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Remember when you were a part of it? A part of that 'internet culture' that you are so loath to associate with now. You used to have so much fun.
Now you've been left behind. Just as out of time on the internet as you are in the real world.
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This was the only path.
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It's impossible to go back.
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A-As long as I can stay with /jp/...
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it was my choice. i have no regrets.
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Few days ago I bought some of pills needed for portal. Soon I will buy more and I will be ready for Gensokyo!
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You deny your shitposting its purpose. It yearns to bathe in the tears of your enemies.
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Have you started working on your condom skirt? we will all be having a /jp/ meetup next week and everyone is to come wearing nothing but used condom related clothing
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They'll never love cocks as much as us.
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>>9135946
That's fake, dude.
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>>9135944
My shitposts are a tool of justice.
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>>9135936
But you can't. That which you love about /jp/ will fade into an obscurity only you remember, and all that will remain in you is bitterness.
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>>9135953
>>9135946
I wish i was a female, i would be the ultimate slut
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> That's fake, dude.

Doesn't look fake to me. Saved.
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>so much fun.

No regrets if I enjoyee my lifetime.
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>>9135982
You will never experience the joy of that many cocks sucked and fucked
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Yes. This is the first time in months I have posted on /jp/. Even this place is no fun.

What is left for me after this?
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>>9135946
I'm not pretty enough ;_;
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>>9136020
Spoilers?
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>>9135921
>Just as out of time on the internet
How? I dont see it.
>in the real world.
Thats a giving. I dont watch tv any more or watch any movies or keep up with any kind of current news at all aside from the news i hear from 4chan.
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>>9136017
Do you really have to ask?
We are all in the same situation, here.
You know what I mean.
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>>9136035
I guess you are right. It might be time to portal soon.

But I feel so weak thinking like that. I remember wanting to prove to people, years ago, that not all Otaku are murderers, rapists, or suicidal. I guess I was wrong.
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>>9136045
Escapism is never healthy, and it is pretty much a direct consequence of our hobbies.
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No one can take away all the laughter I had though.
I don't mind that everything is a lie, as long as you love me forever.
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I can't even fit in on internet forums.
Everyone always makes friends with eachother, and I'll make just as many posts as them but no one ever really notices me.
Same with real life, it doesn't matter if I contribute or not, I'm just invisible.

Its funny, but being anonymous has given me much more attention than I've ever gotten in real life. Here if I make a post people will respond to it, and I can start a conversation, and thats all that has to happen. On forums and real life none of it matters, I need to force/engage every conversation and I don't think anyone really likes me at all. When I look in the mirror I think I'm hideously deformed, and I'm apparently smarter than most people but I feel stupid.
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>>9136189
Try starving yourself. You'll feel better.
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>>9136020
Want to meet up? I don't want to talk though. I just want to cum on your face and then leave.
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>>9136259
This isn't acceptable /jp/sie behaviour at all.
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>>9136189
Anon, I want to talk with you.

In fact, I'll talk to any of you who need a buddy. I know I need one. I don't know if it will make either party feel better, but it could help.
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>>9136269
What you'll find even meaner is that I wasn't going to even show up! I was going to wait until I 20 minutes after the meeting time, then call and tell him that I was running late. I would keep doing that until he got mad and left! It would have been so hilarious!
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>>>/soc/
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>>9136276
We've tried that before, but all the circle's fall apart.
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>>9136189
This. And even those rare cases when I manage to meet someone online who wants to talk to me fail. If we exchange information about irc, skype, instant messaging or anything I never manage to talk them. I might contact them once and then realise that I am just uninteresting person and I have nothing to say anyone. The best I can do is agree with someone anonymously.
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FOUR HOOPS!!!!
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>>9136269
Yes, a true /jp/sie will always come inside.
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>>9136276
I'm always scared of talking to anyone from /jp/ because I imagine that they're going to be either extremely difficult to communicate with, or just completely crazy. I don't mean "LOL SO RANDUM" crazy, I mean genuinely mentally ill.

I'm incredibly awkward myself, but certain people have real issues and for some reason I imagine /jp/ being full of them.
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>>9136286
I understand. Still, my e-mail is in the e-mail field if anyone gets lonely.
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>>9136189
I was just afraid of what people thought of me. I didn't want too much attention and if I ever made a post that was stupid I would agonize about it for days. So I didn't post inflammatory things, or easily attacked opinions, or things directed at other people, which made me a bland forgettable poster that nobody cared about. I'm better off here.
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>>9136378
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>>9136389
Oh god your filename is perfect, it fills me with autistic rage
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I spent too much time in 4chan and ran out of fun.
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>>9136334
>certain people have real issues and for some reason I imagine /jp/ being full of them.
i think it's fairly justified...

i don't even bother speaking to anyone but one guy (who i have a really weird relationship with anyway, i suspect it's gonna go to shit quickly and i'm gonna get left all alone again, if i wasn't already), both online and IRL. it's too much effort, too much pain, doesn't satisfy my social needs even if i succeed at keeping a conversation, and they usually don't even want to have anything to do with me after they get to actually know me.
i don't know, looking back at my life, i think the best way to get around stuff might be to actually avoid any contact with people at all. wish i didn't have any need for social stuff so i could actually succeed.
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>Remember when you were a part of it? A part of that 'internet culture' that you are so loath to associate with now. You used to have so much fun.
Now you've been left behind. Just as out of time on the internet as you are in the real world.

This is not breaking the 4th wall.... THIS IS OBLITERATING IT. Good job OP, you really fucking got me there.
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It's true. I don't even have online friends anymore.
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>>9136649
I don't think you know what 4th wall means.

Op is trying to get away like he had some kind of clairvoyance power, but really considering the boom in memes and social networks of the past few years it's not that hard to figure out.
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>>9136189
Chatrooms and forums kill me, too. Everybody already has their little cliques and reputations and bullshit. I'm just ignored while they talk about inane shit I don't care about. I can only bring myself to be friends with somebody who doesn't already have any. At least anonymity does away with all that stuff.

It's been something like 7 years since I've had any internet friends.
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>>9136682
out of the couple of people I knew on a certain forum years ago I become only friends with one guy, because we were the only ones over there who knew about 2hu. I still chat with him everyday
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Yeah I remember being the cancer and checking out 2girls1cup and yelling dumb shit to people.

Now I am a hermit. I don't even socialize either online or offline. I spend more time configuring emacs than being anywhere near forums or social networks.

But I still have a job, interesting problems to solve, /jp/ and nihonese entertainment.
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>>9136700
*I only remained friends
I need sleep
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I want to be friends with my first forum friends. 2 of the girls drew pictures of me. One is fat black woman, I don't know what the other looks like, but she's very religious. The founder is pretty cool too.
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Yup.

I'm not part of it.

I still sometimes consider myself a "gamer" but then I read comments by people who consider themselves "core" gamers nowadays and realize I'm not even that.

And recently I've been feeling less and less at home on /jp/.
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>>9135946
>>9135953
>>9135982
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>>9136700
Did you fuck yet?
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>>9136708
I know that feel, man ;_;
But if not /jp/, where else do we have to turn?
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>>9135946
>>9135982
Ooooh, there was more in this set than what I had, if there's even more post please.
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I'm not behind the "internet culture" it's just dull and there is nothing left to be explored. Watching people have fun with memes and stuff like that is the equivalent of me walking through a shopping center, seeing all the kids having fun in video game/toy stores. I would rather go to a coffee shop to read a book or something.

It sucks though, being slowly overwhelmed by the new generation.
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>>9136711
Obviously not. I only fuck 2hus.
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sabitsuki is the best girl in yume nikki
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>>9136724
she's shitty in a fight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6c8_8s36tw
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>>9136562
Maybe you're schizoid like me.

>>9136276
>I'm always scared of talking to anyone from /jp/ because I imagine that they're going to be either extremely difficult to communicate with, or just completely crazy. [...] I mean genuinely mentally ill.

Yeah, most of us are mentally ill, but we're not that weird. You can always point it out "you're acting in this or that way" most of us will listen.
Besides (as far as I know) we all have a reason for being the way we are.


You also got me, OP. I guess /jp/ is the graveyard for those of us who have run out of internet fuel, but still refuse to abandon it.
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>>9136682
I used to have quite a few "internet friends", but I eventually got sick of them and removed almost all of them. I can't really explain why I did it. I just suddenly hated them and didn't want to talk to them.

I've always been extremely paranoid about people saying things behind my back, so I feel uneasy when I have more than a few contacts at a time. It's probably not the case but I can't help it.
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>>9136728
that doesn't matter to me
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>>9136729
>wish i didn't have any need for social stuff
If wikipedia isn't lying to me, schizoids don't have any need for social stuff.
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i remember the good old days when i was on loli forums, even had a few friends on there. now i just don't care to socialize at all. i just hang around here now as it seems the sanest part of the internet
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>>9136724
>_m
I disagree, though thanks for reminding me that I need to actually put some effort into playing .flow. It seems harder to find other areas than in other fangames.

>>9136733
>I used to have quite a few "internet friends", but I eventually got sick of them and removed almost all of them.
I had friends-lists of about 20+ when I used to play MMOs, but I couldn't stand the thought of them chatting to other people and not spending time with me. I had one or two people I was pretty close to at one point who I'd stalk through servers, trying to find them, but I eventually got bored with them, too.
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>>9136748
Did you ever RP on those loli forums? I always thought about trying but was always too scared
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>>9136757
it takes some time but its enjoyable

also
what is your favorite yumme nikki girl?
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>>9136772
Definitely Madotsuki. Can't explain in it any other way than "I fell in love with her."
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>>9136746
Yep, that's me.

>>9136722
I agree with you completly. Especially on this:

>It sucks though, being slowly overwhelmed by the new generation.

Now they are all with this new internet slang that I find stupid, annoying, simple, unfunny or sometimes I just can't understand it. Now all memes are becoming mainstream and everybody is desperate to come up with the next big hit. Good memes are hard to find nowadays; maybe there won't be good memes anymore. Who knows? I don't really care.
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>>9136758
I tried a couple of times, but it really wasn't my thing, i mainly just hung around shitposting and uploading/sorting doujins.
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>>9136746
Self diagnosed schizoid here, it's just a very very low priority but sometimes it sneaks up on you then you realize you have nobody, it sucks for awhile but then I am pulled back into the blissful recluse.
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>>9136787
By very low I mean VERY LOW.
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>>9136777
interesting, i experienced that same feeling but with sabitsuki
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I remember when I had internet friends years ago when people still used free AOL internet CDs.
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>nobody plays Answered Prayers
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>>9136722
This.
All of the friends I used to have pretty much think I'm boring because my idea of a "fun time," if I ever go outside to hang out with someone, is sitting in a coffee shop and talking.
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>>9136785
The worst is when you find a person you kind of like and then they start talking about "meh-mehs" and use the word as a direct replacement for "funny image with text and a watermark added" instead of anything to do with the actual concept of memetics.
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/jp/ - My Blog.
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>>9136799
No, you're just a hipster.
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>>9136787
I've been diagnosed by 3 different therapists throughout my life. The shcizoid diagnosis criteria is very strict, and it's normally caused by a strong traumatic experience (past or present). If you think you're having some mental dissorder visit your medic. It won't help you, but maybe it will give you an idea of what you might have.
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Yeah, even I once posted on one forum, at times provoking newbies (only the stupid ones) into embarassing themselves, at times posting opinions about anime, news, etc.
Even if those years were fairly bad, I can't ignore that I at least, for example, had an identity. Furthermore I, or that identity, was fairly liked, at least by people who could add two integers together.
But of course most of them, and most internet people, when not under a nickname, were the same as everybody else. Alcohol, party hard, dreams, hopes, cliques.
Internet and their nicknames were only one hobby of them, amongst many others. It was only I who thought that, like myself, that was everything they had.

So, no OP, I have not, we have not been left behind, because we were never 'there'. At the moment I felt I was part of [internet culture]. The fact is that I was only a [guy who doesn't have anything else], interacting with [guys who have fun on the internet as a part-time hobby]. It was never symmetrical interaction among peers, if only internet peers, only an illusion of that.

I had fun, yes. Now, not anymore simply because you can only squeeze so much fun out of the internet. There's nothing to regret because it couldn't have been any other way.
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>>9136729
>internet fuel

I like this term.
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>>9136800
Do idiots actually pronounce it like that?
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>>9136843
It's extremely descriptive, yes.
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>>9136827
I will keep it in mind, thanks.
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>>9136843
>>9136851
By the way, I quoted the wrong guy at my previous post (>>9136729). I meant this guy >>9136334.
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>>9136729
not really. i have multiple disorders diagnosed, but schizoid ain't one, and it doesn't even really sound like me. in fact it kinda sounds like an opposite of me. (like the other anon said, schizoids don't feel much need for relationships, while i have it pretty strong and just wish i didn't because social interaction is confusing and brings me pain.)
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>>9136800
Yeah. I met a guy at a course who seemed to be a decent person to chat with about games, etc.
I could almost ignore his "X is probably the best Y there is" claims, even if that kind of thing should stop after puberty, but then he took out the "When X happened, I was like this: reddit_paintbrush_face.jpg" shit.
I won't pretend people were less stupid before 4chan (or should I say, before people started chain-digesting 4chan's feces) or before internet, but when you expect somebody to have one bit of sense in them, it's both disgusting and discouraging to hear this shit come out of their mouth.
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My situation is more or less like this guy >>9136840.

Have we really changed that much?
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I was never a part of "internet culture." I don't think so, anyway. But I did stop visiting the website that I must have spent a thousand hours when I was in high school, a political forum where I have almost eight thousand posts but stopped visitig.
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I only got into anime about three years ago. I plunged into VNs immediately, but dropped them before ever really getting considerably far into them. Now I mostly read history and science textbooks.
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>>9136914
I used to play a game in high school that keeps track of your hours played. I stopped playing around 930, others had over 4000. The game is pretty much entirely abandoned now.
It was kind of sad because you weren't an "oldbie" unless you had over 1000 hours, so I was never able to be "cool."

Then I grew up and just stopped caring. This seems to be the way things work on the internet. Things will just die after so long.
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>>9136800
>>9136899
You should convert them to your side. Just remark that retarded internet memes should stay on the internet. Even the people who like shit like that probably concede that its retarded.

Here's a remark about doubles that will leave you aghast that these subhumans have invested /jp/ too.
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>>9136931
In terms of video games I'm too much of an "oldbie", sure people come to me for information or if they want me on their team but that's just using me for their own benefit. I feel like in terms of the game my mind is on a whole different level, at least I get the pleasure of being better than everyone else I guess. In the end it's just a game though and where I live it is impossible to convert it into a living because my internet isn't good enough to stream.
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>>9136741
>sweet_jaypee.jpg
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>>9136931
Oh, it didn't really die or anything, I just stopped visiting, a combination of personal apathy setting in and what I consider to be an infestation of morons. It's still alive and kicking and the guy with the most posts just recently broke fifty thousand.

There are some internet wastelands that are just depressing to look at, though. I went looking for through some medical-sphere blogs and there are just tons with latest posts from anywhere between 2005 and 2011. It's almost as depressing as the state of /rs/.
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>>9136966
what
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>>9136840
That's just so sad.

I don't think I'll ever run out of fun from the internet, though.
There are tons of things that can keep me occupied just by having a computer with an internet connection, and although 4chan is one of those things, I think I'll be fine if 4chan suddenly disappeared.
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>>9136976
What do you do then? My life is completely boring, I just go to /jp/ everyday.
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>>9136950
Which game(s)?
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>>9137001
Probably Starcraft. It's the only game I can think of where streaming can make you a living.
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>>9136993
Let's see, apart from going to /a/ or /v/, I also download tons of stuff, and I also produce music.
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I never was part of anything. I'm was and still am having fun alone in my head.
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>>9137004
I've entertained the idea of getting an adderall script and playing SC2 full-time. Alas, my desire for "professional" video games has nearly completely died.
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>>9137001
Currently MOBA's, in the past MMO's and FPS. I had the most fun when I was at my peak during my FPS days.
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>>9137024

I myself have no fire left for more competitive gaming like Starcraft. Only in my teenage days did I have time for that kind of stuff.

But I do watch replays. Starcraft 1 and 2 are really great spectator sports. I am also interested in learning how to make an AI for Starcraft. Though Zerg is rather overpowered with AI.

And there are a lot of fun mods in SC2 right now, like Bomberman. The map editor is great.
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>>9136935
It's weird and somewhat ironic that I'm actually not as 'addicted to the internet' as my peers (Long story short, I'm currently forcing myself to socialize - undergrad, building resume, get job etc).

Most of the people I know simply have to be connected to the net all the time: facebooking/ reddit from phone. Whereas for me, I firmly believe in a "what goes on in the internet stays in my com". And yes, looking at some of them spewing memes just made me, I don't know feel odd...

Funnily enough, some of them actually thought that I'm not net culture savvy when it's the other way round where I just don't see the need to bring that stuffs out.
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this is more like the /b/ i remember, actually.
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>>9137174

I think the "original /b/" is what OP meant by "internet culture".


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