It says, step one, install Arch Linux, And that's already where you messed up 🤓. Five minutes ago, you were googling how to hack websites. And now you're neck deep in a YouTube tutorial where some guy with anime profile pic is compiling a custom Linux kernel using flags you've never seen in your life 🤔. You blink, and somehow you're in a 45 tab 🤓 rabbit hole of Python virtual environments, shell scripts that break your terminal 🤣, and a GitHub repo that hasn't been updated since Obama was president 🤣. Welcome to hacking beginner edition.

The problem is, most so-called beginner guides are not actually made for beginners 💯. They're made by people who've been in the game so long 💯, they've forgotten what it feels like to be new. So when they say basic setup, what they really mean is, configure your dotfiles, install 19 dependencies, and pray your system doesn't melt 🤣🤣. And when you inevitably get lost, you're the one left feeling dumb 🤣🤣. Like you're not cut out for hacking 😞😞. But it's not you. It's the content. Let's break it down 🤪🤪

First, creators are often showing off 💯. That's not a bad thing 😎. It's just human. You want to flex your skills. The problem is, beginners see this and think, I have to do all of that just to learn how a login page works.

Second, there's algorithmic bias. Complex tutorials get more watch time. Longer videos, more ad revenue, more engagement. So instead of a clear, concise lesson, you get a three-hour monstrosity with 20 tangents and zero context.

Finally, and maybe most importantly, A culture where simplicity is seen as weakness, and unless you're running Kali in a VM inside your VM inside your fridge, you're not real 🤪🤣🤣🤣.

So what does a real beginner path actually look like??. You don't need a 300-line bash script. You need to understand what the web is doing. Start with HTTP. How requests and responses work. Learn what a port is, what a server is, what an IP does. Fire up Burp Suite, intercept a login request, and just look. That moment, when you see your username in the request payload, that's your first real hacker moment.

From there, move into the OWASP top 10. Not all at once. Just pick one, like XSS or SQL injection, and play with it in a controlled environment. Try out Portswigger Labs or Hack the Box Starting Point. You'll mess up, you'll forget what a cookie does, you'll accidentally lock yourself out of your own test app. That's part of it. That is the learning.

So yeah, next time you open a beginner's guide, and it asks you to chmod your soul 🤣 or recompile your operating system, just close the tab. You're entering someone's personal dungeon build tutorial. And trust me, there's a better way.