I feel like I already know pretty much everything this is to see on the internet, I've been a hikikomori for 10 years so as you can imagine I've been on the internet a lot, I do not know how mundane everything seems, I just feel like I've seen everything there is to see, does anybody else feel this way?
time for a new adventure.
>>50647964I thought about reading novels instead of 4chan since I am so tired of 4chan but I do like /jp/ a lot. I think /jp/ was better in 2016 but there is still an archive.
>>50647976i dont see why you cant do both. besides jaypee is deader than ever, more time for your other hobbies, new or old.
>>50647957Think of all the things you missed. I am sure you have heard "the internet is forever". It isn't. It never was. You were lied to by people who knew you have no understanding of data remanence. H.A.N.D.
>>50647957your medal will come in the mail soon. engraved in it says /jp/. you've earned it anon, whether you decide to move on or not we (me and whomever else) will always be cheering you on. hope we meet again ;w;
>>50648466those are sweet words anonymous since I always felt like /jp/ was the only place I really fit-in, the other boards never interested me as much, /jp/ has kind of been my home for the past decade, I mean I'll look at the other boards sometimes but I usually just stare at /jp/, when I was a kid I read /a/, but i got bored of it
>>50648841but /a/ got nice dailies. give them a chance.
>>50647957I came to this realization and experience not too long ago. I ended up spending more time on youtube as a result on YouTube only to realize, for the most part, I've seen/experienced/can expect most of the slop-content, or whatever content I'd binge before sleeping after wageslaving or during eating literal slop.So I started cutting down from streaming content(just YouTube really) too and just sort of started reaching around my immediate vicinity finding these to do, finally complete(cleaning and restructururimg my room after 6 years as utterly pathetic as that sounds ;_;) and commit to. That includes learning a bunch of things I've procrastinated for a long time due to ADHD and having what I felt more interesting things to "do" previously.I hate to sound dramatic but I haven't felt as alive as I have been recently in a very long time after a few months of "lifemaxxing" just out of sheer boredom and suicide-inspired anti-nihilism.So maybe try looking around your living space and see what you can do to improve it, however menial and retarded it may seem After finishing my room, I decided to tackle and clean up my just as neglected front and backyards, where I had to collect and burn so much organic debris and decade-piled caked compost piles, I had to make a short trail into the woods to wheel away the ash just so I can burn more debris in the burn pit. The amount of potential I have recently realized the property has is pure lifefuel and even the neighbors have pleasantly started to notice.I'm almost done, just in time for spring, maybe I'll pick-up gardening? Build a swing? and I plan to tackle my black/brown-widow infested crawlspace before the hibernation period for various dangerous pests ends clad in appt gear I have researched in detail from eagerness/determination/fear.Pretty mundane but I have been having a blast just learning to do just about anything. I don't mind this being cope or whatever for the time being. Also, catching up on my VNDB backlog has been great too!
>>50647957internet just hasn't been fun ever since it stopped being a place for autists and normalfags/phoneposters took over
>>50651854There's no where to go. It's either whatever the indie web even is, lucking out finding some gated community on some forum, discord, irc or similar chatroomOr logging off entirely.Offline is ironically the new online for autismos
>>50647957The internet's best days are well and truly behind it and we're all just chasing a dragon. You're still browsing the same boards and websites, but everyone can tell than it's not quite the same. The people changed, they are less interesting or creative than they used to be. They're also more likely to lash out for no reason or troll than they would 10, 15, 20 years ago. In 4chan's case, newfags are not incentivized to adapt to the website's culture which is why this place is just slightly edgier X/Discord now.What's less talked about though is that most hobbies and interests are also dying or dead. Most of the recurrent threads on /jp/ are the same they were a decade ago, the 1000th thread about Marisa's hat or Babymetal or whatever is bound to be less interesting than before. And that's the best case scenario. I like cars, car culture got raped and murdered by real world politics so the hobby is dead. Anime is just adaptations and remakes of shows people have already watched that nobody asked for. Don't get me started on tech.The play is to spend less time online. Pick up something to kill time, can be literally anything like an instrument or reading or whatever; it will be much more fulfilling than posting on the same threads you have for 15+ years and lamenting the fact that things were better.
>>50648366what
>>50647957At we still have Rumia...
>>50647957My personal realization when I felt like this a few years ago was that "Nothing's fundamentally changed about me- the things I enjoyed, and the feelings I had, should be able to be replicated" and my reasoning for that was pretty much down to human nature. Ultimately it's all about hormones and signals in the brain. You essentially have to find a way to force it back into the state you want it in where things are fresher, or at the very least, less dull.Hard to put into words how to do it, but I found new appreciations for old media I enjoyed by sitting down and really reading it, and I tried playing stuff like PS2 games I'd already played many years ago but had no will to continue with. Maybe it can be said that you need "friction" with the things you experience to appreciate them and so they can rub off on you properly.
>>50654235Everything is also more politicalized (western-wise) and if you believe in "xyz" your reputation's gone, no matter what side you are.
>>50671295Also true. I see anime and vocaloid spaces outside of here. They care more about social activism than they do the media they supposedly like. It's why you can't even question localization/translation choices anymore without someone rushing to defend it solely because they think the people complaining are "right-wing". This bullshit just made me give up on the internet. It's just not worth it. Why would I go online and get mad at how low-IQ other people are anymore? I have enough problems in my own life. I don't need to get rage baited by people online who are 10+ years younger than me.
>>50647957Let me just say i was a Hikikomori for almost 25-30 years of life until I had to work for a few years part time to make money and take a dead end job. But overall I can say >>50654235 is right. I have been on 4chan since 2009 and the creativity, effort and conversations are very shallow as time has passed. I can remember each board having a culture they created for themselves they nurtured it, and if anyone tried to mess with it like a /pol/ poster or an /mlp/ they would be banned or basically shamed off the board to learn the culture or get off the board. Culture nowadays is who can post on X on this site and get upvotes for themselves or just make thread and ragebait all day long with no real substance. It's so bad culture wise /vg/ has become a hub for those who wish to talk about games and have a community vs /v/. It's just low IQ brainless posters and politics has ruined any real means of discussion. I understand Censorship and the talk about Localizations, but thousands of threads about Highguard or low quality Chinese and South Korean Gacha being spammed is enough to send most gamers up a wall. My best advice is to not lament what the past was but try to create a better future than what exists currently by being proactive. For example read LN/VN's, buy and play Indie Games you like, maybe interact with Gemini for fun. Also try to find people who create fun things, try to be happy and create OC that can be enjoyed by people who are like us. >>50671295>>50678404I agree completely with you two. I live in America and I can tell you the politics types you two mention are a very small but highly vocal minority here. If they really cared about politics they would go register to vote, and be active at the local and state level contacting and showing up at town halls or meetings, than trying to take over communities, or say "Marissa is anti-fascist" and whine about people thinking everything is "incel" or "pedophile" etc. Their views are unpopular here and there is a reason why you will never hear politicians outside the extremist types say those words and you will not hear them say this at work, school, or even in society. Because most will think they have serious mental illness and they probably do. I will also say those who defend localizers suffer from Sunk Cost and have Toxic Positivity issues.
>>50651837>>50651854>>50652527I would argue a lot of the low quality things on the internet is the result of Web 2.0's shortcomings of centralization like a Reddit, some parts of Youtube shorts and Twitter(X) that many miss Web 1.0 where everyone had their own communities, forums, areas and yes it was small but it did grow normally and organically with people who came in and liked the same things would join in discussions over time thus creating a brand new community that flourished. Web 2.0 had this in the beginning, but I would argue due to it's centralized nature it became easier for corporations, advertisers, and even the platform holders to make tons of money deciding to take away the organic algorithm of what many normal users wish to see and interact, to think they could push News, Misinformation, Ragebait and clickbait sensationalism when these places were founded on community first principals. This had such a detrimental effect where yes people engaged but then decided to limit their use or log off depending on how severe the platform was at it. There was too much Anti's, Tourists and Anti-Lolicon types in these areas that it was basically harassment and sending misinformation about Lolicon = Pedophelia. Thanks to that, I think Web 2.0 platforms are learning their lesson like my photo here where it is starting to be like Web 2.5 where they are using AI to solve various problems. Youtube recently announced that they are beginning to get rid of AI Videos, ragebait etc that are low quality by using AI to combat it, and also allowing users to use AI Prompts to begin to curate their own experiences rather than having to deal with these videos in the first place which is rolling out to most people this year. I predict Twitter will go this path by the end of the year to lower this down, so everyone can see the content they would like rather than praying the Algorithm will learn and hoping it does not make mistakes. This brings me to Web 3.0 which I will say is the Fediverse, it basically has AI to curate like in Web 2.5, but will be way more decentralized like Web 1.0 but learn the lessons of 2.0 in the sense of centralization where everyone has communities and are not having to be pushed together against people who provide tons of friction overall and they can have people join in or out. This is being nicknamed Decentralized Social Media. Sadly this will not be a thing until the late 2020's for us tech literate types, but early 2030's for mass market. This is because until Blockchain, Stablecoins, Crypto are figured out to be easier to use they will not launch.This does give me hope for the next generations of Social Media as a whole. That maybe we will have a new version of 4chan that is ready to go that filters out low quality posts or supplants most social media we use today.
I think that 4chan's revival is probably around the corner purely on the premises of it not having a silver or bronze age, only a golden age that gave way straight to a dark age.In my opinion, anime and games had the same cycle that comics did (just offset a couple of decades) where there was the golden age in the 80s/90s then the silver age in the 2000s/early 2010s. Maybe a little wonky with the bronze age in the 60s/70s. But that's for the media themselves; the golden age of otaku fandom and hyper-commercialization of otaku media was the 2000s (which of course 2/4chan were very centric for). Maybe you could say that 2011 - 2015 were the silver age as it was the winding down period before the dark age, but I'd count it as part of the golden age because of how short it is.So, for 4chan and the other parts of the fandom side of things, again there was only ever a golden age, and it's been a minute since it ended. Odd way of looking at things I know but empires operate in cycles and only the first gear's been used so far. The end of it all is inevitable but I don't think it's today.
