>>164008
I understand this problem and I went down the path of watching JP vids instead of english ones too, now however I have found my true solution to overcoming it and for me it was to simply stop CONSOOMing, watching videos with human commentary is a complete waste of time. Now I only listen to music while I work or watch zundamon/yukkuri informational videos when Im eating.

That is my pipeline to Japanese language.
It's there, but I don't feel the others' levels of secondhand embarrassment when the lame moments come in Japanese context and language I understand. I am not so extreme that I am avoiding actually interesting uploads I think I'd like. Even if I'm to meet an old comment section in English, I still like to consciously manually dig into internet trends of modernity and different older subperiods, but also feel like being completely synchronized with freshly latest trends would make me lose my competitive edge and survival chances.
I'm talking of things like avoiding watching a new popular voice synth or Touhou music vid for months or a year unless I like the character or the thumbnail art style looks really interesting (I don't know in what post-metasubgenre conceptualisation this works, but the thumbnails interesting to me tend to contain music/music videos interesting to me, and I keep trying to disprove it). This kind of pays off because I don't spend time on the trend's metacommunity, but on anything else instead, like accidentally finding a banger obscure vocaloid producer.
There are definitely times when your behavior is worth it, like vapid kids spamming a classic because some cool king boss big bro youtuber used it somewhere, enough to have me deal with stress of wanting to prevent this from happening ever again with some good old [anger issues tangent because I stopped disassociating for a moment].

>Consuming content I don't understand,
You've made a good habit condition for the immersion side of learning Japanese, by the way.

So, this isn't a cultural regionality phenomenon per se.
If I were disparaging, I'd say this is all generally a problem of some form of schizoidal introjective narcissism (where the behavior is "surround yourself with what you'd prefer to relate, and now it's literally you").
But more to the whole point, this is some OCD, with a learned social intuitive behavior that's associated with seeing no value in partaking in quick cycles of social activities, repeating all over just to fill the void of people with social ADHD (the kind that's not pathologized because it's really pervasive and its symptoms are easy to dudebro handwave away as "good for competition and good for the economy").
It's possibly bad for the overall quality of life, possibly not. I see it as bad only when you're not taking your sentiment to its full conclusions. I see it's best to be loyal to your very down judgement you can really vouch for, even if it's wrong.

Personal OCD over mass social ADHD. This sounds how "alternative" imageboards are, but I mean this in neither "maladaption"/"adaption" narratives. Possibly in a "kegare" way. The fellow kinds of anonymouses are differentiated in sensibility enough, even if some should be reprimanded sometimes.

I'm speaking all generally, because you'd have to understand and consciously outline your motivation to figure out and handle exactly your case, and whether it's actually something to be handled.

>>164009
> or watch zundamon/yukkuri informational videos when Im eating.
I had been doing something like this, until I realized that, in my case, I'm treating break time both as some "I have to gain competitive advantage since I can multitask!" and "break time? I have to relax, I must be entertained, perhaps with entertainment video, while multitasking!" time.
This still haunts me in some ways, as it's a mass curse of the current historical post-war post-baby-boom hypercompetition for "the promised middle class dream that won't actually be brought back until the next big war" times, except now global.

I just don't interact with any western fanbase faggotry outside of 4/a/.
I cannot bear normalfags in any way.

I grow up so reactionary that I even consider kissu normalfag, but on a lesser degree, than let's say... 4chan for example. I think at this point of life you just have to deal with the cultural subversion of our times.

It's funny you'd say that, because I consider the word "normalfag*", "faggotry", and danbooru filenames to be yucky, all having superior alternatives. And no, I'm not posting this in a snob way even if the tone is ostensibly jackarse. Let's not dumb our ways down there.

I try not to think too much about communities on the mainstream net, it only makes my day worse when I do. For better or worse I have very limited interests so I can get all my meaningful community interactions from kissu.

Have a feeling this thread is gonna get increasingly more negative with people trying to one up each other in how much they hate everything and everyone. Just a hunch.

I don't use many communities at all, and to a certain extent the more I like something the more likely I am to avoid communities about that thing. It just doesn't feel very good when the public options are generally shallow and barely scratching the surface of a hobby and doesn't even know much about the things I like, or hazardly elitist and hates everything I like because it's not what they like.

I like Kissu, Kissu is a bit inbetween though it like everything else has its good days and bad days. I don't get to talk about the things I like too often since there's not so many people, but maybe that's a good thing. I also get to see more nichè things that I otherwise wouldn't notice. Gives us more time to enjoy the hobby rather than talk about the hobby or talking about people talking about the hobby. We're actually blessed with a small board that doesn't induce fear of missing out.

>>164018
>Have a feeling this thread is gonna get increasingly more negative
This can't be happening I've already defused that...

No, not really. I understand how avoiding people is appealing, which is ultimately what you're doing, but just avoiding the comment section accomplishes the same thing. I just don't talk to people about things much, but it can be interesting to visit and read people talking among themselves that have a completely different experience from mine.
It's detrimental to seclude yourself from everyone else as you're impeding your own mental growth by blocking out the stimulation your brain craves to contrast and compare new concepts to learn from them. Granted, something like the youtube comment section isn't going to be particularly worthwhile, but it depends on the video.

>>164012
It is strange how there seems to be a massive, judgmental and antagonistic ego involved in like 80% of the people that learn Japanese. If they were the ones speaking Japanese then who would want to learn it...

>>164015
What's wrong with danbooru filenames aside from "sample" or spam? Unless it's more about hating the site itself which I completely understand.

It costs way too much time and energy to get angry about such things, assuming you even care in the first place (I don't).

>>164040

They are kinda lame to read, plus the tags in the filename can be wrong, and a poster of ulterior motives can just walk up to some warosu or 4plebs and get "organically collected" reaction pictures with UNIX timestamps tied to actual reposts of them.
I don't freaking like 'em grrrrr

ther's a freakin wild animal in the thread right now

>>164066
>can just walk up to some warosu or 4plebs and get "organically collected" reaction pictures
huh but you can do that with the hash anyways

>>164067
they BETTER leave the hamster thread alone

>>164068
How do you check the hashes used by archive sites? They're different from checksums I see in file properties.

>>164089
They are Base64 encoded md5 hashes.

>>164458
Interesting, thanks. I had to find an online tool that lets me check because at first I thought I could just convert MD5 that shows up in Dolphin; if there's a way to convert those, then it's not obvious.