It's so in-your-face that this place is bad for you and your psyche, yet you keep posting and visiting every day. Why? Is there any way 4chan has made your life better? Because I can tell you straight off the bat that I wish I never found this place.
>>24666260
iv given up
>>24666260
i come here when i feel bad about myself and to remember other people have it worse. robots misery makes me feel less terrible
>>24666260
>Is there any way 4chan has made your life better?
Please tell me how it made things worse, because it gives me laughs and shows me there are people out there I have a lot in common with (and that's no one in my actual life).
It keeps me grounded. Sometimes I think I want to go out and get a gf. Then I come here to remind myself why that's a bad idea.
This is the funniest board unfortunately, and the one i can relate to
>>24666409
this
>>24666553
its escapism, no reason to improve your life if 4chan is always here
>>24666607
Nothing wrong with having a gf, don't let the memes get to you.
>>24666553
I found 4chan in May '09. I was pretty fucking normal back then, had a Facebook, actually wanted to socially interact with other people, had plenty of good friends. Now I'm a depressed reclusive NEET and I only see the bad in pretty much everything. I was a very different person back then and much happier.
Granted it's not like I can put all the blame on 4chan and I'm not alleviating my own responsibility of having destroyed my life. This place however sure as hell didn't help and I feel like it's utterly destroyed my outlook on life. It also makes it that much easier to just sit on your ass and vegetate with the constant information and novelty it provides with every single post. If you have a tendency towards internet addiction and are generally lazy, you're in a world of shit if you succumb to 4chan.
I can't believe I've lost this much time and the person I've become. Again I reiterate that it's my fault entirely and that a more balanced person would be able to manage 4chan with the rest of his life. I.e. he'd log on, laugh at a couple of stories, maybe laugh a loser or two, and go on with his day. I unfortunately just didn't have that luxury.
The most interesting thing is that whenever I've had time off from 4chan I've felt better. Back in the days when I got banned and didn't know how to evade I'd always feel so much better before long. When you're no longer able to just sit on your ass and interact with people online you're basically forced to go outside lest you go crazy alone in your room. 4chan is basically a cheap substitute for real human interaction and when it's gone I'm forced to meet real people again, and positive, normal, happy people at that, and I always feel better. I just don't know why I'm unable to leave this place.
>>24667491
Not everyone can fall back onto real people if they left this place. For me, its all i have.
>>24666678
>its escapism
So is almost every piece of entertainment.
>>24667491
This is exactly how I feel. I'm barely managing to lead a normal life, and I can feel it slipping away from me. This place is an echo chamber that just reinforces feelings of isolation and depression rather than a support group to help each other ascend from this hell. It has made me a paranoid, sexist, borderline racist pervert, and I'm having a difficult time hiding that from people in real life as time goes on.
I know this is my fault. I actively sought out things like this to escape the harsh realities of life that I was afraid of confronting, but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't regret it. My addiction to video games, pornography, and the internet are corrupting my soul. Every day I fantasize about taking the blue pill, having a wife and kids to care for, a house and property to maintain, a fulfilling career I can be proud of, a god I can actually believe in. I want so badly to be a real person.
>>24667809
>wanting to be blue pilled
>addicted to internet, porn and video games
Youre already blue pilled
>>24667491
>>24667809
Mates, if this were a few decades ago you'd just be getting stoned and watching TV or something, I've learned more from 4chan and the internet at large than I have from TV at least.
You make it sound like you'd somehow be a Chad if it weren't for this place.
>>24666553
Being constantly berated by women hate, racism, manlet meme, keking, normie hate, wagekek every single day can't be good for you. If you are able to tune these out, then good for you but there are people who genuinely believe this stuff and post about it everyday.
>>24667918
This
You guys sound like meganormalfags who are just denying themselves the pleasures of life so that you can say that you fit in here
>>24666260
>ITT: people who post primarily in containment boards
4chan has given me tons of great, helpful, and meaningful advice. Some of the communities here are actually quite mature and full of interesting people. Of course, you'd never know that if you spent all of your time posting in the fast-paced designated-retard boards like /r9k/, /b/, and /pol/.
>>24667809
>My addiction to video games, pornography, and the internet are corrupting my soul.
I know this exact feel bro.
>>24667491
>I was pretty fucking normal back then, had a Facebook, actually wanted to socially interact with other people, had plenty of good friends. Now I'm a depressed reclusive NEET and I only see the bad in pretty much everything. I was a very different person back then and much happier
So 4chan is like the redpill and you're just like that bitch cypher that wants to go back to when he didn't see the world for what it truly is, how is that a websites fault now, its the same BS nonsense when people blame the gun, you weren't "normal" then because a normal person would be turned away from the site not become a fucking NEET.
>>24667916
Developing an addiction to these things is directly related to being redpilled and not being able to handle it. It's an escape mechanism.
>>24667918
>>24667952
No one claimed they would be Chad if they never started going to 4chan. I think the point they are trying to make is that this place doesn't do much to help if you are already on a path of self destruction, and in fact only fans the flames. Stop being such a contrarian.
>>24666260
Don't forget - you're here forever. Sorry OP. You don't come to 4chan, you wind up at 4chan.
>>24666678
>its escapism, no reason to improve your life if 4chan is always here
I am actively improving my life, I'm just having fun while I'm doing it, and 4chan is more fun than any normie event I could possibly attend. I still don't even understand what dancing is and how its "a thing", really think about it from alogical and objective perspective, a group of animals hearing noises flail their bodies about it patterns, they obsess about creating new patterns and anyone who can't do this thing is somehow "not social", when from a biological imperative framework this shit just exists to facilitate men wooing women with a performance for the sole purpose of reproduction, its all part of the pointless mind games humans play when were just beating around the bush that leads to sex, I've analyzed and observed too many things about life and society that a normie would not even fathom or think about, I'd never want to pretend I don't see how fake all this is or to forget that either, human society is filled with endless loopholes for what you want, you just need to look, want to date a teenager (go to mexico or japan - very low age of consent), want to fuck animals (go to texas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia_and_the_law_in_the_United_States), want legal prostitution go to brazil, germany, czech republic, etc, there are so many loopholes to what men want, so before anyone complains basically saying - "conform or fail at life", I say opt out and choose an alrernarice
>>24667918
No, if this were a few decades ago I wouldn't have been pressured into going to uni to waste my time and money and then have the job market shrivel up as soon as I graduate. I wouldn't have resorted to this degenerate shit to deal with the embarrassment of being unemployed and living with my parents. I would have normal, organic relationships with people because facebook and online dating/tinder didn't exist.
People's behavior isn't completely indicative of their nature. Environment is a huge determinant in an individual's success or failure. Our culture has evolved to encourage this behavior by depriving its members of opportunity and dissolving the social structure that previously utilized the strengths of both genders.
Because there is a good post/thread just often enough to keep my attention. Most of it is shit, but it's a more tolerable/ignorable shit than what exists on most other high traffic websites. Besides, I don't exactly have anything better to do.
>>24668378
You can change at any time mate. All it takes is some self control. You just have to leave your comfort zone I.e your parents basement.
No point in making excuses.
>>24666260
because this is my hole, flam. it was made for me.
>>24666260
This is a truly dark place. It gives you the very desired feeling of comfort, alienation. disdain for a lot of things etc. On one hand it's hell, but on the other, tell me where can you find a comunity which is that honest like this one. When I found out this board I was amazed how many people are just open about themselves, being KHV, life failures etc. yet at the same time they are often really interesting to read. I have mixed feelings about this place at the end of the day.
