>>43681852
it used to be full of millennials born into image board culture but now it’s mostly zoomers who want attention, board culture is also ruined from twitter and reddit cross-pollination

>>43681860
Yeah I understand that. But I mean in the last couple of months I've gone from being able to shitpost here all day, to 0-reply threads everywhere.

And I can't tell if it was always like this but I enjoyed it more, or if the thing about it I was enjoying is gone now.

>>43681852
it really does feel boring, imo.
i used to post daily, to the point I started tripping.

but in the last year or two, it has definitely felt boring and repetitive when i return and try to get back into it. and i don't have other places to post, this is all i have. still falls off.

>>43681860
>it used to be full of millennials born into image board culture
tbf, this was the only board i ever posted on or browsed. and its not like i was an early /tttt/ adopter or anything. it still feels much different.
it feels like a 4chan/lgbt/ larp, as opposed to authentic experiences.

>>43681900
>But I mean in the last couple of months I've gone from being able to shitpost here all day, to 0-reply threads everywhere.
you might honestly just be growing away from it. none of this board is sustainable socially, especially if you can go elsewhere for social interaction

>>43681852
>Why is this board so boring now?
Yeah I don't know why. It's also more chaserphobic.

>>43681852
>Why is this board so boring now?
Jannies keep deleting diaper threads and mods keep banning diaperposters

>>43682044
>you might honestly just be growing away from it. none of this board is sustainable socially, especially if you can go elsewhere for social interaction
This is a possibility. I'm 43, I've been on 4chan for 23 years this october. This place has really been my life.
But my transition is progressing really well, and I've been making amazing progress in therapy, and I've accepted that I'm also autistic and ADHD and I've made progress on that too.

Am I actually finally maturing into a functional adult?
Coz that was the real goal of my transition, I wanted to be a real person, not just a frog monster.

I guess I don't really know what to do with myself now tho.

>>43682088
the fact that you know the month.... please free yourself from this prison

>my transition is progressing really well, and I've been making amazing progress in therapy, and I've accepted that I'm also autistic and ADHD and I've made progress on that too.
>Am I actually finally maturing into a functional adult?
yes, you really sound like you are.

>I wanted to be a real person, not just a frog monster.
>I guess I don't really know what to do with myself now tho.
if you have a sustainable social group that is independent of /tttt/, i think you really are becoming your own person. i've been here a while too, but i'm not really supplementing my social interaction elsewhere, so this is the only place i am even "out" in.

idk what you do now though, i've never made it that far. but if you feel unfulfilled, maybe try taking up hobbies you may like, with social groups offline?
what do you currently not feel fulfilled by?

>>43682199
>if you have a sustainable social group that is independent of /tttt/
I don't. The curse of middle age, we're all to lonely to hang out.
It's on the to do list tho.

>what do you currently not feel fulfilled by?
IDK, I'm just sitting around the house all day bored. I scroll through jobs and stuff occasionally and recognize that I can't actually do any of them.

I quit smoking today, I don't think that's helping my mood, but I don't think it's what's bothering me either.

>>43681860
>>43681852
FPBP

2016 culture war was the beginning of the end, tttt culture leaking into twitter during the post covid era was a giant nosedive towards the rock bottom, sharty hack + 4tr*n subverting our culture was the final nail in the coffin

>>43681860
So true but I also think general attention spans got shorter. Someone should make an imageboard for old people and it functions like other demographic imageboard like wizardchan or crystal cafe

>>43681852
it's boring since the hack

>>43682276
>I don't. The curse of middle age, we're all to lonely to hang out.
this might be more of a self-report for my lack of social groups but, just saying "we're" implies you at least loosely have a group of people to be "too busy" to hang out with. that is something worth remembering. they are there, and you could work something out with some of them. don't neglect them.

what does it mean to be "too lonely" to hang out?

>IDK, I'm just sitting around the house all day bored.
this feels like the need for romance or a desire for other types of deeper companionship type of loneliness.

romantic partnership, or even companionship with a cat/dog/pet i feel, could help with the day-to-day loneliness. like, fuck, even I know how much better I felt just having someone to say "good morning" to when i woke up. (as an unemployed neet)
don't adopt a pet without thought ofc tho

especially when having something else you want to leave behind like smoking, seeking out a healthy alternative to whatever emotional need smoking was fulfilling could help a lot.
i think identifying what need is being substituted by smoking is the difficult part, but it is worth considering.


>>43682422
the recent hack that took 4chan completely down for days?
it was definitely before that, but i remember going elsewhere and it felt much better than here.
too bad that potential alternative /tttt/ died instantly when this place came back online.

>>43682497
>the recent hack that took 4chan completely down for days?
yes. obviously the board was dying already, but now it's completely over

>>43682276
>I quit smoking today, I don't think that's helping my mood, but I don't think it's what's bothering me either.
same except I quit zyns yesterday
jfc this is rough it feels like I'm fasting in the sense that I feel in this horrible low power state where I'm constantly plagued by cravings that I can't satiate

>>43682523
yeah, i highly doubt that /tttt/ going offline for a few days actually affected it that much

unless you think the terminally-online /tttt/ tranners are that important? *blushes*

srsly tho, i think things were going bad well before that. and honestly, brainworms.surgery has had better, more tru /tttt/ vibes for a while. it has felt a bit too clique-y for me personally, in their one /lgbt/ general thread, but i honestly think its much more likely to achieve the same older vibe this place had before

All the people complaining about it being a "dead" board never experienced what a truly dead board is like on certain altchans.

>>43682639
>yeah, i highly doubt that /tttt/ going offline for a few days actually affected it that much
the main problem was the old already bad jannies being doxxed and the new jannies being even worse or being chuds themselves
>unless you think the terminally-online /tttt/ tranners are that important? *blushes*
you are important anon
>brainworms.surgery
gens are boring

>>43682639
>brainworms.surgery
You mean libpol? That site sucks. They should've just used vichan instead of rolling their own crappy board software.

>>43681852
It's the culture change, LGBTQ is no longer main stream but, like panhandlers, no eye contact, don't talk to them, if they get obnoxious out of normal toss them out.
Militant Niggers are running the show now. Get down with Nigger militant or get mopped up.
Nothing to happy trannies, fags and dykes.
Time to be serious and hard.

>>43681852
90% of it is either bait, someone trying to jerk their boner or posts that could just be pumped out by a cia psyop bot
>>43682066
exaxmple a

>>43683116
>the main problem was the old already bad jannies being doxxed and the new jannies being even worse or being chuds themselves
i've honestly never even thought about them in my years of posting here, outside of people mentioning them directly like this

>>unless you think the terminally-online /tttt/ tranners are that important? *blushes*
>you are important anon
i.....i'll post every day for the next 6 months for you friend...
(i will likely disappear for another 3 weeks at minimum)


>gens are boring
>>43683132
>You mean libpol? That site sucks. They should've just used vichan instead of rolling their own crappy board software.
i have literally never posted in the libpol /lgbt/ gen thread, nor do i understand any technical details behind the site.
but, i don't think any of that matters if the community is quality. and right now, it feels much more real than the average thread here.

i desperately wish other threads were at least semi-popular there, people feel way more authentic than here. it may never happen, but if mentioning it gets even one person to check out the site, its worth.


>>43683146
this genuinely reads like you asked ai to write a "stereotypical 4chan lgbt post"

>>43683151
factual statement

>>43682617
I don't know what zyns is, but if it's anything like quitting smoking you're already through the worst of it. This is not the first time I've quit, it's the rule of twos.

If you can make it two hours you can make it two days.
If you can make it two days you can make it two weeks.
If you can make it two weeks you can make it two months.
If you can make it two months you can make it two years.
If you've made it two years you're not a smoker any more.

>>43682066
You give chasers a bad name, retard

>>43683165
>i've honestly never even thought about them in my years of posting here, outside of people mentioning them directly like this
immediately after the hack you could open the board and see 15 threads of "XY = male" "women don't have penises" etc up on the catalog for days
for me the board peaked between 2022-2024, but the highest number of posts was during covid i think. ive been here "only" since 2019 tho
>i.....i'll post every day for the next 6 months for you friend...
loll so cute

>>43683213
opinions on srsoids?

>>43683219
If it's what they want to live their life, and to ease their dysphoria, etc. I see no reason to argue with them.
If I love a girl, it will be regardless of her srs status.

>>43682497
>what does it mean to be "too lonely" to hang out?
You'll figure this out when you get to 35 or so.
Most of your friends will have partnered up, most will be working full time, most will have kids, and with all of that going on they just don't have the time and energy to just hang out for no reasons.

Of the people who are left, they're all too lonely and miserable to be any fun at all to hang around with. And then you'll realize that you, too, are too lonely and miserable to be worth hanging around with. And that's not a self-loathing thing, that's a coming to terms with middle age thing.

As for romance, yeah I'd fucking love some. But I don't live in an area where queer dating just happens and I literally cannot do dating apps any more. I think I have dating app PTSD.

So yeah, com to 4chan, hang out, tell some jokes, sperg out about some stuff, live-journal, whatever, but it just doesn't seem to be doing it for me at the moment, and I not sure if that's your fault or mine.

Do you guys like this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBCVBYQGVfs

>>43683222
waow

>>43683222
Based opinion bro, I agree. Whatever makes her happy

>>43683244
too fake

>>43683254
Cool. It's what I think, feel no need to argue with you about it

>>43683214
>15 threads of "XY = male" "women don't have penises" etc up on the catalog for days
idk, i just assume its the basic low quality 4chan bait threads that are all too common in current year


>>i.....i'll post every day for the next 6 months for you friend...
>loll so cute
i will...
if threads were as quality as this one it'd be easy

>>43683223
>You'll figure this out when you get to 35 or so.
>Most of your friends will have partnered up, most will be working full time, most will have kids, and with all of that going on they just don't have the time and energy to just hang out for no reasons.
well, fuck.
i'm already at that point. i've never even had a partner, employment, or, obviously kids.
the problem is, thats not how it really works. I have friends who have made new friend groups, and they get together frequently, its not an inevitability.

>Of the people who are left, they're all too lonely and miserable to be any fun at all to hang around with. And then you'll realize that you, too, are too lonely and miserable to be worth hanging around with. And that's not a self-loathing thing, that's a coming to terms with middle age thing.
thats me... i'm too mentally ill of a neet to get together with the few friends i have left. and none of that is even including how broken transness has made me....

>sperg out about some stuff, live-journal, whatever, but it just doesn't seem to be doing it for me at the moment, and I not sure if that's your fault or mine.
the real question i'd ask is, did it ever do it for you? importantly, did it do it adequately? its easy to satiate immediate needs in the short term, but long-term requires true fulfillment

>>43682066
If I ever see you around sydney I'm straight up going to beat the fuck out you bro, I actually hate you so much

>>43683263
why so angry?

>>43683321
This is how chill I am rn anon :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHouyi6t4g

>>43681852
It's different and I hate it
every thread takes years to get replies, people are off, the best schizos spamming their face threads are gone, only gaygen and chasergen hit bump limit
passgen dies when it used to hit bump limit in a couple hours

Maybe this board deserved to die

>>43683392
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKrmYwaOkk

>>43683288
>did it ever do it for you? importantly, did it do it adequately?
Oh yeah.
I've always loved it here.
Every time I've tried to use an alternative the only thing I've learned is why you literally can't beat the simplicity of yotsuba imageboards. It is perfect and cannot be improved upon.

>>43681852
>Did I change or did you?
you probably grew older and became an adult
lots of threads are basically people in their late teens or early 20s being overly dramatic and/or emotional

Seeing people spout Blanchard's bullshit without even mentioning the man lets me know this place is cooked

>>43683517
Apparently that shit has breached containment too. The TERFs got a hold of it and are doing TERF things with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2mjYBXAZI

>>43683202
I know, but the cravings aren't the worst part, it's just the brainfog and lack of motivation, also knowing that I'll never be able to summon nicotine for free dopamine when I next need it

sadly my anxiety had become so bad that I stopped being able to sleep, hopefully quitting nicotine fixes that. gl nona

>>43681860
only early millennials were decent because they were similar to gen X, late millennials were the avocado toast obsessed type who helped destroy 4chan, zoomers were a negligible influence until at least halfway through the pandemic

>>43683989
>literally spouting boomerisms
This is why no one likes you