I've been asked in the past who my favorite anon was, and I would either jokingly say myself, I hate everyone, or something stupid like that... But i did have a favorite. Pic related, Brookeposter. It was a guy/girl/tranny who would post pictures of their doll. The threads were always dumb, pointless, and sometimes brookeposter would let the attention go to his head. But it was fun, it was a person who probably felt very isolated just doing their thing, and it was cool. They were awlays nice to me and others and we'd banter and shoot the shit and I swear to God, every time I saw one of those threads I'd smile a little.

Well, as Brooke was becoming somewhat of a board staple Anons were starting to really lose the plot. That sense of community was rapidly fading and being replaced with ragebait and malintent with no real reason. In other words, the new generation of anons were fucking up what the oldfags established.
Every time you'd see a Brooke thread it got flooded with hate and cynicism to the point it drowned out any positivity or fun, and it completely destroyed the purpose of those threads. And so we'd see less and less of Brooke. Eventually we stopped seeing her all together. I think most of us just kind of forgot Brooke existed, but I didn't.
I can't believe I miss a fucking doll that probably belonged to some faggot who would hate me if he ever met me, but to me, Brooke symbolized the death of 4chan. The concept that everything about that site that made me care was being destroyed by newfags who just wanted to hate for the sake of it and had no idea what we were really about.

I get called the cancer that is killing this board but the funny thing is that I'm probably one of the few people that is actually trying to preserve it. I know 4chan is gone, and I hate watching this place just devolve into more of that. The world needs more Brookes, more Delles, more Dooms. Weird idiots willing to put themselves out there, unafraid to be shat upon, artists who use the internet as their canvas who don't care if what others think, and it needs less anons who only seek to destroy without giving anything back to the culture. I am not the cancer killing the internet, you are.

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