>>252822I wasn't around for the early days of shitjak party so it may have been okay and soulful when it began and I've spoken at length about this topic before so I'll keep it brief. To me I don't like soyjak party because it's kind of a cesspool. Their humor is repetitive and self-referential. Their users are among the stupidest, cruelest people on the internet, and they relish that others hate them and think their "humor" is retarded. It's that attitude of knowing you're being a retard and pissing off everyone around you and just rolling with it that irks me about them personally. This on top of them single-handedly killing wojak as a meme. They represent everything wrong with the Internet now for me, they are the manifestation of the separation between old internet culture and new internet culture. Where old meme culture was generally meant to be relatable and riff on situations either in real life or over the internet, bringing people together, new memes tend to be insular and referential, relying on having some kind of insider knowledge to get them, or else being purposely nonsensical, if that makes sense.
>why does any of this matter? it's just memes on the internet?at this point, a significant portion of the population spends more time online than irl. the internet is an inseparable part of life, regrettably. Similarly, the internet is an unstoppable force on the culture of today. That's why it's important to me that the culture of it be kind, encourage individualism, and intellectualism (in the academic sense of the word, not "being smart" but seeking out empirical or rational truth). The culture of websites like soyjak party and kiwifarms reflect the leaving behind of the old world and old culture, they are fully creations of the internet, which is why they're generally very cruel and anti-intellectual places. Kiwifarms especially is built on the idea of punishing people for being unordinary.
You could say I'm reading too far into this, but I think it's a matter of some importance given most normies know more about soyjak party than actual 4chan at this point. I don't think every single soybaba is a bad person, especially irl, but their conduct online contributes directly to what I see as being the real societal decay we're facing (as opposed to it being trans people or whatever) which is the corrosion o
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