Spent half my life on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.12606799]

I was lurking on /b/ boards and it dawned on me after someone called me a newfag for the 10000th time. Ive been lurking 4chan since i was 16. 2006. Ive frequented different boards at different stages and have taken several breaks. Ive only recently started lurking /biz/ since im older and finally have enough money saved up to play with. Im almost 30 and ive been coming here for 13 years. Im really not sure how to process this, so i guess im asking, is there anyone here who has been lurking on 4 chan for 13 years? Am i the only one who has stayed for so long? I know alot of people left when moot bounced and ads were brought in. they all went to different chans but i stayed idk why.

[Anonymous No.12606807]

>>12606799
what are u looking for?

[Anonymous No.12606808]

>>12606799
I was here back when there was still a /loli/, /vore/,/guro/ board and before Rage comics

[Anonymous No.12606813]

>>12606799

thats pretty pathetic desu, no offense

[Anonymous No.12606831]

>>12606799
Christ, I've been coming to this site for at least 10 years

[Anonymous No.12606835]

>>12606799
Ah yes, chocolate rain.

May I dump things on your thread oh venerable one?

[Anonymous No.12606849]

>>12606807
idk anymore.

>>12606808
word. 8()chan still has them.

[Anonymous No.12606851]

>>12606799
You're not alone OP, I've been here since ~2008. I'm a year younger than you. Somebody linked 4chan on the World of Warcraft forums and it was history from there.

I have no idea what my life would be like if I hadn't become a 4chan addict, but I do know that I waste too much time on this website. I've found that when I'm happiest and I have a lot of stuff going on in my life, I tend to use 4chan less and less.

[Anonymous No.12606853]

>>12606799
2006 as well my dude. Did you turn out reasonably normal as well? Nevertheless this place has DEFINITELY changed my outlook on life

[Anonymous No.12606858]

>>12606835
please do.

[Anonymous No.12606869]

Dumping...

[Anonymous No.12606879]

>>12606799
nah ive been on here on and off since 2008 during the boxxy days. its all good man. just try not to make 4chan your life and focus on your career and becoming a better human.

[Anonymous No.12606878]

>>12606869

[Anonymous No.12606882]

>>12606799
why the fuck does it matter
you obviously enjoy spending your time here or else you would have spend the last 13 years watching retarded television shows

would you have asked around then if anyone else has been wasting their lives on television, and if so, would you have felt better about it?

13 years on 4chan and still a dumb fucking retard who cant make life choices with confidence

[Anonymous No.12606887]

>>12606878

[Anonymous No.12606893]

also would like to mention im a reasonable person to socialize with irl who has a wagecuck career so no 4chan isnt full of just autists. biz helped me make a lot of money last year though.

[Anonymous No.12606899]

>>12606887

[Anonymous No.12606903]

>>12606899

[Anonymous No.12606907]

>>12606853
I think i personally gravitate here when my life gets dull as well. I came when a friend of mine showed me some post on /b/. i dont remember what it was but i kept coming back after.
>>12606853
for the most part, i think i view things alot more rationally than other people around me thanks to 4chan.

[Anonymous No.12606914]

>>12606903

[Anonymous No.12606918]

>>12606882
There's a weird contingent of people like this on 4chan, posters that get extremely worked up over nothing. I imagine it's mostly a younger crowd that post like this though because I don't remember anons making angry and upset posts like this back in the day, although /sp/ could get pretty vicious.

>>12606879
>>12606853
Posters like this have clearly been around the block. Much more easy going and able to take a step back from 4chan and see it for what it is.

[Anonymous No.12606921]

>>12606831
>10 years
>Think 2005 in my head
>Look at date
>10y is 2009
OH FUCK HELP IM WORKING ON YEAR 11

[Anonymous No.12606923]

Yeah I just kinda didn't realize it till now. I'm not sure what was going on exactly when I first join up think the chanology stuff. I wish I didn't just realize how poor and lonely I am....

[Anonymous No.12606925]

>>12606914

[Anonymous No.12606927]

>>12606799
how the fuck did you not go balls deep in BTC or ETH? all the old fags got rich and left

[Anonymous No.12606929]

>>12606799
We are no different from the normies who are glued to facebook.

>11 years here

[Anonymous No.12606931]

>>12606907
It's a place filled with scams and bullshit, some truly incredible comedy, and some real gems of info and insight if you know what to look for.

[Anonymous No.12606932]

>>12606925

[Anonymous No.12606936]

>>12606879
same buddy, I was about 14-15

[Anonymous No.12606940]

>>12606799
Anon, a good part of the people here are in the same boat. I started to come to 4chan because of porn and anime back in 2004...it's been my home for 15 years. I've gone through a lot of boards too. The fun is neverending here. We will always return.

[Anonymous No.12606941]

>>12606918
you must have never been on /v/ where we argue about everything since 2006, newfag

[Anonymous No.12606943]

>>12606869
this is true and sort of me, except thanks to crypto I'm paying for everything.
I would kill myself if not for that. I'm not depressed, there's just no point in living.
I'm becoming jealous even of people that work in a supermarket. At least they are useful in some way and have a reason to get up in the morning

[Anonymous No.12606945]

This thread is depressing.

[Anonymous No.12606951]

>>12606932

[Anonymous No.12606958]

>>12606918
All the real edgelords were gone by 2011 (?)
A good chunk of people also left after Gamersgate.
The druggies either OD'd or got busted by the FBI or left to join the Deepweb.
The Kiddos left when they grew older.

4chan is more of a pleb filter now and much more diluted than before.
Board culture is pretty much gone and all that remains is sanitized.

[Anonymous No.12606959]

>>12606936
whats funny is that i started to get too immersed into the site then and I had to dial it back at the right time. I was 19 and in college so I saw it as harmless at first but like others say on here, just see it for what it is. a place where ideas can openly flow maybe for entertainment or something else, but do not make it your life.

[Anonymous No.12606963]

>>12606903
>>12606899
>>12606887
>>12606878
>>12606869
dear god.

[Anonymous No.12606967]

>>12606799
I've been here for 14 years fren

[Anonymous No.12606970]

>>12606945

[Anonymous No.12606978]

this site is full of the dregs of society, you should use it as occasional entertainment and nothing more.

[Anonymous No.12606979]

>>12606951

[Anonymous No.12606982]

I’ve been here since 2014 and I still have time to become a normie since I’m only 19. I’m gonna kick my 4chan habit before I turn 20.

[Anonymous No.12606984]

>>12606887
>>12606903

Damn. These were two really good, eye-opening posts. 4chan does have a lot to offer sometimes.

[Anonymous No.12606989]

>>12606963
this isnt what happened to me but very well could have. I learned early on when to take a break. its just insane ive been coming here for so long. luckily it didnt consume me.

[Anonymous No.12606995]

>>12606989
>it didnt consume me.
But you are still here innit?

[Anonymous No.12606996]

>>12606799
Been here since 2008, feels weird man. I'll be 30 this year

[Anonymous No.12606997]

>>12606799
exact same years for me OP, started at age 16 in 2006 and still here most days, but these days i rarerly use 4chan at home or on the weekend, only to kill time at work

i also only use blue boards now, /int/ /ck/ /biz/ /his/ and /wsg/ and i detest /pol/posting

[Anonymous No.12607013]

>>12606932
i dont know if its because i am probably schizo or something. but this is the thing unconciously refusing me participating in anything.
>Every day youll find yourself lowering your standarts
There was a time couple years ago where everything seemed to still look alright. Somewhere between 2010-2012 everything in pic related in some way or another stared to manifest in my surroundings. And everyone seems so fucking content with it only having very few flashbacks time to time what went wrong, but dont caring about it any further and just moving along. I am really the farthest away trying to be le edgy on here, but all these little things it seems I am so concious about them, and every single one of these things adds up to this dreadfull powerless piece of state I am finding myself.

Again i could be schizo/insane - would still be nice to hear if anyone experienced something related

[Anonymous No.12607020]

Been here since 2007 I think (about 20 y/o). /b/ ate up most of my time with /fit/ the remainder. Having real bad impulse control made me spend too much time... To the point of skipping class.

4chan has changed my life, although Anonidate as an extension did a lot of it. Got laid my first time due to this place, got to know over 20 channers IRL and scored weed my first time due to the chans.

Took a break for several years, went to Fark, smoked tons of weed and came back in Dec. 2017 and am now 99% /biz/.

[Anonymous No.12607030]

I've been here 11 years. There are others.

[Anonymous No.12607035]

I think we come here to be anonymous. No not the stupid Guy Fawkes mask anonymous but to be able to express ourselves without repercussion. And in this environment it is so much more meaningful to agree with someone purely off of your own true opinion other than having to pretend and say what is expected of you. Thats something that society is getting worse and worse about. Truth, unflinching truth. but here truth is the currency. well, actually most of 4chan is total bullshit but in a way it is a true reflection of ourselves. We get to come here and shake off the bullshit of the normie world and post with 100% honesty, even if nobody agrees with it. Thats why i think we keep coming back.

[Anonymous No.12607036]

>>12606799
A life well lived

[Anonymous No.12607044]

I've been here since like 09 so you're not alone

im sure a lot of people on this board are oldfags

[Anonymous No.12607053]

>>12607035
its also a good way to keep your ear to the ground.

[Anonymous No.12607055]

>>12607020
Sug this up. A roommate made it for me about 8-9 years back. Been keeping it with me since then. Don't really wear it.

[Anonymous No.12607066]

>>12607036
>A life well wasted
FTFY

[Anonymous No.12607074]

>>12606979
Dump guy here, long ass painful read coming 1/3

[Anonymous No.12607076]

>>12607035
its the same as drugs or alcohol, all inhibitions go out the window and you can express yourself 100%

[Anonymous No.12607078]

>>12607074
2/3

[Anonymous No.12607090]

>>12607078
3/3

[Anonymous No.12607093]

>>12607055
id buy it. no joke.

[Anonymous No.12607105]

>>12607066
speak for yourself nigger, lol

[Anonymous No.12607111]

>>12607090
extra

[Anonymous No.12607119]

>>12606799
>Am i the only one who has stayed for so long?
No. I love this place. Been here since 07 when I found /b/ during my first year of university.

[Anonymous No.12607121]

>>12607111
I end my dump with Steve Cutts' - Happiness.

Thank you and good night.

[Anonymous No.12607135]

>>12607090
>>12607111
>>12607121

Bravo!

encore, encore

[Anonymous No.12607136]

>>12607121
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvnOH060Qg

[Anonymous No.12607146]

>>12606899
It's almost poetic, resonates deeply.

Still, being on 4chan is a better life than being along on a desert island. You better believe Cavemen would have looked at moving pictures on their cave walls to distract themselves from their mundane, stressful and pointless lives, if they had them

[Anonymous No.12607147]

>>12606940
This. The ch0nz are where it's at

[Anonymous No.12607148]

>>12607074
>>12607078
>>12607090
Sounds alot like cocaine. If you ask people who use to be addicted to cocaine theyll tell you they could never get enough. there was no "peak" so to speak. It goes to show that really the only thing that can save people from themselves is self control and the ability to say no to something their brain is telling them they want.

[Anonymous No.12607151]

>>12607093
I'll have to let my old roomie knows. He likes to do some arts and crafts stuff. Maybe a good idea to make some extra bucks.

Is "Sup /b/?" a thing on /b/ anymore?

[Anonymous No.12607154]

Being a "chad" as in hollywood movies is unfulfilling too, see hollywood actors, the only answer to this existential question is God, you feel miserable because you still think everything starts and ends here, you have no theology so you have no way to have joy at all, if you actually believed in something you could bet your ass you would move your ass from NEET status into doing something else, and since you have faith in nothing other than hedonism it's logical that you just go day by day avoiding pain or seeking comfort, the most exemplary case is the people who have made it but then realized they had no ideas at all beyond that

For example someone posted the underground man, but they are telling you half the story; Dostoyevski lived as a fervent ortodox who wrote against the secularization that the commies brought to his society, he 100% believed that through religion he could overcome the angst of existance and live a joyful live even in shitty conditions, if you read the brothers karamazov you see why

Most of you are thinking you should be living "better", but you don't see that your entire conception of the afterlife and meta-reality actually don't give you any other purpose than what you are doing exactly right now, i bet most of you would scold at the idea of going to an orphanate to spend time with children or going to a retirement home to expend time with the elder or helping the homeless, and that's exactly the reason you don't feel joy

[Anonymous No.12607157]

>>12607121
10/10
thank you anon

[Anonymous No.12607164]

>>12607151
i honestly dont know. i dont go to /b/ very much anymore.

[Anonymous No.12607165]

>>12607148
It is that feeling of self-gratification that only comes once in a lifetime.
And when you blink it's gone.

[Anonymous No.12607179]

>>12607151
nu/b/? They are too busy porn-posting to care.
/bant/ has the spirit but the board is still young and not taught in the old ways

[Anonymous No.12607189]

>>12607035
Communities with up and down votes start to become hiveminds. Even communities with just profiles to identify people start to become cancer because posters gain notoriety after time.
The real change in outlook from coming to 4chan is to be able to process information for what it is, and not who said it or how many le upboats it got.

[Anonymous No.12607205]

>turning 26 in ~3 months
>been on 4chan since 2007
>It's now 2019

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.12607206]

>>12607035

[Anonymous No.12607226]

>>12606799
I am since 2008. I am 33yo. My advice? Leave before it's too late, getting 30 and still lurking 4chan is not a good sign.

[Anonymous No.12607227]

>>12607154
i feel great pleasure in helping the less fortunate. however, im also a realist and i understand that once those children are old enough to understand the world they live in, that it is their duty to provide for themselves first and others second. I dont brainwash them into thinking they are owed everything and that there is some god who will provide for them so long as they pray and obey him. religion is only half right. its morals are usually correct, but for all the wrong reasons.

[Anonymous No.12607233]

>>12606799
since2005, I'm 27, so over half my life here

kill me

[Anonymous No.12607237]

>>12606929

At least we're funnier.

[Anonymous No.12607239]

>>12606903
>State of keeping the car parked and not going anywhere
Holy fuck. Is that me? I did all the “right moves” went to a good school, got my doctorate, and yet I feel that life is still.

[Anonymous No.12607245]

>>12607227
lets not make this into religion.

[Anonymous No.12607252]

>>12606808
>we had a /vore/ board once upon a time

glad I missed that shit

[Anonymous No.12607262]

>>12606958
>Board culture is pretty much gone and all that remains is sanitized.
4chan is a nihilism machine, it captures mostly young white men who are dissociated with their physical realities, deeply cynical about their prospects in life (not unreasonable at all), and amplifies their behavior, crystallizing their most lucid thoughts through a memetic selection process, and then continually refiltering it to the rest of the plebs until it embeds itself in their minds at the subconscious level (that urge to call things based and redpilled, for example). Meanwhile, as the structure of the nuclear family and an authentic national identity/culture casually implodes in the West, this nihilism that was distilled on 4chan seeps into the rest of the society but in a more abject, less sardonic form. Board culture hasn't been 'sanitized', but rather you and society have been increasingly dehumanized, if that's what you meant by your word choice, which is then reflected back onto this website, reproducing an ever more unoriginal and unpleasant version of the 4chan you first started browsing.
>>12606970
I'd like to read more of this

[Anonymous No.12607272]

>>12607164
>>12607179
That's unfortunate nu /b/ has lost it's way.

They probably don't even know that thrust vectoring owns the sky.

Most anons I have met have floated away from the chans, but still keep in contact with other Anons they've met. They run the range from somewhat raciet to those that have converted to Judaism and are all about helping the downtrodden.

/Biz/ seems to have people closest on average in age to me it seems.

[Anonymous No.12607293]

>>12607227
/thread

OP is one of the few good guys who came from 4chan and took all the bad to make some good. Respect.

[Anonymous No.12607303]

>>12607121
These screencaps are outrageous and terrifying.
Something lost on many is that even through the healthiest times in history (including the 50s post WW2 that spawned the boomers), a huge % of the population never married or had kids, as much as 30%. Yet those were the most abundant and optimistic times in human history, still not everybody made it.
Even the boomer generation with all of their easy money and opportunities spawned millions of loners currently wasting away in care homes or coming to the end of their failed careers.

The only reason this slow death and alienation feels like a 'new' phenomenon is the access people (like me) have with others taking a similar path through life via the internet, the sad truth is that we have always made up a % of the population and now its just our turn.
We didnt know each other existed in the past, we never took part in the natural socialisation of people leading normal lives. A similar thing has happened within the queer communities as another example of this, the truth is 2-3% of the population were always bent but they never had the confidence of being vocal about it outside of the migration cities like San Fransisco where they existed in a large enough concentration that it felt normal.
Now some tranny in a village in the middle of fucking nowhere has their community online, just like the loners and lost people, now they all feel like suddenly theres an explosion of their numbers. They were always there.

We know more today than at any other point in history, even a total shut in is now exposed to all manner of influences and other peoples lives, most painfully of all for us is we can see just how easy a way out is yet for almost everyone who would self identify as an outcast, they STILL dont take the steps they could.
Like those who came before, its just our turn.

[Anonymous No.12607306]

>>12607227
>I dont brainwash them into thinking they are owed everything and that there is some god who will provide for them so long as they pray and obey him.

It's also a misinterpretation, the meaning is that you can go through any hardship and anything if you have the "food of god", which is for the spirit foremost, the one that lets you have joy (meaning, joy is pleasure with fullfilment or deep meaning, not just pleasure without meaning)

It has everything do to with faith, for example, I had to be a caregiver of my father for a long time, basically used all my free time for so many years, meanwhile society was filled with propaganda about how i was misusing my youth and how i was losing everything while doing it, i was despairing bad at both things because i loved my father but i also wanted to live my life

I could only resolve this issue through the belief in the afterlife, i realized that there is no pleasure that could go above the feeling that i got by being a caregiver of my father and that it was a joy filled with meaning compared to using my time with other vain people in seeking fleeting pleasure

If i truly believed this life is just one and done once, i would just have left my father and maybe euthanized him to "stop his suffering" (I would never do this but i know some people who would rationalize like that just to "enjoy their lives more"), but while struggling I actually found a kind of joy you wouldn't never get from society and it's fear for struggle, i also developed a very special relationship with my father that i think i will never be able to experience with anybody else, our seek of pleasure and comfort will make us to forget why life is good and why faith is important

[Anonymous No.12607369]

Since early 2014 so 15 years. I lurk for maybe 10 minutes out of the day. Since then I have finished college, gotten married, had two children. I own a house and am well into paying it off. My portfolio seems to look better with every year. I have gone from a loner weeb freak to a contributing member of society. As I get close to 40 I am even being talked to people in my town of running for a spot as a county commisioner. It doesn't feel weird till I sit and think of it. Did I become a normie?

[Anonymous No.12607379]

I want you to know that the only reason i argue with you is because i pity you. i dont pity you because some deity tells me too. i dont argue because a god tells me to. i argue with you because of facts.
im sorry your dad died. I would be crushed if my dad died too. the key factor that is missed here is that ive lost a father and so have you. we may be different but we are also the same. we want to avenge our fathers. the best way to keep others children's fathers from dying is to get along.

[Anonymous No.12607382]

>>12607262
>rather you and society have been increasingly dehumanized
That much is true though the characteristic Sardonic humor has long since departed from the site

[Anonymous No.12607393]

I have been here for ten years. I've seen every image posted in this thread already. I haven't enjoyed any content on this board in months. I haven't spent time with any of my friends in the last year. My wife is leaving me. I have to go back to wagecucking, I have no hope for a career.

I can't imagine what this will be like when I have spent 30 years on this site.

[Anonymous No.12607403]

>>12606799
I rarely come to /biz/ but I just wanted to let you know I've been here since 2005. I don't know why I still come here either. I'm almost 30 next month.

[Anonymous No.12607434]

>>12607379

My father hasn't died yet, my only point is that the only way to redempt the problem of meaning in life is to believe in afterlife, if there is no afterlife there is no joy to be found in life, just fleeting pleasure without meaning, what makes me believe in afterlife is realizing we all seek redemption in any way possible through faith in anything we find in life (love, money, friends, politics, etc), but only a an all knowing thing can bring true redemption, you could believe in politics, changing the world... it all would come to nothing if you ask from your individuality to that thing why all happened, anything found in this world is essentially not omniscient, you would never found redemption if you had faith in something from this world, it's like asking to communism why everything is filled with suffering, and then communism says it's for the greater good... you have to believe in that communism is all knowing or else you despair (like in the book of job)

[Anonymous No.12607435]

>>12607078
I am crying with laughter reading this one.

[Anonymous No.12607454]

>>12607434
Let love into your heart, you retarded nigger

[Anonymous No.12607460]

Came here cause of trump and I’ll leave because of chain link.

[Anonymous No.12607469]

>>12606799
I was on TOTSE back in the day and some of it's off-shoots, but then eventually was herded into /pol/ and picked up on the culture the same day.

[Anonymous No.12607495]

>>12607434
there are 1 million reasons to doubt humanity anon. true liberation is realizing that we are all on the same page. despite our backgrounds. whether they be religious or governmental. all we want is happiness for those we love, and that is universal. love is transcendence because it makes no sense at all but we all believe in it somehow.

[Anonymous No.12607499]

>>12607393
>when I have spent 30 years on this site
The internet is being purged of free thought and expression 4chan won't be around another five year at this rate and you'll be logging onto the internet with a persistent identity linked inexorably to the real life you.

[Anonymous No.12607503]

>>12606799
2007 for me. Mainly on others now, except this /biz/ and I like to troll nu/pol/ when I feel like irritating redditfags. What else should you have been doing? Watching TV? Talking to fuckwits on Facebook? I see this occasionally, but honestly apart from work, wife, gym, making money etc what should I do with downtime? If you're happy who cares? If not, then answer the question above and do that instead. You've probably been involved in a ton of lulz, I'd suggest you be happy with that.

[Anonymous No.12607511]

>>12607189
>or how many le upboats it got.
but we have (you)s for that

[Anonymous No.12607540]

>>12607499
Then we shut the Internet down.

[Anonymous No.12607560]

>>12606878
>I didn't live my life.
Jesus Christ. That's the most blackpill thing I've read in quite some time.

[Anonymous No.12607580]

>is there anyone here who has been lurking on 4 chan for 13 years? Am i the only one who has stayed for so long?

Yes and at least 2 others own Link.

[Anonymous No.12607581]

>>12606878
This is /biz/
Use your knowledge to make money.
The only thing keeping me inside instead of going sailing is my lack of money.

[Anonymous No.12607652]

>>12607303
it's 6:30am in my timezone, i haven't slept, and i'm still sitting here reading these posts that make the hair stand up on the back on my neck

[Anonymous No.12607662]

>>12607499
then we move onto the blockchain

[Anonymous No.12607698]

same here bro
this is where I get all my internet socialization after myspace died
I don't like looking at faces and I hate peoples' egos so this place is my home

[Anonymous No.12607730]

>>12607499
if life was cominc book, youd be rorschach.

[Anonymous No.12607732]

>>12606799
Been on 4chan since 08, so close I guess. This site is so dear to my heart. It very seriously played a role in my development as a person for better or worse. I think for the better. I think 4chan is one of the most interesting corners of the internet, and I hope it has a long and prosperous life.

[Anonymous No.12607741]

>>12606799
Been here since 2006 as well, on and off. It’s been a long and strange ride.

[Anonymous No.12607747]

>>12606799

13 years and still homosexual? This is tragedy anon.

[Anonymous No.12607761]

>>12606799
I'm in the same boat.

>>12606878
This is so retarded. Life is what you make of it. Some people just watch TV all day. Some people go to bars and drink all day. There's people out there who can't enjoy themselves at all because they live in a 3rd world shithole and have to just survive every day. Go watch some docus on that maybe. You browse an image board and feel guilty about it?
Why?
No one ever said you couldn't have friends that do or do not browse 4chan. Use 4chan to enrich your life, not dominate it.
I days or weeks off of this site because I'm too /biz/y makin moves, but I myself am a recluse - I love silence and even though I'm fine talking to people (even talking to crowds), I only ever feel truly happy when I am alone

Just enjoy your free time, and make the most of your non-free time.

[Anonymous No.12607766]

>>12607652
Its important to look yourself in the mirror sometimes.
Its not something that comes easy, so we have willingly surrounded ourselves with all manner of distractions to drown out our darker thoughts, many comfort themselves with the lie that this conditioning is the result of an external attack but it isnt, the noise is something we seek ourselves.

There must be a plan B though, I refuse to accept these posts are our fate, it isnt all about money as we can do things for free like stop running from ourselves and blaming others.
I have no idea though, theres no easy answer, I am the early 30s shutin loser with a high IQ in the upper 130s I use to beat myself up with every day.
I have moved between 7 different cities in my life, usually a couple of years at a time, always with shitty work in basement tier rooms, looking for a 'fresh start' as I go and never staying in one place long enough to get exposed for what I am. Its been so long now since Ive had friends or any interest in women or career that I wouldnt know where to start.
I know we wont all make it but I want to, I think that much is important, anyone with genuine life tips please post itt

[Anonymous No.12607786]

>>12607732
thats what it really is
else there would only be reddit facebook and twitter for posting alongside normies who lag ten years behind in the meme department and are tech illiterate

as i see it slashdot and maybe nntp split up in 4chan and sites like hacker news, meaning you make serious posts on hacker news and entertaining shit posts on 4chan

[Anonymous No.12607822]

4chan for better or worse. is the reality. everything else is just false. you either live with it or you pretend it doesn't exist.

[Anonymous No.12607836]

>>12607766
>anyone with genuine life tips please post itt

Dump guy here, I have only one. It took me 10 days to complete the process, and it's a really long ass read, are you alright with that?

[Anonymous No.12607847]

>>12607836
Yes.

[Anonymous No.12607858]

>>12607766
check. and also based.

[Anonymous No.12607879]

>>12606799
Sucks for you. Im going to be fucking roastie in my yacth by next year and ill only be 20

[Anonymous No.12607883]

>>12607836
post it, I'll read it when I wake up. going to sleep now, good night anons

[Anonymous No.12607888]

goodnight /biz/ thanks for the nostalgia and helping me feel normal.

>pic unrelated.

[Anonymous No.12607889]

>>12606903
Delet

[Anonymous No.12607893]

[Anonymous No.12607902]

>>12606799
reporting in

[Anonymous No.12607912]

its the media and hyper saturated music that told us how life should be like. public education also did a shaft on us telling us that hard work, honesty, and whats inside that counts will matter when the exact opposite takes place.
you really think george washington did all that shit during war and things like not telling lies or other shit? no he probably fucked his teenage or child slaves, kissed his wife goodnight, maybe commanded an army from way behind the lines and had alot of help, and smoked weed.
its the same lie that donald trump got to where he was by honest labor. .

its the disney or sports car or western consumerism fantasy tale with the white man hero that will fuck you up good. life is not like that. at all.

the solution is to work on things you feel you need to work on and take it day by day. if you have downtime, check other shit out without harm to yourself.

another part of the problem is that prostitution is illegal in america. there needs to be a push for it to be regulated. it would solve alot of the problems.

[Anonymous No.12607934]

>>12606799
I've first started browsing 4chan in high school when I was 16. I'm almost 27 now, so it's been almost 11 years.
I've taken a very long break from age 19 to 26. Got a QT gf near the end of high school and dated her for a few years, then just kinda got busy with college and recreationaI drugs. Ended up dropping out and doing shit-tier jobs to get a bit of money then stumbled into the crypto game and found out about /biz/ in 2018.
I did check /b/ from time to time during all these years, only to realize I wasn't really missing out on anything except random tranny porn pictures. I did also spend some time on 420chan in my early 20's since I was a druggie.
And here we are, at the end of it all. But we're all going to /makeit/ right ?

[Anonymous No.12607938]

>>12607902
fuck you girug

[Anonymous No.12607948]

>>12606851
>when I'm happiest and I have a lot of stuff going on in my life, I tend to use 4chan less and less.

[Anonymous No.12607972]

>>12607948
rip sky king

for once destiny was in his hands

[Anonymous No.12607989]

im too old for this shit. goodnight /biz/

[Anonymous No.12607991]

4chan is the best thing ever

wtf else is there?

[Anonymous No.12608007]

>>12606951
FUGG

[Anonymous No.12608011]

>>12606799
You sound like a fucking faggot, stop complaining like a nigger, its embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.12608030]

>>12606799
I've been on 4chan since 2010, it's really the best community on the internet because you are allowed to speak anything and that's the point of internet.

[Anonymous No.12608051]

I've been here since 2005/2006.
Don't know what or when all went "wrong" but If I could go back in time I would do the same.

[Anonymous No.12608080]

Good threat, but it also hurts. Hope we all make it, anons.

[Anonymous No.12608185]

4chan is my internet basically

>>12606899
good god can you believe this guy

>imagine thinking your life is shit because of a website. imagine not looking inside yourself for all the problems there are in your life.

what an utter faggot

anyway :)

to bad i cant get emails and buy/sell crypto or i would not use a different website

[Anonymous No.12608188]

I feel like shit now.

[Anonymous No.12608209]

>>12607747

Though I will get a bit gay myself, I'm surprised by the amount of people expressing genuine appreciation for this place. I think anyone reading this is highly likely to like it here, regardless of whatever too cool for school rhetoric they use. It's quite amazing to have a place that's objectively a waste of time but you know on some level it isn't. I appreciate you bros, and the handful of reasonable girl lurkers when you're not being bitches all the time.

[Anonymous No.12608263]

>>12607766
did not see this fren in trouble but I did notice those dubs. Life is just life its your attitude that is always the problem

read this if you understand it nothing will bother you ever again
http://classics.mit[dot] edu/Epictetus/epicench [dot]html

[Anonymous No.12608301]

>>12608209
>the handful of reasonable girl lurkers when you're not being bitches all the time.
kek. Is everything okay anon?

[Anonymous No.12608325]

>>12608301

Yeah I'm fine, regardless of shortcomings I could have done a lot worse.

[Anonymous No.12608326]

>>12608209
this board is unironically the best place on the internet anon, that’s my honest opinon and you can take it to the attorney general.

[Anonymous No.12608335]

>>12607847
The overly-simplified, edge-cut angle of this is: you "reset" yourself. That's it.

I am going with the assumption that you've got all the intelligence and knowledge you need to start over. What is going to transpire in a few weeks if you do this honestly is that you are going to reset yourself almost completely(retaining a few critical bits) back into child-like malleability. You are going to lose most. ideally, all negative habits, mannerisms, etc. you have built over the years at the COST of most, if not, all positive premiums you have built over the same span of time and precious time ranging from a few weeks to a month.

If done correctly, you become extremely self-suggestible to ANYTHING. A gift you treat yourself as a curse you cast just as equal.

[Anonymous No.12608357]

>>12607847
The overly-simplified, edge-cut idea of this is: you "reset" yourself. That's it.

I am going with the assumption that you've got all the intelligence and knowledge you need to start over. What is going to transpire in a few weeks, if you do this honestly, is that you are going to reset yourself almost completely back into a blank-slate and child-like malleability. You are going to lose most. ideally, all negative habits, mannerisms, etc. you have built over the years at the COST of most, if not, all positive premiums you have built over the long span and precious time ranging from a few weeks to a month.

If done correctly, you become extremely self-suggestible to ANYTHING. It is a gift you treat yourself, and a curse you cast just the same.

[Anonymous No.12608402]

>>12606799
12 years a slave to 4 chan checking in

Started with /b/ and now same as you got to /Biz/ 2 years ago, 4 Chan provided me with all the laughs and more and us going to make me rich as wel

Thx basedmoot

[Anonymous No.12608427]

>>12606799
>this thread again
2007. I dont have to read this thread to know what ill see here

[Anonymous No.12608435]

>>12608326
Amen to that. It's my mostly commonly visited site/page out.of anything.

Night fellow Anons. Wish we had more threads like this. These help ensure that /biz/ posters are gonna make it by way of mutual support.

[Anonymous No.12608467]

>>12606799
>Been here since early 2007
>28
>NEET
>Missed the golden Bull run

[Anonymous No.12608558]

>>12608263
made this beautiful OC for you frens <3

[Anonymous No.12608740]

>>12607146
Kaczynski argued that when people exert themselves to gather what they need to live, then they don't have energy for pointless shit. The reason we fill our lives with pointless shit or "surrogate activities" is because attaining what we need to live is trivially easy.

http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

[Anonymous No.12608852]

>>12608740
this
we lead meaningless lives and technology was a mistake

[Anonymous No.12608859]

>>12606799
Damn and you didn't buy BTC at 50 cents? You must be retarded

[Anonymous No.12608867]

Been here since 2012. I’m such an old fag please suck my dick new fags , I’ll even pay you in LINK for showing me some pity.

[Anonymous No.12609011]

@OP, been on 4chan since 2005, since age of 15...it's amazing how all this group think evolves...also weaponised autism reached peak with trump meme magic

[Anonymous No.12609031]

>>12606799
Why are you asking how to live life from kids who are probably way younger than you

[Anonymous No.12609049]

>>12606799
ive been here since i was 12, and i am 21 now, there is truth everywhere, lies everywhere, people project what they're feeling on this website.

[Anonymous No.12609164]

>>12606879
Fuck, I 'member Boxxy. Feelsold, man

[Anonymous No.12609307]

>>12606799
Your life should be amazing by now

[Anonymous No.12609317]

>>12606799
Shut up newfag.

[Anonymous No.12609334]

lol been here since chanology so a permanewfag fuck the blackpills 4chan aint all doom and gloom but it is good to not be here all day long, that's true. I got shredded thanks to /fit/ and /g/ allowed me to make it by shilling me btc /sci/ expanded my brain as did elements of /biz/, /new/ & /pol/ (yes really). I found good reading from /lit/ and got all sorts of great advice for my building projects at /diy/, seriously 4chan and the anons here - its what you make of it, what information you choose to ingest and assign value.

If anything those sad dump pics - that's the anons of 4chan giving you another thing - the motivation to pursue life and to recognize this is your life to mold as best as you can, its telling you to take part in living, not standing idle at the sidelines, its done so via the medium of tales of others and its what makes us strong but also gives us the ability to change ourselves - but only if we chose to listen.

[Anonymous No.12609340]

you spent your life on 4chan and never even had this installed

https://get.cryptobrowser.site/3803048

[Anonymous No.12609342]

>>12607233
Your life hasn’t improved at all?

[Anonymous No.12609343]

>>12606799
2008 reporting in. IDK where else to go. I come here to fap/news/research/invest/play game on the idk what else to do. If I could have 100$ k USD I would swear to never come back. Like one of those men's where it say "you get 5 billion but you have to quit fortnight" but for real.

[Anonymous No.12609359]

>>12607460
You wouldn’t want to see what’s next after link?

[Anonymous No.12609443]

>>12608357
Your experiment will be attempted by me. I read it all.
Here's hoping.

[Anonymous No.12609620]

>>12608209
This place is unironically like an old friend. Sometimes you piss me off but you fucking idiots will always be there for me, even if it's just to call me a faggot and tell me to kms

[Anonymous No.12609634]

>>12609443
>>12609443
I failed to do this twice, and with every failure extending it longer. The first time is the best of all shots you may take, the mind is impressionable and builds an alarming immunity, like how you can only really watch a movie or have both loved and have your heart broken for the first time.

In the entire time, the summation of your being, every fiber, every sinew, every cell, every construct of your identity will put up its most grandest fight to preserve its existence. It will deceive you, try to make a bitch out of you, it will mock your intelligence, it will throw the lowest of punches, and it will spit on shit on whatever it is that is that you are trying to prove; but if you can put up with this simple waiting game, you get to see the light you've been chasing for years in the other side of that dark tunnel, and thank the gods, it is everything you hoped it would be and more.

I don't know who you are, man. But I want you to know that I don't need any prerequisites to care about you. I want you to live, not just exist. I want you to win.

[Anonymous No.12609706]

2005 Club here, boomer memes were the highlight of my last few years, everything else is miring through the wastelands of threads like these.

[Anonymous No.12609710]

I'm 34, been here since 07 or 08. This thread is fucking depressing.

[Anonymous No.12610548]

>>12606799
Holy fuck imagine being here all that time and ignoring BTC, ignoring ETH, I bet you ignored LINK too didn't you?

I'm 29 too but discovered 4chan around 2014, think it was around the time of the zimmerman trial so there were some epic breads, but spent all my time on /pol until I switched to /biz around 2017.

[Anonymous No.12610581]

>>12610548
>Holy fuck imagine being here all that time and ignoring BTC, ignoring ETH
2010 reporting. Can confirm I'm still poor.

[Anonymous No.12610654]

I think I started frequenting 4chan in 2011 or 2012, when I realized there's more than just /b/. I never liked gore or racism, but I grew into occasionally fapping to feminine traps (and it's shameful to even type).

I'm in my 20s, late. There's nothing good about 4chan. I wish I never discovered it. Even reddit is better. My life is just embarassingly bad for my age, and it feels even lonelier because there are very few people around my age on this site.

I bet a meetup with be just a bunch of 12 year olds and a few of us standing back embarrassed we ever thought we were among peers.

Also most of the older folks here have some kind of serious problem. Like a physical or mental disability.

Am I retarded too? I don't know. I've spend a week alone in my room, browsing pictures of cartoon frogs, having to hide again and again automated posts from homosexuals that think they can brainwash you with pictures of interracial porn. Maybe I am retarded after all.

inb4 I get zero replies on my long post that kills the tread. I get replies to like 5% of my posts, and most of them are something like "lol" or "n*gger". What are we doing here.

[Anonymous No.12610675]

>>12610654
Lol nigger
T. 27 year old

[Anonymous No.12610717]

>>12610654
lol, nigger

[Anonymous No.12611548]

>>12610675
>>12610717
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback.

[Anonymous No.12611617]

>>12610654
Here' s your (you) my fren. Being socially adapted in a sick civilization is not a good thing. Here you can at least speak your mind with no censorship. If you want fake kindness, status signaling, likes and upvotes go to reddit, fb or some other normie site. Yes there is a ratio of 98% shitposting 2% insightful posts. Still better than any hivemind subreddit.

Also late 20s, been here 10 years

[Anonymous No.12611654]

>>12606799
Same here, except I am 30.

[Anonymous No.12611682]

>>12606899
>misogyny
Ya blew it.

[Anonymous No.12611691]

>>12606899
Wrong, 4chan is socialization without consequences. I need this small amount of socialization that 4chan provides me. If it wasn't for this place, I'd go to normie social networks and I'd leave traces of my opinions all over the internet and in the year 2032 when THEY truly take over I would've been deplatformed from life. I'd rather have my opinions disappear into the void right here.

[Anonymous No.12611770]

>>12606799
I'm here friend. Been on since I was 12, turning 25 this month.

[Anonymous No.12611788]

>>12607189
replies are upvotes essentially. A post with a picture and a few replies gets more attention. You are still correct though.

[Anonymous No.12611789]

>>12606799
Me too

[Anonymous No.12611794]

>>12606869

[Anonymous No.12611798]

>>12610654
If it was like /b/ meetups, I've been to, it'd range from 16-30. Probably up to 40 now.

Weird being a substitute teacher and seeing a /b/tard student from another school you know that is playing tennis at your school against your students. Fast forward six years and you are living at their parents' house while they live with their bf.

The Channer and her parents were nice enough to give me a place to stay when I needed it most.

[Anonymous No.12611809]

>>12611788
>replies are upvotes essentially
Not really, you can have 10 replies saying that you're a retard. You're not really getting upvoted in that case

[Anonymous No.12611862]

>>12611809
The (you)s are what really matter

[Anonymous No.12611868]

>30 yo
>well adjusted life
>loving gf, friends decent job
>read over 1500 books
>was drummer in popular bands, had groupies
>thing I enjoy the most about my life except rimjobs is 4chan

I don't think you should attack this community for your own problems.
It actually helped me a lot to get condidence about my opinions and lifestyle.
And for me the content is getting better every year, except /pol/ who turned to shit with Trump because it attracted the moderates and normies.

[Anonymous No.12611880]

>>12606799
23 years old
Started lurking when I was 12

It's almost to the point where I've spent the majority of my life on 4chan.

>tfw wouldn't have it any other way

[Anonymous No.12611881]

>>12611868
And I've been there for at least 12 years, I skipped 10 days max total during this time and I spend at least 1 hour every day.

[Anonymous No.12611996]

I have discovered this hellhole back in times when ogrish was a thing
I was 11.
I'm 25.
There are others. More of us.
>>12611770

[Anonymous No.12612295]

It's been around 10 years for me. This place if chaos somehow still feels kinda "true"

[Anonymous No.12612511]

>>12606927
I became a millionaire from Bitcoin and sold near the top... and I'm still here a year after I sold.

[Anonymous No.12612582]

>>12607991
food is pretty good

[Anonymous No.12612625]

>>12606799
it's my third month on 4chan
X and biz
totally addicted

but
I can stay without for a month in a row

but
then I allways come back

what there is better than 4chan? nothing
nothing.

[Anonymous No.12612641]

>>12607303
I agree completely.

[Anonymous No.12612672]

>>12607732
I have to admit that this is one of the few places you can speak your mind even if it is insulting or rude for some people.

Now, 4chan is mostly contrarian. When they began they were more weird and degenerate.

[Anonymous No.12612694]

>>12606899
he just described most modern social networks. 4chan IS a social network, the only difference that theere is more porn.

[Anonymous No.12612717]

[Anonymous No.12612823]

It wasn't supposed to be like this, man. It wasn't supposed to END LIKE THIS!

[Anonymous No.12612848]

>>12612823
It ain't over man, it never ends! Just when you capitulate to the idea of an end, it's reborn!

[Anonymous No.12612864]

05 fag here. 4chan is all I know

[Anonymous No.12612878]

>>12606799
You signed the contract.
You knew the terms.
You're here forever.
>>12606831
>>12606921
>implying that's a bad thing
I've been going to youtube for 10 years, no one ever got sentimental about that.

[Anonymous No.12612884]

>>12611996
How do you feel you are doing? I think that 4chan has helped me a lot but that's what people in fucked up religions say too.

I've made money from /biz/, dress better from /fa/ eat healthy from /fit/ and I can speak my mind freely when I want to. Not really seeing a downside here.

[Anonymous No.12612899]

>>12611996
Well actually seeing the gore as a pre-adolescent was probably the downside.

[Anonymous No.12612916]

>>12606799
I went down some dark paths after all this time and all I remember is anime reaction images being top level, saturdays being for cats while blasting NEDM, sundays for shotas.
Suiseiseki being everyones waifu because Rozen Maiden was the literal representation of us being NEET fucks, wojak, pepe and trollface not existing because we had plastered rage comics made by people that created a standard within illustrations on the board. I lurked at the start because I was underage/b/anned.

Hell I was one of the original /b/ootcamp guys.
I miss you spastic retards, every single one of you.

[Anonymous No.12612932]

>>12612884
Bro /biz/ made me a fuckton of money. /sci helped me pass math classes. /ck taught me how to make food that isn't shit. It's all benefits
Continuing to use something from which you extract no benefit is irrational. People won't do it. So there must be a benefit in coming here. People ITT are just doomers who haven't seen the 22 y/o go-getter meme yet

[Anonymous No.12612946]

[Anonymous No.12612955]

/pol > all
Those who think only autistic basement losers lurk here are wrong.

Here you get yet another glimpse of the chans bending the judeo-reality.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvpw976qWfU

[Anonymous No.12612965]

[Anonymous No.12613057]

I'm on 4chan since 2008, when in my 2nd semester at uni. I did my Masters, then my PhD (math), now have a very well paying job and some fuck budies. 4chan doesn't ruin you.

4chan is not bad, it has at least two things going for it, that are related:
- people can say what they want (like literally nowhere else on the web, let alone real life. E.g. use le n-word.)
- If people speak their mind, you realize people are mostly fucked and you feel more comfortable with yourself
You also get redpilled and can get some book suggestions.

Stop complaining. The rest of the web is worse: proof me wrong.

[Anonymous No.12613077]

ive been here since 2006

feels really weird seeing how the internet slowly embraced and emulated board culture. We were the rejects, the outcasts....

[Anonymous No.12613113]

>>12606878
>life is movement
Truer words have seldom been said.

[Anonymous No.12613159]

>>12613077
Information medium commodification occurs when inside jokes become memes.

Attention is an instantiation of Capital. Replace currency by information in Das Kapital and everything still applies.

[Anonymous No.12613162]

>>12606799

since 2005. but took several breaks

[Anonymous No.12613169]

>>12606799
I'm 33, started browsing in 2006.

We're still here because it's the best place to hang out in the world.

[Anonymous No.12613176]

>>12613077
Commodification of an information medium occurs when inside jokes become memes.

Attention is an instantiation of Capital. Replace currency by attention in Das Kapital and everything still applies.

[Anonymous No.12613254]

>>12606899
>this place is not making you happy
Old fag here. The funniest shit on internet is found here. Nowhere else do i burst out laughing on the regular watching silly memes

[Anonymous No.12613320]

First discovered 4chan in like 2006 in 7th grade, literally the first ‘porn’ site I’d ever seen

Spent many years on /o/, migrated to /pol/ in 2015, started lurking /biz/ and /k/ around that time too. I wasn’t here for the 2017 bull run because I spent 100% if the time on /pol/ during that period. Unironically first heard about chainlink on /pol/ because some bizrael was shilling it there in November 2017.

Now I just lurk /biz 70% and /k/ 30% of the time, with the occasional visit to /his/

[Anonymous No.12613336]

>>12612916
>anime reaction images being top level, saturdays being for cats while blasting NEDM,
The NEDM thing really hit me, I came to 4chan from YTMND.
This place used to be more just, stupid fun.
People didn't force their values on others, because we were stupid kids on the internet. Values didn't matter because we were edgy retards.
Hell, back in the day, before Reddit got it's reputation, atheism was the preferred religious topic here. You could post about it without being bombarded with fedora memes.
No-one barged into threads demanding that we all save western civilization from the EssJayDubyaz.
Interracial porn threads (of any combination) weren't 10% content and 90% screeching.
It was actually funny to say nigger. Now it's like an expectation.
Maybe it's an unpopular idea, but I think many kids hit their 20's, and sat on this site trying to come up with reasons why their life hadn't panned out the way they wanted. So they all banded together and started a moral crusade against whatever they perceived to be the problem. No more fun. Only anger, resentment, and thinly veiled self-hatred, from sad and lonely young people.

[Anonymous No.12613399]

4chan is just a faggot porn site for children, it's an embarrassment to even be associated with that fucking shithole and its literal 100 threads a day in which children giggle about eating shit. 4channel is very different.
i used that shithole from 2008-2014, now i can't even scroll through /b/'s catalogue without actually cringing. literal kids.

[Anonymous No.12613415]

>>12606799
34 been on since 04 or 05. Started as a /b/tard. You're not alone, you're here for life m8

[Anonymous No.12613790]

>>12612511
nice. how does life feel different knowing you made it

[Anonymous No.12613991]

>>12606799
Maybe 7 years give or take. I used to visit /b but its really gone downhill. I also liked /adv but all of the suicide threads got to me after one of my friends blew his head off. Mostly just lurk now.

[Anonymous No.12614094]

>>12612625
>third month

Lurk more you dumb faggot

[Anonymous No.12614181]

>>12613399
Have you tried growing up a bit? Rothschild detected

[Anonymous No.12614898]

>>12613991
My condolences on your friend being lost to suicide.

Knowing about how it can affect people keeps me from telling people kys or saying kms.

I know it's said in humor mostly (sometimes anger and ironic anger too) here, but for someone on the edge, their thought process is off balance.

[Anonymous No.12615001]

>>12608357
I can do 7 days.

[Anonymous No.12615029]

>>12609634
One question though, if youre spending most of your 7 days alone/asleep/doing nothing, how do you stop yourself daydreaming or having imaginary conversations?

[Anonymous No.12615118]

>>12606799
You're not alone bud, I've been here since 2006 too, was here when the /b days were good. Originally came for the YLYL. I've been to uni, travelled the world, got a job I like all in the time I've been lurking. You can do both, I hardly ever post but I do come here pretty regularly.

[Anonymous No.12615206]

>>12606799
10 years here

[Anonymous No.12615232]

>>12615029
if you worry about that i would not even think about 7 days. try 1 for a start. once you succeeded with one total day try another.

[Anonymous No.12615233]

Well I read about half of this thread and I personally don't get anymore the hate for 'chan. I've been here since 2011 (although knew about it before that) and have long loved this place. Maybe I'm at the "acceptance" stage that some of you older fags have went passed again and is why you don't feel this way, although a lot of you are larpes I feel..
Truth of the matter is that while it may have SOME addiction properties, I still CHOOSE to be here. Because it's my home and it's enjoyable. I don't know maybe I'm partially lying to myself, but at least partly that is the truth. It's a great place that helped me grow in more ways than one, a place of anonymity that prevents the typical stroking of ego like other places with usernames (and god forbid "points"). I've learned shit tons. Came here the same brainwashed libtard, came out red pilled as cringey as that sounds. At the very least I try to look at the world more objectively now.
Cons:
- obvious isolation compared to the real world interaction;
Pros:
- learning a lot about myself (through people similar to myself), about money (in a fun way instead of boring old school way), about history (more truth than lies at least), about spirituality (some of the shit you can get here you can't even get elsewhere on the net or at least it's very hard to).

I think the problem you fellas need to realise that it's you. I'm saying that as epic and "literally me" those screencap blackpill posts are, the problem isn't 4chan, the problem is you being depressed. I was at these stages too and am still occasionally but at a much lower level. Understand that it's the internet as a whole, 4chan at least has more like minded people as yourself, otherwise your prime source of internet would be something like reddit or resetera. I know people IRL who love those sites unironically like we love the chan. As much as it changed over the years I still accept it. The wave of young blood and newfags is something that will forever continue.

[Anonymous No.12615358]

>>12615233
Check out my dubs nibbas. As a side note a tip I want to give you all is that aside from the golden rule of the chan that everyone should follow but hardly anyone new does so nowadays "lurk X amount of time before posting" (depends on the board) - just to acclimate to the environment and not make a retard of yourself; is learn how to filter the threads. Not through the site's script but through your eyes and brain. I'm sure you heard this before but 95% of threads on any given board are either mediocre or garbage, 5% is always that gem of information, knowledge and/or entertainment. Seriously, don't click shitty threads that you don't resonate with. And if you click them BECAUSE they make you irrationally angry it means you have a long way to go to calm your inner sperg. I didn't mention in the last post as I ran out of space but I am 29 if that makes it any easier for you to get my points across from where I'm coming from. Naturally you will also become more calm and grounded as you age. If you're in your young 20's still it's up to you to become that calm and grounded man in his early 30's or a passive and depressed one. It's a very thin line of difference, but it's not 2 sides of the same coin.

[Anonymous No.12615373]

>>12606799
2004 oldfag here, I don't go anywhere else online because I just don't understand normies and the UIs are clusterfucks. Pic somewhat related, it's my oldest surviving image.

[Anonymous No.12615441]

>>12615373
Windows 95 and 98 had the comfiest UI

[Anonymous No.12615481]

>>12615441
Windows Classic FTW!

[Anonymous No.12615484]

>>12615373
>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:49:14 +0000
Nice

[Anonymous No.12615492]

No Dec17/Jan18 Newfags here? All gone already?
Seems like 98% oldfags in this thread

[Anonymous No.12615494]

>>12615484
Good times man, good times.

[Anonymous No.12615503]

>>12615492
because we never leave

[Anonymous No.12615511]

>>12615481
isnt it funny how little has changed they tried with that ugly ass overlay on windows 8 didnt they but we got our taskbar back <3

i like windows 10 i feel very comfy and after the new eu data security laws i dont even use linux anymore

[Anonymous No.12615543]

>>12615511
I've unironically been thinking about going back to 98 because all the new malware can't run on it because it lacks all the modern shit they need ad all the old stuff is dead and forgotten.

[Anonymous No.12615554]

>>12615543
just use noscript you will be fine

[Anonymous No.12615608]

>>12615554
But old stuff is half the fun!

[Anonymous No.12615634]

>>12606799
2007 here. I'm first or second wave of cancer depending on who you ask. I did take a 5 year break from 4chan during 2008-2013 though.

[Anonymous No.12615639]

>>12615608
if you do it for kek who am i to stop you it is your duty to do it right away!

[Anonymous No.12615643]

Since 2006. Came here from ytmnd. I'll be here til it or I die. I miss that faggot moot. I feel similar to this >>12611868 except the rim jobs. There's nothing else like this. I'd be poorer, fatter and less-adjusted.

[Anonymous No.12615667]

>>12615639
I still remember the old battlecry

[Anonymous No.12615709]

>>12615667
ah yes. but we have awoken a god so that is an improvement i would say

kek

[Anonymous No.12615746]

>>12606799
not as much of an oldfag as you, but not new either. 2010. Board progression has been /b/ , then /pol/ , then /biz/ and now mostly /sci/. Still come on biz and occasionally on pol.
I find 4chan to be stress relieving.

[Anonymous No.12615750]

>>12615709
Raptor Jesue went extinct for your sins!

[Anonymous No.12615924]

>>12615503
>the it's been literal years since I've seen this. Feels like seeing goatse again. Also fuck you nigger.

[Anonymous No.12615971]

>>12615118
It is inevitable to daydream and have imaginary conversations, and if you cannot fend them off in the end they become your primary and staple source, and it also commands a will of its own. There are of different solutions for this. One idea is to fill in the brain's real-estate, in a personal account, what worked for me was the hobbies that anon suggested: lifting, reading, writing, meditation. I lifted to failure, until everything I can think about was that next pocket of air and going to sleep. I wrote what was in my head immediately in any piece of paper I found lying around and compiled it, I sat down and read anything audibly, and had driven intrusive thoughts away with meditation. I failed twice and by the end of my second run I finally learned that waiting is very different from doing nothing or idling. Being intentional, aware, and keeping score is the hardest of the parts.

I hope you make it(and inevitably you will, even without this little guide), that is all that I could ask for and you will not find me wanting.

Godspeed, and all of the luck in the world could spare.

>>12615232
No, it has to be done in that time at the most minimum, preferably more just to be sure. The brain is so godly adaptive and resilient than we give it credit for, it will develop a defense that adapts ever more accordingly to preserve its current geometric structure if it is taken by increments similar to a vaccine training your immune system to fight a virus.

[Anonymous No.12615989]

>>12615924
have another

[Anonymous No.12615997]

>>12615971
did not read any of your posts fren I will just asume you know what you are talking about.

I am just saying if he is thinking about not being able to do something for 7 days (whatever it is) he should not even worry about that amount of time and concentrate on doing 1 first then see what comes next.

[Anonymous No.12616226]

>>12606882
You don’t get it. That nagging feeling you get from looking at his site too much is something in your brain screaming at you that you’re wasting your life. It’s the same thing that screams at you when you lie, cheat, steal, or harm yourself in some way. We’re all looking for a purpose in this world, there’s none to be found on this site.

[Anonymous No.12616616]

>>12616226
>We’re all looking for a purpose in this world, there’s none to be found on this site.

Exactly. Also
>millions of man-hours of socializing wasted because of anonymous identities and geographically sparse userbase

What's the point. It's like a stupid, boring addiction like gambling, collecting trash or sniffing glue. It ruins lives but nobody cares because it's too retarded to relate to.