I live in a city with about 350.000 residents, with relatively a lot of 20-somethings, lots of students and starters. It's probably the third of fourth biggest city in my country.
There's a lot of fashionable people walking around if you start to take notice. Some would get applauded in WAYW threads. Yet the only people I know that browse 4chan or /fa/ are the more secluded, weird ones.
I think it's common knowledge that /fa/ sets the bar ridiculously high for itself, which doesn't translate well to the real world, only creates more distance. I think I've seen just one really short kid walking around with Ricks.
I don't browse /fa/ very often anymore, but when I did, it just made me depressed. I was quite self-conscious but had no idea how to get better style. I'd been browsing /mu/ a lot and fell into /fa/. I guess in some way /fa/ did help me think about my style in a different way, but quitting /fa/ and using the outside world for frame of reference has helped me a great deal in raising my self-image. I can only imagine what it must be like for people that are into thinspo and all that. /fa/ is ridiculous.
Basically, stop using /fa/ you /fa/ggots. It will just make you more depressed.
>>10955155
>tfw I am slowly but surely getting more and more distant from others
>girls have started asking things like "are you angry over something?", or "are you alright anon? you seem a bit moody"
>tfw i dont want to get them involved or getting closer to me, but they emptiness is getting unbearable
>usually just respond with "nah, im just tired" then i divert the conversation to something else
>tfw somedays i just go home and start crying by my bedside for no apparent reason, i just feel empty
>constsantly try to accept my length, and the other imperfections that i have, that i know arent even important
>tfw buying clothes is just another way of softening the blow of reality
>>10955155
Just see it like any part of 4chan in a more comedic way and enjoy the pictures. 90% here are 16-19 year old kids with no idea what fashion really is outside /fa/