/hikki/ - NEET / Advice

I wish I knew ;_; I assume that modern NEETs have moved into more secluded and private online communities and no longer wish to communicate publicly. That's my best guess.

Hope you are feeling okay today and tommorow and every day after that 💖

zoomer and newfaggot here. i dont know what happened with this chan's culture but i wish it returns to its previous state or that you find a new site to frequent. i would like to see this type of boards with a good frequency of posts, unfortunately im way too late

neets. net seems to be a popular site but its isnt as fun as frequenting hikki or neet boards. its mostly an incel forum over a neet one, but you may enjoy it somehow. Here is a drawing for you, i hope it cheer you up

Hope you are doing well now, after you've passed through what you consider as the lowest point of your life. Don't forget to drink water!

i'm not even old but the modern web really confuses me
is all good stuff locked behind private discords now? because I feel like that's true and everyone who's bad at socializing is doing really rough right now

>>8120
It really is hard. Most boards are dead, and most public discord servers/irc/telegram chats are pretty similar (i.e., /pol/, incel places, just pornography spam, or are social justice minded 16 year olds). It feels pretty hopeless bros… Do any of you have any stories of hope for making friends irl or online after failing to make any during school?

>>8119
Ngl, that neet site is kinda funny

good observation, i usually come here when it's enough new content but ive been coming here less and less, well, i know it's not the case but i hope that people are just unHikking, and well, as 8121 said, what if we're now getting to memey/shitpostey to take anything seriously, it actually would be veeery insightful, gotta note it for future research.

>>8123
you re right

barely been coming here since they closed /n/. i just chill on discord now

always lurking.

I mostly lurk, but I do post from time to time though.

I write up a post but get hesitent so I never click the reply button and go back to lurking

>>8156
92% of users:

>>8156
>write a 20 line long post
>read it carefully
>enjoy my own post "ah yes this is a well written and thought out post"
>delete the post and continue lurking
literally me

>>8145
sauce of the image anon?

>>8158
I relate to that a lot actually I think this falls under the 1% rule as well. The reason could be completely different for you but I typically dont feel like my contributions are worth enough to be added to a thread honestly

>>8159
probably, i think it's the same for me + feeling that "it's not worth it". i should engage more though like now, to set up an example so that people don't feel the same lol

>>8159
Not the above anon, but the artist for the image is @23057 on twitter. Though the original post appears to have been deleted. In my brief search I could not find the image on their twitter, pixiv, artstation, or instagram.

Since I'm here I'll also add on my thoughts. I'm very new here, first found this place mid last year where I lurked a bit and don't think I posted. Now been lurking over the past couple weeks, replied a few times. I meant to come back earlier and though about it with relative frequency but wasn't able to get myself to do it.

II like these smaller chans because posts are slow, as a result making it easy to read.

>>8121
I have a two year long friendship with a person I met on Yume 2kki online (the Ubuu version) Hujile I know you'll see this and yes thank you please keep it up. Hopefully you'll find the frens you are looking for as cheesy as it sounds look in unusual places or little places you enjoy, you can find you might jive and get along with more people than you might expect

>>8163
Not a Hujile but may you find friendship and happiness. We love you!~

>>8164
Thanks I hope you are finding happiness and fulfillment in your life too Anon. I hope everyone here does

>site population barely posts because they don't feel like their "worth it"
What do you call this condition?

If this thread has taught me anything its that I should post more instead of deleting posts. But there are so many small slow sites out there with identical boards. So then it becomes a question of where do you post? And if you were to post multiple threads on all of them well then that makes you just like that tea poster.

>>8113


You will never be a girl , tranny(And you will never be welcome , silly)

>>8167
THANK YOU BASED MOD, so sick of having to deal with triggered freaks like banned anon

>>8119
I'm new too so idk much about the site or whatever but I checked out the discord of this site allegedly, I think it has like 1k+ members(and obviously very little content and fast paced chat with not much substance to it). I'm thinking this is the type of shit that kills websites and forums pretty frequently.

For little experience, people too shy or scared to post something thinking is not worth it or is gonna pissed someone, staying like a ghostly lurker or eventually leaving.

>>8172
stay the fcuk off of dc my guy. faggiest site ever. tried to hold a discussion and got told to shut up. you're being told to kill yourself every five seconds, being yelled at for apparently being an sjw faggot, or you're getting banned for a percieved violation of somebody's hugbox(Such as THIS hugbox.)

>>8159
sorry, i probably could have told you the sauce a couple years ago but now i'll just have to go with what >>8161 said

>>8172
the uboachan discord fucking sucks tbh

>>8113
Ever since I began seeking out NEETspaces in 2018, I've noticed that they've been increasingly populated by personalities which you could find in any school or work environment only less successful and more bitter or apathetic. I've noticed less people who totally reject or due to peculiar paranoias, hysterias, complexes, or heterodox spiritual beliefs live outside of regular decorum so as to totally shock you with their expectations. I encounter less bold people who assert themselves transgressively and then grapple with their intrinsic neet outsider identities. And more people who wallow into calling themselves neet and half-heartedly laugh at and repeat old memes with a sense of accomplishment. More people who speak about their mental health to convince themselves of their ineptitude and with the fear that someone in a worse position will reveal how embarrassingly fine they are. More standard bullies who mock their half-friends by measuring them up against standard societal norms. On top of that since 2020 NEET aesthetics, bedroom-hermits, hiki's etc have been totally co-opted by flatly normal people who would never settle these spaces anyway, so there's no longer much of a basis for NEET culture as it once was. Though there are definitely a lot of discords filled with NEETS, I don't think many people are hanging out in NEET discords.

Let's just say… I didn't stick around with the right people…

Im so fucking tireddddddddddAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i speedram yume nikki in 8 minutes and had been laying dowm for 3 days straight. Pls.help.me.

>>8166
I'll take the tea freak over the sheer nothingness that plagues most smaller imageboards nowadays. At least by posting something, no matter how inane it might seem, there's a chance a conversation could be started.

>>8113
came back to this thread reminiscing about old posts. many people have simply moved to spaces with more personal freedom like private discord servers and such. it's quite sad to think that through the way many imageboards were handled the chan culture has been thoroughly destroyed. i miss shouting into the anonymous nothingness.

Imageboards and chan culture is basically dead now. The only remotely active chan is 4chan, but that place is now a sad shell of its former self and populated entirely by newfag zooomers who never bothered lurking. I miss the pre-2016 internet ;_; everything is so boring now.

>>9600
I miss Pre-2016. Everything was just so much more hopeful. :(

>>9466
>>9600
A lot of people blame discord, and while I do agree that its apart of the equation, I think social media (such as twitter, instagram, etc) has played a bigger role in destroying online communities and niche websites. Why? Because outside of discord, those have become the de facto hub for internet discussion and are constantly devising a way to keep users on there algorithmically. Even places like youtube, once no more than simple video repository, has become algorithm hell dedicated to having you on there as long as humanly possible. Discord's main draw (and culprit responsible for destroying online communities) stems from its ability to have chatrooms with large amount of people and dedicated to communities, with utilities such as pins, announcements, dedicated channels for topics, etc. But it is only one part of the equation and doesn't explain the downfall of imageboards and niche forums in it's entirety. I genuinely believe social media has been much more destructive to the activity of niche sites, as it contains most of the problems of discord and more cancer to boot. Since the internet has been consolidated so much by social media, most normal people aren't willing to venture into the unknown that would've been mandatory to an internet user circa 2006 in order to find communities. Discord also functionally serves a different purpose as it is in more in line with a chatroom rather than a true discussion forum, which large scale chatrooms and applications have existed prior to discord without the decay of niche websites.

Couple this with mobile apps constantly trying to get a piece of the community pie circa 2010-2016 and what we've been witnessing is a slow death of the internet as we know it. It's why it is vital to promote the communities that still exist away from the big tech conglomerates.

>>9602
>Couple this with mobile apps constantly trying to get a piece of the community pie circa 2010-2016 and what we've been witnessing is a slow death of the internet as we know it.

I'll elaborate on the phone part if you don't mind because I think they are at least 50% of the problem. It's way harder to make OC on a phone than it is on a computer, so most people now gravitate to sites where you can "share"/repost or make minor image edits over imageboards which generally have a higher expectation of not repeating stale content. It's why basically the only meme that exists on 4chan anymore are wojacks - because those are easy to edit with a shitty paint tool on a phone for whatever circumstance. Of course you "could" create high quality OC on a phone, but the whole nature of it incentivizes you to get bored quickly and put it away in your pocket. It's a lot easier to just go on twitter and repost someone else's effortpost than to make your own, and the whole ecosystem of modern "social media" encourages that.

I think my issue (and the main issue for some of you) is that I'm used to just surfing the web for community, and I'm also a bit lost as to where the 'cool' people went. I'm sure there are newer communities on places like Discord, but I'm used to searching for the weirdest forum I can possibly find, not trying to get into private spaces via some aspect of myself or my accomplishments.

The truth is that with the proliferation of the internet all imageboards will eventually be relics designated to tourists instead of the places they used to be. Even without Discord, the bot/moron problem is so bad that the future for forums in general probably looks different, likely a slowly updating cached version of the actual space with a private version hosting this week's posts (fediverse is already doing this). This is where one sect of former imageboard users will remain, who are able to tolerate the increased requirements for community engagement. The other former users who are mostly lurkers, NEETs or otherwise chronically disinterested in participation are more psychologically vulnerable to social media addiction and end up there - that's where the majority have gone at this point. Eventually they'll all have only normie interests and slowly accept they have no access to the 'cool' crowd anymore, or they'll have access to only 1 or 2 spaces. They will have to mask their behavior more in online interactions, though some places will still strike a balance that allows for psychological reprieve.

Personally I don't like this much. It's essentially throwing a sect of vulnerable people to the wolves - think the 19th century with all the artists in collectives, where the less engaged weirdos stayed in larger communities that disrespected them or became completely withdrawn. Of course it won't be that bad, but access to online spaces with the interesting things happening will become more restricted. I've been doing stuff lately to reign in mindless consumption and direct myself more towards the creator spaces, namely setting up RSS feeds which scrape a limited number of posts from sites while removing algorithmic behavioral manipulation. Even NEETs have to do something interesting with their time these days, lest you leave yourself liable to the whims of the algorithmic vortex

>>8158
>>8166
>>8173
Why respond though? I feel like every given response is a transient substitute for doing something permanent. I could talk about hacking or I could write a patch. I could talk about anime or I could watch it. I could write a comment or write a blog post. Everything I do will be monitored and archived by big noodle anyhow, might as well do something consequential.

i usually reply in my mind and am satisfied by engaging on that level and move on.
>>9617

>>9616
There used to be a lot easier ways to find community online and everything was so distilled into sameness from memes, style of discussion, etc. Every community felt unique. There's not a whole lot we can do about it, but I agree that immersing yourself in hobbies is the best way to avoid the isolation feelings (something that I've been neglecting to do myself recently and just stressing myself worrying if I fit into online spaces instead of just not giving a fuck as if it matters). It's tiring because at this point, I feel both a call to isolation and a call to not be alone. Both conflicting at once. It's within in this state of mind I find myself wondering just how much online really effects my mind, and if I should just take a break/hiatus from things again.

>>9619
wtf new tripfag untermensch?(This was not very nice of you to say that!)