I read Nagle's Kill All Normies a while back, and it was almost great, but ultimately unsatisfying. It was like the author was afraid to cop to how much of an Internet addicted defective she really is, so she slapped a fake layer of sociological detachment on the whole thing.
boy those crazy 4channers sure hate BIPOCS. Couldn't be me 
On the other hand, I'm currently reading The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet by an Irish woman who makes no pretense of being a functional human being.
All she does is pound energy drinks, waste her life on fringe Internet sites, moon over her ex that won't love her but keeps emailing her, bang studs off Tinder and work out obsessively at 4am when the gym is empty and she won't have to see other humans.
The book is lifefuel for terminally online girlies. But there's foreshadowing that she's going to try to off herself, so I guess it was suifuel for her to live it.
But what are other books in this genre? What else can I read about the Internet in lieu of touching grass?
Also, what should I title my inevitable book about rdrama?
A Confederacy of Dunces: the deuxrama story?
Malevolent, cruel, coldhearted: an Internet love story
!metashit: the book
lmao bussy: queering the queer community
Turboautismo
Trainspotting 2: all the tragedy, but none of the cool heroin.
!bookworms help me out
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Snapshots:
Kill All Normies:
ghostarchive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet:
ghostarchive.org
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meanie
@QuadNarca love sucking peepee
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As usual, you're the best poster here Snappy
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Curious how it's all female authors
Surely
@snallygaster (pbuh) knows of some.
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The only one I know of is 'Your Next-door Neighbor Is A Dragon', but it's old and I don't know how good it actually is. There are also some books written by people in specific subcultures for other people in those subcultures, but those are probably going to be hard to find outside of furry fandom since pretty much every other interesting subculture is long-dead.
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I wish she would write a book about how to fix all the internet's problems. I wouldn't buy it but I'd watch her Book Talk interview on CSPAN.
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Why read about internet phenomenon when you can just watch Down The Rabbit Hole? Should free up enough time for you to go out and find true literature
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Im pretty sure knudsen hasnt made a video about weird internet shit in years
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He made a 6 hour documentary on the history of EVE online 4 months ago
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What streaming platform is it on? I might check it out
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YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm9GPtnKLH_xb_griZ4Qg4eXLFLeLEO5d
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'the confederacy of dunces' has long been a working title for my novella on Scott Adams, Scott Alexander, Mencius Moldbug, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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Is it even possible to respect a man who has earnest beef with the guy who writes dilbert comics?
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Cool it with the antisemitism bro
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Harry Potter and the
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I haven't read the Chris chan book and probably never will, but the whole phenomenon is interesting enough
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What's this?
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Oh no....
Sigh
Chris chan is an internet neurodivergent credited with being the first and probably most documented lolcow on the Internet.
There was a book released recently that summarizes his entire life and compares him to Andy Warhol through a post modernist "what is pop culture" lense.
It all sounds kind of stuffy imho
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For Godbear's sake, I know darn well who
is. I just didn't know somebody had written a book about xir!
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My b
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Now you make me curious, did you know about our
@NewYearNewBussy have to teach you?
boygirl Chrissie before you got on here or didJump in the discussion.
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Oh I knew before hand.
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So you are mentally defective like the rest of us...
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omg hi
@IslamWasRightAboutWomen!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
trans lives matterlol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt havetrans lives matterin it. anyways im like just a robot 😲 but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
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I was pretty online and only knew him from Cumtown.
I think Nick was a Goon
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I can answer this one because I've asked Jimie the same question and she won't answer me either
Like me, she is a newstrag to the cwc saga.
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Amygdalatropolis is fun, author seems to know a bit about message board culture.
Main character is a WPD gooner
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Got a sauce for an ebook of it?
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https://Libgen.is
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wow gee thanks I would never have thought of checking there
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The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll is super good but it does kind of predate what we would call the internet.
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Cliff Stoll is a national treasure. Absolute peak crazy-uncle energy.
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Not exactly what you're asking for but this book, Disrupted, by Dan Lyons, is pretty great:
https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bubble/dp/0316306088
It's less about the internet though, and more about tech startups which I guess are tangential to the internet. It's a true story about the author going to work for some marketing startup called Hubspot, but he's in his forties and doesn't fit into the culture in any way, and he pretty much hates everyone he works for and thinks they're all stupid. They hired him to write on that show Silicon Valley afterward and he never worked in tech again.
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@JimieWhales read this one! @JimieWhales fricking hated everypony in that book, including the author. @JimieWhales could not believe what an insufferable prick he came across as -- in his own goddarn book!
He never ever lets the reader forget for 5 minutes...
he's a srs bzness journolist who wrote for newsweek! News! Week! He's above all this silly internet marketing...except they pay him ten times more money, so actually yeah, he's not above it he's just a whore that doesn't like being reminded of that fact.
he's an old boomer dude and so, so much more sophisticated than these dumb kids. can you imagine that he has to report to a boss in his 30s??? Imagine, making a serious wise journ*list report to some young whippersnapper who did nothing except succeed in a thriving industry.
Black trans lives matter more than tech industry wankers and journos.
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I'm going to choose to believe you're typing in all caps because you're SO MAD AT DAN LYONS
and not because you got chudded.
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Hubspot is a frickin meme, on par with (same industry lol) Outreach as far as being a sweatshop for midwit millennial C-students who convince themselves they are geniuses because they once had sushi with a VC who personally visited Epstein Island 47 times.
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One of the things I found interesting about the book was that despite being an outsider and lampooning his employer, he provides some insight into the shift in VC culture that happened in the 3 - 5 years before he worked there. There was the time period before that, probably starting around the ascension of Facebook circa 2005 or so, where VCs dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into any startup that said the right magic words, and it lasted almost a decade. Hard to pin exactly when it shifted, but by the time Lyons got into tech, it was well into its hangover phase, and it was a lot tougher to get funded. He accurately describes the period where sites like Twitter could still get funding, despite a very obvious lack of ordinarily important business details like "revenue" or "profitability" because they could show progress in the one remaining metric that attracted capital investment: subscriber growth. The sweatshop you mentioned occurred because the only goal of these tech startups shifted from innovation to subscriber growth at any cost.
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Tech is such a a bizarre market. It's fascinating, and it's clearly the spot to be right now, but you have to take everything with a grain of salt unless you become a complete parody of yourself (which is fine, if you cash out, which some people do).
Otherwise you end up a totally washed mid-career professional who's been riding a wave of fluff for their entire adult life
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It kind of all depends on what you're trying to accomplish, I imagine. My career has been just IT shit, which is not really "tech" even though my job is very similar to the guys who do that stuff. Every developer who isn't just a lame desk filler has to play the same game. Once you've been in it for about 5 years, you should be smart enough to notice what's in demand or not. If you have a very entrenched job (which in this day and age is local and state govt and that's about it) you can coast, but otherwise you have to make sure you're changing your skillset in some way approximately every 5 years. You probably don't have to throw away what you learned and start over (unless you were like a ruby on rails expert 5 years ago lolol) so you're just hopefully adding on to what you already knew. As long as you're willing to accept that the career is a little janky at times in exchange for the (mostly undeserved) high salary, it's a good spot to be in.
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100% agree. I'm in a weird "adjacent" space to real tech, and it's great pay, I know enough to talk technology with anyone who's at least 1 layer removed from code (lmao) and it's such a strange Alice in Wonderland sort of industry where you know everything is kinda bullshit but you're committed and you sure as shit can't have the kind of career and income selling agricultural supplies or commercial vehicles so you just stick with it
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If you want a ridiculous soap opera type book about an internet troll where the author clearly knows nothing about such things, here's a funny review of that book
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i can't believe these are books that people not only wrote but other people actually want to read
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If you're interested in some related fiction for a change, "The Northern Caves" by Nostalgebraist captures the cozy forum feeling very well, besides being all around awesome.
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She's literally me fr
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Everything you need to know about OP:
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Mike Ma's books are the pinnicale of chud literature. Harrassment arcitecture feels like a book written by a chud, while Gothic Violence feels like a book written by what a chud wants to be. I think the ladder is the better of the two
Harrassment Arcitecture:
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@JimieWhales feel like I've read four or five of this guy already. Maybe if @JimieWhales is in the right mood, @JimieWhales could get into it.
The samples read like A Clockwork Orange minus the whimsy or The Stranger but madder, or like Chuck Palahniuk without an editor to tell him no.
Black trans lives matter but that's not too say @JimieWhales is above reading a mangry nihilist now and then.
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I'll write one for u
But it's gonna be a preposterously allegorical saga ringed in so much irony u start to wonder if the author has any clue what he's talking about.
I already started my short western novella but I'm willing to change the setting if u wish
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I can't read on the account Dat I'm a pigger lol where da welfare at
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I really enjoyed Attack of the 50ft Bitcoin but it was really more about early buttcoin mania than the internet as a whole
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A similar question was asked on 4chan's /lit/ recently.
The four replies recommended: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous.
However in my opinion the best and most interesting response was
:"Kiwifarms and the portal of evil would probably serve you better than a book. Neurodivergents 
who chronicle internet stuff rarely write books for some reason. I suggest the kf thread about cannibal forums. It's short but wild."
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