 >>18139 I guess the idiot 4chan mods didn't realize that people wouldn't miss 15-minute posting wait times and would flock to any available alternative sites.
>>18141 A more interesting thing would be, did altchan activity rise by anywhere near the same amount? Of course, this would be impossible to measure; if for no other reason than that people may have flocked to other social media sites too in return.
>>18140 I'll argue yes, because the idea is structurally sound for an interesting viewpoint: someone good created by someone evil. That is a classic setup you can milk for all sorts of soap opera drama and interesting character conflicts that make a comic book run.
If she were introduced in Archie, with old Archie writers, she would have gotten loads of development and content. They woulda milked that drama like crazy. We would have gotten an Evil Belle arc, a redemption arc, a courtroom drama, a clue parody, we woulda gotten Belle with huge titties drawn by Butler, we would have had it all within 12 issues!
However, we exist in this hell called the present, where Sonic is treated more like a mascot than a character, subject to corporate oversight and heavy-handed management, and a stable of writers that seem reluctant to push such an emotional envelope, to put it charitably. When the majority of the characters in a comic have to be blandly relatable, safe, and level-headed, any fun storytelling possibilities with Belle can't flourish.
>>18138 >>18139 Yeah, it's pretty bad. We're one week post-restoration and things have stabilized at around 25% fewer posts. >>18140 Not a fan of Belle personally, but with some tweaks she could be a pretty interesting character. It's a shame she got upstaged by Sage. It'd be interesting if Belle tried capturing Eggman to turn him back into Mr Tinker >>18142 An anon looked into it here: >>>/baw/435404 IMO, anons flocking to altchans have seen just how not-shit imageboards can be and I'm guessing many just aren't coming back. Everyone now knows that the schizos and funposters are under the active protection of 4chan's jannies and that's not going to change. If anything, they're now even more concentrated. It'll likely always be the largest imageboard by post volume, but its cultural relevancy is dwindling. After all, an imageboard is only as good as the quality of its users Having spent so much time there I thought I'd feel bad about its decline, but honestly I feel nothing. And why should I when the people running the place don't?
>>18148 It'd be intriguing if the Robotnik Family has various traits >Mecha has Ivo's coldness >A.D.A.M. had his scheming/planing >Sage has his need of order >Belle has his want to, well, tinker see what makes technology tick >Junior has Eggman's love of theme parks >Shadow has their relentless drive via Gerald >Hope is a classic scientist, always building, always want to learn. Very mechanical. >Metal Sonic wants to conquer/prove he's the best
>>18148 Yeah, the only reason I go there is because new posts come quickly, but when every thread is a general, this is completely lost because I only see the same threads I don't care about all day long. So why spend time there.
https://www.deviantart.com/finikart/art/Comm-Under-the-sea-998850044 What an interesting choice for a daily deviation today! >>18127 I'll be sure to include it next time. >>18152 >lmao what The image is based on the early Archie story where Tails ate that apple that made him smart for a while.
>>18149 Yeah, it's a great way to explore his character >>18150 lmao >>18153 That person's always commissioning artists to draw barefoot Sonic characters swimming underwater Based!
https://www.deviantart.com/drowsystormcloud/gallery/76209092/jemy-au-comic-series >last page >Published: May 14, 2022 Sometimes I wonder what a person thinks when they decide to do a page of a comic years later.
7pm EST tonight, we continue Mortal Comics' Shadow the Hedgehog! I'm also going to update the Klonoa comic, so you have until then to get caught up! >>>/co/454356
>>18318 >Might do Drogune next week if there's interest Man I tried reading that because I like tomboys but I lost interest fast. Don't let that discourage you from storytiming it though.
>>18320 Fun fact, the Konductor does the exact same thing since he's been Iizuka the entire time. Don't believe me?, then have you ever seen Iizuka appear in public at the same time as one of our storytimes? Case closed! >>18322 The Klonoa fancomic I'm storytiming is actually a sequel of one of those. Looks like the site shut down, but might be worth digging up some of these comics https://namco.fandom.com/wiki/ShiftyLook >>18323 Yeah, the art's great and I absolutely love the character designs, but it felt like I was reading a wiki, not a comic. You can get away with it in traditional comics, but can't really get away with that amount of story decompression in a webcomic or graphic novel. Obviously it's not at IDW-levels of decompression, but at least 1/3rd could be cut or condensed
>>18324 >Fun fact, the Konductor does the exact same thing since he's been Iizuka the entire time. Don't believe me?, then have you ever seen Iizuka appear in public at the same time as one of our storytimes? Case closed! That just adds lore to this.
>>18325 I wish Sega would so something similar with their non-Sonic properties >>18326 Deepest lore! Just you wait, one day you'll slip up and add the Zeti OCs, and then I'll have all the proof I need! Now I'm wondering how Penders would've handled the current mandates. I'm almost certain he'd have grafted his Star Trek/Kirby/Bond lore onto the Zeti instead of Echidnas
>>18031 Sonic Desolation 4-29 https://sonicdesolation.tumblr.com And so we end chapter 4 with Cream stunned and Traumanic on the roof. I hope you all learned a valuable lesson on laundering someone's clothes without permission!
>>16965 Teaching of Fear 7-18 looks like the page numbers are fixed now https://www.deviantart.com/ora-ivory/art/Teaching-of-Fear-Issue-7-Page-18-1190522691 Rude!
>>18322 >>18325 Looks like someone archived them! Downloading now, as they might be good for a Sonic-adjacent storytime https://www.mediafire.com/folder/6xmv4xv4tmvvz/ShiftyLook
>>18327 >I wish Sega would so something similar with their non-Sonic properties Funny enough, Fleetway technically did that with Sonic The Comic with the various Sega IPs they showcased in that comic
For Mister Conductor I don't know if you know of this one It's ongoing It starts as Naruto and then Sally exists (I thought of you) https://www.deviantart.com/rad654/gallery/87692833/a-maelstrom-s-mobius-misadventure The commissioner says it's based on https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14035089/1/A-Maelstrom-s-Mobius-Misadventure but quickly looking there is no end to the story.
>>18333 Nice to see him finally get a win (for a few panels at least) >>18335 I remember that one from a few years ago! IIRC, he held off because none of the Mobians had shown up yet. Looks like Sally finally showed up this year so I might storytime it if the Konductor isn't interested
I don't know why people get Silver's characterization so wrong, it's literally just this >>18332 Those were actually pretty cool, and exactly what I had in mind >the various Sega IPs And sometimes Konami's! Man, I wish they were able to continue the Sparkster comic
>>18049 Chaos in Order Page 27 https://www.deviantart.com/maxsmonsters That's gotta hurt!
From the author: >The directions of movement in this one are dubious, but I can't just mirror a frame in tradition work, so it'll have to stay this way :grump:
>>18329 Teaching of Fear 7-19 looks like the page numbers are fixed now https://www.deviantart.com/ora-ivory/art/Teaching-of-Fear-Issue-7-Page-19-1191023287 So many cute twinks! They're actually people's OCs so I won't claim any
>>18354 SPFAU: Chapter 5 Page 20 https://www.deviantart.com/ebetto And that's it for chapter 5!
From the author: >SPF is not back on regular schedule yet, just catching you guys up to Chapter 6
>We had a whole deliberation about what the snake from the Mystic Jungle stage was supposed to be. And though it seemed like it would be based on a Boa, its fangs made no sense. So now this one is based on a Wagler's Pit Viper.
>Julian and Snively were part of a space expedition from about 2200 (or thereabouts). Julian attempted a takeover of the colony, but his technology got out of control and he wound up destroying everything, narrowly escaping with his (and Snively's) lives. Meanwhile, back on Earth, a nuclear holocaust had destroyed human life as we knew it - and the animals who survived mutated into sentient beings and built the society which you see in the form of Mobius. Einstein's ideas of the passage of time during faster-than-light space travel kick in and thousands of years have passed by the time Julian and Snively returned to find this "Animal" world. Well, Julian's thought was that in the land of the four-pawed critters, the two-handed man is king and so he set about to take over - as outlined in Blast to the Past. What did Ben mean by this?
>>18349 Teaching of Fear 7-20 https://www.deviantart.com/ora-ivory/art/Teaching-of-Fear-Issue-7-Page-20-1191355579 Knuckles looks so sad in that last panel ;_;
>>18358 >>18359 Fun fact: Kuta's movie script adapts that version, so you know it's extra cursed! I really need to get around to storytiming its storyboards >>18360 Make way for the superior pair of siblings! Sonic and Tails wish they had this style >>18362 Sally's eyes have finally beheld the OTP!
https://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/148493543 https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/148493543 And I'll post this here. Another issue I don't have to storytime!
>>18371 lmao >>18374 Yeah, those were great! I really hope they do more episodes >>18381 Now that's some Captain N-esque art! >>18385 >tune in next issue for the actual story to start! Oh ODW, you say that every issue! >>18388 That James guy has the right idea, IDW should hire him to write some issues! >pawpads >four (4) fingers >pawpad design on shoes, implying a non-blobfooted sonic How did this get through the censors!? >>18389 Making the top scars blue (they'd be red or flesh-colored) is probably how it snuck through. If you didn't know about top scars, you just think they'd altered his belly fur pattern to emphasize his pecs