How has sites like Kiwi, 4chan and such changed you for the better?

[Scratch This Nut]

They haven’t, you goddamn moron.

 

[Cilleystring]

I've learned that some people don't ever just "grow out of it" and mature to become what we typically think of as a regular, functioning human being in society. I used to think that everyone would eventually find their way. This site showed me that I was completely wrong about that.

 

[Distant Stare]

I've discovered a previously unknown fondness for calling people faggots.
I've also been exposed to a lot of contrary viewpoints which is nice since being in a bubble is the worst thing you can do to yourself.

Being exposed to new ideas and talking to like minded people is a big one.

Also getting recommended books and films. If not for Molymeme and Dan Carlin I would never have gotten into reading history and philosophy. 4Chan exposed me to dissident right books like On the Jews and Their Lies, Hunter, and others. Right wing philosophies also got me to live a moral life, rejecting dugs, alcohol, and sex. Now I am reading a lot of Dante and other epic poems because of it.

 

[Harvey Danger]

4chan re-introduced me to actual subversive humor. By that time, mainstream comedy had become so safe and corporate, the "edge" had become so carefully sanitized, that I hadn't realized it until I got on 4chan.

It was also a fantastic study in how memes worked, before the place got self-aware and "meme" became a commonly understood word. Buried in the language and behavior of early 4chan is a highly distilled, extremely efficient laboratory of mass communication that could take years to replicate and study if you were trying it in the wild. But you could observe the entire information life cycle from a single night of spam-refreshing a board.

It all went to shit post-Chanology, of course, but I'd learned what I needed by then. Everyone did, I think. They just try to exploit or replicate it in various ways.

Kiwi Farms helped me piece together some aspects of the societal rot I was seeing in other places. They're broadly called SJW, intersectionality, or woke ideology. I knew it from comics and Gamergate, but I hadn't realized how interconnected it was until I saw the threads on the rat kings. Then the documentation on a bunch of other infected communities, when you see it all in one place, really drives home how widespread it has become. The wide variety of cows here, and the various ways society itself supports them and props them up, was something I don't think has been documented anywhere else.

Also, Kiwi Farms lets me call you all faggots.

 

[JokahBaybee]

I learned not to make YouTubers my role models.

 

[soft kitty]

I like having a place where I can tell people what I really think.

And even more shockingly, people agree with me!

 

[Crazedking]

Kiwi farm legit saved my life. I have been depressive and suicidal over a year ago. Reading about lolcows ended up putting my own life in a better perspective.

Laughter is the remedy to all ailment.

 

[Mr. Bung]

Kiwi Farms has red pilled me on various types of people and aspects of society, but I also love how this site actively discourages black pillers and doomers. We all just try to be realists here.

 

[Popper Whiting]

To me it taught me not to take whatever other people do or say so seriously. Not to have such a high opinion of myself, nor drink deeply into any ideology or political mode of thought. I taught me that mockery is the ultimate test of worth due to how the selfish, self-centred and ill-intentioned cannot stand it's scrutiny. If you love an idea, mock it, and if it still makes sense, or the people promoting it didn't act like complete idiots as a result, chances are it is a good idea.

 

[Personal Jesus]

The farms helped me become a privacynut. I already had a sense of privacy and care about my online data but after I joined here I realized how important it is to keep my data safe and became a lot more careful about it.

 

[JambledUpWords]

The constant investigative quality of the site and users has helped me become better at researching and discerning what I’m reading, which has been helpful for real world situations. Also, it’s nice that different perspectives are truly encouraged here, even if I disagree, I still find it worth reading.

 

[NoSpiceLife]

I've started telling nigger jokes at home, and actually getting laughs.

 

[Kane Lives]

While I don't think the site(s) changed me for the better, it's still a better alternative than being a consooming drone.

Plus, being able to just shrug off and laugh at shit is a valuable life skill. Wait, I guess I did learn something after all.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

The Farms allow me to learn a lot of trivia that I can then post elsewhere to make myself look smarter.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I learned that there are no people or ideas that are beyond questioning and that taking yourself and your opinions too seriously can lead to future regret and embarrassment, its good not to take the bait and just chuckle sometimes and be willing to test one owns biases without being butthurt about it. This was true for old 4chan but its been years since that site was killed and now is a complete antithesis, its not better than reddit, just another echo chamber full of bots and shills where everyone is butthurt all the time and take themselves too seriously.


Watching lolcows has been very constructive because they tend to show the ultimate worst course of action that one should not take. They are usually extreme figureheads from one or other aspect of contemporary culture and show the most harmful possible way to be led by and be fucked in the head by it, they always interact with culture, technology, communications, etc the worst possible way and sometimes you need sacrifices to do all the wrong things so everyone else know why they are wrong, like the first caveman who discovered poison berries and died from them.

Take , he was a brony before it was a thing, he was an incel before it was a thing, he was constantly bringing his autism up before it became cool to do so on tumblr, he trooned before transtrending really took off and AGP transbians became mainstream, he was also fat and a manchild who collected funkopops before it became a meme to label those kinds of people, , he even had colorful views on gays, jews and black people before /pol/ even existed, he is the ultimate postmodern trash, a distopyan vision of what the ultimate result of internet and consumer culture can become and as such he is the ultimate millenial cautionary tale, we have all been exposed to that stuff to some degree and looking at him was a good red flag and a self awareness for when one is being carried away, you don't want to be like him, or Dobson, or DSP or any other cows, they keep you in check and make you want to be a better person and not fall in those pit traps or 21st century life like they did.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

No, because now I feel like every seemingly normal person can be nazi/furry/pedo/SJW/diaper-wearing/shit-eating/e-begging sperg.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

No longer only being able to bully autists to death IRL, my reach is now infinite and my death toll changed from tragedy to statistics.

 

[Thumb Butler]

It made me leave Something Awful for good (I was mostly a lurker, but still, the place is a dump).

 

[Whatevermancer]

They haven't. I just became more jaded and wasted a ton of time.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Made me more mindful and even more cynical towards the System.