this is it, this is somehow the worst state /v/ has ever been in

>>715147303 (OP)
Don't worry, it will get worse.

The issue is underage tourists coming here having discovered the web only after getting their first iPhone after the place has already become sanitized and then being raised on social media before hearing second-third-fourth-fifth person accounts of what "4chan culture" is like and believing it, and coming here trying to emulate that false idea

They're also the ones most fixated on all the various other boogeymen in order to throw responsibility off their own backs and pretends they're 'one of us' by siding against these other 'enemies'
The "shills", the "browns", and "feds", the paid off Indians and the industry plants and etc etc- I'm not saying those aren't a problem whatsoever, but they're such a comparatively small problem than the massive overarching issues which is just modern day culture war raised 14 year old tourist kiddies who grew up worshipping soijaks and watching Anna Else Epic Fart Compilation With Spiderman Pregnant Gone Sexual videos on loop till their brains fried and then came here to air our their personal hangups on our website

>>715147583
>the issue is new blood
how old were you when you found this site?

>>715147583
I think webm related really did the most irreparable damage to the website over the long term.

>>715147825
Ah, the newfag's inability to understand

Anon, I'll entertain you once and explain this to you
*A* singular newbie is not the issue, imagine a single immigrant coming to your country, he wants to establish himself and become a part of the community, he does his best to speak the language and respectfully interacts with the local culture
That's fine

Now imagine your country is very small, only, say, 5 thousand people
And 10 THOUSAND PEOPLE come off the boat, they all already think they know the culture from movies they made themselves never having interacted with your country's culture, and they're all annoying terrible people who think they can take the place over
That's the issue
Every new bout of tourists was bigger than the last until finally we had so many of them that they no longer had to lurk and learn
Reread my post, did I say the problem is purely newfags? I very clearly states that it's UNDERAGE newfags, raised on the modern web culture and having no interest in what 4chins used to be

>>715147303 (OP)
>>715147383

No matter how bad everything is now even more third worlders will have internet access next year and things will be even worse

>>715147303 (OP)
Then
just
leave

>>715147583
>They're also the ones most fixated on all the various other boogeymen in order to throw responsibility off their own backs and pretends they're 'one of us' by siding against these other 'enemies'
>The "shills", the "browns", and "feds", the paid off Indians and the industry plants and etc etc
everytime i see any kind of bad post and the immediate response is REEEEEEEE 'JEETS, RESETERA, DISCORD-
i just assume its some highschooler with a shoddy haircut posting from his phone with a pepe background trying to get people to forget about how much of a cancer people like him are

>>715148063
Fuck

>>715148118
And go fucking where? Most of the altchans are completely dead and regular social media is worse than here.

>>715147998
The issue is the outside invaders came here with their cultural wars >>715147898
And never left. Every board has an independent culture prior to the invasion, even when there was trolling, it was done in good faith to the original boards subject, and even sperging out against jannies was personal to that boards view of their moderation.

This was around the time moot sold as well. Anyways afterwards it became all disingenuous rage baiting, spamming of fetishes and actual pornography as nauseum and it's the same shit, and it's automated by bad actors.

It's just not in good faith anymore.

>>715147303 (OP)
People have been saying this since like 2010

tho personally I'd argue peak shit /v/ was probably either 2011 or 2018

>>715147998
nta and i do agree with your points. there will always be new teenage newfags coming here and what a newfag is is always changing, the problem now is they're used to twitter and will argue back and remain stubborn on their bullshit. no one thinks about any post they make any more and just spew bullshit (just like this post)

this place no joke feels like reddit now
and i dont mean in the shallow memespeak sorta way where "reddit" is just another buzzword that means "cringe"

i mean literally i see the same exact behaviors, the echochamber esque thinking and group identity fixation, the passive aggressive outrage posting, the "us vs them" mentality, the hyperfixation on small meaningless 'argument win conditions' like minor typos or something as opposed to caring about the actual contents of someone's post, the normalfag adherence to societal signaling... it's literally the same thing just a different flavor

>>715148118
How about you leave instead. It's always the people making things worse telling the people that notice to leave.

>>715148363
i posted this but wish i posted this instead, this anon gets it >>715148389

>>715148389
>Reddit spacing
Jk, you hit the nail on the head. Flip side of the same coin. Something changed at some point in the 2010s and it sucks knowing we'll never get it back.
>inb4 it was never good

old 4chan felt like we were separate from the world, our own little place where we nudge elbows and joke around with one another, genuinely like a secret club, pardon the cringey terminology, where we loved it here, us vs the world

modern 4chan feels like everyone exists within themselves, their brains hooked too the outside world's issues 24/7 and 4chan is just the place they come to simulate an interaction, people don't exist, there's nobody to joke around with, you just suck happiness from others thinking you'll gain it somehow and then go and be miserable alone while repeating the same ritualistic rotation of attention grabbing
no longer us vs the world, but rather "ME ME ME ME ME!!!" vs whatever, even momentarily, makes me experience a negative emotion

>>715148535
okay

>>715148363
>>715148449
>>715148389
>>715148526
>>715148535
So who's gonna take one for the team and make oldfagchan?

>>715148363
The issue is the last main migration was when pepe rose to prominence in 2015, and that got so huge it dominated search engines and the pop culture zeitgeist for the entire election cycle and remained in the minds well into the end of the year.

Prior to that 4chan to the public was "The hacker known as 4chan" or "we are anonymous, we are legion" with the mask shit.

You dont close that kind of attention from the public. It was over the minute every little kid, highschoolers, middle age men and boomer were all sharing rare pepes

>>715148635
threads like these prove there's still plenty of desire for the old culture
we just need to maintain it
not sell our soul to the new posting meta and keep posting the way we used to

remember newfags think they belong because nobody told them they didn't, they only hear the echochamber of other newfags
you just have to tell them to fuck off
no arguing, no trying to prove anything, as soon as you see stupid sharty speech or dumb culture war posting rituals, just call them the tourist faggot they are and leave
they think they're spiritually oldfags because their perception of the board culture is skewed by being tourists, if they encounter pushback without debate and without bullshit as soon as they start acting out they might eventually learn
there's enough of us in these types of threads to prove there's still a large old userbase and modern day kids are very sensitive to social disapproval

all it takes to break them is one "fuck off newfag", one day at a time

>>715148635
You don't
It was a relic of an era and that eras past.

>>715148635
8ch was tried, it didn't work
when 4chan finally dies I will simply move on, I just hope I see it coming
I'd prefer it be more like knowing someone has cancer for a long time and is slowly dying, rather than the sharty incident where I just woke up one day and it was dead

>>715148721
i disagree, i think 2015 was the first massive migration
after that we have the election tourism of 2016, and recently the election tourism of 2024, but worst of all was the covid boredom tourism of 2020 where people got so mindbroken by the covid MPI and all the lockdowns that they came here in droves

that was the worst one because that one invited normalfags, the proper ones
before that it was just semi normies and politics fixated assholes, full blown normies, you know the type that have social lives, never had a reason to come here until those social lives were cut off
THAT was the worst one imo, and every year was just worse and worse, perhaps not as big but certainly the trickle that ended up corroding your walls

>>715148757
i usually just lurk but will make an effort to post more "fuck off newfags"

>>715148864
>the sharty incident
the sharty incident was more like waking up one day and you have a tumor, that place is fucking cancer

speaking of which it might just be one of the worst aspects of modern day 4chan, the soijak cultists are legitimately one of the worst parts making this place shit nowadays

>>715148757
>modern day kids are very sensitive to social disapproval
True, the thing that drives them to do what they do is the same thing that kills them
They'll never belong because none of them are the confident autists that used to exist here before the normalfag migration

>>715148876
Pepe was the first inviting of normal fags en mass.
You can disagree about that but the green frog itself became the face of twitch for 10 years afterwards.

It was the Fappening, GamerGate and then the 2016 all in the space of a couple of years that basically killed 4chan.

>>715148864
CrippleChan in theory could've worked but the fact that it was run by legitimately crazy people like the Christmas Elf and then the pedophile who runs the CWCki Forum pretty much ensured it'd go nowhere.

>>715148926
The sharty incident gave me a glimmer of hope, cause a lot of people flocked to ate-moe and when the boards were still moving there it felt like it used to feel here, but they slowed right back down as soon as it was back up.

>>715149029
Wasn't cripplechan doing pretty good until the christchurch thing, I thought I remember that happening and suddenly wheelz was like "No I need to distance myself from these people" and it all imploded.
I could be misremembering.

>>715148926
shartniggers are 1000x worse than any normalfag infestation
this site has definitely gotten worse over time naturally but it is very obvious that we are now in a state of perpetual war with unfunny latinx teenagers who have a chip on their shoulder after even 4chan told them to fuck off
all i can really hope for is that they're soon forced to seek employment (after reaching adulthood) or are killed by gangs/cartels

The biggest problem with 4chan nowadays is that most of the people here aren't just posting on 4chan, they're also active on reddit/twitter/twitch/steam/discord
There are niggers itt crying about 4chan being low quality now while they have a discord chat open on another monitor

>>715147583
>underage
No anon you are wrong. The entire internet is being infest with all ages and all demographics, its not just kids. 10 years ago your parents probably thought the internet was a place for weridos and creeps. Now they probably use social media more then you do. And these social media retards bring all the worst shit imaginable to this site and everywhere online.

This anon here gets what these people bring >>715148389 but I don't think its a redditor exclusive thing. Its just the new age of people that spent more time on phones then on PCs. These people have been made addicts to negativity. Their feeds show whatever it takes to keep them scrolling and that's often just pointless arguing or virtue signaling nonsense.
All social media needs to be destroyed or humanity will just continue to get worse.

>>715149126
it's so weird to me how fast soijaks became a normie meme

>>715149148
imo discord is different from those other websites because it's both an IM service *and* a 'social media' of sorts
there's a huge difference between using it to chat with mates, and being in a buncha massive coordinated servers that all operate like mini twitters

>>715147303 (OP)
I'm just going to repost my other post >>715149157

>>715147303 (OP)
This is how it is every summer.

>>715149269
see >>715148208

>>715149123
christchurch was the thing that killed the site, yeah
there was (and still is) a dedicated Qanon board and the site got a ton of shit after the unite the right charlottseville rally but it wasn't banned anywhere until tarrant
the site was definitely making the news for being "pol: extreme edition" for a few years at that point but that incident made tons of headlines and vilified the whole site even though pol was just one part of it (sounds familiar)

>>715149239
>it's so weird to me how fast soijaks became a normie meme
It's just propaganda but with a digital age twist

>>715149239
If you use it like a zoomerized IRC/Teamspeak it's a completely different world than the mass communities, those places are all absolute fucking cancer.

It's been hard to get discussions going on /v/ in recent years, I feel more and more detached from what the current board demographic is interested in.

>>715149157
Graphs like these always seem to ignore the fact that most people from these foreign websites aren't ON the American/European net
Yes more Chinese people than ever use the web, but that statistic intentionally counts TikTok! And they also stay on other Chinese centric websites
It makes these types of graphs unusable to truly tell where their influence is

The bigger issue is corporations
Maybe the average Chingaling Chong didn't come online and ruin it by posting, but Chinese companies did, they took over most of the net, altered peoples' posting habits, provide most cheap shoddy "services" from media to shopping and intentionally shape the brains of underages, the same "zoomers" god that sort of language is cancer you claim aren't the problem get mindwashed by their propaganda

I agree with anon above who said these boogeymen seem like ways to cover your own asses

>>715149239
Discord blowing up and 4chan becoming shit go hand in hand
People always wrongly blame the 2016 election for the quality plummet when culture war shit had already been popular on 4chan for years before that like gamergate and all the EA/bioware shit in the early 2010s

>>715149370
>what the current board demographic is interested in
Shilling and shitflinging about perceived shilling, most of the good threads now are barely hidden offtopic threads. Kind of like this one. It's not offtopic per se but there's no reason for most of them to reply.

>>715149467
>that statistic intentionally counts TikTok!
and boy what a terrible thing for the world tiktok was
it's like a condensed example of all the sins of exclusive mobile web usage in one place
i'd love to see a study on the difference in mental development between kids who use it and kids who don't

>>715149370
Every board is dominated by two groups
>I want to spam softcore pornography that caters to my niche fetish to jerk my meat to for the entire evening and will thinly veil it as on topic before devolving I to actual pornographic posting
Or
>Political thread thinly veiled in the veneer of the boards original topic to push culture war shit

This is at least 80% of the catalog.

>>715148757
ngl i'm a 2018 newfag but i lurked a lot and i can tell even with how little time i spent here that the site was going downhill each year and is probably beyond saving. I do admit that lurking does work but not anymore with the lack of oldfags around to learn from. Also telling newfags to fuck off won't work due to mods and jannies not doing their job allowing them to shit the place.

>>715149549
>there's no reason for most of them to reply.
I always find it funny how rational these threads always end up being purely due to natural gatekeeping as a result of culture war shitflinging faggots having no interest in these discussions
Hell they'd probably rage and REEEEEEE that the average comment itt is more than two sentences because they're used to slide threads

>>715149467
The numbers there are terrifying for reasons that go way beyond /v/, holy shit lol.

>>715149467
Yeah anon but it's a bit funny you mention China here while ignoring the gigantic, English speaking subelephant in the room that doesn't have their own equivalent of WeChat or a great firewall that purposely go out of their way to utilize English spaces.

Never forgive the British for that one.

I can't remember the last thread I participated in that was fun and wasn't an argument thread. Like sometimes I just want to talk about a game and not have to defend my decision to play it to the death

>>715149652
The worst part is if any of these threads produce anything like an OC or just keep getting traffic they all start showing up whining how off topic it is. They actually seethe when people have fun instead of participating in their cutlurewar shitflings.

>>715149652
>they'd probably rage and REEEEEEE
And they probably wouldn't even get a (You) because everybody in here is tired of it, it used to be hard to bait people on this website, now it seems like people are foaming at the mouth to do it and the cycle repeats.

irony poisoning ruined not just the web but society and the current gen as a whole
the way they consider it no longer permissible to show emotion, to be passionate about anything, arguments aren't had based on the merit of one's statement but rather on how emotional a person is, everyone wants to pretend they're all so disconnected and uncaring from everything, type out a word too many and someone will read the whole thing, decide they disagree and then go "lol d-didn't read i don't even care lmao" because somehow we've gotten to the point where someone not reading your post is not shameful to them and should convince others to disregard their uninformed opinion but rather a "win" against you the poster

and speaking of "winning", god, that mentality, the "win"/"lose" mentality, the way everyone always tries to 'win' something that cannot be won- a discussion, a conversation, a meaningless cultural phenomena, a battle that isn't even theirs, they're so empty because they're not permitted to peruse any real passion so they assign their personal sense of self to something else and invent fake winning conditions just to "win" at something by arbitrary metrics, whatever that means
it's actually depressing

but in some part i suppose i should be glad i'm capable of comprehending that this is an issue and feeling sad for these people at all
or else my own soul would be dead too

>>715149296
Ignoring the demographic shift the internet has gone through from passionate social outcasts and tech enthusiasts from mostly America, northern Europe and Japan to mostly normalfags, boomers and 3rd world people that can barely make a coherent english sentence is disingenuous, it's one of the root causes and how we gone from "never reveal sensitive private information on the internet" to real names, addresses and even work places everywhere etc.
The people changed and so did the culture always has and always will.

>>715149652
>>715149773
>it used to be hard to bait people on this website, now it seems like people are foaming at the mouth to do it and the cycle repeats
Let me fix that part, it's like 5am here and I didn't notice how little sense that made until I hit submit:
It used to be harder to bait people on this website, half the time if somebody replied it was "low effort b8. Now it seems like people are foaming at the mouth to chomp at the lowest quality bait, more people bait and more people bite and it just goes on.

>>715149736
>They actually seethe when people have fun instead of participating in their cutlurewar shitflings.
why do you think they actually get mad when we have a screenshot thread or a comedy thread or something lighthearted like that?
well aside from the "REEEEEEE TWITTER WILL STEAL OUR EPIC MEMES" screeching of course, something they would only worry about if they're twittards to begin with
it's because it upsets them to see how happy this place is when it's not chatting shit about the newest AAA game having some woke feature that'll be forgotten within a week or some e-celeb saying... idk, some shit nobody cares about...

>>715147303 (OP)
>this is somehow the worst state /v/ has ever been in
Only a newfag who doesn't remember the tripfag hellscape of 2009 would say this.

>>715149839
People never realized how dangerous sounding yourself with hating shit is. All silly early internet videos where they reviewed shit and laughed at it were slowly poisoning their minds to think that 'liking' something was a weakness and it just kept growing and growing. Now its so normalized to just hate everything that liking anything gets you looked at like a social outcast. And its not even an internet thing I've seen that shit in real life its so depressing.

>>715149839
My dad calls it trickle down sociopathy.

>>715149902
We used to put our addresses in the highschool yearbooks before the Internet, but because it became convenient for corporate overlords to have all your data connected to a device that can use to control you throughout all hours of the day and every aspect of your life from rent to shopping expenses in order to let an algorithm tell how best to extract every penny of your labor back out of you while removal social climbing.

>>715149935
Crucify me for this but I'd rather interact with tripfags than Anons calling me a brown every time I tried to talk about vidya. At least if they're really bad you can add them to a filter.

The problem is normalfags, it's always been normalfags, it'll always be normalfags, if you think you hate normalfags enough, you don't
>But corporations-
Appeal to normalfags
>But Indians-
Hired by corporations to make it easier to make content for normalfags
>But underages-
Given iPhones since they're 2 years old by normalfag parents and raised as normalfags
>But culture war/political shit-
Normalfag social fixations
>But AI-
The interest of normalfag, instand "content" without skill, effort or merit, a bugman's dream

The web becoming sanitized and corporate? Appealing to normalfag sensibilities
Games and media becoming shit? Appealing to normalfag desires and lack of skill or passion
Oversocialized assholes taking over our hobbies? Normalfags have only one desire in life, social approval, they'll take anything from you because they're mad you're happy without them

It's all normalfags at the end of the day
Always has been

>>715148757
>remember newfags think they belong because nobody told them they didn't, they only hear the echochamber of other newfags
What are you on about? I constantly see posts calling people newfags/zoomers and telling people to go back.

>>715149925
I noticed this with the Friday night threads, people just genuinely share a little bit of their own and some people start barking "off topic" like rabies infested dogs

Rangeban India and Brazil and suddenly you'd have a halfway more useable board. I mean look at all the low effort unfunny shit like >>715149078 you could get rid of, but of course Hiro doesn't give a fuck because third-world simians are too dumb to use Adblocker

>>715150047
>Oldfags become tripfriends
>Filter anonposts and low effort tripfags
>????
>profit

>>715148389
>this place no joke feels like reddit now
That's because 70% of the modern 4chan userbase is failed Plebbitors. The pipeline of newfags used to be from forums, but with those forums having been exterminated by Reddit and Discord in the 2010s most of 4chan that didn't come here pre-2012 is corrupted by their Reddit roots.

>>715150047
People like you are part of the problem. Why even get mad about being called a tranny or a thirdworlder on an anonymous imageboard?
I bet you're one of those people who insists than fifteen years ago words like nigger or faggot were used on 4chan ironically but when posters use them now they actually mean it and it's not okay

Since we're complaining anyway I'd like to propose something I noticed

"Lolcow" culture went from following weirdos online because you're entertained by their antics, to self fellating ego boosting moralizations
It's no longer "haha that guy weird, funny, I like him, me laugh smilely face (:" now it's "THIS GUY IS WORSE THAN ME SO I FEEL BETTER, HE MUST BE EVIL, I GOTTA ATTACK, DOX HIM, BE A HERO, EVERYTHING HE DOES IT EVIL AND I'M FIGHTING ON THE SIDE OF GOOD!"
I think it's just a result of normies being incapable of having a laugh, everything is ideological for them

>>715149925
>"REEEEEEE TWITTER WILL STEAL OUR EPIC MEMES"
They just want to feel special. Because they know about a thing the average person doesn't.

>>715150237
>and no matter how hard you filter this place you are still searching for diamonds in a garbage dump
But the diamonds can be so good sometimes and there's no where else you can find them....

>>715150262
I don't get mad about it, there's no discussion around it anymore. You get called a tranny or a brownoid and that's it. If you bother to reply, you get called a tranny or a brownoid again and that's the end of the interaction.

>>715149920
youre right
i got your point earlier but youre right
modern 4chan seems to exist in a state of solepsism where instead of joking with others people exist just for themselves

it feels like everyone here knows what bait is but they all believe they're the only person who does, and everyone else is 100% serious

they want to have a thread but they have so little faith in the autonomy of others that they prefer to simulate it as some kinda artificial ritualistic facsimile of a thread instead of having an organic convo

>>715147303 (OP)
You can thank our wonderful mod team thats so boneheaded they cant banish all gachashit to /vmg/
Sadly they're enjoying the rot

>>715150262
Not but there's a huge difference between being called those things, and EVERY convo devolving into that
People here don't call you brown or a tranny the same way we used to say "fag" as a catchall term, now they mean it sincerely, they honest to god think you're a full blown skirt wearing transsexual if you like a game they don't or some Indian hired to subvert them if you make a minor typo, it's this paranoia resulting from culture war shit that convinced people here everyone is their nemesis out to get them and they form entire headcanons of who people are because they think everyone who disagrees with them on anything must by their enemy

>>715150047
Visit /x/ and see for yourself the wonders of namefags and tripfags, lol.

>>715150158
if you honest to god believe 'third worlders' are the cause for these posts you have been successfully psyopped

these are our modern day /v/ users, anon, the newfags from all countries, cultures and walks of life united by one thing, a desire to be as unpleasant as possible everywhere they go

>>715150292
Yeah that's also because normalfags invaded the best example I can think of is this German lolcow drakenlord I think his name was.
That guys "popularity" faded years ago, he lost his house and now lives like a vagabond in his car and normalfags still hunt him down so they can keep harassing him.

>>715147898
thanks doc

>>715150538
At least half of the users on /x/ are unmedicated schizophrenics so that probably doesn't mesh well with tripfagging. And I don't mean "lol take your meds schizo" schizophrenics either, genuinely unwell people.

The mods didn't go jackshit when Microsoft marketers were caught red-handed multiple times shilling on /g/ in the early 2010s, they're not going to do jackshit over them spamming the videogames board with porn

>>715150604
>>715150292
kiwifarms is a normalfag website now and no amount of them insisting they're not will convince me otherwise, they behave just like normies do, they're just so lost in the sauce of culture war and politics that they believe they can't be normies because all normies believe one and the same political ideology and they believe the opposite, something something about trannies they're always obsessed with (i wonder if /v/'s tranny obsession is just tourists coming from the kiwifarms) and normal society doesn't approve so they must be different
but that's not true, normalfags vary in belief system, what makes them normalfags isn't what they believe, it's how they come across those beliefs and how much they value societal approval

i mean ffs
kiwifarms has their equivilant of a 'karma' system
and no joke i've seen people go on entire fights in threads because some guy 'negrate-d' (their word for a "negative rating" like a dislike, aka negative karma_) some other guy and they start duking it out in the middle of the funny fat people at disneyland thread

>>715150780
>they're not going to do jackshit over them spamming the videogames board with porn
Read the thread, that's not what we're talking about.

>>715150736
that's not true, and not even JUST because "schizophrenia" is 99% propaganda to medicate people speaking out of turn
it used to be for people genuinely interested in the supernatural, anomalous, occult, all that... then it got ovverrun by normies LARPing as "schizochads", the kind that would screech and demand you be medically abused for bringing up an actual conspiracy now think triangle eye imagery and witchcraft are all cutesy and aesthetic uwu

>>715150783
It's a forum of /r9k/ rejects that's run by a literal pedophile m8, of course they're going to be a bunch of spazzos

>>715149047
This, somehow most of the lazy braindead shitposters and tourists just shrugged and stayed gone during that time.

>>715150783
>(i wonder if /v/'s tranny obsession is just tourists coming from the kiwifarms)
Probably yeah, there's tons of overlap with the two websites

>>715150934
That's the thing tho, it's not, it's not the sake forum, it would literally be better if it was
It's now a forum for normalfags who found out about lolcows post 2016

>>715147303 (OP)
>doesn't name the reasons
coward

>>715150736
I actually like reading /x/ while I have my morning coffee, you can't convince me that it's not just shitposting. I remember that guy who used to post those David Icke-esque stories about how he was convinced that "the shadow man" was following him home from work and that someone he'd heard of in a dream named Stephen Mudridge (I think that was it) was key to understanding why the shadow man wanted him dead

i have this thread that most /v/ users nowadays don't actually read a thread they enter or even the whole op

they look at the pic rel, then they read the first sentence at most
and they just immediately jump down to the bottom and comment

the lack of incentive to read, only speak, is perhaps not the problem but it's certainly a symptom of the shit

>>715151150
>i have this thread
this theory*

i'm not even a phoneposter my hands just do that thing sometimes where they change a word into a different correctly spelled word, anyone else do that?

>>715150906
Anon half of the reason I stopped using /x/ was because the users there started conflating complete delusions and visual or auditory hallucinations with the supernatural, occult and anomalous at some point. It's hard to find real discussion about that lately. I agree it's used as an excuse to dope up people who say and think things they "shouldn't" but there are a lot of real, honest to God nutcases on /x/ now.

>>715151216
>anyone else do that?
Happens to me too. It feels like my brain's on autopilot a lot of the time lately.

>>715151263
even esoteric thinking isn't "schizophrenia"
people can be rational and still entertain magical thoughts, or be irrational but not have their brain be impacted, even if they're insane, not all insanity is schizophrenia
sorry for airing out my personal peeves i just hate how psychobabble entered the modern day vocabulary of everyone and corrupted it

but that aside i still disagree, most of it is so very obviously shitposting when you look a little closer

>>715147303 (OP)
The problem is, I think, the majority of /v/ don't actually like video games or feel any genuine passion for the medium.

>>715151370
I'm not talking about esoteric thinking here but maybe you're right and the shitposting is going over my head, I'm guilty of using schizophrenia as a blanket term sometimes and now that I think about it, it irks me when people do that sometimes too.
The "meds. NOW." posters are the most annoying people I swear.

>>715148389
They will hate you for stating the truth. Anons use to poke fun at shallow societal division, dumbass arguments and nornalfaggotry, now everyone here encourages division and desires to be like normalfags. Nobody knows how to take things in stride and have fun anymore, it all needs to go back to some form of culture war or idpol outrage, or a complete aversion to discussing games. I wish the hack had made this place unusuable for just a few more months.

>>715150906
>then it got ovverrun by normies LARPing as "schizochads", the kind that would screech and demand you be medically abused for bringing up an actual conspiracy now think triangle eye imagery and witchcraft are all cutesy and aesthetic uwu
Just say you haven't browsed /x/ in a while.

>>715151640
>I wish the hack had made this place unusuable for just a few more months.
I think that would have improved the site immensely just because the (you) addicts would have moved on to other sites.