Fit/

/fit/ is the 4chan health and fitness board, and is a prime example of 4chan can ruin a good idea. The rest of 4chan might be filled with weeaboos, pedos, homos, psychos, weirdos, failtrolls, emos, necros, aspies, furries, jews, and niggers, Mexicans and Chinese but at one point /fit/ eclipsed all in terms of worthlessness and failure. Some day internet historians will look at this board and be in awe that something with such potential could be ruined so quickly, only to return as a shadow of its former self. Aside from regularly failing to fulfill its intended purpose (convincing typical fatass basement dwellers to get into shape), it is also nearly the only board on 4chan to fail to regularly generate memes.

Holy goddamn fuck, was it always like this?

The simple answer to this question is that no, it was not always like this. When moot first stood /fit/ up it was a whole new world filled with hope and promise, inhabited by vagrants (mostly from /ck/ and /k/) who had stumbled across what seemed to be verdant fields of green filled with natives to rape and exploit for ruthlessly commercial purposes. The first three days consisted of fitness interested chantards optimisticly discussing such important things as diet and rep brackets for weightlifting. Most of the early adopters had at least a passing knowledge of the subject they were discussing, and a large number were cognizant of powerlifting and the sport of olympic weightlifting as well as High Intensity Interval Training and the Golden Age of Bodybuilding. After about three days the board even began to develop it's own memes, unaware at the time that one such meme would later grow to destroy them. But more on this later. The early memes of /fit/ consisted of pictures of eight-times Mr Olympia Ronnie Coleman, Public Enemy's Bring the Noise rewritten to become Bring the Squats, Electric Six's Dance Commander rewritten as Squat Commander and numerous others that are now lost in the bitter-tasting sands of time. It was about this time that the infamous OATZ!, SQUATZ! was born, carrying in it the power to destroy /fit/ forever.

OATZ! SQUATZ!

Soon /fit/'s three days of grace were over, and a steady trickle of rotten filth began to seep out of the dirty black rubbish bag in which the rest of 4chan's dismembered corpse was slowly decomposing. At the time, the original dwellers of /fit/ (the founding fathers, if you would) were little concerned, as finally they had found kindred spirits in the barren Internet waste with who they could exchange ideas and play light-hearted, good-natured trolls on, to everyones mutual amusement and approval. This insidious filth first took the form of fat, worthless bastards asking the same fucking question again and again: "HAY /FIT/ HOW DOEZ I LOSE WEIGHTZ!!?". In order to spend as little time as possible on these wastes of space who certainly would be too lazy to follow through with more effective advice, the original inhabitants of the board began using the simple, throw-away tip of "eat oats and do squats". For fat fucks this was good, simple advice. While oats are not an especially great food source, they're a fairly good source of fiber and other nutrients, and in general make a worthwhile addition to the diet of your average American twinkie-eating fucktard. Squats are an extremely efficient strength building exercise and strengthening the legs has secondary cardio-vascular benefits, as the quadriceps assist the heart in pumping blood through the body and are more often than not ignored in the routines of many young men. Unfortunately, the new migrants began taking this advice far too seriously. Instead of a starting point for dietary changes, oats became an absolute cornerstone, an indispensable and unyielding Rock of Ages on which to base all other constructions, with their actual nutritional value becoming completely over-estimated and exaggerated. Squats became the be-all and end-all of any fitness routine. With rapacious rapidity 'Eat oats and do squats' became OATZ! SQUATZ!, repeated ad nauseum like Seig Heil! in Swedish gaybars, by people with even less fitness knowledge than /b/ has good parenting skills. The end had begun. As of this moment it still hasn't finished, which indicates how fucking useless /fit/ actually is. Honestly you cunts finish what you started already.

/fit/ Today

For what felt like a century, /fit/ was seen as a tremendously worthless pile of shit. Between having a feud with /fa/ and dishing out obvious advice to newfags too stupid to use Google, it looked like /fit/ would get the ax at any moment. Recently, however, moot decided to do something beneficial for once and appointed mods and janitors who actually do their fucking jobs. A sticky was made which contains general fitness knowledge along with anon's daily recommended dose of banhammer should they ignore it and ask stupid questions.

Not all is perfect in /fit/, though. The board still produces less memes or OC than any other board with their only "noteworthy" one being Alpha as Fuck. /fit/izens also have developed an unhealthy obsession with various bodybuilders and models such as Zyzz, justifying their views with the quip no homo.

However, the tides began to turn in January of 2012. Many of the fatasfatasses who were ruining /fit/ had actually began taking the advice they were receiving to heart and, in something we'd expect from the corniest of happy endings, actually got in shape. This led to an increase in Progress threads, where the transformation could be seen quite readily. The benefit of this massive turnaround was the overwhelming resentment that the ex fatties had toward the lazy, "I'm too tired to work out" fatasses. This also led to an explosion in new memes, such as Fat People Stories, motivation threads, Betas gonna Bet (and lose), and better quality advice more in-tune with the board's original message.

Suffice it to say, /fit/ is definitely heading in the right direction and is turning out to be a thriving self-contained ecosystem. Sure, the rest of 4chan thinks it's still a shithole that brings nothing new to the table and is overflowing with faggots, but they're just jelly.