How much of an influence does /lit/ have on the world? Does what happens on /lit/ stay on /lit/? Or are we the testing ground of future world historical movements?

lol
/lit/ isn't even relevant to /lit/. purely reactionary.
>the testing ground of future world historical movements
kek you fucking moron

>>24556844
Do you want me to say mean things to you? No? Ok then don't say mean things to me ok.

1% chance at relevance

1% more than anywhere else (but /fit/)

>>24556847
compared to reddit and xitter?

never forget

>>24556852
Reddit and Twatter are reactive

/lit/ is proactive

>>24556879
The image you've uploaded is a screenshot of what appears to be a fake or satirical article styled to look like a legitimate feature piece from a mainstream news outlet. It includes the following:


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Headline:

“How 4chan became the home of the elite reader”
Subhead: “The left is losing its grip on the literary realm.”

By Ella Dorn
Dated: 6 January 2025


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Visual:

A stylized photo of a woman reading in dramatic low light, suggesting literary intensity or introspection.

Credit: Antoine Boureau / Millennium Images, UK
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Excerpt from the article:

> “It’s a Friday in early January and someone on 4chan has invented a new philosophical doctrine: ‘esoteric Kantianism.’
‘You must not take Kant’s words at face value,’ the anonymous user warns—readers who do so will only take away shallow insights about the half-blind ‘normie mind.’ ‘You must read between the lines.’”
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Interpretation / Contextual Analysis:

This image seems to be part of a meme or bait-post designed to either:

Satirize the idea that 4chan is a genuine hub of high literary or philosophical insight,

Ironically embrace that narrative to provoke others (especially on /lit/) into discussion or backlash,

Or play into the recurring 4chan trope of contrarian elitism ("we’re the only ones who really get it").


The idea of “esoteric Kantianism” and warnings against reading Kant at face value is likely a parody of how some posters on /lit/ treat philosophy as occult or conspiratorial knowledge, and how they dismiss conventional interpretations as "normie-tier."


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Likely Fake / Fabricated Details:

There is no known journalist named Ella Dorn tied to a publication with this article.

The style, language, and claims (e.g., "4chan as the home of the elite reader") are hyperbolic and intentionally provocative—designed to bait responses.

It plays on the broader meme of 4chan being the “last bastion” of intellectual freedom or unfiltered thought.
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Summary:

This image is almost certainly a satirical or troll creation, made to look like a legitimate article while advancing a tongue-in-cheek or ironic claim that 4chan is now the intellectual center of literary discourse. It's effective bait for discussion, parody, or trolling—especially in places like /lit/ or Twitter where debates over intellectual elitism and cultural decline are common.

>>24556896
AI slop. Literally published in The New Statesman

> There is no known journalist named Ella Dorn tied to a publication with this article.
AI is cancer.

there's like ten fucking frogs on the catalog, kill yourself

>>24556880
>/lit/ is proactive
>he doesn't know we've been rehashing the same threads for the last 10 years

/lit/ is highly influential on the world

>>24556954
Lit is 1% proactive

1% more proactive than the rest of the web (except /fit/)

>>24556958
this

>>24556958
This. Max Lawton is crying on Twitter and Reddit over the criticisms originating from 4chan he received on his Guignol's Band translation excerpt. We have influence.

>>24556838 (OP)
4chan introduced the word slop to the masses

>>24556838 (OP)
Well it was the incubation site for the greatest writer to come out of Australia so that's something i guess

>>24556838 (OP)
the most influence /lit/ has ever had was when people started using the "bugs... easy on the carrots" picture for the big chungus meme

>>24557156
kys Woolswine you fat retarded fuck

>>24557164
In that case /lit/ is one of the most influential sites in the past decade

>>24557156
>the greatest writer to come out of Australia
But honestly, who is his competition? It's like being Employee of the Month at a dollar theatre.

>>24556838 (OP)
We influence the meta zeitgeist of the collective psyche beyond our unconscious matrix. God proposes, /lit/ disposes.

>>24557164
I still can't believe that is /lit/'s greatest meme. Even "start with the Greeks" hasn't had the reach Big Chungus has had. And, of course, /lit/'s most famous meme has absolutely nothing to do with books.

That tranny Yarvin posted here before and he’s now shadow minister of culture in the trumpenreich

>>24557156
I'm still waiting for your reply bro? And for those who read it please leave a review and rating however bad you thought it was, I don't care if it's a 1, just drop something on goodreads https://files.catbox.moe/ksuv4k.pdf

>>24556838 (OP)
It's completely irrelevant. Most people here are undergraduates trying to cope with the fact that they feel stupid during their 101 courses, posting every year about the same first impressions of people their age reading their first classics. This gets repeated over and over again.
The rest is weirdos who read in their free time, some of which have good opinions, most of which read as a way of confirming twisted political world view they cannot share out loud in their irl environment.
There are about three efforposters mostly lurking to see if the other two are still alive and drop some interesting book - one of them is me.
Given that the environment is for the most part juvenile, there is no original thought being developed here, ever - let it be being the testing ground of historical movements (there are no movements in 2025). The only utility it has for you, when you are young, is that you can find out about some genuinely good books - the /lit/ top 100 (pre 2016) and some of the charts constitute about 99% of the value of what you can find here. It can be a good starting point to get into novels in general, but after two years of reading you'll be more well read than almost anyone in here and you'll start noticing patterns in the discussions and stop posting, because you'll realize giving nueanced opinions on Blood Meridian to a bunch of 20 year olds is not going to achieve anything, even if you have published actual articles on McCarthy's work (like I did - on him and several others). At that point you'll realize coming here is an ugly compulsion from your younger years, just like masturbating to cartoon porn, and that it serves no purpose besides maybe feeding the worst part of you through some perverse form of stress relief when you call a stranger "stupid" on the internet. You'll realize you don't want to say anything in here anymore, but also you cannot leave, and every once in a while you'll throw a wall of text in the void when you feel very sad and very lonely.

>>24557164
>>24557312
Second is the pig and oaths one

>>24557690
there's some original stuff in chapter 4, and 10 here >>24557690, you are exactly the kind of experienced reader i want to review this

>>24557775
there's some original stuff in chapter 4, and 10 here >>24557690, you are exactly the kind of experienced reader i want to review this

>>24556846
based politeposter

This version of pepe the frog was originally posted on /lit/ and has since taken the internet by storm

I mean Jordan Peterson became Christian after browsing 4chan after all kek

>>24557775
Please post good rec wise anon, I actually do read but mostly lurking givne your stated reasons above. I posted a thread not too long ago about Roger J. Buscovich work 'Theory on Natural Philosophy' as a prelude to some of the most interesting works on field theory but most Anons either ignored or derailed it into shitflinging ramblings. I wanted to get deeper into history and nutrition but no one seemed to care. I dont know much about fiction but would like to get into it.

>>24556879
>The members of /lit/, 4chan’s literary subforum, love Dostoyevsky, Joyce and Nabokov. They abhor the gatekeepers of traditional publishing and the moral pieties that beset academia in the 2010s. They’ve created their own recommendation ecosystem in the form of homemade charts, huge Jpegs which serve as visual reading guides. “Start with the Greeks,” the most famous one says, leading beginners through an annotated flowchart from modern mythological retellings to Homer and then, eventually, Aristotle. This advice is dished out to wannabe autodidacts on /lit/ so often that it has become a meme. (“I will not start with the Greeks,” says a gun-toting civilian in one image, as soldiers surround his house and order him to read Plato.)

Kino

>>24556838 (OP)
>How much of an influence does /lit/ have on the world?
Anyplace where the 16 - 24 demographic resides is envied by marketers, politicians, and cultural ambassadors. The entire world is studying us, pulling out their hair, and shrieking, "HOW DO I GET THEIR MONEY?!"

Openly, they scorn us and say we arent allowed in their gay little clubs. Secretly they want us to write good reviews and make memes of their shitty propaganda masquerading as literature. This is why they're freaking out about the abandonment of western entertainment for Japanese and Korean stories.

>>24556838 (OP)
we run this shit

>>24558239
what money lmao, most of the retards who lurk here are poor misers

A possible reason why I want to commit suicide

>>24558286
We are a matter of months away from AI being able to solve the captchas and kill 4chan for good. Personally I am “banned for racism” half the time and rarely post anyway. It was a pleasure to serve with you gentlemen.

-2007 newfag

>>24557164
I still don't know what the fuck that was about

>>24558286
What the fuck happened in 2019? was that the fit/lit april fools joke?

>>24557775
glad to know you're still around. I wasn't too sure you and me would survive the days of the Big 4chan Down of 2025

>>24556838 (OP)
>bunch of books that were popular and recommended on /lit/ long before they became booktube and booktok hits
>/lit/ lingo from ten years ago is now part of twitterspeak
>discussions and opinions on here are critisized in The Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian...
/lit/ is a club without members, a scene without faces, a happening with no witnessess, an underground movement without a cause, a bottom without a pit

>>24558639
Peterson vs. Zizek debate. /pol/ and reddit descended on the board that day. It was awful. The board was almost entirely Peterson/Zizek threads because retards kept making new ones and the existing ones were maxxing out. It was kind of like /ftl/ for /tv/ but ten times worse.

>>24556838 (OP)
Well you do here zoomers saying this or that is "lit" so it must mean they must really admire this place.

>>24556838 (OP)
You will always be both a lab rat and an experimenter. You are a dualist. Become the racoon.

ELITE FUCKING READERS don't ask these questions because that means you're trying to know something. BECOME THE FUCKING RACOON.

What ever happened to esoteric kantianism?

>>24560795
It just became Kantianism

/pol/ is unironically more relevant than this dried up shack, sad to say