Is everybody on 4chan joking all the time? Are you guys always joking? I can't tell anymore. I can't tell if you are joking are you joking? How do i know whats real anymore?

maybe

>>33255935 (OP)
Some people joking most people on here are racist

>>33255935 (OP)
I never 100% joke, but I try to lighten things a little in order to make my message more palatable.

>>33255935 (OP)
so how's autism treating you?

>>33256124
i'm not autistic

>>33256154
only autistic people not know when others are joking
you might not be a diagnosed autism but you for sure should have yourself tested.

>>33256172
i know when people are joking irl

>>33256177
you sure do

>>33255935 (OP)
If you're doing it right it shouldn't matter.

>>33256183
i know thats a joke retard

>>33256195
huh wat u mean?

>>33256208
that wasn't a joke tho, it was an ironic comment.

>>33256225
same thing

>>33255935 (OP)
if it's anti-semitism, it's not a joke
anything else could be jokes/ exaggeration/ trolling

>>33255935 (OP)
Both

>>33255935 (OP)
Is that sarcasm?

It's like how you code switch between social groups in your life. For example, the personality you wear around your family is different from your work colleagues, which is different to your childhood friends, and is different again from your own spouse/kids.

Though it's not enforced, most 4chan boards have a culture of out-crowd hostility and in-crowd antagonism/sarcasm. A lot of what you'll read has a grain of truth but is highly embellished and stylized because everybody wants the 4chan equivalent of popularity. Just like everybody on Twitter or TikTok wants to go viral, everybody on 4chan wants to have their post or greentext screenshotted and reposted.

So everybody's not joking, but that doesn't mean they're being completely serious either.

>>33255935 (OP)
it can be a bit much sometimes. i just take everyone seriously when in doubt, because usually if theyre joking it's only funny to them and maybe their discord friends. and it's always good to set the record straight.

>>33255935 (OP)
Yes, anon, we live in a world where all the major countries are involved in or supporting the bombing of children but everything mean said on the internet is just trolling.

>>33255935 (OP)
I only use this site 90% of the time to call people retarded and to try and make them mad. The other 10% is giving some /adv/

>>33257869
but the posts that get screencapped almost always seem sincere

>>33258073
Not really lol

>>33255935 (OP)

This feels like the perfect thread to mention that I've always felt out of place on 4chan. I don't know why. I guess it's a mix of introversion and autism. But even most 4chan boards feel like a group of normies to me. Even though I'm more of a normie in the traditional sense. Like 4channers are normies in the sense that they have interests and hobbies and have lively exchanges with likeminded people. No social anxiety, no depression, just normies being normies. Just putting it out there because I feel like my kind probably lurks threads like these.

>>33255935 (OP)
You're a big guy, you'll figure it out

>>33258437
This is the second time I ever opened this board in 9 years, I just happened to be here. And yeah I get what you mean, my weekend consisted of me gaming at night alone and sleeping through the day, to be honest this is my weekends for years. At work I equip a "personality" just so that things go smooth, which I unequip at home, where I don't care about the outside world. It takes months if not a year to watch a movie I wanted to see, because I don't feel like it. All my friends drifted away, or we stopped talking or I rejected someone's advances long ago. No one wants to befriend an adult man, especially if he is solitary like a 900 bc monk.
I often wondered why it is like this, without much results but slowly getting to accept the consequences. Guess being abandoned and mocked by people you thought were friends in early influential years did not help. As adults it is always about connections and what you can give and if you can't give much, no point in befriending your ass.
And as you say, there are lots of miserables here and somehow they still have hobbies, friends or passions. Those nerd cons and speedruns for example, I "like" gaming but you can't force me with a gun to interact with the people there. Maybe it's a superiority complex, a feeling of "I'm better than them". I like a type of music, but going to a concert or a festival brings out loads of people I can't see myself interacting with. And a guy alone who is not social on a social event, won't go well.

It always felt like being lost between worlds and cliques, like being a flying rock between multiple planets, orbiting then passing through, maybe changing my trajectory. It takes thousand years if not more to pass another space rock, but we are both slinged between gravitational pulls so we go opposite directions, never to meet again.
Sounds gay, I just made it up, but sounds like how it is. Met some people I just clicked with, but it always fell apart for some reason.

>>33259995
Had to stop because word count limit, but the point is there I think. This world just doesn't work for some people. Anything besides laying idle feels like pretending, larping to be more, without honesty.
>>33255935 (OP)
You don't, it comes with the place. A long informative post can be a troll, a personal blog can be a larp and a girl will be a man here. But also there is no risk or reward, so more chance to find honest replies than on reddit where you better watch what you post.

>>33255935 (OP)
We are shakespearean fools. We are joking but we are not. Tricksters, coyotes.

>>33259995
I think I get what you mean.
I play an MMO and been with a guild for like 6 years. Get along great in voice with them and decided to go to their yearly real life meetup. It was good putting faces to the voices but I couldn't help but feel I was super out of place there and I could never pin-point exactly why. I went to a gaming convention and also a renaissance faire, both places filled with my hobbies, and I still felt like I didn't truly belong there either.