Why's this website and it's userbase so fucked in the head?

I'm not asking this as a newfag, I'm asking this as someone who has been here for over a decade, partook in the culture and usual shitpost flinging and shitting on others, but every since I became properly Christian, there's something that just changed about my entire feeling of this place. I barely ever post here like once or twice a month instead of daily, if something comes up like a new game release and that's about it, and every time I open it up, there's just something stirring in me that makes me feel disgusted and unfitting to be on here anymore. I started noticing the huge amount of conversations where people do nothing but just insult and curse at each other with no point for anything more and more and it all just feels so absolutely vile and disgusting, I just can't explain it but it feels like whenever I open this thing up again, I'm entering Sodom and Gomorrah, and anytime I don't conform to the usual shitposty personality that's been made up around this place, I just immediately get pointed at and shat on an either immediately called underaged or a newfag or whatever other type of slur possible depending on the context of my post.

This whole thing was something I had awareness of before this as well, but generally just ignored or tried not to pay much attention to it, but now it's just this feeling of filth that I keep getting myself in whenever I come visit again, which I shouldn't be in anymore or engage with.

>>712898560 (OP)
Kill yourself, faggot.

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>>712898560 (OP)
frognigger

>>712898560 (OP)
Humanity is fucked up in the head
But social media/gaming is moderated and everyone is a snowflake so it will kick you for everything, even t-bagging
Here you just reset your router and GG, plus anonymity and no moderation except racism outside of /b/

>>712898560 (OP)
Because everything on every board is about politics now, just like everywhere else

>>712898560 (OP)
This site is more than 20 years old. A decade is barely 50% of its lifetime. You ARE a newfag.

>>712898560 (OP)
Insane people try to ruin /v/ because they think it somehow ruined their get-rich-quick schemes in the 2010s and the mods also don't do their jobs well. It's good that you don't exclusively go here, anon.

Just please make sure you point out such problems in your church groups too, and hold the church accountable for continually covering up for the pedophiles in it.

>>712898560 (OP)
You're seeing literally retarded sub-90 thirdies and shartyfags with malfunctioning brains being their psychopath selves. That's how they behave by default. I'm not joking or exaggerating, you're dealing with people who are not interested in discussing and more interested in fucking up everything they're too stupid to be a part of.

>>712898560 (OP)
A long long time ago people on 4chan complained about the ending of a video game, and the outside world told them they were entitled. This was the first step of them becoming jaded.
Then some mentally ill woman slept with a bunch of guys, and they used this as a "GOTCHA" for how gaming journalists were corrupt. They were told to kill themselves.
Then a man decided to run for president. He was hated by those who hated 4chan, so the jaded users rallied behind him, because it made everyone else seethe.
And then the damage was done. It wasn't about enjoying things anymore, it was about making others seethe.
The discord trannies raid the site for years, and in turn the site becomes a shithole where every thread is troon this and troon that.

All because a man decided to lie about the ending of a video game.

I hate that man.

>>712898560 (OP)
Its unironically better than twitter

>>712900442
I don't think most people even realize how bad twitter can be if you wander off the path of your interests.

>>712898560 (OP)
Anonymity fosters negativity. Things like shame and humiliation keep a lot of vices in check irl, but here it's the other way around where you get shit on for being a decent human being.

In all honesty you should just leave and not come back. This site is purely a negative force in the spiritual growth of a new Christian. I don't care how good your filters are you're gonna run into nuclear waste eventually. Better to just avoid it outright.

>>712900623
I'm genuinely glad my feed is nothing but cat videos and other cute clips of animals because at the time I was being recommended political shit or crap from vtubbers that I didn't want to know shit of, but that I kept being fed because I interacted like once by reading some longer thread on something someone posted on here, it was absolutely miserable to have to open up that site that that every single day and it did nothing but get my mood to feel worse and constantly made me angry or annoyed since a lot of it was basically just ragebait.

>>712900315
Funny how Gamergate had some merit until it co-opted by assholes on a different agenda

>>712898560 (OP)
If you are born again you will no longer fit in with your old crowd
I will say, there are other blue boards besides /v/ that are not so aggressive

>>712898560 (OP)
This old comic explains the situation well.

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>>712899437
Christian doesn't necessarily mean Catholic. I'm sorry anon but you are a dumbass.

>>712898560 (OP)
total electiontourist death

>>712898560 (OP)
>Why's this website and it's userbase so fucked in the head?

I've said it before
I'll say it again
When Reagan closed down the Asylums, all of the crazies didn't just go away or get better. They still had to go somewhere, and since anywhere IRL for them would result in their schizophrenic opinions catching a fist to the mouth- They instead went to the internet.

/v/ is an asylum for people who would have been put into a real asylum with real doctors to seek help forty years ago.

This has been compounded by the fact that /v/, after the hack, has WAY less users than it did before, so only the most terminally online, completely obsessed, absolutely schizophrenic who are only here because they have no other asylum remained.

And THAT is compounded even further by the bot problem. Some massive number, during the last downtime, didn't start posting again until a very specific point in the day when all of it came back at once. Those are bots. Those bots are trained off of posts made by the schizophrenics here, but have other things added to their prompts like "Pretend to be a /pol/ poster" or "Pretend to be an avid fan of ubisoft".

Add all this together and you realize that /v/ isn't really about talking about video games or having pleasant conversation. It's about farming engagement.

Right wing views are cancerous to any community.

There has never been a predominantly right wing community that doesn't break down into purity spiraling or eternal internet crusading.

>>712898560 (OP)
>but it feels like whenever I open this thing up again, I'm entering Sodom and Gomorrah, and anytime I don't conform to the usual shitposty personality that's been made up around this place, I just immediately get pointed at and shat on an either immediately called underaged or a newfag or whatever other type of slur possible depending on the context of my post.
This
My friend
Are gen alphoids and zoomers. This is how zoomers and alphoids post. Zoomers and alphoids and all of their personas are based entirely off of living an ironic lie for most of their short existence. Living from cradle to grave on internet humor has poisoned their existence. Most of their online interactions are just this, over and over again. Now, we did this too, but we had the realization that you don't shit where you eat. Unfortunately, Alphoids have been raised on shit. So they are incapable of distinguishing between the two wherever they go.

>>712902197
and the left is somehow supposed to be any better?

>>712902197
same with left wing, maybe even worse. They purity spiral over different things, thoughever. Any of the political crazies gripping a community will result in purity spiraling. On the other forums they just ban anyone who doesn't conform, here they throw meltdowns when a non-conformist appears.

>>712902351
Normal people form communities just fine.

>>712900315
Gamergate is newfag shit.

>>712902197
this desu
whenever we have these kinds of threads where we ask where 4chan went wrong, the answer is always /pol/

>>712902376
>Normal people form communities just fine.
They actually don't. Normalfags have even worse track records than /v/ on forming stable communities that are healthy. /v/ has been around two decades, there hasn't been a normalfag community that has lasted that long without power tripping moderators purity-spiraling until they self-destructed.
And it's SIGNIFICANTLY worse with the generation who grew up around the internet than those who didn't.

>>712898560 (OP)
>when I started playing make-believe with ghosts to feel superior to others I didn't like fun things anymore
Shocking.

Why not use telepathy to communicate with a dead rabbi who floats in the sky and see what he thinks about /v/?

>>712898560 (OP)
In reality, it is less than 10 ~ 20 dedicated shitters who post the same threads multiple times a day, every day over and over and over and will spam any thread they don't like (this could be a current popular game or a system they don't like, etc).

Accept this fact and it becomes easy as hell to see the patterns and ignore them completely. If you have truly been here 10+ years then I question why you haven't come to this conclusion yourself.

>>712902493
>post about how normalfags don't form communities
>brings up internet forums as his proof
QED: you have never been normal

>>712902485
>whenever we have these kinds of threads where we ask where 4chan went wrong, the answer is always /pol/
/pol/'s been around in some form or another since /b/ was (never) good. It was made to contain chanology. I wish people would get over it and just accept there's a board on the site called /pol/

>>712902197
>There has never been a predominantly right wing community that doesn't break do--
You clearly never had a loving family did you

>>712901770
So you're the burger brand of christcuck that worships Israel?

>>712902485
The intention was for /pol/ to be a containment board. Instead it's become the predominant board culture.
Containment boards never work.

>>712902485
And you can never quite say that it's /pol/ too, or they'll sperg out and spam the thread to get it deleted

>>712902587
/pol/ isn't a problem in of its self - because it is a containment board at the end of the day. The problem is that it doesn't "contain" anything and /pol/ posts absolutely fucking everywhere.

you're all faggots, all of you who think that internet is a serious business, none of this is real, you should all kill yourselves

>>712902606
Loving families are socialist in nature.

>>712902581
>>712902197
I post on /v/, so do you. Every study done on this is unanimous that the internet ran by normalfags are bad at maintaining community and are negative to the mental health of its target audience.

You are some idiot trying to get an 'own' on an anonymous poster. You are exactly the kind of purity spiraling fruitcake you speak of.

And to further put a stake in your retarded argument: Here are the sites people rate as being the worst for your mental health circa 2021. Every single site that was predominantly left ran by power tripping mods is universally a net negative.

>>712902493
tomshardware forums has been around longer than this shithole thoughbeit

>>712902616
I am none of those buzzwords you just mentioned, I just happened to know what I told you.