just discovered a prominent namefag from a board that i frequent is a 40+ yo dude.looks very different from his imagepostings.anyways, where do i find my age group.i think i need to leave 4chan.though i barely come here. also>haven't socialized at all since high school>didn't have a phone until gr11 or something>so don't have any social media really >haven't talked to another human being besides my sibling and parents.>but haven't been lonely at all.am i antisocial? why have i never felt the need to make a friend? i was totally fine.and why now am i a little uncomfortable of being alone all the sudden?not looking for friends or anything butfeels weird now knowing i've been talking to bunch of old dudes.since 4chan is the only social platform i use wondering if i feel old lacking youthful energy because im surrounded by oldfags.
>>34720833best to surmise is like i feel like im missing all excitement and vitality. that feel is maximized when i stumble upon a short highlight from a streamer hanging out with his bros doing fun wacky shits.
>>34720833Yes, 4chan is mostly people in their 30s and 40s, who were in their teenage years when the site was new and stuck around because there's nowhere else like it. Getting people in here who were much younger has actually been a bit of a cancer, really, but you can usually tell who they are because they don't really fit any of the board cultures.>Am I antisocial?Not really. That's the way it works everywhere - the friends you make when you're in school are the only real friends you ever make, and they continually dwindle as you get older. Post-retirement-age folks can sometimes make new friends because at that point it just doesn't matter as much who you trust since you're already on the way out, but society is more polarized and hateful today than it ever has been. People have minority fatigue, stranger fatigue, politics fatigue, and we're all in constant competition for dwindling pay, opportunities and nice places to live. The way people react to all that is by becoming more insular as they get older, and places like this are where people go to vent and discuss. But no, you're not particularly anti-social or weird, just feeling the same isolation most people do as they get older and their friends start to dwindle away.
Half oldfags, half 19yo troons desu
>>34720833>Is 4chan mostly 40+ year old dudes?Mostly?, Nah but this board has no shortage of oldfags, as it should be.
>>34720833I'm not 40... yet
>>34720858but is it normal to not bother touching grass at all for years and years and never hanging out with anyone and not even an acquaintance? like i did not even suffer loneliness for not having any gf.but god damn streamers and their bros doing fun shits make me feel the void.>>34720991why are there so many trans on 4chan?it's predominantly very right wing platforms.but so many are into either children or fembois.or are fembois or trans.>>34721057that's why im asking where i can find mostly my age group.>>34721065me... neither.but time goes so quick.i swear we are in an alt-timeline where timegoes 1.5~1.7x faster. fuck CERN.
>>34721168>Is it normal to not bother touching... for years?Yeah. There are books that go all the way back past Lord Byron on weird cat ladies and spinster aunts. I believe Themistocles was one of the first surviving sources to write about the underclass in Athens, the people who had no family and no friends and just lived as a permanent fixture with nowhere forward and nowhere back. That source is so old as to be from Athens while it was still just a nation-state, and Greece wasn't even a nation yet. People have struggled with this forever - some people are beautiful and some ugly, some people are social and some introverted, some tall and some short. Its part of the human condition that some people are born lucky and some have to figure out how to cope.>Why are there so many trans? Its predominantly a right-wing...Its predominantly contrarian. Whatever the norm is, 4chan tends to have a place for the crazy bastards that disagree. Originally this was largely right-wing because classical liberalism was still riding high in the aughts and new wave liberalism is riding high now. But now we have all of these other new ideas challenging what's normal about people, like /mlp/ and /lgbt/, and they've congregated here for the same reason that the /b/ people congregated here. Because whatever agencies are watching this place are content to let it remain as it is and just quietly watch what we say instead of trying to restrict speech, which effectively means you're free to speak here. Not necessarily free of consequences, but it generally holds. Trans is here because they're treated as degenerate weirdos by one side and outright lied to by the other, and they prefer their hugbox to either side. 4chan, being contrarian in nature, allowed the hugbox to exist here, largely as a containment zone to keep them from shitting up other boards with their faggotry.>Where I can mostly find my age groupRealistically? Mostly social media. Some here, in the niche boards.
>>34721227ngl you should do a podcast.would listen to your rants and ramblings.
>>34721256Well, I just hope it helps to know that your struggle is shared by the rest of your fellow human beans. Everyone alive understands what you're going through on some level, because we all struggle with it. Usually the answer is just to figure out what you love and do it the best you can, in the absence of life being magically fair. We're all pulling for you fren. Hang in there.>Would listen to your rants and ramblingsI'm not exactly sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I appreciate it. I don't post very much but I try to have something to say when I bother.
>>34721302i think you could have it growing.i don't know. just my random intuition.well give it a try if you'd like.maybe you already have a stable source of income so you don't want to.and thanksbut only thing i'd love to do is to topple the worldor a portion of the world and set up my own system.thus i am where i am.maybe you should neck me instead. lol
>>34721168>why are there so many trans on 4chan?autism.
>>34721470genuine question,what's autism got to do with trans?it's often blamed for it.
I'm in my 40s and no, we are a small minority but we exist. Mainly we are oldfags who still hang around since like the other guy said, there is really nothing quite like this elsewhere. And we all like tits.
>>34720833no obviously not. this site wouldn't be so obsessed with looks and dating and virgins. zoomer pathology is by far the biggest driver of discussion here
>>34720833We're all oldfags and underages here, welcome.
>>34720833im 21 and made a few friends here. you could consider them wisened mentors in your life that will lead you great places. and i would even recommend using /soc/ to find young people thats a great place
Has anyone seen that video of the flying lawnmower
>>34724989im not sure if /soc/ is for young people.it looks like a containment for depraved 36+ mendesperately looking for sex.full of porn, penis, buttholes and stalkers.
>>34724989>>34725156/soc/ is nothing but faggots, troons, and desperate gooners.
>>34720833I am 42 and none of my hopes and dreams materialized.42 years wasted away with nothing to show for. The few things that I had in life I lost them the past few years. My health is deteriorating, my youth is gone, my friends abandoned, my energy is depleted, my motivation is absent, my savings evaporated. There is nothing left now, just the emptiness remains.
>>34720833/adv/ and /r9k/ lean older than other boards, and they're basically just used for people to stew in their own misery anyway. recommend you go on /v/, /a/, /ic/ or other interest boards if you want to have any chance of interesting conversations here.
on this, though:>since 4chan is the only social platform i use wondering if i feel old lacking youthful energy because im surrounded by oldfagsthis was already the case a decade ago, and I think it has more to do with the type of person who ends up here than with age.
>>34725542kek are you me
>>34720833I’m -25 and I feel more like a spectator than anything (though i do post sometimes, not a lot) I stopped taking this place seriously a while ago I think and it’s actually starting to bore me a bit but I never really thought about ages the way you’re doing now.. what I never did was treat this site as somewhere to 'socialize', a social space... for that there’s instagram, tiktok, x, or even reddit (even if you guys hate it) etcI keep this place on a very distant second or honestly THIRD plane, while I focus on other things and I think you should try doing the samei’m already trying to stop visiting this site but it still feels like a STUPID RUTINE
>>34725542i often feel this way despite not even being 30.but i have a strong coc so i experience a boom bust cycle of attempting something big and simulating that for hrs in my head and eventually realize there isn't a shit i could do as for now.but ever moving the goalpost and coping myself telling ill eventually get there.coc is what allows me to continue but at the same time confining me in my state.
>>34721470>>34721699Tranny autists are hyperrationalists.>over-systematize your own identity>treat sex and gender as purely categorical inputs>conclude rejecting biological reality is a logically sound move you came up with, and it is therefore correct>found a cult of vegan anarchist nerds>treat your penis like a math problem to be solved by supercomputersSee Zizians. The Pritzkers don't fund gender clinics out of compassion.
>>34720833Get off my board faggot. Everyone under 35 needs to go.
>>34725156most of /soc/ is young troons I have never found any women old enough for me to reply to
>>34727792Stop being such a square, youngfag.
>>34725603So it must be really entertaining to watch a bunch of incels, sick fucks and retards all gathered in one place at the same time?
