I'm sure you don't know me, but I am a popular poster on /co/. Admist the MLP threads plaguing our board, I decided to come to /a/ for a chance of pace around one month ago. My mind was shocked by how deep this board's culture is in comparison with that of /co/. Kind of like walking into a close-knit community, /a/ has a lot of board in-jokes that are ONLY found on /a/ and nowhere else on 4chan, or for the matter, the Internet entirely. "Oh, wow," was my first reaction, but after I learned more about /a/, I began to understand why its culture became this deep. Great amounts of time are spent on /a/ by its users. As if that's a surprise, but there are people on /a/ that have been here since 2007, some even earlier. Now, I know what you're thinking. Don't try to think that I don't understand how cancerous /a/ has become, even in my short time on this board. I see the spammer spamming everything on a daily basis. Just posting on this board can be a bother when he's hogging up the servers. Under all the spam, though, there are some really interesting things to be read. Some say its cancer, but I have come to appreciate some of the "off-topic" threads on the board. Tripfags on /a/ are a bit different than they are on /co/. Going from memory, I'd say the tripfags on /a/ are a bit nicer. On /co/, a single disagreement can result in a tripfag completely blowing a fuse and sagebombing your thread for hours. To put it frankly, tripfags on /co/ get mad really easily. Quite, I'd say. Understand this: I have come to enjoy /a/ in my short time being here. Inside and out, /a/ truly has a deep culture. Never again will I underestimate just how strong the bonds are on /a/.

Today, I see /a/ in a new light.

So when you get mad, learn to take it easy.