Comments on: DailyBooth, 4chan and the importance of context

By: Jonathan Deamer

Jonathan Deamer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:54:09 +0000

That positivity is one of the things I like about DailyBooth. And I agree – the community isn’t like 4chan’s at all. But the fundamental idea of a messageboard based around pictures is very similar.

By: Jonathan Deamer

Jonathan Deamer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:52:47 +0000

“Visitors of the sites are driven there by similar forces” – but are they similar demographics? I think it’s difficult to tell much about a site other than popularity (of sorts) from traffic figures alone.

Your later “small sample” comment is right I think!

By: user

user — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:10:31 +0000

Hey.

As a daily user of dailybooth, I have to point out that it is completely different to 4chan.

Yes, its a place where people post something, but thats where the similarity ends.

On 4chan, people post the most revolting things to out-do each other in disgust. No faces are show, nothing human in the whole site. Dailybooth is a social networking site where people post pictures on eachothers ‘profiles’ and interact in more of a positive way.

If it should be compared to anything, it should be twitter.

By: dmgd

dmgd — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:51:40 +0000

Although since dailybooth is *so* young, perhaps this is just the result of a small sample and shouldn’t have too much read into it!

Personally I’ve never visited dailybooth, and I’ve only ever visited 4chan once. So I know next to nothing about either site.

By: dmgd

dmgd — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:49:06 +0000

Real comparison: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/4chan.org+dailybooth.com/

What’s interesting is that if you look at the month by month changes, 4chan’s growth is an exaggerated mirror of dailybooth’s.
Which I interpret as an indicator that visitors of the sites are driven there by similar forces.

So perhaps they’re really not that different:-
Perhaps the ‘friendly’ culture of dailybooth is merely a product of its size / youth?

By: Nick Peters

Nick Peters — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:37:40 +0000

Excellent post Jonathan. Context is key. Good comparison of 4Chan’s community with that of DailyBooth – I know which bunch I’d rather spend time with.

By: Jonathan Deamer

Jonathan Deamer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:41:43 +0000

Oops, amateur mistake there Dan, thanks for pointing it out! That’s why I’m not a journalist…

(I’ve removed the chart).

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:31:53 +0000

It’s 4chan.org. 4chan.com is just a domain squatter play.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/4chan.org/

Although compete isn’t exactly known for its accuracy, 4chan gets tons of traffic.