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Things you just remembred Anonymous 07/27/24 (Sat) 10:09:05 PM No. 2107841 [Reply]

You guys remember Kony 2012? Good times. I seriously thought he was some insane war criminal who was father to like 100,000 children across africa and he turned out to just be a picture of a random guy

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Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 08:38:00 PM No. 2163181

>>2162865
omg yes! I used to love chicken smoothie as a child

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:49:58 AM No. 2163816

WAKA LAKA

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:50:52 AM No. 2163818

>>2163816
needed this.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:53:00 AM No. 2163821

>>2162865
Not as bad as Aywas was. Fuck that site.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:24:39 AM No. 2163837

Just remembered this depression steam roller of a scene

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General art/artist salt thread #59 Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 06:02:43 AM No. 2146858 [Reply]

Previous: >>2116126

Discuss art and related topics such as:
-Talk about Art Youtubers
-Ask about art supplies
-Discuss trashy art trends
-Instagram bullshit
-Art theft!
-General Art Bullshit
-Fandom and Shipping Discourse
-AI generated art (do not shill about your ai trained models key words on a prompt do not make you a artist)
-do not post your art to be reviewed here use the designated m thread

SCREENCAP EVERYTHING!
DO NOT REPLY TO BAIT! REPORT AND IGNORE!
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Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 01:05:42 AM No. 2163481

>>2163463
Definitely the lack of milk is at least partly to blame but even the old milkless nodraws sperg outs were at least interesting. Now it's people fighting because they can't read and can't not take the bait, these people genuinely need to play Reading Eggs or Reader Rabbit a couple times a day. Like yeah, the thread was made to be petty but what is this, it's like watching inbred dogs fighting, it's just very sad and embarrassing.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 03:57:11 AM No. 2163787

>>2163448
Because there are one or two faggots who go around stirring up shit for no reason, and anons keep falling for the bait. Treat those attention whores like children: ignore them.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:44:46 AM No. 2163812

Okay, moving away from the infight that no one cares about. How do the art nonnies feel about the Russian Academic Drawing approach? I remember one nonnie really sucking off Chinese artists because they have a similar education in terms of art. From what I understand it's more construction based than your typical "draw from observation" approach, but Idk looking at the synopsis on New Master's I can't see much of a difference between russian and other academic art courses. Still downloaded a torrent of the course tho.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:57:23 AM No. 2163823

>>2163812
Idk what all this talk about Russian Academic Drawing is, but based on the NM site, it looks like the kind of stuff my dad learned when he studied drawing. It's basically drawing from casts, busts, statues, etc. which is all well and good, but it doesn't compare to drawing actual humans, animals, objects, etc. from real life. That is the only real way you'll get better, because you're training your eye and your mind to see, to study, and to replicate something with actual mass and volume in real life.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:24:29 AM No. 2163836

>>2163812
russian art courses have a real emphasis on learning from the old masters i took one course from new masters academy and most of the course was about constructive lines and learning from life not that much different from what youll learn in old American ateliers. most chinese schools also put a emphasis on real life drawing and doing studies i think most nonas who hark on about how one is above the other hasnt really attended these intuitions to see they really arent that different besides that the russians learn from old soviet masters and Chinese from old scripture art same as the americans ateliers teaching you from american and old masters artists

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Vent thread #228 Anonymous 09/12/24 (Thu) 09:30:19 PM No. 2162077 [Reply]

A thread for venting about difficult stuff going on in your life.

Previous vent thread:
>>>/ot/2149352

Follow all the /ot/ board rules & don't reply to bait.

Don't come to this thread to make fun of anons' vents, to demean them, or to try and be funny with some shit snark reply. It's annoying. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all.

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Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 03:34:46 AM No. 2163760

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>Be BPD
>Breakdowns are getting more frequent and worse
>Quit job to see if they stop
>They're just as bad, big regret
>Offer for new, really good job
>Have breakdown and quit on Day 2

I have become one with the jobless BPD meme. Seriously considering becoming a retarded welfare stoner.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:20:17 AM No. 2163834

I really hate that I'm into fandom, was shaped by it as a teenager, but absolutely hate interacting with it. Yeah, I know I don't have to. I don't these days. I've tried to integrate multiple times and gave up because it just wasn't fun. Having so much trouble in these spaces with women who I have things in common with makes me feel like I have internalized misogyny or something, when I just dislike their forced woke'n'cutesy memes, pronouns, trannification/uglification of characters, their dumb mental illnesses, and just the constant walking on eggshells everyone has to do. It sucks that the only alternative is to talk to illiterate coomer moids who often can barely hold a conversation. It's not even funny how much smoother and more interesting the discussion goes with a woman 99% of the times. I just want to sperg out about the story and my favorite characters in a tolerable environment, why does it have to be like this?

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 06:05:33 AM No. 2163845

>>2163834
I have been feeling the same way. I grew up in fandom spaces but the past 5-6 years or so has been hell. Everything is trans-ed and uwufied and pornified(but completely lacking in eroticism- just pornsick brainrot shit). maybe I’m just getting old but I miss the old fandom spaces so much

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 06:16:22 AM No. 2163848

>>2163140
What you’re essentially doing is putting a bandaid on an open wound.
Depending on someone is not the solution and being the caretaker of someone can be exhausting and will probably strain your relationship as your boyfriend will think that you simply wanted to live with him to completely flock all your issues on him and make them his responsibility (which is what you want to do). And also your boyfriend is not equipped to handle what looks like depression.

Do you have the means to see a therapist?

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 06:21:54 AM No. 2163850

>>2163077
you can’t be friends with moids, that’s just an universal fact, and you will see it sooner or later. and a moid’s hatred is a dangerous thing, so stay safe.

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Lolcow's Own Caps #13 - only caps no infights edition Anonymous 06/30/24 (Sun) 08:56:41 PM No. 2072706 [Reply]

A thread for sharing screencaps of hilarious posts seen around the farms.

If you don't find something funny, please don't start an infight over it, just keep it to yourself. Ignore and report bait.

In the last thread, only 35% of posts contained a screencap. Please don't derail this thread with retarded non-contributions, it's meant for sharing funny screencaps.

PREVIOUS THREAD:
>>>/ot/1960432

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Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:13:47 AM No. 2163797

>>2162462
Looks like this one fat Canadian dude

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:17:55 AM No. 2163800

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>>2163085
part 2

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:13:17 AM No. 2163830

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Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:43:24 AM No. 2163841

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>>2163830

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 06:15:56 AM No. 2163847

>>2163250
I literally did lol I have a phobia of it, I already stated that, I don't understand why it's so hard to believe considering that that thing I have a phobia of is psychologically terrizizng degrading obsecene and it has to do with us cause we're women. Sometimes I physically shake due to shit. I had a catatonic depression in my life, I'm sensitive and I'm I guess not a pig not into humiliation or masochism idk
I really did scream. I won't say what that harrasing comment said cause people will use it against me even more cahse they think its funny. Once I even woke up at night from jaw tension,my upper and lower jaw kept punishing on eachother and I had to use my hands to try to separate them, but it later for minutes. It all cause a woman on /ot/ whom I later found in Twitter cause she posted a SS of her ban, told me something sexually harrasing similar to "you need dick to stop being psychotic" and then compared dick to a pacifier for children.

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Post-Infight Thread Anonymous 06/07/23 (Wed) 03:58:03 AM No. 1599375 [Reply]

Have you been in an infight on Lolcow before? What did you argue about? How long ago was it? Has your viewpoint changed since then?
Navigate any lingering feelings on past arguments here.

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Anonymous 08/27/24 (Tue) 11:33:24 PM No. 2157156

>>2157147
What if my hatred for them is stronger so actually he's losing because mentally I am the bigger meanie

Anonymous 08/28/24 (Wed) 08:54:59 PM No. 2158126

>>2133800
KEK yeah that’s such a typical lolcow experience. Let me guess they said something about ‘typing style’

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>>2157156

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:12:47 AM No. 2163829

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>>2163815
its okay me too nona

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:15:16 AM No. 2163831

>>2163829
I deleted out of shame, but thank you for making me feel less alone. Let’s aspire to be less retarded together kek

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Generation solidarity thread Anonymous 07/18/24 (Thu) 06:02:05 PM No. 2095474 [Reply]

If you are a Millennial, say something positive about Gen Z

If you are Gen Z, say something positive about Millennials.

If you are Gen X or older, pick a generation and say something positive about them.

If you are Gen Alpha, you are not allowed to post on lolcow.farm.

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Anonymous 07/23/24 (Tue) 08:54:02 PM No. 2101933

>>2096417
yeah that's called "i have to work 40+ hour weeks to live, i have all these bills and surprise expenses, and i have more health problems than i did last decade"

Anonymous 08/04/24 (Sun) 09:56:51 AM No. 2120649

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As a zoomer, I have always admired millennial women, and lately have been feeling greatful for them. The Me Too movement was becoming mainstream when I was a child and with the widespread news and social media posts, I learnt very quickly what was supposed to be normal behavior and what was predatory. I was able to protect myself from an earlier age because of millennial feminists before me, and I have them to thank for it.
Slightly on topic, I also feel a twinge of nostalgia for a lot of tumblr trends that were popular among millennials, like picrel, despite never browsing tumblr at that age.

Anonymous 08/04/24 (Sun) 02:50:39 PM No. 2120943

>>2120649
When were you born? I was born in the early 2000's and I remember those tumblr trends and aesthetics and even making my own decoden phone case. Perhaps if you're late 2000's you weren't old enough to have used the dumpster fire that was tumblr in the early to mid 2010's. I'd say to consider yourself lucky, but honestly the state of things on every site and app now are just as bad if not worse.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:50:21 AM No. 2163817

I'm Gen Z, and I really just want Gen Alpha and Gen Beta to grow up happy. If I get to have any kids I don't want them to reach adulthood and feel as if they were neglected during their childhood the way that so many zoomers do. I remember being 8 years old playing wheres my water…I never realized until I got old just how much a screen was shoved in my face as a child. I don't want the current children to experience that.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:56:44 AM No. 2163822

>>2163817
>I never realized until I got old just how much a screen was shoved in my face as a child. I don't want the current children to experience that.
I’m also a zoomer. I’m very worried about gen alpha (and beyond). My parents always encouraged me to play outside and limited my screentime, but I still turned out terminally online kek. Tiktokfags make me sad. So many kids today are straight up illiterate with a broken attention span. The pandemic and online learning probably made it even worse. I just hope we can do better by the next generation.

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Oldweb/Smallweb and Personal Sites #4 Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 05:35:27 PM No. 2139249 [Reply]

Discuss the happenings, drama, cringe, etc. of Neocities, personal sites, webrings, and other small communities, and how they used to be in the past.

Other possible topics of discussion:
>personal sites vs social media profiles
>creating shrines and fanlistings
>joining webrings and cliques
>how socializing on the internet has changed

Previous threads
>>>/ot/1914925
>>>/ot/1520815
>>>/ot/1320546

Search for personal/non-comercial sites:
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Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:32:36 AM No. 2163808

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>>2163805
the dodge caravan awaits

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:46:00 AM No. 2163813

Theres been a surprising amount of Oregon talk today. Wonder why that is

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:48:43 AM No. 2163814

>>2163376
Take the fucking bus, you dumbass!

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:50:57 AM No. 2163819

>>2163805
Being an online warrior is just too easy kek.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:23:23 AM No. 2163835

>>2163376
nitpick but i hate the link in her signature. she really is terrible at art. all i see is a poorly drawn purple keyboard (if that's what that is?) and if her username wasn't right there i would have absolutely no clue what that shitty green bubble text says. her having a goal to be a "decent local artist" is too delusional. art was never your calling and your identity is based around what's trendy in your social media circles, imagine having such a fragile identity

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Gender Ideology Hate Thread #6 Anonymous 08/04/24 (Sun) 05:19:34 PM No. 2121106 [Reply]

This thread is to discuss your grievances with gender ideology.

>What is gender ideology?
Foundational to transgenderism, gender ideology is the belief that one’s “internal gender” can contradict one’s biological sex.

Gender ideology operates much like a religious cult. There is no scientific evidence that supports the notion that we have an “internal gender,” and yet doctors now medicalize and sterilize children with “transgender identities” who have been groomed by the cult. Anyone who does not reaffirm these delusions is labelled as a “transphobe” in order to discredit any dissenting voices of the cult.

Previous threads:
>>>/ot/2037097
>>>/ot/1894283
>>>/ot/1941872
>>>/ot/1991983
>>>/ot/2097274

Relevant /snow/ threads:
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Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 03:25:51 AM No. 2163741

I'm the anon from >>1980193
I can never call my best friend a man, she came up to me this summer for help because her boyfriends dad wouldn't call her and her bf a gay couple on vacation. I helped her pack thru everything and coping strategies and acted as a shoulder to cry on.

One of the phrases she said to me was "its reassuring knowing that every queer couple goes thru something like this."

I kinda think her BF is pushing for this stuff and shes chronically on tiktok. just a disaster.

I cant loose my best friend, a friendship that ive had for 17 years. every time she talks about this stuff to me i have to lie thru my teeth or use my past handmaiden/enby skills to communicate with her.

we used to make fun of trannies; now she is one. i know if i ever slip up she will never ever talk to me again, even if she detranses because we are both stupidly stubborn people.

i miss her.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:37:26 AM No. 2163809

>>2163617
AYRT would you be interested in joining a gamedev discord group I made?

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:39:12 AM No. 2163810

>>2163741
If she can't handle you telling her the truth, anon, then she wasn't a friend worth having to begin with. You have to learn to move on from someone who can't accept reality. Faking support isn't going to help her any.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 04:58:21 AM No. 2163824

>>2163810
It’s going to be hard because our lives are so intertwined, our families are so close. If I go full terf I’m not only going to loose her but also cause a lot of heavy friction with my family as well.

I really think her boyfriend started all this.

Her boyfriend is in the military, and she really didn’t have any way of thinking in that direction until she started dating her boyfriend. They met right after she got away from her abusive ex-boyfriend. Anyway, he reenlisted this year and she finally moved back closer to home to family and me. Previously, he’s been the person that’s been doing all of her hrt shots. So hopefully sometime apart, might get her to question things, and also possibly getting off of TikTok of that hopefully gets banned.

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 05:07:14 AM No. 2163827

>>2163741
this is almost identical to what happened to me and my best friend of nearly 20 years. we naturally started drifting because trans shit was all she ever talked about and it was exhausting. i miss her with all my heart every single day, but things will never be the same. she's just not the same person anymore.

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Things you regret thread Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 10:03:18 AM No. 2162622 [Reply]

A thread for
>Things you regret doing
>Things you regret saying
>People you regret having in your life
And also
>Things you regret not doing
>Things you regret not saying
>People you regret not having in your life
>Etc.
Optional questions
>Any period or mistake in your life you regret, no matter the age
>Were you ready / mature enough back then?
>Could you had prevented it?
>How to move on and forgive yourself?
>Could you still fix your mistake later on? Or did you have to accept it for what it is?
>How to redeem oneself?

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Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 12:11:21 PM No. 2162725

I regret being an avoidant asshole and ghosting people even though I liked them. I met a girl last year, we clicked immediately as we had so much in common, we added each other on Facebook and when she sent me a message I never answered out of anxiety, I feel like a gigantic retard.

Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 05:37:56 PM No. 2163012

Throwing and giving away stuff because I thought I didn't deserve it, tried living in the moment, didn't look good on me, etc. Don't listen to Mary Kondo

Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 05:40:45 PM No. 2163016

I regret a lot of things I did as a teenager

Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 07:29:24 PM No. 2163106

Right now I regret every good thing I ever did for my mother because her pickme ass still hates me and snaps at me for no reason (actually the reason is that I don't have a dick)

Anonymous 09/14/24 (Sat) 03:24:28 AM No. 2163736

All the stupid shit I've done in the past 5 to 10 years

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