State of the Union 2022

The internet is no longer fun anymore. It used to feel like the Wild West — even up until like 2007/2008. Then, shit changed. People started doing things online for attention (see: posting publicly to social media instead of anonymous forums; less emphasis on sharing interesting or creative content vs. viral and marketable content). The anonymity faded. The censorship and groupthink started. Honestly, as an Old Millennial, I now find the internet to be mostly a boring, vapid pile of shit.

This place is a rare exception. It feels like Vintage Internet.

I may disagree with a lot of shit posted here, but it’s nice we are all United under the umbrella of “I want to laugh at dumb people who overshare online.” It’s funny how often this place is written off as an Evil Right Wing Nazi Clubhouse, when there’s an extreme diversity of political opinions, male/female posters, race/ethnicity of posters, citizenship of posters etc.

Tl;dr KF good.
 
The internet is no longer fun anymore. It used to feel like the Wild West — even up until like 2007/2008. Then, shit changed. People started doing things online for attention (see: posting publicly to social media instead of anonymous forums; less emphasis on sharing interesting or creative content vs. viral and marketable content). The anonymity faded. The censorship and groupthink started. Honestly, as an Old Millennial, I now find the internet to be mostly a boring, vapid pile of shit.

This place is a rare exception. It feels like Vintage Internet.

I may disagree with a lot of shit posted here, but it’s nice we are all United under the umbrella of “I want to laugh at dumb people who overshare online.” It’s funny how often this place is written off as an Evil Right Wing Nazi Clubhouse, when there’s an extreme diversity of political opinions, male/female posters, race/ethnicity of posters, citizenship of posters etc.

Tl;dr KF good.
I miss those old 1996 Internet days. Great fun and educational as region locks were not a thing. KF is indeed a bad place in many their minds, I call it my Facebook. Not that many like me here, but in real life it is pretty much the same so I am OK with that.
 
That kiwi is pretty unappealing not gonna lie. You gotta channel more Sanrio aesthetics into it.
nigga im not gonna sell anime
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I think one major improvement the site could make going forward is to better identify and punish British and Australian users. Josh says that the majority of users are American, but could the lesser English speakers be hiding their identity somehow, kind of like how the animes will sometimes deliberately not use anime avatars on KF to hide their true nature?

A very sensible method to address the issue would be for those registering to be forced to submit a voice sample to the administration along with a documentation of all the media they've consumed for the last 5 days before being approved, so their accounts can be labeled and other users of higher castes can discriminate against them accordingly.

Idk, that kiwi's really walking the line between cute and horrifying.
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The e-mail address leak was a harsh lesson learned for me. I've since changed the one I use for KF to a Protonmail burner account. Unfortunately, the original one is also sitting on those info aggregate sites, and if anyone ever figured out which one they could link my real name to 600+ posts here about disdain for tranny lolcows. There goes a potential future brand. Be careful, people.
 
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