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- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
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4chan is depressing
How is that your takeaway from this entertaining fabrication?
A fictional story about a husband/father being cruel to his family until they leave doesn't exactly seem like fun entertainment to me 😅
4chan's idea of a joke tends to involve some kind of suffering or cruelty, I don't really get the appeal. It shows up on my feed and I can't help but think "someone wants to read this sort of thing...?"
At least the one about the lady pissing herself and jumping in a canal or whatever was kinda silly and just a story about doing something dumb
It's creative writing with a subversion of expectations. You expect anon to be in a public gym with a random uncontrolled child, not at home with his own child. You side with him until the very end. The whiplash is the joke, not child cruelty.
Yeah, I understand that it's a subversion of what's expected, it's just also depressing
"The joke is that you thought it was just a weird interaction with strangers, but he's actually being shitty father and abusive husband!" doesn't really work for me 🤷🏻 I get why it's funny to other people, I just can't really relate, and so much of 4chan humor has that same shared thread of being an asshole, life being a bleak existence, or making up a strawman to attack a particular population. It's just kinda depressing to me :/
May I ask why you're on greentext? It's literally just 4chan screenshots and if you know that kind of humor doesn't sit well with you then it might be better to avoid it.
It's on the front page pretty often, as it seems like one of the larger communities
I'll probably end up blocking it as the other reply mentioned, but I don't usually like doing that. It's also a bummer cause occasionally something really lovely gets produced by 4chan, you just have to wade through a lot of bleakness before you find it, it would seem
I don't mean to disparage others their choice or preferences, just expressing I don't really understand them
Hope you have a good one :)
You would probably enjoy this community more.
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FWIW, I totally get the way you feel about greentexts in general. I think it's a very natural reaction, and those of us (myself included) who enjoy these posts without reservation are actually the unusual ones who have been desensitized by a lifetime on internet forums.
There's a certain jaded callousness, seasoned with a sprinkling of cynicism and misanthropy, which allows one to most fully savor the fruits of c/greentext 😂
I didn't realize there was a wholesome greentext community here on Lemmy, thanks! :)
See, if I block greentext I'm gonna really miss bewildering nonsense fever-dream posts like this:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1df4d389-3611-48f5-bafa-1b4160b5f2e5.jpeg
I saw it and thought back to this discussion lol
Anyway, hope you're having a good one
Yea I wouldn't block it if I were you.
Thanks and same to you.
If it's not for you you can just block it
https://lemmy.ml/post/504058/1189928
I probably will at some point, it's a shame though cause every once in a while something really fun or charming comes out of the greentext communities or reddit or lemmy. I don't meant to condemn folks for their choice or preferences, just express that I can't relate to them
Hope you have a good one :)