Jovial
New Member
- May 10, 2026
- 1
It was when I saw a YouTube creator Tantacruls video titled "Encouraging the Young to Die - The Most Toxic Site I've Ever Seen" that I learned of this community some years ago. Back then, my bias towards the forum was created before I even learned of its true name. But now, as time has passed, I have revisited and come to notice quite a few things that make this place the most interesting and may I say valuable in the current schema of humanity.
I may first state the obvious, but still unstated fact preceding this community and all the drama that surrounds it: it is extremely unconventional. The modern-day dogma, or more neutrally, culture, is one that values a living, breathing body as the highest good. From birth, we are taught to always prioritise the continuity of our bodily functions, but matters such as honour are often left out. We are conditioned to live life as an intrinsic value without questioning what the underlying values of that life actually are.
This isn't a mere mistake; it is not that the world is being clumsy in thought – if we zoom back to see the macro, I'd say this is the most expected outcome of our current society. A workers' society where your longevity is a resource weighted in gold – a society where your value is more tied to the objectives of an Excel sheet rather than community philosophy. Honour-based violence, honour-based actions, and honour overall have become irrational, as it does no good for the collective state of economics.
And then appears a server such as this, which states that an individual has the right of choice; they are not bound by any societal contract that they intrinsically signed by being born. They do not stop at abstract theory but lay out concrete work: support, materials and thought behind it. Overall, a community that goes against the core ideology of our current society, it is no surprise that such a place would be bombarded by hate and suspicion.
This is noted by videos like the one mentioned in the beginning. Tantacrul does not argue; he states. He does not give you the opinion – he wants to be the curator of your opinion, which is obvious from the get-go. The title itself tries to cement and invigorate the societal dogma you may have assimilated beforehand. And the video itself is not much better. It uses all the consensus and support of culture it can muster to use all the rhetorical ways of pressure to pathologise the whole community. He implies that there exists no individual with free will or equal standing in this community. Only patients, and patients by default, cannot know "what is good for them."
This kind of control of thought is also supported by most of the media, which have at times given out articles containing misinformation or borderline disinformation. I presume all this is to make the server as inaccessible as possible to the average person. It is control, and it is the brazen kind.
But still, amidst all the chaos, this server stands upright and in order. Full of tragedy and life, ideas and emotions. It might be too much to ask to make others understand such a culture, as that would untie some core constructs that held societies together, but we can still marvel at this abnormality. From what I see, this may be one of the rare places, if others even exist, on the internet where true empathy and autonomy are cherished.
I may first state the obvious, but still unstated fact preceding this community and all the drama that surrounds it: it is extremely unconventional. The modern-day dogma, or more neutrally, culture, is one that values a living, breathing body as the highest good. From birth, we are taught to always prioritise the continuity of our bodily functions, but matters such as honour are often left out. We are conditioned to live life as an intrinsic value without questioning what the underlying values of that life actually are.
This isn't a mere mistake; it is not that the world is being clumsy in thought – if we zoom back to see the macro, I'd say this is the most expected outcome of our current society. A workers' society where your longevity is a resource weighted in gold – a society where your value is more tied to the objectives of an Excel sheet rather than community philosophy. Honour-based violence, honour-based actions, and honour overall have become irrational, as it does no good for the collective state of economics.
And then appears a server such as this, which states that an individual has the right of choice; they are not bound by any societal contract that they intrinsically signed by being born. They do not stop at abstract theory but lay out concrete work: support, materials and thought behind it. Overall, a community that goes against the core ideology of our current society, it is no surprise that such a place would be bombarded by hate and suspicion.
This is noted by videos like the one mentioned in the beginning. Tantacrul does not argue; he states. He does not give you the opinion – he wants to be the curator of your opinion, which is obvious from the get-go. The title itself tries to cement and invigorate the societal dogma you may have assimilated beforehand. And the video itself is not much better. It uses all the consensus and support of culture it can muster to use all the rhetorical ways of pressure to pathologise the whole community. He implies that there exists no individual with free will or equal standing in this community. Only patients, and patients by default, cannot know "what is good for them."
This kind of control of thought is also supported by most of the media, which have at times given out articles containing misinformation or borderline disinformation. I presume all this is to make the server as inaccessible as possible to the average person. It is control, and it is the brazen kind.
But still, amidst all the chaos, this server stands upright and in order. Full of tragedy and life, ideas and emotions. It might be too much to ask to make others understand such a culture, as that would untie some core constructs that held societies together, but we can still marvel at this abnormality. From what I see, this may be one of the rare places, if others even exist, on the internet where true empathy and autonomy are cherished.
