/lit/ - Literature

After spending some time away from this board I have come to see how insufferable it is, especially /wwoym/ threads in particular.
Starting with the obvious, very little people here actually read. There's plenty of discussions regarding books but there's hardly any in-depth discussions about the contents of such books. Posters here will often state that women and normies are shallow and superficial and will never be able to truly understand literature but it seems all the posters here also have a shallow understanding of such literature, as if they just read it all off of SparkNotes and Wikipedia, and the posters themselves are just spreading such shallow understanding out of their own superficiality, masked in post-irony.

It seems to be a common sentiment that this board is in decline, but there seems to be absolutely no "effortposts", and the few effortposts that I have seen recently seem to garner outright hostile replies, as if other anons are trying to dissuade effortposting. No one makes any attempt to properly structure or refute an argument anymore, it's just all come down to the typical meme responses that are found on every other board at this point. While the anons who attack effortposters are likely not those who are upset at the declining quality of the board, I would not be surprised many of those anons are in fact the ones who are bitter about how distasteful the board has become, given the astounding lack of self-awareness that can be found here.

There is also an unbearable amount of negativity on this board, and in /wwoym/ threads in particular. These threads are nothing more than an extension of /r9k/. There are nearly identical posts in each thread about how someone feels lost or depressed or whatever. Some normie broke up with his fifteenth girlfriend and feels so fucking boo-hoo sad. Some faggot didn't get his drugs or whatever. Anons with daddy issues and mommy issues. I have some fucking advice but none of you will want to hear it: you are making yourself sad. You don't have direct control over your thoughts and feelings, but you have control over your behavior. Your behavior affects your thoughts and feelings. If you keep letting yourself get sad, you will stay sad. No one gets sad when they are busy. When you are busy you will fix the problems that make you sad. I don't want to open up /lit/ and see the billionth post from some whiny 16-25 year old who is convinced his life is over because of some trivial bullshit. Grow the fuck up. Stop ruminating, stop willingly partaking in destructive behaviors. Get some basic self-awareness and stop using these threads as your personal diary for some gay faggot shit. It's not just in these threads, it's all over the entire board. Every fucking day. Some new sad frog thread gets posted. "Recs to help me get over my torn anus?" I only get stupider the more I am on this board. We all get more stupider.

It's time for me to leave this board. See you tomorrow. Hopefully not.