We post anonymously here, and yet still people are not sincere.

>>9429586
Back to r/books with you

salty cunt lmao

>>9429600
>>9429606
This is what you have to offer

>>9429611
age of entitlement

>>9429620
What?

>>9429586
>not seeing past the final layer of irony overlaying the entire site and realizing that we all realize how dumb and absurd this all is

>>9429630
>hurr durr I was only pretending to be a retard

pardon my use of memes but there it is

/lit/ is just insecure youths anonymously vetting books for "worth" so they don't namedrop shit and like uncool titles IRL

>>9429647
Yes, so let's blow this scene

>>9429634
>a retard
how does it make us retards? bitter losers, sure
frustrated idiots, sure, but retards?
all you can do is repeat a stale meme in response?
hmm really makes me think xD

I just like to talk about books with others that like to talk about books, I've been trying to find a book club or any other group on Facebook or so on with similar interests in books but all that I have found were uninteresting or non-active.

I wouldn't mind people knowing who I am in a book club, but this isn't a book club.

>>9429586

Fantastic post. This may also whats wrong with other pre-web-2.0 type sites like something awful

Sadly Im not surprised that people immediately rushed to mock these ideas in the most obvious way possible. When OP points out exactly how you are a stupid shit-wallower, and you do exactly that, all you're saying is, 'yes, i am a stupid shit-wallower'. There is nothing meta or ironic about that. Its really pathetic that people would debase themselves that way. Personally, even with anonymity I can't imagine not feeling ashamed of doing something like that. My best guess at what is going on in these poster's heads is that they have no self respect.

I would also add that its not funny or shocking. No one laughs at these shitty posts. Humor -- like everything else that makes life worth living -- requires unique insight, understanding of the audience, sincerity, and real effort. You have to genuinely engage with the world and the people you are communicating with.

There is a lot to say on this topic and I want to post more in this thread but its late. I hope to see more threads like this, because I don't think this site is complete shit yet at all and is definitely worth saving.

>>9429748
>understanding of the audience
it is understood perfectly

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>>9429748
>>9429586
It's good to see that there are other sincere posters out there. I want you guys to know that we are not alone.

>>9429823
>we are not all alone
hate to break it to you anon..

This is still the most interesting and insightful thread on /lit/!

>>9431629
>using exclamation marks
Is there a more reddit punctuation mark? Fuck off, you disgusting cunt, you've been posting shit like an overexcited 15 year old all over /lit/. Everyone can tell, so piss off.

>>9431629
No, it's just the usual genre fiction pleb trying to convince /lit/ that his shitty pulp fiction is on par with classic literature and deserves the same kind of respect.

It's impossible to talk outside of a culture or a role as established by game-boundaries and anonymity bolsters, not reduces the influence of a culture, I think?

>>9429586
Where do you suggest I go for "substance"? Shitposting is fun because it's like suicide, but more cowardly. Being honest takes effort and opens one up to being truly wrong, and that's scary.

Some people are sincere, some of the time. Some people are original/witty/insightful/helpful/w-e, some of the time. You wouldn't be here otherwise.

Can my sincerity be irony? What if I'm at the sincerest when I'm ironic? What if I don't know how I ought to achieve sincerity? Would it be sincere to not know how to be sincere?

Your post is pathetic and cliche and sad in its ignorant loneliness. No one comes here to be cool. People come here to forget that people unironically use the word cool. How much more honest can this place be? People constantly contemplate suicide, describe their isolation, their fear of permanent loneliness, display condescension, show their pettiness, joke about this website's absurdity and paradoxical support mechanism. Wtf do you want? A place where people regulate personality? Lit is human. Ugly, stupid, shy, lonely, sometimes smart...

>>9429586
I feel that it has a lot to do with the main undercurrent of depression that occupies almost every single board. The vast majority here are unhappy people, we treat this place like our sickness, like something we do every day. To be faceless and nameless doesn't hide you from yourself. So the most painful thing to be upended with is the knowledge that you are wrong and that no one has to see you talking or doing anything to come to that conclusion. To be so fundamentally wrong is the fear of so many posters, as this place slowly warped into all much of them really felt they had. Therefore the only feasible cure is separation, be it physical or personal; therefor the mask.

Polite sage for off topic meta.

>>9429586
Great post, OP. There are actually lots of well-read people on /lit/ and it would be an excellent place for discussion if people weren't compulsively posturing about how "patrician" they are all the time.

>>9429586
every time I post sincerely, people just shitpost in response. it doesnt matter how much I try to sage them. how do you expect people to react to that? irony is currency here as everywhere.

>>9429586
we're far more sincere than most, but we're still hedonists who love our stupid little jokes

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>>9429746
>facebook

>>9431755
So, what do you have to offer?

>>9431657

What do you expect me to say to this? You think I would be embarrassed about using an exclamation point, or that I have made other posts on this board? Do you even have the presence of mind to understand why you are doing what you are doing when you write something like this? What will it take to get you to actually think about what you are doing, if not OP telling you as clearly as this?

>>9431818
depends whose asking.

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The misery of this life will end today. All things are experienced from the vantage point of today. A hypothetical alert of this message's arrival some years ago does nothing to change your felt experience of reading it today as present you. Such is the end. The door of Matter will open just as suddenly as it closed.

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stop being such a progressive, authentic, realistic, conscious, postmodern freudomarxist

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do it anon
do the leap

>>9432010
Go leap yourself off a cliff

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what's OP's big other? be sincere, we are all anonymous here.

>>9432010
I just started reading Either/Or a few days ago and I would have never expected it to be so enjoyable

Then again, there's a part of me that thinks it's shallow as fuck

Sure is a lotta insecurity on this thread/board....

>>9429586

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bumping this quality thread

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>>9429738
get everybody and their stuff together

>>9429630
>not realizing that being aware of your stupidity does not excuse it
childish

>>9429748
I think it's interesting that you call attention to web 2.0 sites. I think the internet before social media was incredibly genuine, with actual communication, debate, and discourse, in addition to the virtual friendships that developed.

I'm still connected to strangers that I met online back in the late 90's. That's pretty remarkable. But, in the last ten years, I haven't met anyone online worth a damn.

>>9429586
This is the real redpill

>>9429586
>What exactly do you hope to gain,

It was always for the lulz

>>9429586
I like you Anon. Good post.

>>9433287
What's the new board going to be?

>>9433303
It's common sense. Pills are for sick people.

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>>9429586
/lit/ sometimes produces threads that are thought provoking or informative. I've learned a lot here.

OP is whiny trash, has contributed nothing, and his criticism is 100% projection. Please go.

>>9433322
boards.4chan.org/321letsjam/

>>9433328
irrelevant

>>9433328
OP may be whiny, but he's not wrong.
Informative posts are the exception, insecure braggadocio and contempt are the norm.
>has contributed nothing
neither have you gaylord

>>9433341
No. Your meaningless, noise post is proving OP's point.

>>9433348
>insecure braggadocio and contempt are the norm.
>>repeating the obvious as argument

I've been frustrated with the lameness of this board before, but I didn't start a tantrum thread and fling accusations at the collective anonymous (which really says more about the accuser than accused). I logged off and read a book.

>>9433373
Wow, nice contribution, dude (this post is sarcastic).

>>9433328
>tripag
>opinion immediately disregarded
Many such cases.

>>9429586
>/lit/
>Idiots trying to prove to other idiots how cool they are.

Yeah, 4chan users are people too. Wow. Shocking insight, doctor OP!

>play the stupid games, talk about the books you think you should talk about, adopt the opinions you think you should adopt

An individual's online presence is an extension of themselves. 4chan users know they are anonymous, but the more substantive truth is their posts are important to THEM, unless they are purposely shitposting/trolling. All the games and posturing are practice for real world posturing. This is a charm school for pseudointellectual shut-in dingbats.

>>9433417
the only disagreement I have with this post is the implication that /lit/ is 4chan.
/lit/ is semi-anonymous reddit. 4chan-style posts are literally reported here. Not saying that's necessarily bad, but just keep it in mind.

>>9429586
Who cares my cuck
I just wasted 1hour of my life watching youtube videos of me and my m8s from HS doing dumb shit back in the good'ol days and my face hurts from laffin so hard, find something that does that for you

>>9433425
link?

>>9433373
Good for you, faggot.

>>9429586
Go fuck yourself

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>>9433421
/lit/ is not semi-anonymous. It is exactly as anonymous as the rest of 4chan, and it does not have reddit features or any features not found elsewhere on 4chan.

>reporting posts in /lit/
Yeah. /lit/ has a lot of pedantic nerds. If anything, people here are some of the most insufferable anywhere on this site. /k/ can be autistic, but they're generally funny. /out/ is the most chill board anywhere. /o/ has people who actually do things with their knowledge. /tg/ beardos love their hobbies unironically.

/lit/ is about as noxious as /fa/. there is absolutely no reason for that.

>>9433403
>>9433408
Exhibit A. Just look at these faggots. Pic related.

>>9433431
Not gonna expose myself or people related to me in here, too many hackerz
They are mostly videos of us chasing each other and throwing tables inside the classroom and overall chimping out

>>9433450
for some reason I didn't connect that it was you in the videos, that was pretty dumb of me.
Glad you found something to cheer you up, anon. Hope you have a good day/night/evening wherever you are.

>>9433461
Thanks, you too

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>>9429586
OP is a gigantic faggot. I come here because I want to shoot the shit with like-minded people. Most people in life are incompatible. I've put a lot of effort into trying to find compatibility with others IRL, and it's rare. I don't spend all of my free time on this board, but if I'm in the mood to shitpost, I know exactly where to come, and I know exactly what to expect. Feel free to fuck off to some other place where people are "sincere" in the way you define it.

>>9433438
Fuck you, choke on a dick.