/lit/ - Literature

Official birth date was actually 25th January 2010.

I found this board when I was 15. It was cause of a philosophy meme I saw and I wanted to find the context of.

It's been 5 years since. What happened to me is what happens to everyone else: the board is really cool and new at first, maybe even impactful and influential, then it becomes boring and repetitive, and when you come back, you laugh and realize it's just a carousel that you happened to step in the middle of, that never stops turning. Some kid is on here now just finding about Stirner I bet.

>2010 was ten years ago
What the fuck bros

>>17475112
>Do you still enjoy coming here?
Where else would I go to discuss literature? It's not like I have a fucking choice.

>>17475142
>

>>17475112
I've been here since last year, covid certainly helped me to read more, and it's been a fun ride so far.

>>17475142
Also this, g**dr**ds is unbearable

>>17475141
This. /lit/ can't into math.

This board fucking sucks except the like one really good recommendation I get a year.

i was here since the first time the trolley problem appeared and /lit/ coming up with funny memes was new. i was one of the guys on this

>>17475133
>you laugh and realize it's just a carousel that you happened to step in the middle of, that never stops turning

I periodically leave for months or years, and when I check back, it's always the same books and authors being discussed.

Can't remember exactly when I started visiting /lit/, but it was probably around 2011 given images saved at the time (this one's from /tv/, but I remember jumping between the 2 boards. Haven't visited /tv/ in years now). The place was full of tripfags at the time - Sunhawk, Deep&Edgy, Truman Capote, etc.

>>17475167
That thread is r*ddit

>>17475180
i think it was actually a /lit thread

>>17475112
Got here after the powermods /b/ started mass banning users. Not sure how long that was. I honestly didn't expect a blue board to be this bad. At least /mu/ is aware that their board is dead.

>>17475240
go back

>>17475278
After you

>>17475133
Get out of my head

>>17475112
I have been here since the beginning. Does not seen like it has been that long. I do vacate during the shit times, start of school year, election time, dead of summer, etc, so that has probably helped my longevity. /lit/ serves well to get me my fill of nonsense and throws in the occasional good rec or discussion.

Too many repetitive threads on the same shit but once in a while you get the sort of discussion that doesn't take place anywhere else on the internet. That's why I still come here after 10 years.

>>17475133
comfy and true

>>17475119
Yeah 2011 you'd have already missed Brown Bore and Huppert and other giants of the board. 2010 was a golden age and a piss age, as is to be expected in these postmodern times.

>>17475167
I started the trolley memes and I'm glad they took off, but not so keen on how expository they got when they hit places like facebook. What I thought was really interesting and like what would be the draw of them was this ability to formulate problems that were difficult or impossible to verbalise, you can really play with the drawing and come up with silly but also often compelling situations. The whole "schrodinger's trolley problem" type schtick with like a paragraph explaining whatever they think it's doing I'm a little disappointed by and I think misses the point, but c'est la vie people meme how they meme.

I'm also finding that a lot of people see the meme as it is now and think they get the philosophical ideas behind it through gestalt or some shit, lotta trolley problem pseuds around. That feels a little mixed. Glad you and others here liked it though.

>>17475768
Based. Early trolley memes were great.

>>17475773
>>17475768
post trolley memes for this newfag zoomer's collection

Stirner was irrefutably denied and his logic proven to be inherently flawed by these threads. /lit/ managed to collectively refute Stirners entire philosophy with a simple shitpost, shaken and shillpilled. Shit lay in the woods.

>>17475172
Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game

/lit/ is only a decade old? I always thought it had the same age as /mu/

I've been coming here since the middle of 2010. It's got a lot less tripfags than it used to.

No, I do not enjoy coming here.

>>17475180
Reddit zoomers like you are just irritating. Go back to /pol/, you have no idea what 4chan used to be like.

>>17476348
Up until the mid 10s, the blue boards had a lot more tripfags in general. I actually liked it, it often led to hilarious drama. The board culture was better, too. Now everything seems a lot more sterile here.

>>17475133
/mu/ is still debating Scaruffi and p4k. Some things never change.

>>17476341
Nah, /lit/ came in at the same time as /adv/ and /sci/ and a couple of others, maybe /fa/ but I don't really remember. Stuff like music and fitness tend to capture people's interest more than literature and science so it came later. /mu/ is in some ways the parent of /lit/ though as a lot of the pre-/lit/ literature threads were posted there.

>>17476296
sauce?

>>17476400
>/mu/ is in some ways the parent of /lit/ though as a lot of the pre-/lit/ literature threads were posted there.
Sounds reasonable, those boards have a similar feel.

I came to 4chan in 2005, got recommended to come here from newgrounds, stuck to /b/ for like 2 years straight then saw a thread saying to venture around the other parts of 4chan so I did. Ive mostly been a regular on other boards, /a/ /b/ /x/(only the occult threads) some /tg/ some /v/ a lot of /pol/ prior to the elections and leading up to it but the elections largely ruined /pol/ since all of the intellectual conversation and actual trolling died. There was a period prior to the election where /pol/ was neo-/b/ also I used to frequent the 4chan and infinity chan’s IRC’s which feels weird looking back. Man irc was so comfy.

>>17475133
Was thinking about this a couple of days ago.

>>17476417

>>17475834

>How long have you all been browsing?

ELEVEN YEARS «FOURCHAN(NEL)»; TEN THIS BOARD, ON & OFF.


>How has /lit/ changed over the years?

/lit/ HAS NOT CHANGED ME; I HAVE CHANGED ALONG WITH IT, BUT NOT BECAUSE OF IT.


>Do you still enjoy coming here?

NO LONGER DO I ENJOY THIS WEBSITE, BUT I STILL LIKE IT.

I've been here since 2012. The board only became bearable in 2013, and I unironically believe it has gotten better over the years. Too many literature FAGGOTS back in the day who knew nothing except high school core shit (nobody even says this anymore because all these literature FAGGOTS died from loneliness now so we don't need to). Since the board has become general humanities and philosophy it has become much better. We are a better history board than /his/. Even the local shit stain, Butterfly, just adds texture and character to the board. This is the best board on 4chan.

>>17475172
>Can't remember exactly when I started visiting /lit/, but it was probably around 2011
Same. At first anonymously
Picked up quite a few names, rejected others, sure it’s helped me.
It’s amusing me. Should break free again though.

>>17476296
>things that never happened

>>17477511
The philosophy is rather thick, but at least the religious threads are slowing a bit.

>>17477791
>Picked up quite a few names
Names as in authors and titles

>>17477791
>but at least the religious threads are slowing a bit.
Genuinely kill yourself. I'm actually in awe at your fucking retardation. Coming from an agnostic.

>>17478431
Is your crustiness from being an agnostic?
Weren’t pleasant years of my life either.
Get well soon

well done, another thread killed by this tripfag

>>17479885
!!oI3er5KKetj isn't her

>>17475112
>How long have you all been browsing?
Since year 2011, with increased frequency since year 2013.

>How has /lit/ changed over the years?
It has gotten gradually worse, like anything of this world that transcurs within this era in particular, and within the world in general.

>Do you still enjoy coming here?
No, but I like to do so because a part of myself finds its home here.

>>17480038
it actually is. she (he) scans the board for mentions of stirner and always comes to his defence

>>17480038
Newfag

>>17478495
fag

>>17477791
>Should break free again though.
please do

>>17478431
What is your problem?

>>17479885
I was quite enjoying my time, I hadn't seen it in almost a month.
>>17477511
curse you for summoning it

>>17475112
This is my fifth year

>>17479885
This is mostly on you.

>>17480723
most tripfags are alright
this one comes into threads and shits it up

>>17475112
Been here since summer 2010. It's been shit. I'm definitely leaving tomorrow.

>>17475112
Happy Birthday /lit/
I came here from reddit a month ago

>>17475112
>/lit/ is barely 10 years old
>I've been browsing it since 2012
Oh my god, have I wasted that much of my life?

>>17475167
I remember that one. Good times.

>>17477511
The best period was when the tripfags started to die off around 2014.

>>17480800
the Frater is alright and the others just get ignored

>>17480723
i'm not complaining about the trip itself, but about the fact that THIS particular user derails threads

>>17480818
I've spent 1/3 of my life skimming imageboards.

I enjoy /lit/ more than anywhere else on the internet and for discussing philosophy, literature and shit it's much better than talking to my friends because they're all obsessed with idpol and shit. You don't have to watch your words or censor yourself here and when discussion happens it's really good. I go to bed and turn on the tomorrow theme and browse here and it is intensely comfy

>>17481310
>go to bed and turn on the tomorrow theme and browse here and it is intensely comfy
based

>>17481310
>tomorrow theme
what

>>17481340
Intensely
>>17481348
>He doesn't know

>>17479885
Fag.

>>17480800
So why do you shit this one up?

>>17481414
wow no need for homophobia

>How long have you all been browsing?
A decade apparently

>How has /lit/ changed over the years?
Phone posters then election tourists effectively ruined it. It's been terminal since 2015/16 with the influx of people who don't read much.

>Do you still enjoy coming here?
No

>>17481518
What a depressing image.

The real Butterfly starts posting when I start talking about my dick. It literally works 100% of the time :3

My dick is currently half mast, but thinking about you sitting on your ridiculously 10/10 ass reading books is making me erect.

There, now she'll post.

>>17476350
Kys retard

>>17481518
Man these images are terribly nostalgic

Here for seven stinking years. It was bad then, it’s gotten much worse now. This board is cursed.

I’ve been on 4chan since 2005. I remember because it was the week of donate or die.
I spent years on /b/ and /v/ shitposting and playing vidya.
At the start of college I was into /tg/ for warhammer and magic.
Later in college I was into /Cgl/ and made lots of friends at anime conventions and became a renowned shitposting tripfag.
After that I was kinda lost for a few years in my early to mid 20s. I drank a lot and went to a bunch of different boards but none really felt like home.
I got into /fit/ as I decided to lose weight and get my life together.
Then I discovered /lit/ and it helped me get through law school.

Thanks /lit/.

>>17481241
Wait, I'm nearly 30, summer 2012 was 8 and a half years ago, and I took a break for about 2 years and a half in 2015-2018, so I've spent 6 years here...20% of my life, and 60% of my 20s. Fuck.

>>17481765
I'm 29 and I started in 2005. I've spent MORE than half my life on 4chan.

>>17481846
Hey me too! Exact same age and date, too! Feels really great, doesn't it!

>>17481910
I think the worst part, the thing that really gets me. Is that I've seen my groups of friends change roughly ever 4 years. Ever since Highschool, 4 years. College, 4 years. Punk scene, 4 years. Law school 4 years.

But 4chan has always been here. And I think that's really disgusting but also kind of beautiful. That the anonymous peoples that also roam these boards feeling lost and alone can come together and it has always just kinda been here for us. I don't talk to most of those friends from any of those periods anymore, but the whole time I've still posted on 4chan.

>>17481967
You watch them all get significant others, break up with them, get married, have kids, buy houses, get new jobs, move away, and become something totally alien to how you feel. Meanwhile it's just the same threads, the same albums, the same empty bedroom. Anons meme about NPCs, but I feel like the true NPC.

>>17476367
newfag here, gib some stories

>>17481967
for better or for worse, we really are here forever

>>17482024
We may be the NPCs, but at least we have each other, in this vague meta-idealistic way. Love u friend. I appreciate this time we have together.

>>17481967
You know people who went through a punk scene phase? I'm jealous, all of my friends are boring squares, myself included.

>>17481967

Romanticise us more you faggot

>>17482044
Thanks buddeh, that we can come here and understand that other, unrealizable people, feel the same way is a small comfort, but it is at least a comfort. This unhappy feeling of watching others evolve while I stagnate is particularly strong for me right now, so this was a well timed thread.

>>17482056
To go through a punk phase is just to go get trashed at run down clubs, make out with 7/10 girls, stay out til 4am, learn enough guitar to play it drunk on stage, and get into a few fights. It's not hard and it's not very healthy.
>>17482061
My sweet little ironic anon,

I did as you told me, you dirty little anon, and pulled myself off twice when I read your post. I am delighted to see that you do like being shitposted arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck up in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue come bursting out through your lips and if I gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting anon when every fuck drives one out of em'. I think I would know Anon's fart anywhere. I think I could pick theirs out in a roomful of farting anons. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold anon would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

>>17475393
this, the occasional effortpost makes it all worth it

>>17482135
It really is awful, especially with social media, to see all these people fall into their little places. As you said, I've seen everyone get married and knocked up and take out debt to get a shitty suburban house. I've had good friends die and bad friends make it. I've seen back stabbers become sucsessful and the friend I thought were going to do grand things settle for overweight and lonely women with a heard of cats. I've seen the smartest people I know get sucked into world of warcraft and I've seen the dumbest people I know troopin' along. Good thread, friend.

>>17482142
You had me interested at "make out with 7/10 girls" but by "playing guitar drunk on stage" I was ready to pay to get into that punk scene.

In seriousness though, I went through the serious healthy lifestyle of studying in STEM and planning my future, in the end I'm still unemployed, slightly depressed and with more memories of tedium, boredom and failure than anything else. And that's considering I actually like maths. Not sure the punk scene is much worse provided you get out of it before running into serious trouble.

>>17482380
All the little clubs in the city are closing down because of covid. But I kinda had to get out of that scene anyway. I'm getting too old and I've pissed off too many people in that group. But seriously, if you can still go out where you are, just go get drunk at little dives that local bands are playing til you find the one that everyone goes to. The advice I'll give you:
1. don't do coke, no matter how fun it looks
1.1. Pace yourself brah, theres like 4 bands tonight
1.2. Try to avoid driving drunk when you can.
2. don't start a pit when no one wants one
3. don't chase after every girl that looks your way because some of them are bat shit and ruin your reputation.
4. buy a pair of doc martins and figure out how to incorporate bolo ties into your every day dress

>>17482427
Thanks fren, I'll remember those, especially 4. which I would never have thought would matter so much.

>>17482452
Docs are a shibboleth in those circles, but also, like, hands down the best fucking shoes. Dressy but edgy. Sturdy. Comfy. Last for a long time.

>>17475112
I was a strict /b/tard. For some reason when I was underage I thought it was the only board on this site, and then it died around 2012. Then I discovered /biz/ in 2016 and stayed there since. That was the only board that could ever came within reach to 2007 era /b/ and now it too is on the way out. Sad. Alot of /biz/ used to say /lit/ was the only other high iq board so, I lurked here during that time and decided to browse your archives, it's crazy how different this place used to be upset I missed out on the glory days you guys had here.
Thanks for reading my blog

>>17475133
>20 years old
>thinks his opinions are worth anything
>calls other "kids"
big yikes

>>17482637
Oh, and thank you for all the books I got to pick up. They will stay with me when I inevitably have to leave this place again. Maybe for good this time.

>>17482638
>t.21 year old

Happy birthday, /lit/. I hardly read fiction but enjoy lurking here from /sci/ and /int/.

>>17482142

more than I hoped for, ty

>>17483065
We talk more about non-fic here than fiction

>>17483112
No prob friend.

Something awful's forums are unironically better than 4chan now.

>>17475112
Imagine a time when the only philosophy discussion was on /r9k/ and how AIDS that quickly becomes

I started browsing in 2013. I've always had a very on/off relationship with the board. That being said, it's kinda comfy if you mostly lurk.

>>17485400
forgot to add, I remember posting my college application essay -- it rightfully got ripped to shreds and most of the suggestions that /lit/ gave me actually helped improve my writing.

>>17485119
Absolutely not.

>>17475180
kys newfag

>>17485407
I always come here to check my essays with /lit/

No harsher critic exists