/lit/ - Literature

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The mere fact that She Who Shall Not Be Named, the single worst tripfaggot in the entire history of this site, no longer posts her inane stupid shit here with any noticeable regularity, that one simple fact by itself makes the board better than it was from about 2014 until 2021 or so as far as I am concerned. I derive a bit more pleasure from browsing /lit/ these days than I did around five-seven years ago, but not that much more.

Posters sometimes like to complain about decline of quality but I reject this stance as it relates to the past decade or so. It really is about the same as it ever was in terms of quality, and I've been here daily over that interval and gotten ten years older besides so I of all people would be first to complain about shitty zoomer memes, but the board, such as it is, hasn't "fallen off" relative to what it was like 5-7-ish years ago. There have always been meme threads (semicolons in dialogue, "that that", etc) and the shitposting has not taken the precipitous overall decline that they like to argue has occurred. You can still get real discussion periodically on this-or-that thing in between Guenon memes or whatever it happens to be this year. I think part of why this is (according to me, at least) is because culture itself hasn't changed in any meaningful way in the past few years with the one significant caveat of covid culture (hegemony of dumbphones and internet, the real western canon is pretty well understood, we're not into full-on WWIII as of yet, etc).

What I like about the board is that once one continental is all washed up people actually talk about other minor continentals every so often. There was a mild Fichte flirtation maybe a year-ish ago, for example, but that didn't really stick.