jwu, after skimming last thread I felt I should remind everyone:
Threadshitters bitching about ritualposters being "uncreative" is as comical and ironic as Tommy Wiseau or the faggots who made Biodome or Birdemic calling Orson Welles a bad actor or director
Above and beyond anything else, creativity is what determines whether or not a ritualpost will stand the test of time. If a new ritualpost isn't sufficiently creative, isn't some viable combination of traits like distinctive, interesting, witty, mystifying, amusing, peculiar, and so on, then it will be ignored, abandoned and inevitably die out in just a handful of splits
This has happened time, and time again
On the other hand, if a ritualpost IS creative, then it will persist - both on its own merits, and in no small part because it will inspire further, supplemental creativity in the replies of others. Some of which may even wind up being as recognizable as the original, and incorporated as an essential component of the ritualpost itself, sort of like a call-and-response in music
This collaborative creative process, producing customs, practices and behavioral artifacts which are recognizable and meaningful only to those who were present and part of the group and, therefore, a shibboleth which serves to filter outsiders, is a microcosm of the anthropological mechanics behind memetics, Darwinian evolution, and - ultimately - of culture itself
Now, compare this to threadshitters, who are not part of the group and who incessantly timeloop the same low-effort cookie-cutter shitposts, walls of text, nonsensical broken syllogisms, impotent demoralization propaganda and contrived schizophrenic narratives for years at a time. Often relying upon AI and large language models to generate their shitposts for them, as a crutch for their laziness and distinct lack of personality and talent. In stark contrast to ritualposts, we can see that shitposts unfortunately endure DESPITE being as boring, uncreative, uninteresting, pathetic, and simply worthless today as they were the first hundred times they were posted
What else could this be, brothers, if not the very antithesis of culture itself?
