I was watching this chickhttps://youtu.be/h8gTjDXbItQ?t=203discuss how the WWW has seen the mainstreamification of "incel lingo" when she suddenly threw up the Virgin vs Chad meme and jumped directly to talking about how such memes "about incels" started spreading around Xitter and other places in the early 2020s for the purpose of "ironically making fun of incels" rather than actually propagating the ideology.Me being an oldfag robot didn't appreciate the callous lack of context here, thinking to myself about how silly it was that she lacked the full story. I decided to do some digging to make sure I wasn't misremembering, and had a nice little trip down memory LOL looking through the dozens and hundreds of posts mentioning "the virgin walk", trying to pinpoint the origin of the now infamous image, to confirm it was in fact just a bait image making fun of the fellow loser robots on this board rather than anything to do with "inceldom" proper, a term nobody used here back then or even adjacently centered as a guiding principle of the board. And lo and behold, I found the first thread with it:>>35749365The OP goes on to claim that in fact, he was also the creator of the typology of robots chart, along with the archetype of The Cerebrotronic (my own type), which he claims he based on himself, and in turn based this virgin walker upon.Posted March 23rd, 2017, it came after at that point pretty much a full year of various anons discussing the mythical "virgin walk" which they'd supposedly been the victims of or observed others of being.What gets missed however was that this meme was about playing upon fellow users' insecurities to laugh at them, and make the gullible anxious about something marking them as losers which was partially true but partially exaggerated. It was already ironic and gave no fucks about your inability to have sex; what was more important was getting to see you freak out about it and lmfao.
Thanks for the essay, unc. Found your penis under the fat yet?
>>85431593"Incel" isn't an ideology. The reality is that Normies discovered the only safe spaces used by Autistic men and then created an anti-Autist ideology of their own.
/r9k/ in the mid-2010s was never about being an "incel". It was about being a robot.You didn't automatically disqualified from being a robot even if you had sex:>>31905403Being a robot was about being a loser in life due to specific but varying circumstances which would have drawn someone to become a regular user of this site and of this board specifically.Your sexlessness could have been just one of many factors for a dissatisfactory life, and many people who had or hadn't had sex harbored no illusions about the little difference having sex even just once would have made in the total happiness in their lives.Because sexlessness was never what united the userbase here, and since everyone who came here to begin with was by default assumed to be a loser in some way shape or form, there was no compunction about making fun of each other and exploiting each other for comedic content.This Virgin Walk meme and the Virgin vs Chad meme it then spawned was less a guidebook or infograph for potential self-improvement and moreso an observation and imagination of phenomena filled with hilarity.Most people even here as well as outsiders have little clue what the culture of /r9k/ actually was like and how much discourse about modern social and sexual dynamics originated here. It's important for us to revisit this unique era of the board's history---its arguable peak---and delineate what was real about it versus what it's been conflated with where it comes to the more-zoomer and normalfag legible late 2010s onward cultures, Inceldom included.
>>85431600Here you go conflating inceldom and autism. You can be autistic and not an incel. You can be an incel and not autistic. They have little to nothing to do with each other.Inceldom is essentially an ideology at this point and has been since its revival. But my point is that /r9k/, and its content, was never about "inceldom" in that sense, and has little ties to what would become known as incelry.
>>85431593/r9k/ used to be funny, but it was so long ago that I sometimes wonder if I'm just remembering it wrong. In any case, it's completely devolved over the years into the humourless, hateful place it is now. Very few posters seem to have any sense of humour at all any more, and most just come here to snivel about how much they hate all women for not fucking them. There's also a weirdly pervasive purity spiraling here, if you ever admit to not being a virgin you're called a "failed normie", and told you have it so much easier than they do because you're "neurotypical".
>>85431593I'd come here a lot when I was 12 in 2016. Every still acted like assholes but there was a greater sense of community about it. People shared their likes, hobbies, music, random vocaloid, vidya etc like we were incels but it wasnt the only thing about us. nowadays it is just "x fembot", politics Jestermaxxing, someone spamming their fetish. Sad it has become this. Characters were better to, anyone remember eggy/eggman? I think he made the first black pill video.
>>85431677>being unable to get a gf is essentially an ideologyReddit has rotted your brain beyond any hope of recovery. Just go back and stay there.
>>85431848The actual problem is that the average user here in the 2020s is incredibly self-centered and self-unaware as if their own issues mean the world. The average robot back then was a lot more conscientious, not just well-meaning. And yes, more people now seem to believe it all revolves around sex and their being denied it.Old /r9k/ didn't focus on self-improvement enough, but nu-/r9k/ hasn't learned anything from the mistakes of the past and the absolute wealth of information which now exists on every corner of the internet which you used to only be able to get from here.
Redditfrogs ruined this board in 2014 and it was unusable dogshit between then and 2024, it hadn't been good since 2013 when it was basically /adv/ but with porn.Fun fact too. I was the person who trolled the board and mods into turning the "robot" back on in 2015. Fucking somehow that dumb ass feature is still on LOL
Damn, it's true. People here were genuinely funnier and more intelligent. A lot of users now are legitimately too stupid to be funny. Not even complaining about people gatekeeping for being normalfags as >>85431848 is, but the total lack of creative spark or spirit. Even in the most joyless cunts on here used to at least have amusing perspectives.
>>85431933That day they put eggmans photos on a dating site pretending to be a woman was incredibly red pilling for for me with his 50 msg's/likes within the first day which we all knew dating market was bad but NOT that bad holy shit. I feel good for him for escaping this crab bucket shithole as well. shitty pic related
>>85432252>the total lack of creative spark or spiritsomething that's important to point out here is that two of the biggest memes to ever come out of this board were actually made by just one guythere are edits of course, but it goes to show just how fragile and sparse that creative output of "the board" really was; we tend to overestimate the collective because of the anonymity of individual contributors
>>85432283he didn't escape, he just stopped coming herehe never ended up going all in on making it, or appreciably improving his life; that's actually escaping this placeif you're still a loser even after leaving here then you didn't learn anything and certainly didn't win
I was in the exact thread where then 'chad stride' was created, completing the virgin/chad memeit was august 2017 i believethese foids and their yellow text and faces in the thumbnail really are morons, they should be banned from making videos and posting online
>>85431593this picture is literally me. every text and illustration is dead on except im blonde and dont thin about my hands much when walking
>>85431848>There's also a weirdly pervasive purity spiraling here, if you ever admit to not being a virgin you're called a "failed normie",that's been a thing for years, you retarded normalfag lmao
>>85432580In their defense, old /r9k/ culture was just left to rot by users who moved on, and the relics were free to be excavated by lesser content farmers ignorant to the contextual significance they were produced with.Mid-2010s /r9k/ is ancient history at this point in the lifespan of the internet. It is however annoying at how obviously little digging a lot of them do. It's not like this stuff is impossible to find. Literally archived.
>>85432603You are correct that plenty of people claimed that even back then. But even back then, they were wrong. Losing your virginity to someone extremely undesirable, to a prostitute, or by rape, does not make you any less of a loser, or in this case, 'robot'.
But, the past is the past, and things don't last forever.
Can somebody tldr this for me I refuse to read more bitching
>>85433544you could try AII've done that for technical posts in /sci/ I couldn't even begin to hope to dissect by myself
The earnest meaning of incel (without all the extra adversarial boogeyman cliches attached) is nearly synonymous with forever alone and permavirgin, and those were constant talking points of genuine discussion.
Have never laughed at something in r9k. It was more for this >>85431933 even if what he mentions is just a retarded streamer which became the biggest problem in the site after homosexual spam
