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[Anonymous No.17303204]

What were some of your favourite memories of /lit/ during the 2010s?

Who are some posters you haven't seen for a while?

For me it's:

>Tao Lin posting circa. 2015
>a brief, half-hearted attempt to rig erotica sales in ~2016 by 5-starring each other's self-published erotica stories
>Gas-kun and his motivational posts (hope you're doing well mate)
>Londonfrog
>finding out about Fernando Pessoa and a bunch of other writers I would have likely not come across for many years otherwise
>the Infinite Jest / DFW obsession a few years ago
>The April Reader

[Anonymous No.17303317]

>>17303204
YWNBAW

[Anonymous No.17303387]

kharmsposter
the kharms flavor of th month era was fun
satan
quentin
monsieur

[Anonymous No.17303447]

>>17303204
The bugs.. meme was funny in a sign of this boards end kind of way. In 2016/2015 all the gnostic posters were annoying. Somehow there's still the same number of communists.

[Anonymous No.17303517]

Scaring that poor girl off of YouTube

[Anonymous No.17303521]

>>17303204
Whatever happened to that guy who worked at a gas station and had written an unpublished 8 volume fantasy series? This was in 16’ or 17’. I always assumed he would at least self-publish.

[Anonymous No.17303573]

>>17303517
You’re going to have to be more specific, lol.

Katie, that cute Mormon ballerina or Ontilogicool?

[Anonymous No.17303606]

>>17303387
Oh my god I forgot about Kharms, especially when another guy had a copy of it and kept promising to scan it for the guy requesting it every day.

[Anonymous No.17303609]

>>17303573
I’ll never forgive foot-fags for running Mormon ballerina girl off the internet.

[Anonymous No.17303623]

>>17303521
That's Gas-kun. I haven't seen him around in a while, though I don't lurk so much these days. He lived in Kentucky iirc.

[Anonymous No.17303661]

>>17303573
Remember the fallen

[Anonymous No.17303680]

>>17303204
I heard that Kat used to post here. Is this true?

[Anonymous No.17303682]

>>17303573
Remember the fallen pt.2

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYSEULU. No.17303983]

>>17303204
>What were some of your favourite memories of /lit/ during the 2010s?

NONE IN PARTICULAR, BUT, RATHER, THE MISCELLANEOUS & INGENIOUS VIBRANCY IN GENERAL OF THE PERIOD COMPRISING FROM YEAR TWOTHOUSAND TEN TO TWOTHOUSAND TWELVE.


>Who are some posters you haven't seen for a while?


— «BROWNBEAR».

— «FEMINISTER».

— «FIRE LORD».

— «HELFERIN»/«SUNHAWK».

— «QUENTIN».

— «TWINSHIA».

— «TWIGGY».

— «VIRGINIA W00F».


ET CETERA.

[Anonymous No.17304008]

I miss the yearly top 100 lists we did through Strawpoll. DFW, Mishima, Pynchon, Harold Bloom ffs. Also that 2/3 of page 1 was discussions of books.

[Anonymous No.17304270]

Before the pajeet invasion this place wasn't as boring honestly

[Anonymous No.17304356]

>>17303680
Sorry, reached the point where the sexual satisfaction I was giving her vastly outweighed anything should could have got posting here

[Anonymous No.17304453]

>>17303680
no, you're thinking of Kant

[Anonymous No.17304683]

>>17304356
She's probably a virgin but too shy to admit it (seeing as how she's gone fully college-tier lefty).

[Anonymous No.17304931]

>>17303521
Isn’t that almost every guy who works at a gas station?

[Anonymous No.17305657]

>>17303204
The brief Girardanon phase was nice. One day I will read Girard.

[Anonymous No.17305671]

>>17303204
the noodle incident

[Anonymous No.17305698]

I’ve liked talking to other lawyers on here and complaining multiple times about law school in 8 post long rants that I’ve turned into part of a book I’m writing.

My favorite parts were the DFW threads. I sincere posted the fuck out of those and some anons actually responded well. That was nice.

I loved participating in the early BurgerPunk threads. Making that 200 page shared doc was hella fun.

I miss going to used book stores before rona and buying books anons were arguing about on the front page. Good times.

[Anonymous No.17305709]

>>17305698
What DFW threads? Were they about a specific book?

[Anonymous No.17305764]

>>17305709
I think the DFW threads that were more about what he would think about the modern world, which of course turned into conversations about his essays and interviews and how those themes were implemented in IJ. I think they happen at particular times. It’s when the readers of his stuff outnumber the shit posters that drop in and give the same 3 jokes.

[Anonymous No.17305797]

>>17303204
Guenon fag was nice

[Anonymous No.17305810]

>>17303682
This was a sad event in /lit/ history, I really think ontologicool did nothing wrong at all.

[Anonymous No.17305830]

>>17305764
Fair enough, I still need to read IJ! I've come across some good The Pale King-related threads here over the years. And yeah the shitposting does seem to be increasing, although it may just be my increased desire to meaningfully engage or something.

[Anonymous No.17306013]

my diary desu

[Anonymous No.17306041]

>>17303204
This thread just makes me sad that I came to /lit/ way too late.

[Anonymous No.17306091]

Hellenism
if you know you know

[Anonymous No.17306139]

Back in 2012-2013 I deliberately made right wing philosophy and literature threads that were as inoffensive as possible so that the then-mod would delete them and ban me so that I could post screenshots of the ban, post them here and on /qa/ (or whatever the equivalent was at the time), and get people riled up at the shitty overbearing moderation. I remember specifically I posted an Evola thread and got banned and a lot of people were up in arms about it. From then on, right wing threads were mostly left undisturbed so it's possible I had a disproportionate influence.

Fuck you old mod, you were banning and memoryholing people just for saying "Marx was gay" or "I don't read woman authors." Humorless faggot.

[Anonymous No.17306181]

>>17303682
>>17305810
shes still on insta

responds well to dms

[Anonymous No.17306188]

>>17306139
the current janny is pretty pissy as well.

[Anonymous No.17306316]

>>17303204
Rapture getting bullied by an old man in his own thread and Deep and Edgy's trip being cracked.

[Anonymous No.17306365]

>>17306181
tell her to come here and post feet, then fuck off again

[Anonymous No.17306405]

>>17306041
It really wasn't all that unless you enjoy a swamp of tripfags and their acolytes sniping at each other ad nauseum amidst the same 5 recycled DFW memes. There may have been more "discussion" about books but it was by and large as surface level as you can get. "No-one here reads" has been a meme since the beginning.

I'm not nostalgic. It was retarded then and it's just a different kind of retarded now. Nothing of substance has been lost.

[Anonymous No.17306419]

>>17306139
That mod used to delete Bloom threads too.

[Anonymous No.17306450]

>>17306405
It was bad at the start but the board was better in basic posting quality prior to the 2016 spike in phoneposters and election tourists. That is what killed most of 4chan in general though.

I never minded newfags too much because they always acclimated, but phoneposting changed the structure of the site. If your homeboard is /lit/, try stepping outside it once in a while and even trying to effortpost, you will run into a sheer wall of "wtf lol why do you care so much" from people who exclusively use 4chan as a social media platform for making one-sentence replies. Zoomers fucking disgust me.