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submitted 11 months ago by PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world to c/196

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[-] randomname01@feddit.nl 65 points 11 months ago

Having seen it around, I absolutely hate this screenshot. The implicit message is that 4chan was/is actually good and cool, while that hasn’t been the case for a while (if it ever was). Like yeah, it’s somewhat stupid that she thought 4chan has accounts, but the point that the site is utter trash is true.

/mu/ used to be good tho

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

Depends on the board. It's just a virtual meet up of all the village idiots.

[-] randomname01@feddit.nl 24 points 11 months ago

Sure, but the culture of 4chan as a whole sucks ass, even if some boards are not as bad as others.

[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Same is largely true for any board that gets big enough on the internet.

[-] randomname01@feddit.nl 12 points 11 months ago

Imo 4chan stands alone in how bad it is, but I see your point.

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

4chan is extreme in both ways. They did get a terrorist camp bombed and Katawa shoujo is legit fantastic. But then it also had QAnon trolling (which moved to 8chan soon) and /pol/.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Hell yeah

[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago

Like yeah, it’s somewhat stupid that she thought 4chan has accounts

* cough tripfags cough *

[-] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Tripcodes changed after moot sold the site, meaning whoever the original qanon was, there's literally no way to verify any posts after the change are the same person (they almost definitely weren't). Also, you can just use trip explorer to "hack" a tripcode, and this was always possible. Identity on 4chan has always been impossible to preserve in a meaningful way on purpose, which is why pretty much every successful 4chan-originated project moved away from the boards to communicate.

Anyway, it's not comparable to an account, and judging someone for using a tool rather than what they're using it for is insane. Social media are tools.

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

/b/ was never good

But gosh damn did I love it from 2003 to 2009. If not for /b/, I would absolutely not be married to the most wonderful person. Long story.

I owe it mostly to W.T. Snacks. BRING BACK SNACKS.

I ALSO hope I can see him play someday!

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 4 points 11 months ago

/b/ was good when they had to save animals

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Peak 4chan time frame. I actually showed the site to a friend back then and she met someone there too.

I haven't heard the name W.T Snacks in a long time.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Snacks is still doing music! A couple episodes of Midnight Snacks were life-changing for teenage me.

Heavily agree with peak 4chan time. People were crass and mean and the racist language was there still, but it was all performative; a way to be edgy somewhere as a person who isn’t a piece of shit in real life. I met some awesome people from there who are genuinely good people.

Now it’s filled with… well, y’know. Nü-4channers.

[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

/an/ is still good

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

/a/ is good. Even the LGBTQ board is quite decent.

[-] flerp@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

knowing 4chan it's just as likely this is someone from 4chan trolling next thing you know they're going to be blowing up vans or something

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

/mu/ was so good back then (10-15 years ago). I went to /b/ as a curious teenager but quickly lost interest even then. But /mu/ introduced me to so many great artists and albums that I can't ever fully agree 4chan was never good. Even back on reddit there was a ton of shit I didn't like but I tightly curated my browsing there too.

[-] janet_catcus 52 points 11 months ago

"have a 4chan"

yeah that was how it used to work, yepp.

[-] Azuth@lemmy.today 37 points 11 months ago

So happy I deleted my 4chan account, really helped curb my desire to kill the women I date.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

“have a 4chan”

Makes no sense at a to me.

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[-] kebabslob 46 points 11 months ago

People that pay for 4chan are shit tho fr

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 50 points 11 months ago

Wait people pay for 4chan?

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 44 points 11 months ago

You can pay if you want to bypass captchas

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

They're either being funny, or are very stupid. It's hard to tell.

[-] DrCatface@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

$20 for a year of no capchas

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 28 points 11 months ago

The greatest thing to come from 4chan is an AI generated green text about a bottomless pit, having been trained on real 4chan green texts.

A machine learning algorithm was capable of better humor than the real people that post to that cesspool. Just remember that.

[-] WayTooDank@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Give?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

be me

bottomless pit supervisor

in charge of making sure the bottomless pit is, in fact, bottomless

occasionally have to go down there and check if the bottomless pit is still bottomless

one day i go down there and the bottomless pit is no longer bottomless

the bottom of the bottomless pit is now just a regular pit

distress.jpg

ask my boss what to do

he says "just make it bottomless again"

i say "how"

he says "i don't know, you're the supervisor"

rage.jpg

quit my job

become a regular pit supervisor

first day on the job, go to the new hole

its bottomless

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's beautiful

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[-] Ranger 27 points 11 months ago

Does she think 4chan is the darkweb?

[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 9 points 11 months ago

deep web*

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[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

it's hilarious how literally none of things she is talking about are real

she speaks in myth

just another gorilla-ass opinion

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

2014 tumblr was absolutely w i l d i n when it came to what they believed without verifying

^modern^ ^day^ ^tumblr^ ^is^ ^not^ ^much^ ^better^

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[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

No idea what the comments are on about. 4chan is where "kike" and "removed" are used as prepositions. Home of /pol/, etc. You have to be clueless or want to mislead if youre implying greentexts represent 4chan.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

removed

What mean

Also SCHLOP isn't a greentext

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Slur that means bundle of sticks.

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

You also have to be clueless or misled to think 4chan is entirely /pol/

[-] uriel238 14 points 11 months ago

I have been a long observer of 4Chan, though I've long been banned for the silliest of reasons.

I have a hypothesis that increased 4Chan traffic, especially on /b and /pol indicates popularity of the alt-right movement and its many subsets, but also there is an ongoing war between troll-fueled triggered outrage and efforts to address topics with reason. Arguing on 4Chan is like arguing with Evangelical or Catholic apologists, but the fight goes on, regardless.

Also rare images pop up in /hr and /wp which is like caramel popcorn to me.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 points 11 months ago

Good grief, what do you have to do to get banned from 4chan?

[-] uriel238 5 points 11 months ago

Pretty much, just annoy or offend a mod. They have carte blanche on what they take down and who they banhammer. Then the process to appeal involves extreme levels of contrition which I ceased being willing to perform.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

So it's Reddit?

[-] uriel238 2 points 11 months ago

It has approximately the same moderation philosophy as Reddit. I see Reddit's problem as a matter of bias and over-policing, where the mods of 4Chan seem to have a philosophy of I have power, I can be an unapologetic asshole

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not mecessarily for breaking any actual rules.

E.g this wired article on 4chan's moderation mentions how a user who attributed the Buffalo shooter's radicalization to the site got banned for "complaining about 4chan."