Destructive Loop

I can't stop going on 4 Chan because this is the primary form of socializing for me. And I can't make friends because of all the awkwardness I developed from browsing Jow Forums. This site really is cursed. My advice for people who have been here less than a year is to wean yourself off of this place. There really is only misery and self pity most of the time. And I dunno why, but this site idolizes keeping mental illnesses. They're not cool or fun, depression will drain you of any passion you have/had in life. Leave and don't come back. Spend time with your family, grow closer to your siblings. What started as good fun 2 years ago has taken a serious toll on my ability to feel joy and connect with other people. Even though the site says everything is a joke, consistently browsing these boards(whether NSFW or not) will distort your view on reality. If you wanna distort your view of reality, do it the old fashioned way, shrooms.

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Can relate. Jow Forums is probably the biggest thing here to have fucked with my mind. The key to this problem is probably moderation, so as long as youre not here all day itll be fine

Great post

>Jow Forums is probably the biggest thing here to have fucked with my mind.
It's 1 of the boards that's not COMPLETE shit and degenthough? Even if you are a libtard it gives you fast access to news and provides a contrast to controlled MSM.

Rightyyy, not /b/, not /gif/, not /h/, not /tv/ with the constant child porn posting, no it's Jow Forums that fucked you up. Want to know how I know this is you?

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Until the very last word..

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LMAO

Well if he lives in America and actually has to interact with various races, it's probably best if he didn't have horrible preconceived notions about who they are.

When you're a libtard and then hear opinions youve never read of before, it makes you severely doubt your opinions, and then you doubt your new ones because theyre from Jow Forums

Thank you, please leave and never come back. For the sake of your family.

Pol is toxic as shit. When you've been away from it for a while and go back and browse you can literally feel your heart sinking into despair.

I just come here to make myself feel better. All the people on here complaining about their lives is a great way to remind myself how good I have it.

Shrooms doesnt distort your view on reality, it enhances it.

Also you're a cuck

>"toxic"
Ahh, revealed yourself.

I agree that the facts and statistics are horrible but you shouldn't turn a blind eye to them.

Fuck off you pathetic bitch.

Blameing Jow Forums for your mental problems... shame on a nigga!

>a website is to blame for my problems
Yeah, it definitely arent you, its the website...

>/pol
Nobody sane would ever venture to places like /pol or /r9k. You have been damaged before you ever went there

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It seems Jow Forums has defeated (You)

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Deny it all you want, your lives would likely be better if you hadn't found this site.

Can someone post the post with the simpson pic that's advising people to leave Jow Forums?

This is a perfect example of what OP was talking about, rather than try and criticise his argument, you're initial emotional reaction makes you use whatever insult you deem offensive, no matter if it actually applies to OP or not.

I browse Jow Forums occasionally to get perspective from far-right individuals. Most of the "news" there tend to be completely fake or overblown crimes dealing with race or religion. It's a good contrast to the echo chambers in other left-leaning places.

If anything, Jow Forums has reinforced my opinion of media as a mostly centrist-left platform. They bluepilled me!

Beautiful post fren

I started browsing /b/ and later Jow Forums when I was 17. I moved on to Jow Forums and Jow Forums and /v/. Then I stopped browsing Jow Forums and stuck to Jow Forums and /o/ and /v/. In the last year I've browsed Jow Forums less than ever before. I think I went 4 months without opening it because I've been busy. I seem to only come here when I'm bored.

Anyway 6 years later I think this place has altered my perceptions of the world first in a good way (like I know more than other people), then in a bad way (because this website is full of cynical bitter people who rub off on you).

I've started to take more stock now that I'm 23 in people instead of using Jow Forums as a social crutch and hidey hole to escape to. It's been useful for certain information and good discussions but I don't see myself staying consistently here in 2019.

Been here 10 years, my life is normal. Don't blame your shitty life on a website, man.

You're right. My problems started when I was 7 masturbating to tranny porn.

Yikes!

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>Even though the site says everything is a joke, consistently browsing these boards(whether NSFW or not) will distort your view on reality.
I agree on that. I have become more right wing since I started browsing Jow Forums but I don't know maybe I was becoming more right wing before and Jow Forums just accelerated the change. But yeah I agree on that everyone says that browsing this website is just for fun and it won't do anything to you but it does. And for me specially in the case of gore content and maybe the content of Jow Forums or some from here. Watching gore since a teenager really made a change on me I think, making me more fearful of fights for example because I was afraid that someone will hit my head with the road and I could die there. Also seeing violence as something funny and not feeling it as something so bad.

But what I have understood after years here and many time wanting to leave is that:

1) If it wasn't Jow Forums you would be in another forum or similar website.
2) The problem is you, your life, your habits, your lack of life (job, girlfriend, friends), having spent so much time in the internet all your life that now is the only way that you know to entertain yourself, etc.
3) There is no way to leave this place. We will leave either when the site is closed or when we don't have access to the internet because our parents kick us out to the streets and you don't have more money for your phone contract. And even then, living in the streets, you will have public internet accesses xD. So it will be when this site is closed then. And then we will go to another similar website and the cycle will continue. I know this because I have been addicted to other websites, forums before Jow Forums.

Just quit. This site is shit, especially now. It was fun and had some redeeming qualities nearly 15 years ago but now it's a dead horse. You wouldn't hang out IRL with a bunch of smellly autistic teenagers so why do it online?

>my life is normal

Maybe by Jow Forums standards it is. I've been called a normalfag for being able to have sex with a fat chick once when I was 16.

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>if it weren't Jow Forums you'd be on another website

That's not universally true. Maybe true for people with severe internet addiction.

The format of Jow Forums makes it different from any website where you have to register with a username and people can see your post history and all that. Here ulnless you're a tripfag you can just anonymously jump in and post and no one's gonna be like OH YEAH WELL ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHAT HE SAID 18 MONTHS AGO and also thread die when they die you don't get caught up in arguments that can last days and weeks and months.

I also went on other chans back in the day like I forget which ones even, definitely 420chan I think there was a 7chan and a 711chan, 5chan even? I never went to eightchan though because that was just r9k as an entire website with even less rules. Point is that these other chans were either extremely dead and slow or they were just too different in content to be like Jow Forums.

This place is unfortunately unique in what it offers.

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Yeah I agree 100% in what you said but I was addicted to Facebook before Jow Forums, well I didn't spend half the time there as I spend it here now but it was the website where I used to spend most of my time. And before that I was addicted to a traditional forum that I also thought I will never leave, the same that now I think about Jow Forums. Why I left the first forum? Maybe because I changed in the years I went to college, became more social, migrated to Facebook because I thought it was more social and also because I stopped playing video games maybe. Then I get bored of Facebook because I realized it was just stupid uploading so many photos to get 4 or 5 likes for the people that I already knew from real life. Also because it didn't help me to make friends that I didn't knew from real life already. The day Jow Forums becomes so slow or it changes too much maybe I will reduce the time here but I think about it and I see it difficult because apart from Jow Forums I only browse YouTube, some other classic forums but I don't spend more than 10 minutes there before getting bored.

>. The day Jow Forums becomes so slow or it changes too much maybe I will reduce the time here but

You've been posting here since when? 11 years here and it was more than enough time to see the site change for the worse. I imagine frogposters will feel the same by like 2025 if the site even lasts for that long

Yeah I knew Jow Forums from before but only came here for some gore video or something like that. I started really browsing it since 2016 with the Trump campaign.

I said the thing about getting slow because recently it has been some change and the refresh rate has getting more slow. That really affects.

What did he mean by this!?

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