>So glad I didn't visit the cities and regions with stuff to do... that would be so Reddit>If you aren't spending 3 months in Kandra, Jharkhand you aren't actually travelling, you're just going on a reddit vacation.
Social media has ruined traveling, chuds are just mad one of their hobbies has been ruined by women (again).
>>2866784>Likes doing reddit things>Gets called reddit for liking reddit things>Post thread on 4chan, complaining about what 4chan likes... because it isn't redditAnon you are worse than a bennie stealing immigrant
>>2866784>Kandra, JharkandMiss me with that Stacy shitReal Travellers™ spend their holidays in Bihar
If someone on /trv/ calls it reddit then you either A) found the spot they thought was neat B) found a perfectly normal to go to placeWhen you realize something like 75% of this board is NEETS faking social security or welfare benefits and maybe some "vets" who got disability because they stubbed their toe and live abroad, you stop caring so much. Last year I took the plunge and met up with some 4chan people from /trv/ in Asia and Europe... Let me tell you only like 1 or 2 of the dozen I met had anything resembling a well balanced life. Most of them were just along the lines of "yeah I might be living in a turd world shithole but at least I am not back in <major EU/US city> filled now with migrants and nogs!"
>>2866784I had just been thinking that the catalog was surprisingly clear of shit threads lately. I guess we're onto the next wave.
>>2866819I disagree. I think this is a gem of a thread.
>>2866784both are low iq in factpeople with an actually high iq travel to do astrophotography
>>2866825Everyone thinks you should kill yourself.
Most obscure/off the beaten track travel destination suck becuase it's just miles of road and run down shacks alongside them. If you look at anywhere in Jericho besides the more tourist areas it's just cars.
>>2866784>So glad I didn't visit the cities and regions with stuff to do... that would be so Redditnot reallythe actual reasonif you're on /trv/ and not a coomer / neetyou likely already traveled a lot or you have some specific niche interest in some regionthen of course all the normie destination are boringlike yeah Tokyo, Bangkok or Seoul cool and all, but I don't need to go there for the 7th time in the last 10yalso there's little value in suggesting <most average thing to do>because you can get the same information from chatgpt or literally any travel blog / sitethe only reason why I'm on /trv/ is exactly to get these niche tipsobviously do your own researchbut knowing why>Kandra, Jharkhandmight be interesting, is the reason why this board isn't a shithole
>>2866784Just admit it. You've always been happiest when you are doing the "in" thing that everybody else is doing. You're a beta; that's your nature. So go enjoy your beta trend-follower life and stop bothering the rest of us with your sniveling. >>2866799I browse reddit enough to know when a spot is reddit tier, because the same handful of places are mentioned ad nauseum on any travel-related subreddit. In fact, the whole purpose of reddit travel inquiries can be boiled down to the question of "what places are currently trending?"
>>2867160You're clearly just passing through. Of course you're only going to see the shacks along the highway.
The /trv/ board operates on a philosophy of aggressive counter-signaling and a pathological obsession with "authentic" suffering. To understand why they post like this, you have to look at how they define themselves against the rest of the internet.1. The "Reddit" vs. "Autist" DichotomyIn the /trv/ worldview, there are two types of people: tourists (Redditors) and travelers.The "Redditor": Someone who visits "curated" experiences—London, Tokyo, or Paris. They want safety, English-speaking guides, and Instagrammable landmarks. To /trv/, this is "plastic" and "soulless."The "Traveler": Someone who seeks the "raw" reality of a place. On /trv/, "raw" usually translates to "industrial, impoverished, or dangerous."2. Status Through ObscurityStatus on 4chan is earned by having a higher barrier to entry than the average person. Anyone can buy a flight to Rome, but it takes a specific type of person to spend months in a non-descript industrial town in Jharkhand, India. By praising these places, users signal that they have the "grit" to handle the "real world" that "normies" are too afraid to see.3. Hyper-Ironic ElitismA lot of these posts are performative. Users take a valid desire for off-the-beaten-path travel and push it to an absurd extreme to mock others. It’s a form of gatekeeping where the goal is to make common experiences feel shameful. If you enjoyed your trip to a major city, you "failed" the test of being a "real" traveler.4. The "Path of Most Resistance"There is a belief on the board that misery equals merit. If you didn't get food poisoning, sleep on a concrete floor, or find yourself in a situation where nobody speaks your language, you didn't actually "experience" the culture—you just watched it through a window. AnswerThe /trv/ board uses hyper-ironic elitism and counter-signaling to reject mainstream tourism, valuing obscure, uncomfortable experiences as a way to distinguish themselves from "normie" travelers.
>>2867384There's nothing absurd about it, numbnuts. We simply enjoy unique exploratory experiences in a world where you can find 1,000,000 Instagram shots of the goddamn Eiffel Tower. The fuck is the point of wasting a bunch of your hard-earned money to raise the total to 1,000,001? People who say travel is nothing more than frivolous consumerism are talking about this kind of travel. >a situation where nobody speaks your languageIs this really a novelty for you reddit faggots? Jeezus Christ, your kind really don't get around much, do you?>muh obscurityThere you go again ranking every place not by what experiences it offers the visitor, but by how much it is currently trending on English-language media. Fucking hiveminds. You'll happily go to any shithole as long as other angloids are talking about it, but you'll never go to an amazing place that has zero English vlogs. And to cope, you'll insist that all these amazing "obscure" places are actually shitholes with nothing worth seeing.
>>2866784I don't go travelling to visit McDonalds. I like checking out lesser known places.
>>2867384>valuing obscure, uncomfortable experiences as a way to distinguish themselves from "normie" travelersif not wanting to spend thousands of dollars to visit third world shitholes makes me a normalfag, then so be it.I'll be enjoying my ramen and strong zero in Tokyo while other people on this board smear themselves in shit while believing they are ascended.
>>2867392>>2867400You're replying to chatgpt btw
>>2866784Because this place is full of bitter losers who will desperate clutch at any opportunity to feel superior to normies. The truth is that 99% of places are famous for a good reason. Sure overtourisn exists but almost everything worth seeing is famous. Almost everyone enjoys those places. Mostly because they don't just do sightseeing, they also meet people, party, make friends, hook up, etc. When you're a disillusioned autist without anything going for you of course you'll think being well travelled is some kind of incredible humblebrag. Meanwhile everyone and their mother has travelled and travelling hasn't impressed anyone for at least the past fifteen years. I've met idiots like that IRL, name dropping some obscure shitholes to women and expecting people to give a shit only to be politely ignored. Just look at most generals it's just desperate losers talking about hookers in SEA mostly, that alone should tell everything about the average poster. Its probably also a millennial thing because you love being contrarian and hipster.
>>2867424>everyone and their mother has travelledNot to the places I go. They see virtually zero foreign travelers. One thing you got right is that western tourist normalfags don't give a shit about places that aren't trending. Doesn't matter how interesting the places are; if there is no name recognition, they couldn't care less. And thus they get stuck in places where traveling is nothing special, because tourists are a dime a dozen.>famous for a good reasonThey're hyped, that's all. You only think they are worth seeing because they are hyped. If they weren't hyped, like 90% of interesting places around the world, they wouldn't be worth seeing in your opinion. You are a marketer's perfect mark.
>>2869556I've hitchhiked across Europe and I've been to plenty obscure places and my opinion still stands. Camped out and slept in places where no normal person would ever dare. Places are hyped for a reason, it's not like you can manifest long term tourism to a place that isn't worth seeing. You type out your thoughts like one of those fedora autists from early 2010s.>in this moment I am euphoric...
>>2869894Once investors have decided to turn a place into a tourism destination and market it as such, it becomes "worth visiting". Most people follow crowd trends and enjoy a touristy environment, so old buildings surrounded by gawking tourists will always be more "worth visiting" than the same buildings lacking the visitor hordes and the tourist-oriented businesses. Plenty of places that will be trending in 2040 lie undiscovered by foreign visitors today. No, the crowd is not an infallible judge of destination quality, and your suggestion that it is such is laughable, as anyone who has been to a shitty, overcrowded resort area can attest.
>>2869896Yeah yeah bro we get it you're more enlightened and more intelligent than the normies, you've cracked the reality and shit.
>>2869899Logic-based intuition. You should try it sometimes. Often the most logical choice runs contrary to the most popular choice, and so many people are not strong-minded enough to run counter to prevailing influences. Not with "I hate society" misanthropy, but with the calm determination that comes when you trust your brain to make the right choice for the circumstances every time. Even though others are always second-guessing you or trying to convince you that they know better. 99% of the time, they don't.
>>2869907I tip my fedora to you my good sir. This was most eloquent of you to declare so.
>>2867189Did you just wake up from a 10 year coma? The /trv/ you're talking about is long gone. I'm only here to check if a question I couldn't find an answer to on the web has got an answer yet, and sure enough I just got a few responses from retards (I think one was actually written by chatgpt).
>>2867384>but it takes a specific type of person to spend months in a non-descript industrial town in Jharkhand, IndiaAn autist with nothing better to do?
>>2869944It's all about the hotel. Some rooms & beds make you want to lay around 22 hours a day for the foreseeable future. Others, you're eager to move on at the crack of dawn. I've fallen into a comfy trap for the past six days, though tonight an obnoxiously loud and horny cricket has been chirping without a second's pause for the past hour. He was so annoying that I got out of bed and went downstairs to find him. Fat and sassy next to his burrow entrance under a potted plant. Spotting me, he scurried underneath. Perfect. I jammed up his burrow entrance with some pebbles, and it was like pushing the mute button on his ass. If I'm not getting laid tonight, then you're not gonna get any either, cricketbro.
>>2867392I, too prefer generic dusty alleys and grand vistas of dry deforested scrublands over Paris
>>2870004Everyone treats me like a VIP here. Can't get that in Paris for $20 per day.
>>2870164Are you getting girls without paying though? Anything else is cope
>>2867392bro is responding to chatgpt and yet still falling into the very thing it describes.
>>2870284B-but she said I'm handsome! Women back home dont want be because of feminism.
>>2870328Remarkable how many tards on this board clearly regurgitate ideas and perspectives they've seen posted online instead of speaking from their own real-life experience. >>2870284If I wanted to fornicate so badly, I'd have gone to Latin America. Average Marias will salsa dance with their legs gyrating against the crotch of a random guy while he grips her back, no hesitation at all. Asian women are much more restrained and have much lower libidos as a whole. >>2870328This constantly parroted meme of the Asian continent being a paradise of women who are BWC-loving sluts while simultaneously being demure 18 year old virgins is a coomer fantasy. >you must be ugly, you must be bald, blah blahYeah yeah, your kind always hate it when I dash your fantasies into the reality of the Asian streets and the people you encounter along them. It's about as sexless an environment as you could possibly think of.
>>2871511Asian women are as much of whores as any other women and they're incredibly materialistic. It's actually comical how much they hate their own men when given any freedom in choosing mates. I don't think anyone but overweight retards who think anime is real life think that the women over there are traditional or chaste. With that said they're also fucking ugly, its comical how much worse they look than white women, and from what I've seen 9/10 when someone goes for Asian women its usually an unattractive white guy, so its easy to see why people will assume someone is a loser when they're going to Asia for pussy.
>>2867397>I don't go travelling to visit McDonaldsBut the McDonald's menu can vary greatly depending on the country
>>2869896yes marketing and real estste investors are the reason people want to visit the great works of architecture across europe, god you cant be fucking serious
>>2871981Yes, there is a lot of variation. Here in India the McDonalds advertises a McAloo burger. Basically a slice of breaded potato instead of a beef burger. You can't get such an awful McDonald's burger anywhere else but India.>>2871522The only Asian women who hate their own men are the ones who hate their own culture and family as well. They reject everything they have to go be a ho in the big city or else migrate to the West for the career opportunities. There are a billion traditional Asian women, but they are found in the countryside mostly, and they are much uglier than the ambitious greedy hoes desu.
>>2872065Is it like a hashbrown or more similar to a potato croquete? Honestly I'd be keen to try because I like potatoes a lot.
>trv tells me some place is shit>it's fine(taiwan), Norway, NZ>trv tells me some place is GOAT'd>it's shit (Malaysia), Cambodia, Chang Mai(bangkok was okay I guess)I always forget to keep in mind that this board is full of "rich" people who make 35k/yr on NEETbux or cryptobro's slowly spiraling their bank accounts down
>>2872193Everyone told me Paris is a shithole and I'm basically putting my life in danger but I ended up having an absolute blast and walking everywhere at night with no issues.This board is full of gay retards.
>>2872193You were just doing it wrong
>>2872200Not sure how I am supposed to do it right then. What eat 2 dollar 711 or some street slop, sleep in some <300/mo place, and push all my remaining money to cheap whores? Then try to flex on trv about it? No thanks. I can just live abroad and travel while I enjoy my life living comfortable.
>>2872201And that's your problem. You lack the willingness to learn how to live well while traveling in developing countries. There's no substitute for spending lots of time and learning from your mistakes.
>>2872196Same but i think it was everyone shitting on paris so my expectations were rock bottom.
