do you have a brother or any family members close to you who act openly edgy and use 4chan terms while shooting the shit? Do they use 4chan themselves or know that you browse? Or do you hide your power level?I always thought it would be cool to make /v/ references or call something kino and my brother joining in. I find the word annoying but I miss when we would pick up on random shit and then reference it two weeks later and still know what the other person is talking about without directly acknowledging it. We were just in sync in a sort of autistic way. Although, we don't really have anything in common anymore and it feels like people get less edgy with age. A part of me hates the idea of growing up because growing up really just means becoming well-adjusted to people who judge you and everything they do is just theatrics. I also hate algorithm-speak like "that's a vibe" or "it was just a ____ kind of day" or other dumb phrases real human beings don't say and have no substance beyond signalling to other NPCs that you're in on the new algorithmslop
>I also hate algorithm-speak like "that's a vibe" or "it was just a ____ kind of day" or other dumb phrases real human beings don't say and have no substance beyond signalling to other NPCs that you're in on the new algorithmslopyou do exactly the same shit, just with chan lingo.
Please, nephew. Use your enter key occasionally.My family knows that I use 4chan and have for most of my life, but I don't spout catchphrases from here irl.Kek and kino and the like have always struck me as pretty forced memes, anyways.
>>34012027picking up things organically through osmosis is not the same as parroting something without knowing what it means or references.One requires actual observation of one's surroundings and the other is driven by a shallow need to be recognized by others and requires little knowledge and provides nothing to the discourse of that group.The thing I like about 4chan is that it provides a unique form of communication through its image-based format that appeals to a sort of autistic style of humor that I relate to. Even as a kid, I would speak in greentext years before I came here and would subconsciously pick up on certain quotes or whatever from media that I would reference with my bro and he would actually know what I was referencing just from the inflection and join in on it as if we were sharing reaction images irl. That and the fact that boards are split by dedicated hobbies and interests and threads provide broad discussion of these topics without a concrete end goal give the site a sense of culture like no other while being anonymous and carefree. And, yes, a lot of memes just get taken by twitter like calling turnbased rpgs "4 niggas in a row games", but there are other things you would not be able to understand unless you lurked long enough in those dedicated threads within certain boards. The nature of this site and the certain kind of individual it attracts cultivates a culture that delves beyond surface-level references and is attuned to the autist who doesn't deal in merely knowing but aims to understand something to such a degree that he cannot be satisfied by the posturing and signalling that normies engage in.TLDR: shitposting is a superior form of humor that requires others to actually share solid understanding of something's history and/or mechanics but is deemed immature by normies who think talking like a quirk chungus as a form of posturing is funny just because other people recognize the demeanor but are not actually attuned to it
