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Discussion What internet community were you part of before you joined the soysphere?

Is everyone here right-wing?? The internet turned me into an anarcho-communist idk how yall turned out the way you did
I don't think I really have political views anymore. I used to be an edgy "nazi" 14yo but as I've grown older I've started to realize that nothing I do will change anything. There's no point because everything is fake and people will just lie and manipulate while pretending to have morals.

I'm not going to waste my life being miserable about stuff I have no authority over. Might as well try to have fun while I'm here. As a result I get along with people on both sides of the political "spectrum" pretty well.
 
This isn't stormfront or anything, think of it more like the group of edgy kids in a class who make themselves unpopular by being blatantly homophobic and such
That makes a lot more sense, thanks
I don't think I really have political views anymore. I used to be an edgy "nazi" 14yo but as I've grown older I've started to realize that nothing I do will change anything. There's no point because everything is fake and people will just lie and manipulate while pretending to have morals.

I'm not going to waste my life being miserable about stuff I have no authority over. Might as well try to have fun while I'm here. As a result I get along with people on both sides of the political "spectrum" pretty well.
^this is so real
 
When I was 10, I used to like a youtuber named Alph.S. He makes Undertale and EarthBound-related content, but I only cared for the EB stuff. He had a 'Cord, and I joined it, and there I stayed for two years, and there I made two friends. I played SSBU and Splatoon 2 with them until one day I got balls-to-the-walls terrified of my mum who might check my phone and see me talking to people on the internet. I deleted my 'Cord account and lost their contacts, and I haven't seen them since. After all these years, my mum hasen't checked my phone once.
 
i've been an internet wanderer for years, almost a decade. i never stuck to any community

How bro felt making this post:

This is actually a genuine great way to experience the internet though.
The internet and its many subcultures can be just as complex as any other real world culture.
I like to call myself an "internet tourist", I'll often look at altchans and forums like stormfront and getchan, learn about the sites history, and experience the user base without actually interacting with the community. It's fun.
 
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This is actually a genuine great way to experience the internet though.
The internet and its many subcultures can be just as complex as any other real world culture.
I like to call myself an "internet tourist", I'll often look at altchans and forums like stormfront and getchan, learn about the sites history, and experience the user base without actually interacting with the community. It's fun.
How many years roaming the internet, yet never learned what lurking is?
 
The communities I have been apart of over the years are dependant on my interests at the time and whatever connections I make through already pre-established relationships, that being said, for a few years one would've been Roblox, then Star Wars, then a bunch of other slopshit.
I've also sampled a lot of different image boards, forums and social medias in the past and I honestly prefer forums and imageboards more than the streamline social media format.
Say what you want about Twitter, but I don't like the way it's structure or how you're supposed to communicate with others, where you're sort of left to your own devices and an algorithm picks random things for you to engage with, because you're not engaging with the person or people directly, you're just engaging with their posts and posts/re-posts that they're sharing. It's like a void you scream into awaiting the echo chamber's reply. It's also much more instant and a rapidfire stream of posts and threads and discussions and what not, with shorter more brief replies, which leads to unnuanced casual surface level discussions that don't really amount to anything which is by design.
Look at a random thread from some random forum from over a decade ago and compare it to your typical conversations had in threads on Twitter or ChinkTok. It's night and day.
 
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