This is a very random thing to throw out there and I assume most people's response is going to be "what no don't tell me what to do" but, hey, just a suggestion here-
Could we maybe try and pull off some kind of de-4chan-ification project around here?
Like, we collectively took a big important step towards this a few years back when everyone kinda came to this unspoken agreement that Pepe the Frog had officially become a clear nazi symbol.
More to the point, nazis were tossing it around so constantly that the safe assumption was if you saw someone post it, and you didn't know who that person was, that person being a nazi was the safe bet.
And there was this whole period where that was definitely the case but a whole bunch of people for whatever reason got real stubborn about not dropping it, so you had to do this super awkward is this a nazi, or is this just some asshole continuing to use this thing that's a nazi symbol?" and stopping at any point in your day and having to make a call like that sucks a lot, particularly when really, there was no particular reason to splash it around beyond self-identifying as a nazi, or self-identifying as a person-who-used-to-frequent-4chan-a-lot-or-at-least-be-kind-of-adjacent-and-still-feels-a-sense-of-community-despite-all-the-nazis which, you know, also isn't the greatest thing to be identifying as.
The thing is though, there's a hell of a lot of other stuff like that that has that same "odds are better than average the person posting this is a 4chan nazi" that people keep muddying the waters with.
The most obvious example of course is just straight up screenshots of 4chan posts.
Like, if it's a quick little pithy block of text, you can just copy and paste the text. Nobody's gonna stop ya, or know you were on some nazi-infested site when you saw something that gave you a chuckle. And if it's too long or already trapped in screenshot form, then...
I mean, maybe skip it? It's an old joke everyone's already familiar with and/or too long for people to read for a quick chuckle. Or maybe you're trying to highlight bigotry or other terribleness, but like, it's 2020. We all know the nazi site is full of awful stuff, you're not doing any groundbreaking research here, just exposing the targets of hate to hate they'd otherwise get to avoid.
This also applies to reddit posts by the way. Reddit is just 4chan wearing a necktie, and that's especially true of those AITA posts I see screenshots of constantly.
