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>tfw cats are inadvertently more creative

I feel like Gamergate, specifically Zoe Quinn, caused all of this, but that would feel off.

>>25317
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
It's an everlasting condition. My first ISP came with a USENET node. You might not have had the internet prior to the WWW taking over.

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Personally, I always stop posting on boards where janitors allow pedo/fag crap or they censor informations (not opinions) they don't like to hear. I don't know how many other anons do the same.
Then there is the massive divide and conquer psyop going on. For example, if somebody talks about women, it's easy to start debating whether the incels are right or not; if it's vaccines, there is always somebody that says viruses don't even exist; or it's chemtrails; the NWO cabal; whatever. Nobody wants to cede positions, so everybody gets tired of discussing anything and everything becomes echo chambers.
You can try the comfy boards, but it's not easy to put your mind into that when everything is a crysis and also everything has to be a dopamine rush.
Add to that the preference that zoomers seems to have for my mother's fax machine, telegram and whatnot.
Also, I used to participate in "community projects", share code, do some graphics, et cetera, but I don't anymore: too many normies. Fuck normies.
So, that.

The cultural issue is pretty simple: A bunch of young Trumpites got the idea that you should always take the opposite position from common sense and long accepted fact (and be an angry retard about it). They turned skepticism and non-conformity into an empty and predictable joke, and now the cultural interest in them has died.

Note that some of them are doing this in a cheeky gas-lighting manner (making ridiculously contrarian statements to get a rise out of people), but a lot of them believe their own bullshit and genuinely think that if anyone resembling a mainstream liberal makes a statement, the facts of reality will reflect the polar opposite of that statement.

>>25321
If by "young" you mean under sixty, then yes. Because alot of thoserabid tru posts have been out of high school for a couple decades.
But, you're right about post-boomer rightism being helluva lot more abysmal than their boomer counterparts.

>>25323
Boomers do it too but their version of it doesn't have a lot of relevance to imageboards and similar websites.

>>25321
Honestly more of a relief that you guys are actually not perpetuating the same way.

>>25321
The trick to it is to point out the fact, not opinion, that overcommitting doesn't convince the other person.

>>25327
I'm not even talking about how far they go with it, it can be pretty casual and detached, I'm talking about the opinions themselves. The two examples I have in the front of my brain are one guy on 4chan trying to argue that Emmett Till's murderers were doing it for valid reasons (I don't mean "him being black is a valid reason", like actually trying to appeal to normal justifications), and another trying to say that the 1950's were actually a really hard economic time (due to one puny recession they had) and we should thus feel sorry for the poor little boomers and check our privilege. I'll also throw out the more obvious and also more controversial one: weed. It's pretty much universally understood now that weed is not that big of a deal and the arguable issues are pretty subtle, but a lot of them are trying to adopt a 'Refeer Madness'-tier reactionary view on it.

>>25328
From years of living with a second hand obsessive it's literally nothing to do with opinion, it's all about the idea that they could take a belief and run roughshod over others with it. It's like a power thing.

>>25329
There is a lot of crossover but we're largely talking about different things. You're talking about a personality disorder, I'm talking about a political notion that just happens to attract a lot of people with that personality disorder.

>>25331
>>25329
Yea most postpubescent experiences nowadays are just nabbed from articles and memes.
Generation gaps are mostly artificial now.

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>>25340

>most postpubescent experiences nowadays are just nabbed from articles and memes

Not necessarily. I know a lot of folks IRL, and if I told them about any of the shit we've discussed here, they wouldn't know any of it. "Internet culture" and its supposed effects on real life are VERY overrated.

>>25367
>I know a lot of folks IRL
The more you say this, the less we believe you. It might be worth it if it makes you believe it more yourself, but you must understand this.

>>25368

>The more you say this, the less we believe you.

The problem is that you're so interested in maintaining this mystique of being above it all that anything that conflicts with your chosen narrative is translated into "gotcha's" like that one, and it might be worth it if it makes you believe it more yourself, but you must understand this. It's just like the OP said:

>No more fun without people going on about how shit their lives are and perpetuating a culture of defeatism and hopelessness, drowning themselves in porn and distractions to detract from how they truly feel.

I'm sorry YOU don't know people IRL, but that doesn't mean the rest of us don't.

>>25369
I actually do know lots of people IRL, and in a close and real way rather than your cringey stories about 'volunteering' with some high schoolers. If you had real friends rather than superficial acquaintances, you'd know that just about everyone under the age of 40 is pretty knowledgeable about internet culture and it's really just a matter of what kind, for a lot of them it's going to be Tiktok or Tumblr. Young people with some sense are slow to admit to having frequented places like 4chan but it's really common, you just have to build some trust with them before they open up about it. I've been blown away by how many people in my essentially normie occupation get the same obscure (I thought) references as me.

>>25370

>I actually do know lots of people IRL, and in a close and real way rather than your cringey stories about 'volunteering' with some high schoolers.
>If you had real friends rather than superficial acquaintances

Sorry that actually being a functioning human being and giving back to my community, volunteering with folks of all ages, is "cringey" to you. How do you suggest I improve my stories? Talk about all the niggers, kikes, foids, etc I count among my friends and how they're out to destroy the West or some shit? The fact you need to assume I don't have real friends reeks of projection. No one who unironically uses a word like normie has friends. It's okay, bro. I'm not gonna cancel you. I'm sure your folks could cancel the nine months and eighteen years and thousands of dollars they spent on ya, though.

>>25372
Apparently you don't have enough common sense to get this but volunteering is infamously an activity done by a certain subsection of people who have a strong element of 'fakeness'. Not all, but most of them are doing it to be seen doing it, and have the same "this will show everyone how valuable and well-adjusted I am!" motivation you do. I can just about guarantee you aren't making real friends you can regularly meet up with for fun activities and open up to about your own weirdness, you're dealing with them only in their most guarded and veiled state.

I also brought it up to remind you what a recognizable poster you are, you just desperately try to convince yourself you're more normal than other people here and you use the same random and schizo-tier appeals every time you do it (like mentioning kiwifarms for no reason). This desire to sell out everyone you deem to be slightly below you, now that you think you've grown out of internet culture, will make you very hard to befriend, even if one of these people actually wanted to. You just can't make friends with this kind of venom inside you, you'll end up saying something demeaning the second they show vulnerability.

>>25374
All jews are satanic pedophile child molesters

>>25384
even children themselves?

>>25384
so whacky and random xd have an upvote

>>25385
Typically, although according to jewish custom they aren't really expected to have reached the age of making their own decisions until the bar or bat mitzvah. So I'd give them until then to rebuke judasim, since as children they were brutalized to train them into repeating the cycle of evil.

>>25388
This is why I question the principles of innocence and free will. How can Abrahamic religions brazenly talk about free will if one cannot choose their natal circumstances let alone gain full physical and psychological control of their being immediately at birth?

And how can innocence be a virtue when it renders you vulnerable to rape, slavery, and patronization?

>>25390
I'm no deep theologan, but being case out of the garden of eden by having eaten the forbidden fruit of tree of the knowledge of good and evil would seem to be a metaphor for the loss of innocence. So I would not equate the state of madkind with one of innocence, even if our physical bodies are take time to learn and grow from a fertilized egg into something expected to have an adult capacity for reason.

You can call that all a dodge and prefer to there's no such thing as free will. But to me your questions seem a bit moot if I take free will axiomatically on faith. I mean, everybody's vulnerable to rape and slavery and everything anyway, however "incocent" or "not inocent" a person is. One would merely hope that the process of being carried, birthed, and raised into adulthood would result in at least a starting point for being able to take care of onesself, even if learning and developing continue for the rest of a lifetime.

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>>25374

Does obvious shitposting done for a laugh bother you so much that you feel the need to post all that?

>>25392
Our modern society is actively trying to diminish the potential of the young with "muh innocence ".

The entry age of adulthood has gone up thanks to Romanticist policies which results in fucked up adults.

>>25406
That's true. But the longer I spend time around different places, the more I encounter people who got married and have children, or even just nice places to live. It's not at all impossible to set an example. Never know who might notice or whom might learn from you.

>>25409
There really aren't that many people on the south side of 25 who have real upper middle class lifestyles, unless they are just directly paid by their parents.

>>25411
Why would anybody under 25 be one step down from upper class short of having some combination of a nice big leg up from being born in to something or happening to be clever/lucky enough to have made it big by that point?

>>25409
Its not gonna be Anglo countries though.
Maybe more Latino/Caribbean countries.

>>25416
You just say random words.

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>>25418

>>25416
You know, a few decades ago you could finish your masters degree and immediately make $100k + as an engineer. My ex-fiance's father got a computer science degree in 1975 and made $90k as his first job.

It's because society has changed from when you first started using them 15+ years ago

Bro m00t would straight up have not even allowed most of the /pol/ discussions.

Honestly if you aren't a racist why don't you go preach at a fucking day care? Tranny nigger drag hour might let you even fuck their kids

Fuck you

>>25430
m00t literally reinstalled /pol/ and left it there.

>>25439
X to doubt

He sold the place, likely because of /pol

>>25452
I'm pretty sure he sold the place cause he was having a hard time keeping up because money.
I also remember reading that he sold it to hiro because he hoped hiro would make 4chan weird again.

>>25459
No, he sold it because the legal threats over things like, uh, the happening of the fap variety, were getting too much for him. At least that was one of the main reasons. I'm sure the 8 hour Q&A is still up somewhere.

Funny how bringing it up still gives you an autoban.

>>25483
>fap stuff

That actually makes a lot of sense too

>>25490
Acccording to girlvinyl that's about why she decided to ditch ED eventually. Just too much constant legal hassle. I always wondered why my check for $1234.56 never got cashed until she did some Q&A thing or whatever at some con and explained why ED was gone. Odd concidence of timing, that.