/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

I've been terminally online since the nineties.

I mean, I'm /here/ aren't I?

>oishi

the internet is pretty much my life since the early 2010s

>>43506311
i feel attacked >:(

What counts as terminally online? Is just being online a lot all it means? Or is it about not being able to get offline?

If it's the first then I would probably qualify because I'm on a computer all day for work, so I spend most of it browsing around. Then when I get home I'm usually watching v-tubers, so I'm still online.

If it is the second one then I don't think so because I have no issue stepping away for a while. Just recently I unintentionally went 3 days without getting online because I was just doing other things like reading books. If I felt the need I could force myself offline for a while without issue.

What even is terminally online, I haven't actually seen it defined anywhere

I remember a phase in the mid 2010s where tons of people started admitting they thought of online interaction as the same as real life and could not separate the two. In particular I remember reading about a rage addict who had to quit the internet cold turkey for her own good after she got into too many fights online

>>43506719
It's not literal, it's about perspective. The "terminally online" have warped, extreme views and attitudes because they can't and don't interact civilly with people different than them.

>>43506311
>attacks /vt/ and Twitter in one sentence
Dare I say, based?

>>43506719
>What counts as terminally online? Is just being online a lot all it means? Or is it about not being able to get offline?
I would say it usually gets applied to trannies whose entire life is on the internet because they can't face themselves in the mirror and retreat to their profile pic of an anime avatar.

Technically tranny vtubers could be an extension of that but all the trannies except zentreya and shartemis seem to be 'pre debut' and never actually debut. So they will never be a woman or a vtuber lmao.

But in a broader sense I would also consider people terminally online if they exhibit weird tendencies. Not "3DPD my waifu is anime" but people who aggressively shill for fake religions like asatru, oblivious to the fact that it doesn't exist off the internet. Basically they can't differentiate "we are strong because we have a whole discord full of weirdos like me" from the fact most people in real life are normally normal going about their lives and don't think like them.

Or people on /fit/ who spam stupid shit like "if you're under 6 foot you're never going to have sex and should kill yourself" when people are trying to discuss deadlifts. Just weird incel lookist shit that ignores most people in real life aren't chad gigacock and still get laid normally just being normalfags.

If you're online and take it srs bzns, it will warp your brain and make you believe things that aren't rooted in data or reality and you'll come out a weird person.

>>43506845
From what I've seen, it's when you wake up, use the computer/smartphone, only get away to use the bathroom or eat, and then continue using the internet until you go to sleep. Then repeat. Moreso for NEETs rather than people who actually have jobs that are exclusively through the computer.

>>43507117
>I would say it usually gets applied to trannies whose entire life is on the internet because they can't face themselves in the mirror and retreat to their profile pic of an anime avatar.
I feel like this is something that is not exclusive to transgenders....

>>43506311
>supports homophobic game
based

>>43506418
>implying your oshi isn't delicious

>>43507913
>says she supports it bc was made by trannies
>says she likes the transgender character
Unbased.

>>43508166
it's called saving face

>>43508223
Even less based, then.

>>43506311
I've been addicted to the internet since the age of 12.

>>43506311
i am one of those unfortunately.

>>43506719
>>43506845
You seen the schizos on this website? Those are terminally online.

>>43506311
>You love your oishi, don't you?
Ew, no.

>>43506845
when most of your life or free time is spent online. it includes most vtubers but it's an insult generally directed at men so it doesn't bother them

>>43506719
it's what millenials call zoomers

>>43508013
my oshi would taste like mold, but im not complaining

>>43506311
Anyone alive in 2023 is terminally online. Whether you love it or hate it, the internet is everywhere unless you're some hick living in the sticks in Minnesota.

>>43514158
Most people above 40 are not terminally online, it's mostly zoomers.

>>43506311
I am terminally online but not a troon nor do I have a Twitter account. I have to go on Nitter everytime someone links me a NSFW Twitter post. I think I never harassed any VTuber in their chats because I mostly don't even type. Troons are giving terminally online freaks like me a bad name!

>>43506719
I think terminally online in this context would mean having all of your views dictated by things you read online.

>>43506863
Yeah, when someone starts exhibiting cult-like behavior, they're probably terminally online.

>>43506311
Termi- what?

>>43515647
Anon, boomers are so terminally online that they worked themselves into an schizophrenic shoot to ransack the Capitol. All because of Facebook!

>>43506311
faggot what rock have you been sleeping under this whole time? everyone is terminally online nowadays

>>43506311
My job is a computer desk job
I then go home and play videogames
So yes im terminally online

But at my job they have an auto-blocker to stop people from using social media
For some reason reddit is not blocked
There is nothing, and i mean NOTHING worse than reddit and reddit mods
Imagine the worst political take on literally any subject, there is a 9999 upvoted 5 award post with a take worse than that

Saw one on the harry potter that was literally "people would rather re-live their 6 year old racist childhood than protect trans women", most upvoted comment
Sometimes reddit makes me feel like actually doing my job again cuz its less painful lmao

>>43506311
I always thought I was terminally online but I joined a DnD group with some people at my school and holy shit, I seem like a Luddite compared to them

>>43521352
spoken like a true nijitranny

>>43507868
NTA, but yeah, I have to agree, that whole thing read like "Everything other than what I do falls under terminally online" In truth, if someone is /here/ there is a damn good chance they are terminally online. Myself included ofc.

>>43507636
Just don't let people know you're a phone poster

>>43508166
It's pure pr, she only talks about what makes her look good and not what she truly believes

>>43507913
>Homophobic game
>Can be a dick girl or a holeboy
>Diverse cast from all over the world in the fucking 1800's

Those conservative fucks have gone too far

>>43528333
Uh huh, sure it is.

>>43529080
you have no value as person

>>43507117
It’s anyone who you can tell doesn’t have many life experiences besides social media

>>43515647
It’s almost exclusively boomers and zoomers and the rare millennial
Facebook honestly might be worse for the brain than twitter

You do have to wonder what her actual views are

>>43506311
Who?

>>43506366
same. nowadays I’m 2 monitor + phone + Chromebook + small ass smarttv all in one spot
>>43506311
I got hard when she said this

>>43506311
Anon, I'm depressed and struggling with suicidal ideation. I'm so deep in the dump that I can't even bother to watch my oshi anymore. I just stay at home and watch old Asmongold streams as I shit talk VTubers that I don't even know on here.

>>43529080
no they dont

>>43506311
What are you guys doing when not online? I chopped wood.

>>43506311
Is there anything else out there? No.
You better never have any hand in any aspect of the great decay and even with every hand against it you've no chance of dodging this fallout.

>>43506311
I sometimes go several days without using the internet. Usually when I find something interesting to do that lasts me several days.

>>43506719
You know those automatons who replace all their thoughts with strings of /pol/ memespeak that infest virtually every board on 4ch? That's a prime example of it. Some people just completely lose themselves to the internet.

>>43506311
In terms of spending most of my time on the internet, yeah, starting in the early 2000s, though I can switch off and do touch grass every now and then. In terms of building my identity around and forming my worldview based on social media, or participating in self-righteous online mobs, nah. I have a twitter account so I can access mature-tagged artwork by artists on twitter, but I never join public online discussion outside 4chan.

I come to /vt/ because I've been on this website forever, and found multiple aspects of vtubing interesting, from the tech to the talent. I mainly seek out coherent, informative discussion, as rare as it is here. I don't need a fix for an outrage addiction, I consider rrats and gossip beneath me, and I think this unhinged schizo meme larp you guys value so much should've died about as soon as it arose. It really stinks of that whole tumblr-brand glorification of mental illness that fucked up so many millennials' and early zoomers' heads.

/vt/ catalog is twitter-levels of shit and I prefer to stay away, but it's surprisingly easy to end up here on a habit when you frequent several other boards. The generals tend to be at least tolerable and conversational.

>>43506311
Why is there even an off button on the PC. Who uses that?

>>43536737
Play drums and guitar, draw, read books. Go cycling when the weather allows it. In the summer I grab my ebook reader on longer cycling trips out of town, find a cozy spot to sit down and read away for hours.

I'm never online when I'm on the move, my smartphone stays in the pocket. I don't like using the browser on it, anyway. Calls and SMS only.

>>43539064
kys troon

>>43536737
work a job (which is ironically enabling people to be terminally online), hanging out with friends and roller skating on the weekends while high on weed. unironically peak life.

>>43545689
Haven't been on a rollercoaster in forever. The theme park near me as a kid had almost all wooden coasters and they'd throw you around like a ragdoll

>>43539816
> I have a twitter account so I can access mature-tagged artwork by artists on twitter
Isn't that what Nitter is for?

>>43545846
ok, what is your point exactly? that i'm physically weak?

>>43536737
Work and go to the gyms.

>>43528333
Chuds are the only people on this planet more delusional than troons