I had a funny feeling someone knew exactly what the catalyst was, but yeah, I can’t do it anymore.  I was already one foot out the door a few months ago when I stopped going to /v/ and /vr/, the only boards I still visited at that time, but just kind of stuck around that thread because Solatorobo’s pretty much the only game I like talking about anymore.

I’m sorry for derailing the thread by telling that one dude that fetishizing nazi uniforms is fucking weird and unsettling and he had to cause a fit about how Hitler liked nice suits so now nobody should like nice suits even though nice suits generally don’t have Nazi memorabilia on them.  But it’s just a joke, bro.  Yeah okay whatever.  I’m tired of it.  This goofy neo-nazi mentality has overtaken 4chan to an insane degree and and it’s just not by any stretch of the imagination the same website I loved posting on back in the mid-to-late 2000s.  I’m not leaving because of anything in particular.  It’s just all the dumb shit going on for the last couple of years has been piling up and up and it’s just not fun anymore.  /v/’s sucked since the turn of the decade, /vr/ was cool for the first year or two and now it’s just the same miserable attitude neo-/v/ has just with old video games instead.  Shit’s just no fun, especially after as long as I’ve been there.

I’ve been there too long.  Since late 2005.  I was 16 then.  That was a long fucking time ago.  Things have changed.  People came and went.  The way most boards operate – at least the one I frequented most in those years, /v/ – I feel like everyone from the original-/v/ era (I would say up until the end of 2008) has moved on and I’m the idiot who stayed put and didn’t see the writing on the wall when it was obvious what was going on about five years ago.  I’ve talked with friends who used to go there back in the old days.  None of them bother anymore.  I don’t know why I didn’t kick the habit earlier but I felt like it was my internet-home for such a long time and that I couldn’t bear to leave it even if I didn’t buy into the bullshit that whatever shitposter was selling.  The fact that the only thread I was still active in after all this was on a no-holds-barred furry porn board that I was really uncomfortable being on to begin with was more telling of me than anything.  It’s like what am I even doing here anymore.  You do whatever you want there, if you like.  It’s not for me anymore.  I don’t know if any community really is to be honest.  I just kind of want to be away from all of it.