title, basically.

I mean they lost a lot of writers when they dared to represent the Pride Flag for a while, it was a whole big schiism and all. The actual SPCs and Tales don't really seem to reflect this, I read a lot of those and honestly, apart from the setting (and even then), most seem to explore things that are, genuinely, apolitical, because it's all supernatural.

  • 5bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, but then the questions persists as to how the pride flag ever got flown and/or how that didn't nuke the whole site.

    I mean it clearly seems to have fostered it's own community (with it's own problems, I might add) but it's not like it was a full of 4channers at that point

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      3 years ago

      this is gonna seem weird, but i promise you it's true: 4chan had a lot of queers. less so now that it's solidly The Nazi Site, but in its earlier eras, the site culture was about escaping from the oppressive, phony restrictions of the real world into a wonderland of transgression. That's not to say the site wasn't always aggressively horny and specifically shaped by the sexual preferences of straight teen nerd boys (its lineage derives from SA after all), but before it was okay to be gay, and love was love, and it got better, online queers didn't have corporate social media where they put their real names, they had anonymous imageboards where they yelled at other social pariahs about anime. Again, not claiming that it was a healthy culture of queer acceptance, but it wasn't uniformly cishet either.

      • Jeff_Benzos [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Waaaay back when, 4chan used to just be about being edgy. Being queer was edgy, doing internet 'activism' with a guy fawkes mask was edgy, being a liberal / anti-war in the post 911 political environment was edgy, sharing shock photos was edgy, etc. The issue was that by 2008ish, 4chan reacted to the wave of liberal ideology in the wake of Obama's election by becoming nazis. And since nothing is edgier than being a nazi, they're stuck there forever.

      • 5bicycles [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Appreciate it, but I've been there, quite literally.

        My point being while the 4chan community went fuller assclowns, tthe SCP-Community did not (to this extent).

        Which is what I'm trying to get at is that while the SCP foundation spawned from /x/, they didn't keep a parallel track to /x/ or even 4chan as a whole in their community building. I think it's good to recognize it's root, as that is, with any community, woven into the DNA, but there's little point in arguing the SCP-Foundation went on the 4chan-track as it's cultural development.