What would your life look like if you never discovered 4chan?
Probably just as shitty but I wouldn't understand why
The same desu. 4chan didn't change much in me except 1. handling gore & 2. hating women where as before I was simply indifferent to them and would get a huge headache when watching massive gore stuff
Honestly, it'd probably be worse. I've discovered so many films, books, music, anime, art,porn, etc from this piece of shit site that I wouldn't have without it.
As much as 4chan has a negative reputation, it really might be one of the best ways to get exposed to literally everything.
I would have already killed myself
>>24297080
What is her name? Thanks
>>24297048
I would probably be a leftist blue pilled democrat kek, 4chan opened my eyes and redpilled me, especially /pol/
Almost 7 years on this website has taught me not to take anything seriously. My whole mindset is irreverent and nihilistic. There are pros and cons to this. I'm very self aware, and able to criticize myself and laugh at myself easily, I'm not offended by what anyone says, and I laugh at stuff like the Paris attacks. I consider that good, the biggest con is that it alienates me from others completely. Most people I meet are so absorbed in some kind of dogma, something they actually believe in. Be it atheism, religion, environmentalism, health crazes, conspiracy theories or feminism everyone has some big idea which makes them think their life is meaningful. I'm sick of listening to them and silently abiding their orthodoxy and unoriginal thoughts. But when I say something that disagrees with their dogma, they get upset. Besides that there's the general difficulty I have interacting with others. It's not worth it, and I've contented myself with loneliness now.
I say that it is 4chan that has influenced me in this way, but I see many drones here. They mostly seem to be of the reddit or stormfront breed. I think using disassociative hallucinogens from age 17 to present has also played an equal part in making me like this.
I don't think it'd be much different. The only major way I've changed since discovering 4chan is that I lost interest in lifting, ever since I just go for two or three jogs a week
>>24297550
woah man, I completely feel you on this.
>>24297550
shit man, I relate to this so much it's insane. I want to use a screencap of this post in a paper I'm writing about 4chan and how it has influenced my identity, this is fucking perfect.
>>24297659
Glad I'm not the only one. I forgot to mention how my life might be different had I not found this website. I think it'd just be the same, but like >>24297137 said. I'd be more of a pleb.
Maybe the exposure to such a diversity of media and ideas, in a place where nothing is sacred has made us more open minded then most people?
>>24297048
I'd probably be rich and successful by now.
>>24297754
Yepp.. also I've done acid as well and it seems I've come to that same mindset much so on my own but also because of a thinker named Robert Anton Wilson.
>>24297048
Id probably be in school pretending to be normal
>>24297848
Heh, Aleister Crowley was my man. Are you me?
Would overall be a better person because let's face it, 4chan is not a good place. I was depressed and didn't know why girls didn't like me. Going on r9k, mu, pol, a, and a little b taught me everything I know about social situations now and made me afraid to talk to anyone. I did become a hardened person like >>24297550 where I don't get sick from seeing any image and generally don't give a shit on people's opinions. Overall, your life is better without 4chan in every way.
I can't tell. I've spent almost 1/3 of my life on imageboards.
Needless to say I'm very different from when I started browsing. But I'm also completely sick in the head. I can't tell how different my whole attitude towards the world would be if imageboards hadn't educated me.
>>24297048
A lot more boring. chances are I'd be on TV Tropes and various Magic: The gathering forums instead of here, but doing the same thing but with less pictures and less memes.
Nothing would have changed.
I've been on the internet since we called it 'the web' and I just go from site to site over the years.
But I like the anons here, I can relate to them a lot and the old spirit of the internet lives on
>>24297894
Nahh I haven't checked out Crowley yet, the guy I mentioned did a long study on him unless that's what you were getting at.
>>24297726
>revealing your power level
I'd probably be just as pathetic and more of a feminist.
I'd still be following groups of people around as the third wheel, because I wouldn't have realized hoe pathetic that is.
lets be honest boys.we'd all be here
began to get accepted by normies in 8th grade, stumbled onto this site, it's been downhill ever since
>>24297726
>a paper I'm writing about 4chan
for fuck's sake
I'd be dead.
>>24297165
same here tbqh
pol and r9k made me a better man
Only been here 5 years but god damn. I would have never seen nearly as many movies, anime, and shows. Also I'm pretty numb to bad shit and nothing is really off limits for joking now, ie: Paris attacks. This place has really warped and restructured my sense of humor.
>>24298009
Yikes.
>tfw if I never participated in chanology, i probably would still be there
>>24298026
we have to write about a group we belong to that defines us. All I do is shitpost all day, so it was 4chan or write about at topic I know nothing about.
>>24298087
>he participated in chanology
>>24298009
Probably. I browsed 4chan first, got into it a few years ago when I thought it was cool, went on both normally, then slowly came back here when it turned to utter shit.
>>24298105
Dude.....seriously.....
DON'T
There's a reason this place is renowned for it's anonymity.
Don't spoil the charm.
>>24298105
"Anonymous" is just a name that has no meaning, huh.
There are places you can go where you can fit in and make a name for yourself. Why do you want credit and recognition for being anonymous when the very fact that you're announcing it shows that you care nothing for it?
Please don't tell me you're one of the kids spouting memes in real life or on youtube
Mixed Emotion
I'll be lot more autistic than i am now. thank to this place i became self aware of what society really is and I am trying to correct any of the autistic traits that was self taught to me long ago.
though, I am lot more bored, critical and overally cynical of my surrounding cause the people i know have a SJW liberal mentality and it kind of piss me off on a bad day.
Other than that, I keep finding lot more of stuff on different kind of board and i can expand my knowledge just about everything.
Worse.
I've honestly improved as a person since coming here. I've gained a lot of self-awareness, and discovered a lot of new things.
I'm still a loser, but I would be either way.
>>24298087
>>24298145
I've never been to reddit, but it is the next closest thing to 4chan that is popular.
Thank god my friend showed me this site in his edgy phase.
SHIT GOES DOWN HERE, unlike on reddit.
Does browsing this place for little over a year mark the point of no return or is there still time to turn back? I feel like I've seen everything I need to by now.
>>24298125
Lol. I was in high school and my friend invited me to one of his protests against an oppressive organization. I didn't know shit about shit then. I put on the mask and the memes got to me eventually. Tried 4chan for awhile, didn't know what the fuck was going on (this was before there was a catalog) so I went back to browsing Cracked and the like.
Some time later, my friend introduced me to this cool, new website called Reddit that was really cool.
Browsed there for a bit and eventually stumbled upon r/4chan.
I highly enjoyed it. Became my favorite subreddit.
One day I saw a comment that read as followed.
>This place sucks, it's like going to /b/ wih a condom on
Now me being a raw dog enthusiast, I had to give this /b/ another chance.
Haven't been back since (except for nudie pics occasionally)
>And that my friends is how your precious imageboard became flooded with "Redditors"
>>24298346
I'm not going to read all that shit.
I might if I didn't know for a fact you're the cancer that killed my website.
4chan actually made me a better man.
Knowing I'm not alone is enough to make me feel better about myself.
If I didn't discover 4chan I probably would've killed myself a long time ago.
>>24298379
he mentioned it killing off our website in the posts.
Reddit is literally I hate to say it....4chan's little brother, they admire us, and they love us secretly, and we are annoyed by them constantlybut we wouldn't want to see them disappear
>>24298340
This is your home.
Every time you turn o the internet in your privacy, your urge to visit this website will almost be overwhelming.But, it's not impossible to completely abandon this place
>>24298444
I want literally LITERALLY everyone that uses reddit to get bone-marrow cancer and die.
Zidane's headbutt would not nearly have been as amusing.
>>24298464
I just want them to stay on reddit, but I don't hate them.
Where would we be if 4chan didn't exist, the next edgiest popular site.reddit...
>>24298481
If 4chan didn't exist I wouldn't use the internet.
I hope your mother gets breast cancer and they cut off her boobs to get rid of it and then she thinks it is gone only for it to come back months later and finish her off.
>>24298105
I say go for it and I'd be honored if you used my post. This place could use some exposure besides headlines reading "THE HACKER KNOWN AS 4CHAN STRIKES AGAIN!"
>>24297992
I haven't read Wilson yet, but I've been meaning to for years now. I'm guessing I'd find a lot of parallels to Crowley, which is why I think you're me.
>>24298481
>edgy
>>24298510
You hate your own brotheren anon. I've never used reddit.
>>24298551
It is the only popular site with even a fraction of our edginess.
>>24298582
I want you to have children only for them to be kidnapped and raped and murdered and parts of their corpses mailed to you with photos and video of them being abused and cut into pieces while still alive.
>>24298626
I would never have children.
I bet you think i've used reddit. I haven't but I know that reddit is the only popular site comparable to us.
>>24298682
>I don't use reddit
>does nothing but talk about reddit
I'm glad I'll be dead soon.
>>24298709
>does nothing but talk about reddit
Yes in this thread, where I point out where half of us would be.
We'd probably be more normie and use reddit.
>>24298760
>uses reddit memes like "normie"
>uses post spacing like reddit
>>24297048
I would be less aware of my mental illness and general weirdness. I have an aberrant personality, and I can only change it so much. But I want to be the best person I can be, and I couldn't have done it without being made self aware by you stupid assholes.
>>24298813
I have never used redditi can't navigate the site.
>>24298538
Nah man you don't have to read his stuff, start with his talks that are posted on youtube and then move to the books if you're interested.
I'd probably be just like I am right now only unaware of what people think of me. One of those shits that don't realize they don't really fit in so try extra hard and end up annoying everyone around them.
>>24298152
>>24298203
it's just a paper for a freshman level english course, Jesus Christ. 1 other person is going to read it ever.
I'd be less desensitized to some things like gore.
>>24298976
Well then, one of two things is gonna happen
1. He's going to think you are a pedo, racist creep
2. If he browses here, he's going to think you're a faggot. Maybe even call you a faggot irl.
THERE IS NO BETTER BANG FOR YOUR BUCK
>>24297726
>paper I'm writing about 4chan
>killing your school career
>>24297048
i wouldn't have been desensitized as much and wouldn't know what animes i should watchalso would have probably killed myself cause i thought i was alone in the world
probably a redditor or some happy-but-unaware idiot who is in multiple cringe comiplations on youtube.
