/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.670595]

Was /lit/ ever good? I remember in the beginning it was full of ambitious young minds, ready to share their ideals and opinions on the world.
But now it just feels like a bunch of young, arrogant, ignorant.. teenagers.

Will /lit/ ever return?

[Anonymous No.670599]

This is 4chan, what do you think?

/lit/ is filled with young, arrogant teenagers who think that their taste is superior to everyone else's and old, embittered writers who never made it and therefore see fit to trash on everyone else's writing.

[Anonymous No.670600]

/lit/ was never good. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional.

[Anonymous No.670606]

>ambitious young minds
>arrogant, ignorant teenagers

Same thing, if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.670609]

>>670600
;_;
At one point it was worth coming to to have a meanigful conversation with fellow anons who actually read...

[Anonymous No.670614]

>>670609

It's been the exact same from day 1, you fucking fag.

[Anonymous No.670616]

I was there. Right back in the beginning. I saw the rise, I watched the fall and do you know what, son, /lit/ was awesome.

[Anonymous No.670618]

Good sir, you're implying that the only users of /lit/ are teenagers (despite 4chan restricted to people 18 and over), and is similar to /b/.

[Anonymous No.670620]

>>670618

I meant that it's been infiltrated by them.
There's still a lot of good men willing to stay behind.

[Anonymous No.670624]

>>670620

I miss the early days, when you could spot a troll by the picture of Ayn Rand they posted.

[Anonymous No.670634]

>>670624
Those were the days..

[Anonymous No.670638]

the first 4 days were fucking amazing.

[Anonymous No.670652]

Yeah, such good times, all those years ago. Oh no, wait. It was like 3 months ago, and it's the same as it always was.

/lit/ is just the same as every other board on 4chan... they all have good and bad points (apart from a few boards like /b/, which have none).

[Anonymous No.670703]

>>670638

agreed.

[Anonymous No.670724]

The day Salinger died was the beginning of the end.

[Anonymous No.670740]

>>670638
Very fucking agreed.

[Anonymous No.670751]

>>670599

Old, embittered people on 4chan?

No, it's just the young faggots part.

"I am so e/lit/ist; Ayn Rand is such such; lolol Kurt Vonnegut!"

[Anonymous No.670754]

/lit/ is one of the better boards but at the end of the day this is 4chan.

[Anonymous No.670766]

I remember back in the good ol' days, when you could scroll down an entire page and there'd be nothing but GRRM and Ayn Rand threads.

[Anonymous No.670785]

>>670724
Don't you mean "party time"?
Yeah, Catch THAT in the fucking Rye.

[Anonymous No.670830]

>>670754
This.

Also, I would add that /lit/ has its good days and its bad days. If you have a little faith, and post the kind of content you want to read, you're probably well on your way to improving the number of "good days" that we have.

[Anonymous No.670844]

/lit/ was never good
I've been here day 1

[Anonymous No.670858]

>>670844
>/lit/ is shit but I come here every day
Not too smart are you?

[Anonymous No.671091]

I remember non-stop Ayn Rand threads and threads that consisted of "Have you heard of Book of Leaves?!?!?!"

They weren't troll threads back then.

[Anonymous No.671116]

>>670595
I saw the best minds of my /lit destroyed by memes and pics of starving hysterical naked camwhores, dragging themselves through the rest of the boards during a raid looking for some "angry thread" (or "rage thread," whatever).

Pretentious hipsters burning for the ancient Internet connection to the starry server in the machinery of 4chan, Moot's poverty and debts and hollow-eyed and high sat up posting pictures of his cat in the supernatural darkness of PCs across the tops of cities contemplating Boxxy,

[Anonymous No.671126]

>>670638
The first few minutes were decent.

[Anonymous No.671127]

>>670595
Srsl, OP. At some point there would be some srsl educated/funny threads of "we summarize the best novels in history with one swear..." but when they b& Ayn Rand, the whole board went to shit.

Now it's only R.R. Martin and that kind of subliterature.

[Anonymous No.671131]

You know what were the good days? When /lit/ discovered Joyce's love letters.

[Anonymous No.671162]

We have plenty of interesting people around here if you just look for them. Most trollthreads seem to inexplicably turn to some sort of interesting discussion, even. /lit/'s pretty cool, man.

[Anonymous No.671175]

For fucks sake. I was here on the first day, as, I assume, were most people on this board. It was FILLED with Ayn Rand spam and /b/tards (hence Moot's rule). It was even shittier than it was right now, more teenagers and more trolls. If anything /lit/'s at its prime right now.

[Anonymous No.671209]

>>671175
Yeah but between all the trolls and shit there were actual people trying to discuss literature.

[Anonymous No.671223]

>>671127

For fuck's sake, if you don't like fantasy hide the threads.

[Anonymous No.671233]

Does Historian still post here. What about Isabelle Huppert

[Anonymous No.671266]

>>671233
What about 'cum' guy?

[Anonymous No.671851]

i was here in the early days of /lit/'s existence

THEREFORE I DECLARE MYSELF A KNOWLEDGEABLE OLDFAG

YOU CANNOT STOP ME

[Anonymous No.673146]

>>671851
I was here before the creation of /lit/. Therefore your argument is invalid.

[Anonymous No.673160]

You mean like, two months ago? fuck off

[Anonymous No.673172]

/lit/'s as good as it ever was.

[Anonymous No.673173]

All it is now is butthurt atheists vs. butthurt theists, and people who think you're uncultured scum for enjoying modern literature.

[Anonymous No.673180]

>>671209
Whereas now it's just people discussion literature, and hardly any trolls. Oh no!

[Anonymous No.673184]

>>671209
Whereas now it's just people discussing literature, and there are hardly any trolls. Oh no!

[Anonymous No.673201]

I was here before the river and the trees..the first raindrop and the first acorn. I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from the Outside.

I win.

[Anonymous No.673221]

>>673201

[Anonymous No.673226]

/mu/ was the death of /lit/