pitchfork.com/features/article/the-plight-of-the-kanye-superfan

"To an outsider, the forum is practically impenetrable, an infinite scroll of emojis, memes, s*** posts, and in-jokes. The forum’s mostly twentysomething, mostly male regulars communicate in short, hurried jabs of thought, writing as if they have better places to be even though, to judge from the frequency of their posts, many of them do not."

"There is substantial conversation on KTT, but you have to dig to find it. Mostly the regulars just kill time, debating music and fashion, pouring over the most inconsequential leaked news and gossip, lusting after Kim Kardashian, or hazing each other. Somehow they never tire of ranking Kanye’s albums"

"Despite its rampant trolling, KTT is a community, and not an entirely unloving one. In a thread from this spring, a 20-year-old board regular named Spanky announced that he had stage four cancer and vowed to fight it. Within mere weeks, though, the severity of his condition became clear, and he broke the news the board had been fearing: “I’m going to pretty much get morphine tomorrow and pass out and never wake up.”

He spent his final hours posting from the ICU. “I love everyone here,” he wrote in his farewell post. “This site isn’t only about music but it’s about bringing together a group of people to discuss anything that’s on their minds.”"

I loved this piece so much. Made me really nostalgic of all the great theads I got to be apart of over the last decade.

Rip spanky🙏❤️

They aren't completely wrong lmao

That Spanky thread was sad

Not in the in the slightest. He made some jokes at our expense and I think you're a fool if you can't laugh at them. We all know they're true.

still so funny and ironic that they published this
rip spanky man

Also wanted to share a message from the author of that article.

brings a tear to my eye

Rest in heaven spanky we love you king ❤️

This site would be much more acknowledged if there was less trolling and more respectful treatment towards each other

shame about all the trolls tbh :smh:

Or if S promoted it more.

then it wouldn’t be ktt

neither of you are wrong lol

The forum’s mostly twentysomething, mostly male regulars communicate in short, hurried jabs of thought, writing as if they have better places to be even though, to judge from the frequency of their posts, many of them do not.

still funny