Wasn't Twitter instrumental in enabling January 6th?
Facebook was the larger organizing platform, groups, events, etc.
But don't worry, they kicked Parler off everywhere to distract you.
Well, that was the event that finally forced Twitter to kick Trump of, so they apparently though they had some effect.
I believe it helped with Arab Spring aswell and most people argue that was a good thing.
Which is why Saudi Arabia gave Elon Musk $22B to buy it without any expectation of a return on their investment. To them, the destruction of twitter was the goal.
Says the person with a paid account of the dumster fire.
The post has no date other than the 4chins post date, so it could easily have been from before PedoGuy took over and torched the place.
May 3rd, 2023. She's giving money to a eugenics supporter.
Also, twitter was always awful. Musk just took the mask off.
Twitter has its moments. I am a bit of a soccer-dad and all the local stuff was always there. Library programs, outdoor events, playdates, etc. it was pretty easy with a few minutes to figure out all the stuff I could do with my kids any given day vs going to ten or so different websites.
Why is there so much fearmongering around 4chan? Everyone that doesn't use it seems to think of it as an anomaly; when it is nothing but a somewhat "radical" (that too only some boards) social site. Also banning & doing something along those lines to the users of 4chan is the shittiest idea of all time.
Because it and 8chan are racist shitholes that have produced numerous mass murderers, most notably the Christchurch murderer that killed 51 people at a mosque.
I don't think such sites "produce" mass murderers; they certainly contribute to the accleeration of their extremity--I don't deny that--but no site can "produce" mass murderers, there has to be some preeminent malignity present in the person.
4chan is so full of teenage racists, incels and general dipshits that I can't help but think anyone who defends it is also a racist, incel, or generally a dipshit who hasn't graduated high school yet. Posts like the OP here are the exception, not the rule.
Yep, 4chan is the Nazi bar of the Internet, and cherry picking an example of innocent shitposting means nothing.
It had its moments, twenty years ago, but all the worthwhile anons left ages ago.
There's even a fairly famous quote from a 4channer about it.
"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe they're in good company." -Descartes né Anon
Of course, Anon still missed the real lesson.
There are always far, far, fewer people "just joking around" than the good people in the room want to assume.
This is basically the state of the GOP these days also
Some of the boards are legit helpful and good too. You can stay away from /r9k/ or /b/ or /pol/ and be fine.
Oof I used to be a regular on r9k and now I cringe so hard about it. Thank God it was anonymous.
I was going through a tough time and the people there accepted me and engaged with my posts. In hindsight I think people just connected with my anger, but the venting was helpful.
At some point a friend saw my laptop and said "holy shit you're asking 4chan for advice, hahaha what the fuck is wrong with you" and she laughed until she was wheezing, and I never went back on again.
The /tg/ board was the source of some of the greatest tabletop RPG content I ever saw in the 2010s, really great discussions and whole homebrew systems born out of threads that just pitch cool ideas. Of course it came with the same veneer of snark and shock comments as the rest of 4chan but that was on every site in the 2010s. I haven't been back there in a long while so I can't speak to it these days.
/tg/ is the same as it always was. That type of nerd never changes much. I still go there on occasion to see what's up in indie RPG and wargames.
I still remember that story about how someone's boyfriend was radicalized by 4chan and they noticed by "checking his 4chan account" and I think talked about PMs lol
There isn't any fear mongering. For every innocuous greentext, there's 10 wildly racist or antisocial posts.
Can somebody explain what I'm looking at in that post?
All I can make out is that the snake connects between the pictures.
I thought maybe that created some offensive bigger picture, but I don't see it.
that's exactly the point of that thread, there's no need for a reason in everything, sometimes people are silly and enjoy being silly just for the snake of being silly
...for the snake of being silly, you mean.
I read it this way then realized it was spelled wrong
80% of 4chan is shitposts with no hidden meaning.
The remaining 10% is people dog-whistling to each other through shit-posts, hoping one will slide into the 80% undetected.
And 10% horrible things that the janitors have to clean up.
No offense but if you think there's any kind of subtlety on 4chan I dare you to browse /b for two minutes. No dogwhistles, just regular, very racist and antisemitic whistles.
/b/? We're not in 2003 anymore, amigo. /b/ is mainly tranny porn now. There's no more raids and such. We 4channers got old and now simply drink our beers and laugh at the world. 4chan is and always have been chaotic neutral. The weapons boards /k/ for example is very pro Gun rights but also very pro Ukraine. They cheered Hamas but now shit on Houthis. /pol/ is actually reddit refugees and Indians. All other boards treat /pol/ with disdain, except /tv/ which is also full of election tourists. /int/ is bizarro /pol/ which hates right wing America but also Indians and Polacks. There is no rhyme nor reason to 4chan. It simply is.
I did as you suggested and I saw people singing slurs around like it's nothing almost immediately. I suppose perhaps given that you have used one in your comment I shouldn't be surprised that it passes you by, but that is exactly the kind of overt racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia that, I assume, the previous comment was talking about.
Edit: oh, and the rest of it is mostly loli porn. So. That's a good reason to stay away.
Nope. I must believe all of X is bad. Since I am in the not-X group, I am therefore a good person. Please approve of me.
This has a different meaning now that Twitter is no longer Twitter.
On 4chan it is safe to assume something is fascist unless you can 100% understand it is not.
It is true that when I see something from 4chan that I don't understand, I have to approach it with the well earned assumption that it is somehow racist or fascist. This snake thing... I can't just assume it's shitposting. With 4chan it could be anything.
4chan is mostly shitposts and arguments. It’s pretty much just /pol/, /b/ and /r9k/ that cause trouble. Most other boards are fine.
let's play spot the 4channers in the comments!
To be fair, I stopped visiting 4chan after seeing a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel, so...
Didn’t need to hear that. Fuck whoever did that.
Yeah... Now who is going to take care of the German sheep??
/s abusing animals is cruel and horrible
Also, 80% of commenters on iFunny. That shit heap needs to be nuked.
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