/lit/ - Literature

>>11483034
cause they are pretentious mor#ns

>>11483034
I have literally never seen /lit/ mentioned on any other boards.

>>11483039
what other boards do you go to? just search the archive

>>11483050
/fit/ /co/ /tg/ /diy/ and /x/

>>11483062
* and /his/

This is the resident libshit board so that always gets you some nice hate here and there.

>>11483034
The real question is, why do you hate yourself?

>>11483034
Are we hated? I think we're barely mentioned on the other boards

>>11483034
Because they're brainlet boards that don't enable discussion, just shitposting and memes. I remember going to /tv/ way back when there still were a handful of actual film discussion threads among the foot fetishism and shitposting, but with the evergrowing crowd of idiots posting there, the board was taken over by capeshit, sitcoms and dumb blockbusters, and the actual discussion was set aside as being "pretentious and tryhard". I don't see it happening to /lit/ any time soon, though, as the board is slower and there is not as much shallow low end literature to discuss as movies. I mean there are, but people won't make threads on 4chan about them...

>>11483119
same, also megaautist killed /lbg/

Cuz we are lit

>>11483249
yes, that cunt is the proof of why women ruin everything
she's clearly not pretty enough to derail the discussion with her own body, so she forces a meme director and spams her shitty "arguments" all over the threads

>>11483034
/lit/'s pretty irrelevant to most boards.

>>11483062
>>11483069

I go on /v/, /r9k/ and /trash/, and they're ruthless against us.

/lit/ is discussed by other boards? I don't browse any board other than /lit/ but i can't imagine this boards influence reaches very far.

>>11483119
>I mean there are, but people won't make threads on 4chan about them..

I fear you've alluded to the end of days

>>11483630
I see the occasional /fitlit/ board on /fit/ but it's not really about /lit/ as a board, more just asking what books /fit/ is currently reading. Usually /fit/ is reading Mishima or Evola from what I can gather

I only go on /mu/ and 1 specific /vg/ general and I've heard nothing but positive stuff

>>11483619
>caring about what those losers have to say

>>11483071

/lit/ isn't seen as the liberal board.
i always presumed /co/ & /his/ were the liberal boards.
they're the ones that shadowban you for saying nigger, anyway.

I've only spent time on a few boards: /biz, /his/, /pol, /out, and /lit. At least as to those boards, the most regular "hate" I've seen is from /biz to /pol, mostly as in people from /biz saying "go back to /pol."

I feel like a few times I've seen people on /his (which is, after all the "history and humanities" ) discuss /lit, but usually it's mirin' the lit wiki http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading and asking why /his doesn't have something similar for recommended history reading.

>>11483619
That is the greatest complement possible.

>>11483034
I see references to /lit/ in a lot of /Sig/ threads on mostly /fit/and /pol/ so there are atleast some people in those two that have a positive opinion

>>11483619
>/v/, /r9k/

literally plebs

>>11483619
why /trash/? Is there any fun posts?

>>11483119
Right, because Infinite Jest thread #95801 is so much more compelling than an Infinity War thread

>>11483034
>This thread stays up for a week
>Meanwhile, a thread discussing different conceptions of God gets taken down for being "not literature"

Nice work, assholes

>>11483825
Don't hate the playas, hate the game

>>11483696
It’s /lit/ not /lit

Lurk more

>>11483819
It actually is

who else /lit/ /his/ /pol/

>>11483819
It's the same in all boards. Shitposting outnumbers quality posting.

It's because we don't bow down to 4chan's current /pol/ification despite their billion attempts.

>>11483619
Thank God, we get enough cross-posters from there as it is.

>>11483034
They can't understand our more nuanced, considered views and think because we're not anti-Semitic Trump supporters we're "bluepilled".

Since they're all so misguided and ill-informed we should interpret their hatred of us as a compliment. We haven't conformed to their stupidity.

>>11483619
/v/ is just contrarian. Nothing they say has any weight because they hate everything, even themselves.

/r9k/ is like /v/, except with more unironic shitposting.

/trash/ is literally furfags. Furfags only like comics and anime. They also think degeneracy is a slur.

>>11484300
>>11484347
Cringe and bluepilled.

>>11484367
Bugger off to /pol/

>>11484300
>>11484347
>>11484375
*snap*

>>11483270
This doth deserve a (thee)

i think they're irked we keep stymieing the expanse of their lexicographic nescience with our barbs.

/lit/ isn't hated, it's a board that's not well known that other users say they browse.
If you go to "boards you use" threads elsewhere, you'll notice /lit/ unfortunately shows up most commonly with the following boards :
>/fit/
>/pol/
>/sci/
>/his/
Aka the "I've moved here recently, am heavily political and try to compensate for my lack of social life by appearing knowledgeable" starter pack

>>11484300
This, we’re ruining /pol/’s wet dream of having a seemingly intellectual community agree with them. /r9k/ hates us for the same reason.

>>11483102
This and why you exteriorize it
/thread

>>11484106
cringe: the board preference list

>>11483034
Because we're gigantic assholes whose knowledge isn't broadly applicable.

>>11483039
Browse more.

>>11483062

Gay boards.

>>11484388
>If you go to "boards you use" threads elsewhere, you'll notice /lit/ unfortunately shows up most commonly with the following boards:
>/fit/
>/pol/
>/sci/
>/his/
It could only be worse if /r9k/ was on that list.

>>11483696
>>11484300
>go back to /pol.
Seen this on all boards. Usually it's the more idealised (bogeyman) version of /pol/ than what /pol/ is actually like.

>>11484300
>>11484390
>>11484347
Most of 4chan is far more adverse to /pol/ than /lit/ is. Bread & butter American liberals, basically. As you say, /lit/ is more nuanced. Arguably /lit/ is the only one with balanced and genuine views. As you either get edgy poltardry or screeching about >go back to /pol/ or 'bigotry' or what have you. Both are irritating and vapid. Of course, there's still plenty of both found right here.

>>11483034
snobby and elitist, I've seen it on /g/ everytime theres a kindle thread someone comes in talking about how books are art and the proper way to read when it's not relevant to the conversation at all or if someone comes to lit saying "I enjoyed this book what others are like it" people just shit on the book and sperg out because people enjoy different books than them

>>11483102
because I know I shouldn't be and don't deserve to be liked

>>11484454

/fit/ are total bro tier, funny, and /fitlit/ was the greatest board mashup of all time. This is objectively correct and any attempt to counterargue is futile.

>>11483034
>Why do the other boards hate us so much?
They don't.
>>11483071
>This is the resident libshit
Its not.

I don't often see /lit/ mentioned on other boards. Fairly rare. /lit/ isn't exactly a popular board. Even when literature is duscussed, its somewhat unusual for /lit/ to get a mention.

>>11484504
The /lit/ threads on /fit/ are cringe central, mostly self help and >manly books written by >alpha males that they think will make them more manly and alpha if they read them. But yeah some of them seem like cool guys.

>>11484557
new to /lit/ what's the definition of self help books here and why are they so hated, because to me a book explaining the biology and biochemistry of meditation is a self help book and so is 12 rules for life - the only valid critique I've heard of self help books is that 12 rules for life repeats stuff said in a lot of books but I don't see why the entire genre is hated

Most boards don't care about /lit/ at all considering most people on this site don't read or have an interest in literature.

Anytime i see /lit/ mentioned on other boards it's just to call /lit/ elitist/pretentious and that's it.

>>11484504
t. /fit/ crossboarder who only starting reading after /fitlit/ and is only interested in "self improvement" books.

>>11484456
This is a pretty accurate post.

Frankly, the board closest to /lit/ in my opinion would be /k/. Both are fairly neutral and balanced, with fairly strict adherence to subject matter, at least when compared to other boards. The major difference is that /k/ has more of its own culture, as in quantity.
Both have a contempt for /pol/. That said, both in general tend to have more 4chan-centric viewpoints, in my opinion, which tend not to be very "progressive". This might have something to do with the fact that weapons/militaria and literature are fringe subjects to normalfags, so anons on both boards are similarly alienated.

>>11484567
From my experience self help books rarely help. The give you a bunch of tips that, really, you already knew about, like go outside and talk to people, clean your room, go after your passion, and so on. Reading them will make you feel like you are engaging in self improvement, but more often than not will only make you TALK to others about the points the author made, instead of practising them. Again, this is my experience with people who read that sort of stuff. But I don’t really consider a book talking about the biological changes that meditation brings to be self help.

What annoys me most is just the general attitude of those threads, though. Few there seem to think of literature as something enjoyable and moving, most seem to only care about how it will improve them as people.

>>11483071
mu is infinitely worse in that regard

>>11484613
oh that makes a lot of sense, I see diet books the same way for the most part, my sister reads them all the time and hasn't tried a diet for more than a day, I see anything that makes me think or will impact my life in a positive way as self help, in my eyes no longer human was a self help book - I can also understand the part about people wanting to use books instead of enjoy them, thanks for clearing it up