Has your experience on Kiwi Farms taught you anything?

[please]

Eh. Sorta. The community here is interesting.

The recent shooting has been on my mind lately. Regardless of it being a glow op or not, there are plenty people like that, turned fanatical by the rampant consumption of a certain media. Thing is, I'm not any more immune to propaganda as that guy was, I feel. This site was built on the story of a guy that was so addled not only be his own mental issues but a severe lack of guidance in a new media age we still have a hard time understanding. Even I see myself zoned in on some bullshit that honestly wouldn't normally affect me, like right now. While I know I won't become anything close to the insane shooter, I still feel the internet is shaping my world views instead of the real world itself shaping it. This shit should hardly be real to me.

I guess what I'm saying is that recently KF taught me to touch some fucking grass once and a while.

 

[Slightly Apathetic Mario]

What i've learnt, is simple.

-tend to ignore A&H spergs, just ignore A&H in general if you don't want to hear about politics
-the Games and Tech boards are pretty chill and i've gotten some good game recommendations from that board
-stickers apparently make people angry, so don't worry if someone spergs out at you over a sticker affecting their reddit karma

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I'm more thoughtful of what kind of online footprint I'm leaving, not just in terms of cybersecurity and not doxing yourself to random Indians in call centers, but in terms of how your posts and content reflect you as a person.
If you're an artist (or anyone who has a gig-type job who gets work online) you want to present a version of yourself that seems approachable and reliable instead of a colossal faggot. So many of our artcows are a great example of this, no one wants to work with someone whose page is 2% art and 98% slapfights about Shadow the Hedgehog's gender.

 

[#KillAllPedos]

You can't A-log the world, but the world can A-log you.

 

[I am vomit]

Everyone glows

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

I've often thought about the fact that Kiwi Farms has helped me learn to be less Mad at the Internet. There was a time when I was inclined to occasionally get in shit flinging matches in youtube comments sections. When i started posting on KF I refrained from engaging in this activity on here, because i was aware it was frowned upon. Initially, i still found myself getting angry but held it in because I knew expressing anger would only result in MATI awards and getting called out as a mental defect etc. But over time I discovered that I didn't feel the anger. I would instead re-read my post that prompted an insult and think "yeah, that is a little gay" or think "that's actually a pretty good insult, I like it." In general, more personally detached from what happens on the screen, which is as it should be.

This, pretty much.

So you've learned to people please for people who don't care about you? Good for you, what a touching tale of personal growth

It's less about that and more about considering how you use your online time. You don't learn anything arguing in youtube comments, they're all useless spergs too. On the farms, get a few top hats or 'lol fag' responses and it pulls you up sharper. You begin to think about it and maybe lighten up. After a while you wonder what all the a-logging was supposed to achieve.

 

[otis]

Kiwifarms def made me drift away from being a chronically online social reject. Used to care way more about shit like Twitter and tumblr and validation from other social media platforms that are too small to even mention by name. But just browsing through kf over the years and reading about real life instances of people letting the internet rule their life made me really sit down and evaluate what a tool I was being and how I am wasting my younger years. Ended up disappearing from most of the social medias I used, really buckled down on my studies and started forcing myself to socialize. Now my life is awesome, stressful but that’s life in general, and a lot of problems I thought I had fucked right off.

People off site can say what they want about this place and at the end of the day it is ultimately a gossiping and archiving forum, but give credit where credit is due- people are thorough and there wouldn’t be a community if there weren’t cows to laugh at and treat as a cautionary tale of internet/porn addiction gone terribly wrong.

 

[Astro Loafo]

I learned to always keep my expectations low. Since this place is literally normie discord.

 

[Monkey Shoulder]

It has confirmed and reinforced every single one of my prejudices.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

That a lot of people are lonely and socially maladjusted.

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

Taught me to feel better about myself. Whenever I feel down, I immediately get a boost to my self-esteem when I see cows acting up and making a fool of themselves.

It makes me feel better than I am not on their level.

 

[Erika Furudo]

KF taught me a bunch of things. I'm not going to PL but you will sometimes see someone highlight a lolcows behavior or point out another kiwi is being a retard, and you will suddenly realize "Oh fuck, that applies to me". Then you take steps to correct it, unironically becoming a better person.

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

KF made me realize how ridiculous my other online interactions were.

Cows and news aside, the actual discussions here are a nice break from the I LIKE THING GOOD YOU BAD SIMPLE SURFACE LEVEL ANSWER that prevails elsewhere on the internet. It's nice to come here and be able to exchange ideas indepth

 

[Kenya Jones]

This might sound insane to some but this is something I have seriously learned here: Everyone, any person, any group of people, everybody, has the potential to become lolcows. It is in everyone, and it is up to us to keep that deep within, and too many times, people are not able to control it, and that little lolcow in everyone emerges, maybe for just a short moment, maybe it's their entire being, but whichever it is, it can happen to anyone, and that is why you shouldn't get MATI, because that's the #1 reason it comes out.

 

[Bassomatic]

I've learned a lot on KF. I'm a pretty laid back person IRL and social and sane and "blend in" as a normie.

KF lets me see that Jerry Springer etc isn't just some niche therse's 100k+ of insane groups etc. Also fuck it people like Chris, etc are just point and laugh nothing else. While, news who picks Chris up for mere hours, theres years of laughs.

While I don't want to end my post with "oh I don't care with KF" don't let shit you laugh at get important in your life. Spergs are gonna sperg and we are lucky enough to laugh at em.

 

[Meat Target]

I've often thought about the fact that Kiwi Farms has helped me learn to be less Mad at the Internet. There was a time when I was inclined to occasionally get in shit flinging matches in youtube comments sections.

Dovetailing with this, I've learned to take a joke and laugh at myself on the internet.

There's no denying I've had some pretty autistic spazzouts here, mostly on A&H, but I've been making efforts to mellow out. We're here to laugh, and I enjoy making people laugh.

*winks at the government agent monitoring me*

Even the glowies in our midst deserve to laugh with us.

 

[smegma lover 69]

That I hate autistic people.

Anything else I say is basically parroting what others have said; a good escape from echochambers like Twitter where people just accept whatever they're fed without question.

And seeing ugly, not-passing-whatsoever troons makes me feel a bit better about my own physical appearance.

I'm just kidding, spergs, you know I love ya.

 

[Latvophile]

I like making people go "wtf" and thinking I'm a schizo. I could be telling the truth, I could be saying dumb shit.

This actually comes across funnier to me personally considering I happen to be good friends with weedeater95 lmao.

KF has taught me not to take life so seriously. Everyone is a fuckup, and no matter what you do, you'll always be an ass in someone else's eyes. So who cares? Live (and laugh) it up.

Same here. The best people are those who can actually have a laugh at their own culture/expense/whatever and actually have a critical/analytical conversation like that in a semi-serious message board thread.

Being stuffed up and boring, or resorting to overused cliches to get your point across that have been repeated time and time again, is a sign of failing to see past one's own point of view.
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On a side note it's taught me to not really care so much about what people do privately really, but also not to obnoxiously shove things in everyone's face like you seem to see on social media (which when it's 'wrong' often leads to 'cancellation').

Spoiler: PL Alert

I'm pretty fucking autistic, kinda typical friendless weeb with the "has a crush on everyone with a cute pfp" and rp actions. Thing is there's a time and a place for that, I can go do that shit on Discord in my own time.

Speaking of message boards, in general I find they encourage people to behave within the rules and often have a very unique vibe and way to them, while Discord and social media encourage chaos. (Imageboards tend to encourage low quality posters and people who don't really dedicate their time to things, especially these days in the era of 'no one will register anywhere unless it has a single sign in button and has a mobile app').

 

[Drkinferno72]

I’m in a hive of scum and villainy, I must be cautious

 

[David Brown]

I'm much more comfortable with the fact that I like reading about and watching petty drama and antics between innernet retards. What can I say? I'm a gossip at heart. I will say that I prefer to just observe. I'm not one of those queers writing essays about DSP or some other oversharing idiot.