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[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 113 points 1 year ago

4chan uses fun new tech to draw swastikas, more at 11.

[-] Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Very business as usual for them, guess the crayon box got emptied out and they got hungry

[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“We’re making propaganda for fun. Join us, it’s comfy,” the 4chan thread instructs. “MAKE, EDIT, SHARE.”

It's just some random fun, guys; it's not at all a coordinated campaign by white supremacist fascists to inundate people with racist and fascist propaganda.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

No, it's the next insidious plot of the notorious hacker known as 4chan.

[-] kitonthenet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

We’re making propaganda... Join us... the 4chan thread instructs

So the campaign is coordinated

4chan

The visual guide instructs potential posters to create images that are “Funny, provocative. Redpilling message (Jews involved in 9/11). Easy to Understand.” Under an image that shows a crying Pepe the frog with a needle next to its arm and a gun pointed to his head, the guide says “vaccines enforced by violence.” Under an AI-generated image of two Black men with gold chains chasing a white woman, the guide said “redpilling message (migrant crime in scandinavia).”

So they're white supremacist fascists

MAKE, EDIT, SHARE

So they are inundating people with it

whether you think it's random fun or not is subjective, but the way they've described it is accurate.

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 8 points 1 year ago

I'm fairly sure they were being sarcastic ^^

[-] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

/b/ (or /pol/) exploiting a loophole in a webservice for teh lulz, more news at 11.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Sounds like some people still need to learn about the goat fucker corollary: if you fuck a goat as a joke, you’re a goat fucker. There’s no “irony” or “just trolling” exception.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even during those times and before they were doing butt sharpies and pools closed. 4chan had always been for the mindless cheap lulz

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 year ago

I miss the times when they sent Pitbull to Alaska or Taylor Swift to a deaf school. Hell, I even miss Boaty McBoat face.

At least those were fun and interesting.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That was around the time they turned Tay the twitter AI into a racist woman hater. 4chan has always been just....chaos. Sometimes they do evil. Sometimes they do good.

Like one time they used their autism powers to blow up Syrian rebels? But also around that same time they just.....broke Shia LaBeouf.

[-] torknorggren@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

"Flood the internet" apparently means making shit for other trolls and posting it on an image board for trolls.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Teaching losers that Nazism is normal (and even fun!) is not harmless.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Oh look it's exactly what I predicted with generative AI. We've wound the clocks back to 2014, when Russia used 4chan and reddit to fuel organized campaigns of hatred that paved the way for the alt right, Trump, and his ilk.

[-] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

If only we had listened to you

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Twitter and Facebook.

[-] jray4559@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

Really? We're doing this again?

Haven't we all learned by now that there will always be a part of 4chan that will do something bad purely because they think it's funny? Just ignore these people. If we don't give them attention and doom about them, the five people on the site being little contrarians will get bored in a week, and they'll stop doing their stupid racism garbage.

Simple as.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

Basically just 4chan pretending to be a really racist SEO firm.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago

Only if by that you mean they're pretending to be a firm. The rest is genuine.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, They're a really racist message board that actually preforming SEO as if they were pretending to be a racist SEO firm.

[-] kitonthenet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Jokes on them I was only pretending

What this group of people do not realize is that they are truly not as anonymous as they think especially as AI gets more and more powerful. I look forward to the day they are all exposed along with others who think it is “fun” to be an asshole online.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

4channer post method of tricking 4chaners into doing things that might get them fired, for the lols

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Shiny new tools for what they've been doing for years.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

idk why 4chan is singled out here. Lots of people from Xitter are doing this too

[-] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I guess you'd call this growing pains, and it's good this happens this early and is being done in such a manner. There's just no way to reason with corporate, you have to point a gun at its head to make it move.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

There was a way to exploit the flaws in generative AI without actually contributing to propaganda and disinformation machines. Believe it or not, the "Mickey Mouse holding a Garand" in Facebook's AI stickers would be preferable to show corporations how AI can harm their business interests in the hopes they drop it or reform it.

[-] ag10n@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

this /c/antiwork post look like anything to y'all?

[-] NecoArcKbinAccount@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

surprised they didn't talk about the ones with indians shitting everywhere.

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago
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