You will find almost everything here that you do not want to encounter. Drugs, horror, beheadings, violence, porn, hate messages and racism. It is not entirely clear from which countries the users come due to the anonymous aspect of the forum. When you surf the site, you notice that most of them have a good command of the English language. The forum offers these people a place to share unpopular opinions in the hope of finding like-minded people.
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An overview: What is 4chan? That is absolutely false. Shit tons of political memes and conspiracy theories picked up by the likes of Breitbart, Alex Jones, etc still originate there.
I didn't say their meme output dropped to zero. I said that other websites are the dominant force for generating the memes we see today. I agree with you that 4chan isn't the meme generator place it used to be. But I would say that the memes produced on reddit, Twitter or Facebook are different qualitatively. They have much broader appeal usually normie than 4chan. But yea.. People make a huge difference Platforms are not enough on their own.
And the people have moved on. But you can look at the memes that we have today, 'image macros' and their origins from things that started in places like 4chan.
I don't mind principles or rules but I don't like what most websites have in place. Something there made me like that. I never really used it except for a few readings once a year.. Funny images and phrases, yes. Anything more substantive than that Hrundi on Feb 9, root parent next [—]. Sleep sort came out of 4chan. Hillary Clinton showed 4chan Pepe memes during her campaign.
The Vice President is protected by soldiers who wear a Qanon-patch. Pizzagate and Podesta's hacked emails play a large role in the Russia investigation.
OldFatCactus on Feb 9, root parent next [—]. Lol what. Qanon patch? Houshalter on Feb 10, root parent next [—]. The conspiracy theory But wtf happened to wikipedias neutral tone and point of view style?
Ive read articles about all sorts of ridiculous conspiracy theories, cults, political parties, etc, and never seen this kind of language. Using quotes like this isnt an excuse. It really is lizardpeople-style crazy. That language really does it justice. Pretty sure there was a math proof posted on 4chan originally. I wouldn't say never. It's a disgusting place full of pretty much the worse the internet has to offer, but it was for a while a haven for people who simply weren't accepted by any other social group in the world, to no "fault" of their own.
Be it a shitty situation at home tons of foster kids on there in the old days , broke ass young adults, suicidally depressed, autistic, whatever, whoever just could not fit in, they had humans they could interact with, which is demonstrably imperative to human health. Bad actors would do bad shit there due to the very nature of the site. Probably, the misfits could have found some other, healthier, place to congregate.
But they didn't, and so 4chan was important, to many people. It's a shame it got weaponized by bad actors. There was once a day when such attempts would be met with "4chan is not your personal army. I really can't get behind the idea that it's a disgusting place, even now. There are some parts that I was hesitant to use because it would drag me into arguments with right-wingers, but there were many other parts that were just really, really good.
The kind of discussion that prevailed was often insightful if usually short. This is an amazing feat considering how 4chan doesn't have the "walling" features that subreddits provide. That's often a bad thing but it's sometimes a good thing too. It doesn't have to always be disgusting, to be a disgusting place.
The unabashed use of racial and LGBT slurs is disgusting. So is the gore raids, the frequent suggestions to self harm regardless of the presence of "white Knights" , general misogyny, frequent jailbait content moreso in the old days , shit like that.
Not everything there is disgusting. Not everyone is disgusting. But, compared to, say, imgur or something, you are far more likely to come out of 4chan with a terrible taste in your mouth I would say. You are also able to come out of it with a different perspective you'd never otherwise gain due to up and down voting being missing. A merit of 4chan is that you get exposed to content you don't like. It's incredible how you can have a reasonably intelligent discussion in 4chan, while in reddit and similar vote based sites, once the mob comes to visit the site, they take over and no one can have a good discussion anymore.
KozmoNau7 on Feb 9, root parent next [—]. You can certainly post thoughtful comments, but they will invariably be shouted down by shitposts and outright abuse. It's not worth it, because the 4chan hivemind doesn't want it. The boards are too hectic and posting moves too fast. Judge much? Care to elaborate? With automated scrubbing in place, content eventually disappears from 4chan.
The fake stories that start on 4chan have had a direct impact on companies and individuals. When 4chan started a disinformation campaign claiming that Ethereum CEO Vitalik Buterin had died, the company lost billions of dollars. In April , 4chan circulated phony Starbucks vouchers claiming to award people of color free beverages. More recently, in the hours following the democratic presidential debates that took place in June , pro-Trump communities on 4chan and Reddit encouraged people to vote for lower-polling candidates, including Tulsi Gabbard and Bill de Blasio.
Proponents of the discredit Pizzagate theory falsely linked Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking Democratic officials to a child sex ring involving a pizzeria in Washington DC.
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