The self hatred was infectious. Every comment on there revealed a personality carefully curated in avoidance of some hypothetical individual worthy of hate.
I couldn’t point to any notable triumphs, but the sense that a cultural form - memeing - was being refined with extraordinary speed by a community of anonymous shitposters was occasionally exhilarating. The inside-joke aspect - getting to know the idioms, the copypasta, the rituals and routines.
That individual worthy of hate being 'the normie,' I guess, though that word wasnt actually used all that often in mt experience. If you talked about artists that had been covered by a popular blogs like Pitchfork, RYM and etc. you were a normie. Even talking about artists popular soley on 4chan made you a normie. Anything at all that could link you back to some specific sub culture that could be identified by some other poster was a sin. The board behaved like an unspoken game was at play, the goal of which to find how everyone else on the board was actually just another mindless drone, yourself included.can you expand on that a bit I don’t quite get it
4chan also had the effect of the cool older cousin who revealed how some of the things you liked were actually cheap, fake, bullshit and changed your perspective in the process. Think that was a big draw.I couldn’t point to any notable triumphs, but the sense that a cultural form - memeing - was being refined with extraordinary speed by a community of anonymous shitposters was occasionally exhilarating. The inside-joke aspect - getting to know the idioms, the copypasta, the rituals and routines.
That individual worthy of hate being 'the normie,' I guess, though that word wasnt actually used all that often in mt experience. If you talked about artists that had been covered by a popular blogs like Pitchfork, RYM and etc. you were a normie. Even talking about artists popular soley on 4chan made you a normie. Anything at all that could link you back to some specific sub culture that could be identified by some other poster was a sin. The board behaved like an unspoken game was at play, the goal of which to find how everyone else on the board was actually just another mindless drone, yourself included.
4chan also had the effect of the cool older cousin who revealed how some of the things you liked were actually cheap, fake, bullshit and changed your perspective in the process. Think that was a big draw.
have you moved on from this and howTotal cynicism is very attractive to teenagers. It made me look clever to older people, feel smarter and cooler than people my age
have you moved on from this and how