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.
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.
Day 279: Lemmy advocating for full on fascism on worldwide scale. Again.
Wtf are you talking about?
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.
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.
