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As it turns out, the majority of folks are just people trying to get by, and if you're nice enough to them, they'll be nice enough to you.
The problem with most terminally online people is that their social lives ended when they left school, which is when the population of arseholes is at its highest. Everybody is trying to impress everybody else, even at the cost of others.
But a lot of those same people tend to chill off as they mature into adults and become less self-centred. There are still absolutely arsehole adults, but nowhere near as many as the terminally online expect there to be.
- I've observed this after I got into a college!
- What do you count as terminally online? I don't differenciate between online and offline friends and spend lots of times talking or chatting to people online (as I spend time doing stuff with people irl). But I wouldn't say that my or this social life is bad.
  
  I would classify "terminally online" as almost exclusively interacting with people online with little to no IRL at all. A bit part of that would also be that the people you interact with are people you've never seen.
  
  I'd call people that who lost contact with reality. So if something you believe could be immediately proven wrong by just stepping outside for a while, you are terminally online.
  For example the 4chan theory of: "80 % of women date only 20 % of ultra chad men". There are people who actually believe this.
  
  My definition is more or less the same as the one @ParsnipWitch offered...
  The terminally online are thise who have little to no contact with reality. They are the shut-ins and the NEETs of this world. Those that would fully believe in conspiracies about life which could be disproven simply by interacting with others IRL.
- What about people who use browsers instead of terminals?
  
  Well fuck, you got me there... In one sentence you've just given everyone on 4Chan the ability to touch grass.
- Nuh uh there's a reason why social anxiety was, is, and will continue to be a problem for many people

When real life does not match up with the description given by social rejects on a site notorious for infidelity
- notorious for infidelity
  What does this part mean?
  
  I think they mean "inaccuracy to reality" rather than "cheating on their partners"
  
  Yeah, when did 4chan suddenly become Ashley Madison?
  
  He means that the stories and information posted there are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted there as a fact.
  
  It means everyone on this site is a handholding removed

⛺️🔥 Rest here traveller. Reading the comments in this thread can get tiring.
- It's mostly fine. There's one guy who's got a real rough view of the world and taking it out on anyone that engages with him, but if you block him it's a lot better.
  
  @RubiksIsocahedron is a trip
  
  is his name "anonymous"?

Using high school as a marker for what to expect for the rest of life is such a terrible idea. Just throw that in the rubbish and go experience people for yourself. Wade through the assholes and you’ll find tons of nice folks just trying to live.
- While that is true... There is still a ton of high school bullshit going on, especially in workplaces.
  All the same drama and gossip... I'm so glad I don't work in an office anymore.
  
  Yeah, Bowling for Soup was really on to something there
  
  Retail jobs are the worst for that because most people there ended up working them right out of high school
- It's true. I think the amount of attention highschool gets, from people saying it was the best years of their lives, to adults coming down hard on you to do the best thing for your future, to your peers seemingly having an amazing time while you're not, winds up making teens feel like it is indicative of how life will be in general.
  
  It never made sense to me, but I wasn't having a GREAT time until I was in my mid 30s. I had something like a 7 year party. Disposable income, before the worst of my aches set in, and just doing whatever I wanted as long as I made it in to work.
  High school was Lord of the Flies.
- It just goes to show the average age of anons. Too sad if they plateau around that.
  "X raped my childhood!"
  "Jeez, Michael, you're in your 20's."

When you're terminally online, it helps to be at least reminded that online culture isn't normal, especially not 4chan. But Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are all full of their own weirdness.
Better than recognizing that would be to reintegrate into society fully and leave the internet mostly behind to sulk and moan.
- I'll say that at this point, 4chan has been the least toxic of the websites you listed. I left Facebook and still visit 4chan.
  But you are correct. People need to unplug more and get outside.
  
  Well that's obviously an unhinged take
  
  There's a way this is true but hard to explain unless you've experienced it. I think 4chan is much more openly toxic and shocking, but I used to mod defaults on reddit and all the same toxicity exists, except its dressed up in nice language and intentions. 4chan, to its detriment or success, is more accepting in a way. Reddit is full of people who know better than you and want to shame people for being stupid, far more judgemental. Some places on reddit are far better than 4chan though and don't have this issue,

That’s so sad. Like I get it, I’ve been the internet shut in and it’s just brutal on your mental health. The blunt reality is that most people are fine and plenty are great. Talk to strangers, you might make friends

They also don't complain about wokeness and people complaining about wokeness
- I actually hear people complain about wokeness often irl. At the most random places and times.
  
  I just hear it when my parents start ranting about how horrible the millennials are, without realizing both their children are millennials.
  
  Thank god I don't live in the US
- Eh, I'm a school bus driver and that shit is like the main topic of discussion in the break room. It's usually that, dog-whistle euphemisms for racism, or outright use of the n-word.

Most people like being around other people who are chill and respectful. There's no magic trickery about it. Get outside and talk to people.
- Just talk to random people outside?
  
  Results vary by region... You can try that for a while in northern Europe for example. In southern Europe the first person you speak to will probably end up inviting you for dinner with the family.

god that's really depressing
- And this is one of the few posts on 4chan that doesn't contain the n-word or f slur!
  
  or t-slur... sheesh...
- This is a joke right it isn't serious

The consequences of being terminally online.
- Hopefully this guy is in remission

I tried community college first online and then in person at 19/20. Felt so anxious about everything. Mom drove me there and back and was really mean about having to do it. Classes of normies were uber-social, like everybody introduce yourselves and talk aboit the topic. Felt fuck me eyes coming from everyone, which I was probanly returning, but it was a LOT of attention for my loner self. I stopped going and Mom resented me because it cost thousands for like nothing but she didnt want to do it my way either so it was sort of her fault as well. Anyway it was probanly trans dysphoria too. Of course my every waking moment I was like I wonder if they can tell Im feminine please tell me this will help me be more openly queer. Lol.

This is what rehabilitation feels like

congrats anon 💜

It's obviously some kind of trap. Run!

Wtf does the tilt of your eyes (canthal tilt) have to do with anything? Do incels not like eyes now or something?
- Incels think of lots of complicated theories about society and appearances to explain why they think women are not attracted to them
  
  That's interesting, they're pretty much the same techniques used by racists from the 17-1900s to determine "racial superiority". It's like it never went away, just crawled into 4chan
  
  Nobody thinks I'm attractive!
  How many people did you ask?
- I guess it's an argument brought up by incels

It's 4chan, of course it's full of lies...
- Equally can be said about Reddit, Twitter, lemmy, the rest of the fediverse, in fact anytime humans seem to have a large communication network they end up full of lies.

When nobody is a normie... everyone is.

there are still bubbles out there..
a lot of people are shitty self centered POS's.. i think they just happened to be in the right place at the right time
- The self centered POS's are sitting in their mom's basement on 4chan.
  
  And apparently (insert number of downvotes) are here too

Man, who’s would have guessed that normies might be normal people

Nuance taken literally

They bought into phrenology
- Questlove's fault

well when you take advice from neets..

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