Does anyone ever feel like Veeky Forums is ruining their life, or at least severely harming it...

I don't even remember threads I posted in an hour ago. This place is eating away my brain.

Lately this place is turning to shit.
I used to come here for the bantz, the occasional informative post, and it was good to talk to people with no filter or censorship.

Then in the past year or so, I don't know what happened, all the CHAD posting, the 'give up lifting because it's all about FACE', manlet/lanklet/anything-let threads, less talking about fitness or even things tangentially related to fitness, less motivation, and mods don't seem to give a shit.
It went from 'we're all gonna make it' to 'kill yourself because you weren't born perfect and you'll never improve'.

And If you're not careful, this shit will affect you in real life too.

I don't know what kind of pathetic maggots are responsible for all this whining and negativity, but they are beyond regular trolls and baiters, they purposely try to bring people down.

Been here since 2010. It has always been full of negativity and baiting insecurity.

Yup. Veeky Forums is enhancing my life if anything because the whole damn site is a containment board for my real life autistm.

I been on Veeky Forums since 2008, not sure when I discovered Veeky Forums, but it has never in my memory been quite this bad.

Sure there was always the odd shitposting and whatnot, but not straight up 'give up because you will never make it', and not as common as it is now.

This site improves my life in no way whatsoever but I'm on my 6th year posting here so at this point it's hard baked into what I do daily

Veeky Forums has always been shit and this meme has always been shit.

>t. fresh off the boat redditor

>I'm a le special snowflake

If only... 2009

I think I started posting here around the same time, I can't quite remember exactly when because I left Veeky Forums for a few years when I had a period of living like a completely normal, social human being.

From what I remember the manlet threads were just about the only dedicated threads on tearing people down. There were plenty of other memes that played on others insecurities but nobody every said "don't lift because you are xyz". Nowadays there are like 5 fucking threads about facial aesthetics and the manlet threads have fleshed themselves out into HEIGHT FACE FRAME so that they can tear down like 85% of all guys and bait their insecurities. Sure, there were plenty more feels threads that weren't necessarily fitness related but a lot of the guys on here were here for a level of understanding and emotional support that they couldn't get elsewhere. Nowadays the board has been reduced to "why even bother lift bro you are always gonna lose to chad with HEIGHT FACE FRAME, just kys" instead of we're all gonna make it.

When was Veeky Forums made? I didn't come here until 2012.

It has improved me tremendously as a a person too, but the one think it will fuck in 90% of cases is your ability to fit into normal society. Social skills will dwindle, and you'll start obsessing over dumb shit like braps and chad/stacy.

I think it was in 2008 sometime

I've been here for a little while since like 2010 although I started at /b/ and then branched out because that place is just a boring shit hole and I've noticed that my day to day is more negative. Although finding a good thread is what I look forward to everyday. Besides that though it gives me something to do and when the community isn't being a bunch of faggots here or Veeky Forums then it's actually really nice.

I don't come here often enough for it to have any sort of impact on my life, negative or positive

>I don't come here often enough for it to have any sort of impact on my life, negative or positive
Normalll FAAAAGGGGG AHHHHH

(Tell me how I can be like you please)

>switched over from Veeky Forums to plebbit
>mainly the sports reddit pages
>over the 5 years i've posted there, have had like 10 different accounts banned for trash talking
>process usually goes "make new account, get a ton of karma, get banned, make new one, etc"
>only go there because every time i come back to Veeky Forums its just full of general threads, or fit talking 75% of the time about girls

no.

the threads here are fucking boring. all the non-generals are just morons asking for shit explained in the sticky or blog post like this

Veeky Forums was never made for you, Norman, you simply are not wired to be able to take hits, typical of normies, they usually quit the website after a year tops

Close Veeky Forums and never come back right this instant without even replying to this post. You won't. You're addicted to porn and need this place as an excuse to jack off.

I'm powerless. I've seen this image hundreds of times.

>Feeling proud about wasting more of your life on this shithole
that's sad, dude.

>confusing /v/, a single board to Veeky Forums as a whole site

its Veeky Forums culture, you faggot
im not even oldfag or neofag
been here since 2015

god damn even in 2014 when I first started coming here it wasn't that bad. I agree with what you are saying though, shit does seem a lot more negative. I think I should leave this place honestly, I know what I need to know and I think the cynicism is leeching into my worldview.

2007,

I have quit Veeky Forums a number of times. Once for a year. Several other times for about a month. I can safely say it doesn't affect my life in any significant way. I got more books and vidya in. Thats it. When I ran out of books or vidya I was interested in, I came back to spend my 1-2 hrs of daily non-productive freetime here.

Admittedly I'm probably not as bad as some of you. I dedicate 10 hrs a week to lifting. I have a fulltime job, a college degree. I volunteer at an animal shelter once a week and garden.

Sometimes I quit in an effort to dedicate more time to socializing. Then I realize I hate socializing. I go out, talk to people, realize I have very little in common with them, get bored, stop going out. I go on dates, get laid for a bit without ever forming a real connection, get ghosted, and get left feeling empty.

Maybe your not the same way, but without Veeky Forums, I pretty much would be the same, but without an outlet for my autism. Sometimes I feel like arguing with you faggots about nothing is the only thing keeping me sane. It allows me to smile and nod and not be an abrasive shithead in my daily life.

Been here since 07. It's always been shit but it's gotten way worse the past few years. Not just here, every fucking board is either garbage or has 0 traffic. Can't go three threads without some "political" argument starting. Less people are interested in actual discussion. Even the memes are worse. I've been saying I'm going to quit this site for years but I actually think I will soon because there are fewer and fewer diamonds among the growing mounds of shit

Only the toxic boards like /r9k/, /b/, /pol/. Unproductive boards like /tv/.. Literal useless boards like /s4s/, /lgbt/, etc.
Veeky Forums at least contains a lot of useful information, unless you are not into fitness and only come for the meme threads

For sure r9k, pol, int, b are cancer but fit isn't much better. The CHAD and tfw no gf shit gets annoying. Might as well ask reddit for advice.

Wow this

I do feel like my memory has become worse and worse

Also this
My attention span is terrible. I'm good for about a half an hour at a time

I exclusively browse fit and it helps remind me of my goals and allows me to self analyze wlmy routines and diet by comparing it to other posters. After being on here for a while it's pretty easy to filter the shitposting and in general it's a pretty comfy place after school and a hard workout when you don't have any plans. The only toxic shitposting is the r9k waaah she left me what do I do tier threads that induce a self loathing cluster fuck. All the other stuff is pretty easy to ignore and hide, it usually is pretty funny too.

LEAVE IMMEDIATELY RETARDS. You're destroying your brains!

There are negatives, nut just make sure you carve out at least 2, 45 minute blocks a day where you do something else. Like learning and instrument, reading a book, cooking a nice meal, whatever. But nothing involving the internet

It will improve your mood and life dramatically

if your life can be affected by a website on such a scale then your life was shit to begin with kid

It sounds dumb but Veeky Forums is full of /myguys/. We think so alike sometimes it's amazing. You just can't get that irl. Normies never understand. Fuck reddit btw.

This place isn't even bad if you go the /sig/ route instead of going full elliot rodger/r9k.

>being this fucking new
Please go back to whatever normie bullshit you came from.

Tbh I think social media is destroying my brain just as much.

I can definitely see how instagram has ruined my memory and attention span. Quick hits of entertaining videos and I have no need to remember any of it because it's all logged for me or it's all mostly useless information

It fucked me over a lot but at least it helped me become friends with my best bro because we both browsed /v/ and had similar humor because of that

I used to think Veeky Forums was the greatest place ever. Helped me get Veeky Forums and redpilled me to no extent.

Now I sadly realize it's just a merchant echo chamber plot that feeds the more intelligent, computer savvy part of the goyim a positive feedback loop to keep them docile and in their mothers basement.

Just look at how many people say
>you guys are the only ones that understand me

dude quit all social media right now, there is literally no point to it

>b-but muh social life and girls

Fuck it. Have an email and a ringer phone, if they want to contact you, they can email or sms or call, social media is fucking stupid. The guy I know who gets the most sex doesn't even have a phone, he just makes an email and arranges dates with girls in person. At the end of each date he tells her a time and place to be, and like magic she's there waiting.

this. nobody enjoys Veeky Forums, we're here because we were banished from society. through our own volition or not this autistic self help forum is a congregation for outcasts.

seconded
hard to connect with normies especially average and low iq one
yet feel warm being here with all you autists

>been on Veeky Forums since 2005

There is still nowhere quite like it on the internet or RL (fuck off with homochan or whatever epic board you like). It feels like home to me.

>It went from 'we're all gonna make it' to 'kill yourself because you weren't born perfect and you'll never improve'.
I'd rather have that vibe than the fake, bullshit sympathy you see everywhere else online and irl. At least here, on an anonymous message board, you know that when someone does tell you that you're going to make it, they empathize with you and actually want you to make it for no other reason than they see a little bit of their struggle in you.

just meditate

Speak for yourselves you pathetic r9k losers

Does anyone ever feel like chocolate is ruining their cut, or at least severely harming it? I don't even enjoy eating it anymore and yet it fills all of my TDEE up.

Speak 4 urself. I come here to laugh at people like u, its entertaining.

i have to agree

i saw E.T for the first time since seeing it as a kid in like 20 years ago and i felt nothing

I've realized even watching a movie is much more productive than browsing Veeky Forums.
But I can't quit though, so far I'm good with this.
>One time a day, open my favorite boards in catalog mode, open what interests me, then stop browsing after I'm done, no more new threads and refreshing every minute

I hear you. It's anonymous and there's no self interest attached. It feels like from across the world somebody else is reaching through this cesspool of shit to help you for no other reason then the goodness of their heart.

It's like... on other social networks like reddit I can never be sure that the real motivator isn't public approval or internet points attached an identity.

Every time somebody anonymously helps someone on Veeky Forums it gives me a little bit of faith in humanity.

Some of the boards on here are pretty damn solid though, especially if you're first starting out in a subject. If it weren't for Veeky Forums I would have no idea what good routines to do and probably wouldn't even be squatting/deadlifting. I would probably spend years being a clueless bro just heading into the gym to fuck around with bench press, curls, skullcrushers, etc. and then would just do it again in two days, crushing a protein shake after and thinking to myself that this is what lifting is. Then I would wonder at my lack of results.

Whenever I'm interested in a new hobby, I see if there's a related Veeky Forums board and lurk it for a bit because I know that the general sense of elitism, while annoying sometimes, acts as a great screener of basic bullshit that often gets thrown at noobs like "hey bro muscle confusion and pyramiding and 7 x 7 gets you big :^)"

Boards that are focused on continually releasing content like /co/, Veeky Forums, etc. can also be good for hearing about new potentially interesting stuff. Also, if I'm coming here to dick around, I know that that's what I'm coming here for. I can turn my brain off for a half hour or so and maybe someone spits out something interesting that gets me thinking, like a thread about swimming health benefits the other day which caused me to look up beginning swimming workouts and now I'm going to incorporate swimming into my weekly routines.

Veeky Forums is what you make it nigga, its just a tool like any other tool. You can use it responsibly or let it fuck on you, but in reality its just you using Veeky Forums to fuck on yourself.

Been here since 2007. It started going sour around 2010 and then faster with death of Zyzz.

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>I find it difficult to even commit to watching a movie nowadays because its not as rewarding.
fuck, that is me

>searching for diamonds in a garbage dump

Not to mention the horrible attention span reducing effects. Though this applies to most other sites in the Internet.

Everyone eventually becomes a goldfish, I can't even read a lengthy blog post without my attention deviating and daydreaming about stupid meme shit.

I tried to leave once.

Only lasted 3 days.

Left for 6 months once

it didn't really help anything

You have to just control your usage if you can

there's nothing inherently more toxic about this place than the whole internet. If this place shut down, you all know you would find somewhere else to waste time.

At least try and make your Veeky Forums hours productive, and control that shit, like it's junk food or something. Because it is basically.

11 1/4 years by now. The site has improved me.

Not really
Been here for a while now, it's just good old fun and memes to me.

But don't the memes get old or stale for you?

If your mood, motivation or general mindset is heavily influenced by what you see on this website then you're probably either underage b& or autistic and shouldn't be using this website.

yeah it's made me a depressed porn addicted autist

I made me develop mild OCD and self-hatred.