/lit/ - Literature

>>15968575
it completely destroyed my sense of what is normal or acceptable to think, with the result that I have no idea what to believe, or how to believe anything anymore that I can't verify myself, or for which it would be so hard to fake the evidence that it's unlikely there is a conspiracy lying about it.

I was repressed before because i was a religious fundamentalist but now i have a healthier views on sex.
I constantly feel sorry for people who spent too much time here though.

>>15968575
Six years ago for me. The sheer confidence was the biggest thing for me. Before 4chan, I only really used Facebook, KiwiFarms, and ProBoards-type forums based around hobbies (pretty comfy, but irritating after a while). 4chan was the first place where I didn't see endless hemming and hawing and endless dumbass "Well, I see where you're coming from, but my point of view is..." interactions. It was refreshing to see so many people confident in their own tastes without endless qualifiers. Nowadays that's kind of gone away, with all the "Please tell me video games are literature" or "Please tell me my drug addiction is meaningful" cries for acceptance.

>>15968575
I just joined a month ago

Should I stay?

>>15968575
11 years

It initially got me into a lot of music and books that was well beyond the confines of what I had been exposed to (Radio music and YA novels), but also made me redpilled and doompilled. I crave the dopamine response of posting, and for a long time, trolling. I did this for many years instead of forming genuine bonds with people and now my brain is broken, I cannot socialize, and I hold views that are deemed incompatible with most of society.

>>15968575
I usually come here for freebies. The discussion is usually shit.

>>15968634
Society is a spook. Just focus on a limited group of people

>>15968575
>How long have you been using 4chan, and what are the things about it you like? Or how was it impacted you in a way which is positive.
since 2007, i dont like anything about it

>>15968575

I have been using 4chan on a daily basis since near the very beginning, with the only meaningful break being for about 18 months circa 2006-7 while I worked at home for a while after fucking up college and regrouping to complete a super-senior year. The site is best for sparring with other spergs on this-or-that argumentative point when one feels like doing so (and if you do enough of this, your skills in argumentation begin to become legitimately good). I've gotten some interesting ideas on what to consoom from /mu/ and /lit/ over the years, but of course I wouldn't say that the site has impacted my life positively on balance. But I don't care. To this very day, I never actually tell my parents that I use the website. When there is some piece of culture or news, I simply say "I read/heard on the internet that..." This is far easier to do nowadays since so much of internet culture is downstream of 4chan that memes originating, or at least catching on here, are now legible to a broad audience, for good or ill. One other nice thing about the website is that it keeps me abreast ot the stupid shit that the teenagers are into these days (TikTok or the new capeshit flick, say) so that I have at least some reference point for youth culture cos fuck actually consuming any of that, of course.

Don't forget: you're here forever.

since 2014

>>15968575
Itt larpers. What kind of blogging ego stroking faggotry is this?

Been here 10 year.
Boards I frequent: /a/, /sci/, /ic/ and /lit/. I stopped visiting /v/ because it's garbage after gamergate and 2016.

Pros:
Your opinion is not deleted. Everyone has equal standing (until some tripfag shows up).
Don't have to be politically correct.
Clash of ideas happens really frequently. There are some nuance discussions hidden but you need to stay long enough to see it.
There is no sense of self because your post is not attached to you, unlike leddit and other social medias.

Cons:
Repeating discussions. I feel like I have seen the same thread 100 times over the year.
Worse quality over the years as 4chan goes mainstream.
For any 1 intelligent thread, there are 10 others that make you lose brain cells.
/pol/ everywhere nowadays.

>>15968660
4chan isn't where memes originate anymore, anon. Just get over it and go somewhere else.

Since 2008, /b/ fucked my head up,.

>>15968575
> I don't come here as much anymore
Thank god because I would hate to see the rest of your faggy blogs

>>15968676
Dishonest

>>15968646
Get off /lit/ Maggie

>>15968684

No. There isn't any other type of internet forum which is gratifying.

>>15968676
They're larping as shutins who have spent years on this godforsaken website??

>>15968706
Women don’t use 4chan

>>15968726
There isn't any, anon. You'll soon realize that. The level of discussion is forums is shallow. In an ideal environment a thread would take weeks to end and people would put some thought before posting anything. I'm trying to design something like that, but it is not easy.

>>15968736
The iron lady is no mere woman.

>>15968739
Just make me a mod already.
It's not like i have anything to do

>>15968739
That will never happen. The problem with the modern internet is that everyone can access it.

>>15968739

I occasionally participate in some gratifying threads with some effortposting, and otherwise, the shitposting is routinely amusing in itself.

I just wrote that I've been using this site for about 15 years. I know what I enjoy about it, while at the same time knowing what is poisonous in it. Don't tell me how "my tastes will mature, you'll see" as if I were 19.

>>15968575
/lit/ has recommended many interesting books that I've enjoyed
/v/ has also recommended many fun games that I've enjoyed

>>15968575
i've been on 4chan since i was 12 years old, so around 2007 or so
i don't know how to interact with people outside of this website

>>15968575
7 or 8 years. I think my life would have turned out better if I'd never found this place, but I suppose I was meant to find it. I want to leave but I've accepted that that's probably never going to happen.

13 years, basically just use it for porn now a days. As long as you don't go to any containment boards, it's relatively an enjoyable experience

>>15968778
It is more like waking up, anon. Things must get repetitive at a certain point. Maybe I overestimate people and you are right. 4chan might suffice for a lot of anons.

Since January. I've been mostly here, occasionally on /his/.
This board helped me get off social media, start reading frequently, and made me even question my college degree (music). Sometimes it's boring or a bit too poll, but anyways I don't feel as bad as a lot of people say they do. The only downside is helping me procrastinate.

Came her as a teenager in 2012-2013, started out searching for fresh memes after I learned that ragecomics originated here. First I was mostly on /g/ then eventually used charts from /mu/, /tv/, /lit/ to get myself more cultured. Also been a lot on /leftypol/ and /pol/, had a /r9k/ phase, sometimes go to /v/ when there is a big vidya happening, recently checking out /his/ more, also sometimes shitposted in regional /int/ threads, jerk off when browsing /gif/, I also mained /fit/ for a while before I started slacking off, what am I forgetting? Lainchan used to be my favorite imageboard for a while, also /fringe/ on 8ch and eventually fringechan were spooky during my adolescence.
For me imageboards are just comfy ways to vent your feelings and the anonymity makes it great because there is no history tied to my posts. Also genuine hilarious moments are really what makes this place. But usually nowadays I just check 4stats.io then browsing the catalog.

>>15968575
started using it in april. feels weird because everyone always talks about how they grew up on it and stuff, and i'm 23, so i feel like i got on it really late, kinda like losing your virginity late. it's a waste of time but at least it's a change from twitter.

>>15968919

I have other, more elevated interests, but as far as interacting with others online is concerned, this is the only way I care to do it apart from the very occasional interest-related chat room. And when I do tire of the site, I work on some reading/writing related project for a few days. It always passes.

>>15968974

What prompted this, corona boredom or otherwise?

>>15968575
I am addicted and I cannot stop. Unironically I am usually on 4chan if I am awake, often staying up until the early mornings shitposting and trolling. Something is deeply wrong with me and I want to die. I am a total fuck up. 27 year old highschool dropout NEET khv incel.

>>15969010
Might be because you crave some form of interaction and you FOMO when you're not here.

>>15968993
followed an account on twitter that posts all the crazy shit tranners post on /lgbt/, looked around there for a bit, started going on /lit/ and /his/ since those are my interests. it's part corona boredom, part doing boring repetitive office work that i punctuate with a few minutes of 4chan/twitter.

>>15969037
I don’t know how to stop. I have no one in real life.

>>15969079
>tfw iktf

ive been browsing 4chan for about ten or more years
idk, i just like how it's anonymous and people aren't farming likes or upvotes by virtue signaling or being social justice warriors

>>15969116
>farming likes or upvotes by virtue signaling or being social justice warriors
Marxism is a cancer on society

>>15969141
yea

>>15969141
Marx’s works are disgusting and he was an evil man. Worse than Hitler.
His texts advocate taking away guns, pro-homosexuality, anti-Americanism, and transgender rights. The downfall of western civilization can be traced directly to his philosophy where he invented communism.

I’m convinced that modern conservativism is the only ideology with working class interests in mind. Marxism is the antithesis of that, and Marxists hate hard-working rural laborers, and seek the downfall of America and western civilization.

>>15969079

>>15969170
what kind of weird bait is this

>>15969116
I can still farm for (you), but that's only a temporary thing so it's not as bad.

>>15969141
>>15969146
>>15969170
>Marxism
Get this Burger retardation out of here, what the fuck does virtue signaling and sjws have to do with Marxism you fucking idiots?
Marxism is about historical material analysis of class conflict.

>>15969195
Leftists are destroying the world

>>15969189
Dopamine is also temporary, so it's just as bad.

>>15969197
Neoliberal ideology is destroying this world.

>>15968654
The only honest person on here. From 08 and every time I think a board is as bad as it's going to get it always gets worse.

>>15968575
about 10 years. like other's have said, it's introduced me to a range of material, books, music, which has ultimately changed my life for the better i think.
on the other hand, using this site makes me feel like i have a crippling tumor that repels any kind of normal human interaction in real life. i ended up telling someone that i used this site (they made eyebrow raising comments about anonymity and other things so i thought i was in the clear) but they never spoke to me again after that. from that i've learned never to share my internet habits. yet, it seems difficult to get along with anyone who does not share the same ugly interest.

>>15969261
Have you confronted that person why he stopped speaking to you or were you a socially awkward weakling and just accepted the fact?

>>15969182

Not him (I think he might be having a giggle with the first paragraph esp.) but Marx did explictly refer to "the idiocy of rural life" in the Manifesto. Do NOT say: "that's a subtle translation issue." Marx's whole thing was the urban, machine-using proletariat. He wasn't concerned about the rural peasantry as the avant-garde, even if he need to quote corn prices or whatever for his tables.

Even though 4chan is getting more normalfag with the years,do you think theres a chance of direct censorship on it?or more subtle,incremental changes in the internet.I guess the Internet as a whole is getting more homogeneous and controlled and this is a tendency,but I wonder where this will lead and if there will be resistance.
Also I think one meta thread is allowed right?

>>15968575
I'm 20 now and I started using 4chan when I was 17. I found it when I searched up online literature forums. Before I found lit I would find new books to read from goodreads but that website is pretty shit for getting recommendations. And I'm very grateful I found lit specifically, none of my friends read nor any of my family members so I had no guidance on what was worth reading. I remember the first time I looked through the threads I was so happy, it felt like the first time in my life that I found a group of people that shared my interest and that actually liked the books I liked. I mainly go on lit, tv, mu, and a.

My friends and I used to go on /b when we were in middle school and look at the funny memes. We’d also watch gore vids in /gif and make nigger nigger shitposts. It’s been ten years and I’ve had a lot of laughs, pretty happy with my free 4chan experience.

>>15969278
i did attempt to speak to him again but i didn't make any mention of this website again. i dont doubt that there were bigger reasons as to why he didn't want to speak to me anymore, such as me being a sperg. none of my attempts at recontact were reciprocated anyway.

I just want to tell every NEET and incel that I love you and you've probably made me smile with your posts at least once. Thanks for making my shitty life fun with your company and I am glad I got to share these strange times with you.

>>15968575
Whenever /g/ was still guro. I don't remember how long ago that was. I like it because you can post sometimes pure shit but also sometimes very serious.

You just have to find the right thread. Never give up anon.

>>15968575
since 2010. i came bc i was getting called a /b/tard on other websites and i had no idea what that was. now that there are other discussion boards, this is the only one that lets people express their viewpoint without the endless bullshit of likes/dislikes/popularity. I can just get different view points, which is all I care about.

>>15968575
About 11 years … which is like 40% of my life. Eww. Usually with 1-2 year long breaks though.

The draw is obviously anonymity, range of topics and relatively fast response rate; so I can write something and get my dopamine kick right way instead of waiting for ages like on some forums. Back in the day, and specially before 2015-16, there was an intriguing diversity of opinions too. And then anonymity was more often used for honesty and directness instead of parroting shit too. A shame there are still no real alternatives, since I really like the format.

Can't say it had any impact on my life sans e-befriending some interesting people and exploring the minds of some nasty folk in more detail than I otherwise would.

>>15969917
>i came bc i was getting called a /b/tard on other websites and i had no idea what that was
My nigga.

>>15968575
Close to a decade. It’s one of the few things that remind me of pre-social media internet. No real names, no profile pictures, no threats of persecution.
The quarantine has brought a shitload of normies here but this eternal summer too shall pass.

>>15968575
Leddit-tier thread. Stay there.

>>15968629
fuck you

>>15970012
Leddit! Leddit! He complained.
He typed his words, in disdain.
No fun allowed. Wholesome? Not!
Rot in his pit, dead inside.
His life's a shit, he must boo.
"I hate myself, and you too!"

>>15970012
Oof.

>>15968598
>what is acceptable to think
NEVER GONNA MAKE IT

4chan is toxic and unfake
/lit/ is better than a humanities college degree

>>15968654
since 2010

>>15968646
Spotted the nazi poltard

I worry if 4chan will become just as bland as Reddit. 4chan was just slightly less susceptible to the phenomenon that took over Reddit (once a forum for tech-savvy posters back when subreddits didn't even exist). Maybe banality will metastasize eventually when a platform simply becomes too big, regardless of it's design?

Since Summer 2005

I mostly hate this place. I get out of here for months but come back when bored. Because this fucking place I became a "comfy" NEET two fucking times.

My word of advice. Leave. Leave while you can. Your views on the real world are going to be so fucking deformed by this place that you will have a hard time adjusting to normal day to day.

>>15968575
Been here since 2005. I spend more time here now than then, because this is the only place left with any resemblance of the old internet where you could NIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGER

>>15971010
I'll bet too that it's fundamentally impossible to effectively design a system that prevents a foreseeable demise, never mind the unforeseeable. E.g. certain states only ratified the U.S. constitution on the condition that they could secede at any time. I don't agree with the CSA, but from one perspective those contracts were then ignored, and quickly re-classified as treason. Like a growing social media platform, the reversal of power from a disparate and heterogeneous ecosystem toward Borg collectivism is unstoppable, and you're forced to reject everything as a whole once metastasis has completed.

>>15968575
Used to go to /v/ when I was ultra bored circa 2009-10, the kind of boredom that borders on existential crisis, and for some reason 4chan has always taken the edge off that, even though it's ultimately just as lame as reddit. Started browsing /lit/ because no one I knew irl reads anything but genre fiction (my dad has taken to sometimes reading my recommendations, but I know that's just because it gives us something to discuss besides politics). Got some good recommendations, and once you filter out the trad Christian larpers and wannabe fascists there's a lot of good discussion. Just a shame this board is so hostile to futurism, because the topics are super interesting, but all the discussions around it elsewhere are giant wanks.

>>15971093
Fucking seriously. Seems like every other place gets massively censored

I started lurking here five years ago. It's maybe a shithole but it's way better than any others sites.

>>15968575
Cringe thread for reddit-lads to blog.

>>15968575
I've been on this site for 6 years ever since my first year of undergrad through a friend I had at the time. We would both pretty much lurk /g/ during class and in the Math department's computer lab. Looking back, that was time I could've spent chasing girls, getting into relationships and getting heartbroken/breaking some girl's heart instead of still not having one gf at 24, but you never really regret shit you do with friends unless it's really retarded. That and there's no women in the math/CS department. While this site is shit, and keeps getting worse, there are sometimes very good threads to have discussions about the philosophy of science,ethics,mathematics, theology (specifically Early Christianity and not the trad LARPer or the fudamentalist larper type discussions where they act like autistic faggots to one another) and life in general. I don't know, I'm in the Master's program for math right now in the same school I went to undergrad and I can't help but feel so many things have changed and yet I haven't. I feel like I've missed the boat on a lot of crucial life experiences like romantic relationships and I'm doomed to mediocrity in that regard. At least when I'm here, that feeling goes away for just a little bit, so whatever.

>>15968575
I was a /pol/tard for a year when i was 17 then i outgrew it. Now i'm 24 and started using /lit/ during quarantine.
Will most probably drop it again once i can go back to work

>>15970291
>/lit/ is better than a humanities college degree
Wow, really? I guess I'll just plaster this board on my resume. Hope whoever's employing is enough of an autist to know what it means, and enough of a retard to actually consider it a plus.

i would never go to school now that i found out they practice in progressive female rights and whatever is the latest hot psyop in the media

>>15969843
Thank you laddie

>>15971267
start lifting dum dum

>>15971364
kek maybe not for a job but for exposing you to literature and philosophy

It exposed me to so much information that I don't know what to think or what is true/false anymore

>>15968629
I migrated here last week from Reddit. I was surprised people were reading all these high flying works of literature, or at least pretending to have read them, and meming about it. Sadly ever since I have joined 4chan I spend most of my time here and although I have way more books in my to-read than I ever had, I haven't read more thn 50 pages since I came here.

>>15968634
based

>>15969079
relatable

>>15971054
ok boomer, I came here from reddit only last week and i think this place is based

>>15968575
5 years. Interesting discussion is rare but I like how it happens at all, unlike websites most normalfags use("most", not to make it seem like normalfags don't use this site), which consists almost entirely of mind-numbing platitudes more reminiscent of a network of computers continually checking if they have the correct Right Think™ update installed rather than an actual discussion.
4chan completely decimated my mental state to the point I'm terrified of ever getting drunk, or being administered general anesthesia and being allowed to speak completely unhinged; but I think a positive would be that I have been introduced to more unique and esoteric concepts and interests I would have never otherwise.

I never used any social media at all really before 4chan. My friends would pressure me into creating a facebook, Twitter, instagram, etc. I would only use my account to subtly browse what the retarded peers at my school would say. It was never that entertaining, so I put it on the back burner until I became intensely bored. I browsed Reddit because mt close friends did and that was the start of my transition. Reddit was fun for a little bit, but the user interaction isn't satisfying. I left around gamergate when everything became pozzed overnight, and reddit was blocked on my high school's Wi-Fi. I gave 4chan a shot, and I have been here pretty much every day for 6 years. I didn't post for the an entire year and simply lurked. I believe you would be surprised at how many lurkers there are. This place is full of fun characters. It allows everyone to be themselves even if they have no identify to match it up with. Every post is an unnamed character. Whether you can believe it or not, this place has changed me for the better. I was a fucking loser until this place made fun of me to the point of a psychotic breakdown. /fit/ is the best board on the site. I won't even debate this fact. That board has the sole ability to force some level of improvement. People think I'm chad now despite being a nerd. I truly love you all and consider you my friends. I like to think there is are anons I have been replying to and posting with for years almost every day that are my secret best friends I will never ever know. That thought warms my heart.

I think for about 10 years? Wouldn't say that 4chan had a lasting impact on me. I'm still a well functioning being. However, I enjoy reading on 4chan especially /lit/ as you unironically can find some good lit recommendations here. Sadly, most boards on 4chan turned to shit. Nevertheless, 4chan still isn't as toxic as Reddit which is why I still lurk here.

>>15968575
> I started using 4chan like 7 or 8 years ago
Normalfag
> I don't come here as much anymore
Turbo Normalfag
> poll & socialization thread
Normalfag AMG

>>15968575
>about 11 or 12 years ago
back when it was 'row row fight the powah' and 'garugamesh' took over /b/...i started off only on /b/, not posting much just lurking. then expanded to primarily porn such as gif, hc, sbw....as i got older (33 now) and started having kids i moved on from b to places like this, tv, diy, out, ck, fit...expanded my horizons a bit became more accepting of everyone in general. dont really post much still, rarely ever make threads.

for me being here kind of gave me perspective and understanding of what a child you are as a young adult. i can generally tell the people who are older but havent moved on from that phase, and thus will always be those assholes in public such as the 'muh mask' type of people.

>>15968682
>/pol/ everywhere nowadays
how fucking annoying is it to see every fucking thread get turned into a conversation about jews, black people, women, sjws or reddit

>>15968575
I first joined /b/ as an edgy 14 year old, this was about 10 years ago. I slowly moved onto /v/ and then eventually /fit/ I spent many years here and really enjoyed the community aspect, I was the typical /fit/ virgin strong and looked pretty good but it didn't solve the discomfort in my skin. Towards the end of this period I was also frequently browsing /biz/ and /g/ and even made very good money off the 2017/2018 bubble.

I eventually had a pretty serious injury from lifting which resulted in 2 years of no computer use. During this time I picked up reading as I had nothing else to do and craved the feeling of productivity. I read a lot of philosophy during this time. After this I left 4chan because my life was really picking up. I returned to biz recently when one of my earlier crypto """""investments""""" was skyrocketing. I found it infested with moron poltards and schizos using meme magic to invest (not mutually exclusive).


Since then I've also been using lit and I've been very satisfied with the actual philosophy discussion on here (I have no academic background in philosophy)

So honestly I am a newfag to lit despite my many years on 4chan, thank you for reading my blog

>>15969197
Yep keep eating up your yummy yummy blackpoll propaganda, leftists are destroying the world but some how a borderline fascist was voted into the most powerful seat in the world.

>>15971267
What's yr best math advise for someone who failed highschool algebra

Looking to self learn?

>>15972872
How much time did you dedicate to math beforehand? I'd say dedicate at least 3 hours every day to learning math. Do all the problems in the section and if they are too hard, skip them, take a break and come back later and do them. Try and solve all the problems yourself but if you absolutely are stuck on a problem, don't feel bad if you have to look it up online. Just remember what made you stuck and keep that in mind, just in case it comes up again.

2009 or 2010. If it was better then I didn't appreciate it enough. As a person I've changed more than the site has so still being able to find interesting posts and discussions says something about the benefits of this style of forum. A named forum with persistent identities and communities would have declined much faster and had less opportunities for reorienting itself.

>>15968575
About 6 years since I started coming here, about 2.5 years since I started coming to /lit/. In general I liked the lack of censorship and openness to disparate ideas without modern morality hangups. /lit/ I’m most grateful to for massively improving my appreciation of art and philosophy, it genuinely helped me to end my depression (which began in highschool) through improved clarity of knowledge and truth. /lit/ has gotten far worse than it was, particularly in the last 6 months, I know that has always been said constantly but the last 6 months here have shown a dramatic decrease in quality, likely from redditors and incel tourists who don’t read the sticky. I’m still great full for all /lit/ has done for me though, I’ve had more meaningful conversations about literature and God here than I have anywhere irl. Speaking of God, /lit/ helped me understand less anthropomorphic (and hence more true) conceptions of God, before /lit/ I was quite firmly agnostic, because I didn’t know of conceptual impersonal God.

>>15968575
On and off from about 2008 onwards. Besides Stockholm syndrome, I come back because I honestly believe that anonymous imageboards are one of the better formats for productive online communication. I will happily shit on reddit all day, but I don't think the people who use it are inherently terrible, it's the format makes them so. Same goes for twitter. 4chan has some of the same echo chamber problems, but if you're here for long enough you'll see the tide change so many times that you start to really work out what exactly you believe and you won't slavishly try to remake yourself every time the predominant opinion shifts. You can judge individual ideas on their own merit, divorced from their source. Other websites tend to save a user's posting history forever, and there's a really disgusting culture of searching into people's backgrounds to see if they can be invalidated based on some past contradiction or faux pas. This is why Butters is only undermining herself with a trip.
On a more personal note, /lit/ has given me some great suggestions, and while it wasn't /fit/ thay got me to exercise, it does help motivate me sometimes, and is strangely one of the funnier boards. Overall though, the biggest thing 4chan has done for me is to instill a habit of really deeply examining why I hold the beliefs I have.

>>15968575
Started using 4chan about a decade ago. Used to go on /b/ but it just became a shithole (worse than it already was). I used other boards too, but my main ones where either /lit/ or /b/. Always loved the anons, hated the tripfags, mods, and jannies. I've come to terms with my existance, I just search to learn things and have fun.

>>15971054
Tripfags have ruined this place like no other fag.

I've started so many threads in the past related to linguistics and to moral philosophy and the like, not to mention a few meta threads, because this is really the only place where these topics are relevant. And those all get pruned, and I get banned or warned for being off-topic. Yet this thread is perfectly acceptable.

Fuck this shitty board.

>>15973421
Fuck the jannies and fuck the mods.

>>15968575
ex gf introduced me to it back in 2018. She was into the cosplay and weeb boards, and I stuck to /his/. Gradually started using /pol/, /lit/, and /ck/ too.

>>15973390
Can you explain why? I like having reoccurring character pop up, like our resident mommy milkers « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ».

>>15973430
Of course the tripfag would be a newfag.

>>15973449
If it helps, I didn't post until six months after joining.

>>15973421
Try always naming a book on your posts. The faggot mods and jannies can't do anything in those cases. Fucking faggot shilling jannies

>>15973504
You should've lurked more. Maybe then you wouldn't be a nigger.

>>15973517
>Maybe then you wouldn't be a nigger
Say my name, little man. Back you go >>>/pol/

>>15973549
itt: newfags think they're the shit for tripfaging

>>15973612
Give me one cogent argument for disliking all tripfags.

I've been browsing for 13 years.
While it helped me learning more about music, literature and cinema, and also had an important role in my career switch to web development, it also made me more introvert and degenerate.

>>15973642
This is not reddit, nor twitter. If you want a cult of personality then you can fuck right off, newfag.

11 years
I like nothing about it anymore. I come here to pass the time until I can get another job. The userbase is increasingly schizobrained. You can still get good book recs on here but actual discussion is so piss poor it's made me consider actually getting into discord or something. The only reason I'm still here is because there's nowhere else to go.

Nobody on here is interested in talking. It's nonstop stale memes and reactionary shitposting. You can't for a moment talk about anything remotely genuine or serious without instantly getting derailed into zoomer coomer boomer cringe based posting. It's a cesspool of non-thought.

It's made an impact on my tastes, but I had to essentially deprogram myself from 4chan so I could actually function in the real world without coming across as an edgy autist.

>>15973674
>thinks discord is better
not a chance, buddy

>>15973684
I've never used it. I just want out. I'm getting desperate here

>>15968598
>with the result that I have no idea what to believe
Whites good, blacks bad.
it's easy desu

The fact that I can say kike, faggot and nigger without any reproductions. People here also seem to share the same outlook on wife, generally. We are very contrarian, a tad bit autistic and skeptical about most things that normies find normal. We call out psueds and we are not afraid of getting our worldview challenged - which is why we are constantly on top of the new hip thing before normies get a hold of it.

>>15973734
>wife
I meant life, stupid autocorrect

>>15973720
There's no other place.
You're either in it, or out of it.
You've been here for 11 years, you should know that by now.

>>15973663
>cult of personality
What? Tripcodes are barely a step above impermanent identification. No profiles, no post history, no updoots. I bet nobody even bothers to remember individual tripcodes. It's a feature on the site and I'm going to use it. Choke on my cock and stop being a whiny bitch.

>>15973752
you keep on being a tripfag my nigger, just know you don't belong, faggot

>>15968575
I got my attention on the board after the Jessy Slater debacle.
I liked the rizomatic intertextuality of the texts produced here.
I spent most of mi hipster years trying to reproduce that quality and become the coolest writer of my generation.
Then the people I bugged to appreciate my texts told me that I wrote even more like an autist than before.
Now I work in a call center and try to answer the people with haikus.

>>15973674
>>15973684
>>15973720
>>15973745
Discord is a fine platform if you're in a closed server with only friends. It's just a better version of things like Skype. No idea how bad server hopping is, but it's probably grim.
>>15973765
I belong 5.9 inches deep in your windpipe, my buddy.

>>15968575
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Fq3U_FjYc
I just want it to be 2009 again. Reading fiction and calling nigger faggots niggers. This is place is dying, like every other board. I'll just off myself.

>>15968686
I have been on 4chan for almost 5 years. the first two years I wasn’t even aware that there were any other boards besides /b/ and /pol/. I NEVER, even once went to /b/ and I’m so happy that I didn’t. /pol/ can really fuck you too but I have blocked that board on my device and it’s having a good impact on my well being. SFW boards on 4chan are close to harmless, it’s the extreme stuff that can have a negative impact on you

>>15973780
Newfags showing how new they are (all tripfags)

My progression...

2007-2009:
>/b/ memes
>trolling, raids
>gore and shock images
2010-2012:
>expand to other boards like /tv/, /mu/, /fa/, /fit/, /sp/ (not sure if all these were actually around then)
>use as general purpose forum
>actually get something useful out of browsing
2012-2013
>somehow get sucked into the whole /pol/ thing
>briefly associate with incel shit (/r9k/ etc.)
2014-2017
>abandon 4chan entire due to job/family
2018-present
>use only /lit/ since I don't know where else to discuss things online (I genuinely tried reddit and it was as bad as people say)

>>15973734
>>15968598
A lot of people are blaming their apparent desensitisation on 4chan (I did too) but I doubt we would have turned out different without it. I think the explanation is backwards: 4chan attracted us because of our contrarian attitudes.

>>15973800
Oh he's so mad

>>15973549
>thinks saying nigger is a /pol/ thing
Fuck, what's going on with this board?
>>15973674
The board is dying, not much we can do about it. Too many newfags plaguing it. I've tried to find other spaces, but everything's the same. Discord's just a glorified /b/

>>15973822
>I genuinely tried reddit and it was as bad as people say
It's just so sanitized and soulless. There used to be a select few non-pozzed places there, but I'm pretty sure they've all been axed in the last few years.
>I doubt we would have turned out different without it
There have always been outcasts in human societies.
>>15973849
>Seething
>No valid points
>"W-well you're a nigger!"
>"MY board is DYING :(((((((("
>"I-it's all the newfags!!!"

>>15973885
>tripfag
>complaining about reddit
the joke tells itself.

>>15973885
I think the voting system on reddit turns people into literal NPCs who recite the same shit to make their post visible. Pointless trying to have a discussion.

>>15973752
>no one in the board remembers the tripfags
Yeah right dumbass, that's why we aren't plagued with authors tripfaging and shilling their shit, right?. Shut the fuck up faggot. just go back.

>>15973895
>>15973929
>"I'M BASED and REDPILLED. I'VE never used REDDIT before! You can't use MY board unless you shit in a SOCK and live with MUMMY! I'VE been using this website for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. Whatever I say is automatically true because I'M BASED. Newfags and tripfags BTFO by a REAL epic 4chan user!"
>t. tribal homosexuals
Shut the fuck up nobody cares about what you have to say.
>>15973909
It's definitely the voting system and the curation. Reddit is actively trying to draw more users, which means making the site as palatable and streamlines as possible for new users. The result of this policy is a huge userbase in a highly sanitized environment. It's good for numbers but not for longevity. Didn't Digg(?) do something similar around 2010 that resulted in it's complete collapse?

>>15973986
show your reddit nature some more, newfag

>>15973986

Go fuck yourself you piece of aids tripfag. You're actively harming the quality of this website. Take off your trip you cancerous asshole

>>15973993
>>15974003
I'll be seeing you around, boys.

High school, about 2010-2012. I loved YLYL threads on /b/ before the Banana came. I started going to other boards like /lit/ regularly in early 2013, so I would say 7 years by now.
I enjoy it but I'm here because it fills a void I have. If I didn't have 4chan I would watch more TV, play more video games, maybe read more books. Hard to say. I find this place intelectually stimulating. Even though I have several people irl I can have great discussions with, I want to have more of that and in that hindsight 4chan, especially /lit/ (and /his/ to some degree).
I know how to fill that hole and that is emigrating, living in/near Nature and having a wife and children. Sadly my country is just one big suburbia with parks and the emigrating to anglo countries isn't easy and in case of others I don't know the language. I wish I was born a redneck in Louisiana or as a hillbilly in Idaho. If I could just go fishing, hunting or riding a motorcycle I would do that (and I did that in my holidays) but here it takes a lot of money and time and isn't that much fun because it is so overcrowded. Did a lot in my city as well, went to most museums several times, oeras/theaters and I haven't lost my greed for nature but I need that shitty degree.

>>15970291
>/lit/ is better than a humanities college degree
you learn more on /lit/ but I'm doing my degree for a getting that sweet paper saying I have a bachelor.
/lit/ is great, I have learned a lot, found great books which I give to friends as presents and have saved great posts.

>>15972322
Checked. How do you have time for children if you are on 4chan? (srs)

>>15973430
Why do you use a trip? I'm curious.

>>15974068
He wants to have attention like all tripfags. Nothing novel.

>>15974068
>you learn more on /lit/ but I'm doing my degree for a getting that sweet paper saying I have a bachelor.
Same kind of. I'm just about finished a history degree because it was the only major I could stomach doing for 3.5 years. Humanities tards can always become teachers.
>Why do you use a trip?
Because I like my specific name and tripcodes are a feature of the site. If people hate them so much then they should just be removed as an option or blocked from specific boards. I didn't use one for years, but I was poking around cuneiform a while and really liked it. Thought it would make a good name and here we are. I don't really see trips as a big problem because the ID is still more or less impermanent. Unless someone saves everything you've ever said or specifically knows you, you're not much different than other anons. I see it as being in the same vein as flags. Also (before I used a trip) I had repeatedly good conversations with a few anons (a Japanese translator, for example) over a period of several months, so now it's easier for us to find each other. I don't see the problem with using one unless someone is explicitly being an attention whore, which can be (and frequently is) done without a code ie. bait, thread spoiling, etc.
>>15974157
Why do you post then? You want to have anonymous conversations and interactions with people.

>>15968575
About 6 years ago I was being a real bitch about getting fit, and /fit/ told me I was being a bitch and I'm not gonna make it. Now I'm fit.

4chan is 100% the most negative aspect in my life

>>15974578
Out of all the places to hang out online (reddit, youtube, imgur, twitter) this is unfortunately the least shitty

>>15968575
Since 2015.
It made me a trad, then a fascist, then a christian, then a lib and and egoist;
it made me go to the gym and turned me from overweight to way to skinny to a respectable form;
It encouraged me to read the most complex literature and the most classical music;

But most of all, it made me realise that friendship is magic

>>15974620
True. 4chan also has consistently unique content. I like the idea of hanging out in WoW or something but I bet it's not much better.

>>15974672
Sorry for the spelling and grammar- its also made me lose my mind.

>>15974620
I'm trying to move beyond "hanging out online" and this is the only thing I'm locked down to. I think it's because you don't need an account to really interact with it

>>15974716
>I'm trying to move beyond "hanging out online"
Why? I don't see it as a wholly negative thing so long as it doesn't dominate your life. Are you trying to join IRL clubs or something?

>>15974751
itt: attention whores don't let a shitty thread die.

>>15974764
>itt: seething retard from before who's irrationally angry with tripfags
And I'm the one worsening the quality of the board?

>>15974851
I mean, you are the one keeping this post (that should have been purnned long ago) alive.

>>15974751
It doesn't dominate my life but I feel like it takes up a lot of my personal time

>>15974871
Go back to plebbit if you want a safe space

>>15968629
It’s already out of your hands. You will never leave.

Since 2008, or almost half of my life. This place is terrible. I got hung up on some of those old Pynchon threads that came back up from years ago lately and can safely say it really did used to be better, in general. In the early days of my use this site really clued me into a lot of great culture that I would have never otherwise have known to look out for. I live in a deprived, acultural hole and nobody in my family is inclined towards the arts, sciences, literature &c., so this place has had a massive, positive impact on my in some ways. But now it's too far gone. I'm told if you type nigger you get banned? Fingers crossed, you colossal niggering autists.

>>15968684
so where do they originate? 9gag?

>>15968575
I was a loser when I found this site and I remain a loser. But this board ruined my life further. But as my life moves on, I continue to remove the stain that site has left on me. For example, I'm using it less and less.

I've been here since I was like 14. I'm 27 now, so 13ish years. I've used it as an escape before, but now I mostly just come here like once every two months and browse /lit/ and /mu/.

I dont really browse it anymore, but /mu/ definitely played a role in me wanting to explore music, which ended up in me becoming a jazz musician.

>>15968682
agree with the cons, I don't get why people only want to talk about politics all the time /pol/ and commies have infested all boards in this site

>>15975663
Caring about politics always turns you into a retard

>>15975695
not always, there are some occasional thoughtful discussions about political philosophy I just hate the mindless kike that kike this.
It would be funny if they said something new occasionally

>>15968575
Elder, but not ancient fag. Quality thread frequency degraded with the digital wild west of the internet being tamed, but there is no better place to test ideas and be initiated into the widest spheres of whatever it is that interests you. The gem threads and posts can encapsulate enormous amounts of time and effort in a way gatekeeping tenured Boomernogs at a university lecture cannot and will not dole out in truncated briefs; it almost makes up for the time wasted shitposting otherwise.

About 12 years, /lit/, /tv/, /tg/, /vg/.
Basically this >>15968682 except the last part because it goes hand and hand with the pros. Overall I feel I've learned and gained a lot that I would not find in "real life" or on other sites.