Why do people leave ILX for good?

here’s ten reasons my engagement w ilx has waned

1) politics threads taking over ILE

2) very online podcast leftists taking over politics threads

3) hardline classic rockists who obssess over classic rock taking over ILM

4) poptimists become radicalized as a result, now only listen to r&b and teenpop

5) snide cinema bores

6) disgusting savages w strong opinions abt whether prawn and rocket pizza is a sandwich and how best to eat one while pooping at work

7) people oversharing and wallowing in depression drama on mental health threads

8) every time i see old posts of mine i feel like a jackass because my online persona is approx 10^6 times more argumentative, negative and obnoxious than my IRL persona and ILX doesn’t have the accountablity that, say, facebook has

9) because the subaltern cannot speak

10) not wanting to share my secret weapons now that i am an actual performing dj irl (sorry to my bobbins thread bros)

11) tombot trolling the sneaker thread

12) making six figures and bennies leaves less time for internet fuckery @ work

13) miss my old friends and too haughty to make new ones

so i guess ... all of the above?

and not really knowing how to be the change i want to see on ilx

lol tlg i feel a lot of that but i sincerely hope i am correct in detecting planetary amounts of irony in 10) and 12)!

tlg keep posting you’re good at it

some footnotes

1), 2) - i blame trump, and i get it, but yeah i don’t need to be thinking abt trump this much and it’s a bit anxious-making to see people who are a lot “safer” than me in trump’s america freaking the fuck out every day

3), 4) hard to imagine something like basement jaxx or lcd soundsystem drawing the diverse ILM tribes together again and i miss that communal experence

5) people used to talk a lot about themselves and their feelings, now i feel there is a lot of discussion of other people and a lot of projection

6) ok well i guess i just contradicted myself

tlg it's nice to have you back ftr

poor man's vahid imo

<3

3), 4) hard to imagine something like basement jaxx or lcd soundsystem drawing the diverse ILM tribes together again and i miss that communal experence

this is otm and too bad

thats a booming fuckin list tbh

now i feel there is a lot of discussion of other people and a lot of projection
and bonus multiple active threads where people complain about other people whether it's it's awful coworkers or disgusting savages or words that annoy or things that make u IA or people on facebook or any number of other complainy threads

seems like there are many and varied opportunities to complain which can create a negative effect on the general atmosphere

about the loss of communal experience I really wonder why that is, what has changed about ilx / the outer world

i always wanna hear more about the ppl that left ilx for ill tbrr

devil has all the best tunes and all that

re 5) I think every poster on the cinema threads has something interesting to say, I really like reading those

My real persona left but all my dirty socks are running wild and free all around ilx

I'd never recommend it for anyone else, but getting really tweaked on caffeine and writing a long screed that completely misses the point in the conversation, only to never open that thread again is my horrible form of catharsis

now the cat's out of the bag

― mh

shit i just reopened this thread, i have lost The Game

i always wanna hear more about the ppl that left ilx for ill

if you mean I Love Lycanthropes I think it was just Connor smedley

hiyoo

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But tbh my ilx usage has waned bc work takes up most of my time and when im not at work im enjoying my life (goin fr brewskies w buddies, making love to hunnies, and spending time on hobbies)

4) poptimists become radicalized as a result, now only listen to r&b and teenpop

idk about R&B but the big teenpop threads were a literal decade ago

and bonus multiple active threads where people complain about other people whether it's it's awful coworkers or disgusting savages or words that annoy or things that make u IA or people on facebook or any number of other complainy threads

seems like there are many and varied opportunities to complain which can create a negative effect on the general atmosphere

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 8, 2018 8:17 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all these threads have existed for like a decade at least but i do think they're magnified when the world as a whole just seems awful

about the loss of communal experience I really wonder why that is, what has changed about ilx / the outer world

― Dan S, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 7:19 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if u want a communal experience on ilx, i invite everyone to come to i love hoops during Important Basketball Games and things of that nature

as far as a communal experience, I realize I don't necessarily contribute to it but the artists I want to talk about have very little overlap with steely dan the artists that get talked about en masse

i'm not even sure what artists have ilm consensus anymore besides Kendrick Lamar

Whatever is popular on music sites

2) very online podcast leftists taking over politics threads

It’s the miserabalist tankie thought police on the UK politics thread TBF.

People discuss music here?

At least that’s what they call it

I miss the days when 8 million of us would watch Chico and the Man together on a Tuesday night because there were only two other options.

We used to throw a ball in the street

i keep pretending I know what a "tankie"is....but I don't

https://i.redditmedia.com/EuCpNVsSOV3QeKlL4t9TPikPA20F4u24FFQe8qHA9sQ.jpg?w=480&s=dd499eef40aab9433c89682d5b84ca8b

someone on the Stalin Did Nothing Wrong wing of the left. See also DPRK fandom. xp

lol

xpost those are some aggressive opinions!

xposts i fucked up my list!

5) cineastes are fine honestly and i have no doubt been an equally snide detroit techno snob all over many dance music threads i’m just super intimidated by those people and besides i only really watch a few movies over and over again and i don’t even own a television / streaming internet tv mmbership because long live then new flesh

6) this is the bit abt projection

7) this is the contradiction

8) self explanatory really

9) that thing non-wite ppl do i guess. might be wrong but feel like # of p.o.c. has declined lately (dom passantino first poc to go iirc)

10) this is serious tracer!

11) this is joeks + much love to all ILS posse and crew

12) p4k vs ilx callback that if u remember u r at least silver age ilx (if not golden)

13) see also: POV: people who think they're noise dudes

haha ok my detector was working properly for 12) but c'mon v! share the wealth! proselytise! testify!

i mean not everybody has to be stirmonster and rip their rotation onto dodgy bespoke members-only hosting sites but.. it would be nice

Anything noize related takes me back

Fuck weve aged like dirty crusty punks except we all wear jcrew banana republic topshop or some other yuppie shit too square for the kidz these days

Were the nouveau suits

The post suits era lying to ourselves trying to differentiate ourselves from suits of yore

Wise man once said

What a wor

Ld

free dom

10) not wanting to share my secret weapons now that i am an actual performing dj irl (sorry to my bobbins thread bros)

lol

silly, i know

You could just post the tracks that bring the dancefloor to a screeching halt.

i like to refer to those kinds of tracks as "my wheelhouse"

yeah as if that narrows it down!

haha