There are times where I am writing something and then something new happens so I wind up writing something new. Even if the other thing I am writing is close to done. Then something new happens and this keeps repeating. I have blog posts that are so old now that I have no idea what I was writing. Right now I am writing something I’ve never written before.Trying to get the format down for a new subject is interesting, but takes while to get right. However, some shit just popped up that left me floored so much that I feel required to write this. What is it? I was recently banned from Poast. What’s Poast? A free speech platform for trolls. What was I banned for? A troll from AOL chatroom days.
“Wait, you were banned from a troll site for trolling?” Yes. See, I’ve been using the internet for a long time. I have a few email addresses that are old enough to drink. My main email address is from the launch year of GMail’s beta. While I am not a boomer, I am an internet boomer. I remember when YouTube launched. I remember going to NewGrounds because it was the hot shit. I remember Tom Fulp trademarking shooting dancing hamsters to fuck with Hamster Dance. I KNOW WHAT HAMSTER DANCE IS! I would visit KillFrog daily. Why is all of this relevant? Because they banned me for being underage, lol.
“Why did they think you were underage?” I had 16/f/fl in my profile. No one under the age of 25 even uses that format anymore. It’s an old time internet thing. It’s also one of the original ways people used to fuck with others in AOL chatrooms. People would ask for cyber sex and then everyone would claim to be 16/f/fl to fuck with them. This happened so often that whenever people would say “asl” 16/f/fl would flood the chat rooms. This is also one of the places where the old meme of “There are no women on the internet” comes from. Every person you met online was pretending to be a girl in chatrooms.
My question is: how can you claim to be for shit posting but not know one of the original shit posting phrases? This is my issue. Like when anime sites claim to know everything about anime but don’t know there’s shit like the Starship Troopers anime, or when Shin Megami Tensei fans say there was never an SRPG series and SMT 9 doesn’t exist. This isn’t even the first time I’ve ran into this with new shit posters, who act like they’re the old guard. I once said, “I put on my pointy wizard hat and robes. I cast level 69 eroticism on you.” to someone and they had no idea what the fuck I was talking about. They started to call me slurs and a child. How are you going to call yourself a shit poster and not know who Blood Ninja is? How do you not know that Albino Black Sheep exists?
This all boils down to a major issue with modern shit posting. It isn’t shit posting, as my friend pointed out to me. It’s just lame ass slacktivism hidden behind calling people slurs. Their shitposts are on the same level as when people used to change their Facebook pictures to fight childhood hunger. Just as much thought and effort went into it, and you’re just following a trend to stay cool. Then people will just throw in slurs randomly making them sound absolutely retarded. Like, I question if they can even put on a t-shirt correctly. Basically, I see shit posting like Lizard Squad. Just doing whatever to make you laugh. Who gives a fuck if you piss off tons of people, including “you’re people”? That’s the point. You mock and ridicule with no aim other than to laugh. Then when they hit back you eat the shit and have everyone laugh at you too.
I don’t expect your average internet user to know the deep lore of shitposting, or even any of it. I don’t expect them to know what Xanga, Live Journal, New Grounds, Albino Blacksheep, and many other famous sites for fucking with people were. With that said, I do expect “shitposters” especially people who claim to be “oldfags” to know this shit. Just like I expect Atlus faithfuls to know about Atlus’ games. The same way I would expect a huge Nintendo fan to know about Clu Clu Land, Famicom Wars, Golden Sun, Endless Ocean, and other out there Nintendo games. Yes, I have met “huge Nintendo Fans” that didn’t know about any of those games before. I also expect GameGrumps lovelies to know that Arin just loves saying the n word so much that once when he gave a black guy a ride he needed to say it non-stop after dropping off the black guy. Shit people who claim to be experts should know!
If you’re curious about Xanga and Live Journal. We used to make fake profiles as a random pop culture group to mock them. One that sticks out to me is when my friend made one of him cutting himself with popsicle sticks and ketchup. It would piss off all the other emo kids and we’d just laugh and mock them. We had no aim. We didn’t decide to fuck with 1 specific person, or even a group. We decided to fuck with whoever at random. One day it was emos, then goths, then jocks, then nerds, then gamers, then movie buffs, then white people, and go on and on. We were trolls. We would sit there on AIM laughing about everything. Each one of us picking on a different person, rarely the same category.
That’s what this boomer ass post is about. I don’t give a fuck about being banned from Poast. I can join another node. The point is my friends and I, who are actual shit posters, keep getting warnings and bans. Shit posting has lost its meaning. Y’all fucks try to make it political. Y’all try to give it meaning. Like Gerald said in South Park, “YOU DO IT BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING FUNNY!” Somewhere along the way people lost the idea of doing it because it’s funny and just laughing at yourself. They use it as a crutch for your racism and retarded political beliefs. Just as the far left is as racist as y’all, you get as easily triggered without admitting it. All it takes is for someone to talk about y’all’s politics or being pro LGBT+ and you’re up in arms. Ready to call someone a pedophile like the left calls people a nazi. Fun fact: some of the funniest shitposter I knew were LGBT. Honestly, this post felt very Xanga-y. Boomer out.