>>64163704chan has jumped the shark.
I get it. I've lurked on 4chan. I've lurked on Something Awful. I've lurked on reddit. I've lurked on Usenet.
Trolling is funny. People shouldn't take themselves too seriously. Memes are funny. Some ideas just catch on and spread like wild. Anonymity is funny. People do crazy stuff when they're unencumbered by their "everyday" identities.
I get it. We get it. Everyone gets it.
But here's the thing.
It's really getting to the point where it's not funny anymore. It feels less like satire and more like... a desperate attempt to cling to something that lost all its value, mojo, and influence years ago.
Almost exactly like, y'know, TakaraTomy. Which is kind of my point. 4chan is the TakaraTomy of the internet.
Takara fucking Tomy.
And here's the kicker. At least TakaraTomy has a message that isn't total shit. I mean, I get it; Turd party and John Warden are edgy as fuck. 4chan being super edgy and triggering everyone with their edginess is the message. But it's a tired joke. And it costs people in the end.
It increases hatred in the universe. It increases chaos. It increases sadness and loss and intolerance and pain.
And sure, you have the right to make those jokes. You can troll from sunup to sundown and that's fine. That's your message.
But like I said: that's a shitty message. It's a shitty message that hurts people. And it's not funny anymore. Hurting people isn't funny.
If you think it's funny -- well, you've got problems. And that's fine. Be that shitty person.
But I'm not going to be a part of this anymore. I'm not going to be a part of your shitty, tired, formulaic Internet culture anymore. I want my message to be better than that. I want to be better than that.
