I really don't know what board to post this on, but if there's one big thing I noticed shift in the culture of this entire website over the years it's just how much more narcissistic users have become.(for context I am 30 years old.....)People used to come here to get a (fake) sense of community. It still exists in certain places, but the actual interaction between people has shifted so much into the realm of self-centeredness it's hard to even see how it's ever been any different.Like even the arguments aren't really arguments anymore. "I am better than you" has become THE default position everyone seems to be going for. Internet fights were always kinda stupid and pointless and nobody's ever changed anyone's mind, but at least people used to argue things on their own merits.It'd go>X is shit!!!>no it's not!!!!!!>here's why X is shit!!!!!> >implyingIf things went to ad hominem (and they always did lol), it was a sort of "tactic of last resort" when both sides have given up.Now it's different, personal attacks are the starting position, despite this being an ANONYMOUS website lol. And they're not even personal attacks as much as they are attempts to show how much better the attacker is.>anyone who thinks X is good is a low IQ moron>the real retards are those who can't enjoy X>I am actually better than the X-enjoying degens, I've consumed Y and Z, too>you are clearly just not as smart as I amI don't really know what to say about it. Just an observation.
>>82990577yeah maybe the intelectual discouse is getting in lower quality?im not sure. i dont like how every post accuses me of being a jeet or a tranny or black or somethingidk whats up with that to be quite honest
>>82990577this is /v/'s fault somehow
I assume the core difference is that oldfags weren't born with a smartphone in hand so they didn't grow up becoming paralyzingly insecure through constant social media exposure and weren't obsessed with fitting in by being an ironic shitposter, whereas the current gen newfags will jump on literally any bandwagon because they just don't know any better thanks to their tiktok reel-tier childhood.
>>82990593Black tranny jeet hands typed this post>>82990577Yeah but I am better than you and you kinda smell like ass, so
>>82990593The indian/tranny (and jew, libtard, tourist, redditor, /b/tard etc. etc.) accusations are older, but at least(?) they were an attempt to establish the attacker as part of the in-group and the attacked as part of an out-group. Part of the "sense of community" stuff. What I'm saying is that even THAT is taking a backseat to really very personal attacks and attempts at self-aggrandization.If ~10-15 years ago it was>I am right and you are wrong because [list of arguments]5-10 years ago it was>I am right and you are wrong because I am part of the in-group and you are a dangerous outsiderNow it's just>I am right and you are wrong because I am ME and you are WORSE than me
>>82990577Zoomers, jeets, niggers, other esl etc. We're living through a Idiocracy dystopia get used to everything getting worse all the time until you die. It's going to be 70s more years of this dogshit anon. They're like toddlers that only know their own ego and everything and everybody else is just a feedback loop for themselves.
>>82990577Delusional grandpa (same age as me) trying to argue that "discussions" on this website have ever been anything but retards and children flinging shit at each other. Why are we still here?
>>82990627>>I am right and you are wrong because I am ME and you are WORSE than meyup... me think based
