Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[Dom Cruise]

Nah dude, a random news headline from 5 years ago about China building a fake euro village is proof that they'll keep whites alive and happy inside of zoos. It's a real test of your character to be able to recognize the complete insanity of /pol/tards seething over pictures of women in the military to the point they talk about bombing the energy grid and waiting in a cave for China to come liberate them. It's complete madness detached from reality.

I'm also aware that China has no real ideology, so people project onto it. It's not left or right, it's just a regime run by a Mafia that gives you a pair of cement shoes to wear at the bottom of the sea when you talk some shit and no one can muscle in on their territory.

/pol/tards are just the mirror image of the most diehard SJWs and Woke, they're all lunatics.

 

[plattschwanz]

I wonder why OP considered it technically a war crime. It sounds like a mistake in choice of ammunition, but the target had it coming.

Probably because it's made up like 99,99% of greentext stories.

 

[Dom Cruise]

/pol/tards ruined the site, 4chan was never politically correct, not even close, but /pol/tards started taking all that shit waaaaaaaaay too seriously and drove anyone that was just there to have fun or talk about shit off.

What's sad is I kind of knew that was going to happen very early on, I remember someone all the way back in 2008 talking about how tired "black people love fried chicken" jokes were... and that was 2008.

 

[Sepulchre]

/pol/tards ruined the site, 4chan was never politically correct, not even close, but /pol/tards started taking all that shit waaaaaaaaay too seriously and drove anyone that was just there to have fun or talk about shit off.

What's sad is I kind of knew that was going to happen very early on, I remember someone all the way back in 2008 talking about how tired "black people love fried chicken" jokes were... and that was 2008.

I don't really mind the direction of the site or that there are vast hordes of exploitable idiots being used by whoever markets at them. We all asked for chaos to happen and this is it. It's just that I have to compulsively think about how stupid people can be that you get called a tranny if you don't have a zealously pro-CCP opinion, including hating Gacha games. They operate on exactly what they are told, like autists, they have zero wisdom that China is just another corporate manager in the board room saying a bunch of flowery nothing words to fool idiots, and it does fool idiots evidently. How fucking dehumanized can you be?

 

[Dom Cruise]

I don't really mind the direction of the site or that there are vast hordes of exploitable idiots being used by whoever markets at them. We all asked for chaos to happen and this is it. It's just that I have to compulsively think about how stupid people can be that you get called a tranny if you don't have a zealously pro-CCP opinion, including hating Gacha games. They operate on exactly what they are told, like autists, they have zero wisdom that China is just another corporate manager in the board room saying a bunch of flowery nothing words to fool idiots, and it does fool idiots evidently. How fucking dehumanized can you be?

I definitely miss when it was more about being a place to simply chat about a wide variety of topics and shitpost and share crazy memes just for the lulz, then it turned into some great big political movement and we saw the earliest signs of that all the way back to Ron Paul and Project Chanology, both of which was 2008.

I remember Project Chanology at the time being exciting (not that I ever participated in any of that myself) but we didn't realize what Genie we were letting out of the bottle in directing 4chan's energy in a political or activist energy.

From what I understand, Project Chanology actually went Woke, didn't it? Meanwhile I assume a lot of Ron Paul's following became Trump supporters, so I'm not saying the problem is just right wing politics, but too much politics in general.

But we can see that even after 2007 a certain magic to the site was already starting to go away, which reveals how brief the site's peak period was, like the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Heck, 2008 was even the year Pepe became a meme, which started off as a neutral thing before becoming symbolic of 4chan's politics, if that's not a perfect metaphor for the evolution of the site, I don't know what is.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

You wanna know what killed 4chan, just look at the title of this thread. 'Internet hate machine' is an objectively hilarious phrase, but people were genuinely scared of 4chan, and fear is power. For the generally powerless posters of the site, how could they resist leaning in?

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

/pol/tards ruined the site, 4chan was never politically correct, not even close, but /pol/tards started taking all that shit waaaaaaaaay too seriously and drove anyone that was just there to have fun or talk about shit off.

What's sad is I kind of knew that was going to happen very early on, I remember someone all the way back in 2008 talking about how tired "black people love fried chicken" jokes were... and that was 2008.

This, time to quit 4chan and Join wholesome 100 Reddit.

 

[Dom Cruise]

You wanna know what killed 4chan, just look at the title of this thread. 'Internet hate machine' is an objectively hilarious phrase, but people were genuinely scared of 4chan, and fear is power. For the generally powerless posters of the site, how could they resist leaning in?

It's no surprise what happened happened, like I said I pretty much knew from very early on that the toxic elements of the site were going to ruin it.

All they really achieved though was ruining what was once a fun site to hang out and kill time on.

This, time to quit 4chan and Join wholesome 100 Reddit.

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The two sides of why the internet sucks a fat dick now.

 

[AnOminous]

You wanna know what killed 4chan, just look at the title of this thread. 'Internet hate machine' is an objectively hilarious phrase, but people were genuinely scared of 4chan, and fear is power. For the generally powerless posters of the site, how could they resist leaning in?

That was 2007, the year of fearful memes about 4chan from hysterical news outlets.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

That was 2007, the year of fearful memes about 4chan from hysterical news outlets.

Yep. A year later, bolstered by a ton of new posters who wanted to be scary internet men too, they would decide to use their power for good and take on scientology. That got the media's attention, too, and it became a self-reinforcing cycle.

 

[AnOminous]

Yep. A year later, bolstered by a ton of new posters who wanted to be scary internet men too, they would decide to use their power for good and take on scientology. That got the media's attention, too, and it became a self-reinforcing cycle.

And unfortunately after humiliating a previously feared cult they went power-mad and there was a hard fork into SJW-ism.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

And unfortunately after humiliating a previously feared cult they went power-mad and there was a hard fork into SJW-ism.

And now it's run by tripping powermods, half of which are ultra-progs, and an admin that explicitly orders them to allow /pol/posting to spread everywhere and culture war autism on both sides to fester, because it might turn the site into a feculant pushole, but does it ever drive engagement!

 

[trekkor]

Honestly, I find everyone constantly talking about how 4chan just ain't what it used to be, man, kind of hilarious. Like, be honest, what sites still retain their original-ish mood and humour after 10+ years or so? Smaller forums, maybe, but then you go there and notice a ton of people who have an unhealthy obsession with the "culture" of the place and don't realise there are sites beyond their own. One day Kiwifarms will also be full of unbearable faggots (yes, yes, I know, always has been) and people will look back and go all nostalgic for the site as it was some 10 years ago. I just don't get all the arguing over the state of websites, it feels weird. Every social website has shitty mods and shitty janitors and a large number of shitty users and eventually shitty admins.

 

[Sepulchre]

Honestly, I find everyone constantly talking about how 4chan just ain't what it used to be, man, kind of hilarious. Like, be honest, what sites still retain their original-ish mood and humour after 10+ years or so? Smaller forums, maybe, but then you go there and notice a ton of people who have an unhealthy obsession with the "culture" of the place and don't realise there are sites beyond their own. One day Kiwifarms will also be full of unbearable faggots (yes, yes, I know, always has been) and people will look back and go all nostalgic for the site as it was some 10 years ago. I just don't get all the arguing over the state of websites, it feels weird. Every social website has shitty mods and shitty janitors and a large number of shitty users and eventually shitty admins.

I sometimes have the initial reaction to get mad at shit but honestly this is how the site has always been, evidenced by the fact that I've been using it consistently for 14 years and haven't been discouraged yet. You still get to talk about topics while fucking with retards and sometimes it spills into reality and fucks up people who don't even browse the board. We always wanted to be chaotic, so you have to bite the pillow when chaos comes to you and makes you start mutating, without even really changing your inner nature. The stupid people still frustrate me because it demonstrates the depths of human stupidity. Ultimately though? Who cares.

 

[Cryonic Haunted Bullets]

This, time to quit 4chan and Join wholesome 100 Reddit.

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[Tito from Rocket Power]

https://twitter.com/WarwickADavis/status/1126250525899538432

 

[Captain Syrup]

They operate on exactly what they are told, like autists,

But they still have this great feeling of independence, so it's even more dramatic.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I forgot how much 4chan loved tomboys

 

[Miss Violet Beauregarde]

I'm actually vaguely aware of this guy. What other colorful characters do you know from those realms?

Well, in the /v/ alone there's Marielfag, a guy who keeps requesting his Mabinogi OC, ALF who has a hatred of Azur Lane for some reason, Botfag who the posters there blame for anything bad, Scornfag who just draws Scorn and Dark Samus related art, and probably countless more

 

[Out Bob]

Imagine seeing this shit, everyday when you login