why is p dead - /p/

Anonymous09/25/26, 20:29No.4530530Why is /p/ dead?

How come no one posts here? Photography is a pretty big hobby, and it has become very fashionable to shoot film in recent years, so why is this board completely abandoned?

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Anon09/25/26, 20:34No.4530532

No one goes outside and does anything anymore they just go home and consume mediaMy friends from high school are 34 and take 1/10 as many photos of stuff for social media as they did circa 2008/early Facebook

Anon09/25/26, 20:36No.4530533

Too toxic. Post some photos and either you'll get no feedback or someone will shit on you and then refuse to post any of their own work.

Anon09/25/26, 20:37No.4530534

cANON retard posting drove most of the new regulars away, board won't get any better for new people until he's goneMost people that actually do effort post receive very little interaction or feedback

Anon09/25/26, 20:59No.4530539

Everything is instantly derailed by cANON and LLMs spamming disinfo and fragmentary out of context facts presented to support individual posters agendasAgenda-pushing shows so hard that people are making excessive copies of the gear thread just so they can restart an argument that already finished and pretend the last one either didn't happen or was about something else. Most of it is reposted. cANON is basically stuck on repeat.

Anon09/25/26, 21:40No.4530557

Anon09/25/26, 21:45No.4530559

Have you looked at the latest rpt and bpd? They have some of the best photos this board has ever seen. Do you have examples of your own work to share? Why are you creating meaningless slide threads when you could be out taking photos and posting them here for us to enjoy?

Anon09/25/26, 21:51No.4530561

Doxxers killed it. In fact they ran off one of the best posters the board has seen in years by harassing him because he made the mistake of becoming identifiable.

Anon09/25/26, 22:26No.4530576

But people still post. There are ongoing threads with people posting their thematic work or recent photos, I made a thread about my anime con(s) photos month ago and recently posted another con works, granted, not much replies but some anons voiced their opinion, which is always nice.But I won't lie, it is quite sad to see the board to slow down to crawl, even missing /sqt/ thread, while containment gear threads slowly take up whole catalog (mods could simply delete oldest ones at this point, since they are past bump limit anyway). Last year hacking did a lot of damage.

Anon09/25/26, 23:53No.4530621

I'll leave the finer points of what counts as "dead" to other anons. In any case, the reason for the board's current state is: >Gear threads (literally 10 fucking gear threads on the catalogue right now as we speak) >Nocameras talking shop (nonsense) about gear >Nophotos talking shop (nonsense) about photography >Bots/shills >SamefaggotryProblem #1 could be solved easily by banning gear threads. There was a poll for that and it turned out 15 for, 5 against. Problems #2 and #3 could be solved by requiring proof of camera ownership for any serious technical discussion. There was also a poll for that and it turned out 10 for 4 against before cANON botted it. Problem #4 could theoretically be solved by requiring posting your own photo for any serious non-gear photography discussion, however proving that it's actually YOUR photo is much harder than proving that you own a camera when push comes to shove so this probably isn't practical to make into a hard rule. Problem #5 could be solved easily by enabling post IDs.Anyone that would object to any of these measures (besides #4, for reasons stated above) is by extension objecting to improving the average post quality on this board, and therefore part of the cancer that is killing /p/. Their opinions can safely be ignored.

Anon09/26/26, 00:13No.4530632

>57 posts >14 of them at least are cANON >nothing of value postedThis is why the board sucks

Anon09/26/26, 00:14No.4530635

>buying a camera with some megapixel difference wont make your photos automatically better >NOOOO ITS NOT TRUE >ITS IMPOSSIBLE!

Anon09/26/26, 00:31No.4530643

Camera theory without application is more worthless than 3 nerds fantasizing about the alternate realities possibly implied by a certain mathematical modelCameras are real things that do real things and theory is at best a rough guide for what to expect assuming you do everything right (or in the case of "equivalence works against full frame!" dumbassery, do everything wrong)

Anon09/26/26, 02:21No.4530669

There is literally a Sugar thread up right now that I am adding to when I get time. I don't have much time these days I work 70 hours a week and life is kicking me in the balls but I still take my camera with me.No one takes pictures anymore it's just gearfagging and bitching about cANON. People are tired these days the economy sucks the news is all negative and our octogenarian pedophile overlords are pushing the planet and all of its people into the meatgrinder to squeeze the maximum amount of profit out of it so they can all die trillionaires and completely disregarding the consequences because they won't be alive to suffer the repercussions. No one has time for hobbies anymore our generation is working 14 jobs 30 hours a day to afford bread. People are fucking exhausted.

Anon09/26/26, 04:14No.4530691

It's the entire internet, but photography in general now produces an output (photos) that no one cares about because they have been over-stimulated by short-form, captioned video which is physiologically more engaging, regardless of how unaesthetic most of it is. So what is left is a bunch of hobbyists, many of whom are just nerds that elevated out of a EDC/funko interest arguing over gear, while not taking, or even being able to take, photos. And even if they did take a classically aesthetic shot, there is no audience for it, except other photo nerds, who are more likely to just pick on the shot because it threatens them and the attention they want to get from their work. It's not a good hobby, let alone this space, at the moment. I don't see it really ever coming back either.

Anon09/26/26, 07:46No.4530720

Camera licking is going to become a trend. This trend will revitalize /p/.

Anon09/26/26, 09:15No.4530724

>How come no one posts here? I usually only post here whenever I see you guys on the front page talking about how dead /p/ is. I think this has happened twice so far.

Anon09/26/26, 11:19No.4530728

Everyone asking this question should instead wonder "why am I not posting photo threads on /p?"Because you're clearly part of the problem with this thread and thread imageso why?

Anon09/26/26, 13:49No.4530748

>101 comments >27 of them belong to cANON >0 value added to thread Kinda pathetic honestly

Anon09/26/26, 21:45No.4530843

Take the filterpill99% of the problem is replies to reposted bait and cANONhttps://pastebin.com/diHque73

Anon09/27/26, 01:39No.4530860

50 more shillbot posts in /gear/ until we get another gear thread with fresh equivalence debates!

Anon09/27/26, 01:45No.4530861

i only own a point n shoot, and my ip is banned most of the time

Anon09/30/26, 05:03No.4531751

4chan in general is dying. you can look at the sites stats here: https://4stats.io

Anon09/30/26, 22:17No.4531947

Haven't been here in a few years for real now, I was fairly regular around when that lambo guy was doing his thing? Sugar should know who I'm talking about, can't remember his name now. There was some dude from maybe a Scandinavian country that tripped, used a cat related name and fucked up a lot and forgot to take his trip off? I don't know, the point is I'm old and was here a while back, and news flash, /p/ was dead then, too. The problem is this whole site is full of assholes. Period.

Anon10/01/26, 06:12No.4532009

Photography gets kinda boring after you take a few thousand shots of the things around you. I was hoping that it would get me outside and I would organically meet people while also being creating but nobody but a couple of homeless people have spoken to me.

Anon10/04/26, 07:18No.4532743

Does cANON ever post photos or is he a nophoto? I always see him spouting some bullshit but I've yet to see him actually post any photos.

Anon10/04/26, 08:40No.4532750

where can I post photos, a problem for me is that a single (you) is more interesting than 1000 instagram comments

Anon10/04/26, 12:13No.4532759

I don't come here anymore, primarily due to how shitty the captcha has become. Total turn off.

Anon10/05/26, 22:04No.4533064

As a very recent lurker to this place I was surprised as to how slow this board is. One would assume that the photography section of one of the most popular image boards would have lots of images, but it doesn't. It's actually quite odd that it's not a requirement to have a photo when posting, I imagine most people have thousands of snapshots and plenty of good photos. This place does suffer from an obsession about pointless technicalities and to much discussion about gear. Gear is the least interesting thing about photography and the most discussed thingy here. I feel like im more likely to get a critique of equipment than an artistic evaluation of my photo of I were to contribute here. The few try hard personalities do seem to make this place feel dead, instead of sending a message into a forum of potentially thousands of unique minds you get tripfags constantly showing up to remind you this place has few unique contributors.

Anon10/08/26, 18:29No.4533507

RulesBy using this website (the "site"), you agree that you'll follow these rules, and understand that if we reasonably think you haven't followed these rules, we may (at our own discretion) terminate your access to the site:/p/ - Photography1. Only upload images that you, the photographer, have taken. 2. Post only photos that show at least trace amounts of thoughtful composition. Do not upload random snapshots. 3. Even though EXIF data is made available when encoded, please post as much relevant technical information as possible, such as: camera, kit, lens, etc. 4. Include a short description with your photograph, such as when and where it was photographed and under what circumstances. 5. As with the art critique board, only constructive criticism will be tolerated.

Anon10/10/26, 14:53No.4533883

>How come no one posts here? I got banned all the time so I stopped visiting daily. Now I visit every few weeks to see how dead this shithole has become lol

Anon10/12/26, 23:59No.4534466

Do people ITT seriously not understand narrative in photography? No wonder people can't seem to understand photography as art.

Anon10/13/26, 01:59No.4534487

Just got into film photography, surprised 4chan has a board for it. Not surprised to see that its dead, mainly in part to CanoNiggers.REAL NIKON NIGGA ROLL CALL >REAL NIKON NIGGA ROLL CALL REAL NIKON NIGGA ROLL CALL >REAL NIKON NIGGA ROLL CALL REAL NIKON NIGGA ROLL CALL >REAL NIKON NIGGA ROLL CALL

Anon10/13/26, 02:42No.4534508

Anon10/13/26, 03:35No.4534545

Wrong kek. I was just making fun of your retarded ramblings.

Anon10/13/26, 03:39No.4534548

The only way photography can be art is if it's of dogs or eggs.

Anon10/18/26, 07:32No.4535285

It's because any thread devolves into gearfaggotry

Anon10/23/26, 22:23No.4536006

This whole board is me, (you), canonfag, huskyfag, cinefag, burtfag and one or two more samefagging anons. Hiroshimoot should just shut this trash down.