/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6223807]

Are you proud, /lit/?

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/4chan-lit-book-vlogger-katie-harassment/

[Anonymous No.6223809]

holy
shit

[Anonymous No.6223819]

This is what passes for journalism today?

[Anonymous No.6223821]

>enagaged
She's a normie slut, who cares.

[Anonymous No.6223822]

Holy shit they are so slow

[Anonymous No.6223827]

Dang, she was a qt. Shit's too funny though.

[Anonymous No.6223829]

Does anyone have the thread picture?

[Anonymous No.6223834]

>>6223829
>>/lit/thread/S5972700

[Anonymous No.6223849]

>>6223807

Well to be fair, if you put yourself out on the internet without knowing your shit you're expected to receive some harsh criticism, just another spoiled teenager playing the hurt feelings card because she can't get what she wants.

[Anonymous No.6223853]

>>6223807

Old news.

[Anonymous No.6223854]

>>6223807
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[Anonymous No.6223865]

I like how they describe 4chan as a lawless scary place. It makes me feel like an alpha by posting here

[Anonymous No.6223866]

>>6223807
>http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/4chan-lit-book-vlogger-katie-harassment/
>dailydot

L O L

O

L

NICE
MEME

[Anonymous No.6223875]

>>6223849
some of the stuff was creepy, but yeah, if you will remove your videos because of literaly 3 comments

[Anonymous No.6223882]

>>6223807
Ok how did this even become a story, when her channel only had like 6 subscribers and this never interested anyone outside of /lit/?
We got a turd in the punchbowl, fellas, repeat, we got a turd in the punchbowl.

[Anonymous No.6223891]

>>6223849
Kinda self fulfilling prophecy though when /lit/ are the ones doing it.

I don't get why people like to cyber bully so much.

Maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit.

[Anonymous No.6223894]

>>6223882
Yeah, obviously someone on /lit/ works there and showed it to an editor or something because the pic are pulled directly from>>6223849

[Anonymous No.6223899]

>>6223891
It was more like 3-4 sexual comments, there was no organised bullying or anythin

[Anonymous No.6223905]

>>6223894
someone probably posted the screencap to reddit

[Anonymous No.6223913]

>>6223891

Most of the time what is deemed "cyber bullying" by the press and media is nothing as I said before about harsh criticism being blown out of proportion and mentally unhinged people blowing it out of proportion.

[Anonymous No.6223984]

How many more women will /lit/ destroy before they are finally stopped?

[Anonymous No.6223986]

>>6223913
Criticism should be constructive, though, and generally speaking telling someone they deserve to be raped etc. isn't criticism at all.

[Anonymous No.6224020]

>>6223819
>http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/4chan-lit-book-vlogger-katie-harassment/

A lot of these clickbait sites seem to have departments dedicated to monitoring internet culture sites like 4chan, reddit, Twitter etc. Some writers' job is basically to talk about Twitter drama. Which begs the question, why do they get paid for this when they're just doing the same thing everyone else is doing for free?

[Anonymous No.6224032]

>>6223865

Yeah for a community of neckbeards 4chan sure has achieved a peculiar infamy.

[Anonymous No.6224041]

Why are we such meanies? What are we searching for?

[Anonymous No.6224053]

>>6223905
So we still have a turd in the punchbowl then.

[Anonymous No.6224059]

>>6223865
>>6224032
It's really embarrassing to see how long those /b/ memes--"asshole of the internet," "pissing in an ocean of piss," "the worst place on the intenret," "internet hate machine"--have lived on. Whenever we're mentioned it's in the context of some Habbo Hotel shit from a decade ago mixed in with contemporary /pol/

Wish one of these "reporters" would go to /lgbt/ or a /mena/ thread in /int/ before writing this shit

[Anonymous No.6224061]

>>6224041
lulz

[Anonymous No.6224084]

>>6224059

but 24 year old bisexual women with butterfly tattoos on their backs and a degree in education who only visit tumblr and facebook -- they won't read that. How can they sell the "article" otherwise?

[Anonymous No.6224087]

>>6224059
>creepy childish shit threads on /lit/ about female vloggers
>"Habbo Hotel shit from a decade ago"

The reason journalists still focus on this crap is because that's the crap that leaves this place - /lgbt/ etc. stay here

[Anonymous No.6224130]

>>6224059

We basically exist now just so Reddit can look good.

[Anonymous No.6224132]

>>6223865

but it is lawless and scary. and people learn to take harsh criticism like nothing here (when they actually upload their creations though)

[Anonymous No.6224154]

>>6224132
Are you the free twelve year old /b/ promised me?

[Anonymous No.6224155]

>>6223807
my face when the first thing I saw when I opened the article was
>"the users posting on book forum /lit/ generally stick to discussions of novels and other reading material"

[Anonymous No.6224182]

>>6224154

are you the 25 yo fedora fatso lit promised me?

[Anonymous No.6224189]

>>6223905
There was definitely a post on reddit as shit was going down with katie. They were following events live.

[Anonymous No.6224190]

>>6224053
This punchbowl is crammed full of turds. With maybe a little punch when we're lucky.

[Anonymous No.6224196]

>>6224182
No, I'm not new enough to think /lit/ isn't qt pedo lesbians. Have you not seen Beauvoir's ass? Do you know nothing of feminism??

[Anonymous No.6224204]

>>6224155

>yfw when old geek forums were justa gather of guys seducing twinks and spewing fart jokes but are portrayed as patrician discussions because muh cradle of civilization

[Anonymous No.6224215]

>>6223984
Damn wasn't here than, moar info pls

[Anonymous No.6224224]

>>6224204
>gnats farting into trumpets as far as the eye can see

[Anonymous No.6224249]

>>6223986

I don't think anyone necessarily said she deserved to be raped but rather people said they desired to rape her.

[Anonymous No.6224280]

>>6224204
what are some dank memes from that era ?

>ywn discover epic meems from the [s4s] of old with your archeologists bro

[Anonymous No.6224289]

>Tyler . I just agree... Wanda `s blurb is terrific... last week I got a great new Jaguar XJ after having earned $8334 this past 4 weeks and-a little over, ten-grand this past month . with-out any question its the easiest-job I've had . I began this eight months/ago and almost immediately began to make over $70 per hour .
Damn.. that prose..

[Anonymous No.6224290]

>>6224059
4chan's reputation does it a lot of favors. There are enough boring normalfags blogging about their shitty job or boring kids, we don't need any more.

[Anonymous No.6224296]

>>6224280

[Anonymous No.6224301]

>>6223984
You'd think Laurie Penny would be able to roll with the punches or just chill a bit but she's like an uptight Reddit/Youtube celebrity here.

She really must think she's a fucking big deal.

[Anonymous No.6224302]

>>6224155
Journalists who just stop by probably think we are a community of Greek scholars eager to initiate new members into the field of classical studies

[Anonymous No.6224313]

>>6224020
>departments

more like a lurker or two who decide to freelance to the highest (or only) bidder

>get paid

lel, more like, get pity

AM

I

RIGHT

?

[Anonymous No.6224322]

>>6224301
>She really must think she's a fucking big deal.

Whatever gave you that idea?

[Anonymous No.6224329]

>>6223807
>I'll never see the video they made fun of

[Anonymous No.6224341]

>>6224296
This is worth every second you spent in MSPaint.

[Anonymous No.6224347]

>>6223984
Is that destroying someone? Seems like regular internet discussion. It doesn't seem like she stopped at all.

[Anonymous No.6224352]

>>6223875
You know there's zero reason to believe those bottles actually contained urine, right?

[Anonymous No.6224366]

>>6224352
>le The stories and information posted here are le artistic works of fiction and falsehood
>le Only a le fool would take anything posted here as le fact

[Anonymous No.6224392]

>>6224366
that's the disclaimer for /b/, yes

[Anonymous No.6224395]

>>6224366
I can tell you're an expert on the subject of intellectual self-destruction. Teach me your ways, o Sifu.

[Anonymous No.6224416]

>>6224352

[Anonymous No.6224417]

>>6224352
>zero reason
I think there's 250ml per hour of reasons.

[Anonymous No.6224428]

>>6224416
Show me images of you pissing in a bottle then. As the ancient Chinese proverb says: TITS OR GTFO.

[Anonymous No.6224440]

>>6224417
I don't see how the amount of blood pumped through your brain is relevant.

[Anonymous No.6224445]

>>6224428
Eh, it's not really an achievement and I could care as much if you believe me as to post that picture.

[Anonymous No.6224447]

>>6224440
I'm not sure you understand the human circulatory system, anon.

[Anonymous No.6224449]

>>6224440
your attempt to be clever is disasterous

[Anonymous No.6224459]

>>6224352
>>6224428
It's not that big a deal to piss in a bottle. I can fill up a few in a night of getting drunk at the computer.

[Anonymous No.6224464]

>>6224440
But I see how the amount of semen pumped in your mom is relevant.

[Anonymous No.6224478]

>>6223807
*yawn*

[Anonymous No.6224491]

>>6224459

jesus why you can't just use the bathroom?

[Anonymous No.6224495]

>>6224491
My team needs me

[Anonymous No.6224497]

>>6224447
I mixed up the areas of the brain where blood is and isn't allowed to circulate. I am ashamed. My only excuse is that I made a hasty decision to change 'dick' into 'brain' since I couldn't recall how much blood enters your dick when you get hard.
>>6224459
I'm not saying it's a big deal, but that's not proof.

[Anonymous No.6224500]

>>6224491
too lazy to do that

[Anonymous No.6224539]

>>6224491
Not that guy, but I piss in bottles every day of my life. I started because I stay up until 4-5 in the morning and it woke my roommate up every time I used the bathroom, but now I do it during the day too cause it's less effort. I don't actually keep the bottles though, I dump the piss out of the window.

[Anonymous No.6224560]

>>6224539
just like the romans

a true patrician

[Anonymous No.6224611]

>>6223807
This is what ruins boards.
Say hi to the newcomers from tumblr and epic reddit memers. I feel like the intelligence and attention span of the average /lit/ user is dropping as we speak.

[Anonymous No.6224617]

>>6224611
I feel like your mom's panties are dropping as we speak.

[Anonymous No.6224645]

This is what ruins boards.

I hope you're ready to welcome tumblr and the epic reddit memers. Now there's going to be people who only come here for this kind of stuff.

I'm feeling it.
The intelligence and attention span of the average /lit/ user is dropping as I type this.

[Anonymous No.6224655]

>>6224617
Yeah, she's fucking my father despite the fact that he's psychopath.
Thanks for reminding me.

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.6224672]

>>6223984
How come when these idiots get critized just like any other Anon would, it's suddenly harassment and threatening? Facebook has ruined the Internet. Now everyone brings their infantile identity with them online instead of leaving it at the door. Trolling used to be funny, now it's a fucking hate crime.

[Anonymous No.6224692]

>>6224560
>Keep it 300
>like a romans
Kanye confirmed for having 300 piss bottles

[Anonymous No.6224716]

>>6224352
where do you think you are, friend?

[Anonymous No.6224739]

>>6224692
ONE OF US
ONE OF US

[Anonymous No.6224747]

>>6224692
Here come the brain dead /mu/tans. If this isn't proof enough then I don't know what is,

[Anonymous No.6224754]

>>6223807
>2015
>still taking stupid internet bullshit seriously

When will people learn to grow a spine and ignore this sort of thing? Engaging them only escalates matters.

[Anonymous No.6224805]

sides
dead

[Anonymous No.6224809]

>>6224754
>implying this is hurting anyone that isn't the victim
Who cares if matters escalate?

[Anonymous No.6224828]

>mfw my post is in the article
Am I p-published?

[Anonymous No.6224867]

t. autism

[Anonymous No.6224870]

>>6224828
>this is the closest anyone here will come to a literary career

congrats anon

[Anonymous No.6224879]

>>6224828
>"Post successful !"

h-have I made it bros ?

[Anonymous No.6224947]

>>6224059
>/mena/
Murad detected

[Anonymous No.6225000]

>>6224280

[Anonymous No.6225011]

>>6224828
I'm the piss bottle fag and have like 4 posts in that article, step up your game spurder.

[Anonymous No.6225017]

>By Rae Votta on January 13, 2015
While 4chan's /b/ board may be notorious for porn, gore, and Internet pranks, the users posting on book forum /lit/ generally stick to discussions of novels and other reading material.

This changed over the weekend when the forum began sharing videos by a book vlogger known as Katie.

"Hi /lit/," one user wrote, "what do you think of the 'Booktuber' trend?"


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"Fuck… I lost hard," one user wrote, referring to the 4chan meme "You Love, You Lose"—posting images of hot women with the intention of finding a new Internet crush.

/lit/ users thought Katie was cute. They also mocked her, called her a virgin, and wondered out loud if she had "a petticoat … I could look up."
Then the users went to YouTube to try to get her attention.


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Katie took notice.

"This one creeper said that I sounded like a virgin," she wrote, "and then this other dude … described in like a paragraph what he would do to me if he met me or something and by this I mean in an inappropriate and sexual way."
She added, "I am so disgusted and feel violated beyond belief."


katiesclassicbooksandstitches/Tumblr

While several on the board showed remorse—"I'm fucking ashamed of us," one wrote—it was too late. Katie took down her YouTube page.


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Katie's Tumblr remains active. A /lit/ user claimed to have sent her the 4chan thread she was featured in.


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Then the forum braced itself for Katie's visit. One user wrote "Luv U Katie" on a piece of paper, placed on top of Coke bottles filled, apparently, with urine.

This is not an isolated incident. Sexualized comments about book vloggers, even ostensibly underage ones, is actually a recurring theme on the board.


/Lit/ on 4chan

This is far from the first time female YouTubers have faced harassment on the site, especially of a sexual nature. While they continue to speak out about the abuse they face on it and other social media platforms, the tide still hasn't turned to make YouTube a safe space for female voices.

imagine moot sitting you down and explaining this to you like he's your school principal

[Anonymous No.6225028]

>This is far from the first time female YouTubers have faced harassment on the site, especially of a sexual nature. While they continue to speak out about the abuse they face on it and other social media platforms, the tide still hasn't turned to make YouTube a safe space for female voices.

imagine if moot sat you down and explained what's this to you like a grade school principal giving you detention

[Anonymous No.6225031]

>>6224870
>forgetting about Totalitarianism in a Tundra

[Anonymous No.6225035]

>>6224032
>community of neckbeards
I love how this comes up repeatedly, everywhere on the internet. It`s a soothing image to the `liberal/feminist/SJW' mind that 4chan posters are all neckbeards wearing fedoras, sitting in their mom's basement with cheeto dust glistening on their fingers, not potentially attractive people who might be university educated or have high status jobs

[Anonymous No.6225057]

>>6225035
Reductio ad neckbeardum is all they have. Reductio ad SJWum is our equivalent tho

[Anonymous No.6225059]

>>6225031
who are you quoting ?

[Anonymous No.6225060]

>>6223891
If I got cyber bullied I'd probably consider suicide tbh

[Anonymous No.6225062]

>>6225035
>1. "You're an evil misogynist for depicting women as sex objects."
>2. "You don't agree with me? YOU'LL NEVER GET LAID LOSER VIRGIN"
>3. goto 1

[Anonymous No.6225066]

>>6225035

[Anonymous No.6225074]

>>6224087
>journalists
whoa whoa pretty strong word there buddy

[Anonymous No.6225082]

>>6225066

i like how the bills say that they're past due

[Anonymous No.6225084]

>>6225060
How can I tell you've never considered turning the screen off to read a book?

[Anonymous No.6225086]

>>6224059
wait a minute, are you telling me not everyone here is a hacker on steroids?

[Anonymous No.6225093]

>Then the forum braced itself for Katie's visit. One user wrote "Luv U Katie" on a piece of paper, placed on top of Coke bottles filled, apparently, with urine.

No, but seriously, what has this girl done to deserve all this? I've never seen any of her videos so I've been left out of the loop. And why would /lit/ consider virginity, especially in girl, something to ridicule?

[Anonymous No.6225094]

>>6225086
Nah, the greekaboo weightlifters are natty, you want >>>/fit/

[Anonymous No.6225095]

>>6224087
>>6225074
Anyone know what kind of "journalism" this is? It's not yellow journalism and it's sure as shit not the real deal. It's some sort of weird click-bait quota-filler. News that isn't even close to being news.

[Anonymous No.6225097]

>>6225093
Don't try to find reason in this thing. She's just another pleb among millions who decided that feeding the trolls is a great idea. It's a chain reaction.

[Anonymous No.6225099]

>>6225093
Sometimes, people mean it when they say I love you, anon. I'm sorry if you've been fooled and ridiculed for believing it before.

[Anonymous No.6225102]

>>6224059

At least we are less autistic than reddit and tumblr sometimes

[Anonymous No.6225108]

>>6225095
I think they call it "blogging".

[Anonymous No.6225157]

>>6224059

those distinctions are bigger in your head than they are in real life, cuck. Spend some more time outside and talk to people other than your mom

[Anonymous No.6225159]

>>6225057
Think about real life for a minute though, how many (truely) intellectual, attractive/feminine/high-value women are feminazis? I know none, personally.

How many attractive, sane, men with high status jobs who denigrate overzealous feminism are there? I know a lot

[Anonymous No.6225162]

>>6225035
Well it's not like it wasn't us 4channarians who created that stereotype in the first place.

[Anonymous No.6225176]

>>6225066
I don't get it. you're not as anonymous as you think?

[Anonymous No.6225199]

>>6225095
Degenerate journalism.

Someone should make an urbandictionary definition filled with satire and ridicule so we can point these 'journalists' to the link

Someone should make an urbandictionary definition filled with satire and ridicule so we can point these 'journalists' to the link

Someone should make an urbandictionary definition filled with satire and ridicule so we can point these 'journalists' to the link

[Anonymous No.6225203]

>>6225159
>How many attractive, sane, men with high status jobs who denigrate overzealous feminism are there? I know a lot

Could it be because these attractive, sane, men with high status jobs are painted out to be the scum of the earth simply for having a cock?

Just a thought.

[Anonymous No.6225254]

>>6225035
Feminists love to insult their opponents by asserting that they don't meet patriarchal cultural expectations. It's a real sight to see.

[Anonymous No.6225261]

>>6224828
>>6225011
Cow shit rapist here.

Feels good to be published with my /lit/ friends.

[Anonymous No.6225269]

>>6224155
I demand a correction.

[Anonymous No.6225279]

>>6224301
>Laurie Penny
never heard of her

[Anonymous No.6225305]

clearly some male book bloggers need to be run off of youtube (receive some mean/creepy comments on their public youtube page)

[Anonymous No.6225330]

>>6224645
m8 it's never been much to begin with

[Anonymous No.6225341]

>the users posting on book forum /lit/ generally stick to discussions of novels and other reading material

Made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.6225350]

>>6225330
disagree

>>6224645
>florida man vapes semen on video
>'LOL' category for news

No serious person uses this sight

[Anonymous No.6225361]

>>6225095
this (board no one goes on bullies youtuber no one watches) probably isn't worth documenting, but that site does fill a need for having all the tweets/pots/discussions of something put together in one article, internet bullshit gets hard to track

also this was published in january dummies

[Anonymous No.6225375]

>>6225199
wow sounds like an epic burn, you'll show them! you do know that you can make an urban dictionary entry yourself, if you're so keen on your little revenge fantasy

[Anonymous No.6225388]

>>6223807
>the users posting on book forum /lit/ generally stick to discussions of novels and other reading material.
one sentence in and this article is already full of shit. Right now on the front page /lit/ is talking about coffee, the afterlife, suicide, America, music, but not literature.

also, harassing Katie is the only funny thing /lit/ has ever done.

[Anonymous No.6225414]

To quote someone on reddit commenting on that infopic after it was uploaded:

Truly kekcellent

[Anonymous No.6225419]

>>6225414
>To quote someone on reddit

Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.6225528]

>>6223807

I think most people on /lit/ are going to laugh at this, not because they may have been a part of it, but because receiving press of any kind means exposure/publicity/attention. And people like attention. But what does it mean for this board? Well, a minor surge of curious DailyDotters and the like, but after a while, nothing. It's the ebb and flow of attraction, eventually it'll reach equilibrium and we'll be back to the same old shitposting nonsense and occasional literary and philosophical discussions. That being said, making news is fun.

[Anonymous No.6225546]

>>6223807
>http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/4chan-lit-book-vlogger-katie-harassment/


And still not a mention to the tundra book...

[Anonymous No.6225557]

>>6225388
>the only funny thing /lit/ has ever done
you must be new here