Sometimes it seems society judges people who are sad as being 'victims' or choosing to live pathetically, but I feel that the usual people who are having a nice time in life are not very deep people. It's not about intellectual superiority, it's not about intellect at all, it's more of an emotional thing- people who are easily satisfied with what society offers do not form truly strong bonds.

This board seems to have taken on a strange evolution since the time I've been here. (10+ years) Mental illness used to be an insult you'd use, now it's a popular thread where it's quirky and healing from trauma isn't as rewarding as connecting over the identity it brings.

Weird fetishes and shame/humiliation kinks used to be hilarious, but now that laughter adds to the every day humiliation pleasure for so many people. Goth girls have been so overdone, that it's no longer attractive to be Goth purely because of the style but because it's now a status symbol that has been meme'd to death, becoming the new 'trophy wife', undoubtedly bringing much vapid and needless pain into relationships.

Everything just seems so dirty.. Not because puritanism is better, but because the thrill of sex usually came from doing 'dirty' things. Now that dirty things are everywhere, there's no excitement anymore. Who can really say they've found exciting relationships here?

If you feel the way I do, can we start forming some kind of solidarity? I'm drowning in it all, and I'm tired of being seen as less than for feeling disaffected, and uninspired. How would a person find any of this motivating, if this is what there is to offer?

TL;DR I want friends and I'm lonely, join my discord server
https://discord.gg/hS73m7cc