8chan and 4chan were instrumental in creating the disease that is gamergate and the subsequent online shitheaps it produced. Including but not limited to Trump's term.
gamergate was a meaningless troll movement. To imply that they got trump elected is moronic.
It was a watershed moment for the alt-right's propaganda machine. It's defined fascist recruiting tactics ever since and it absolutely played a role in Trump's election. Gamergate was a dramatic shift of the status quo, as ridiculous as it was, to diminish it's role in shaping the last few years is just ignorant
Gamergate got co-opted by Milo. Steve Bannon took him in and used the tools learned from gamergate to weaponize disaffected white males. This led directly to the rise of trump. It wasn't the only thing that got trumplethinskin elected, but it was part and it was intentional.
Companies pay millions per year to put just their name on stadiums, etc. Advertising works, even if you believe it doesn't.
Wasn't Twitter instrumental in enabling January 6th?
Facebook was the larger organizing platform, groups, events, etc.
But don't worry, they kicked Parler off everywhere to distract you.
Well, that was the event that finally forced Twitter to kick Trump of, so they apparently though they had some effect.
To be fair, I stopped visiting 4chan after seeing a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel, so...
i spent too much time on 4chan growing up; it's the most in depth and fascinating and insane glimpse into the human psyche we have available. you see someone post the worst evils imaginable then people replying to that post with better and more cutting humor than anything aired on TV
Yeah I was on there a lot in the mid 00s and stopped going on it after the scientology protests. The site basically created internet humor as we know it and I was enough of a loser at the time to be highly online. There was something very accepting about the site in a weird way, and I'm not the sort of person you'd expect would have been a b-slur.
Met a friend's partner recently and she said something funny in this oddly familiar way... the type of person I'd least suspect, but yup, a fellow mid 00s b-slur.
I accidentally clicked on a monkey rekt thread and it was just monkeys getting tortured. There was a funny gif of a monkey getting hit in the balls though.
monkey rekt thread
monkey getting tortured
I mean yeah, it sorta says it on the tin
Link?
Why is there so much fearmongering around 4chan? Everyone that doesn't use it seems to think of it as an anomaly; when it is nothing but a somewhat "radical" (that too only some boards) social site. Also banning & doing something along those lines to the users of 4chan is the shittiest idea of all time.
Because it and 8chan are racist shitholes that have produced numerous mass murderers, most notably the Christchurch murderer that killed 51 people at a mosque.
4chan is so full of teenage racists, incels and general dipshits that I can't help but think anyone who defends it is also a racist, incel, or generally a dipshit who hasn't graduated high school yet. Posts like the OP here are the exception, not the rule.
Yep, 4chan is the Nazi bar of the Internet, and cherry picking an example of innocent shitposting means nothing.
It had its moments, twenty years ago, but all the worthwhile anons left ages ago.
There's even a fairly famous quote from a 4channer about it.
"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe they're in good company." -Descartes né Anon
Of course, Anon still missed the real lesson.
There are always far, far, fewer people "just joking around" than the good people in the room want to assume.
Some of the boards are legit helpful and good too. You can stay away from /r9k/ or /b/ or /pol/ and be fine.
The /tg/ board was the source of some of the greatest tabletop RPG content I ever saw in the 2010s, really great discussions and whole homebrew systems born out of threads that just pitch cool ideas. Of course it came with the same veneer of snark and shock comments as the rest of 4chan but that was on every site in the 2010s. I haven't been back there in a long while so I can't speak to it these days.
/b/ is mostly porn and incest fantasies, which isn't very good, but nothing compared to /pol/.
I still remember that story about how someone's boyfriend was radicalized by 4chan and they noticed by "checking his 4chan account" and I think talked about PMs lol
There isn't any fear mongering. For every innocuous greentext, there's 10 wildly racist or antisocial posts.
People are dumbass normies who fear anyone slightly different than the mould. You don’t have facebook and instagram? Fucking weird. You don’t know the latest influencer trend? Outcast. You think capitalism is evil and the normalcy is harmful to society? Terrorist.
Thinking capitalism is evil is the absolute norm here.
You just described a lot of Reddit and most Lemmings.
That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with.
I don't have Facebook or Instagram or know influencers, but I'm not suffering any ill effects. I'm also an adult though. Maybe it's harder for youth.
normie
You think capitalism is evil and the normalcy is harmful to society? Terrorist.
Except that this is an accepted mainstream opinion now
Says the person with a paid account of the dumster fire.
The post has no date other than the 4chins post date, so it could easily have been from before PedoGuy took over and torched the place.
May 3rd, 2023. She's giving money to a eugenics supporter.
Also, twitter was always awful. Musk just took the mask off.
Can somebody explain what I'm looking at in that post?
All I can make out is that the snake connects between the pictures.
I thought maybe that created some offensive bigger picture, but I don't see it.
that's exactly the point of that thread, there's no need for a reason in everything, sometimes people are silly and enjoy being silly just for the snake of being silly
It is true that when I see something from 4chan that I don't understand, I have to approach it with the well earned assumption that it is somehow racist or fascist. This snake thing... I can't just assume it's shitposting. With 4chan it could be anything.
let's play spot the 4channers in the comments!
Also, 80% of commenters on iFunny. That shit heap needs to be nuked.
Scary how many people in here are anti free speech. Yes, they're stupid, cancerous, lot of white supremacists, and all the scum and villany etc , but like, the point of free speech is that you're allowed to say that shit.
Make a threat? Absolutely, track IPs and investgate logs, lawful actions against unlawful acts. But to flat out ban every one you disagree with? Disgusting. And you should be ashamed of it.
Any kind of freedom ends were you are violating the freedom of someone else. Spitting hatred against women and minorities has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
As much as I dislike people spitting hatred at women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and POCs, this is still freedom of speech. You don't have to enjoy it, you don't have to listen to it, and you're certainly free to remove these people from your personally owned spaces. But it doesn't change the fact that people should be allowed to say whatever the fuck they want, otherwise we literally are punishing people for thought crimes and edgy jokes.
People should be judged for their actions, not their words. Words don't actually mean anything without action behind them.
I'm a gay man, and I've definitely given out the occasional f slur pass. Why? Because I honestly think it's funny as fuck when my best friend of 20 years calls me that. He doesn't hate me, he knows and loves my partner like a sibling, and he is my brother. It would be so fucked if he got in some kind of actual trouble for that...
If someone comes after my hatred of Nazis... I stg
Freedom of speech works out when everyone's speech is equal. But in the real world, it isn't. if it were, the minority wouldn't have to fight for their rights and the laws would apply the same to the majority.
"free speech" is clickbait for the racists, created by racists to drown out the opposing voices of minority while calling it equality.
Your "freedom of speech" was added in the constitution on December 15, 1791. It took almost 200 years for the cilvil rights movement in 1950s for the black people to have equal rights.
Don't flaunt it like it has any shred of importance beyond what the majority of the US population uses it for. And it's to be racist bigots.
Keep concern trolling though
Didn't freedom of speech protect the civil rights movement more than if it weren't in the constitution? Just because bad people make use of this right, doesn't make it inherently bad. It's not concern trolling because we think you're overcorrecting, and any attempt to censor 4chan will lead to either "angering the wasps" or censorship of benign ideas.
Just know that I am arguing in good faith because I know that the people who decide what to censor will overcorrect, and I think that causes more harm than good.
Only thing I feel like responding to:. This might be hard for you to understand but people can have differing opinions than you and not be trolling. It's not healthy to have that belief.
Case closed I guess.
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Emma Kennedy, @EmmaKennedy
You know what? Everyone on 4chan and 8chan should be on a terror list. Every single incel. I couldn't give a single shit about their "freedom of speech"
[A screenshot of a messageboard thread is shown. There are 3 images in the screenshot, all of crudely drawn green snakes. The images of the snakes connect together, despite being posted in separate posts by separate users. The second image of a snake has a caption of "sssssnek" and a comment after all three snake images states "Whoa, watch out, you scared me there for a bit."]
Actually a cold blooded snake might well be the best emblem to represent the users of 4chan and/or 8 chan. Well known for their publishing of pedophilic content and love for showing kids getting gored to death.
