• toasteecup@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    Alt title: Anon suffers cognitive dissonance when learning 4chan is treated like a zoo exhibit.

    • Peaty@sh.itjust.works
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      3 years ago

      4chan’s random board isn’t the risky experience it once was. Now it is just mostly nazis, trans hate, and porn. I’ll drop by the papercraft board from time to time.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
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        3 years ago

        Thats the point, at one time it was pure chaos and it was SO racist, homophobic and sexist that it transcended it. A lot of people now are literally too young to remember the “glory” days.

        The only thing that mattered was the bantz and how funny or fucked up you could be. “Tits or GTFO” wasnt implying that women werent welcome or a lower class, it meant that it wasnt relevant to the shitposting. Canadians were called “Syrup Ni**ers” or “Leaf f*gs” regardless. It was horrifying and at the same time amazing because we all knew it was just lulz. But people took the edgelord humor and made it their personality, they took it seriously. It became a cesspit.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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          When I was there probably about 15 years ago one of the things I remember most were death threads, where people posted clips of people dying in the worst ways possible. Some where getting hit by a car, some were electrocution by power line, some were terrorist beheading videos. Yeah, the kids there now haven’t seen anything.

          (I’m not saying this to defend it. It was horrible and probably no one should see it. I’m just pointing out how the kids there today acting like 4chan is the same place it used to be are wrong.)

        • LaurelRerun@lemmy.ml
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          3 years ago

          Ah, the tragedy of any in-joke. If not everyone is in on the joke, eventually it stops being a joke.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    3 years ago

    browsing 4chan is like diving for pearls in a sewer. thank you, I’d rather just look at the pearls after they’ve been cleaned.