/lit/ - Literature

4chan should die. It no longer produces anything of value. No meaningful discourse or discussion can occur there. Board culture has stagnated and in many ways de-evolved. It has become exactly the kind of vapid, retarded, schizophrenic wankery that the site once derided. Internet culture and more specifically chan culture is a reflection of the people using the site and society in general at the time. It's just a mirror. It reflects whatever you show it back at you. Early 4chan was a synthesis of an extremely specific set of factors at a specific point in time that will probably never coalesce again. A shitty economy, a general malaise of apathy among the youth, anime and gamer culture being obscure and ostracized, "The internet" having a barrier to entry, how fucked up and unmoderated the early internet was etc. Chances were, if you used the internet back then you had seen some shit. But anyway, people like to congregate with other people that have the same interests as they do. Where do you hang out if you're some loser living in a shit town with few or no friends and you spend your time playing Warcraft 3 custom games and watching Ego Proxy or whatever? you find the other social outcasts online because people in real life who have the same hobbies as you don't exist. The point being that there is an extremely specific kind of person who would waste the best years of their life on an anime website where there's a 9 out of 10 chance on any given day that you're going to see a picture of someone cutting their own dick off. These people congregate together and a baseline of culture forms from their mutual interests, experiences and attitudes. The culture evolves over time as knowledge about the site spreads through word of mouth, or people discover the site after raids or fox news specials or whatever. Site culture gradually shifts as the demographics of the user base change. At the same time popular culture shifts as more people of all ages gain access to the internet, media corporations begin to target a wider demographic of casual consumers rather than a niche of hardcore fans. Subcultures are exploited by corporations and integrated into popular culture. Someone emails their friend a funny cat picture not realising where it came from, or that the person who made it probably also jacks off to lolicon tentacle rape doujuns. The internet begins leaking.

i'm going to pursue an english phd.
any motivation for me bros? i've been neeting for almost 7 years. currently 23 yrs old about to turn 24 next march.