Trying Too Hard
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2020
I'm mostly a visitor to Kiwi Farms. I don't often make posts or contribute to any other part of the site. This is because I don't believe I have anything worthwhile to contribute.
I think that I shared this sentiment with most other new users when I first made an account. In fact, I never really progressed beyond the point of needing to "lurk moar" because I believe that keeping a high standard of post quality is much more important to Kiwi Farms than most other forums since this site is constantly fighting an uphill battle against its outside reputation. I personally don't think that I can help repair Kiwi Farms' reputation because I don't possess enough insight into any particular thread to contribute anything relevant or necessary (read: I'm not mentally ill enough to stalk minor internet celebrities unlike the rest of you helpful fuckers.)
As an observer, I can say that this sentiment has all but disappeared from the collective new-user conscience this year, and in the past few months most especially. A sizeable portion of 2022 users join the site expecting to find a dumping ground of useless shitposts where the goal is to out-do the previous post in terms of edginess to rack up more internet points because that is the reputation that has been attributed to the site.
I won't claim to know what the site was like before I started lurking around late 2019, but I'm aware that it was much smaller than it is now. The only people who knew about Kiwi Farms were those who were interested in lolcow gossip, along with those that may have heard its name mentioned in the New Zealand Times. In the current year, everyone and their grandmother knows what Kiwi Farms is, and they know it as a place of vitriol and hatred and racism and all manner of pestilence that only the worst-of-the-worst would ever dare tread. A humorous mischaracterisation, sure, but those who believe the website to be so will treat it as such.
Since the previous URLs were nuked, and after the brief stint of exclusivity on Tor, I've noticed that there seem to be fewer users with a join date from this year, and to the surprise of absolutely no one this seems to have coincided with more effort being put into what is posted. I'd like to think that this is because only the True & Honest fans of Kiwi Farms have bothered to keep up to date on where to find the site and those just wanting to find a place to shit on the current-thing have moved on due to the inconvenience of switching URLs along with having their favourite cow's thread closed (locking the K*ffals-associated threads was the best decision Null made after the recent social media circus, even if locking Lucas' thread gave him exactly what he wanted.)
The site's much more enjoyable to use now as a lurker, despite the intermittent downtime and having to play whack-a-mole with whichever URL to use. Hell, if I had it my way I'd have the site stay exclusively on Tor forever to make it as inaccessible to new users as possible. I'd rather have slow loading speeds if it means whatever's being loaded is actually worth reading.
I think that I shared this sentiment with most other new users when I first made an account. In fact, I never really progressed beyond the point of needing to "lurk moar" because I believe that keeping a high standard of post quality is much more important to Kiwi Farms than most other forums since this site is constantly fighting an uphill battle against its outside reputation. I personally don't think that I can help repair Kiwi Farms' reputation because I don't possess enough insight into any particular thread to contribute anything relevant or necessary (read: I'm not mentally ill enough to stalk minor internet celebrities unlike the rest of you helpful fuckers.)
As an observer, I can say that this sentiment has all but disappeared from the collective new-user conscience this year, and in the past few months most especially. A sizeable portion of 2022 users join the site expecting to find a dumping ground of useless shitposts where the goal is to out-do the previous post in terms of edginess to rack up more internet points because that is the reputation that has been attributed to the site.
I won't claim to know what the site was like before I started lurking around late 2019, but I'm aware that it was much smaller than it is now. The only people who knew about Kiwi Farms were those who were interested in lolcow gossip, along with those that may have heard its name mentioned in the New Zealand Times. In the current year, everyone and their grandmother knows what Kiwi Farms is, and they know it as a place of vitriol and hatred and racism and all manner of pestilence that only the worst-of-the-worst would ever dare tread. A humorous mischaracterisation, sure, but those who believe the website to be so will treat it as such.
Since the previous URLs were nuked, and after the brief stint of exclusivity on Tor, I've noticed that there seem to be fewer users with a join date from this year, and to the surprise of absolutely no one this seems to have coincided with more effort being put into what is posted. I'd like to think that this is because only the True & Honest fans of Kiwi Farms have bothered to keep up to date on where to find the site and those just wanting to find a place to shit on the current-thing have moved on due to the inconvenience of switching URLs along with having their favourite cow's thread closed (locking the K*ffals-associated threads was the best decision Null made after the recent social media circus, even if locking Lucas' thread gave him exactly what he wanted.)
The site's much more enjoyable to use now as a lurker, despite the intermittent downtime and having to play whack-a-mole with whichever URL to use. Hell, if I had it my way I'd have the site stay exclusively on Tor forever to make it as inaccessible to new users as possible. I'd rather have slow loading speeds if it means whatever's being loaded is actually worth reading.
)))) how will you recover from that tranny? 
