Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.
Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn’t expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.
Yeah I was a big channer many years ago I still don't understand how the fuck fascism won there. The only reason I go there now is to snoop on fascists since I know how to click around there. The only thing I can say is that it must be that most channers really were idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for, instead of people pretending to be idiot loser NEETs with nothing to live for.
Never. Like, I’ve browsed around a few times. /LGBT/ (when it wasn’t people from /pol/ trying to debate trans people) was the only board of value…I can’t put it into words but, it’s the only board I think really lives up to the romantic ideals of what 4chan is. It feels… weirdly neither irony poisoned like the rest of 4chan nor dead serious and moralistic like the rest of the internet. Maybe the rest used to live up, I’m young so I wouldn’t know (though I do know people were moaning about “the old 4chan” in 08.) But I don’t belong on /LGBT/, I’m moralism poisoned.
Culturally, 4chan is a spent force, I think that became clear when every new meme from there was a Soyjak variant. It’s a shame some channers think they’re still on the precipice of internet culture. I just wish the ghost of /pol/'s influence would stop haunting my country.
I don’t follow 4chan politics, but isn’t Pepe a /pol/ thing or something like that? I mean, 4chan’s got a number of different forums. That seems like saying that Reddit is X because of a particular subreddit, or the Fediverse is X because of a particular community/magazine.
Daily, watching the advances of ai porn generation techniques and tools. The deep fakes trend didn’t spontaneously emerge from a vacuum, and ai generation of gif/videos from a single text prompt is in the ‘dreaming’ stage. I give it 6 months before you will be able to have a coherent scene of 10 seconds of ai gif or video based on a single prompt with minimal editing.
4chan is the best place I’ve found to watch this that isn’t trying to sell me something or over sensationalize it.
Many of the comments on 4chan are not very insightful and mostly repeat the same classic mantra’s. Now I’m not shy for dark humor but I do like it original.
Once before gamergate. I didn’t like the sort of people I found there. I wasn’t surprised about the following decade of newsworthy and leaking bad behavior
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