It was a good run.

[Anonymous No.8576043]

What did you guys like best about this board?

[Anonymous No.8576048]

[Anonymous No.8576059]

Got some great rec's, had a few laughs.

But it was sheer waste of time, so if this board gets completely overrun by plebs, I wouldn't mind

[Anonymous No.8576064]

>>8576048
What the fuck?
I blame Hiroshimoot.

[Anonymous No.8576069]

>>8576048
>unsure if the closing of this board would be the besr thing that could happen to me or if I would be just as shit and completely lonely

[Anonymous No.8576077]

>>8576059
>this board gets completely overrun by plebs

No please, this is the last bastion

[Anonymous No.8576083]

>>8576043

This board greatly expanded my frame of reference in terms of great authors and works I hadn't heard of
It also gave me enough of a base that I can do that for myself now
It's been a couple of years or so since then though, and since then the board has definitely been an exercise in diminishing returns/never again finding the same high

[Anonymous No.8576088]

i found gaddis because of /lit/ and i'm thankgul for that
overall 2/10 board these days though

[Anonymous No.8576092]

>>8576043
>>8576048
Are we finally free? Thank Jesus.

[Anonymous No.8576097]

>>8576048
He's just trying to ease the way for dirty adverts. Didn't he basically buy this to make money?

[Anonymous No.8576107]

>>8576083
I agree with you. 2 years since i began to walk the patrician road. It helped me a lot to learn which authors to read. Nowdays it is hard to read actual good literature discussions.

[Anonymous No.8576117]

bullying butters with love

[Anonymous No.8576120]

But where do we migrate? ;_; pls don't leave me

[Anonymous No.8576125]

What if memoirchan actually is writing a memoir and he won't finish it in time?

[Anonymous No.8576128]

>>8576043
I found some of the best and obscure pieces of lit thanks to /lit/. I'm going to miss it if its really going.

[Anonymous No.8576129]

>>8576077

There's always 2^3chan.

[Anonymous No.8576133]

>>8576092

[Anonymous No.8576139]

>>8576129
>The board is overrun by genre fiction readers.

Vade retro

[Anonymous No.8576145]

>>8576139
It's a slow board and would be easy to fix that.

[Anonymous No.8576148]

>>8576145
M-maybe we can fix them. But we should start as soon as possible.

[Anonymous No.8576157]

>>8576043
it's getting better all the time

[Anonymous No.8576167]

>>8576157
What the fuck is this.

[Anonymous No.8576168]

>>8576097
He didn't do it out of charity.

[Anonymous No.8576206]

>>8576167
It's the multimillionaire drug tycoon who's streaming himself buying 4chan from goot.

[Anonymous No.8576220]

>>8576206
>>8576157
This guy will turn lit into a "ask rowling anything for 5$" board.

[Anonymous No.8576226]

>>8576157
Thanks alt right

[Anonymous No.8576231]

>>8576220
4chan is worth pennies, he only bought it for the brand name that is worth something.

[Anonymous No.8576253]

>>8576043
The left created this website, the right killed this website. The right kills all good things, you'll learn this in life eventually.

[Anonymous No.8576288]

>>8576157

Jesus Christ.

This is going to make reddit look like a symposium.

[Anonymous No.8576311]

>>8576048
W-wait is this for real? That's just an edit, right guys?

[Anonymous No.8576319]

>>8576311
Np, it's real.

[Anonymous No.8576337]

>>8576043
The first 90 or so days here were very formative for me, and honestly invaluable. My perspective was shifted, widened, and it completely changed my approach to literature and introduced me to works I would never have otherwise explored.

That being said, after those 90ish days I got everything I need and I'm only here for dank memes, shitposting at newfags, and the occasional get. I've mined this place for everything of value, time to move on.
fuck all y'all,

[Anonymous No.8576341]

>>8576337
You're probably in high school

[Anonymous No.8576360]

I hate this board.

See you guys tomorrow.
In an hour.
In a few minutes.

[Anonymous No.8576371]

>>8576337
>caring about gets on on /lit/

[Anonymous No.8576374]

>>8576048
> all this traffic from this board...

[Anonymous No.8576376]

>>8576319
Oh god I just found the thread
Welp that was fun, pretty much all options seem like forced amputation, so unless some autist with more cash than brain decides to adopt the site we're fucked hard. Deleting, or merging slow boards would be the worst though- that's literally the best part of this place. Even though I think there are some which could
It's somehow tragic that the only way to set us free is to kill this place

[Anonymous No.8576382]

>>8576048

Getting rid of /marx/ would be an excellent move. And fire all the janitors associated with this pisshole board

[Anonymous No.8576388]

>>8576376
>It's somehow tragic that the only way to set us free is to kill this place
>/pol/ getting free

This is disastrous, I don't know for who. The normal innocent people, or the social rejects of /pol/ having to face reality.

The internet was a mistake

[Anonymous No.8576393]

>>8576388
>The internet was a mistake
naah, don't put it like that. We didn't use it in the right way. that's the problem here.

[Anonymous No.8576394]

>>8576382
>get rid of the people who disagree with me
>make it more like what I like even if the board isn't for me

[Anonymous No.8576408]

>>8576374

Well there would be some obvious candidates if you wanted to reduce traffic, but then you wouldn't have epic memes and edge that are going to be a huge source of revenue apparently

[Anonymous No.8576430]

Personally I would cut mlp so we could be together with mu again.
Like the good ol' days.

[Anonymous No.8576490]

>>8576408
I've never been there, but why is there a /v/ and a /vg/ anyway?

[Anonymous No.8576494]

>>8576490
to keep video game generals out of /v/ obviously

[Anonymous No.8576496]

>>8576408
of course they cannot shut down /b/. In the world outside of 4chan people think /b/ IS 4chan. And /pol/... oh well. you don't want those people anywhere else, to be honest. /pol/ is already leaking of course but we all should be glad that those people have a place of their own.

[Anonymous No.8576499]

>>8576494
where's the difference?

[Anonymous No.8576502]

>>8576048
If they don't delete /lit/ then I'm going to kill myself

[Anonymous No.8576503]

>>8576496
Honesty I want /pol/ to be cut just to see what would happen

Like throwing a rock at a hornet's nest knocking it down.

Except the hornets are autistic men

[Anonymous No.8576513]

>>8576499
video game generals are entire threads dedicated to one game while /v/ is a board dedicated to talking about various games and game topics. If /vg/ were gone then all the /vg/ people would make threads on /v/ overwhelming /v/ with generals.

[Anonymous No.8576521]

>>8576503
> pic related would happen

[Anonymous No.8576530]

Its mostly the porn boards serving thousands of high quality images that will likely be cut although we can still dream that /lit/ will be flushed.

[Anonymous No.8576534]

>>8576530
Why would I want that. I want /his/ gone more

[Anonymous No.8576568]

>>8576534

wouldnt that mean that we would eat /his/ since at least this would be the place for history books?

I dont want to see we wuzers, or what is more common here, people asking if ancient persians/egyptians/greeks/romans were norwegian looking blue eyed blondes . we dont have that much /pol/ here.

[Anonymous No.8576570]

>>8576376
>Oh god I just found the thread
Which board?

[Anonymous No.8576588]

>>8576570
>>>/qa/

[Anonymous No.8576598]

>>8576048
Did he actually say how many boards he'd close and which ones?

[Anonymous No.8576612]

I wanted to make a smaller alternative to 4chan at one time but realised it'd be a waste of money since it'd die.

[Anonymous No.8576614]

>>8576043
When will it close down?

[Anonymous No.8576627]

>>8576598
It's just a threat to make the lemmings buy 4chan passes

[Anonymous No.8576645]

Also, why not some boards to text boards to cut down on hosting costs? We could be a text board with linked images if they were necessary.

Imageboards were pretty useless to begin with and just advocate retardation. Why respond to anything when you can just answer with a le smug peepeepoopoo face and le win the epic internet argument?

[Anonymous No.8576647]

>>8576043
>go to uni
>meet an irl lit poster

well, at least i have that

[Anonymous No.8576660]

>>8576627
Yeah, but assuming they don't buy more, he'll probably do it now that he said it's an option if only to rake in more ¥€$.

[Anonymous No.8576665]

>>8576645
Agreed. Shifting to text only would instantly expel half the infantile riffraff.

[Anonymous No.8576673]

>>8576665
Sometimes images are important. My proposal is that mobile phone OS are banned.

[Anonymous No.8576690]

I guess I'll download all the archives, read 'em and feel like the guy in The Invention of Morel.

[Anonymous No.8576692]

>>8576673
Linking would work in those rare few cases. It'd also discourage more obnoxious mobile posters since they love spamming images.

[Anonymous No.8576694]

>It was just us being boys. Posting dank memes and messing around. I never had friends like that again. Jesus, does anyone?

[Anonymous No.8576695]

>>8576673

I am posting from my phone right now whilst sitting on the couch right now. If you want images, why not link the image from another site? This board is primarily text based, as are most boards.

[Anonymous No.8576724]

>>8576673
>mobile phone OS are banned.
How should that help?
Someone will find a workaround anyway.

[Anonymous No.8576731]

How likely is it for /lit/ to get deleted. Does anyone have the stats for the monthly unique users, data used, etc.?

[Anonymous No.8576738]

I have a to-read list of about 500 books on ms word. At my current rate, I should be done in about ten years. But that's not really accurate because some of the entries on the list are placeholders for an author's collected work or even a whole school of writing. I'll probably be set for reading material until about 2040 or so. If I keep adding stuff to it I'll never be done and I'll have to bequeath the reading list to the cloned children my sex-robot bore me.

Thanks /lit/ =]

[Anonymous No.8576783]

>>8576731
I sincerely doubt any board will be deleted. The small ones don't affect the traffic much individually, they'd have to be massacred to actually influence the financial balance, which would cause massive fights and exoduses. Deleting the big ones (b, pol) would be downright catastrophic for the site. Hiro doesn't want either result, if he's not dumb.

[Anonymous No.8576816]

>>8576665
>Shifting to text only
ASCII David Foster Wallace spamming

[Anonymous No.8576834]

>>8576496
Except /pol/ is not a containment board, it's a breeding ground. They are already leaking so there's no point in keeping it around. They could also combine boards like /sp/ and /asp/, and /w/ and /wg/.

They could also delete most of the porn boards because they are pointless and don't even start discussion.

[Anonymous No.8576917]

>>8576731
>>8576783
Nothing is getting deleted. This is preparation to mitigate the outcry for whatever moneymaking scheme is about to come.

[Anonymous No.8576933]

There's something about the chaos of 4chan's fine art boards that produces some of the best recommendations I'd never get anywhere else.

You were my greatest friends.

[Anonymous No.8576956]

>>8576048
okay, and...? more ads won't kill this place, neither will signautres. you guys just like to overreact. if they close certain boards they'll close the biggest boards since they have the most posters.

[Anonymous No.8576974]

>>8576043

This was the only place I could come and talk about books.

None of my friends like reading. No one in class likes reading.

I will forever remember this place and my time writing the first /lit/ book (the only good one) The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.

Peace

[Anonymous No.8576981]

yfw shkreli saves the day and donates one billion dollars to keep 4chan afloat

https://twitter.com/hiroyuki_ni/status/782730299574714368

[Anonymous No.8577027]

>>8576981
Who is this guy?

[Anonymous No.8577051]

>>8577027
The guy who hiked prices on Daraprim from $13 to $750 a pill in US.

[Anonymous No.8577066]

>>8577051
What a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.8577078]

without /lit/ i would have never pushed my boundaries and found better and deeper stories to write as opposed to the genre shit i had been so caught up in during the early years in my life. wish i could have stayed longer, gotten more recommendations

[Anonymous No.8577090]

>>8577078
Same desu. Hopefully this storm passes and we can litpost for years to come.

[Anonymous No.8577109]

>>8577066
You've probably never even heard of Daraprim

[Anonymous No.8577130]

>>8576120
/r/literature is OK, but it's even slower than /lit/ and is still reddit.

[Anonymous No.8577218]

B-but where will we go?

[Anonymous No.8577263]

>>8577130

[Anonymous No.8577359]

>>8576647
>tfw /lit/ ends
>tfw no one to verbalize your sorrow to

[Anonymous No.8577374]

>>8576133
I see your zizek and raise you one

[Anonymous No.8577379]

>>8577218
To life, maybe get a real job.

[Anonymous No.8577383]

>>8577374

[Anonymous No.8577411]

>>8577051
>>8577066
lol he jacked the prices up for the pharmacies, not for the patients. media never reported that. he's a competent businessman and a high level troll that will either save us or destroy us.

[Anonymous No.8577424]

>>8577379
B-but I do have a real job, and I come here to escape it

[Anonymous No.8577429]

>>8577379
I have a real job. I come here to forget about it. Do you have any idea how comforting it is to see elitist memes about the Greeks and Pynchon after a long day of making reports in Excel, sending emails and reformatting Word documents?
I hardly see my friends anymore because of work and they all are going different directions with their lives (most don't have "real jobs" and a lot of them work weekends) so most of the fun/comradiere in my life comes from /lit/.

If this board gets deleted or ruined that's just more time I'll end up mindlessly scrolling through Facebook watching sharebait videos autoplay with the sound off.

Or I can just spend more time reading and further isolate myself from living human beings.

I'm aware of how lame this sounds, but I'll miss you, /lit/. It's been a good run.

[Anonymous No.8577436]

>>8577411
And where do people get their pills again, dubsman?

[Anonymous No.8577467]

>>8577429
>>8577424
I was unconsciously talking about myself, I guess.

[Anonymous No.8577481]

First off, I really don't think any board will be axed. But I'll continue as if /lit/ is going to be one of the first to go.

/lit/ showed me what literature actually is. Before coming here I thought all books were just time-wasters like video games or movies are. I didn't get it at all and was a total pleb.
A few years ago I came up with some ideas for a book series without ever having been a reader. More and more ideas came to me but still I didn't know how to structure so much as a paragraph. Eventually I found /lit/ through my 4chan addiction. Started off with The Sun Also Rises, Gatsby, and A Clockwork Orange and I was totally enthralled. Two years later I have an enormous backlog and appreciation for the written word all thanks to /lit/.

The decline in discussion quality through this year has made me really sad. I wish a curse upon the fucker who brought the redditors and mobileposters. It's just about impossible to start a thread now and get replies longer than one sentence. If this truly is the end, at least we'll always have the time we've spent together.

[Anonymous No.8577522]

>>8577263
That's true, you /pol/ dip

[Anonymous No.8577528]

I think I may just stop browsing /lit/ now anyway, the thought of being free from this is scary enough to me that I realize it's probably an issue.
I don't like to brag about how long I've been here, but I've been on 4chan for a decade of life now, and /lit/ since about 6 months after it became a thing because I just didn't care to look at it for a while. But once I did I think it became one of the few net positives in life that came out of this board.
I learned what discerning taste was, and that it's okay to actually think critically about the classics. I got to see that literature was a lot more outside of school and the YA books I was reading, and that something to difficult to read could be rewarding. The level of intellectual rigor among the memes was different, not everybody was just trying to troll or post gore or CP all the time. /lit/ was my first blue board, my gateway off of /b/, out of that mindset and wanky quagmire.. I cut my teeth on writing some actual intelligible literary arguments on here, which in part is responsible for me taking college courses in lit and writing during my senior year of high school. To take it even further, it helped steer me on the course I'm on now. I went to school for literature and writing, and grad school, and a published writer, albeit in small publications.
Of course, I also internalized some of the insufferable pedantry and condescension but luckily rushing my freshman year helped get that shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.8577530]

>>8577481
>I thought all books were just time-wasters like video games or movies are.

Aren't they, though? What is this that you get from books that you can't get from a great film?

[Anonymous No.8577551]

>>8577528
/lit/ helped me get through the dark days of nobody to talk to about literature after I dropped out of graduate school to come home and help my family, it was my haven of books and memes about the books, and it helped me keep up the will to actually write while I was beating my brains out in a series of blue collar jobs and office jobs I hated.
The old cliche is true guys, all good things must come to an end. Threads got shittier, memes began to drown out discussion, our chart got popular with imgur and reddit more than once, and /pol/ served as a lightning rod drawing a certain type of thought to the site rather than to contain it. Even though /lit/ had its fair share of hostility and memes in the old days, this was new. The number of books winnowed out to a handful. I know that it's in part a good thing, the non-meme rec threads that pop up on occasion show that there are some broadly read /lit/ posters who aren't being spoonfed by the board (to a degree), but the common base of books is smaller.
Anyway, I realize this reads like a shitty nostalgic break-up/love letter to a board on 4chan. I'll hang around in this thread for a bit because I'm interested to see what other people have to say, but then I'll leave. It feels like putting down a family pet. Shit.

[Anonymous No.8577556]

>>8576043
I love this board, man. For years I only go to /b/ and /gif/ to get muh dick hard. But for the last two years that I have been lurking this fuckin board I have been a better human being. And it's good.

[Anonymous No.8577562]

>>8577530

Do you even read?

[Anonymous No.8577565]

>>8577522
But who cares? I don't give a shit about what neil gaiman thinks and I don't want to have discussions that are just about how all white people are racists/sexists and how we need to throw away the western canon because there aren't enough trans black women
.

[Anonymous No.8577569]

>>8577562

Yep. Books are a different type of entertainment to be sure, but Im wondering what you uniquely get out of them that make them so much greater.

[Anonymous No.8577577]

>>8576408
Would anyone shed a tear if those 5 biggest boards were shut down?

[Anonymous No.8577581]

>>8576933
Alas, all things must pass. DFW foresaw the future and offer himself

[Anonymous No.8577588]

>>8577577
fuck you /int/ is a nice place

[Anonymous No.8577590]

>>8577569
>>8577530
Movies do not replace books, and vice versa. Each art form offers something the others don't

[Anonymous No.8577593]

>>8576043
The humor and the resilience to the hivemind.

We read books, or at least pretend to read books. This is what made the distinction between us and the rest of this gay ass site.

[Anonymous No.8577597]

>>8576083
Same. I like that it exists though. People filter in that would have never been exposed to literature any other way. It creates a culture that is good for all of us. We all have similar taste in books. Maybe it creates consumers for the books some of us may create in the future.

I really hope we don't get deleted one way or the other.

[Anonymous No.8577607]

EVERYONE READ INFINITE JEST AT ONCE! IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE 4CHAN AND /LIT/

[Anonymous No.8577615]

>>8577411
If he hikes up prices for pharmacies it'll be more expensive for the people getting the pills from those pharmacies?

What is really ridiculous is how the United States is the only first world country where drug companies can do shit like that.

[Anonymous No.8577619]

>>8577522
why don't you just go fucking back there then, faggot?

[Anonymous No.8577620]

>>8577607
To the library, and step on it!

[Anonymous No.8577622]

>>8576043
This is going to sound corny as fuck but here goes.

This board was here when I had to drop out of college. This board was here when mental illness set in. This board was here when I wanted to kill myself.

Things still aren't good, but this board set me on a path to read great works that I would have never experienced otherwise. Reading these works made life feel meaningful again and brought me some peace.

[Anonymous No.8577626]

this thread is making me feel sad
youre the only friends i have left

[Anonymous No.8577630]

well be fine

[Anonymous No.8577631]

>>8577569
books have no barrier of medium to pass through to communicate their ideas to you. the words beam ideas and feeling directly into your head without the need for speakers, screens, etc. how are you on /lit/ without having this figured out?

[Anonymous No.8577635]

>>8577622
So the board was there for you when you were low? How do you know it was a crutch supporting you and not a millstone dragging you down.

>>8577626
Get better friends because we are scum.

[Anonymous No.8577637]

/lit/ wrote a book, let's just make a website.
Duh.
(It'll be fun for 2 months or so)

[Anonymous No.8577665]

I hope Pynchon makes one last post

[Anonymous No.8577682]

>>8577635
but im scum too

[Anonymous No.8577696]

Maybe now its time to actually read books.

[Anonymous No.8577698]

M-maybe they'll just delete /his/ instead of this board

I m-mean, they wouldn't just go and delete our board, would they?

Would they?

[Anonymous No.8577701]

I'm thinking about writing a book.

[Anonymous No.8577710]

>>8577698
I hope not. I like to shitpost on /pol/ and all, and /lit/'s level of complete and utter bullshitting is rediculous but I still like /lit/

[Anonymous No.8577721]

>>8576048
>adds a bunch of shitty boards no one wants
>threatens to take them away again
stupid jap

[Anonymous No.8577737]

>>8576337
Ask not what /lit/ can do for you, but what you can do for /lit/

[Anonymous No.8577761]

>>8576694
>>8576933
>>8577359
>>8577626
;_; i'd like to be on this ride for a bit longer lads

[Anonymous No.8577762]

>>8577737
>pass user since 2016

WHAT THE UNHOLY FUCK

[Anonymous No.8577773]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju7GSz_pav8

thread theme

[Anonymous No.8577774]

>>8577737

holy. . .I want more

[Anonymous No.8577788]

I KNOW THAT I HAVE LET YOU DOWN

[Anonymous No.8577802]

>>8577622
Same here. This board was here when I was stealing my roommate's underwear and jacking into them; when I was abusing DXM and self-harming everyday; when I attempted suicide several years ago. When I had zero people with whom to talk, some of the books recommendations I got here kept me from going loopy. Sometimes I lament the current state of /lit/ but I will always have fond memories of this place.

[Anonymous No.8577807]

>>8577737
>PASS USER SINCE 2016

[Anonymous No.8577896]

>>8576665
>>8576645
dfwpics are an important part of our culture
I'd be fine with banning all other images

[Anonymous No.8577912]

>>8577565
>how we need to throw away the western canon
No one said so.

[Anonymous No.8577945]

>>8577912
But you cannot understand the western canon if you imagine characters as black people.
>mfw Sancho now is black

[Anonymous No.8578005]

>>8576502
If they delete /lit/ I'm going to kill myself.

[Anonymous No.8578007]

>>8578005
If they do the opposite of deleting/not deleting /lit I'm going to kill myself.

[Anonymous No.8578009]

>>8578007
You will be missed

[Anonymous No.8578016]

I liked deep and edgy best to be honest.

[Anonymous No.8578025]

>>8576534
/his/ is terrible and way worse than /lit/ surprisingly.

[Anonymous No.8578135]

>>8576048
Did m00t ever poem?

[Anonymous No.8578217]

>>8576645
This
Textboards are the future

[Anonymous No.8578243]

>>8576083
Did I get here late? Fuck. Been lurking on and off for a few years.

[Anonymous No.8578253]

>>8578135
no he just comes here to steal our gets

[Anonymous No.8578256]

>>8576059
>waste of time
no.

[Anonymous No.8578283]

>>8576069
This. Though I would probably just resort to stirnerposting on his. Maybe if they closed both.

[Anonymous No.8578418]

>>8576408
>/a/ gets more traffic than /tv/
>/mlp/ gets more traffic than this cesspool
kek

[Anonymous No.8578431]

>>8576490
/v/ tends to be toxic shitflinging, the /vg/ generals like /gsg/ and /twg/ are at least a community of people dedicated to a single game

[Anonymous No.8578437]

>>8577411
are you an idiot.

[Anonymous No.8578443]

I've gotten enough recommendations from /lit/ to last me a lifetime. I'd miss the board's elitism, the memes, DFW reaction pics, all that stuff.

4chan isn't going to die though, Shkreli will save us.

[Anonymous No.8578460]

i would feel really lonely :(( that's the only place where i can come to feel relaxed

[Anonymous No.8578622]

>>8578443 et supra

If this thing about Mutant Skeksis taking over the site is true, then I'm genuinely out of here

[Anonymous No.8578632]

So did Hiroyuki fuck everything up or was this inevitable ?

[Anonymous No.8578674]

>>8576048
Do you think Hiro likes books

[Anonymous No.8578684]

>>8578632
gotta figure there was a reason m00t wanted to sell this site in the first place

[Anonymous No.8578685]

>>8577620
underrated

[Anonymous No.8578686]

>>8578674
I bet he likes gook cook books

[Anonymous No.8578696]

>>8576120
unichan

[Anonymous No.8578702]

>>8578674
japs don't read

[MoonManOtto !!lI8rRKAI6cz No.8578704]

>>8576043
I don't want to go :(

[Anonymous No.8578710]

There aren't many redeeming threads on /lit/ anymore. Half the content is friendless loser high schoolers or undergrads asking for recs on books so they can get into literature to distract themselves from their social ineptness. The rest is stale memeposters and pseuds incapable of voicing opinions because they're afraid of coming across as stupid in actual intellectual discourse and shattering their delusions of patricianhood.

[Anonymous No.8578713]

>>8578710
Wich one is you?

[Anonymous No.8578722]

>>8578710
Accurate. I care to discuss the matter no further, lest my delusions of patricianhood be shattered.

[Anonymous No.8578730]

>>8578713
Neither, I'm /pol/ stopping by to redpill you sentimental marxist faggots

[Anonymous No.8578733]

>>8578730
ah so its like the cancer of the board blaming it all on the common cold. feel free to kill yourself

[Anonymous No.8578743]

>teenager moot running this site just fine
>dumb fucking gook moot fucking everything up in his first year
gg

[Anonymous No.8578752]

>>8578710
>>8578722
If you are actively hiding shit threads and doing your best to respond to good new threads you will get boat-fulls of good recommendations and discussion.

[Anonymous No.8578757]

>>8578710
>friendless... undergrads asking for recs on books so they can get into literature to distract themselves from their social ineptness...

how cleanly you cut to my core

[Anonymous No.8578771]

>>8578752
Yeah it was a joke. /Pol/ and Reddit are the cancer ruining this board, but there are still some good things left here.

[Anonymous No.8578777]

Someone needs to force moot back

[Anonymous No.8578798]

strawpoll(dot)de/b3daby2

Let's just infiltrate another site with our angry pretence and memes. Even if lit doesn't get the axe and other boards do we'll be flooded with alt right windowlickers.

[Anonymous No.8578805]

>>8578798
>iirc

[Anonymous No.8578813]

>>8578805
That's an embarrassing typo....

[Anonymous No.8579079]

>>8578710
>Half the content is friendless loser high schoolers asking for recs on books so they can get into literature to distract themselves from their social ineptness

damn, you hit the jackpot on me

[Anonymous No.8579346]

>>8578710
>Half the content is friendless loser high schoolers or undergrads asking for recs on books so they can get into literature to distract themselves from their social ineptness.

SH-SHUT UP ANON!!

[Anonymous No.8579356]

>>8579346
>>8579079
>>8578757
why so triggered, socialising is really a distraction from boredom. just like literature

[Anonymous No.8579372]

>>8579356
>people who have have friends are happy and I have books and am so unhappy it hurts

[Anonymous No.8579386]

I loved how boring British and Australian posts remained consistent.

[Anonymous No.8579405]

>>8577481
>>8577551
Novelty can wear off slowly, I think /lit/ has always been the same.

[Anonymous No.8579423]

>>8576220
Shkreli is a pretty cool dood, I think he'll be okay

[Anonymous No.8579431]

>>8577263
It's almost like most people in the West are white

[Anonymous No.8579444]

>>8578710
I do not like it but you're right. When you gotta spend 5 minutes hiding shit threads before you find anything good, there is a serious problem.

[Anonymous No.8579465]

>>8577263
Idk, I thought of Hal Incandenza as a bit of a spic despite his white family

[Anonymous No.8579470]

>>8576043

>>8579464

[Anonymous No.8579527]

I will miss this place.
Despite everything.

[Anonymous No.8579546]

>>8579470
Stop copying my techniques. Also, this thread came first.

[Anonymous No.8579553]

>>8579546
I was answering op's question.

[Anonymous No.8579575]

>>8577619
Why are you so retarded?

[Anonymous No.8579809]

>>8576408
whoa, when did /int/ get so big

also has /x/ always been that small?

[Anonymous No.8579862]

>>8576157
link to the video?

[Anonymous No.8579878]

I only visit every once in a while. Everyone here only reads these specific type of books when I prefer modern young adult and children's literature. It's hard to start threads about the stuff I read.

[Anonymous No.8579897]

>>8577263
>>8577522

What possible difference could it make?

I find it "problematic" that literal cuckolds like Gaiman want to police my imagination.

[Anonymous No.8579900]

>>8579897
>police
This is pretty hard hitting, not exaggerating at all.

[Anonymous No.8579908]

>4chan is kill

[Anonymous No.8580442]

>>8579900

It's bizarre how "liberals" think that affirmative action should extend to the realm of fiction, that if I choose to write about men or white people I'm somehow disparaging women or non-whites. I don't hate women or non whites, I'm just exercising my artistic freedom to write about something that interests me. Maybe I haven't thought of any good stories that have black people in them yet. Maybe I don't want to do my black characters a disservice by writing about their struggles with shit prose, so I'm taking my time to get it right. Maybe I'm afraid of being attacked for "cultural appropriation." Maybe black people are as boring to me as white people are to the average Guardian subscriber. Deal with it.

It's even more bizarre to pretend that my inner life of imagination and fantasy should have a racial quota just like the BBC or Oxbridge. I wouldn't be surprised if Gaiman receives a lot criticism and censure over his "marriage" so it's a bit funny that he lecture people about their private thoughts. If I want to think about high impact sexual violence that's what I'm going to think about. If I want to think about the Force Publique Congo that's what I'm going to think about. Gayman and his whore of a wife aren't going to stop me from enjoying what I like in my own time.

[Anonymous No.8580479]

>>8580442
Fantasy only started catching flak when all the kids who read Harry Potter grew up and found that much of fantasy was not pandering to them like everything else. That, and maybe GoT popularizing the genre, I think is what led to this outcry for more women, less racism, etc.

Now all that being said, you are absolutely correct that fiction owes nothing to these people. Sexy female characters written now get bitched about, because it isn't matching the fantasy that female readers want to project themselves on to. And if this is the case then that isn't the authors problem or even the genres problem, the reader just picked up the wrong book and couldn't handle that it wasn't written to their liking. Don't let anyone tell you what to imagine or what to write.

Also Tissot is fucking fantastic.

[Anonymous No.8580495]

>>8576043
wait is this real? are we losing /lit/? someone please explain

[Anonymous No.8580509]

>>8580442
If those faces are indication of how the people of the day actually felt, I am glad to know that they understood their exception and lucky place in the history of the world.

[Anonymous No.8580518]

>>8578710
agreed

[Anonymous No.8580521]

>>8580442
Oh, another /pol/ poster with a victim complex. At least you can type in complete sentences. No one is stopping you from enjoying what you want on your own time, and no one is "forcing" you to do anything regarding whatever you choose to write. There are a ton of discussions about diversity or lack thereof in genre fiction, yes, but it says more about you than them that you're crying about how people will say mean things about you if you talk about how much you like Belgian atrocities in Africa.

"Gayman and his whore of a wife." Gaiman and his wife both suck, but damn you sound like you're straight out of eleventh grade. It's a good thing no one actually pays enough attention to police your banal whining.

[Anonymous No.8580525]

>>8580479
>this outcry
Yes. Their are rallies in the streets for more pandering to fans in young adult novels

[Anonymous No.8580526]

>>8580521
not other poster, but dude shut the fuck up. you dont sound retarded. dont be prt of the problem just to be a contrarian.

[Anonymous No.8580534]

>>8580495
same. someone plz explain

[Anonymous No.8580536]

>>8580521
He's talking about the public, marketing aspect moreso than the personal aspect of writing fiction. How are all the tee hee nerd girls going to blog about his work and get him notoriety if he writes straight white men into his work? That is not what publishers want to pick up anymore.

[Anonymous No.8580542]

>>8580536
Trust me, friend, straight white men aren't going anywhere in fiction.

[Anonymous No.8580548]

>>8580536
Why do you care about books where the target audience is women you feel superior to? There have always been more shit books than good books.

[Anonymous No.8580549]

>>8580526
I'm not a contrarian, I actually believe it's a good thing to have more diverse writers and characters in fiction, genre or otherwise. The thing is, unlike what the other poster was crying about, this doesn't actually erase your straight white men from fiction, which is why it's so obnoxious to hear people flip their shit when the word diversity is dropped.

And I know you can think of something more intelligent to say than that, buddy.

[Anonymous No.8580560]

>>8576043
the obscure reccs that nobody has read before. its like uncharted territory. no one to debate me with my overall feel of a book, which is bad in a way as well, but i like to give me own view and not get shit on by triggers fanboys like with IJ and others

[Anonymous No.8580576]

>>8580549
life is like climbing a ladder: each rung a new level of not caring. first poster cares about sjw fags, you care about him caring, other poster cared about you caring about first poster's caring. now you're im caring about your caring about him caring about you caring about first poster caring about sjws. we've almost reached the top.

[Anonymous No.8580626]

>>8580479

I was googling the names of the Sand Snakes for research purposes and stumbled across some bloggist criticizing the show because the actresses were "too white passing." It's fucking incredible; I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth if I was a GoT fan as well as a SJW.

>>8580509

They almost certainly did. Every time they went to church they would have been reminded of the undeserved gifts that had been lavished upon them, and their moral duty to help uplift the dusky skinned races of the world who had not been as fortunate.

>>8580521

>It's a good thing no one actually pays enough attention to police your banal whining.

Right of course. That's why there are hugely popular movements to reduce free speech, to bar conservatives from university campuses, to censor the internet, because our "banal whining" is so insignificant. If men like me are really part of such a fringe group why is everybody so (negatively) interested in what we have to say? You lot care enough to police us all the time, and you know what, it's an honor. I wouldn't want "liberals" to agree with me. By the way, thanks Mrs. Clinton for giving us a nod in your speech, I'm sure my buddy Jared is going to sell a lot more books than he did in 2015.

[Anonymous No.8580646]

>>8576043

>What did you guys like best about this board?

i liked when stan would go on a rampage. he had great character and shitposting style. smart and genuinely witty.

no this isn't stan.

[Anonymous No.8580718]

>>8580548
Not sure what you're trying to say. I don't care if the target audience is male or female. But I don't understand people who think poorly of a book with their only explanation being "I didn't agree with it" or even worse, "this book just wasn't for me." Yet they insist on plowing through it, only to decide that it's the author's problem that they didn't enjoy it.
>There have always been more shit books than good books.
No one is disputing that.

[Anonymous No.8580765]

>>8576043
The fact that we could all as a brotherhood look down on all the other boards and realize how utterly inferior they were to us.

[Anonymous No.8581108]

>>8577701
Do it

[Anonymous No.8581113]

>>8576043
the shitposting, which is the best part of literally every board.

If you disagree you are a nerd and probably homosexual

[Anonymous No.8581125]

>>8581113
But what if you're a faggot nerd shitposter?

[Anonymous No.8581132]

>>8581125
Then I would advise you to drink bleach Tbh

[Anonymous No.8581149]

>>8576043
It is usually on topic with comparably intelligent conversation as opposed to most other boards.

>>8579423
He never matured mentally or morally past age 15.

It would be better if this site was shut down instead of kept on life support as an unfunny joke.

[Anonymous No.8581176]

>>8577528

Been browsing since November since 2007. Though I've certainly wasted tome here, 4chan has honestly enriched my life in a lot of tangible and lasting ways.

/b/ gave me the familiarity and practice to sift this mess for the gold.

/fit/ taught me about eating correctly and physical exercise, straight up and brutally honest without any bullshit body shaming faggotry or excuses.

/pol/ has enabled me to see politics and world events through different lenses, to want to ask questions and inform myself so I can form my own opinions, rather than to just accept the narratives I am given.

/lit/ has gone hand-in-hand with the above from a literary standpoint. Asides from great recommendations, this board has given me an appreciation for improving how I read and what I read. It has made me more comfortable about sharing writing and understanding that you need to write bullshit and read gold before you can get gud yourself.

/g/ taught my old room mate a ton of shit and I know so many othrr boards have done the same for other people. 4chan is like the embodiment of all the internet could be; a sum collection of mankind's faceless emotions and interests. The anonymity allows a level of honest discourse that, though frankly disturbing at times, is so unique and productive. Look at how each board has its own culture and associated memes. Look at the depths of depravity but also the heights of sentiment expressed in these humble pages. A true bastion of free speech and expression. And there's no grandstanding or virtue signalling that is tolerated for long; the masses of anonymous faggots drown out and wash away the kind of snowflakery you see on social media sites. People just truly ARE here. It's exactlt how the internet should be.

When this place is gone, for someday it surely will be, I will feel more than a little sad. Just like the nostalgia I feel for the early days of my netizenship. This place is the only part of the internet anymore that feels like it has a soul, the last hold out of that Wild West cyberspace of yore.

[Anonymous No.8581297]

>>8578710
This is not inaccurate, but there is a value to providing literature recommendations that help others distract themselves from (or even, in the rare instance, overcome) their social ineptness.

Occasionally you get the odd useful or intellectually stimulating thread and discussion as well. Similar to a few other anons, I have (slightly) more money than sense, and wouldn't mind hosting an anonymous and censorship-free /lit/ equivalent elsewhere, but I doubt that very many here are actually likely to migrate to anything that isn't (sigh) reddit or (rolls eyes) 8-c-h-a-n.

[Anonymous No.8581340]

>>8581297
On the contrary, since this and sometimes /his/ are the only boards I browse, I wouldn't mind paying some small fee for a carbon copy of /lit/, but with maybe a touch less shitposting. Purely literature.

[FOXE !!2rslAUKg/1u No.8581352]

>>8576408
>more people on [s4s] than /k/
wtf
also how did /trash/ get so popular?

[Anonymous No.8581407]

>>8581340

I suppose I will play around with some imageboard set ups this weekend; I haven't hosted any before; the most I've done was host a forum system for about 150 users using vbulletin or something similar, but this was 5+ years ago. One can always start small and build up as demand dictates.

Honestly, I can't imagine the hosting and bandwith costs for something like /lit/ are enough to justify charging anyone anything, but I could be wrong.

[Anonymous No.8581421]

>>8576408
/vg/ is honestly redundant.

I'm also noticing that all the pornography is conspicuously absent from this chart, that would be a rather obvious culprit in terms of bandwidth usage.

[Anonymous No.8581434]

>>8581407
Yeah I don't think the bandwith would be much, but it would be nice for whoever is running the thing, who I assume would also be in charge of moderating it, to get a little something for their time and effort and.

[Anonymous No.8581453]

>>8581340
>unironically wanting less shitposting
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.8581464]

>>8581421
That chart is probably by unique users, not total bandwidth.

And take it from a /v/ browser, /v/ was total shit before /vg/, it's just a different kind of total shit now. /lit/ never had to suffer under the pure hellcancer that is general threads.

[Anonymous No.8581475]

>>8581464
>take it from a /v/ browser
>>>/reddit/

I post on /int/ though, so I do know what life is like under generals. I don't mind though.

[Anonymous No.8581554]

>>8581421
Porn boards are a LOT slower than you might think.

People are too busy fapping to post new content. And, sure, while the imagepost to textpost ratio is higher on them, there still just aren't that many posts on them. Period.

[Anonymous No.8581557]

>>8581554
Still eats up tons of bandwidth, text posts don't.

[Anonymous No.8581567]

>>8581557
Yes, but frequent text posts can eat up a ton of CPU usage, which can also impact speed.

[Anonymous No.8581636]

The philosophy threads are shit.

There's no good original poetry or fiction posted here.

If you don't have a literary life outside of /lit/ that is sufficient, then how low on the totem pole of crap are you?

Bantz is predictable here. It's just a comfy safe place, yet the level of dialogue cannot hold one's interest—not one who is actually well-versed in the field of literature.

Occasionally there are bright spots, where like-minded actual literary minds meet and discuss ideas and concepts from literary fiction. However, this is a 1% chance occurrence.

To end this board would mean an end to 99% of sifting through crap.

I keep clicking on this bookmark out of habit, as I used to have more wonderful conversations, back and forths that were meaningful and smart.

Each time I see 99% of threads are trying to be cutesy and have the appeal of a pitiful brat. It's boring. I want to shitpost to commit mental violence to each of you, so you suffer as I do to your incompetence. Sometimes I do, but lately I stop midway of a mean, contradictory troll post in an attempt to trigger someone and tell myself that I don't really care.

That's how bad it's gotten. I used to care and try.

Anyway, the idea of this board being lost forever is like garbage being swept away: It sounds good.

tl;dr fuck you read it

[Anonymous No.8581654]

>>8581352
>how did /trash/ get so popular
It's the place where true perverts can be left alone. There are a lot of perverts.

[Anonymous No.8581656]

>>8581636

Looks like you cared again, anon, if only for a brief moment. Welcome back.

[Anonymous No.8581662]

>>8581567
Well, that doesn't really cost money afaik, which is the real issue here.

[Anonymous No.8581665]

>>8581636
So anyway, how many dicks did you suck today anon

[Anonymous No.8581683]

>>8581665
Just your mom's.

[Anonymous No.8581694]

>>8581683
>this is ACTUALLY the best banter a self-proclaimed literary genius can come up with

[Anonymous No.8581695]

>>8581694
Damn, stepped right into that one.

[Anonymous No.8582292]

The way it mixed good fun and vulgarity with legitimate discussion of intellectual and literary topics. I can honestly say that I was directed towards several texts and philosophies that I would not have other wise found through this board. If this is the end, I want to give my thanks. I hope all of you get the best of luck.

[Anonymous No.8582363]

>>8576043
So which board do we invade and demand a /lit/ general in? I vote /fit/

[Anonymous No.8582443]

>>8581554
/gif/ allows webms with sound. which is great, but that's a ton of bandwidth. there was a different chart in the /qa/ thread and the big offenders were /b/, /pol/, /gif/ and the other porn boards and the wallpaper boards with the giant file sizes. probably /v/, too, but the point is the less-trafficked boards with big file sizes were closer to the "big" well-known boards in terms of bandwidth.

[Anonymous No.8582468]

>>8578253
Did this actually happen?

[Anonymous No.8582569]

>>8582363
As we speak, my network of pseudo-intellectuals is setting the stage for embassies all across 4chan

[Anonymous No.8582625]

>>8581453
I have 52 threads hidden at the moment, and I'd guess about 30 are dumb frogposters.

[Anonymous No.8583111]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zYn-HHcyA

[Anonymous No.8583129]

/lit/ will always be home to me.

We need a code word or a search phrase to find whatever life raft we lash together down the line. I doubt we'll have a nice forewarning before things actually change.

[Anonymous No.8583464]

>>8576157
Oh shit I never thought I'd actually see something I learned from my BM course in real life

[Anonymous No.8583491]

4chan as a whole is too big anyways. It's a pop-culture 'thing' now. The average (read:stupid) person will flock here relentlessly until it's no longer a thing. There is better discussion on smaller chans and subreddits - with less trolls and people who are only there because they found the link on a popular site and want to troll.

It's time to move on.

[Anonymous No.8583513]

>>8576917
This. Guys, what if we need to jump ship?

[Anonymous No.8583517]

>>8582468
he said it's why he stopped hating gets in his last q&a because he got one here. i have my suspicions he's been stealing all the big ones ever since to fuck with us.

[Anonymous No.8583542]

>>8576043

should drastically cut image size

[Anonymous No.8583548]

>>8576253
Yeah holy shit man. Its really weird to me that 4chan has taken such a hard right swing. Used to be very liberal.

I miss it. People wouldn't obnoxiously insert politics into every post.

[Anonymous No.8583701]

>>8583491
>It's time to move on.
p-pure ideology ; ;

[Anonymous No.8584036]

>>8577945
Gaiman obviously wasn't talking about literature from decades or centuries ago. He's talking about modern lit, in our society that strives for genuine equality.

Nobody wants you to pretend Roskolnikov is black. Gaiman is just pointing out that its evident of deeper issues that when we default to characters being white when we read books written in the past few years.

[Anonymous No.8584061]

>go onto 4chan after reading this thread in the morning
>can't find /lit/
>holy shit have they deleted it since this morning
>fucking die
>turns out they've moved it to the "creative" section out of the "other" section
Swear I nearly had a panic attack. Didn't think I'd mind /lit/ being deleted but now I know how much I need you cunts.

[Anonymous No.8584081]

>>8584061
your cute

[Anonymous No.8584095]

>>8584061
>using the front page
What the fuck is your goddamn problem?

[Anonymous No.8584116]

>>8584081
ty you too

>>8584095
why dont we use the front page?

[Anonymous No.8584132]

>>8584116
think of all the books you could have read in the time it takes to go through the front page

[Anonymous No.8584159]

>>8584116
>using the front page

I know this isn't /g/ but come on.

[Anonymous No.8584190]

>>8576503
holy shit kek

[Anonymous No.8584200]

>>8584159
Genuinely how would you get here if you don't use the front page? Is there a shortcut?

[Anonymous No.8584210]

>>8584200
Dude, you can just type like whatever URL you want. Directly. 4chan.org/lit. Totally spaced out.

[Anonymous No.8584221]

>>8584210
fuck that trek do i look like a scientist to you

The front page is nice and clean and easy, none of this url voodoo

[Anonymous No.8584237]

>>8584200

[Anonymous No.8584259]

>>8584237
Do you want to have to explain that you browse this shithole, whenever someone sees your bookmarks?

Are you not even a little ashamed of hanging out on a siamese ex-castle-builders support group?

[Anonymous No.8584271]

>>8584259
>whenever someone sees your bookmarks?
>showing other people your bookmarks
lewd t.b.h.

[Anonymous No.8584273]

>>8584259
It's my home computer, no one gives a shit.

[Anonymous No.8584275]

>>8584259
If someone judged the sites I go to id tell them to get off my computer

[Anonymous No.8584277]

its been a good one, thanks for the recommendations and DFW memes, and for making me buy infinte jest which i still have not opened.

[Anonymous No.8584279]

>>8584259
>letting other people use your computer
you get what you deserve

[Anonymous No.8584291]

>>8584279
so when you got folk round your place, d'you literally tell them "this is my computer, its my private safe place you cant come anywhere near it please shut your eyes"

fascinating my man

[Anonymous No.8584318]

>>8584291
Polite guests just won't mess with your computer.

[Anonymous No.8584327]

>>8584318
So if you invited me to your house and i start messing with your computer pressin buttons and shit

would you like fuck me up?

[Anonymous No.8584380]

>>8578743
>just fine

[Anonymous No.8584387]

>>8584327
Have you ever interacted with another human being? If someone did that I would bite my tongue and think them rude, and if they started looking into my history and questioning my bookmarks I'd say "excuse me" and close my laptop.

[Anonymous No.8584391]

>>8578025
>[Citation needed]

[Anonymous No.8584401]

>>8584387
nigga, its a simple question

I'm at your house, violating your rules

Buttons are pressed, I'm taking pictures of your history

You ask me to stop, but I'm keeping on

Are you gonna bite your tongue

or square up? Would you fuck me up man?

[Anonymous No.8584409]

>>8584391
If it steals wikipedia memes then it is definitely shit.

[Anonymous No.8584417]

>>8584401
At this point I'd call the police. Animal degenerates get into fights.

[Anonymous No.8584425]

>>8584417
damn man

that's cold

[Anonymous No.8584475]

This place was really valuable to me when I was younger. My interest in literature was originally unrefined and moving in every direction, but this board really got the ball rolling for me in a significant way.
Alot of the patrician snobbery was something I had to unlearn, but without it I couldn't say that I would've gotten this far in life or even in University if I didn't have this anchor in my life.
Thanks guys. It was an amazing ride.

[Anonymous No.8584512]

>>8576816
Beautiful

[Anonymous No.8584516]

>>8584409
/lit/ steals wikipedia memes

[Anonymous No.8584672]

>>8576157
What a memester, am I rite xD?

[Anonymous No.8584740]

>>8583517
>>he said it's why he stopped hating gets in his last q&a because he got one here

I remember that. he came to post something and hit quints. that was early days.

this was a cool board. I doubt it'll get the axe since it uses no bandwidth, but 4chan itself might die or implode.

I can't really imagine not checking in here daily anymore, but I might actually read more books if 4chan is kill. I dunno how I'm gonna discuss them anywhere else if I can't call out plebs for their faggoty opinions, though.