/lain/ - lain.iwakura

it will be my little cable lain. the protector of my cables

>>2030
there's the original 1998 plush, however they tend to be ~$400 online

you're probably better off commissioning someone for something cheaper and higher quality

>>2033
damn they got the slightly creepy stare down

>>2033
damn, i guess i'll just go look on etsy then

ive noticed a big normie interest in lain building up over the last year or two. i wouldn't be surprised if they start selling lain merch in hot topic if they dont already.

>>2040
Dont dismiss the likeliness of the possibility, that algorithms just got better and your nieche just seems to be more present. The public interest in anime right now is 80% One piece and 20% other bullshit.
But of course one day the nieche will be discovered and everyone will try hop on the train before its to late.

>>2040
The fact that there is a dedicated lain board on wirechan and the existence of lainchan already testifies to the large interest in Serial Experiments Lain since 2020

>>2043
Lainchan also has a dedicated Lain board, although it's not indexed.

>>2040
I see two primary reasons for this: The "depressed" little girls and, unfortunately, trannies come over because Lain's image, for some reason that is inexplicable to me, has become the mascot of a genre of music that is attractive to such figures. I don't worry about these people because they usually disappear as quickly as they came.
What I am more concerned about is the fact that the culture industry has recently snatched up the cyberpunk genre and is now working to turn it into another soulless husk. Since we are a bit on the periphery of this issue, hopefully the unimaginable stupidity will take a little longer to get to us than elsewhere.
>>2043
How is wirechan a sign of normie interest? I bet we don't have much more than fifty active users.

>>2043
RETARD ALERT

lamechan been around and died way before the lain hype

Wirechan has also been around since before the modern lain hype.

You are a retard talking out of your ass because you're a new fag lurk moar or kill yourself

>>2046
Based old fag

>>2046
The lurk more mentality its truly lost in this generation…

The amount of smug old fag larping in this thread right now is on par with 4chan. And you say you're not normies.

>>2051
I've been browsing lain themed image boards since 1999, lurk at least 20 years before posting
btw
>wirechan
>wc
>water closet

>>2052
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>>2052
based

>>2051
new fag mad over his suicide attempts

>>2046
>Wirechan has also been around since before the modern lain hype.

yes but has the /lain board on Wirechan existed before the modern lain hype? You kinda dodged the point >>2043 tried to make. Have you seen the increased traffic Lainchan has gotten since 2020? It seems like you're the retard talking out your ass and being totally hostile and unhelpful toward someone trying to answer for the recent resurgence in this decrepit shit anime by ill individuals who are neither interested in anime nor were even alive when this shit anime came out in the 90s. The anime was dead in the water and practically obscured for years until picked up by trannie normies.

You're probably just LARPing as an oldfag when you yourself can't testify as to why Lain is mainstream. GTFO with your nothingburger contribution.

>>2056
>yes but has the /lain board on Wirechan existed before the modern lain hype?

it has. Check the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine. Idk if /lain/ here had gained any new spikes in attention when the normies got a hold of Lain, since the whole of Wirechan got wiped recently and I'm not a regular here much because of Wirechan's general inactivity, so I wouldn't remember.

>>2059
I was active before the wipe, though I was away for about a year right before it; coming back right before the raid. Wirechan has always been low activity, in fact I think this currently is the highest activity I've seen expect in special cases like the tranny hellthread.

>>2046
I think >>2043 meant that Lainchan and /lain/ on Wirechan are more popular now than they have ever been before the current Lain craze, not that Lainchan and /lain/ on Wirechan were initially CREATED AS A RESULT of the newfound interest in Serial Experiments Lain from normies. Maybe? That anon’s mention of Lainchan is especially relevant (picrel), but probably not so much Wirechan. Wirechan is more niche, unlike Lainchan especially now. Lainchan, being dedicated to Lain in its aesthetic and name, probably made it an easy target for new fans of the anime to find and join.

The text wasn’t worded clearly enough imo.

>>2061
SEL fan sites have been a thing since the show aired. I don't see why two tiny, unrelated image boards would mean anything.

>>2061
>Wirechan is more niche
I would sooner describe Wirechan as more insular and directionless than Lainchan. Lainchan is generally quite open to newfags and has a large number of boards for specific purposes and recurring generals for specific topics. This thread alone speaks to Wirechan's hostility to new users and existence as a community for the sake of existing as one.
>>2062
Lainchan is mentioned on multiple neocities sites and lain fan pages. They also have their own (fairly large and diverse) web ring. It's really easy for newbies to find Lainchan. I agree that Wirechan is nowhere near as popular nor influential, but I'm dumb founded how you think a lain themed alternative social media wouldn't be of any interest to fledgling Lain fans.

>>2063
>I'm dumb founded how you think a lain themed alternative social media wouldn't be of any interest to fledgling Lain fans.
I didn't say that, but the existence of these sites prove nothing as their old as fuck and I've seen no evidence of a general uptick in SEL interest. Though I have seen much evidence of a bunch of newfags coming in after the wipe and shitting up threads like this one. Wirechan was so much better before.

>>2063
Wirechan people have a community in real life and hold the old internet values where meat space and cyber space are completely separate and see lain as a tragic figure and cautionary tale instead of the usual cyber god worship. Its not serious business and the world should not submit itself to machines, there has been multiple threads about this pre jak if you bothered to lurk more you fucking newfag

If your only tangible community its online you should commit suicide because you are already non existing on meat space.

>>2056
Blatantly false.

There has been a huge lain fandom(especially in the slavic hellholes) Since it was released pretty much with its own subculture, music and aesthetic(which to this day its still unique and different to the lainchan/futurefunk/tranny pseudo cyberpunk aesthetic)
Just because (you) don't know about doesn't mean its a new thing all of the sudden, you just spent your time doing other things, the amount of people who did drugs during their teenage years instead of something productive and now want something to identify with its way higher now because of the Transhumanist/Tranny alliance. It has nothing to do with the perceived popularity of the fandom in the current year, just with the crazy druggies and schizos trying to escape their reality by worshiping the digital. Nothing to do with the fandom.

>>2063
>Lainchan is generally quite open to newfags
when I came here I have not in any way been confronted or tested or anything. This page is completely open to newfags, just dont ask about stupid shit that you dont know anything about just to feel a part of it. If you want to know about quality content, create instead of consoom.
>>2064
>Though I have seen much evidence of a bunch of newfags coming in after the wipe and shitting up threads like this one.
Why would there be new fags in here after the wipe? makes no sense~
Maybe newfags are now less scared to write on a blank canvas than in established threads.
>>2065
>there has been multiple threads about this pre jak if you bothered to lurk more you
ive been lurking here more or less frequently for ~2 years and have not seen anything that promotes the idea that wirechan users are in any kind collectively the same opinion on "internet values" and how to interpret SEL.
>If your only tangible community its online you should commit suicide because you are already non existing on meat space.
why does a ghost not have the right to haunt around?
>>2066
So just because there has been a SEL fandom in slavic hellholes, there cant be a hype about it now in western mainstream? I'm not saying that it is the way, but it eventually will come. People always want to feel like theyre part of something and "more authentic" than their peers, so they dig out nieche stuff and overconsoom it in order to act as if theyve been a fan since day1. I mean thats how all hypes (of things that arent new) arise.

Overall I would say: Nice thread, 9/10 on the autism scale

>>2065
What the fuck is this word salad nonsense? I don't know what language "meat space separation old web cyber values machine god pre jak submission" is, but it's certainly not English. No matter how hard you try, you can't just fake it till you make it.
>>2067
I agree that wirechan isn't outright hostile to people who happen to be new, but there is very much so an unchecked force that demands you play part and parcel if you want to use this website. One that, as another user put it, circle jerks this place's history into oblivion sometimes. The lore hungry and adversarial newfags are both created by that force. As for your comment on creating not "consooming," I want to ask you why you think consumption is bad to begin with? You just stated that as if it were self evident, but frankly it makes no sense to me. You admitted in your post to chronic consumption. We are all locked into consuming and creating. I don't think you nor I hold any special relationship with those things that others might not.

>>2068
I dont think consumption is bad, I think I was only referring to overconsoompution, in the sense of feeling the need to accelerate your consumption speed so that you kickstart your fandom into the authentic oldfag ranks. something between FOMO an narcissism. Thats just as annoying as oldfags gatekeeping everything.
And I agree that the lore-gatekeeping creates the lore-hunger of the newfags.

>>2068
Nevermind I saw what you were referring. I meant: when you are in a niche site with 2ppd, dont expect to find an endless stream of quality content, you may rather create it yourself.

>>2067
>when I came here I have not in any way been confronted or tested or anything

This is the internet anonymous place at it, not a forum, nobodys gonna check you like you're in the wrong hood you fucking retard.

> If you want to know about quality content, create instead of consoom.

ok then ill just post wirechan.org on reddit and those guys can just come here and create whatever they want! Maybe ill post in stormfront or /pol/ too!1!!1!!. Im sure their creations would be greatly appreciated.

You fucking retard

>Maybe
>Maybe
>Maybe
Maybe they want to post on a empty canvas

You fucking retard


>ive been lurking here more or less frequently for ~2 years
Wirechan its way older than 2 years,2 years its vxcl era you fucking retard

>why does a ghost not have the right to haunt around?

It can do whatever it wants, but if it commited social harakari and its still itself, not even its suicide can solve its problems, we have the right to laugh at it/ tell it to go into the next plane of existence. Their existence its a mere amusement for others.

Can't human torment ghosts and make fun of their lives?


>don't know what language
that is because you are not part of the culture

I could say no cap cheugy drip hits different mad main character rizz slaps which its also not plain english but if you are part of a specific culture it makes sense. Try telling that to your grandma.

You simply doesn't know, and that is not even your fault, its ok.

>And I agree that the lore-gatekeeping creates the lore-hunger of the newfags.
And that is a bad thing because…

>>2069
how is it gate keeping when people TELL YOU to look around and lurk more what you want its to be hand hold and spoon fed, the gates are open faggot this isn't a private site you baboon mutt anybody can do anything you just get mad when the people already inside tell you to kys instead of spoonfeeding you

ooh you lot are SO grumpy today.

You wankers spend more time arguing about the "culture" of wirechan, than actually creating it. ;)
Inoffensive gatekeeping.

>>2071
Hes not my opinion so he is le redditor. Also >>2067 and >>2068 seem to disagree with me so they must be the same person!

>>2073
>You wankers spend more time arguing about the "culture" of wirechan, than actually creating it. ;)
There was a culture, it got fucking wiped out in a raid. The new posts are radically different that what we got before. I suspect many people from the shanty stuck around.

>>2075
Yeah I wonder why the cool and schway people left, looking at posts like >>2071 <_<

>>2076
These were the people you tard

>>2076
This is true, look at the quality of the old tranny thread vs the new one, even our trannies know how to act.

>>2073
Posts like this which are basically twitter reaction images its whats killing wirechan, What you don't realize its that people want to create culture they just don't want to create with (you), there are plenty of other lain related places where you would be accepted.

>>2071
>And that is a bad thing because…

That its only a bad thing for those who are outside the gate, while it for those who made the house its necessary, once these people create their own house they can open the gates for whoever they want however, my house my rules, why do you want to be here in the first place then? There are plenty of places(lain related ones at that) with open doors, just go there we'll even give you directions.

>>2078
how dare he react with an image in an imageboard. The reaction are twitter tier because the thread and the discussion is. (you) are part of the problem.

>>2076
>schway


I dont know whats worse Lainchan tourists or jak leftovers

>>2080
(You)

>>2076
The guys you are complaining about are the same guys you idiot, wirechan always was a slow chan with less than 50 active posters, it was always like that.

>>2082
Meds now! Not everyone is the same person schizo.

>>2083
You tard the same people been going to the irc for years now. You just don't know about it which is fine but don't just tard up the place by being yourself.

>>2083
>he doesnt know

HA

>>2089
Hello fed