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My family doesn’t know but I have twitter and I’m honest about using 4chan but I don’t tell anyone what I do here

My brother probably knows I posted on 4chan. My mom is too boomer coded to understand what an imageboard is. I think I'm open enough with my beliefs that neither of them would consider me a nazi. Actions and words mean much more than than the people you associate with.

 >>/58447/
I have friends who also post on chans and my family for the most part understand that chans are largely centred around hobbies ect and that their reputation in the news ect is largely unfair demonization

 >>/58447/
Keep it in the closet bro

People fear true free speech because they know what's going on in their own head and it ain't pretty

 >>/58447/
most people im around know that i use 4chan. ive made friends from this.

if they want to think of me as a horrible person, they're allowed!

 >>/58447/
I never had a situation where i had to share that i use imageboards
I don't have any social media so friends always ask what i do all day as they can't comprehend a life without reels and tiktoks 
So i always reply there are other parts of the internet other than social media and they probably assume i am Redditor because telling them i use imageboards and explaining them what they are is not worth time or the effort

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My cousin introduced me to cuckchan when FiM was first coming out. He probably knows I still lurk even though we don't talk much, let alone talk about the site(s).
My brother name dropped cuckchan a couple of times too.

> How do people react when you tell them you use 4chan/8chan/endchan?


i started a friendship because of 4chan, i mentioned this fact in a moment on school, this history have 3 year, and one guy look at me and say "too, is you user from dogch?" and i respond "no, but 150ch yes", and now i have friendship with one anon.

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 >>/62580/
I like this story.

I don’t tell anyone about it, also a lot of my imageboard usage was during a part of my life when I was depressed/antisocial so I prefer to leave it in the past where it belongs.

My sister used r9k and she knows I’ve used 4chan, but that’s the extent of how much we’ve talked about imageboards.

I don’t plan on telling anybody I meet unless it becomes relevant in a conversation, to most people imageboards are spaces for rejects, bigots, and losers and it rarely helps to tell someone that you were in those spaces unless they have a more nuanced understanding of imageboard culture.

 >>/62615/
> imageboards are spaces for rejects, bigots, and losers
This is interesting. And surely there are some who are. But these are the things that people can only tell anonymously, otherwise they would be shamed. Or at least this is how they feel like.

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 >>/58447/
parents were imageboard users back in the day and got introduced by them

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yes actually, i openly talk about my chan endeavors to my irl friends and coworkers, just not family. i think i get pretty privilege bc no one thinks i'm gross or weird for it, they just say i'm cooky. 

when i was younger i was actually really lonely and bullied at school, so i used to lurk a lot in some img boards (not necessarily 4chan, cause i had an individuality complex of wanting to be "cooler than that") to feel less lonely, but then i went through puberty at 16 and then irl people wanted to be around me cause i had a glow up. ifit was for fake people to want to talk to me, i preferred the anons that also liked talking about my interests than the people that suddenly just wanted to talk to me cuz they thought i was hot now. 

i'm now 20 and my new irls (after moving) say i could do so much better than being in these places, but they don't get that i first found companionship around here. as to why i openly talk about being in image boards: i guess i have a really bad social filter cause i just say things like that very openly + since i'm mostly a neet, all my troubles come from internet issues, so when iwant to talk about it to someone, i always end up saying it. my psychiatrist keeps begging me to leave forums bc they're bad for my mental health sometimes, but i dont think these normies understand what its like to be so badly bullied to a point i had to clean up trash from my bags before getting home and after i tried going to the counselor at school i was made to apologize to my bullies, or constantly threatened, only to be seen differently when older then suddenly everyone pretends they never did anything to you. 

yea, i'll stick with the degens, even if part of it was grooming, i was way better treated.

(sorry for the rant bros TvT)

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I don’t really talk abt it that I use chans. I mean I’m free to tell it when sb ask me, if they’ll think it’s weird, I’m bad person, I do bad things here, I shouldn’t be here I wouldn’t really care, I’m not type of person to think how others see me. And back to the question just my cousin knows but she doesn’t  give a fuck what I’m doing here (in fact we both sometimes go on tor browser to find onion links)

And my family… well I can say they knows and don’t know at the same time- they saw me using the sites many times on my computer but they don’t have any fucking clue what’s that

Btw I might have misstyped something. English isn’t my first language and someone was talking to me while I was typing it