/lit/ - Literature

i think anything literarier than 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 is pretentious there

People say

I was going to reply but I don't care

you were really just getting that picture in the catalog weren't you

oh contramemester you

>>7032975
It is. r/literature isn't so bad. r/askliterarystudies is pretty good.

No, it's just different. It's not bad, it's for people who want to discuss The Martian or children's lit.

It's launched as an insult on here because it's a no-bully zone, but the saving grace of /lit/ is kind of the bullying. On reddit people won't discuss philosophy, theology, classical texts and literature because they don't have a vested interest and the majority of people like autobiographies written by '60s rockers and comedians.

It's different strokes, it's just usually someone who might fit better on r/books gets offended that they are being bullied, when in reality they are probably just on a board that doesn't suit them properly.

>>7032975
Because if you voice an opinion that people disagree with your post gets downvoted into the abyss and nobody sees it. It's not conducive to discussion, and the site is only useful for news and porn, although I don't even use it for news.

>>7032989
I agree with the porn part, but tumblr is the best for porn.

I think its because its a more vast community in terms of what books they like. It would be like if /v/, /b/, /sci/ and /p/ all posted here and all the negative comments got pushed to the bottom. We just became more literature oriented over time

>>7032991
>tumblr best porn
care to shed some light?

>>7032985
I don't know, if you look at their top posts, very few of them are even about books. Usually it's movies being made of books.

>>7032985
This guy hits the nail on the head. In /lit/ terms, we'd just say it's filled with plebs.
Go on the front page right now and have a look. There's The Martian, GRRM, a thread doing the old 'Holden sux' meme, multiple Bradbury threads, Hugo drama, and to top it all off, a popular thread called 'Do We Mistake Inaccessibility for Brilliance?' which I can guess without even looking will be pure plebbery.

>>7032978
>literarier
that sounds better than "e/lit/e"

>>7032995
if you shed some light it isn't artsy porn no more.

>>7032995
Just loads of porn gifs, captions, etcetera, and very easy to navigate. Search up some keywords of your favourite erotic topic and find out. Plenty of users who you can follow; most fetishes are also covered. plus there isn't much sjwism on the porn side incest sister captions and 'asian trap' are my fave atm ;^}

>>7032975
I mean if you like scifi or think Neil Gaiman, Orwell, and DFW are the greatest literary minds ever then it's good.

>>7032999
>a popular thread called 'Do We Mistake Inaccessibility for Brilliance?' which I can guess without even looking will be pure plebbery.
I laughed anon, nicely done.

>>7032999
I actually just read the "Do We Mistake Inaccessibility for Brilliance?" article (not the thread) and it actually isn't as plebby as it seems.

>>7033007
>mfw DFW has been pejorated to /r/books-tier

>>7033026
when something becomes a meme it trickles down to the plebs m8. I heard a waitress bragging about finishing Meme Jest the other day. Also the fucking movie won't help.

>>7033026
DFW has been normie pleb tier for a while

It's because his books suck

>>7033030
How do you know that the waitress was a pleb? Maybe she was serving some members of a local bookclub that she knows. Perhaps their next book of study with be Memegans Wake?

Yeah Infinite Jest was a weird sensation on this board. I read some of "The Stand" on an overseas flight and I remember thinking how similar DFW's prose and Stephen King's were. I never finished Infinite Jest either, although some /lit/ memes like Thomas Pynchon are deserving of their praise.

>>7032975
nah

>>7033057
>how similar DFW's prose and Stephen King's were

wut.

>>7033030
>waitress
>Not assuming she was a fellow liberal arts major

>>7032978
cool word

>>7033023
whatever pleb

Although /lit/ also suffers from it in reddit everything non anglo is just overshowed by any meme books like Harry plobber, game of thrones or 1984.

>>7032999
Wow I bet they don't even do the Holden raped Phoebe meme. Amateur memesters for sure.

>>7033380
They would respond to it with

>Curtains are just blue. The tree of interpretation gotta be littered with the intent of the author. Roland GERARD Barthes aka "POMO" is not my english teacher. he is a pretentious old man and probbaly a poststructuralist as well :DD. EVIDENCE reading not FEMINIST reading ok. praise Hirsch.

>>7033417
>the tree of interpretation gotta be littered with the intent of the author
I actually lol'd

>>7032975
If you want a book like club in irl, go to Reddit.
If you want to laugh and occasionally gain some insight (a few times a month), stay

>>7033417
>actually thinking that death of the author isn't complete trash
Let me guess, your 'head canon' says Odysseus was a black FtM polysexual.

>>7033417
That really deserves to be put next to a Finnish bear cartoon.

Then again, most of the time I see death of the author mentioned on /lit/, it's usually met with hostility, e.g. >>7033438

And you, who would it be?

>>7032985
It's not just different, it's shit. R/literature is different and gives me cancer, but I would not call it shit. R/books is full of people who wear Velcro shoes because the burden of knowledge in knowing one knot is elitist.

>>7033491
Tbh most people who hate death of the author don't understand it, like that guy you quoted, he is complaining about changing texts not dota.

r/books sucks but r/literature is better than /lit/. this is my first time on this board in months and I can't tell if it got worse or I just forgot how bad it is

>>7033885
If I could change dota I would nerf windrunner, this hero is pure autism

>>7033888
That's because we don't discuss literature. We just meme about it.

>>7033438
No one ever says Odysseus has white skin or a penis, so I guess. And he's clearly not 'hetero' by modern standards

>>7032975
The upvote system pushes recognizable and easily digestible things to the top so it's mostly just pleb trash.

>>7034018
I subscribe to /r/books (yeah blow me) and it's not even that. It's just:
>ooooh look at these pretty libraries! XXXXXD

>>7034047
>I read hipster shit

>>7033888
There's an immigration happening from /mu/ to /lit/.

>>7034719
I migrated from /mu/ a couple of months ago, is this a trend? maybe thats the reason of the recent decrease in quality posts. /mu/ is the /pol/ of music, theres no serious discussion/debate of music whatsoever, mostly its the same 3-5 meme bands spamed over and over, pretty obvious recs and lastly, genre centred threads which are somewhat ok in rare occasions. I cant fathom how people can linger on that board after a year or two, the material gets pretty repetitive and the waves of newfags sucking the teat dont help much either.

>>7034719
I came from /mu/ about a year ago.

>>7034781
>/mu/ has a general about k-pop
That place is pleb as hell.

>>7034813
yeah but its not like every user browses those threads. we have john green threads and fantasy threads here that I minimize

>>7034824
The John Green threads are at least demeaning and/or bait.

Better example would be /tv/, which has an unironic Dr. Who general and Game of Thrones general

>>7034813
haha I see what you mean, dont forget about taylor swift though

>>7033888
it's still summer, give it a week

>>7033885
>Tbh most people who hate death of the author don't understand it,
Just the other day I was reading a discussion of a shitty anime on /a/, and one person said that the author of the story clarified in an interview that two characters are a couple. Then some shitter responded to that with "I invoke Death of the Author". Literally "I invoke", as if he was playing Yugioh. Fucking faggots. I hate weebs so much.

>>7034969
>I was on /a/

Found your problem

>>7034998
We all have our hobbies, dude. Some of you like to pretend to be racists on /pol/ and rile up underage unironic racists. Some of you masturbate to tranny porn. Some of you banepost. Some of you watch and unironically enjoy capeshit.

I'm a high test heterosexual male so I enjoy watching asian cartoons about cute girls doing cute things.

>>7034719
and before that there was a migration from /r9k/ and /tv/ to /mu/

Go on /r/books

First thread: unpopular opinions

>wah wah, catcher in the rye is so bad the protagonist is too whiny
>i dont get on the road its so boring
>why do people read moby dick? its a bad book
>hemingway is a shit writer, all he talks about is drinking and bitches
>sci fi is good
>fantasy is good
>ulysses is dumb

god damn

>>7034781
I know what you mean. I used to exclusively browse /mu/, but stopped for about 6 months. When I went back I couldn't believe I ever spent more than 15 minutes there. I had seen every thread on the front page before. Whether or not they call them "generals" the front page is always the same recs, 5x5s, DG, X is better than X, waifus, fantano memes, and p4k threads.

>>7035026
>high test

What is this.

Is this shorthand for high testosterone? If so why do I mostly see it invoked in reference to qt3.14 hentaifus?

>>7035026
>cute girls doing cute things
they are literally just a bunch of lines formed to make unrealistic characters.
You are being sexually aroused by a formation of lines.
This writing is a formation of lines.
You would be sexually attracted to these letters if they rearranged themselves to form big eyes and bouncy tits.

>>7033417
>The tree of interpretation gotta be littered with the intent of the author.
jej

If you want a 1984 vs BNW thread every day or to know why Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the best book ever written or to know why John Green is the best writer or to read about how awesome the Game of Thrones guy is, r/books it the place for you

Hey friends,

So the other day I re-read The Catcher in the Rye. to be honest, it was the first book I read in about 6 or 7 years. What do you tĥink Salinger meant in saying Holden was the catcher in the rye? Any thoughts?

Also, did anyone else find Holden to be just soooo whiny, or was that just me?

I started reading Fahrenheit 451 for pleasure a few days ago because I never had to do it for school. I'm not entirely sure if it's because I don't have to overanalyze it and write all kinds of reports on it, but I'm REALLY enjoying it. It's easy to read and the vocabulary is fantastically rich.

Did anyone have to read it for school and not like it? Or did you like it nevertheless? Or have you read it for pleasure as well and what do you think?

>>7035106
Yes, and?

This board is just a bunch of 0s and 1s. All the porn you watch on your computer is just a bunch of 0s and 1s. If you rearrange the 0s and 1s from this board you could get the 0s and 1s of your porn.

Hi! I'm an 14 year old reading brave new world, and must I say: it's really hard for me to follow along. I finished chapter one and I found some of the information so hard to follow because the process is so long! The story was very interesting and I want to keep reading it, but some of the information does confuse me.

I sometimes don't read great books because I already -- oops! -- saw the movie. I like to be surprised by a book's ending, and movies sometimes seem like spoilers to me. What are some books that one HAS to read even if they watched the movie and what are some books that are absolutely ruined if they saw the movie first?

>>7035698
>>7035701
>>7035705
>>7035712

Now imagine this all day everyday. The same high school core over and over. No deeper discussion, either, because the curtains really are just blue.

>>7035715
>because the curtains really are just blue.

Almost poetic

>>7035026
>High test
>watches anime
Pick one.

>>7033026
He seems to be hero worshipped by r/literature almost as much as he was on old /lit/, but I don't think he's a darling of r/books. Something like Mr Squishy would probably give those plebs a seizure.

>>7032975
Reddit is the feminine spectrum, everything gets a ton of love and heart and everything is everyones favorite book except in the rare occasion where they have a "totally unpopular opinion guys" that gets 4000 votes up.

/lit/ (4chan boards in general) are more masculine. So everyone gives a more honest impression of books but since everyone here is a jaded asshole impressions of most books short of Gravity's Rainbow (which in irony is a shit book) get put in the dumpster.

>>7033515
>Poster by nerdfigher8842

My sides.

>>7034781
>Mostly its the same 3-5 meme bands spammed over and over

You'll fit right in here.

>>7032975
nah

/r/books is just plebs being sincere

/lit/ is just the same plebs coated in memes and irony

I went there once and it was plebe book recommendations and reviews left and right. Never been back.

>>7033892
I know it's sort of banal to say this, but I would delete techies

>>7034833
The eternal GoT general has been banned.
/tv/ is only slightly better off for it

>>7033005
This. Just enter your fetish, follow twenty or so of the better users, and you've got what you want on tap 24-7

>>7036003
>Reddit is the feminine spectrum
>/lit/ (4chan boards in general) are more masculine
They also generally occupy (respectively) the sides of a liberal/conservative and an atheist/theist spectrum.

>>7036118
I dunno, there's a fair amount of mixing in those categories (lib/con, a/thei)

it is pretty definitive that there are no women on /lit/ tho considering all the schope threads

>>7036118
Are you actually saying that /lit/ is mostly conservative and religious?

>>7035088
I lurked /mu/ for aproximately 8 months before I stopped a week ago and started to lurk /lit/. The Aaron raid was kind of funny. I also hold the /dark/ threads in good remembrance. You know you're done when you've collected all charts of significance. The last month, boredom hit me and I shitposted shitcore with a pic of an heroed Ian Curtis here and there before I quit. I've checked Robot 9000 and /tv/ only a few times, btw.

It's remarkable that this board has some kind of tripfag stars.

>>7034719
>>7034781
>>7034808
Whoa, I came here from /mu/ a couple of months ago too.

/mu/ has been shit for about a solid year now, and the mods don't care enough to do anything about it.

>>7034813
k-pop general is a containment thread and no one pretends like it isn't just a waifu general.

Reddit is a completely normie site. I rarely find people there that have a sense of humor when you try to make a joke that's even slightly offensive. Even it's obviously not meant to be serious.

>>7036184
>You know you're done when you've collected all charts of significance
>literally being this much of an autistic internet yugioh master

go back to /mu/

>>7036232
No.

Here's the reason, why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyw4J6NrH0

>>7035712
>I like to be surprised by a book's ending
Fuck, this triggers me so hard.

Any popular sub on reddit is shit (maybe a few exceptions like r/askhistorians), but the nice thing about reddit, as opposed to 4chins, is that there can be more than one sub dedicated to a topic, so I'm sure there's some decent literature-dedicated sub out there.

>>7036203
>/mu/ has been shit for about a solid year now, and the mods don't care enough to do anything about it.
Mate, I quit going to /mu/ 3 years ago. It's just uneducated retards thinking they're so intelligent and suave for listening to slightly less mainstream pop music.
If you ever try to start a thread on musical theory you'll be drowning in replies of the "theory kills creativity" and "how does theory even work on muh guitar" variety.
It really is the fucking facebook of 4chan.

>>7033417
kek

>>7035100
>pic

>>7036184
>You know you're done when you've collected all charts of significance
hahahaha

>>7036657
do you think the author intended for you to read the book knowing how it finishes?

>>7036144
>>7036157
I'm not saying (>>7036118) any of these aspects apply completely to one board or the other, just that they're generally different in those ways relative to each other.

>>7037065
>i can't enjoy anything once i know the outcome
You can literally not enjoy 95% of all media then. Because it's all predictable as fuck.

>>7037083
>le quote something that he never said meme
not every story has to be surprising but if the ending was meant to be surprising then obviously you don't want to read the book knowing the ending ahead of time

>>7032991
>>7033005
I thoroughly disagree, Tumblr porn is 99% bad black-and-white gifs that last for about three seconds.

>>7037089
you're moving the goalposts buddy

>>7037120
the author didn't want you to know the ending of the book before you read it in almost every case, so why would you not try and protect yourself from spoilers?

>>7032985
>On reddit people won't discuss philosophy, theology, classical texts and literature
on /lit/ no one does that either because they are to busy memeing and posting the same shit every day.

>>7032983
There's not a huge amount of discussion happening on r/literature, but when discussion does happen it's pretty good and you don't get the memes/shitposting that happen here. r/books is for game of thrones/harry potter type shit, serious discussion of literature just doesn't happen there

One other difference between rreddit and here:
on reddit, many people feel the need to use swear words to look/feel mature;
here, many people feel the need to use slurs to look/feel mature.

>>7037730
By 'here' what do you mean? Slurs on /lit/ are usually met with 'edgy' or 'back to /pol/'

>>7037777
Yes this place is what I mean by 'here'.
>Slurs on /lit/ are usually met with 'edgy' or 'back to /pol/'
No they aren't.

>>7038397
Yes they are.

>>7033438
Are you retarded? Death of the author is necessary to free a piece from its historic/biographical encapsulation

>>7034023
that's not how death of the author works

>>7036003
is this bait?

>>7038769
Yeah, you should read some of DFW's essays on the topic. He was quite devoted to the concept.

>>7032975
I was banned from /r/books for saying the word "cunt." It triggered somebody. True story.

>>7032985
>discuss philosophy, theology, classical texts and literature
Dont you mean "memes?:

At /mu/, I could at least share some obscure artists here and there. But at /lit/ I'm condemned to be a low level shitposter.

>>7034719
I'm from /mu/, currently in the process of transitioning--I just need to read more books so I actually know what anyone's talking about
sorry

>>7035715
>because the curtains really are just blue.
you have no idea how much hatred I hold for this meme
or you might, Idk

>pic related
Some of the stuff you can expect going there

>>7032975

There's a lot of "do my homework" on r/asklitstudies though.

>>7041430
source?

>>7041446
I hate it, too, anon.

>>7042238

It's true. r/books has the greatest living novelist John Green posting there

>>7038797
No.

>>7033005
This.
Except for a few threads on /gif/ and /h/ there's nowhere else to find raceplay

>>7035026
tbh I'd rather shitpost than watch Mongolian cartoons.

>>7034781
>there's no serious discussion/debate
>mfw

>>7036157
It is more about /lit/ not being atheism-leaning.

>>7036673
I honestly feel like /mu/ shouldn't be about theory discussions and stuff like that outside of a few threads. I feel like /mu/ should just be a fun board. It isn't fun at the moment though.

>>7041446
I get it man

>>7045020
If you believe this, you fell for a meme.
/lit/ is usually intolerant of fedora-tier atheist platitudes, as one would hope a literature forum has some appreciation for the positive effects of religion on the western cultural zeitgeist.
That said, the whole Christposting thing is just bait for fedora-tippers. I've seen strawpolls showing around half of users are atheist, by far the largest demographic.

>>7034969
He's right DoA is the literary equivalent of a yugioh card. Check em' frog scum.

>>7045084
>I feel like we shouldn't discuss art beyond the most basic ideas and we should just circlejerk all day

>>7034969
Yeah, they don't get DoA cause they think it refers to killing all the authorial intent, they don't understand it like Valery did.

They forget that only the author knows purely how the work functions and is the best at understanding his work, the god of his work.

>>7035026
>pretend to be racist
>pretend

>>7037083
I just don't like having it told to me. When I go into something already knowing exactly what's going to happen it ruins the experience for me. I love the experience of discovering it on my own, rather than just having it explained to me.

>>7038616
Why is that necessary

>>7045317
what if i have come to accept the fact that black people just aren't quite "all there" but i still like and respect them? being ten minutes late for work every day isn't a crime and we can still be friends (unless i own the business and it's my cash on the line, then it's gonna look like a fucking swiss village)

>>7033003
Underrated post
Great pun, anon, thank you. You did not go completely unappreciated.

>>7045335
Have you ever tried, you know, reading for something other than what you could get from a 2 minute visit to wikipedia?

>>7045340
In my opinion there's nothing wrong with that. My friends have gone back and forth on calling me a racist because of the way that I think and the way that I talk in contrast to the way that I act. I do hold that predominantly certain groups act certain ways, but I don't let that stop me from being polite/getting to know someone from that group. I'm not some braindead skinhead just going around yelling "lynch all niggers" or some shit, but I do have some pretty right leaning views on topics.

>>7045335
>he reads for plot

>>7032975

r/books is for people who read books in general, not literary fiction. Books that are not literary fiction are often read for the same reason people watch T.V shows: to vegetate after a hard day, to laugh a little bit, to feel some suspense and release, to look at sexy people doing sexy things, etc, and, in short, none of the reasons people come to art: to be challenged, to experience the heights of a medium, to have their minds and heart expanded, etc. People don't mind a LITTLE of that, but it's not their primary reason. Most people on r/books aren't going to be trying to read Ulysses. The best among them were people who might have been good readers once but who kept reading for a rough sort of satisfaction.

Evidence to the point: on the front page right now: Neil Gaiman, R.A Salvatore, Stieg Larsson, plus a smattering of literary stuff.

>>7045356
Could you be anymore vague? I could answer yes or no, dependent entirely upon what answer you're fishing for.

>>7045363
Not really, I enjoy themes in books more. The exact plot is more just the icing on the cake. I just don't like someone coming along and sticking their finger in the icing and shoving it in my face, telling me to try it.

>>7045368
What I'm trying to say is, you probably don't enjoy cake on its own. You just like the icing.

>>7045360
it's funny but the more black people i get to know an close level the more i am convinced they just don't stack up to the races who left africa. i was in some sort of romantic relationship with some girl and i'm like omg why can you not just fucking do your damn school work, stop making it so hard, you're taking easy classes just fucking do it...but as time went on i just realized there is something wrong with these people and time, planning, responsibility, even reading seems more of a challenge...that doesn't mean they're all criminals or something, but when you get enough people with those attributes in one neighborhood or city eventually thinks are going to turn to shit. it's sort of like how some kid who had a traumitic brain injusry as a kid is now kinda slow and can't handle any complex responsibility but he's still a decent guy, you just wouldn't trust him around firearms, lol

>>7045256
You realise you're on 4chan right? Go to Reddit or meet some educated people if you want to discuss music.

>>7045393
I've had the same experience. The thing is, when you point out the problems that black people have as a culture as a non-black person, or even as one, you get called a racist. I mean, it is true that a lot of this is all an indirect effect of slavery in America and the subsequent softer forms of discrimination in our social institutions, but that doesn't mean Black Americans, aren't, as a group, pretty shit. We're supposed to be acknowledging this with one eye, through affirmative action, youth programs, etc, and through the other we're supposed to be blind to it, to say black Americans are great, hire them for their unique amazing perspective, promote their literature, etc. I hate to say doublethink, but.

>>7045408
That's why I'm working on my masters in classical music performance now :^)

>>7045377
Bro I love cake. Sometimes I just eat the cake and leave the icing.

>>7045412
well, also, we have to admit the people that were sold into slavery (by other africans) were probably not the best and brightest africa had to offer in the first place...the thing that kills me is you can actually have this very discussion about negative aspects of black culture coming from slavery and that those things should change...but then next week the person does the exact shit we were agreeing is a result of slavery...like did we not just talk about how that is harmful behavior? so why the fuck are you doing it right now in 2015? argh...

>>7045427
4 u

infinite jest a shit
read a real man's book, like the bible

>>7046344
This meme set the pattern for the latter "arrow to the knee" meme, overused so hard that it was driven into the ground within the first few days.

>>7035702
No it isn't just 0s and 1s. The 0s and 1s are impotent without the machinery and electricity.

>>7046382
arrow to the knee was a viral marketing campaign for a corporate video game

>>7046399
It was reddit's first meme and it set the stage for their entire site

>>7032975
i have never been to /r/books but it strikes me as a place that would eat up terrible fantasy shit like game of groans.

>>7032975
>as bad as people say.
Because everyone needs an antagonist.

If you are not 'Yugoslavian' born in or under the rule of Slobodan Milošević; if you are not Kosovonian; if you are not Serbian or Kenyan or Rwandan or North Korean (I have minor reservations here) or Iraqi or Kurdish or numerous other predominantly post-cold war states, then you lack an antagonist.

Lets be brutally clear -- one needs an antagonist. Whether it's a petty dispute over a newspaper with the next door neighbor, or a vile comment in the New York times, or a Field Marshall pointing a riffle at your child's temple. that one spends months crusading (and I use that term 'crusading' lightly) against, the human individual needs an antagonist to fight to justify the phantom pain of the amputated God.

In this particular instance the antagonist is reddit -- so lets "inter-subjectivity" rally against the fedora neckbeards once again and proclaim ourselves triumphant. That is the crux of it, right?

>>7034719
currently coming in from /mu/ as well. The board is shit and music is becoming stale.

>>7046529
>and music is becoming stale.
Have you heard it all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Fe1tQjB5U

skip to 2:50, admit that he is an amazing guitarist, then I'll give you something modern.

>>7036030
The truth hurts. Also, it's hard to be pompous and pretentious when another user can see your history of shitposting and dumb opinions.

>>7045020
Just because users aren't going off on atheism all the time doesn't mean a majority aren't. The New Atheists are turning atheism conservative and als into a "thing" and it sometimes makes it embarrassing to be one.

>>7046484
>citation needed

>>7046555
>>7046529
>still focusing on contemporary popular music
kek

i personally can't stand reddit's UI

same with tumblr

same with twitter

>>7047316
It's weird, 4chan's is the ugliest looking but unlike the others it works. It's not pretty and sometimes it's a bit inefficient, but if I want to just read straight through a thread and look at the whole conversation as it happened I can do that.

>>7046399
>>7046419
Reddit's posting culture is under corporate control?

>>7048682
Nope

>>7048682
Did you miss the drama surrounding the AMAs?

>>7045235
>he thinks half the userbase being atheist on a board devoted to intellectual pursuits is a high number

fucking american'ts

>>7049238
Unlike you, I'm neither active on reddit nor do I visit it on regular basis.

>>7049916
epic retort my man. it was all over 4chan, i never go to reddit.

>>7049922
Not that person but I don't remember AMA's mentioned on /lit/.

>

>>7035705
>mfw read it at 13 and found it perfectly fine to follow

>>7047352
I think the reason why I hate all of the above so much including YouTube's is this:

Reddit UI makes new comments their own threads, with new replies on top of the replied post, and so forth and so on while indenting the comment. This gives the illusion of a more busy conversation but when you feed it 4chan style it's around the same content. It's the same principle as puffing up a chip bag to make it look like it has more chips.

Tumblr and YouTube's I can do in one go. Both are made with having to use a @ or + with the comment. Unlike 4chan which you can just put your mouse over the red numbers to see what post you're replying too, you can't really be that exact for Tumblr/YouTube conversations. It also makes it more annoying for those reading the conversation if the posters aren't talking directly at each other or when they talk over each other.

Now /Tumbr/

Echo chamber/10

Out of all the ones listed, they at least encourage typing out your words and more importantly, REPLYING to those posts.

Tumblr copy pastas everything to the point where it's like a system of telephone. There is barely a conversation, you can comment. But the way it's made is more for spreading a post rather than being able to talk to others. Instead, you are talking past each other.

>>7050739
Crap I meant Twitter and YouTube. Sorry /lit/

>>7035026
you people should hold yourselves to higher standards or something....

>>7035026
>high test
>stroking your dick to girls that look like boys pretending to be girls
hahaha faggot

>>7050801
I enjoy the things I like, I avoid what I know is something I'm not going to enjoy and I am willing to try new things?

I don't know what you want from me. I don't know what 'higher standards' means to you.

>>7049506
I... what? What part of that judgment do you disagree with? The biggest demographic by far was atheism.

>>7050818
come on man, its more than what you enjoy and don't "enjoy".

its like watching porn. I'm sure most people would "enjoy" watching porn. You enjoy it in the moment, but you there's no real payoff and afterwards, the image of yourself jerking your dick to pixels seems kind of stupid.

if your kid spends all his time watching cartoons, you'd probably want him to do something else. "go outside and play for a bit"

a grown man "watching cartoons of cute girls doing cute things" might seem kind of silly too.

There's nothing wrong about watching porn or anime all day, but you it seems like you could be spending your time on things that are more rewarding.

>>7050818
sure, most people enjoy cute things, but they wouldn't go out of their way to watch foreign cartoons of cute girls doing cute things.

people would wonder about why you like anime. Is he trying to escape back into his youth? Is he a pedophile? did he mentally never mature? is he gay? nothing wrong with being any of these things, it's just that many people would rather not

>>7033417
>>7033491
here ya go.

>>7042376
pills and potions

>>7046643
contemporary is easier to meme over.
i saw someone say here that they begrudge albeit only very slightly that the contemporary scene in /lit/ isn't very intriguing, and that /tv/ and /mu/ can meme over ironic or sincere hype over ongoing developments.
you ever see that GET IN HERE Zizek thread?
that kinda shit happens often over there.
not to say it's better for that, but it will almost inevitably be the case.
besides, one should have at least somewhat split focus on the past and present tbh

>>7051449
>contemporary is easier to meme over.
So real patricians meme about old things then?
I enjoy memeing about elizabethan lute songs.

>>7051457
yes

>>7051120
>Is he a pedophile?
>nothing wrong with
Nobody bites.

>>7051355
wasted dubs

>>7032985
>don't want to discuss philosophy

Good. There is already enough useless outdated horseshit being vomited by people who have no idea what it really means past a Harold Bloom criticism.

Fuck philosophy in general actually. It's for NEET fucks who justify their lack of suicide lifestyle.

>>7032975
If you can filter out all the pleb opinions reddit is fine. Lots of pleb opinions though

>>7051685
;-;

>>7033892
>>7036048
I just uninstalled Dota because of the crippling depression it gives me and I come to /lit/ to escape and this is what I fucking find?

Just nerf techies you fuck that hero's too fun to be deleted.
Only shackleshot should be nerfed on Wind everything else is fine.

>>7037095
You're on the wrong part of Tumblr mate, just check out the parts that aren't female run.

I have a Tumblr porn blog with 400 followers now and I don't have a single black and white gif yet :^)

>>7032985
>It's for people who want to discuss The Martian or children's lit

So...it's exactly the same as /lit/, but with fewer arguments.

>>7034656
Not very different from the million bookshelf threads here

>>7052619
ya once your 4k hours in and 5k mmr deep you won't ever forget.
DOTA 2
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>>7052684
I don't think you understand how 4chan works tbh

>>7052691
There are no bookshelf threads on this board

Check the catalog.

>>7033044
>why should we use logic?
Yesterday I went to the gettho and selling some white thing on little packets, but I'm sure it wasn't cocaine

>>7053642
Maybe she's a student and needs money so she works part time as a waitress.
Your example has nothing to do with logic btw.

>>7052684
What is with this false equivalency everyone is pushing? Sure, there are plebs on /lit/. Sure, there are crypto-plebs.
But to act like if the /lit/ userbase was let loose on reddit we would start talking about how we hate symbolism or how GRRM, Neil Gaiman, and George Orwell are the greatest authors of the last century is ridiculous. Not the same userbase, not even in a '/tv/ is secretly reddit' kind of way.