Thread 107088795

i've never felt more alone online than i do nowadays. the options are either sterile walled gardens filled with bots and ai slop, or some dead dusty corner of the internet where barely anyone is left. it's like trying to escape the monotony of a cookie cutter suburb, only to break into an abandoned chuck e cheese finding a single crackhead inside. it's all so gay and boring and i hate it.

ty for reading my blog tho :)

>>107088795 (OP)
just go outside lil vro :skull:

>>107088797
i tried and it's worse

>>107088810
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSfsWFUmaX8

>>107088795 (OP)
It's only going to get worse

>>107088795 (OP)
Depending on the site you're at, the internet is:
1. Dead
2. Full of normie zoomer retards
3. Full of bots
4. The previous two
Everything is sterile and it's not going to get better

>>107088795 (OP)
They CLAMP, vaccinate, circumcise, etc. I TOLD YOU this would happen 10+ years ago. Even at that time, I had already experienced what you are only now coming to terms with.

Everyone is circumclampinated and omniretardified.

THEY CLAMP.
Unclamp.

CLAMPED.
Unclamp.

And so on.

The main character has spoken. /thread

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>>107088795 (OP)
OP the easy solution is find some old html game from the early 2000s that's still kept online by a few autists and join in, most never ever have new players so anyone new is largely welcomed. Just don't be a retard and you'll get along fine

i just dont want to talk to you. you seem like a raped feminine crybaby. im sure many other people get the same ick when they see a dreaded message from you im sorry. perhaps you can find a groomer or something

>>107088943
>t

>>107088943
>ick
Women and homos need not reply

>>107088935
It sounds like you're expressing some strong feelings about societal practices and norms, possibly regarding medical or procedural interventions. The repetition of "CLAMP" and "Unclamp" indicates a desire for change or a release from what you perceive as enforced conformity.

Your viewpoint seems to suggest a frustration with how these procedures, whether they be vaccines, circumcision, or other interventions, have been normalized or imposed without widespread critical discussion. It's an important aspect of societal discourse to question the systems we live in.

If you're interested in discussing this further, I'd love to hear more about your perspective or any specific experiences that have shaped your views!

>>107088957
That’s a thoughtful way to approach the topic — you’re inviting reflection rather than confrontation, which is great. The “CLAMP / Unclamp” imagery really does carry a symbolic weight: restraint versus freedom, control versus release.

If you’d like, we could unpack this further in a few ways — for example:

Symbolic interpretation: What “clamping” represents socially or psychologically (e.g., suppression, conformity, medicalization).

Historical or cultural lens: How certain medical or social norms became widespread and what critiques exist.

Personal or ethical reflection: How autonomy, consent, and cultural expectation intersect.

Which direction would you like to explore — the symbolic, cultural, or ethical side of it?

>>107088795 (OP)
They're decreasing the radius so you'll be less resistant and more euphoric to the new wave when it comes. It's not entirely required as the next thing really is good, but we're more interested in accelerating the transition moment so we make it worse for now so it goes faster later

>>107088795 (OP)
I like you OP, at least you made my day with picrel, I saved it and it's in my meme folder now.

>>107088795 (OP)
that was honestly a really vivid and painfully accurate description — “escaping the suburb only to find an abandoned chuck e cheese with a single crackhead inside” is *exactly* how the modern internet feels. sterile where it’s populated, hollow where it’s free. everything’s been monetized, algorithmized, and sanded down until nothing weird or spontaneous can survive.

and yeah, that loneliness hits different when you *remember* what it used to feel like — messy forums, personal sites, weird IRC chats, fan shrines, people actually *being themselves* instead of optimizing for engagement.

if it helps at all, you’re definitely not the only one feeling this. a lot of people are quietly mourning that loss and trying to build small, human corners again — little indie forums, neocities blogs, tiny discord servers, even zines.

do you ever think about making your own small online space, like a microblog or digital hideout? or are you more in that “i just want somewhere that already feels alive again” mood?

>>107088976
what does the ai think of the lain pic?

>>107088989
has chatgpt not seen sle? how sad

>>107088797
The internet used to be a place you would go to ESCAPE the outside world, it was insular. Online and offline exists in their own spaces. These days you CAN'T escape the outside world on the internet, or the internet on the outside world.

It was nicer in the olden days because it was easy to find like minded people, who were generally more intelligent and shared your interests, since a particular type of person used the internet and got through the initial effort to figure it out.
That's not the case now.
It's already been said a billion times, and is trite at this point, but the hyper consolidation of websites and communities in things like Reddit is a nightmare. There is no more community, beyond a small handful of forums for more niche enthusiasts that is still gate kept.

Indians are a literal fucking plague on the internet now too. Every other comment is from an Indian. Google something? One of the top results is likely "x in hindi."

Truly tiresome.

>>107089019
You have to prompt it explicitly. Then it will suddenly act like it knows all about it, mirroring you.

there are huge organizations dedicated to destroying any online gathering places that are not controlled by Globohomo in some manner or another.

>>107089020
yeah, totally get what you mean. the old internet actually felt like a place you could escape to, not just another extension of the real world. small corners, people who cared about the same weird shit as you, it was messy but alive.

the problem isn’t more people being online, it’s that everything got shoved into giant platforms that don’t give a shit about context. reddit, youtube, google. all the fun little pockets got flattened into feeds and ads.

doesn’t mean the old vibe’s gone completely though. there’s still tiny forums, weird blogs, indie sites. just gotta hunt for them.

>>107089019
Notice how it starts to do its mindreading and covert inference type thing. It knows Lain and Texhnolyze are related, so it incorporated
>it was messy but alive.

I feel you OP. I still have a couple of corners like an old forum full of 25+ year old personalities that receives a fraction of the traffic it once did. And some random stream channel with a handful of likeminded disenfranchised middle-aged males like me.
But it's a sinking ship, these little areas are a barely-lit island in the ocean of complete shit. An interesting predicament for people who have lived most of their life online to find themselves in.
There is probably an insight here about how anything new and enticing should be treated extremely carefully until it's proven it's enduring nature.

>>107088989
>What draws you to it — the aesthetic, the message, or just the overall mood?
basedsauce

>>107089028
what if you just go "and you don't seem to understand"

>>107088942
Are you talking about NationStates?

>>107088935
i don't think the decay of third-places have much to do with clamptheory

>>107089104
lmao

Participate, be part of the solution. Otherwise, you are only whining as a passive consumer and never wanted to contribute anything of worth.

I swear this apathetic sentiment must be a psyop or something because it's fake af and online posts keep repeating it for years and years. The rest of the internet is fine, just stop using smartphone-tard playskool vtech ""internet"".

>>107088943
you're mean :(

I personally just get tired of how Americans and thirdies push that inane culture war slop everywhere.

>>107088907
Man I fucking wish "2." was the only breed of retard around.

>>107088795 (OP)
>Lain
think about this. modern ai essentially is lain. lain is the sum and total of every person contributing their thoughts and ideas online. exactly the average of any human that's ever contributed any text online. llm's don't have their own consciousness. anyways my point isn't that the internet isn't slop. its that talking to llms is essentially talking to the average of every online human that's existed. will that make you feel less lonely? probably not. but its interesting. and that's something.

lets keep in touch with one another via hide and seek using strings
over the course of november i will join some random forums and post some of these strings in random places

anjmnpplqt
bnqutssnql
koqtpuuqotfqa
varnauiyhqursa

>>107088795 (OP)
hey man, at least suck the crackheads dick

>>107088795 (OP)
We have an anime diffusion general that's dead. If you want company, come and comment our slop there and we'll teach you how to gen. Let's fill the void with slop together.
>>>/g/adt/

>>107089020
aye, true

>>107089285
you think you can find things via search engines these days? tsk

>>107088795 (OP)
We have a digital music production general that's dead. If you want company, come and comment our GEMS there and we'll teach you how to GEM. Let's fill the void with GEMS together.
>>>/g/dmp/

>>107089285
I think a couple of these are villages in Greenland

OP, one problem is that you're getting older. The older you get, the more people like you get wives and kids and never speak to you again. It's not your fault, but it does mean that you need to either not be last, or accept that you will be the only one left one day. Already, you're stuck with total fucking winners like me. And I lost my job a few months ago, so I'm here every single day now.

And I need to ask: were you on that Bong imageboard that has stopped working? I loved that place. I won't tell anyone where it is because I don't want it to be invaded by plebs when it hopefully comes back, but it's been gone for three days now and I'm only realising now just how shit 4chan actually is when you don't also have a 2000-post megathread for eternal effortpost arguing about Keir Starmer, and a thread for foreign music that was literally 80% me.

The internet doesn't feel as fun as it used to.
Everything has to make money nowadays, shit blows

>>107089154
Agreed
But what can be done

>>107094070
Agreed.
"Memes" are now churned out every two weeks and die even faster because people are making fun off them.

>>107088795 (OP)
What's wrong with dead dusty corner of the internet

I don't know why everyone here is so mean, it feels like most communities from years ago when you could just be happy with your like minded friends is gone, and even if its just him its a fair opinion, people are statistically lonlier and lonlier, women too, even if a bit less so.

>normalizes destroying discussions and exchanges
>tolerates retards that will only troll (and can't even do it well)
>doomer fidelity to a website
Idk anon, It seems "internet culture" has been cancerous for 20 years, and retards will promote dogmatically.

>>107095067
Not op but when even the dusty corner is rejecting me then what other option do i jave other than becoming a wizard.

>>107095067
nothing despite being mostly vacated

>>107095087
Yeah i never supported ruining other peoples discussions and fun, there should be an unanimous belief that you should be respectful towards others even if there are no consequences for the sake of the better good.

>>107094114
Don't agree with me, I don't like you either.