Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,034 18.5%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 345 6.2%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,332 41.7%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,096 19.6%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 219 3.9%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 572 10.2%

  • Total voters
    5,598
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I sort of wonder if 4Chan radicalized in tandem with the changing cultural landscape?

That it became a refuge for people seeking edgy anti-political-correctness - most of whom were young Obama-voting fence-sitters who were being contrarians, who then started popping redpills and falling down rabbitholes?
It's a steep slope but you can draw a line between people afraid of white genocide, gamers who just wanted to play video games, and originally the various communities & fandoms that ultimately wanted to have their "cultures" left alone so they could enjoy themselves in peace. SJWs radicalized the shut-ins that otherwise would have been content to their little corner of the internet, but feel threatened in the one place they ought to be able to say anything.

Regarding racism, it's perfectly healthy to be wary of distinctly different people, and the popular culture was that you increasingly couldn't say anything in the real world about it so talking about it online was the only safe place to. Unless you were in a uniquely safe place to, like (New York) gyms where blacks and Puerto Ricans openly roast each other, and anyone who can handle the bantz could join in. The political correctness stifling casual racism probably made it far worse online.
 
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I might need the input from some oldfags here, but how far back does racism go on 4chan? Like name me some of the memes. Because from what I've read, most racism used to be exclusive to /b/ and was only ironic. Hence the Hal Turner raids and the Habbo Hotel raids that were done on the part of perceived racism from an admin. The first actual white supremacist to introduce himself to the imageboard community was Kimmo IIRC and he wasn't on good terms with anybody. Like I said, 99% of it was ironic and as for the 1% that was legit, they got marginalized or otherwise ignored at the time.

There was always unironic racism on 4chan, I remember first encountering it on /new/ all the way back at the start of 2007.

But it was still a minority, most of the racism was just shitposting, as the years went on though and the climate in America got more and more toxic the racism got less and less ironic.

The /b/tards of yesteryear would be embarrassed at the /pol/fags of today.
 
There was always unironic racism on 4chan, I remember first encountering it on /new/ all the way back at the start of 2007.

But it was still a minority, most of the racism was just shitposting, as the years went on though and the climate in America got more and more toxic the racism got less and less ironic.

The /b/tards of yesteryear would be embarrassed at the /pol/fags of today.
The /b/tards of yesteryear are the /pol/fags of today.
 
Maybe 5 years ago, but /pol/ is straight /b/ now and it disgusts me to no end. All the offtopic, chatroom shit, and pathetic "/leftypol/" bbc raid attempts have long destroyed a board where you could actually have a meaningful conversation.
Way I see it, /pol/ seems like it's on topic (usually things involving Trump, other governments, or conspiracies of both the Doomer and non-Doomer variety), but then it devolves into nonsense and idiocy after the first handful of posts, if that.

/b/ at least had the excuse of it being called "Random", what's /pol/'s other than "Board of exceptionals"?
 
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