Has Kiwi Farms changed any of your perspectives?

[Super Color Up]

I wouldn't say it's changed my perspective's so much as it has evolved my understanding of the world at large by casting a light over the shadows. I'm not gonna suck my own ass and say I was right all along on some things, but holding to my own beliefs and cross-referencing them with the ongoings of the world at large through an unfiltered lens certainly helps, I think.

 

[JambledUpWords]

And since lurking in the CWC threads in May of 2018 I've developed a distaste for Twitter and Reddit and I don't look back on joining Kiwi Farms at all.

I’ll admit that Reddit doesn’t have the appeal for me that it used to have. The posts all look the same after a while and they have the same humor and commentary. It didn’t help that the subs I really enjoyed are being banned. I now favor Kiwi Farms over Reddit.

 

[QI 541]

It made me hate deaf people

 

[Yuusha-sama]

This Account is my first legitimate account after ages, I use on the internet.
My last one before that was with 12 I think.(Over 10 ten years ago).

In 2015 I became Anti-Sjw /fem. etc., but never saw Sargoy and Kraut. (Thank God)
I liked the SJW-compilations and Jordan Peterson more.
btw I'm not a shrieking fanboy. He was just better than Sorgoy and his minions.
And I loved to read lore about the Autism Holy War and the people involved.
I really enjoyed @Jaimas posts when I started to lurk here a year ago.

I think most of my beliefs have been strengthened after I've been lurking here,
and as many have said, the trans stuff is just awful, so much actually that I would team up with TERFs on the spot.
The only thing that changed is how I look at that kind of stuff.
I look at the pro GG and anti-SJW side far more often and harsher and laugh about them if they mess up.
What I like here is the enjoyment/horror you get through lolcows, and the archiving process on KFarms.

 

[Posthumorous]

I’ve only been on Kiwi Farms for a few months, but here are some perspectives of mine that have changed since joining:

• I used to be more sympathetic to the trans cause, but after discovering the amount of people that are just using this for power or to fulfill a sexual fantasy, I can’t say that I’m as sympathetic as I used to be. I realize there are probably some genuine trans people out there, but the cause itself has become obnoxious.
• Speaking of trans, I’ve become completely against bottom surgeries and puberty blockers for the damage they cause.
• I am now in favor of nuclear energy being used from all the good arguments I’ve heard in favor of it.
• I now wish that the ratings we have on the Farms were universal for other social media sites because they are fun.

I'm not sure if my perspectives on those outside of Kiwi Farms, but my perspective has certainly been changed in term of KF itself. Before I signed up on this site, I was quite intimidated and uncomfortable with the Farms. Mostly with the way the Wiki and forums appeared to me, including the rather bold warnings on the registration prompt. All of this caused concern within me, making me think this was a extremely negative, toxic, and horrible place. However, after I signed up on March 18th, 2019, I never felt so good to be to be so dead wrong.

In all my years of being on a myriad of forums for over a decade, I have never felt as much as I feel at home here. Despite the rough words, the sagas of Exceptional Individuals archived here, and a few sour apples here, I feel much different about this place. I actually feel accepted, comfortable, and like I can be my weird but chill self here. I like how chill people are here, and how KF is run. Now that I tasted the Kiwis from the Farms here, I really don't see why those outside of it make a mission to ruin a bastion of free speech on the Internet.

tl;dr: KF is a fun, accepting place as long as you're not a huge dick, where you can talk about whatever you want within reason. People are chill as fuck here and help each other out, which is a farcry from other forums.

 

[Judge Holden]

I have touched on this before, but for me the great revelation given to me by this archive of autistic fucktards and degenerate sickfucks was not "oh god these people are so goddamn tarded and pathetic and repulsive!" or anything like that...

It was "oh god, serious and important and influential people in media, politics, tech and beyond are even more goddamn tarded and pathetic and repulsive than all these autistic fucktards and degenerate sickfucks" and the further realisation of "holy shit...its always been like this!" has pretty decidedly shaped my perspective on the world/world history and how power structures of any kind become a haven for drooling morons and assorted scum whenever they try to set themselves as beyond the reproach of the masses.

 

[remiem]

I don't think KF has changed my views per say so much as affirmed ones I had. I think a lot of people who end up coming here are already well on the way of being tired of the main stream push of progressiveness at the cost of common sense and other such bullshit, it's why they seek out the farms.

 

[Fareal]

I have realised that autism is substantially more prevalent than I had fully realised.

 

[Hell]

It didn't exactly blackpill me into oblivion, but yes. I'm more pessimistic and nihilistic than before.

I also learned that perhaps the Alt Right can be as bad as Antifa sometimes, I don't know. I think I lost my faith in God literally. Nothing really matters anymore.

 

[Nekromantik]

While the Farms has open my eyes on some really dark corners of the internet, and shown me just how messed up people can be, (toons, and zoos to name a few), it has also given me hope. Some many places on the internet where you could just laugh at shit have been changing. Everything is political now, and you're made to feel that you have to pick a side, but on the Farms we can just laugh at things no matter our background.

The world needs more laughter, and the Farms provides.

 

[UF 404]

tl;dr: KF is a fun, accepting place as long as you're not a huge dick, where you can talk about whatever you want within reason. People are chill as fuck here and help each other out, which is a farcry from other forums.

Definitely, I think this is one of the aspects the outsiders tend to miss when judging the farms. You can state some opinions that go against what is common here and people often won't give you crap for it as long as you control yourself and act mature about it. And if you act like an idiot, you'll be called out on it. We're far from an echo chamber.

 

[Lemmingwise]

The trans movement has made me unironically agree with some rad fem talking points. Not to say I like radical feminism, but I agree that it’s frustrating to have places that are meant only for women are being invaded by people that have no clue what it’s like to be a biological woman. Another point I agree with is the language that’s now used to appease troons for things like periods, child birth and pregnancy as being inconsiderate. Who would have thought that troons would make me side with radical feminists at times

The right term is TERF or trans exclutionary radical feminism.

The trans movement itself is a different branch of radical feminism that seeks to eliminate the gender binary through queer theory.

I’ll admit that Reddit doesn’t have the appeal for me that it used to have. The posts all look the same after a while and they have the same humor and commentary.

I have the same experience on the kiwi farms half the time. I come back for the other half.

I think it's a function of having a vote system. People crave positive social reinforcement and start to moderate themselves in line with the group think, which eliminates cognitive dissonance, but also novel messages.

 

[RG 448]

I was a bleeding heart liberal when I joined this site and after one day here I wanted to kill everyone who didn’t look like me.

 

[Goddessoftheshire]

I used to consider myself very liberal but between SJW threads , tranny threads, and the 9 year old drag queen thread. I hate them as much as I hate extreme conservatives.

 

[YayLasagna]

Furries are dumber than I thought
Calling someone on the left an idiot doesn't make you a nazi
Trump isn't the best but he's not all that bad as people make him out to be
Kinkshaming isn't a thing

 

[Magic Sun Daddy]

Before joining, my understanding of this website was mostly based off heresay from biased parties, so I thought it was full of assholes and manchildren with nothing better to do with their lives.

...

I mean it is, but you're a fun lot to pal around with regardless.

 

[Exceptional Chimp]

It convinced me to never become famous, especially on the internet.

 

[Agent Scud]

After drifting closer to the left over the years finding this place reminded me of how the internet and I used to be. I've started acting like my old self again and have been working on furthering myself over waiting for opportunities to come to me.

 

[Jack Haywood]

Definitely, I think this is one of the aspects the outsiders tend to miss when judging the farms. You can state some opinions that go against what is common here and people often won't give you crap for it as long as you control yourself and act mature about it. And if you act like an idiot, you'll be called out on it. We're far from an echo chamber.

My own compilation of people's political opinions on a thread here actually showed that this place isn't exactly politically homogeneous. Out of 19 people, 8 were on the liberal left, 5 were on the liberal right, and 6 were on the conservative right. 5 of those people were only in one of those groups to a very mild degree anyway. There wasn't anyone who was more than 55% conservative right.

 

[NQ 952]

I don't know if KF has changed me at all, but since joining I shit my pants less.

In seriousness, though, I would say that my age has affected me more than my time at the farms. Then again, I was in the middle of Autism Unleashed, so it was very refreshing to see other people share similar opinions to my own. Eliminating that feeling of isolation helped immensely.