Harper's Magazine writes an in-depth profile on the pornographic "gooning" phenomenon

[TL15]

I stopped reading at “Gooneral”

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

this is the JBO takeover that bozo @Bryan Danielson claims

 

[maxamusa]

I stopped reading at “Gooneral”

they got deviant RANKS

 

[Starman]

Goonstate?! Enough! Porn was never speech and needs to be banned.

 

[Devilinurear]

I log in and log out, hands on my meat in JBO what we gonna do now! Keep gooning gooning gooning

 

[Apollo Creed]

Idk if im just old but non regional internet slang has been so fukking lame lol

Even when we stopped being regional at least the black internet slang was catchy but this new shyt just seems uneeded rather than catchy

 

[LiveFromLondon]

“the gooners goon to reach the goonstate”

Sounding like Kool G Rap

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Not surprised.

 

[TL15]

they got deviant RANKS

No it was for goon funeral

 

[maxamusa]

No it was for goon funeral

good lord

 

[concise]

But I can’t get entirely behind the few-bad-apples theory. Nor can I so neatly separate the gooners as a whole from the rest of us. Think about it for a second: What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day consuming short-form video content. Chasing intensities of sensation across platforms. Parasocially fixating on microcelebrities who want their money. Broadcasting their love for those microcelebrities in public forums. Conducting bizarre self-experiments because someone on the internet told them to. In general, abjuring connective, other-directed pleasures for the comfort of staring at screens alone. Does any of this sound familiar? Do you maybe know some folks who get up to stuff like this? It’s true that gooners are masturbating while they engage in these behaviors. You could say that only makes them more honest.

Granted, day-in-the-life TikToks or unboxing videos won’t poison your soul to precisely the same degree as gooner porn. But it’s hard not to see goonerism as just an intensification, almost a burlesque, of prevailing cultural trends. Pornosexuals are clearly not the only people out there in the process of retreating from life. It’s probably more useful to think of a company like Aylo—the owner of Pornhub and most of the other major tube sites, as well as most of the name-brand porn studios—as just another large tech-entertainment giant, like Meta, Netflix, or FanDuel. From these companies’ perspective, the ideal consumer would do literally nothing but goon, lose at gambling, and maybe watch other people play video games.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Nikkas even have Goon muses now

 

[winb83]

Again this is people struggling to wrap their mind around the fact that life isn't necessarily the way they see it and people can find enjoyment in things they don't understand. To say people doing what they want with their lives are retreating from it because you wouldn't want that for yourself is laughable.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

Again this is people struggling to wrap their mind around the fact that life isn't necessarily the way they see it and people can find enjoyment in things they don't understand. To say people doing what they want with their lives are retreating from it because you wouldn't want that for yourself is laughable.

You could say the same thing about crackheads. There's definitely something to be said about super-stimuli like porn and social media and it's ability to capture people's attention. Or the difference between gambling in a casino and being able to gamble on your phone in your living room.

Modern online porn is basically a free drug that is even more accessible than weed.

 

[winb83]

You could say the same thing about crackheads. There's definitely something to be said about super-stimuli like porn and social media and it's ability to capture people's attention. Or the difference between gambling in a casino and being able to gamble on your phone in your living room.

Modern online porn is basically a free drug that is even more accessible than weed.

Drug and the addiction to them kills people and destroys lives. You can't really make the case that introducing a harmful substance to your body is the same as a person pleasuring themselves even to internet porn.