What should you say when people ask you about Jow Forums?

What should you say when people ask you about Jow Forums?

I mean this place is known for alot of dirty shit but lets try to focus on the positive here.

I usually tell people it's one of the few places on the internet where there still is actual freedom of speech. I mean this place is a shithole but lets get that straight, you can say pretty much fucking anything as long as you don't break the law.

I dont think there is any other place that allows this much freedom. Unfortunately this much freedom comes with alot of downsides like people posting retarded shit over and over again but how do you explain Jow Forums as a whole?

Asking for a friend

Pic unrelated btw

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you pretty much nailed it

anonymous + almost not censorship = lots of fucktards posting stupid things

I have had a few enlightening conversations on this site, but the real power of Jow Forums is being able to see internet subculture trends grow before the mainstream media even knows about them.

Who's this Jow Forums?

You don't talk about Jow Forums to normies.

this isn't fucking fight club dude


but it is unlikely they will understand


I explained it to my dad, he wanted to go it because he is anti-censorship, but he is wwaaaaay to easily offended for this level of shit so I said how does the sentence:
Jew kike nigger faggot make you feel and are you ok reading it 200 times in a day?

he stopped asking questions

just to add to that

Some people who are aware of Jow Forums but don't get it think it is just a place for racists and hate-speech and they will categorize you as one of them immediately because they don't understand

>this isn't fucking fight club dude
How new are you? Not trying to bust your balls but this website started out as an ''oh so super secret shit club xD'' with the first two rules being an exact copy from fight club

Jow Forums is the center of culture on the whole western part of the internet, people are still using content that originated here from over 10 years ago. It's only as bad as it is now because the rest of the internet caught on and diluted the culture without adapting to what was already here. /b/ used to save mistreated animals and socially ruin the lives of people that deserved it, they also just liked finding laughs wherever (else) possible. Tell them it's a shell of its former self.

I can't say I've ever been asked but I'd probably say much the same. I browse reddit too (fuck off, its got content Jow Forums just doesn't provide) but you have to take care with what you say on the majority of boards and as a result you don't tend to get what people really think, its warped and edited to be socially acceptable. Lots of white knights, social justice warriors etc. Same for facebook and all the other places where you aren't anonymous.

I've not really experienced it much in real life (Scotland), but in online communities where people aren't anonymous you tend to see far more righteous asshole SJW's that have at best a surface knowledge of the issue they're lecturing about.

I'm not really sure where I'm going with this or what my point is, but I wish there were more anonymous communities as populated as Jow Forums is. The cancer is worth the freedom.

Not new at all, i'm an old fag
lol, you really think you're part of a super secret club dude?

Do you have nothing else going for you in your life?

4chab is place for homos x-DD

>I browse reddit too
god, why do you read the comments?

I browse reddit occasionally, but fuck the comments are cancer.

I used to be an active member of Voat too, but it is almost entirely Jow Forums tards now that blame the jews for everything and all women are whores always... the conversation got old

The freedom to say what you want is why I come here. Someone being retarded? You say so. Wanna make a joke that features the word nigger? Go for it.

People these days, ironically those on the left in particular, have zero tolerance for disagreement on social issues and assume that just because you don't agree and subscribe to their ideology that you're a racist, prejudiced bigot, even if what you're saying is backed up by hard evidence. Its extremely tiresome and Jow Forums is a place where most people will take on new things if you provide solid reasoning/evidence (depending on the board, anyway). Its refreshing.

As a fellow oldfag I take offense to your "it's not fight club" comment. It pretty much is, plus what's wrong if it was like fight club? That's a great novel and is probably one of the only descriptive parallels to the sense of community this place has created. It's also the most recognizable parallel to the uninitiated, making it easier to understand. Why are you so offended by this moniker?

You're the reason people don't like oldfags.

Depends on what it is I'm looking at. Like for example, if its a post about some revolutionary scientific tech or breakthrough, the comments usually quickly summarise whether or not its vaporware/sensationalist journalism.

Plus I like to argue, its mentally engaging and I generally still say what I want even if it isn't anonymous, though not quite to the extent I can be here.

When people ask me about Jow Forums I say it's a place for deviants and the insane. You can find a few laughs here and there and occasionally some interesting conversation, but by and large the content on there is pure shit. You have to dig through massive piles of shit to find the diamonds.

I then clarify that I have never and would never browse the site, in order to save face and not be associated with said deviants. But the truth is I've been an active poster for over a decade now. There's just no reason to be proud of it, and to be truly anonymous why would you ever want credit for something like that? My personal life and my Jow Forums life are completely separate.

I'm super happy I offended another oldfag, you're supposed to be immune to that by now.

Yes the book is good, but you're having delusions of grandeur by taking the comparison so seriously. I don't find your comparison offensive, just inaccurate.


And just for the record I try to bring up the quality of Jow Forums buy posting actual solutions in Jow Forums and using my education to have real conversations in /sci/ (phd chem)
I also don't troll and lie about shit, I prefer to use truth and sardonicism to piss off dumbasses and teach those who are perceptive.

It's not just Jow Forums, the whole internet was better back in the day.

>accessible forum with focus on sharing images
>no need for account
>minimal censorship and moderation (save for law)
>built community, resources and urban knowledge on all sorts of topics

It’s a shithole.

also there is the almighty "greentext" feature that allows you to construct pseudo-sentences without verb

Just say it's free, no accounts, barely any limits, has every subject, and has been popular for years

Yes I know it's worse overall, but all that started here. It's Jow Forums's influence on the rest of the internet and that's clear to see if you look at imgur for ten seconds or have any friends that try to share "funny" things with you.

A friend of mine tried showing me an image where someone used Zalgo of all things yesterday.

been lurking here for 10 years. just started posting recently.

honestly, I think Jow Forums has a lot more lurkers than you'd expect. despite the reputation this place has, this place feels like a sanctuary where you can be yourself and enjoy crass humor without having to worry about society's bs

the true hivemind

this hivemind is schizophrenic

No you're not.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

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just say you browse some blue boards (like /lit/ /mu/ etc) because the discussion is quite good once you get used to the harsher tone

why would you talk about Jow Forums irl

I've described it to my folks; I've talked about the use of words, the BLACKED, the red/blue/blackpills, everything. They followed it pretty easily, truth be told.

Why the fuck are you talking about Jow Forums with people? I've been coming here for ten years and I've never talked about it with anyone. Do you seriously not have anything more interesting to discuss than how you browse a Finnish goat porn imageboard?

This.

I agree with the pic OP. Left the states not too long ago. I will never go back.