Tfw I was literally raised by Jow Forums during my formative teenage years

>tfw I was literally raised by Jow Forums during my formative teenage years
>started coming here when I was around thirteen and am now twenty
>for more than seven years my only activity outside of school was shitposting
>when my peers started going out and experiencing new things, I was here acquiring new fetishes and arguing with strangers about fictional girls
>now I feel fundamentally and deeply removed from other people and can't relate to them at all
So who else had this website basically shape their entire life? I'm sure I'm not the only one

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that hit me where it hurt user

This ain't no joke.

Richard Ramirez' formative tears were influenced by his cousin telling him fucked up stories about rape and murder in Vietnam and look how he turned out. Countless anons who started browsing at 12-14 also were doubtlessly greatly affected by reading/seeing some fucked up shit on Jow Forums during their formulation years. This is actually something I think about a lot. I wonder howany people here on Jow Forums have been affected by this shit. I bet a ton have.

It's scary yet I don't regret it. I learned a lot of interesting things on here and acquired various (albeit ephemeral for the most part) interests that I wouldn't have picked up otherwise.
Jow Forums probably contributed to making me insecure, bitter and sad, but at the same time I got a lot out of it.

I came here when I was 14 and am now 26, this site built me up and placed a character structure when my parents lacked and society shunned me. This website taught me how to control and understand the emotions which stirred up due to being ostracized from society, emotions emerging due underdevelopment from lacking social experience, of the severe loneliness and depression which plagued me, and the existentialism which follows it, blankets all thoughts and dims emotions.

This website brought me back from that edge as well, for I needed to see and understand some things before I could truly break free from it all and become sound of mind. This website showed me many great minds out there, and some even within, with this understanding and knowledge I have learned to overcome all the issues, leaving them behind, now in the distance they hold no power over me as they're so tiny looking back from here.

This website is the most genuine part of society, the anonymity open a rawness inside you, exposes you to the elements of others, to the harsh truths, the tools of reason, and information to use said tools on. It's on you to make things out of everything given to you, and this website has given me everything.

I lurked for porn until I was 18, when I started posting (26 now). My life was shaped by this website too, but in a much more positive way:

>diagnosed aspie
>KV
>come here because socializing IRL is too confusing and stressful for me
>visit places like /v/ and /co/ back in 2011, when livestreams of movies and vidya were widespread
>end up making a ton of online friends
>get into an LDR with one, meet her in person and lose my virginity a few months before I turned 20
>end up traveling to Europe to hang out with some of my other online friends
>fast forward a few years, last LDR ended a long time ago, met new femanon on this board in 2015
>still with her today and we regularly visit each other.

99% of my friends, every sexual/romantic encounter I've ever had, and most of my experience traveling to other states/countries have been directly because of this website. I realize I have no business being here, but it's hard to say goodbye to the place that's had such a massive impact on your life, even if you have outgrown it.

Been on here since 13, knew about it since 12, new to this depressing board though. I still have a good group of friends and I do things. The difference between me and you losers is that I'm able to differentiate between this world and the real world, so that prevents me from going insane and killing people.

The only difference I've noticed is that my humor is sort of weird because I'll say something retarded like "what did he mean by this" and get internally butthurt when nobody laughs.

Even downsides like that have their perks though. I got my entire sophomore class to greet each-other with the power-stance and "you're a big guy," so that was pretty funny

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Been here since I was 12
21 in 2 days
I wonder if I could have made it if I never found this hellhole of a site

It's basically effortless, frictionless socialization.

I spent a year as a NEET only going out once a week for groceries and and the occasional bimonthly visit to my mother, and this website was enough to keep me sustained in human contact.

It's in a strange way barely tangible enough to ward off either the need to radically change or kill yourself. Without it and more generally the internet at large, one of those things would be inevitable.

Now I have a full time job I find okay, in a big company full of interesting international people. I could make friends if I wanted to, as I am a normie, albeit 27 yo """"volcel"""", but I just don't want to.

Speaking to real people, even whose company you enjoy, is not enough to drown depressing thoughts, video games, tv shows, and the clamering of thousands of voices sliding on my screen, on the other hand mostly suffice.

Jow Forums.org/rules
>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
That's what happens when you are not following the rules.

I learned fear and knowledge because of Jow Forums

what a based post

I've been using Jow Forums since late 2006 and I'm 27 now. It was influential to me and I'm sure I've spent tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of hours here. I'm pretty normal though.

How the fuck do you do it. I just want a fat ugly KHV 30+ EU fembot. :(

Been here since I was 14, I'll be 22 in a few days. I've always had friends and hobbies though but despite that I've consistently spent 5+ hours on the internet every single day for as long as I can remember.

I wouldn't say Jow Forums has shaped me that much to be honest. I've always been the argumentative type. Also I've spent way more time being a forum fag (although my I've probably made more posts on various message boards by this point).

If Jow Forums has taught me it's that if you let people express themselves freely you'll quickly discover that a lot of them are actually retarded beyond belief. I'm not trying to exaggerate either.

Same, started around late middle school.

You learn to fake regular conversations, but you always come back here in your spare time.

>tfw I was literally raised by Satan during my formative teenage years
wasn't paying attention as I was scrolling and this is what I read

Something Awful (2001 - 2003) -> YTMND (2003 - 2006) -> Jow Forums (2006 -)

>If Jow Forums has taught me it's that if you let people express themselves freely you'll quickly discover that a lot of them are actually retarded beyond belief. I'm not trying to exaggerate either.

you just showed you're retarded by expressing this opinion, so I guess you do have a point

Im right here with you user. I was hoping to meet some girl off here but it seems like most have hundreds of other men talking to them too.

You're mocking me but you are right of course. I should've prefaced that statement with a disclaimed that I also suffer from this when given the chance to express myself without any potential of social reprocussions.

>clipless
>cargo shorts over cycling pants
>helmet, not only that but helmet is too small
>messenger bag
>exposed shoulders for extra sunburn
>low cut top as a bug catching net
>that tiny cassette
>that mirror position (what is it looking at, the sky?)
>flashlight, not actual cycling light
Whoever drew this is either a nonrider or a casual. Also people who wear clipless need to be dragged out and shot.
Autism triggered. Also yes I know OP's feels. That's why we say "you're here forever". I have nothing in common with normies anymore, our fundamental thought processes are irreconcilably different to say nothing of surface interest differences.
Jow Forums may as well be a seedy underworld as far as moral and social development go. I have more in common with criminals, sociopaths, and gang rings than I do with normal humans. Only people who can match my feels are writers famed for being depraved or deeply disturbed like Dostoevsky.
Note to alphabets: I don't actually commit crime, I only larp about it.

we are all children of the internet, we are one. user we must link together and network soon before you lose too many crabohydrates and join the incel rebellion

I hope that post is ironic my dude

What is it about this website that fucks people up like this?

Truth
Honesty
Freedom

I came here when I was 12, now I'm 25.

Obviously? Fucking normies man

I dealt crack to 2d sluts for nudes in Miami when I was 11.

Ah the good ol' days on Newgrounds.

Probably not surprising I turned out to be such a purityfag.

>crabohydrates
pls gib crabohydrates senpai

I wish id never found this place but its too late to leave. Stopped studying, going to church, exercising or generally caring about anything and lost 1k in crypto. Sure the memes were good but had i had to make the choice again id have taken the normiepill. No amount of anime can fill the void.

I agree with this. I don't regret my time here.

Why would that fuck people up though?

Same, started browsing when I was 11/12

user i... im sorry. when i was in my formative years i spent most of my time on /x/ and /n/. it was pretty healthy. ive been here a while though. i keep trying to leave but i cant help but think this is the best place for the real deal news and internet politics. it keeps me up to date

>the 18+ rule was not meant to stop kids from ruining the site
>it was meant to stop the site from ruining the kids