You ever think about how pathetic using 4chan is? Like rather than using a website where you have a face, a persona, maybe an interest, make friends etc you just post images to nothing and nobody. I grew up here and coming back I really regret it, it stunted my growth as a person sadly.
Back in the day I posted on Facebook as if it were 4chan and it cost me everyone.
>>83155325Using a website stunted your growth? You sound pretty weak.There's a great screencap of some anon's argument that anonymous image boards are superior to typical social media because, in anonymous imageboards, your posts are judged based on the merit of their contents alone, whereas social media platforms promote conformity and virtue signaling to maximize karma/social-points.
>>83155325>a website where you have a face, a personaWhy the fuck would you want those?>maybe an interestAre you even aware of the rest of the website you goddamn retard? There are like two dozen boards for specific interest topics.
>>83155344I think the frequent usage of a site revolving around anonymity certainly can stunt ones social development. In regards to posts being judged on merit here rather than in social conformity, I agree but I think this falls into specifically singular posts rather than the creation of a holistic voice which one requires to develop a proper sense of self. Like if the issue of mass social media sites is conforming to an algorithem/reversion to what is socially acceptable than the issue here is the disconnection of ideas.
>>83155348It's not the same and you know that in regards to interest. Nobody posts their original works here and every take is fucking garbage. This is exactly the kind of stunted caveman behavior I am talking about. It's like that Sam Hyde video where he's talking about retards believing that they can just be the best and brightest smart precious little boy in a complete vacuum and the world will just magically reward them for existing.
>>83155403Try a different board you stupid fucking braindead tiktokbrained nigger.
>>83155427Ok again stupid knee jerk reaction. I am well aware there are other boards, I explained it in the post.
>>83155403A certain /vg/ thread hosts the highest quality multiplayer for a niche autism game.
>>83155325>You ever think about how pathetic using 4chan is?I usually think about how pathetic it is to use other websites, actually.>Like rather than using a website where you have a face, a persona, maybe an interest, make friends etc you just post images to nothing and nobody. I don't want to post or read because the system incentivized to do so. The only good reason to post is for no reason at all. Updoots just corrupt the experience. Friends just corrupt the experience. 4chan is the source of culture from which all of internet culture flows precisely because it's not held to the same consequences of other inferior websites.>I grew up here and coming back I really regret it, it stunted my growth as a person sadly.Then you used it wrong. 4chan, weilded and engaged with correctly gives you the strength of mind to post for no reason at all, to think for no reason at all, to talk with people for no reason at all.Everything and everyone here remains here consentually. There is no reputation or investement to be made here. Your experience with the website now is just as developed as the first day you used it. Yet, you're drawn back here, because for whatever reason you realize that the websites elsewhere that intigrate as much cause and effect as they can manage to put in are inferior and exploitative. Meanwhile, 4chan remains transparant, simple, and not out to personalize your experience to sell you products or grab your attention.At least for me, 4chan has facilitated my growth. I have agency here. I can express myself freely here. No sense of identity is worth that autonomy, to me.
>>83155325>you just post images to nothing and nobodywhat do you mean nobody? doesnt make sense. i imagine 4chan as like a big crowd and everyone gets a free megaphone and they just start yelling stupid shit into the air
>>83155325channers when they move to other websites https://youtube.com/watch?v=AdQsOdvBViw
>>83155499You idiot don't you realize you are diminishing yourself and losing the very discrimination you seek to cultivate. You lose your autonomy when you are available to everything, when you have no features or expierence, you become an uncaring void of person old. Without investing into yourself you lose yourself.
>>83155543>you are diminishing yourself and losing the very discrimination you seek to cultivate.I don't seek to cultivate discrimination. The day I do is the day my inevitable decay begins. Art is at its best when it is only for its own sake. There should not be moral sympathies. There should not be facts I'm overly concerned with and fetishize. I post here for pleasure and purely pleasure. 4chan is the aesthete's website. That is why it is the superior website. >You lose your autonomy when you are available to everything, when you have no features or expierence, you become an uncaring void of person oldBy the website's nature, that is a natural way to feel. But, it is for the best. Were you, a participant in Plato's cave, watching only shadows on a wall your entire life, to experience the sunlight above and true autonomy, you'd hate it too. This feeling of absurdity and your drive for meaning is indicitive of the damage done to you elsewhere, by life. The need for meaning has ruined 4chan for you. It has prevented you from doing things merely for their own sake.>Without investing into yourself you lose yourself.Maybe if the way you define yourself is your own oppression and enslavement, sure. And I will get there. But that will be a sad day when I've let myself fall so far as to have an immutable personality beyond what is necessary to survive. Don't you ever get bored? Being embodied and all that? Even in your own fantasies? Even in your dreams and asperations you cuck yourself with miserable facts and figures.
>>83155663This is a terrible argument that doesn't work. I can tell by the hodge-podge of pop-philosophy factoids that you are truly doomed to just waste your time drolling in front of a monitor. The platonic cave doesn't have any relation at all to if cultivated identity reflects the true self or not. Furthermore Isnt the whole point of the cave that you no longer exist in the imaged figurative world but the real world which does consist of facts, figures and real people with continuous experiences and features , wouldn't it follow that this is the cave? Furthemore you're understanding of aesthetics is a childish normie derivation of kant's theory of aesthetics.
>>83155325>You ever think about how pathetic using 4chan is?not really, I don't give a fuck
15 years, I could have had a life
>>83155325There's virtually no difference other than being anonymous. I use all sorts of social media. It's nothing special. Don't get why you have such a weird complex about it.
>>83155759This man knows the pain
>>83155759and not a fucking peep
>>83155745>just waste your time drolling in front of a monitor.And you're doomed to spend all your time thinking of waste.>The platonic cave doesn't have any relation at all to if cultivated identity reflects the true self or notSure it does. Normies spend their whole lives experiencing life with consequences, a mere shadow of what exists. And they can't stand freedom.>Furthermore Isnt the whole point of the cave that you no longer exist in the imaged figurative world but the real world which does consist of facts, figures and real people with continuous experiences and features , wouldn't it follow that this is the cave?No, not at all. The point is that you now would exist in plato's world of forms, and you don't like it because it's not material reality. Plato's cave is an analogy against materialism, not for it.>Furthemore you're understanding of aesthetics is a childish normie derivation of kant's theory of aesthetics.I did not get my understanding from Kant, nor do I think that man has even a fragmatory sense of style. He's extremely tedius.
>>83155325Shut up nigger I've ascended to agartha through interfacing with this blessed site
>>83155342For me it was Twitter.
idc how pathetic it may or may not be that i'm still here. other platforms keep pandering to low iq normalniggers and phone zombies. i was never good at socializing anyway. this is fine.
>>83155325And by the time you realize it, you're fucked.
>>83155325>You ever think about how pathetic using 4chan is? Using? No. I wouldn't say I think some identifiable personalities are "pathetic" per se, but I do think they're somehwat regarded. I don't partake in the self-deprecation that some do like when they hope 4chan finally dies so they can "finally live a normal life". 4chan isn't the problem, that's just a scapegoat.
>>83155342just out of curiosity, could elaborate on what happened?
I used to post on a niche hobby forum. Post count ranks, signatures, everything. Everybody recognized everybody. I didn't like the feeling of that at all, and I dislike it retrospectively, too. It wasn't friendly, it was more like middle-school social power games. This is better for me. Although /r9k/ really IS pathetic. Also I've read articles where "journalists" doxxed controversial people and cancelled them by their forum use. So fuck that. Not that I'm untraceable, but at least it won't be that easy for some random tard to embarrass me and fuck me over, and I don't have to worry quite so much that what I write might come back to bite me. I don't want to have to sit downa and justify my liberal use of "kys nigger retard" to some braincucked npc.
