>>26"Current events" can include anything from that sandnigger terrorist attack in France, to the alpha release of Rust, to the latest episode of the currently airing anime of choice, you
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>>252006-2009 it was decent. The users were mostly NEETs and neckbeards discussing computers, technology, occasionally electronics or programming, and fending off retards from /v/ asking for advice for their "gaming rigs." It was a place where you could talk about Lain in peace.
Around late 2009, the iPhone achieved critical mass. So began the ceaseless onslaught of normalfag teenagers, nay,
children, who for the first time in their sophomoric lives had a reason to care about "technology," soon bolstered by the release of the iPad in 2010 and the eventual surge in Android "smart" phones and tablets. Slowly, the conversation began to be dominated by boring consumer electronics comparisons, actual technical discussion was branded "autistic", and anyone making even the slightest reference to anime would be met by endless whining and shitposting by absolute fucktards that couldn't even fathom the irony of doing so on a site created to discuss anime. Around the same time, the link to
/prog/ was set up, and the /sci/ and /lit/ imageboards were created. This infected
/prog/ with a virus that only last year showed relief when we moved here and left most of the /g/ros behind, turned almost all of the other textboards into ghost towns before their eventual euthanasia, and begat an exodus of the remaining people worth talking to in /g/.
In short, in the space of a year or two, /g/'s demographic shifted from "the technical side of /a/ and /jp/" to "where /b/ goes to get tech support and advice on what they should ask for for Christmas." That, and a small cadre of naïve Stallman drones mindlessly regurgitating FSF propaganda into deaf ears while ricing their tiling WMs and web brogramming.