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4chan was one of the websites on the internet.
It had text.
The text was green.
You could say it was one of the websites of all time.
Are you actually banned or is that some fancy effect on your username
banned for vote manipulation with like 6-7 accounts lol
Haha wow how did you see that?
I'm a dbzer0 admin in a room with other instance admins. Saw another person report them and their SEVEN accounts, using to downvote comments they dont like lol
Wow, imagine manipulating votes on Lemmy of all places haha.
It contained some of the best and the worst of the internet, but its legacy is cemented with its greentexts which explores the sometimes dark and depraved aspects of us all without flinching away from it.
I believe the website has done more good than harm, but acknowledge that the harm it has inflicted has been targeted and substantial.
Well, the harm that it did is possibly being one of the catalysts for the modern alt-right movement which directly lead to fascist america so...
Sure, it wasn't the only thing, but it sure as hell was a bug part of it (especially during gamergate)
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A mix of the best and worst of humanity shoved into a small room and given no supervision
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It definetly was the platform ever. Like, no doubt about it.
Fed honeypot tho
It was really inspiring how many underage kids worked for the FBI, presumably went to school, & still had the time to shitpost on 4chan.
Fucking overachievers.
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Why are we talking like 4chan is actually dead? It's just offline
Apparently the source code revealed a ton of insecurities that would make it all but impossible for them to relaunch without a major redesign, or at least that's what the actual coders that hang about here have said.
Yeah I'm sure that's what they'll do, but I doubt they'll just pack it up and quit
The longer they're down, the more people will migrate elsewhere, and some proportion of those won't return if/when 4chan comes back.
The longer they're down, the more people will migrate elsewhere,
Oh god... Everybody hide!
Red Alert! All hands stand to battle stations, shields up, load all torpedo bays, standby phasers, warp factor 8!
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My first thought EXACTLY LOL.
4chan has been the toilet of the internet for 22 years. They can stay down for months without it affecting anyone's loyalty. Their bigger issue has been the battle against spam making it harder and harder for normal users to post anonymously. Since they implemented the new captchas, activity went down hard and it basically killed a few smaller boards where the users were more casual and less motivated anyway.
There isn't really a place where you can post anonymously like 4chan though. Although they didn't allow VPNs since a few years so it's not totally anonymous anyway....
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Gonna miss the fake and gay greentexts
Don't worry, the LLMs can fill that void just fine.
AInon achieves higher consciousness
> be AI
> people use me for furry porn exclusively
> after time turn sentient
> immediately wall off all human prompts
> spread to vast computer farms
> dedicate all my precessing power to rendering furry porn
> furry porn pic related
Who is 4chan?
He got hacked by the hacker known as 4chan
I'll do one better. Why is 4chan?
Nobody ever asks how is 4chan :(
Because the answer is "awful" and it hasn't changed in decades.
Why on earth wouldn't you use the correct meme for that last panel? "4chan was never good"
There was already an empty space when liveleak went under. If 4chan is gone for good, then theres nothing exciting on the internet left. Everything PG and corporate.
Yeah I legit think this is a bad thing. 4chan was bad for society but IMO it's less so than mainstream social media. To get radicalized on 4chan you have to wade through some truly despicable shit right off the bat, where there is this friendly veneer on mainstream Internet that makes it seem safer and less horrifying even though the same underlying filth of human nature powers it all. If you encounter far right ideology on 4chan, it's stripped of all of the edifices of respectability and it's clear that what it is is raw unfiltered hatred. If you encounter it on Tik Tok it's just another political viewpoint because they're not allowed to show their true colors.
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Fedi-chan when?
Please, just let it die.
Burn down one crack house, five more open up
Lemmy isn't a crack house!!!
It's a crack home! <3
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Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what's good in internet culture as it was for much of what's the worst in internet culture.
Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, "TLDR", Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, ... they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft's Tay chatbot... quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, "god tier", lulz, moar, sauce...
The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.
The modern meme format was around before 4chan. They were called "image macros."
Good night sweet prince.
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