Internet used to be fun. Creating and programming stuff was fun. Now everything is boring.
>>108969490Welcome to the mid 20'sWe're just gonna be chilling for a while, don't worry eventually the enjoyment does come back
>>108969490It all got enshitified so companies can make more money. Plus increasing inequality and subsequence increasing polarization making people angrier all the time.>>108969492It's hitting everybody regardless of age range anon.
>>108969490Boring? Maybe stop being a weird tranime freak and get a hobby.
It's cheaper if all your media and societal infrastructure are folded into a slab of glass that can be mass manufactured at 6.5 inches and above (only)
I've learned the sad part about discovering new things is the magic goes away once you become an expert at it.What you're really experiencing is a hunger for knowledge. So find a new passion. For me it's trying to decode occult stuff.
>>108969490When you stopped being a kid and grew up. Manchildren tend to blame not enjoying things they did when they were children as much on conspiracies and systemic issues
>>108969490https://crabrooms.ytmnd.com/
>>108969490i look like this
>>108969490You just grew up and gained the ability to make financial decisions on your own so technology is no longer "beg your parents for 1 year straight" away
Pedophiles often experience anhedonia, ennui, and depression after a lifetime wasted gooning to loli hentai.
>>108969781Pisshair foid
>>108969490idc unc i just consooooooom everything my sloppa machine feeds me and life goes on ik it aibt healty but it is wat it is
Sir mine is dark blonde I'm different from them
>>108969546He meant the year. 2026 is mid 20s.
>>108969693If you're into plastic I guess
>>108969648Nigga, all your entertainment was folder into 14 inch+ pc monitors and TVs before smartphones were a thing. Now it is 14inch+ pc monitors and TVs and 6.5 inch+ phones.
>>108969981Plastic.
>>108969998>satisfied by AI generated pornIt's over for you, I'm sorry
>>108970004brooooooooooooooo
>>108970025I am judging you for not seeing the deeply unfappable aura around any and all porn outputted by AI, not for using AI
>>108970028you goon to cartoon children
>>108970033Based
>>108970033i do this
>>108970033holy based anon lock him in a room with a powerful computer and unlimited lube now!!!!
>>108969974>14 inch+ pc monitors and TVs before smartphones were a thingNope. While growing up in the 2000s the desktop was 16 inches, the Vaio laptop was 12 inches and the Trinitron TV with a PS2 attached was 36 inches.>Now it is 14inch+ pc monitors and TVs and 6.5 inch+ phones.Im sorry if you grew up in poverty and all you had access to was a 3rd world desktop setup with a pentium 4 all the way until you were forced to use Windows 10 and Smartphones got cheap enough.
>>108970033do you think this is comparable to your AI slop faps then
AI is really good but handrawn has soul to it. If I'm going for a quickie, I don't mind AI, but my spiritual gooning sessions require handrawn. The effort put into them by artists instills an energy in the art piece. People will think this is schizo-babble but if you've gooned to both and are somewhat ascended, you'd have subtly noticed.
>>108970056Subtle racemixing shilling post
>>108970148I'd consider it what it is, 50/50. I need the typical art we always had for my gooning rituals though.
>>108969998>>108969981>>108969693This is slop garbage, saying this an ai faggot.
>>108969490Literally nothing but your own internal self demoralizing is preventing you from coding whatever you want in whatever language you want. Barriers are universally lower not higher and you can buy a mobile computational device that literally has a morphing screen of living glass that fits in your pocket and gives you unfettered access to the sum total of human knowledge in the blink of an eye for 35 bucks at a fucking gas station. Countless people throughout multiple epochs of history would literally murder billions to be where you are in life right now anon. ...and your blackpillng.
>>108969490Yeah. Now everything you create can be replicated by AI in less time. I fell that there is not need to do things anymore, it's a very devastating felling.
>>108969781You can't be as cute as 2D
>>108970263You are not making sense. Nothing can be done by AI alone. What can be is trash.To create a product, a piece of art, you need to put real effort and apply your mind to it, spend time to refine it.If anything, current gen AI created opportunities to create more, not less. But also value of all those things decreased because of high supply.This is that exact time when you pick your niche and stick to it. If not, then FAGMAN will have it instead in the nearest future.It's not that hard to understand economy, since it is not a real science after all.
>>108969490I DON'T KNOWLET ME ASK GROK@GROK WHY IS MY LIFE SO UNFULFILLED >because you touch yourself at nightEBIN, UTTERLY EBIN>I have reported you to authorities AHAHAHAHA I LOVE YOU GROK
>>108969956I'm more early 20s but close enough.
>>108970057Oh shut the fuck up. There are laptops now, aren't there. It was $monitor_size monitors, $tv_size TV, $laptop_size laptops. Now it's $monitor_size monitors, $tv_size TVs, $laptop_size laptops and $phone_size phones. Fill your own values, retard. None of the entertainment outlets that existed before smartphones are gone now. Smartphones added one more option to the mix, you vantablack nigger.
>>108969981>>108969693Please delete this uncanny slop. No one enjoys this.That's why you guys have containment threads.
It has never been this great
>>108969981>>108969693>>108969960>>108969998>>108970025>>108970056>>108970071I feel sad that some people think these uncanny garbage abominations are fappable.Get some self-respect.
>>108970250>Countless people throughout multiple epochs of history would literally murder billions to be where you are in life right nowNone of that matters. You live in the environment you get born in.If anything you do has zero value, you will naturally feel depressed.Now, I think this will end in the short-term, given that AI is completely unsustainable both economically (as no company seems to be able to generate profit or value from it) and environmentally. Also prices will increase exponentially as soon as VC money dries up and will be more expensive than human work.But if AI gets better and cheaper somehow, then we will have either full AI prohibition across the nations, similar to chemical/nuclear weapons, human genetic manipulation/cloning prohibition, etc, or we will have a major global war and none of this will matter.
>>108969490When the whole world piled on
>>108969490Everything is becoming "minimalist" and barebones for the sake of maximizing profit, quality is an afterthought and everything is optimized for impressions and your attention for the sake of maximizing profit, optimizing and fixing software is only done at a bare minimum passable level to maximize profit.Almost all of the software on your computer could use a tenth of the memory while being a hundred times faster, but nobody cares because it wouldn't maximize profit.Of course tech is boring, it's not made for anybody, only for money.
>>108970614>Now, I think this will end in the short-termTop kek. We are only at the IPO phase; now those ai corps will have a even greater cash flow.
>>108970673>even greater cash flowoh yeah? From where exactly? Daddy Trump?Looks to me no one can keep their lights on.Another one that dropped a few days ago.https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/30/what-a-joke-github-copilots-new-token-based-billing-spurs-consternation-among-devs/
>>108970673>>108970690Not either of you but lets be real money is basically meaningless to these people, nvidia is valued as much as certain 1st world countries, we're at a point in wealth extraction where the common folk have so little purchasing power we're almost economically irrelevant, which is why megacorps stopped giving a shit about us.
>>108970690That how you get profitable. First you grab market share at a loss then raise the prices again and again. Netflix did that with tremendous success. There is no ai bubble yet.
>>108970747>NetflixGlad you mention the overpriced shitshow Netflix became.Perfect example of what's going to happen with AI. Except it's going to be 10x worse.>>108970731>common folk have so little purchasing power we're almost economically irrelevantExactly. Which is why we need to do something about it.
>>108970760You will do nothing
>>108970765Nothing until something, that's how it usually goes.
>>108970765>>108970770I already am.I am going to vote in the most AI restrictive party.
>>108970776Sadly they're probably going to be commies or some shit, so there's really no one to vote for.
>>108970784Don't worry. Europe is not affected by your "red under the bed" syndrome.
>>108970894I'm from eastern Europe and people aren't exactly thrilled at the idea of going back to communism.
I think the internet was more wholesome and fun when I was younger, things like canihazcheeseburger, albino black sheep and weebls, neopets and adventure quest, forums where you actually thought before you posted, stuff like that. when the whole world started going online it just became terrible and now everyone's angry and they think they know everything like a know it all and nobody wants to leave their bubble. it is a little sad but that's life
>>108970564TBF kino? in my /g/? It's more likely than you think
>>108970945It was not by any means more wholesome, you were just underage cancer. What most of these anons are longing for is decentralization in a now highly centralized* internet
>>108971002t. jaded angry know it all. everybody used to be nice and it was all about having fun 15-20 years ago. if you experienced it you would understand
>>108970056The thing about genAI smut is only the one who generated it actually considers it good, since it caters to the very specific ask. You should only share prompts online, no-one cares about the disposable artifacts.
>>108970894Leftist are such dead parties,you live in a bubble my little bourgeois. Even blacks and arabs understand far left is full of shit,it's not like those people love trannies,faggots,girl power and all my ass .Seems you're those kind of lost guys who still didn't realise you're becoming a gated community and have no interactions with proles. Far right have been rising everywhere.
>>108971032Lurk more
>>108969691you haven't mastered anything, you're just a copying normalfag
>>108971060didn't read, still voting biden
>>108971334Ha a gringo ,you should have told me you're mentally deranged
>>108970527we need an ai containment board
>>108969490Idk, but...Momoka sexo
>>108970690>oh yeah? From where exactly? Daddy Trump?Unironically yes. The current tech paradigm is to sell to governments and receive bailouts from said governments. Trump, alone, is getting fat paychecks from legal defense funds to pay his investment in industry.
I started coding as a hobby 2 months ago and thus far it's incredibly fun. I only use AI as a teacher to highlight my fuckups or properly explain concepts i didn't grasp yet. Fucking wild that some people get paid to do this.
>>108971962Yaeh, it was enjoyable while it lasted. Now it's just Indians asking LLMs to write jillions of production code that they won't fix but instead replace with more LLM production code. All done for less than what wal-mart cashiers make. I wish you could have been there during the heyday where you could make six figures doing a senior coding job. It seems like a lifetime ago even though it's been less than 10 years.
>>108970924>I'm from eastern EuropeThat's the thing. Eastern Europe knows how bad actual communism is and why to avoid it.The average american like >>108971060 has no fucking idea what that word means politically and just uses it as a scapegoat for any random shit that is slightly not right-wing because they know "commie" is a bad word. Either that or he has room temperature IQ.They mix all kind of shit up in 2 bags: right or left.They mix gender bullshit, race bullshit, ecology, feminism and all kinds of unrelated shit with it. I don't remember Stalin being too kind to gays, women or caring about the environment.He would probably have any gay shot on the spot.The last little nugget I've heard of american politics knowledge is that me having solar panels in my rooftop means I'm a communist for some reason.I've heard me sharing and making my little hobby project open-source on GitHub is communism.This tells you how fucked up their political system is. They might be beyond saving, I don't know what can be done.I think the fact that their country only has 2 parties tells you how fucking retarded their political system is.It's like they're in a constant "us vs them" mode with everything. Sad.
>>108970987of course!
>>108971548Yeah, we definitely do. I think the time has come.
>>108971759>The current tech paradigmThanks for admitting this shit is inevitably going down the drain. Might take a bit longer than it rationally would, but it will.
>>108969490Creating and programming is still fun. My guess is you either stopped creating or you spend less time creating and more time going on social media and 4chan. I would say delete twitter and reddit entirely, and use your browser's "forget this site" functionality for 4chan at the end of every day so that it becomes more of a hassle to post anew each day with the captcha wait times.
>>108969490I can fix the internet and the world; all you have to do is elect me as world dictator, then serve as my troops and unleash terror and death on those who oppose meIf you don't want that, you've earned all of it
>>108972228Some simply cannot be identified, and as such, it is a moot discussion.But 90% of the garbage posted around here very much is. And we want it gone.
>>108972308I know. There will be false positives. You brought this upon ourselves.But I see a lot of content that I can guarantee you is 100% AI. Garbage like >>108969693 or >>108969981 can be identified by a 6 year old.
>>108969490install DOOM on Wayland
>>108972345The Internet and cellphones did not destroy my favourite things.The AI generated content has already gutted countless websites and it's just starting.Soon no one will have any interesting in creating anything, like writing an article, if no one will ever visit it to read it. They will just get the info from an LLM.Open-source software is being inundated by pointless PRs and patches that have already made some engineers just give up and retire.Bans are rampant. Soon all projects will need to be more closed down.Websites now need mechanisms to stop AI scrappers from visiting their sites.Many others like Rtings went into paywall mode, as they cannot sustain them if people just read their data in the LLM website.Captchas are getting impossible and you will soon need to show government ID to go online. Anonymity online will be fully lost.Spotify and Youtube is inundated by absolutely garbage slop music.All compute power is being concentrated on the elites. Soon you will not be able to own a computer. And this is happening faster than I ever expected.A global war will become inevitable, as AI has obvious destabilizing military uses.I'm not even going to mention the energy requirements and pollution, nor the chaos that the job market is going to be.This is nothing like the "internet and cellphones". This is our end, if we don't stop it.You are very naive if you think any of this will play in your favour.
>>108972687Yes, I remember it clearly.And I also remember only retards actually believed there would be any consequences from Y2K.Maybe you don't remember that.
>>108969490>>108970004>>108971734nkds
>>108972730>It's just technology....that's actively being used to worsen your life on a scale unlike everything that has come before. But that part must be convienent for you to leave out isn't it?
>>108969490You pretending to be an adolescent cartoon japanese girl has something to do with it.
It's because the hobby aspect of tech has been destroyed by crypto, ai, and other jeet scams.
>>108972890>It's never been more easier in human history to get rich doing something so simple.HAHAHA Are you fucking 12? HOly shit!
>>108972730There are companies building datacenters the size of small cities.Datacenters that will burn obscene ammounts of energy.And you're comparing this to fucking Y2K?The dotcom bubble resulted in thousands of companies going bankrupt and many people suffering from it. And the dotcom bubble is a fucking JOKE to what's happening today.You can hide your head in the sand if you want, but you're only fooling yourself.>>108973060>it's a skill issue if you can't game the system.Ah yes. "gaming the system".This is the world everyone wishes to live in, isn't it? What an utopia we are creating.
>>108973060>Young billionaires literally exist today than in any other timeCan you tell me exactly how does that benefit yours, or anyone else's life?
>>108973302>people can still make moneyYeah, I wonder why you're getting poorer then, even though there are more "young billionaires".That only means more capital is concentrated on the elites.>Naw, we use more electricity in building homes and factories. Come back to me with that same argument when you're paying double for your energy costs 5 years down the line.>Google survived the bubble. And so did Amazon and Ebay. All 3 companies transformed the world permanently.None of those companies do anything noteworthy other than obtaining scale and capturing the whole market first.Any other company would replace them had they not capture the whole market.>Go move to a communist shithole if you want life to stagnate.There is a balance to be had between stagnation and chaotically disruptive technologies.There's a reason why the whole world agrees with absolute prohibition of the human genome manipulation, human cloning, chemical weapons, etc.I believe sooner or later the same will need to happen to AI. Either that, or we'll have a world war.
>>108970263Been making music for 20 years. Suno fixes my mistakes and adds new ones, but it sounds way better than my 5$ plugins because FUCK paying 400 for a choir. I will continue making stuff, but I will also work with AI. Who gives a shit if anyone can do it? Unless you're a turbonormie no one can do what YOU want to do.
>>108970656Ding ding ding.Profit kills the soul of everything.
>>108973621kys slopper. Art is a human endeavor.
>>108970462>It was $monitor_size monitors, $tv_size TV, $laptop_size laptops. Now it's $monitor_size monitors, $tv_size TVs, $laptop_size laptops and $phone_size phones. Fill your own values, retard.Are you having a stroke?>None of the entertainment outlets that existed before smartphones are gone now. Smartphones added one more option to the mix, you vantablack nigger.Yes they are gone. Good luck finding a modern smartphone that's under 6 inches or 16:9. Good luck finding a modern 4:3 monitor or tablet to read your documents.>Smartphones added one more option to the mixSmartphones have a horrible form factor and they're not even good at their primary purpose, which is content consumption.
>>108973642> Use AI to change synthesizers >WTF STOP STEALING SOUNDS YOU'RE NOT MAKING THE ARTS! Nah, fuck you. Same shit different tools.Before AI people traced. And before that people posed. And before that people observed the natural world. You have the means of creating your own images, music, games or movies and making your wildest, most ambitious vision graze this world in seconds so that only polishing the details remains to be done. You don't. Take tech away and I'll still be making things with sticks and stones while you will never produce anything except low quality posts. Most artists never made much money and never needed to.
>>108973060>Again, it's a skill issue if you can't game the system.aka>The best system ever created is a system in which you can only make it by cheating the system
>>108973765Truth bomb
>>108973765In the shortest possible manner: creativity requires the use of intelligence, so artificial intelligence = artificial creativity.Art is not like a bag of onions, the process matters as well as the end result. The listener not only listens to the song but also thinks about how it was made and appreciates the conscious decision-making that went into making those sounds. Introducing AI, even partially, means the listener does not know what element of the song are human-made and what are AI, which degrades the experience. You should acknowledge this and declare how you use AI in your tracks.
>>108973825Not really. AI allows you to deal with many arts at the same time, allowing you to create multiple outputs that can be turned into something far more complex than a single piece. Games, movies and more. Intelligence isn't lost, it's spent on something else. Look at things like the KoTOR2 show. It's flawed, yes, but so were the first movies and special effects, and the tons of laughably bad monsters from old movies.
>>108973825And there's already things like Friends and Fables where people spend their mind and soul creating characters, places, quests, rules, in worlds that feel alive so that others can interact with them. AI narration is bad. AI interaction is limited, AI pictures are not masterpieces, but all of this shit combined would have blown your mind as a kid and it still should now if you know how to use it or see its true potential.
>>108973884So it makes churning out content faster? Yes, I'm not in denial about that, however that doesn't address the point I was making.>Intelligence isn't lost, it's spent on something elseBy your own admission, less intelligence is spent on each song. Your post reads like an advertisement telling me to use AI because I wouldn't have to deal with such trifles as coming up with melodies or shaping the sounds. A song is a form of human expression and you're polluting it with fake creativity. If the output is the only thing that matters then surely you wouldn't mind if all human users on the internet were replaced with bots?
>>108969490I dunno man I am having a blast
>>108974027Mixing tracks to get the sound right and hand-picking plugins sucks. It takes a lot less effort to just upload your track and get it fixed, yes. It's also cheaper than spending a gorillion dollars on decent plugins. It's still less quality than actually taking your time to do it, but you miss the actual point. AI art is not the final product. It's a part of a whole, far more intricate project that would not be finished in the lifetime of a regular human with limited time and resources. The vision is what matters.You can use AI to make forests Instead of trees. It's not the single thing, it's the many. Same as you can use a thick brush instead of a thin one. You can still Photoshop yourself with you're waifu if you don't like AI, though I feel you're blaming the tool for the work of the artist. Look at DeviantArt. Full of low tier trash, with some really incredible stuff.
>>10897362120 making music and you kinda sucks at it. You are pathetic my friend.
>>108974129>It's still less quality than actually taking your time to do it, but you miss the actual pointNo, you're missing the point because I'm not talking about the quality of the output, but the artistic expression in the song. We're just talking past each other - you're only thinking about art as a product on the assembly line rather than something deeper.
>>108970945When everyone are online it becomes the real world again, but worse as it's even more interconnected.Connectivity and the exchange of information on this massive scale, maybe wasn't that good...
>>108972175>I think the fact that their country only has 2 parties tells you how fucking retarded their political system is.Late stage empire.
>>108973978>we have to become China to stop China!!11And he thinks he's preserving anything, as he cheers on his own enslavement. Laugh at this sad creature. It is just a cow that can talk
>>108969490When people start vibecoding and not building nothing fun. Plus, when everyone is using scripts for start using window managers or even not using it and sticking it with gnome/KDE. Then, all the flood of AI porn and AI slop and the fact that AI's can build anything, makes learning this so easy that it does not reward you enough to feel something and the fact that doesn't come any technology that changes the actual paradigm of what we know as technology, just boring copypasted products to sell the fastest possible that breaks or get deprecated in a short time. That's why is boring.
The problem with generative AI, LLMs or whatever you wanna call them is it makes people lazy and take the easy path.This leads to loss of interest or meaning.It makes you complacent.It invites people into hobbies, works or just creations which they should not be in as they have no and will have no talent for it.This overwhelm people and groups that have an interest and talent for a specific hobby/work/task.AI let's retards be even more retarded everywhere, and those that are not retarded are pushed away because of said retardation.
when it stopped being new and got good
>>108971330Didn't claim to be a master.
>>108973978>You have to be out of your mind if you think China, Russia and the USA will sign an agreement that stops one from dominating the other.Did you read my post?China, Russia and the USA do exactly that for the proliferation of chemical and nuclear weapons, human genetic manipulation, among other things.AI will be added to that list.
>>108969490I’m getting Claude and sometimes Codex to make me a thing I’ve wanted for 15 yearsmaybe you’re just unlucky because you don’t want anything cool
>>108974844and what's that, boy?
>>108969490It’s not that the internet stopped being fun — it’s that the default internet got flattened.There’s a difference. The front page of everything is worse now: algorithm sludge, engagement bait, the same five arguments repeated forever, every platform trying to become every other platform. But that isn’t “the internet.” That’s just the mall version of the internet. The fun internet still exists in Discord servers, weird GitHub projects, niche forums, small blogs, ROM hack communities, indie tools, fan sites, modding scenes, personal websites, and random people building stuff for no reason other than “I thought this would be cool.”And programming didn’t become boring either — the industry around it did. Tickets, metrics, corporate slop, SaaS dashboards, LinkedIn grind culture, AI hype cycles, “move fast” nonsense. That stuff can drain the joy out of anything. But making a little tool that solves your own problem? Building a dumb website with three users? Automating something stupid? Modding a game? Making a bot, a tracker, a fan project, a tiny app only you understand? That’s still the same magic. The fun was never in “software engineering” as an identity — it was in making the computer do a thing it couldn’t do five minutes ago.It’s not that everything is boring now — it’s that the loudest parts are boring. The creative parts are quieter. You have to leave the feed and go looking for the workshops, basements, weird corners, and hobbyist caves again. That’s where the internet was fun in the first place.The internet isn’t dead. It’s just buried under product managers, recommendation engines, and people trying to monetize every human impulse — which means the answer isn’t to declare it over, it’s to go make something weird anyway.
>>108969490inevitable. happened to television and radio. go read a book
>>108975490you are part of the problem
>>1089694904chinz will always be the coziest place on the internet
>>108975586The USA has the strongest military in the world, if we're tough they will do as we say.
