/lit/ - Literature

All this low effort, low IQ posting is my fault. I'm terribly sorry to you all. I wish I could take it all back, but it's all spiraled out of control.

/lit/ is a board dedicated to literature so it would make sense that images aren't posted here as much as they are on other boards, but it seems like there's been a decline of image posts across 4chan as a whole. Looking at screencaps from fifteen years ago it seemed like every other post had an image, mostly reaction images but it seemed like people just posted whatever. At one point it seemed like common knowledge that attaching an image to your post is the best way to get people to read it. Nowadays threads can often go twenty or sometimes fifty posts without an image aside from the OP image. It's probably an influx of phoneposters and newfags from other sites that are responsible for the decline in image posting. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that imageboards aren't novel anymore. Nearly every social media website allows its users to post images now, so there's no point in using an imageboard for the sake of posting an image. At the same time communication has become more text-based with the rise of instant messaging, and emojis have taken the place of reaction images. Jannies are also more prone to deleting a lot of images now, as well, like basedjaks and anything that might upset the advertisers. I miss the frequent image posts. A lot imageboard culture is being lost as image posts become less frequent. 4chan prides itself on being different from the rest of the internet but this blind pride has gone unchecked and soon 4chan will only have the most superficial differences from the other websites that it despises because of lack of image posting. Really, the only thing that can be done is the encourage people to post more pictures but 4chan staff might find it in their best interest to keep the amount of images low to save on server resources. There are alternative ways to host images though, like file-sharing websites such as catbox and certain user-made plugins that may be forbidden to name. The decline in image posting isn't a bad thing from a self-interested standpoint either, because it means that the posts I make that have an image attached will stand out much more from the sea of text posts made by Reddit tourists. I want the old days back but I know it's not feasible, and there are some good things about the new days as well.

Just turned 22. books for that feel?

Books are boring and have been made functionally irrelevant in the modern age. Why bother when I can use the internet for reading and gathering information? There's nothing I can get from Descartes, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Borges that won't be readily available elsewhere on the internet in 50 million places and far more digestible and to the point. And most written fiction is utter shit, let's not pretend otherwise. That aside, everything is getting adapted anyways.

There is literally no reason to read books other than to make yourself feel pretentious and smart. You get far more out of playing a game like Factorio or Terraria than you get out of the writings of Plutarch or going through the unnecessary cavalcade of Rome faggotry that /lit/ would shill to you when you could get all that same information in an evening by watching some video series on the same subject on YouTube.

Face it, books are history. Before the internet they had their use but they have been replaced. As a written work, they are inferior to comics, graphic novels, manga and pulp. As a creative artform, they are inferior to games, television and film because they drone on so much more but lack the ability to say anything more than what the page allows them. In the modern era, they are the most braindead and easy "art" to master because any simpleton can put a pen to paper and, with the right kind of nepotism, get it published.

Video games are objectively superior to all, however, as you get the full package in addition to being able to interact with it all. You have visual storytelling, narrative works, music, artistic designs and all intertwined at once with the ability to interact or change those very things within the world of that game. That is, if it's an actual game and not some VN. Even a VN is better than a book, though.
Games are objectively superior because only games allow you to play them in different ways every time as they do, like Dark Souls. Can't do that with a book.

>>13722904
>implying the life of Hector, who was so afraid of death he ran from his fate, was more valuable than anyone else's.

>>12588689
>australian

>>12092211
>"what about things that bring you joy?"
>"i got rid of that as well."
bugmen are truly the saddest of the species

>>12033414
>there are people who have never been hugged

sad

>>11337716
>those are bad

>>10088112
such intelligence