In 2010, I got out of college and I couldn't get a job for a bit. I eventually was a janitor for a while and I hated the job. Worked almost two years as a janitor before being at my current company. Anyways, my time as a janitor was depressing but never did I felt compelled to visit a place like 4chan and try to form some sort of identity there. The place never attracted even though I did hear about it sometimes. I think it was the ugly design that might have turned off. Or maybe I felt like I would have never fit even in that weird outsider culture. I don't know really. During this janitor period, I did venture over to Reddit and I went to Reddit meetups in New Jersey. Reddit eventually led to Hubski.
If you lived in Baltimore! you might have joined Hubski sooner. :) NSFWish JK I went to 3 reddit meetings and they were all fun. A 4chan gathering; no thanks. Since everything is Anon there, there is no such thing as developing an identity so IMO they all just act like the description of people in this article. Nihilists?
Ah the infamous Baltimore meetup. I have seen that picture before and it's interesting. None of the reddit meetups I went to had that kind of atmosphere. I meant developing my own personal identity or whatever the hell I was trying to look for when I was 22.