/siberia/ - Off-topic

I sympathize with annoyance over people trying to enforce normalcy online.

normies are just autistics fixated on social norms. dont take my trvke, speead it

>>726948
>4chan screenshot thread

>>727465
never got bullied for being a freak and had plenty of friends while growing up, and so did most people that engage with the normal/freak nonsense. "normie" has come to replace "square" or any other word to say that someone is boring

in latam you usually hear "bourgeois" being used with the same connotation in left-wing circles, the idea is that the people that fit too well (and are thus unremarkable and uninteresting) have merely internalized bourgeois society. the word doesn't have the same connotation in english, this isn't the same as the people on social media that call everything they don't like bourgeois

I don't think it matters and I don't think anyone here should pay attention to it, neither for nor against. personality is fake, consumer identity is fake, and by this I don't mean anything deep, it literally does not matter, it isn't real

>>727472
We are talking about different things. To the average 4chanoid, what you're describing isn't a normie, it's an "NPC".

it kinda makes sense when your trying to parse out nerdy imageboard autists from the general population but most of the time its just arrogant NEETs with main character syndrome who think there hot shit for having no fucking friends basically as this anon describes >>727465


>>727473
I think an ironic twist of fate wrt 4chan is that it basically got gentrified from actual autistic wierdos to surburboid /pol/acks who are all basically clones of the same annoying capital G Gamer.

>>727459
if autismos are so good at recognizing patterns why do they suck at recognizing the patterns involved in socialization LOL

>>727474
>actual autistic wierdos to surburboid /pol/acks
no difference lmfao. both are autistic and live in suburbia

>>727473
ok and at the end of the day one watches netflix and the other watches anime or whatever

and if you are below 30 there isn't even that difference because anime is mainstream now. and so is being a nazi or a pedophile or anything else that separated 4channers from the average. a vanguard only in the sense that they happened to be the firsts with the grade of collective, internet-assisted voluntary isolation that has now become the norm

so no, the word, be it normie or npc, just means that you find someone boring, maybe unauthentic. nothing deeper than that

>>727477
makes me think of how to many chvds "transhumanist" is basically equivalent with "procensorship sjw". like thats why they use it so often

>>727475
That's the problem there really aren't any.

internet uyghas will talk all day about normies being hive minded community enslaved people dependent on society and external approval but go to the same forums everyday to interact with other people and seek approval themselves.

you are normal, you are just on the internet all day, truly exeptional autist beings don't need to talk to ANYONE or validate their opinions or identity externally, true autists just vibe, you don't really vibe.

>>727477
The difference is that one leaves the house and has a job and friends and relationships, while the other doesn't and resents the former because of this. All chuds wish they were dudebros deep inside, they cope by inverting the moral compass like the Christians did to the Romans.

>>727476
true on both being autistic and suburban but all the shit /pol/acks hate is arguably less mainstream than just being racist dork from the burbs like being gay furry who plays obscure indieRPGs is farther from what I would consider "mainstream" in the current US zeitgeist than some random channer who plays triple A titles.

>>726948

i remember when i used to care about normies a lot because i was into weird shit and it impacted the way i socialized. pandemic worsened that too and it was hard to socialize in high school because of that. as well as the fact my mental health dropped during high school due to the amount of work i had to do thanks to me getting distracted by the shit i see on the internet and my fucked up untreated ocd my guardians refused to get me help for. the high schoolers were also immature to talk to as well. i think ai addiction contributed to the worsening of it as well. now im trying to recover

>>727465

the internet used to be dominated by freaks a decade or two ago before the middle class started to rule it and make it more cooperative and and chuddies somehow breached containment and/or got access to the internet (not sure how it all happened but i did know the gamergate stuff is when it started going downhill) and now you can’t be a freak on the internet anymore without getting bullied for it

>>727511
most people don't do that much, and most chuds also do those things. there is this narrative now that chuds just want a girlfriend and that if women would just concede a little then that would placate the right, but that's liberal nonsense - from "an enemy is someone whose story you haven't heard" to "an enemy is a guy you haven't fucked"
and by the way, it is significantly easier to make friends being a chud - it is "normal" people that struggle
all of this reinforces my point about the word "normie" meaning just "boring"

>>726948
it's just an inane outgroup based on historical (and questionably-ever-existing) stereotypes.
the culture of an imageboard is ultimately determined by the moderation of that board, not by the social background of the people entering into it. 50 platonic normalfags dumped into a board that moderates in such a way as to encourage schizoposting will give you a schizoposting board, 50 platonic imageboard users dumped into a board that moderates in such a way as to encourage "normalfag" posting will give you a normalfag board.

>>727465
the main people doing the bullying are freaks themselves
"i may be an autist, but at least i'm not chris chan" is the underlying principle. "normalfags" don't know you or care to interact with you at all, but weirdoes who need something to make them feel better about themselves will be absolutely ruthless.

>>727523
the internet was never really dominated by freaks and was always dominated by the middle class.
in a certain sense there has never been a better time to be a freak on the internet. in 2005 you could be a furry, in 2025 you can find 100 people who share your exact specific variety of goth-sparkledog-nostalgia-revival-aesthetics with anarcho communist characteristics while still basically flying under the radar.

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>>727490
This.
For all the talk about “free thinking” they sure are quick to anger whenever they hear about some new meme or other cultural product.

They also seem to obsess over cultural stereotypes to the point of psychosis.

>>727624
Imageboards are more toxic than the average social media platform.
For all the criticisms against Reddit, TikTok, Twitter,etc. they all screenshot posts or embed videos from said sites to drive discussion traffic.

CP looms large as does gore. A lot of nonsense words and inside jokes which are excessively recycled.

Imageboards brag about originality and hobby boards but it’s often the same handful people on those boards and they have snobbery about them.