No.82
I've made a similar experience with Discord. For some reason this attracts the worst kind of people. I think in the last 8 years, the only friend I've made was over Discord, so naturally I was very attached to that person. Time went on what ought to be a normal chitchat over our interests, slowly develop into some self-harm/suicide cult. I realized quickly, that I should stop chatting with those people (it was a whole Discord server, but I knew everyone and was there for years), but it was hard, as I didn't want to hurt him. One day, I just decided to pull the plug and never log in to my Discord account ever again and since then, I haven't talked with anybody from there. I don't know what caused this shift in topic, mood and behaviour, but I'm glad it's not part of my life anymore.
>Imageboards are unironically the only decent place to discuss this kind of stuff but even then it's impossible to form real friendships off anon threads.
That's true, but I don't know any better solution either. I haven't made any friend for years now, but I'm okay with it, I don't need to have friends, but I understand that one would feel lonely over it. I guess there is no real solution that I know of to get internet friends, because to get a real friend, you always need to know somebody that knows somebody, in order to not only scratch the surface with those 10k people Discord servers or other huge communities, but actually get into some deeper circles, where more niche things are discussed and where there is at least a possibility of a friendship emerging.
No.83
>>82I'm glad you were able to leave that shit behind anon. I admittedly have a couple friends on discord but they feel distant sometimes. Maybe it's just me being mentally ill but there are times where even in private friend groups I'll feel like an outsider and it makes me feel stressed.
>get into some deeper circles, where more niche things are discussedIronically that's why I'm here in the first place. I've been overfixating on Vocaloid and think the fandom has been peaking for the first time in what feels like maybe one or two decades? I was there for the initial boom of Vocaloid and all that stuff but never really explored beyond the popular stuff (World is Mine, Unhappy Refrain, Fukkireta, etc).
And while I love the more recent producers and stuff I really dislike nu-Vocaloid fans. 39chan is quite literally new, small and for fags like me so it's quite comfy. I highly doubt I'll actually make friends here tho.
No.84
I mostly just lurk around on discord in most of the servers I joined.
>especially public servers where you'll be reading 120 messages per milisecond on a channel with 60 different rules and power tripping mods.
I mostly agree.
I'm member of a small private server that first served (and still a bit serves) as bunker of a "big" public server.
I think the most thing thats fun about it, is that the idiots that join the public server do not know about it.
No.87
>>86>Honestly the Japanese portion of the nu-vocaloid fanbase isn't bad but the English speaking community is pretty terribleThis is true for all fandoms/communities these days honestly, not just Vocaloid. I hate sounding like that "Thing, Japan" meme but English communities these days are filled with puritan underage zoomers who will bitch about the most insignificant things. You've seen it happen with DECO's Rabbit Hole a couple months ago, and you'll see it happen with anything that isn't clean and family friendly. Which is odd because in Japan zoomers are usually the ones carrying the fandoms (a lot of highly regarded modern VOCALOID producers like Inabakumori, Pepoyo and Iyowa for example were born in the late 90's or early 2000's). Either way I never cared for Project Sekai because I hate mobile gaming in general and I also don't really interact with the EN side of the Vocaloid community outside of 39ch.
>Still, I'd much rather take the vocaloid fanbase we have now over communities like the new Azumanga Daioh fanbasThat too. I've loved Azudai since I watched it years ago, but the new fans leave a sour taste in my mouth. It feels like most of the people who watch it these days only watch it for le funny autism girl from the memes because they're quite literally unable to name any other character that isn't Osaka.
No.88
>>87Maybe it's the fact that I was one a decade ago and therefore I was oblivious to all the bs around me but I feel like kids online have become more aggressive than they were back then. Them invading adult spaces is nothing new. I myself was playing M rated games and faking my age on sites like 4chan and Deviantart when I was 12. If I came across anything I deemed weird I would just block or ignore. The difference is that these days they don't do any of this. They actively seek it, interact with it and expect you to conform to their weird prude standards, even if the content they consume is clearly made with adult audiences in mind (e.g. Danganronpa, Vocaloid Sex Songs, etc). If they don't interact with it they'll gossip about it publicly on Xitter or ShitTok with their circle of friends who have the same mentality.
On top of that infuencers have brainwashed an entire generation into believing that Len Kagamine singing about his cock being "illegal" is within the realm of possibility. There's a reason why when you go on Youtube to an old Vocaloid song like Plus Boy and read the comments all the recent ones are negative while the ones from 2012 are more positive and even find it comedic, but I digress I'm going on a schizo rant here. I just miss old fandom culture and I miss being able to share a niche with people who truly care about it. It's still possible, sure, but now whiny faggots are in the majority and it's near impossible to meet cool people.