/lit/ - Literature

>>17738383
It used to be way worse. We used to have nonstop IQ threads (more than we have now). /sci/ is still spamming midwit like it's going out of style.

>>17738383
Projection (also see: the obsession with trannies, consoomers, nihilists, porn addicts, soiboys, physiognomy and ugliness, hedonism, depression, etc.).

>>17738383
Because they are midwits thinking they're contributing to the world.

>>17738427
this
/lit/ is a board of midwits (as well as everything else anon listed)

>>17738427
You forgot Marx, suicide, hating women and jews

Because they rule the world and gets catered to everywhere, tormenting everyone below and above them.

People with nothing tangible going for them in their lives need to find a way to feel superior to those around them.

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>>17738472
>knee-jerk pissiness at the mere notion of midwittery
hmm

To be honest I think if you were not a midwit, then you would be able to ignore it. Like the mutt threads on /pol/ this is just exposing a lot of insecurity.

>>17738511
>makes IQ threads
>>>/sci/

>perpetuates an obsession by committing a thread to it
>wonders why

>>17738383
I personally don't think the term midwit even refers to a meaningfully distinct phenomenon at all, I just use the word when I want to insult someone I can tell would be offended by it.

>>17738511
That's right. THINK.

>imagine being only slightly above average

Imposter syndrome and self doubt, as others have said.

>>17738383
>there wasn’t an appropriate slur prior to Reddit for it
It’s a holistically cringe word to speak and see, but then again, so is the referent

>>17738383
Because I am one